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University Daily Kansan/Wednesday, September 11, 1991
OPINION
U.N. actions
United States should put aside self-interests
The willingness of the Soviet Union and China to constructively participate in the U.N. Security Council has allowed the United States to further many foreign policy goals under the auspices of the United Nations. Almost half a century after its creation, the United Nations finally is fulfilling the role which many envisioned at its inception.
Cooperation within the United Nations allowed negotiations to end a long war in Namibia, and for the first time in more than 10 years peace in Cambodia appears to have a serious chance at success as a result of U.N. efforts in the region.
However, as states in the Middle East position themselves for a peace conference, which is tentatively set for sometime next month, our Arab "allies" from the Persian Gulf war are eager to point out the willingness of the United States to overlook U.N. actions, especially U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which calls for Israel's withdrawal from the occupied territories. While much can be said for both sides of the dispute regarding the annexation, it is clear that
the United States essentially has ignored U.N. actions directed at Israel
Continued legitimacy in the international community depends on the willigness of the United States to pay more attention to all actions of the United Nations, not just those which serve U.S. interests. This means acknowledging all U.N. actions, including those involving Israel, and supporting the United Nations in order to promote a lasting peace in the region thats fair to all parties.
Pat Warren for the editorial board
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Seriously, parents, let's not name our children after frozen gelatin
Kids have their entire lives to make their parents miserable. That's why many parents can get to a jump on the bandwagon or her something absolutely ludicrous.
The task of naming your child should be taken very seriously. One should sit down with their spouse, turn off the television—unless of course a good friend came down—and give their child-naming endearies some quality thought.
Dale Carnegie, author and master of human relations, once said that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language, and that name makes him or her unique among all others.
Rich
Bennett
Guest
columnist
After all, a name is something that is
with you all your life. Some parents don't realize the importance of naming their child and consequently wreck kid's life before it ever gets started.
If you don't believe me, next time you're in Kuwait check the Kuwaiti phone book. There are a few Kuwaitis who are so grateful for the United
States' help in freeing their country from Iraqi invaders that they've named their babies after President Bush. The mother of three-month-old Abdula George Bush al-Mutawa says her son is "a great leader and traditionalists for her name choice."
jungle, kid.
A friend of mine who works in a children's hospital says he comes across funny names every day. Recently, a couple with the last name Rose decided it would be cute if they named their child Axl, so they did. Welcome to the
A good friend of mine once told me a story about a 15-year old girl who had a baby out of wedlock. Her mother was so angry, she made her daughter name her child Mysin, as in my sin, to teach her a lesson.
Another couple at this hospital must have been huge frozen-gelatin fans. They named their twin boys *Jemonleo* (pronounced lah-MON-gelo-o) and *Orangejellei* (or-ON-gel-o). Take it from me, a guy who went to grade with him, named Peter Rabbit, those two kids will be lucky if they live to be teenagers.
Initials are something to bear in mind, too. As for me, I want to make sure no one messes with my kids. That's why I'm naming them Sam Oliver and Shawn Ots. Trow in my last name and they'll be a couple of tough customers, I assure you.
*Rich Bennett is an Overland Park senior*
Rich Bennett is an Overland Park senior major in journalism.
LETTERS to the EDITOR
Hochneeds student input
As a student who is concerned with the situation regarding Hoch Auditorium, I was pleased to learn that an administrative committee was formed to develop plans for the renovation. However, after inquiring about the representatives of this important committee, I was shocked to find no administrators from the office of student affairs. I was also disappointed to learn that there is only one representative of the actual students; staff and faculty from the Libraries and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences comprise the rest of the committee. Shouldn't students, will they use the facility most in the years to come, be better represented?
Such representation on this committee suggests that the plans for the renovation of Hoch will consist of new, additional space for library stacks and possibly some classroom space that is not important to KU students has not been addressed. The use of Hoch as a venue for forums, performances and other
large university events in the future is such an issue.
The need for such a facility is prominent at KU. Last year Heir Auditium fulfilled the University's demand on many occasions. The sell-out Parent's Day event, Angela Davis' lecture, Christmas Vespers and three Rock Chalk Reve performances each attracted at least 2,500 students and community members. No other facility on the campus now or ever offers this kind of service to this demand. The new Lied Center will have only a 2,000-person capacity.
Unless a large venue, such as old Hoch, once again serves this campus, students will be turned away from some quality University programs. Furthermore, students will be discouraged from attending events due to higher ticket prices caused by limited seating.
The flexibility now exists for the construction of a comparable facility while still meeting academic needs. With today's technology the construction of effective classroom spaces and a large performing venue as complimentary facilities is certainly possible.
I hope that the administration and the Hoch Renovation Committee in particular will consider this very real and important issue when developing plans for the new structure. Most importantly it is my hope that more students are involved in this process.
Andy Martin Executive Producer, Rock Chalk Revue
Without a truthful leader there can be no progress
I am somewhat befuddled by the recently revealed impropriety of student body president Darren Fulcher by the University Daily Kansan. However, I must admit that I am more confounded by the handling of this event by Mr. Fulcher than by the event itself. I shall explain.
I. like many others, suspected the motivation(s) of the University Daily Kansan in reporting the story. However, these suspicions led me to sundry questions such as: What determines the newsworthiness of an event? To what extent should a public official's private life be pried into? Is the assertion that Mr. Fulcher's ethnicity determined the printing of this indiscretion either tenable or probable? Has the Kansan run print on Euro-American malfeasances? Of what would a journalism ethic consist? ...Thus I was compelled to seek understanding of some factors that might help me to assail such questions.
My first step was to gain perspicacity into the accused's point of view. In order to keep my mind free of hearsay, I attended a meeting held for the purpose of discussing the issue. At this meeting I heard variegated opinions, beliefs and stances. Besides the absurd comparison of the late Dr. Martin Luther King's indictments to Mr. Fulcher's, I was strongly moved by one other assertion. Someone in the meeting explained that Fulcher did not spoken about the facts concerning the fray because the matter was still under investigation. I, against my good sense, accepted this explanation on faith, though remaining somewhat ambivalent.
I granted that there have been certain subtleties that were unbeknownst to me. However, this state of reserved uncertainty was duly compromised. It, while I was perusing the ideas of another, was intimated to me that the case must be closed for it was now a matter of public record.
This was the first step in abating my reserve, but I was not yet in possession of the definitive information that I sought. I, therefore, made a it point to query Fulcher concerning the status of the case immediately.
I caught up with Fulcher in the Kansas Union inside his office. I asked him whether his case was still under
I am curious about why he allowed false information about the case to be given in his presence. A seeming contradiction to a concern of his which he had made known at that same meeting, namely, that he didn't want to make any public statements lest his remarks would be misouted.
I shall expound. What is the result of being misquoted? One offshoot of such an incident would be that one is misrepresented. If he is misrepresented, truth of him is relatively diminished. In infer that he did not want truth of himself diminished, because he did not want to be misquoted. However, he was misrepresented, therefore truth of him is relatively diminished.
In short, we deduce the statement that Mr. Fulcher desires both truth of himself to be diminished and not truth of himself to be diminished. This state-of-mind happens by necessity false. Does this mean that truth of Fulcher is unattainable?
I no longer can trust the integrity of Mr. Fulcher. But, there are some people supporting him for dubious and baneful reasons. The student body deserves the leadership of a trustworthy person, someone with whom their concerns might rest comfortably. Is Darren Fulcher a person of these simple qualities? I think not, for he has not the integrity. Without this attribute in a leader, there in no optimism. Without optimism, there is no positive growth, and the power of degradation is increased.
James Madison is a Kansas City, Kan.
senior majoring in philosophy.
KANSAN STAFF
investigation. He answered no, I then asked him why he allowed that false assertion made at the meeting to go unchecked. There was no satisfactory answer to be given. My reserve was immediately obliterated. I felt grossly manipulated. I felt that I had been unjustly conspired against. This insight shifted my attention from the aforementioned concerns to others.
HOLLY LAWTON
Editor
JENNIFERREYNOLDS Managing editor
TOM EBLEN General manager, news adviser
James T.
Madison
Guest
columnist
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bv Tom Michaud