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OPINION UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, October 7, 1992
5
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Candidate is hypocritical
On Sept. 15, the Lawrence Journal-World ran some negative comments about state-representative candidate Barbara Ballard made by her opponent Brian Kubuta. Ballard declined to respond on that level. I wrote a letter about it which the Journal-World editors rejected as "too negative."
However, readers of the Kansan might be interested in what the Joa-ran did.
Perhaps Brian Kuban wants to have a lot of things both ways. First, he says Barbara Ballard shouldn't use her school board experience as a spring-board for her in the Kansas House race. But next he uses it as a spring-board against her. Third, he says he doesn't want a nasty campaign and doesn't want to pick on Barbara. But fourth, he blames Barbara for the crowding at Quail Run School and the growth in administrative office space. Fifth, he says Ballard should take a clear stand and answer questions and exert leadership on the school bond issue. But sixth, he leaves his own stand kind of murky. Seventh, he says he's favoring the bond issue; but eighth, he lists a bunch of arguments opposing the bond issue.
Perhaps Brian has double standards: One set for himself and another set for Barbara.
Assistant Professor of Economics
Students hate the 'fluff stuff'
It's five o'clock in the morning. Deadline is at 10 o'clock. Column due. Blank page screaming through my No-Doz-induced hallucinations. Quickrecap: Lifelikedolls, television-watching dogs, overplayed songs, rednecks in Memphis (God, I really am brilliant), and of course, bulky backpacks. Three mock journalistic watersheds: Tastes great or less filling; is Bounty the quicker-picker-upper? did not the elusive Cabbage-Patch doll symbolize our lost generation?
Sound familiar? Of course, this is a
technicolor, computer-enhanced,
and so on.
artistic rendition of our favorite Kansan columnist. The articles are as relevant to students as:
Vanilla Ice is to Public Enemy. Nirvana is to Led Zeppelin. "Beverly Hills 90210" is to "M*A*S*H." Coors is to Free State's Oatmeal Stout. Campus preachers and local police are to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Gene Budig is to Plato.
We realize the semester's stress has driven you to read "Fluff Stuff" (Sept. 21) but why has it driven you to write it?
The senseless slaughter of oxygen-
producing trees is one of the greatest
tragedies of our time. How can you
sleep?
Brad Taylor Kansas City, Mo., minor Jon Green Kansas City, Mo., junior
Reader thinks Kansan is evil
As I venture onto campus each and every day, I make a point to pick up your paper to what kinds of false biased opinions you echo out to the public through your publication. I am sick and tired of your liberal/left views. I'm sick of the cartoons that cut on the President.
President Bush is a moderate; Quaglia is a conservative Clinton and Gore are liberals. You want Clinton in because you a liberal newspaper, you anti-Christ, pro-choice, pro-gay publication. The government is run by a Democratic congress. Congress needs to be changed, not the President. Liberals want a socialist government, where there are no rich and no poor. What happened to hard work? What happened to being your best, striving for success in life?
We as U.S. citizens who want to save what is left, must vote Republican, or change our constitution.
Let's not look away from the Bible.
Follow its word, the word of God, and
there you will find the truth, what is
right and what is wrong. And you will
see that the conservative view
reflects that of the Bible.
Scott William Lawrence freshman
This letter shouldn't be taken as some Democrat's response to Dave Frankel's die-hard Republican views, but one of dismay that Frankel can so cleverly misinterpret the problems surrounding Bush's stance on AIDS and the research surrounding it.
Bush deserved to be criticized
Among the facts that Frankel forgot is that, despite the amount of money Bush has allocated, he has spoken only once on the topic of AIDS. Another is that the Council of AIDS and AIDS research has quietly been forced to make cutbacks in employees and spending because Bush hasn't taken the time to listen to their demands.
Magic Johnson's point was that while, yes, Bush had allocated funds to research, he has ignored the people who carry out the research. So then, what kind of president is Bush if he allocates our nations funds but does not advocate the cause? All I ask of Frankel is that he give me one example of Bush's advocacy of the research beyond some photogenic handshake. Perhaps if Frankel took his rosy Republican glasses off and took some constructive criticism from the likes of Johnson, then maybe we would all be better off.
Douglas Moles Amherst, N.H. junior
Cartoon was too extreme
I found the editorial cartoon in the Kansan of Oct. 5 to be high ironic and even offensive when it comes to abortion. Who is doing the real killing? Who is the one who takes an instrument and rips to pieces a human being, i.e., an unborn baby? I have never in all my years involved with pro-life work seen anyone advocate killing abortionists. Just because the Rev. Phipps says that certain groups in society deserve to die does not mean that anybody who is pro-life agrees with him.
Tom Grelinger
Lawrence
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