OPINION
MONDAY, OCTOBER 4,2004
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Campus safety plan needs critical look, evaluation
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With the recent string of lapses in campus safety, we are forced to re-examine our existing campus security system and see what needs to be done. It should be a given that our campus is a safe place to be no matter the time of day.
Though there has to be an effort on the part of students to take extra precaution whether in the car, in the residence halls, or around campus, there is a responsibility on the shoulders of the University to do all they can to protect its students. Unfortunately, there are areas around our campus that need more attention and improvement.
Lighting has always been a topic of discussion. There have been talks about improvements, but ask any student that has studied at night on campus and they could probably list five places off the top of their heads where they would put more lighting.
Even with the addition of more
personnel, the KU Public Safety Office needs to be a greater factor on campus. Have you ever seen officers walking around campus at night? Why not? Maybe it's not the amount of personnel; maybe it's their application that is the problem. How about the blue emergency phones on campus? And how useful are they anyway?. In the event of a chase, the victim is supposed to hit the emergency button along the series of boxes to alert the authorities of your path.
We should either scrap the whole blue phone system all together, or make it a decent operable system. We don't need these emergency phones if you have to run aimlessly searching for the next one.
In the coming years, money will be pouring in to improve our campus. With the Chancellor's vision of a top-tier school, new computers, new buildings and new faculty will grace our university. Shouldn't a safer environment for our community be part of that plan? .
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To all of you Kerry supporters: Do you think that he can just wave a magic wand and make everything all better? Think about that.
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You know the circus that happens every night on Wescoe Beach? Do those people even go to KU?
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I was just thinking how cool it would be to be a pixie like Tinkerbell. Instead of fairy dust, to leave a trail of cayenne pepper.
To the girl wearing the pink snow boots in Anschutz at 1:00 on Monday: It's 85 degrees out, you're Napoleon Dynamite.
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Yeah, I used to live with that girl who wrote the article about being addicted to Instant Messenger. We definitely had conversations online when we were roommates.
To the kid who lives across the hall from me; I know where you live.
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Invest now to save your future
The Internal Revenue Service reported last year that 90 percent of college students have "no money." OK, so I made that up, but I promise you if you polled that same 90 percent, they would probably say, "Yeah, sounds about right."
PERSPECTIVE
If you're like most people I know, you're concerned about how you're going to pay for the next several years of your life. In fact, the rising costs of a college education, in a process known as "tuition inflation," is so prevalent nationwide that it's even a blip on the political radar of John Kerry and George W. Bush in this election campaign.
But until something happens in the economy that puts a damper on the ballooning cost of being a student, it is a good idea to look for ways and means to help keep your pocketbook from looking like a pancake.
Most people I talk to about dollars and cents — financial experts, family members, friends studying economics, has been bums on Massachusetts Street — suggest "investment" as a great place to start building. But you might ask yourself, "What is an investment?"
Definitions vary. I used to think the money I spent on a night out was a great investment in my future. After all, who wants to remember playing
SEAN PAUZAUSKIE
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Kiyosaki even goes so far as to contradict the popular wisdom that a house, bankrolled through a credit union or bank loan, is an investment. If you have to spend money to pay the bank and pay money to keep the house clean and replace its shudders, what makes a house an investment, he argues. Kiyosaki believes "money should work for you," and not "you
Yahtzee in a dorm room when so many activities wait outside at the swipe of a credit card? No one would take you seriously, however, if all you invested your money in was food and booze.
The second thing you might think goes back to the original point: If I'm a student and have no money, why on God's green earth should I invest it?
I found more plausible investment definitions in an economics class and in the book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. Kiyoski suggests an investment is anything that puts money in your pocket and doesn't take it out. Assets fit this definition, liabilities don't.
The point isn't that students should take their mounds of pennies and turn them into mounds of nickels. It's that these thin years should be a time to learn the different investing systems, so by the time money shows up in our bank accounts, we have some idea of what can be done with it.
Make no mistake, a college degree leaves out a wealth of boring financial education. But stocks and mutual funds and real estate and all the unknown areas of our capitalist system that can lead to financial security are worth learning about, especially while there's still time.
And finally, if you only remember one thing about money when you wake up each morning, let it be George Burns's bit of advice: "Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
Picking up a copy of The Wall Street Journal could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship between you and your bank account.
Pauzauskie is a Topeka senior in English and cell biology.
Kobach tries to hide his views by smearing mud on Moore
In the Q&A printed in the Kansan with Kansas 3rd Congressional District Republican candidate Kris Kobach, I was disturbed to read the candidate's response to one particular question:
"How does a conservative win in a historically moderate district?" To paraphrase Kobach's answer, Dennis Moore (the current Democratic representative of the third district) is an extreme left-wing liberal, and Moore's votes are on the left side of the Democratic Party.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Dear editors.
Kobach is trying to smear Moore as an extremist. I, for one, would like to know what exactly shows Moore's extremist liberalism. Maybe it was the elimination of the "marriage penalty" tax which he voted for. Or maybe it was when he voted to make the child tax credit permanent. Wait, I've got it. That raging liberal voted to eliminate the Estate Tax! Moore is a fiscal conservative who consistently crosses party lines to vote in favor of tax cuts.
Of course, being so far left as a Democrat can only lead you to the most scary liberal organization that exists for your kind: the Blue Dog Conservative Democrats. Wait a second- "Conservative Democrats?" How is that extremely "to the left side of his party?" Kobach is trying to dodge that most voters will find him to be frighteningly to the right side of his party.
as, according to the Johnson County Sun, Kobach "ran a very negative campaign in the August Republican primary election against Adam Taff, linking Taff to liberals like Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy." Yes. Taff, for being a moderate Republican, is a scary liberal on par with Ted Kennedy. Obviously, about half of Kobach's own party is too liberal for him. Meanwhile, Moore prides himself on making true progress through bridging the party gap. Third District voters have an interesting choice- moderate bridge builder Moore, who undoubted ly will get work done in Congress, or the bitter partisanship of Kris Kobach, who will vote down anything that seems remotely non-conservative.
I encourage undecided voters to check out the following Web site: www.kriswatch.blogspot.com, where Kobach's statements, speeches, and advertisements are checked for accuracy.
Eric Rosa Mission sophomore
Well, to add to that lovely article about the clear solutions to homelessness, why don't we just cage up the homeless so theyre not just wasting their unimportant lives in our streets. They would be much more productive
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