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Tuesday, September 15. 1992
OPINION UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
IN OUR OPINION
Students need to chip in for recycling effort
Most students choose not to recycle their Kansans and aluminum cans after they are done with them. It is unfortunate that future generations have to contend with a problem that could be solved by taking a few minutes to recycle materials.
Protecting the environment and saving precious resources are obvious reasons for recycling. But when contemplating recycling, most individuals don't think they can make a difference. The "I am only one person. What can I do?" philosophy is filling the bellies of our many landfills and neglecting the malnourished recycling centers in the area. Maybe one person cannot save a rain forest, but we can start with one branch at a time.
Many receptacles for aluminum cans and newspapers are located on and off campus. But we are not taking advantage of them. At the end of any weekday, many classrooms are littered with newspapers and cans. Because of our own negligence, our campus often looks cluttered and resources that should be saved are wasted.
The only alternative is to make an effort to save as much as we can. There are places we can go. For those who live off campus, who have a larger volume off recyclable materials, there are representatives at Conservation Resources, 842-1167, who will direct students to the nearest recycling center. At Alvin's IGA, Ninth and Iowa streets, there is a small red machine that will actually give you cash for aluminum cans. Imagine that! There also is a shelter for donating newspapers to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, 520 Haskell Ave. And of course, this copy of the Kansan can be recycled by placing it in the bin in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall.
FRANK WILLIAMS FOR THE EDITORIAL BOARD.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dietitian should learn facts
Ann Chapman, Watkins' staff dietitian, says getting enough protein should be a primary concern for vegetarians. She spoke of the challenge of combining incomplete vegetable protein with another vegetable protein, or better yet, with eggs or milk, in order to maintain the proper levels. Unfortunately, Chapman is rather misinformed, and she is causing a lot of unnecessary worry among vegetarians at KU.
It is simply a myth that vegetarians must meticulously combine certain foods to get enough protein. Americans, vegetarian or not, usually get twice the U.S.RDA for protein from sources other than animal products. The protein found in plant foods contains all eight, not "nine," essential amino acids in adequate quantities. Unless you are starving or are eating nothing but junk food, you may stop worrying about protein. Anyone who eats enough calories on a reasonably varied diet is getting plenty of it.
Hopefully, Ann Chapman will thumb through a few medical journals before she counsels any more students.
Garden City Junior
Kansan not infallible
There is no one at the law school named "Tonkavich"; there is no one who would "slam on their breaks," and no one would begin a phrase with "Firstly!" Come on! Get with it!
Rose Foster
KU Law School Office of Admissions
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As we draw nearer to Nov. 3, the presidential campaign trail will heat up drastically. With this intensified scrutiny of the players in this contest, it is time to prepare ourselves for the onslaught of coverage the media will provide. The media need to be regarded with a critical mind because as the campaigns get drier, so does the job of the media.
very outspoken Democrat and uses his magazine to promote the candidates he supports. Is this equal opportunity in the press? In the days of Ronald Reagan, *Rolling Stone* was a GOP bashing magazine, and their strong endorsement of Bill Clinton does nothing to change their partisan views.
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Liberal media tarnish campaign coverage; undermine the GOP
This is seen in newspapers and television, where the concept of a fair forum is often forgotten. Many people find nothing wrong with what is going on, but if you were to turn the tables, you would be angered to find conservatives controlling the majority of the media and falling to pay due service to what the other candidate has to say. Not every television station or publication is liberal, and those that lean toward conservative positions also are at fault.
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This is not to say that television and newspaper people do not do their jobs well. It simply means that they do not always follow the same code of ethics that are supposed to be followed by others. In particular, they do not always address the news in a manner appropriate for a journalist, which is that of an unbiased person reporting events. Instead, personal values and opinions get in the way and contribute to the dirty campaigns we see in contemporary U.S. politics. We need look no further than the "NBC Nightly News" and *Rolling Stone* magazine to see evidence of this phenomenon.
Editor's note: Syndicated columnist Mike Ryko is on vacation. The following was originally published Nov. 8, 1978.
I've never been bothered that droves of people don't vote. But what does bother me is when I'm forced to listen to some bore explain to me why he doesn't vote. Many nonvoters find something profound and important in what they don't do.
It happened again a couple days ago. This time it was a man about 30 years old. Unmarried. Big paying job. High school. His lifestyle. Self-ordained lady's man.
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We need to ensure that both sides are heard and that an unbiased media truthfully informs the people. If we do not, we are only hurting ourselves and the system for which we are trying to work.
David Frankel is a St. Louis senior majoring in political science.
"Hey Boss, we could start another war somewhere. It worked for the Democrats in 1941, 1948,and 1964; and it worked for you two years ago!"
"I'm not going to vote," he said, without being asked. "And I'll tell you why. It doesn't matter to me who wins because it doesn't affect my life. It has nothing to do with the way I live. It won't change my life in one way or another."
Insulated people have little reason to vote
The media play enormous roles in U.S. politics. Gone are the days when
Is it fair if these people hold a generally biased view of the issues and candidates? Many scoff at the idea of press only telling one side of the story, but it has been seen in this election. For the most part, those who make the decisions in the media hold liberal beliefs. I'm not criticizing their beliefs, but they use their positions to promote these opinions and the candidates they support. When liberal journalists have that much influence, it is only logical that they cannot give a nonpartisan view of a campaign for the purpose of informing the public of both sides of issues. They are obliged to give a fair report of newsworthy items, not give a nightly promotion of one candidate while trying to discredit the other. This is blatantly obvious every time you pick up an issue of Rolling Stone magazine. Jann Wenner, who runs the publication, is a
whether Francis is paid to report on what the President is saying and doing or whether he is paid to do commentaries on what he observes. Since he is a reporter, I would assume it is the former.
STAFF COLUMNIST
DAVID FRANKEL
the average person actually studied a candidate's stance on the issues. Instead we rely on the media, television in particular, to inform us. Thanks to the rise of 3-second news snippets and sound bits, only a minuscule portion of what a candidate says is reported to the people. What makes the news is decided by the editors. Therefore, it is the media elite who help shape what we learn.
Watch the NBC news at 5:30 each weeknight and see if Fred Francis is giving a fair pitch while following the Bush/Quayle campaign. The issue is
Well, I made a mistake. I tried to answer him.
What I dislike most about these kinds of insulated me-me narcissists is that when things get rough, they are the first to whine that somebody ought to do something to straighten things out. But in the meantime, he's getting his, and what happens to others is of no concern. So he sneers that politics is outside the mainstream. What he doesn't recognize is that he is the one on the outside.
In fact, I couldn't think of one argument I could give him for voting, because his reasons for not voting were unassailable. He is part of the me-first, me-second, me-forever, me-me-generation. The fact that the outcome of an election might affect others doesn't matter to him because those people don't matter to him.
I began to talk about the Vietnam
MIKE ROYKO
say there.
Mike Royko is a syndicated columnist with the Chicago Tissue.
War, and how we might have avoided or shortened that bloodbath had we given more thought to the kind of people we sent to Washington. Who knows how many lives would have been saved?
But then I remembered that, despite his age, he had managed to avoid being touched by the war. He came from that fortunate upper-middle-class whose members were so adept at finding loopholes in the draft laws, the generation that left its social conscience behind with the abolition of
the draft. He had spent those bloody war years increasing his knowledge of rock music and savoring the pleasures provided by the birth control pill.
Then I began a small lecture about the 1950s and 60s and how it mattered to Black people in this country which candidates happened to be elected to public office during those times. Not only to Congress and the White House, but to the state legislatures, and even sheriff's offices.
All of that monumental civil-rights legislation, a century overdue, wouldn't have come about if there hadn't been enough people in the public office who believed in it. And there were times when it was a close call. One or two more boobs could have swung important votes back a few decades. Luckily, the right kind of votes were there. And this resulted in dramatic changes in the lives of millions. But I remembered that he wasn't Black. He grew up in a wealthy
family in a wealthy suburb, and his closest contact to blacks was when the hired help came to clean the house.
Grace
By David Rosenfield