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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 24, 1991
OPINION
Gulf war desertion
Stripping doctor of licensewould be injustice
It was recently announced that the Kansas Board of Healing voted to investigate taking action against Yolanda Huet-Vaughn, a doctor who was convicted of desertion because she refused to serve as a reserve doctor when her unit was activated to go to the Persian Gulf last December.
Because of this, Huet-Vaughn could lose her license to practice medicine. She currently is serving a 30-month sentence in the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth.
To take away her license to practice is a ridiculous thing to do. Looking at the situation from a purely economic standpoint, it would be like throwing away money.
The Army paid for her medical education, and if her license is taken away, all of the knowledge she gained at the Army's expense will be wasted.
If the board wants to punish her further than the 30-month sentence, it should find a more productive way. She could perform volunteer hours at a clinic or in areas that are medically understaffed. There exists a potential to help people in allowing her to practice medicine. No one would benefit from her license being revoked.
Amy Francis for the editonal board
Earth alert
Society must take responsibility for its trash
Forty years from now, there will be 10 billion people here. It is a sold-out show already.
We are flat running out of room. Not class space or grass on the Hill during a home-game romp — although those are crowded too — the subject here is the ever-shrinking spaceship Earth.
According to Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb, the only way that we will be able to sustain life on this planet a few hundred years from now if present birth/death rates continue would be to build a continuous 200-story structure circumnavigating the globe in which we all have about four square feet to live, breathe and go to the bathroom in. God help us.
For now the population problem expresses itself in many sordid ways. We need more prisons, but no one wants one in his or her backyard. We need better education, but no one will pay for it. We need more landfills, that will devalue property, which will bring in less money for education, which will land more of the uneducated in prison, which...
You get the picture.
It is time to break the cycle. Perhaps we should start with landfills. It seems to be an appropriate topic that adequately mixes all that is wrong with the state of the planet: population, responsibility, greed, the "flush-it, it's gone" attitude, and downright short-sighted-
ness. If we became responsible for our trash and were forced to live right next door to it, there would be a lot less of it.
Editorials reflect the opinion of the University Daily Kansan editorial board. Editorials reflect the majority opinion of the board.
Why not call on the White House to make a landfill out of its front lawn? Better yet, let's bring it home to Lawrence and make a landfill put of Potter Lake. The view of the Hill after last week's game against Iowa State was sickening. All it would have taken was 2,000 red wagons full of dirt and we would have been well on our way to establishing the Oread landfill. Apologies to those of you who picked up your trash, but for those who did not get a life, or get a shovel and start digging.
Opinions expressed in guest and staff columns and cartoons are soley those of the author or artist. Views expressed in columns and cartoons are not necessarily shared by the Kansan.
Editorial board members are: Benjamin Allen, Anita Bajaj, Kevin Bartels, James Baucom, Michael Dick, Amy Francis, Clarissa Jackson, Dan Janousek, Ellen Kuwana, Holly Lawton, Holly Neuman, John Noltensmeyer, Karen Park, Jennifer Reynolds, Jennifer Tanous, Jose Vasquez, Julie Wasson and Frank Williams.
Michael Dick for the editorial board
Question: What was the best Halloween costume you ever had?
Glenn Sears Sophomore pre-Physical therapy Oklahoma City
"One year my friends and I in high school pitched in about $50 each, and we bought an old clucker station wagon. Then we sailed off the top and painted it like a twelve pack. Each of us were trash cars painted like beer cans, and we went to a party as a twelve pack."
Caroline Reniker
Caroline Ren Junior Economics Lenexa
"Casper the ghost was probably the best because it was my first store-bought costume, and I thought that was real cool. My mom always wanted to put something together for me."
Frank White III
Senior
Psychology and African studies
OverlandPark
"I went as a mad scientist in sixth grade. I wore this orange, red and green gig and a white overcoat with all this foul stuff on it. It was memorable because I didn't get any candy. I'd go up to a door and say, 'Trick or treat,' and the people would just say, 'Whew.'
Bob Zielinski
Freshman
Pre-journalism
Omaha, Neb.
"A Spiderman suit when I was really young. It was real cool. It was for a school Halloween play. Spidye was the best. The only problem was that it didn't have a zipper. I had to take off the whole thing to go to the bathroom between acts."
Jennifer Manz Sophomore Education Leawood
"I went as a gumball machine once. It was interesting. A lot of people liked it, but it was hard to keepall the balloons in place. You wear a clear trash bag with balloons in it then paint a one-cent sign on the front."
Greg Ziperstein
Senior
Communications and economics
Northpark, Ill.
"The Unknown Comic, definitely. You remember, from 'The Gong Show.' At the time it was real popular. You got to wear the bag over your head and you could do really funny things."
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Last Hurrahs
by Mike Romane
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