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Thursday, September 3, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Opinion
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The United States and the Soviet Union are not known for reaching agreement.
It is time to try harder
Try, try again
It is time to try harder.
However, as the possibility of a U.S.-Soviet summit in the near future increases, United States leaders continue to voice their skepticism rather than to welcome negotiation. Although there have been breaches of trust and problems with verification over agreements reached at past summits, the United States and the Soviet Union must both continue to try — and try again.
Kansas Sen. Robert Dole was quoted as saying that "any new agreement will be a worthless piece of paper unless we can guarantee they won't be able to cheat." Verification on both sides is a significant issue to be addressed at the summit, so an American attitude of "we won't play because they might cheat" must be avoided.
Last week in Los Angeles, President Reagan played up the political differences between the two countries. In response to Reagan's comments, spokesman of the Soviet Foreign Ministry Gennadi Geramisov said, "It has almost become a rule that before every important Soviet-American meeting, the American side starts to play up the hostility."
may never come. Arms belong to West Germany has made a significant contribution toward peace by asserting a willingness to allow the Pershing missiles to become obsolete.
sides start to pay up until the world cannot wait for safety from the arms race until the United States and the Soviet Union align politically — that day may never come. Army negotiations demand a hearing now.
The world is watching the superpowers. Europe is waiting for an agreement. The Soviet Union has expressed a desire to communicate and to make strides in verification. It is the United States' turn to cooperate.
tates turn to cooperate.
Don't quit. America. Arms control is worth the frustration.
Football . . . no joke
Sports Illustrated calls it "a joke."
But we're not laughing.
The Aug. 31 edition of the magazine summarized the program with two scathing sentences.
"Kansas has had one winning year in the last 10. Prognosis: boorless," the magazine bites.
it's time to give KU football credit and support.
Many students seem to forget that Kansas has a football team. But lost in the shadows of a top-rated basketball team is an outstanding football team. Yes, outstanding.
For too long the football program has been ruthlessly criticized. A campus joke.
Ticket sales are down, despite a continual rise in enrollment. The all-sports ticket is more aptly the all-basketball ticket. The Athletic Department has to resort to gimmicks to get students to attend football games. When students do watch games, it's increasingly just to party on the Hill.
But we have a great football program.
Students, fans, unite. KU football deserves our loyalty, spirit and support.
KU football is going all the way.
To the Big Eight Championship. To the Orange Bowl.
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Live music lives in Lawrence
As a student of the U. of K., you need to be able to answer one very popular question. How did you get here?
you see. I was guided to Larryvillie by a dream that I had many years ago as a high school senior. I came home one night from a concert, ears ringing, and fell into a fittal dream.
I was alone on a desert. The ringing in my ears turned to music. I turned around to see I was before large pillars, a gateway, with a circus-sideshow barker / evangelist. On the other side, a purple-and-orange-clad Jimi Hendrix tortured his guitar beside a single burning amplifier, smoke stretching high into the sky.
"What am I doing here?" I asked the man with glasses, cane and pipe.
"You, my friend, have come to the pearly gates of Live Music Haaayven!" the animated man barked. "Wouldn't you like a ticket?"
Yes, I said. Yes, I wished.
But looking at Jimi, now joined by a half-naked Jim Morrison, I wondered whether the man had said Live Music Haven, not heaven. I envisioned a small roadside cemetery made famous the day the Music died. I didn't want to go there.
I started to ask the Jims. They just looked up the stairway of smoke, which I started to climb.
"Yes." I said. "Yes. I would."
the stairway of smoke, which I started to climb.
I saw a shining figure descending the stairway.
I recognized the man as the one some people insist on calling the King,
king of rhinestones, the hunk-a-hunk of burning Haven. I was crushed. It was Live Music Haven.
"Elvis, I thought this was Live Music Heaven." Elvis just shifted his weight dramatically, threw back his hair and said, "Ooh, man," I hurt
"Nice shoes," I said, apologetically. "Please, take me there."
his feelings.
take me there.
In a gyration and a snap of his fingers, Elvis disappeared, and I found myself in a dark bar, watching a woman dance and sing.
watching a woman dance and sing.
She had the sweet suitty voice of a Joni Mitchell, the quirky lyrics of a Joni. . . By Jove,
it was Joni Mitchell.
it was JOHN MITCHELL.
After she finished, she picked up the roses scattered on the stage, came over and sat down by me. She ordered us wine.
by me. She offered to I, "Where am I, Joni?" I asked. "Is this really Live Music Heaven?" She just laughed and hummed a few bars of "Woodstock."
"Don't you want to dance with the lady with a hole in her stocking?" she sang.
"Why am I here?" I asked.
She knew I loved to dance and wanted to since Elvis had gone. We went to the dance floor as Elton John, in a Donald Duck costume, began to play.
Joni led, of course, and soon we were a soinning, twirling blur.
When I opened my eyes, I was in the middle of a thrashing, head-banger crowd. I heard S迪 Vici
ous and the Sex Pistols, and the crowd grew frenzied.
As Sid spit on the crowd, the band exploded into song and the crowd carried me close to the stage. I felt several people "dancing" into me, so I climbed onto the stage. As I tried to stand up, Sid turned and threw me backwards into the crowd.
When I opened my eyes this time, I was laying on my back on the Jayhawk in the middle of Memorial Stadium. I sat up to look at James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, in all his sweaty grandeur and funkiness. Dressed in white satin with plenty of gold, he looked truer than life. I started sweating immediately.
"Haiy! Yeew!!" James screamed into the omnipresent mike, undulating. I looked around for a band or back-up singers. Instead, he broke into a sermon.
"If you want to listen to Live Music," he said,
"you got to get up and live. And if you want to live,
you got to listen to Lilie Music." What logic
I woke up. No Jims or Joni or James. But I was still sweating.
"This is the place," said his grace. And with a "Haaya" he was gone.
So I moved here after graduating and have been in heaven ever since. Whatever you're into; funk, punk, rock, reggae, blues, jazz or even the Dead, you'll find it live and in Lawrence.
Check it out this year, even if you think you're here to study. Hey hey, my my.
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Insulting description
Tim Hamilton is a Wichita senior majoring in journalism.
In the Aug. 27 edition of the University Daily Kansan, Jon Gregor wrote an article examining college lifetyles. He directed his article toward freshmen students who are in the inevitable process of "seeking their identity." I have a few comments for you, Jon. That is, if this capuccino-no-drinking, barefoot, Glass onion frencher can do that. (I'm not sure whether it was included in your list of "hippie" activities.)
1 tail to see the point of this article. Its only purpose is to cut down everyone who attends this school. It left me confused and wondering why such an article was allowed to be printed.
question. "Are these my choices?"
I was extremely insulted by your descriptions of the variety of people who attend this school. To sum up the personalities of thousands of people with merely a few words — I believe drunk, dumb, athletic and hippie were a few of your choices — is an outrage. If all you see when you walk across campus is bows, long hair and baseball caps, then you might as well be blind.
You say in your article, "The worst that one can do is not be in any group at all." If I were a freshman and read your misleading article, that would seem the only appealing option.
If the article were humorous, I could swallow it, but it was blatantly rude and uncalled-for. The freshmen do not yet understand the inuendoes and campus "jokes" and are left with the
I would like to say to our new students that, contrary to your article, every lifestyle can be good, depending on your interest and beliefs. The variety is what makes our student body beautiful.
And finally, Jon. I would like to ask you which group you fall into. Perhaps the narrow-minded, short-sighted journalist?
Jenny Hoeffner, Salina sophomore
Simplistic outlook
I was appalled and amused by the simplistic interpretation of the students of the University of Kansas by staff columnist Jon Gregor in Thursday's Kansan (Aug. 27).
The complete population of KU, more than 25,000 students, was reduced to a few subsections of two groups, the Greeks and the GDI's. Gregor belittled every student on campus with this single column.
I wish to speak for myself and others who do not think they were justly portrayed Thursday.
The idea that KU is either pro-greeks or con-greeks as described by Gregor is laughable. He completely overlooked the older, foreign, physically challenged, politically active, black, shy, devout religious and economical taged students who attained Even this list only begins to show the diversity among KU so far. Accurately, there are more than 25,000 separate individuals, many of whom don't care about the Greek system at all. By the way, there are black fraternities and sororities at KU also. You left them out of your descriptions Thursday. Don't they count as students here
I realize you were trying to entertain, Gregor I could not see your column as simple entertainment, however. It displayed an attitude intended or, not, which I deplore.
I hope that if your column displayed your true views of this university and its students that you get out more. Meet a few of these 25,000 people your column insulted.
also?
Gregor said, "The worst that one can do is not in any group at all." I disagree. The worst thing you can do is to adhere to that kind of junior high school clique-mentality.
Jadey Anfinson, Joplin, Mo., senior
Best and brightest
Dan Houston's Aug. 25 column hit the nail on the head. KU should raise out-of-state tuition to $20,000 a year, which will assure that only the "best and brightest" students from "wealthy, intelligent" families can attend the University.
Also K-Staters should no longer be allowed to transfer to KU, because all they do is go to parties and school. Their education is a communist idea. Let's make KU the elite institution it deserves to be.
Ben Asher, Springfield, Mo., senior
BLOOM COUNTY
by Berke Breathed