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Friday, October 30, 1992
OPINION
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
IN OUR OPINION
Incumbent's experience shows concern for KU
The 46th District needs a representative who has experience, supports higher education and is running as a person with real concerns for our interests.
Democrat Betty Jo Charlton, with 13 years as a state representative and a strong record of backing the University's agenda, is that candidate.
Charlton has pushed to improve pay for graduate teaching assistants and other employees at KU, she supports full funding for higher education, and she helped pass the new state finance plan for local school districts. If we are looking for a representative who will look out for students, Charlton will be our strongest voice.
Neva Entrikin, the incumbent's Republican opposition, may be energetic, capable and responsive as she claims, but when there is a threat of tuition increases or of funding cuts for the rebuilding of Hoch Auditorium, Charlton will be the legislator willing to go to bat for student interests. Entrikin has published negative campaign material saying that Charlton is a spendthrift. The truth is that Charlton has supported spending for many programs that have provided her constituents with the development of new programs to improve the health and welfare of children and families, the creation of a solid-waste management fund and post-retirement benefits.
Charlton also has a high-powered environmental plan. She promotes recycling across the state, aims to protect water supply and water quality and believes that state agencies need to be staffed to appropriately coordinate the enforcement of quality standards.
If you want a legislator to represent your needs and desires for higher education and the betterment of KU, re-elect Betty Jo Charlton for the 46th District.
DEBBIE BRODSKY FOR THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Barbara Ballard would best represent students
Brian Kubota is running for state representative in Kansas' 44th District on a platform based on his premise that people, working with government, will find solutions. However, he outlines no real plans for higher education, any vision for the University of Kansas, or for providing career and employment opportunities for high school and college students.
Kubota may have local business in mind as a means for creating foundations for the next century, but what he lacks is compassion for the individual's educational enrichment and best interest of the University.
Libertarian Jay Germano's idea of abolishing the role of government regulation in education, health care and business will not contribute to the better needs of KU. Lawrence or the state of Kansas.
The clear choice for state representative in the 44th District is Barbara Ballard.
Ballard's career is a testament of her leadership abilities. Her familiarity with the needs of the Lawrence and her dedication to excellence in education, child care, environmental issues and economic development are clear. As associate dean of student life, director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center and assistant professor of the department of counseling psychology in the School of Education, she has amassed considerable experience and shown real concern for the needs of the University.
FRANK WILLIAMS FOR THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Ballard runs on a platform of character, strength and experience as important aspects that any candidate should have in order to better serve the residents of the 44th District.
KANSAN STAFF
Open mouth, insert foot and hope for forgiveness
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So, in order to placate some future George Bush who may badger me to give him full disclosure, I want to tell all, do my penance, admit my mistakes and hope the people can forgive me.
First of all, I want to make perfectly clear that I don't really think that rap music is society's fault, although a column I recently wrote seemed to imply just that. It was an honest mistake, but I should correct it. Here is the quote as it appeared in the paper:
"Government corruption, rioting, rap — all are caused by 'the system.' Of course, what I meant to say was 'rape,' not rap. For want of an "e," the column was lost.
One of my lower moments was in high school at quiz bowl tournament in Topeka. My friend Derrick, noticing purple and gold letter jackets behind us, asked "Hey, aren't those guys from McLouth?"
As a faux pas, I suppose this one wasn't so bad, certainly not on par with Ron Reagan announcing the pending bombing of the Soviet Union on the radio, for instance, or Dan Quayle's celebrated spelling mishaps. Still, it forms part of a disturbing pattern of running my size 10'2/3 into my mouth, and it has me worried about my future political viability.
I hope this clears up all doubt about the character issue. I admit to some youthful indiscretions. But we've all
— especially our candidates for political office — made mistakes. And if you can find it in your hearts to forgive Bill Clinton's draft evasion and Bush's involvement in Iraq Gate, I sure these little problems of mine won't prevent me from making a presidential bid in, say, 2024.
(Rachel, by the way, was fine; the hole wasn't that deep and there wasn't any blood. What hurt her the most was the lecture she had to endure from our father afterward about how her silk track shorts had saved her by going in with the point of the javelin, thus allowing the javelin to fall out without ripping much skin and that the ancient Mongols had also worm silk for that very reason.)
See you then.
Of course, I stupidly replied, "McLouth! They're too stupid to be here." I was immediately surrounded by intellectual bullies from McLouth who demanded that I take it back.
Mark Coatney is a Uniwood graduate student majoring in political science.
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We yukked it up for a while, did a couple of long jumps and then, noticing that Rachel was still lying in the middle of the football field, I walked over and asked what was wrong. She told me, she showed me the hole the javelin had made, and I almost passed out. Mea culpa
Freshman's letter was contradictory
"Huh," I callously replied. "She probably got hit by a javelin or something."
"What's the matter with her?" Der rick asked.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
I admit negligence when my sister got hit by a javelin at a track meet. There was Rachel, holding her hip and stumbling over to lie in the grass next to me.
I mean, he pushed this girl down on the street, so I was sort of justified. In retrospect I think I could have said something like, "Please refrain from beating that young woman, sir." Instead, I think I said something like "jerk," and then, "Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow." A cop's nightstick can be very instructive, and I have since shown greater discretion.
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1 opened the *Kansan* on Wednesday and when I read the letter to the editor by Tracey Cluthe, a Houston teacher, I laughed so hard my sidelight hurt.
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My greatest lapse in judgment, though, came after the Kansas City Royals won the 1985 World Series. Of course, I was very young, and the fifth of Jim Beam I'd just finished certainly didn't help any. But still, it was not a good idea for me to punch a cop.
STAFF COLUMNIST
Faced with the prospect of having to defend Cartesian thought or take a most severe existential whipping, I did the manly thing and ran away.
MARK COATNEY
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Cluthe was responding to an article by a graduate student named Elizabeth Arnold. Cluthe feels Arnold ridiculed another student's
not be mature . . Her comments can only prove her state of immaturity because she is not mature enough. You yourself have proven to be just as immature, if not more so . . . You're not going to go very far in life . . So, you graduate student, grow up."
This is how Cluthe handled Arnold's opinion without resorting to name-calling and/or character bashing.
opinion because of that student's "age and lack of maturity." Cluthe then goes on to say that, "I as a more freshman, feel I am much more mature than you (Arnold) are because I can actually handle other opinions without resorting to name-calling and/or character bashing."
Thanks for adding a little humor to my day Ms. Cluthe.
"She (Arnold) is the one who needs to grow up...she herself can-
Deana Morford Hutchinson senior
Attending tomorrow's game is important for the team's success. If students can capture the excitement for football that they have for basketball, then KU will truly have made itself an impressive two-sport school.
EDITORIAL EDITOR
Mason and the players have delivered their part of the bargain. They have created a team that is respected nationally, providing excellent football and producing great results. Now it's time for the fans, especially students, to make a commitment to the team.
STEVE MARTINO
KU can take pride in new improved Jayhawks
After long weekends with my family, I could only retort. "Well, we'll see how Oklahoma does against Kansas in basketball." I knew that these were two guaranteed wins for the Jayhawks. But football, forget it. The team was a disgrace to the school. Along with Kansas State, Kansas represented a football black hole.
Having most of my family in Oklahoma. Id sit and listen to stories of OU's dominance and how they mangled KU like cheap tin foil. It was hard to be a KU football fan.
I'll admit it. In years past, when I visit family in Oklahoma I'd shrink from embarrassment about the Kansas football team.
Vance is right. Students make a difference. The same dread opponents feel when they enter Allen Field House could be duplicated at Memorial Stadium. But it's going to take the same enthusiasm for football as there is for basketball on this campus.
Things are different now, considerably different. After years of losing seasons and hollow promises of improvement, Coach Glen Mason and the 'Hawks have turned the corner and are no longer a source of grief but an increasing source of pride.
The 6-1 Jayhawks are tied for first place in the Big Eight Conference. Talk around campus doesn't question whether the Jayhawks will play in a bowl game, but which bowl game. The team's turnaround has been truly miraculous.
Yet, what has been just as miraculous is the support Jayhawk fans, and in particular, students have given the team. Just last year, the attendance average was roughly 34,000. This year it has increased to a more than 45,000.
And the athletic department is doing its best to insure that as many students as possible can attend the game. Tickets for students have been slashed to 85 and a family plan is available that offers two adult and four children's tickets for the south bleachers for only $20.
Editorial editor Steve Martine is an Oiathi junior majoring in political science.
However, there is a cloud of concern that has risen up among members of the athletic department. Many people are worried that fans will stay home instead of cheering the team on because the team is playing so well and is facing lowly Oklahoma State. You would think that people would be lining up to see the 18th-ranked team in the nation play. However, sales have been sluggish.
Doug Vance, assistant athletic director for media relations and marketing, said, "There is a perception that Oklahoma State is a bad team. But they are 4-3 and 2-0 in the Big Eight. Students are the key to the game, and it's time for them to step forward and make a difference."
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