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University Daily Kansan/Wednesday, October 23, 1991
OPINION
LETTERS to the EDITOR
End the horror; ban weapons
Well, it's about time. How many
more horror shows need be enraged? 17
of them.
The slayings that occurred ... Killeen, Texas, truly transcended the bounds of description. If The devilh himself could have been more brutal in a shorter time span, it would have been one of his better days. I am wrenched, appalled, horrified, etc. Decisive battles and heavy assaults centered stage to combat the darkest fears of humanity from becoming next days' news.
As we ought to do, I tried fixing my selfmentally on not only accepting the fact but also in trying to cope as anyone in that restaurant would. I ran around mental circles of horror and explored the avenues of deepest sorrow. I could not traverse entirely this room. There were still remains as options were dreadful analogical comparisons with my loves being put in that restaurant.
Yes, my girlfriend could have been shot when trying to untangle herself from underneath the wreckage of a car. I had just fallen off the road and have had jar in hand in hands softly
out my mother's ear before the scene broke out. Any citizen ranging from the highly credible to criminal elements could have been present. As is becoming so painfully apparent, WE are the unprotected.
Instead of thinking, "It could never happen to me," we, as students, must become aware of the environment around us and protest any form of crimi-
Nobody is asking to legislate morality which may continually have its line redrawn. What I implore is that we rid totally from society weapons expressly made to eliminate humans in an icy cold efficiency. Maybe then, the 23 shrieks of injustice can be laid to rest at the foot of prudence.
Halden Moon
Lawrence freshman
Harassment is not trivial issue
These statistics are not appealing to anyone, especially to those considering attending the University of Kansas. Let's face it, KU is not as safe as it used to be or as safe as we students would like it to be. One just needs to read the crimes in the section "On the Record" in the Kanan to be reminded of that.
Increase awareness
I repeatedly hear speakers commenting that if one good thing has come out of this national mess, it is that women will be less discouraged in the future to come forward with a charge of sexual harassment. Why? So that they can be further humiliated publicly? So that they can be accused of being a jealous, ambitious nymphomaniac?
I fail to see the logical in this view. I see the sensationalizing of this issue will soon trivialize it, and that is a pity for all people.
Crime rate may damage KU reputation
Is the University doing anything to combat the increase in reported criminal activity? Within the KU department of housing, the answer is yes. Security at all residence halls is stringent.
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation has reported that campus crime at the University of Kansas has increased 8.1 percent since the beginning of the year. The Federal Bureau of Investigation also has noted KU's increasing reports of crime, ranking it 21st out of 403 colleges and universities in criminal activity.
Kathryn Bergman St. Louis junior
Allhalls are staffed with security monitors, trained by KU police, who patrol hall grounds throughout the evening. At all times security monitors are equipped with radio transmitters tuned to a special frequency, allowing direct contact with University police.
department of student housing requires that from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. all access to the halls be secured. Only residents of the hall are permitted in the building. If the resident wishes to invite a guest in during security hours, then the resident must check in the guest and provide a picture identification of that guest. The identification card then is held by the security monitor until the resident of the hall checks the guest out.
nal activity, whether it be rape, domes tic violence or burglary.
Programs dealing with campus safety created by the office of new-student orientation, Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center and Student Senate all have been innovative steps in the right direction. However, more members of the University administration, faculty and staff need to be involved in developing and implementing programs dealing with the prevention of criminal activity. Students at the University must be assured that they are living in a conducive and safe educational environment. If this is not assured, KU may suffer from an image problem that might not go away.
Jose Vasquez for the editorial board
Indian art exhibit presented in wrong museum
This week I went to enjoy the Indian Arts Show that is on view in Spooner Hall, home to the Museum of Anthropology. As I gladly paid the nominal $1 student fee to enter, I was anticipating an exhibition featuring a rich variety of American Indian art including a vast array of mediums, subjects, styles and artists. For the most part, this is exactly what I got. I became acquainted with various art objects such as water colors by Arthur C. Begay, a navajo from New Mexico, a porcelain work by Mel Cornhucker, a Cherokee from Missouri, and some stained glass artwork by George M. Drapeaux, a Yankton Sioux from South Dakota.
It was a splendid, enlightening experience for me, a history of art student, to be surrounded by magnificent artistry that did not resemble artwork I have ever seen or studied. However, all of a sudden, my short-term-mesmerized state came to a screeching halter as I began to realize that I wasn't even in an art museum. I began to feel grotesquely ashamed. At this point, all I could concentrate on was bright orange writing on the wall that read, "What it is to be human." Then my eyes shifted to black, crooked letters on one wall that spelled out "tools and tools" and "skulls and skulls" on the wall and in the same three-dimensional letters read "growth of a culture." I noticed several glass cases that contained a smorgasbord of bones and skulls and various primitive hunting
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Gilgore
Guest
columnist
and living accouterments with explanations in the form of graphs and charts. I tried to comprehend how it was possible for these colorful 20th century artworks to be shown to the public intermingled with objects that deal with the origins, development and culture of the science of man. Iwas appalled, shocked and amazed at where this artwork was shown and how it was treated. The University of Kansas does have an art museum, which I believe to be the appropriate place for exhibitions such as this. In fact, in the Spencer Museum of Art's 1991 calendar, the director of the museum states: "The Spencer Museum of Art is the art museum of the University of Kansas. Its mission is to collect original works of art to the highest quality from Asia, Europe and the Americas, preserve them in the best condition possible, exhibit them and related objects appropriately and
My feeling is that this show of Indian art compiles with this "mission" of quality and that it should have ftright into the art museum's schedule of exhibitions. I also feel that the anthropology museum serves to educate, but the art museum completely different object that doesn't pertain to the fine arts. A much more appropriate place for the art would be the Spencer Museum of Art, the Art and Design Building galleries, or even the gallery in the Kansas Union.
safely, study them and publish the findings in exhibition catalogues and articles, and teach about them in order that students, scholars and visitors to the museum may appreciate and learn about art and its history."
- Valerie Gilgore is a Prairie Village senior majoring in art history.
Best way to enjoy Series is to pick a team to hate
The last time the Cubs made the playoffs, readers in other parts of the country sent men numerous newpaper columns written by those who loathe the Cubs, their fans and Chicago.
They were fun to read because that's the part of the baseball's charm, finding some irrational reason to dislike strangers and hoping a fly ball lands on their heads.
Because the Cubs are so seldom involved in post-season play, I've always prepared for the playoffs and the World Series by trying to work up a good hate. It's either that or fall asleep in front of the tube.
The choice has been easy when a New York team is involved, Yankees or Mets. The Yankees, because as a child I was taught that they represented the greedy forces of Wall Street who exploited the workers. My grandfather taught me that. I later learned that my grandfather was mostly exploited by bookies and bartenders, but I disliked the Yankees out of habit. And the Mets? Well, any Cubs fan knows why.
It is also easy to generate an instant grudge against any California team, with their effete, face-lifted, fanny-tucked, movie-star groups and laid-back, trend-hopping, glassy-eyed fans. If nothing else, I merely remind myself that California gave the nation Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. Mavis its graces rot.
As you can see, the players have nothing to do with it. The choice of hate objects is dictated by the city, the state or the region. Sort of my own personal mini-civil war.
In a pinch, for example, I can develop an instant hate against Boston. It's a nice city, but I just remind me that Harvard is there, and like any decent, envious, class-conscious American, I'm filled with resentment. And the thought of Ted Kennedyhelpsoo.
But this year, generating even a mild dislike is a challenge. I can't remember any Series where there
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have been cities so ... I'm trying to think of the right word...decent, I suppose.
Minneapolis. How can anyone dislike Minneapolis? The city is so clean. The politicians are so honest that they must be retarded. And the people, most of them well-scrubbed Scandinavians, are so polite and decent that when they catch a walleye, which is their main recreational activity, they thank it for biting their hook. And Minneapolis gave us Hubert Humphrey, the last liberal Democrat who didn't look morose.
Atlanta. It is a tempting target because it's in the South, and I've never understood why Southerners brag about their hospitality when their roadside restaurants deep fry everything, even spaghetti and their bars are populated by beady-eyed guys named Junior and Rufus, who are hostile to anyone who doesn't have facial bottle scars. But Atlanta isn't like that. The last time I was there, I ate in a fine restaurant where the waiter removed the cork from the wine bottle and offered it for my perusal. That is sophistication. And with a touch of salt on it, it was the finest cork I ever ate. Besides, Ted Turner is from Atlanta, and ever since he took up with Jane Fonda, she hasn't said one idiotic thing, which is her all-time record.
So I don't know what I'm going to do to generate some wholesome venom. I never thought I'd say it. Or even think it. It not sure that I can write it. But I'll try.
I really miss the Mets.
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■ Mike Royko is a syndicated columnist with the Chicago Tribune.
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