THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OPINION
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2005
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EDITORIAL
Get with the program
Here we go again with North Korea. For those of you who haven't been watching the news lately, the six-nation talks between North Korea, the United States, and other involved parties last week yielded what was heralded by many as dramatic breakthrough in the diplomatic impasse that has prevailed since 2002 when North Korea declared that it had a secret nuclear weapons program.
Now don't get us wrong, we think that the United States. and its allies should continue to seek a diplomatic solution to the problems on the Korean Peninsula, but this agreement does nothing to herald peace in our time.
The new agreement, which was signed on September 19, lays out a plan that would lead to North Korea having normalized relations with the United States, and would also give North Korea light-water nuclear reactors, which produce waste products that are much more difficult to convert into material for nuclear weapons than the waste producer by North Korea's current reactors, for electricity production.
In exchange, North Korea would agree to give up its nuclear weapons program and to allow meaningful inspections in order to verify its compliance.
It appears so far, however, that this agreement has in reality changed very little or nothing at all.
Perhaps the most evident sign of this is that North Korea's Yongbyn Nuclear Center is still
active; not only is it still producing power, but, presumably, it is also still producing the raw materials needed to build a nuclear warhead.
Another apparent sign that North Korea may have been less than sincere in the latest rounds of negotiations is the continuing posturing and saber-rattling of the state-controlled North Korean media.
"Before we get too excited about this latest breakthrough, we need to be aware that, if anything, this agreement is only a beginning..."
In its latest bombasts, which have been aired since this agreement was announced, the North Korean media has trumpeted its country's "deterrent" against the United States and has continued to openly proclaim that, "Nuclear weapons are no longer the monopoly of the U.S."
Another sticking point that will probably doom this latest agreement is that North Korea is demanding that the United States give it new nuclear reactors before it opens up to inspectors.
Anyone who remembers the initial agreements made in the '90s between the United States, and North Korea, though, realizes that this would be a bad idea.
Back in 1994, President Clinton made an honest mistake by assuming that if only he negotiated in good faith with North Korea, then the regime there would be more than happy to accept conditions made by its neighbors to abandon its missile program and to reaffirm its adherence to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
Unfortunately, after North Korea happily accepted our reactors, it continued to increase its weapons capabilities and to sell its technologies on the black market.
In 2002, after several years of accusations by the United States, North Korea admitted that it had been developing nuclear weapons, and, on top of that, was using its donated reactors to produce material for its warheads.
Once again, the editorial board fully supports a diplomatic solution the problems between North Korea on the one hand, and the United States, South Korea and Japan on the other.
Before we get too excited about this latest breakthrough, we need to be aware that if anything, this agreement is only a beginning, and that it will take much more hard work and patience in order to see these problems through to an acceptable resolution.
Josh Goetting for the editorial board.
PILLOW TALK
Slow your role-playing
'Tis the season for promissible clothing! Fa la la la la la la la la! Or Halloween to be exact. Instead of dressing for scare, a large number of KU women will run out and buy themed stripper outfits, because for one weekend only, it is OK to wander in public dressed as such. Keeping with my current theme, and attempting to save some fellow students a few bucks, my thoughts turn to role-play.
Having not discussed the basics of a scene in my last installment, I shall try to keep it brief. A scene is a set period for BDSM activity. By involving role-play, it allows for one's erotic fantasies to come alive.
While role-play is not exclusively a BDSM activity, it is not purely for the vanilla either. There is an added excitement in having sex with someone who is "not" your partner. Within BDSM, role-play adds options for possible scenes.
I know well enough that, out there, people are dreaming of teachers, athletes, bosses, police, firefighters, medical professionals, etc. Why not try it with your partner? Indulge in having your hot schoolteacher punish you for forgetting your homework.
Allow a sexy fireman to extinguish that smoldering heat inside you with his giant hose. Place that final forbidden spin on the
JAMIE EPSTEIN
opinion@kansan.com
childhood game of doctor.
Having quickly glanced at a few costume Web sites, all of these possibilities and more are available. Also, both Naughty But Nice and Priscilla's have a wide selection of clothes, especially for the Halloween season. Choose something that you can use again and again, at least for private use.
For the vanilla, the options stop here, but the BDSM mind has only begun to find possibilities. There is the somewhat common option of a Daddy (or Mommy)/baby relationship, or the pony girl (or boy). Pony takes a little imagination, but, in short, it is where the sub is treated as a pony, fitted with a tail (butt plug) and bridle.
Men, do not despair. There are many options for you too, but unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your mind set) there is not as wide of a range of possibilities to be skintight and scantily clad.
Now after providing the suggestions for the "what," I must touch on the "how." Unlike many
activities, where one might need a complete owner's manual, this is not the case for role-playing. Communication is, as always, an important factor (I sound like an advertisement for the COMS department).
While many of us are not willing to open up and discuss our deepest fantasies, you must remember that your partner cares for you and might have something similar in mind. If being blunt and open does not work, sit down together and make a list of roles that could be fun. If your secret one is on the list, do not draw attention to it; it's just one of many.
Make a game of the whole thing. Draw a role, a place, and a time from a pile at random. Naughty nurse, in the bathroom, first thing in the morning (sounds a bit like Clue). Then act it out. The worst that can happen is that it is not repeated, but you never know, it could become a new favorite.
This information, while new to some, and yet a review to others, will, I hope, provide hours of enjoyment for those who choose to utilize it. May all your sexual encounters be "safe, sane and consensual." Enjoy, and have fun.
- Epstein is a Lenexa sophomore in political science.
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this financial hostage taking. Among others, Yale, Harvard Law and UC Berkeley are no longer allowing this form of legalized discrimination to take place on their campuses. They have been forced to find funding in other places, but consolations have been made in that they no longer support an imperialist organization whose initial aim is the militaristic control of foreign soil (regardless of whether they accomplish this by "protecting our freedom").
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I am neither blaming nor supporting the University in its decision to accept the funding in which this University relies upon. Aside from what I have already stated, I am not asking anything more of the University than an end to on-campus recruitment. I am, however, asking the student body to stand in solidarity and oppose the presence of a discriminating and imperialist military on this campus.
I argue that the federal government is taking the University financially hostage by providing them with only two options: discriminate against students or forfeit the financing which enables the daily running of the University of Kansas.
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Discrimination is what it is
From this student's vantage, which is from the inside of Lawrence Counter Recruitment, the initial cause of LCR's campaign is the immediate and everlasting removal of military recruiters from this campus and an immediate end to United States, led imperialism. The issue that directly relates to this campus is not U.S. imperialism, the rampant use of torture by agents of the military, the deceitfulness of military recruiters, the thousands of lives lost because of the Iraq war or the effects of the Saddam Hussein regime.
LCR, as it relates specifically to this campus, is opposed to the discrimination supported by both the military and the administration at the University of Kansas. The University has a non-discrimination policy by which the administration has pledged to abide. This policy states clearly that any organization that supports the discrimination of individuals based on age, race, sexual orientation, etc., is not welcome on this campus. Military recruiters, however, openly discriminate against gays, by way of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy, and are continually allowed to recruit at the University of Kansas. The Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy is a poorly disguised case of discrimination that
states that people within a certain percentage of the military are not allowed to freely discuss their marital and sexual relations without the fear of the repercussions of a dishonorable discharge from the military. But now is not the time and place to discuss the legality of said policy.
SCOTT GUSTAFSON opinion@kansan.com
The federal government, in order to establish an education system that promotes equality and fair treatment through the funding of research, has pledged $110 million to the University of Kansas. In the form of the Solomon Act, the federal government has stipulated that in order to receive this funding, a military presence must be allowed on campus. The federal government has thus forced the University to choose between funding and respecting its students. The University, as any capitalist enterprise would, chose the funding. While this is a decision that all universities wishing to receive federal aid have had to make, few have stood up to the government and demanded an end to
Gustafson is an Overland Park junior in geography and African-American studies
Free for All
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It's not that conservatives are stupid, it's just that they cannot think critically, and they are mindless followers.
Frostys should not have an apostrophe in it. It's the plural form. The frosty does not possess anything. The opinion editor is an idiot who doesn't care about grammar.
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Why does it say "Kills Vampires Dead" above Sara Garlick's column on the opinion page?
My buddy almost got shot to death on Saturday, but I open up the paper and see a thing about a bunny. How many times do you have to be pistol-whipped to get in the paper?
George W. Bush does not care about Sara Garlick.
Sara Garlick: Go back to 1945.
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So I'm sitting here doing our group project by myself, because all my partners are Greek and chapter meetings are more important than class work. Thanks guys.
Sara Garlick. Do you realize that Sex and the City is written by males? (Editor's note: According to the Internet Movie Database, the majority of writers are female.)
All the GDI's that keep calling and bashing greeks need to stop talking about something they know nothing about.
I was going to leave a Free for All comment, but the estrogen is making me completely irrational.
I think the Kansan is sexist because they keep running terrible columns by women, i.e. Sara Garlick and Julie Obormy.
Major Joseph Gross, if the Army didn't pay your bills, would you still be saying all that?
Stop putting in comments about the damned Rhombus House.
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I just played a game of Mario party, and the results are in. Daisy is the party star! Whoo!
Rhombus House was the first to hate Sara Garlick.
Nina: happy one year anniversary!
Show me a fossil of God. Until then, creationism is crap.
I'm friends with 15 Lindsay Lohan's on facebook.com
I just saw a Tri-Delta shirt with a Confederate flag on it. No wonder minority recruitment is down.
There's massive excitement in my room, my roommate just scored with Free for All for the first time!
My roommate and I just argued about Mr. Holland's Opus for 20 minutes. Twenty minutes! Finally, we both admitted that we'd never seen it.
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She will never know what it is like to look at magazines or television shows and have a hard time spotting someone of her racial background. She will never know the feeling of immediately standing out in the United States, not because of what she is wearing, but because of the color of her skin, her hair or eyes. That is why I could not understand why Miss Oborny felt that she needed to speak for Asian-Americans in her 9/27/05 Kansan column, "Picture This: More Diversity."
As a self-described "21-year-old, middle class, non-religious, heterosexual, white, female college student," Julie Oborny will never know what it is like to be asked "Do you know English?" even if she were born in the United States.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Weaker sex or weak column
She turned what was intended as a fun, humorous picture into a racial statement, and her statement was, in my opinion, basically that the half-Caucasian and half-Korean model was representing her race badly, that the half-Asian model was putting out the message that because the white male model was holding her, the model was reiterating that she was the "weaker individual," and that the half-Asian model was
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I never would have interpreted
an idiot for posing in the position,
not knowing that she was setting
back her people many steps.
People viewing that photograph probably wouldn't think about racial issues either. Miss Obomy, on the other hand, appears to want to make a big issue out of nothing, and I find it personally disturbing that she used a minority group to vent out her frustrations.
Instead of criticizing the model, why did Miss Obormy not take into account that representation of Asian-Americans is scarce, and there is a serious lack of Asian celebrities in American culture. Besides Lucy Liu, can non-Asian-Americans name an Asian celebrity that is not a kung-fu star? Does anyone know who Ming Na, Coco Lee or John Cho are?
That model probably had no idea that race would play into her posing for that photograph.
I doubt it. Asians and Asian-Americans mostly fly under the radar in the entertainment business. I am accepting of this, even though it is a sad fact. That is why when I learned that the model on the Sex on the Hill cover was half-Korean, I thought to myself, "Good for her."
If Miss Oborny saw racism in that photo, then maybe Miss Oborny needs to step back and evaluate her own views of different races. I am an Asian-American woman born in Kansas.
that picture as a portrait of racial subjugation. I had not heard in a long time that because I was a minority I had to be careful that I never did anything to portray myself as Obormy stated "the weaker individual."
I have felt my fair share of discrimination, and I have learned in my lifetime when someone is actually discriminating or stereotyping me and when someone is not.
The model in the SOTH did not offend me, but Miss Oborny's statement, "...To me, representing a minority (I know people will take issue with that label, and I encourage you to do so) in that way, with the Caucasian male holding her, facilitates her position as the weaker individual," very much did. Racism should never be taken lightly and when one cries wolf like Miss Oborny, real racial issues lose their impact.
*Teresa Lo is a Coffeyville junior in Psychology.*
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