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University Daily Kansan, November 19; 1982
Opinion
Boxing rules need study
Duk Koo Kim, the South Korean boxer who challenged champion Ray Mancini for the world lightweight title, was declared legally dead Wednesday.
The punch that was ultimately the death blow for Kim could have been any of the multitude that Mancini landed in last week's World Boxing Association bout. But the seriousness of Kim's injury was not known until after the referee stopped the fight. Mancini won in the 14th round with a knockout.
During the fight, Kim received a blow to the head that tore a blood vessel and caused a blood clot on the side of his brain.
Last Saturday's match has renewed calls to ban boxing. Critics say that boxing is not a sport, but an event where the participants' only goal is to intentionally inflict injury on each other.
An example of that could be the 1947 fight for the welterweight title between defender Sugar Ray Robinson and challenger Jimmy Doyle. Doyle died a
the Ring.
During an investigation of the fight, Robinson was asked whether he knew Dovle was in trouble.
few hours later of injuries sustained in the ring.
"They pay me to get them in trouble." he responded.
Injuries occur in all sports, but it is not reasonable to assume that a football, baseball or basketball injury is purely unintentional. Players in those games are paid to get their opponents "in trouble," too.
At this point, following Arnum's suggestion is preferable to banning boxing outright.
Bob Arnum, who promoted the match, has called for a suspension of professional boxing to give a committee of medical experts time to study ways of improving the sport's safety.
Such committees in the past have recommended changes in other sports such as college and professional football that led to new rules, better equipment — and a safer game.
All's well that ends, in case of Shakespearean theorizing
Rv DICK WEST
By DICK WEST United Press International
WASHINGTON — Calvin Hoffman, author of "The Murder of the Man Who Was Shakespeare," claims that new evidence uncovered in England supports his thesis that Shakespeare's plays actually were written by Christopher Marlowe.
I'm not enough of a student of Elizabethan drama to evaluate Hoffman's suspicions. On a pop quiz, I would have identified Christopher Hardy with individual private eye created by Raymond Chandler.
it occurred to me, however, that expert testimony on the subject could be found in the disputed works themselves. Here is how an interrogation of the Immortal Bard might read:
Q. Come now, Mr. Shakespeare, Tess up. Did you really write those plays yourself?
A. "An ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own, I call the gods to witness."
Q. What about the claim that Marlowe was the augur?
A. "This is a very败 gallop of verses. Falser than vows made in wine. Stands not within the prospect of belief. What imports the nomination of this gentleman?"
Q. Well, Hoffman says it's been discovered that Marlowe was still alive five years after his reputed murder in 1833. That would at least physical harm him for the time frame of some archeological inscriptions.
A. "But this denoted a foregone conclusion.
Give me the ocular proof."
Q. Hoffman also wants to reopen the tomb of Marlowe's patron, Sir Thomas Walsingham, to locate a box that might contain conclusive evidence of Marlowe's authorship.
A. "That takes the reason prisoner. Poor
Q. Is there any connection at all between you and Marloe?
A. "They say we are almost as like eggs. He does it with better grace, but I do it more well."
Q. What about Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser and all those other English authors who wrote Shakespeare?
A. No.
A. "Mechanic slaves with greedy aprons, rules and hammers. Cudgel thy brains no more about it. Nothing will come to nothing."
Q. Yeah, but where will it all end?
A. "Things at worse will cease, or else climb upward to what they were before."
Q. I didn't ask for a stock market prediction,
I wanted to know what your personal
recommendation is?
A. "I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course."
Q. I wasn't asking you about Reaganisms,
is there anything else you wish to say in rabbit?
A. "Little shall I grace my cause in speaking for myself. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; often got without merit, and lost without deserving. He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him, and makes me poor indeed."
A. "Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear."
Q. That certainly is one way of looking at it,
small I pull you down as insisting you wrote the
picture.
Dick West is a columnist for United Press International
Mr. Hoffman, Mr. Cupcake, and Q. Thank you.
Mr. Hoffman, Ms. Shakespeare, Your witness,
Mr. Hoffman.
pray.
A. "No hinge nor loop to hang a doubt on."
Look out for those video games
I guess it had to happen sooner or later.
Just as I had pulled myself away from drinking diet soft drinks containing saccharin and from smoking cigarettes, the Surgeon General in the domain of my last unseen vice — the video game
The Surgeon General recently declared that video games, taken in massive quantities, could pose a serious health risk.
It seems that these games, just like diet drinks and cigarettes, were too good to be true. After all, life isn't supposed to be enjoyable, is it?
As an eager-to-learn freshman, I discovered the merits of video games while exploring Lawrence's many bars. It didn't take long to figure out that to six or seven bars and having a few beers at each of them could make for a serious hangover the next morning.
That's when I decided to take up video games and concentrate on wiping out enemy aliens.
The games were easier than pool and at the time seemed less dangerous. I figured that as long as I was playing Pac-Man or Asteroids, no one was able to break a cue over my head or stuff one of those ceramic balls where my teeth normally resided.
Video games were expensive and, I must admit, potentially addictive. The expense was easy to rationalize. After all, wasn't KU created to bolster the business community of Lawrence? It was all for a good cause. I believed I had been sent to school not only to pursue knowledge and scholarship, but to become part of the march against aliens.
I never became much good at video games,
and I eventually reconsidered my dreams I'd
ever had about becoming a fighter pilot in the Air Force. I would have gotten knocked down by an enemy plane long before I ever found the "hypersonic" button.
Maybe it was the realization that I would never get my initials up on the screen at the end of a game, or that another childhood dream had been shattered, that made me quit playing. Regardless, my penchant for playing video games tapered off, as did my bar-hopping in general.
TOM HUTTON
On those occasions when I did get to a bar, I drank more beer. In my case, this became readily apparent in the lower belly.
really appear in the life of a child.
In that context, I guess video games could be considered hazardous to my health. Because I wasn't playing them, I gained weight.
The only other manner in which I can conceive of video games being hazardous is one that I叫Video Games.
When I was a video maniac, one had to go to a bar or arcade and drop 25 cents a game to play these amazing microchip marvels. But that's all the advent of the home television video game.
My first contact with these home model imposters came in June while I was working for a small weekly newspaper in suburban Kansas City, Kan.
The publisher, who also doubled as office manager, editor and photographer, was the father of a freckled and red-hairdied 10-year-old bundle of energy. She was a smart kid and she manipulated her father into buying one of the games to connect to the office television.
In most offices, the boss's kids aren't around much and they have little affect on the employees.
But my boss figured that between the television and its new attachment, his daughter would be kept busy, and he let her stay at the office all day.
Soon, even the smallest errands became something to anticipate and quibble over. All the employees wanted to get away from the sounds of aliens being blasted and falling from the ceiling.
What started as a semi-humorous joke nearly became grounds for manslaughter or, at least, bullying.
The sound nearly drove us all crazy, and once, when the sounds of aliens invaded an important telephone conversion, I came within inches of her. But the blaster that my boss's daughter held in her hand
Had I done so, it could have been hazardous to the health of both of us.
She would have had a broken hand, and I probably would have had a broken career on the job.
weekly newspaper
I'm sorry, but those are the only two ways I can think of that could make video games hazardous to one's health.
That is, unless the aliens got tired of losing and decided to attack.
Letters to the Editor
Changing names of buildings diminishes history
To the Editor:
While an advisory committee of the School of Journalism is considering the possibility of recommending changing the name of Flint Hall to Staufer Hall, I would like to express sentiments of concern about changing building names in general.
The dedication and naming of a building is always a commemorative event that links the environment we have built to the historical record. It then becomes part of our heritage and an element of tradition. Although traditions may change, and alterations may not change the record of the past without diminishing the significance of the future — and of history in general.
Soviet revisionist governments do this on a regular basis. Buildings, public squares and even entire towns and cities have their names changed to suit "current" political realities — to the point where there is hardly a trace left of Russian history and culture.
The original dedication and naming of Flint Hall was a commemorative event that made that building and the name Flint an important part of the heritage and tradition of this University. To change the name would only diminish that heritage and tradition. Furthermore, it would diminish the significance of re-naming it Stauffer Hall, because there would be no guarantee that it might not change yet again, at some future date.
Stephen Grabow Professor of architecture
if we try to erase the pant, we only succeed in shaping a less secure, a less meaningful and a less useful pant.
Link to KKK absurd
it would be better to commemorate both names by finding or creating another part of the environment to be linked with the name Stauffer
To the Editor.
I read J.D. Willhite's Nov. 8 letter to the editor with much amusement. The attack that he made on the KU Conservative Forum and me was very entertaining. Since I am no longer president of the KUFCF, I can only speak in my own name.
To the Editor:
When asked by friends what I thought about the letter, my only reaction was to say that it was "so ridiculous" and absurd that no thinking person can possibly take it seriously." That letter is typical of the illogic that reigns in this enlightened "democratic" and "liberated" system. The letter suggests that a common sense equate a lying smear with a statement of or reference to fact.
The "alteration" of "KKK" on the poster attacking the KUCF is an obvious, clever and subtle attempt to smear the name of that organization and create the illusion that conservatives are racists. The smear is a common tactic that is employed by leftists all over the world. I have seen it continually used against conservatives during my travels throughout Europe and Latin America. In Europe, leftists like to call conservatives Nazis or fascists. In the United States, they call conservatives racists.
Those who engage in such name-calling are incapable of intelligently answering their rightist opponents and merely display to the world their spiritual, cultural and intellectual impoverishment. They have no other means of defending the feminine or religious authority on the means of their weapon (which I equate here with the "big lie" of Josef Goebbels).
Leftrists need scapegoats. Communists and socialists hate capitalists, clerics and aristocrats. Nazis hate Jews, clerics and aristocrats. The KKK hates blacks, Catholics (I am a practicing Catholic) and Jews. However, a conservative by his very nature is motivated by love. He loves God, family, country, duty, honor, life, tradition, variety and diversity. He does not
There is no way, by any stretch of the imagination, that anyone can equate conservatism with racism, Nazism or fascism. I dare anyone to read the works of Kuehnelt-Leddin, Chesterton, Buckley, Salazar, de Maistre, Donoso Cortes, Habsburg, Burke, Morne, Kirk or any other rightist thinker and come up with a plausible answer to the question of racism. (You cannot include Hiller or Musolini in the rightist camp. Both of them were socialists.)
Now, as for the anti-freeze poster ("The Soviet Union needs You . . ."), it does not insinuate or even call anyone a communist. It does imply that the freezes proponents are useful to the purposes of the Soviets. Before World War II, the movement for national disarmament did not believe were not Nazis. However, their naivete助了 the Nazis and helped lead to war via the Munich agreement of 1938.
In closing, all I can say to Willhite is that he should be more careful in the distinctions he makes next time he writes a letter.
hate anyone for his race, beliefs, bank balance or blood color. His motto is "live la difference."
The anti-freeze poster, as offensive as it obviously is to the self-appointed guardians of "peace and justice," is based on documented facts (see "The KGB's Magical War for Peace"); but its real meaning is Phyllis Schaffly Report, October 1982; "The War Called Peace"; Western Goals, Alexandria, Va., et al.).
Those who complain about these facts have not refuted them. They have expressed doubts. However, doubts are not facts. If the facts are incriminating, it is not the fault of the people presenting them. Although there is no doubt that most of the freeze proponents are well-intentioned people, that does not change the fact that their movement has been infiltrated and is being used by the Soviets. This is not a smear. It is a statement of fact.
Jeffrey P. Johnson
San Juan Capistrano, Calif., senior
Jeffrey P. Johnson
Keep lawns beautiful
During the past few weeks, there have been quite a number of complaints about the campus lawns being watered, to which I would like to reply.
To the Editor:
I believe that the money spent watering the lawns is not that much, and it is a small price to pay to have a good-looking campus. It is true that the budget cuts have made us all suffer, but appalling conditions persist in many campus. So why ruin it by not watering the lawns? It really has not been raining lately.
It really has not been that cold in classes, and we have been told that the heat shall be on by mid-November — not too far off. So why complain?
Do you people feel not proud of KU's campus, or would you rather run it all to "save money"? The people managing the University budget are still in their right senses, and in my opinion, they made the right decision. I would have done the same if I were in their boots. So, stop being nasty and learn to be a bit considerate and understanding.
As long as you are at KU, you should be concerned about its reputation, even if it means wearing an extra pullover to classes until mid-November. Do you call that suffering? There are 10 million people in this country out of work and unable to bring home decorations that are we complaining about? A little water on the lawn! He W sound a bit "bourgeois."
Stephen A. Bass
West Berlin, Germany, Junior
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