4 University Daily Kansan/Tuesday, September 24, 1991 OPINION Recycling effort Students should help keep campus clean There are more than 15,000 copies of the University Daily Kansan circulating today. Unfortunately, most of those copies will be left on classroom floors or tossed into the trash after being read. After Saturday's football game against the New Mexico State Aggies, the hill in front of the Campanile was littered with beer and soda cans, paper and other trash. And, unfortunately, that trash did not stay on the hill. The trash, aided by a strong wind, found its way to Javawk Boulevard and beyond. A lot of that trash could have been recycled. Members of the University community have worked to make it easy to recycle items. There is a recycling bin for newspapers outside of Wescoe Hall, and bins for aluminium cans can be found in most campus buildings. Recycling the Kansan and other newspapers should not be the responsibility of janitors or maintenance workers. The Kansan is the student newspaper, and students should care about their campus enough to recycle. correctly should be a priority. Keeping campus looking nice is important when alumni, who visit the campus on weekends for football games, are considering the possibility of donating money. In situations such as Saturday's football game, when students are not inside campus buildings, disposing of trash The easy way out is to expect someone else to pick up the newspapers and the trash left after a football game, but KU students should begin to take the responsibility themselves. Holly Neuman for the editorial board Drop-offboxes KU libraries need system to quicken returns It's two weeks until finals. While doing some research you uncover a snag in some statistics that you have compiled. The only way to get the snag untangled is to go to the library and find a book that will shed some light on it. You search for five minutes. On the computer screen is the listing of the one book that will save your grade and maybe your life. But there is one more snag to untangle. The book is checked out. Chances are good that the book is not being used. Chances are also good that it is just sitting on someone's shelf, waiting to be returned because the person who has it must take that long and steep walk to the library to drop it off. Book drop-off boxes on or around campus could ease the problem of late returns. The books could be dropped off in boxes, and the boxes could be emptied daily by library staff. were installed by the residence halls, quicker returns would be facilitated. Because drive-through traffic is not allowed on campus during the day, many students are discouraged by this lack of accessibility and don't return their books early. If one or two boxes Libraries at other universities across the nation have installed drop-off boxes. The University's libraries should investigate the feasibility of installing these boxes in locations convenient for students. Daniel Janousek for the editorial board Editorials reflect the opinion of the University Daily Kansan editorial board. Editorials reflect the majority opinion of the board. Opinions expressed in guest and staff columns and cartoons are solely those of the author or artist. Views expressed in columns and cartoons are not necessarily shared by the Kansan. Guest columns and letters are welcomed by the editorial staff. Editorial board members are: Benjamin Allen, Kevin Bartels, James Baucom, Michael Dick, Amy Francis, Clarissa Jackson, Daniel Janousek, Ellen Kuwana, Holly Lawton, Holly Neuman, Karen Park, Jennifer Reynolds, Jennifer Tannot, Jose Vasquez, Julie Wasson and Frank Williams. LETTERS to the EDITOR Aid to Israel is issue of politics In seeking to delay the question of loan guarantees for the housing of Soviet Jews in Israel, the Bush administration has chosen the right course, pursuing the more worthy goal of providing more domestic political considerations. The continued Israeli settlement of the occupied territories not only dims the prospect for a successful peace conference, but it is a policy that is clearly illegal under international law. The Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) and Protocol I of the Geneva Diplomatic Conference (1977) said, "The occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies." Aid from the United States at this time would only help fund this illegal policy. Israel has mobilized its supporters on Capitol Hill to circumvent the administration. On Tuesday, ABC News showed Sen. Brook Adams of Washington arguing for the loans in the interest of humanitarianism. For the most part, foreign aid is not designed to aid foreigners. They can't vote. Foreign aid is designed to aid a humanitarian in this case. The real motive in this case is not humanitarianism. It's politics. If it was truly humanitarian to help Soviet Jews, why doesn't this same senator and others like him argue for housing aid for the Soviet Union, whose house shortage is far worse than Israel's? At $4 billion a year, Israel is our Cuba. If Israel continues a confrontational approach on this issue, maybe we should follow Gorbachev's lead. Cries that Fulcher is victim of racism harm all at KU Race has become an excuse. It has become an excuse to keep Darren Fulcher in office as student body presses him to polarize the University of Kansas. Greg Murray Santa Ana, Calif. People at Wednesday's rally heard James Daniels, president of the National Black Law Students Association, proclaim that students would march and protest until justice was done. He said that our Student Senate had turned its back on our student body president. Now Mr. Fulcher has shown himself to be clever, and our Student Series has售 We are discussing a representative of a student body consisting of nearly 28,000 people. They are not all African-American and white. They are many colors and come from many ethnic backgrounds and religions. I must question Mr. Daniels definition of justice. And they are all bein represented by a man who has shown himself to be a leader. Forging signatures on a timecard at a homeless shelter, as Mr. Fulcher did in March, is in most businesses, real estate and retail. He cheated, and, in this case, stealing. Through the use of private meetings and the National Rights and Privacy Act, this incident was kept fairly quiet and received limited coverage. The results of Mr. Fulcher's disciplinary hearing were keen confidential. It does not matter that Mr. Fulcher has sought counseling. He struck a woman with enough force to cause nearly $500 damage to her mouth. The judgment of many students on our campus has become disturbing, as well. It is frightening to see so many students in the battle to save this president. It does not matter that he has apologized for his mistakes. It does not matter that Mr. Fulcher is African-American, nor would it be wrong to suggest it. Just because Mr. Fulcher is I am ashamed of my peers who have fallen into the politically correct trap that looks at negative actions against any African-American as being What matters is that he lacked judgment when these events occurred. No apologies or counseling will improve his life, only time and experience can do that. In supporting Mr. Fulcher, they are condoning violence against women Mr. Fulcher should be held on high moral ground because he is a high-ranking elected official in our community. Rick Honish Associate Sports Editor African-American does not mean he is fit for the job. It is a disgrace to a student body that has worked hard to change itself into a more harmonious community to hear its president blame his predicament on his race, as he did in the Sept. 12 edition of the Kansan. He not only harms the university by harming the credibility of the University he claims to care so much about. If Mr. Fulcher truly understood his position, he would step aside and let our governing body continue its business, Perhaps just as harmful to the student body is the increasingly prevalent attitude epitomized by Thursdays guest columnist, Cedric Lockett Mr. Lockett stated that "white political leaders are eagerly looking for reasons to discredit and destroy an American leader at every level." Comments like these further divide this campus. Yes, some white leaders are racist. Most are not. Died Emanuel Cleaver and Douglas Wilder win their elections purely through the African-American vote? Alfalfa leaves entirely African-American. Did Darren Fulcher win his election purely through the African-American vote? Most of Mr Fulcher's coalition is white, as are most of the senators that voted against his expulsion. Referring to the coverage of Mr. Fulcher's actions as a "media circus," as Mr. Lockett has done, is simply hypocritical. When the facts about Mr. Fulcher were first reported, we all heard the cries of sensationalism and political motivation. Now that Mr. Fulcher's supporters have made good use of CNN in displaying Wednesday's rally, where are the charges of sensationalism? This student body has the intelligence to solve this problem peacefully. We cannot let others cloud our judgment with unfounded charges of racism. We must realize and learn from the mistakes we have made and continue to do. We must also realize that racists and hypocrites, as well as leaders, come in all forms. 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