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EDITORIAL: C.J. Giles should be allowed back on the men's basketball team, but only if he accepts responsibility and focuses on being a good father first See kansan.com for more opinions and Free for All comments
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It's time for Giles to quit hiding from his responsibilities and provide child support. Being a student-athlete and a father is not impossible just look to former Jayhawk football player Eric Butler, who lost a year of eligibility because he decided to take care of his newborn daughter. He took his role as a father just as seriously as his duties as a defensive tackle.
Certainly, basketball is important at the University of Kansas but not nearly as important as family. Jayhawk nation would love to have Giles back on the court, but before he or coach Bill Self even considers the idea, he should worry more about being a father. Giles should sit in the stands until he can carry out his obligation of making payments to support his child.
Giles needs to get priorities straight
When we thought public perception of our athletics teams couldn't get any worse last weekend, it did when we were told C.J. Giles was suspended from the men's basketball team for academic and personal reasons. We found out the Seattle junior is the father of a 19-month-old child and owes thousands of dollars in child support.
Fighting tooth-n-nail for another year of eligibility, the NCAA denied Butler the opportunity to take the field for one more season. Giles could learn a thing or two about taking care of a child by following Butler's example.
Going to class, attending practice and taking care of a child is a challenge, but one that is obviously important. It may take some work, but that's what a father does. Jayhawk nation wants to see Giles back on the court, blocking shots and hitting jumpers, but it wants him to get his act together first. The team will still be here winning games when he's ready to come back.
C. J., wearing that crimson and blue jersey is a privilege. This means you must conduct yourself with integrity — on and off the court. So get your priorities straight and man up. You only play basketball at the University for four years but you'll be a father for a lifetime. We say working on your skills as a father is more important.
Louis Mora for the editorial board.
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Why is a child of a KU basketball player not receiving child support more important than any other child in Douglas County not receiving child support? This is hardly front page news
C. J. Giles, this is your son. Please give me money. I'm hungry and I need food.
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Why would we want someone that took three years to walk-on on our basketball team?
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I swear I just saw a squirrel use a crosswalk.
To all my fans at The Crossing on Thursday night: I am the girl that fell of the bar and my foot is
--volumes; with its current volume of 305,000 items, the public library cannot and probably will never be able to compete with them.
If I hear one more person say we should support C.J. Giles I will scream. He needs to grow up and live up to his responsibilities.
Why do you guys have to yell such mean things at girls as they walk down Jayhawk Boulevard.？
C. J. : Pay yo baby's mama so you can play.
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I was calling to see which charity Mark Mangino was going to donate his salary to. Thank you.
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COMMENTARY
Public library worth expanding
As a Lawrence Public Library employee, I have seen firsthand how badly the library needs to be expanded. The shelves are full to bursting, and the library at its current size cannot properly serve the demands of its patrons. Unfortunately, the library expansion project has been put on the back burner again and again by the city and Lawrence residents, as the library cannot garner the financial support necessary. Many people have been reluctant to support an expansion because they feel the library is not valuable enough to the community to justify the price tag of the expansion, which could run as high as $23 million, according to the library's Web site.
I was appalled to see a column by Mark Hirschey in the Lawrence Journal-World on Oct. 2 that called libraries "obsolete," "limited" and "inefficient" in light of the development of the Internet. First, this statement focuses only on the research capacity of the library and omits all the other services it provides. Secondly, since when did the Internet become a reliable source for research projects?
Admittedly, in the area of research capabilities, a public library simply does not have the same volume of research materials as university libraries. The library does have a large non-fiction section and patrons can request specific materials through inter-library loan. However, Anschutz and Watson alone have more than one million
BY CASSE GENTRY
KANSAN COLUMNIST
OPINION@KANSAN.COM
But despite these advantages, the University libraries are not as accessible to people who are not University students or faculty, especially with the parking limitations and the inability to take books home. They also serve an older age group and do not have many research resources for children and young adults.
Online sources simply do not hold up against the tried-and-true methods of library research. Yes, it's quicker and easier to sit at home and look online for facts than taking the time to go to a library and search the shelves, but children taught this method will have a rude awakening when coming to college or even high school. Many professors limit the number of Internet sources used in a research paper to few or none, preferring to have students use more dependable sources such as books or academic journals.
I can also say from firsthand experience that many patrons do not come to the public library to do formal research but to check out fiction, children's books and
movies. For people who love to read but cannot or do not want to spend money on the latest best-sellers, the library allows them to read a much greater number of books than if they had to buy each one. Maybe Hirschey has the funds to buy all the books he wants to read, but I (and many other patrons and poor college students) do not. Also, unless I am mistaken, it's a little difficult to read a bedtime story to your child from the Internet.
The problem with Hirschey's argument is that it trivializes all the other uses of the library. Yes, the Internet is a good source of information; yes, University libraries have a greater capacity for research. But there are many other things the public library offers that its competitors cannot: story time for children; video game nights for young adults; easy and free access to the Internet for those who don't have it at home; and free film festivals and other cultural events.
Opinions like Hirschey's are uneducated, and they are holding the Lawrence Public Library back. Maybe he has not been to the library in awhile, but it seems that he is simply not aware of all it has to offer. Come on in to the library, Hirschey, or anyone else who thinks the expansion of the library is ridiculous. I'll show you around and make you a convert.
Gentry is a Kansas City, Kans., sophomore in pre-medicine and English.
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In the article, the author cited a study by a mechanical engineering professor who claimed there was as much as twenty times more tar in hookah tobacco than in cigarettes. I have a problem with this because every single box of hookah tobacco that I have purchased in the last four years has said "0.0 percent tar" on the box.
This is in response to the article "Hookah smoking as bad as cigarettes." I have been an avid smoker of the hookah for about four years. Although I know the practice is hardly healthy, I do not think that there is enough evidence in the article or elsewhere to state that smoking the hookah is just as bad as cigarettes.
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I also have a problem that the article cited a mechanical engineer expert in an article about health. I do not know about you, but I would not take medical advice from a mechanical engineer, and he is by far not an expert in the area. I agree that smoking hookah tobacco is hazardous to one's health, but there is not enough credible evidence in the article to claim that it is equal to cigarettes. More relevant sources should be taken into consideration the next time a definitive claim is made about health.
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I am pleased to see someone speaking out about the juvenile behavior of some KU sports fans ("Fans take college rivalries too seriously, act immature," 10/16). Last year, I attended the KU-UT basketball game in Austin. I went with my son and his father-in-law, both of whom are UT grads. A group of KU fans sat behind us, and they were totally obnoxious most of the game. It was bad enough that KU got their butts beat soundly, but the behavior of the KU fans just added insult to injury.
Columnist correct to criticize obnoxious KU fans
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