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Thursday, April 20, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Opinion
Haskell students seek rights
Haskell Indian Junior College students have taken a large stem toward reclaiming some of their lost rights.
testerday, the student newspaper, the Indian Leader, resumed publication after a five-month break. A faculty-sanitized edition of the paper had been scheduled to go to press last month, but students fought back in court. They filed a First Amendment suit in federal court to prevent publication of the edition, which did not include stories on the controversies surrounding the school.
A meeting today will decide what role the Haskell administration should play in the publication of the newspaper. One question that has been raised is whether the administration should be allowed to check the paper for libel and obscenity. But Haskell students have shown that they can manage that responsibility themselves.
surrounding the school. The lead story in yesterday's edition was about the lawsuit, and other front-page stories reported on the reinstatement of the student senate president and a student rights forum.
They recognized a First Amendment violation and took action. In fact, the story the Indian Leader ran about the lawsuit was a reprint from the Topeka Capital-Journal. An editor's note reported that because all the members of the Indian Leader staff were involved with the lawsuit, the editor decided to run an article written by a disinterested journalist.
Haskell journalists should be commended in their battle for their rights. The Haskell administration should recognize that and allow them to continue to publish as journalists and not as a tool of the college.
Jill Jess for the editorial board
Recent grant advances hope for better minority recruits
Last November, the Minority Issues Task Force reported that the lack of minority representation at the University of Kansas was appalling. The Patricia Robert Harris Fellowship Program granted KU minority graduate students more than $110,000. There is now hope that KU can better recruit and retain minorities.
The grant will enable six departments at KU to offer $2,000 fellowships for the 1900 summer session or the following academic year. Fellowships will be open to 30 minority students, and this will definitely improve our less than admirable minority graduate enrollment. Of 5,800 graduate students in 1988, only 3.6 percent were minorities.
students in local schools. Granted, the grant is no sweeping reform of minority-recruitment programs at KU, but it's a first step. By itself, this grant will solve only short-term minority enrollment problems.
If more minority grants are available at KU, the school might be seen as an institution striving to overcome inequality. Changing that perception of KU is crucial to the success of the Minority Issues Task Force report.
Jennifer Hinkle for the editorial board
Other Voices
'Education president' gets failing grade
Our new self-proclaimed "education president" has again handed American schools an embarrassing, inadequate proposal. Bush's Excellence in Education Act would appropriate $441 million to reward and promote school improvements.
But don't get too excited at the numbers: — the act is directed largely toward schools that are already high on the scale of scholastic distinction.
more specifically, the Bush proposal for fiscal year 1990 includes $250 million in merit grants for schools that raise test scores and show excellence in other ways. Another $100 million is tagged for "magnet schools of excellence," which have special curriculums such as strong math or science programs and open enrollment.
A true "education president" would nurture the wounds of the aching American education system. With his disproportionate proposal Bush, insults the schools that are already injured by pathetic education funding.
From there, we have to squint to recognize the meager $25 million for urban schools with serious drug problems and $10 million in grants to historically black colleges and universities. A true "education president" would nurture the wounds of the aching American education system. With his disproportionate proposal Bush, insults the schools that are already injured
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Abortion can be responsible choice
I used to be ambivalent about abortion. I never thought I could participate in a discussion of it because I thought it too private an issue to impose my choice on others. I leased slightly to the pro-choice side, and I had a handy justifying argument.
Ant-abortionists, too, can summon great reserves of religious zeal. I imagine that in many churches and fundamentalist rallies, evangelists pray fervently that God end the scourge of abortion, that His power flow through奴仆-aborators and guides their guidance to the loyalurchers who save God's precious children from the modern haoucaust. (Their pronouns, of course, are masculine.)
I kept thinking about the issue. I listened to evangelists and read Ms. magazine. I discovered the convincing blow, however, not in the words of Jimmy Swaggart or Gloria Steinbren but of Mark
In "The War Prayer," Twain wrote about a church preparing to send its men to battle. The preacher prayed passionately that God would liberate the soldiers, and ultimately grant them victory.
An aged stranger entered the church, proclaimed himself to be a messenger from God and explained that the spoken prayer contained another, unuttered prayer. He proceeded to utter that second prayer, asking God to put the enemy's children in the street shears they stood to bloody shreds" and "wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief."
Mark
Dugan
Staff columnist
I imagine, too, Twain's aged stranger entering one of those churches to explain that the anti-abortion prayer, like the war prayer, is pregnant he preys against the bewildered congregation:
"Almighty God, mutate the bodies of Your children with knitting needles and coat hangers. Subject our women to male dominance and imprison them from within. We ask, Lord, not so much that children be born but that our women be forced to have them."
'Endow our laws with Your divine greatness; let them enter the womb and protect it. Let our divine laws bring unwanted children into Your home, without regard to their parents or wishes.
"Attend to our unfortunate sisters who have been violated, who have more children than they can care for or those still in their teens, who find themselves pregnant. Be with them, Lord, but comfort them not. Let them carry their tragedies to term."
"Punish our sisters, O God, who unite with men. Keep the evil facts about health and birth control from our children so that our country, like other countries where level of sex education
is remarkably low, can have a remarkably high abortion rate.
"Guide us to young women who have made excruciating choices so that we may harass and antagonize them. Lead us to the most frightened women, but also those for whom we may shower them with our propaganda.
"Speed the cycle of poverty, O God. If we cannot stop healthy abortions for the wealth, at least let us bring death and disease to our sisters without wealth. Prevent them from securing adequate health care. Let them grow and create more children of poverty. Amen."
Twinad not address abortion directly. Neither, of course, does the Bible. The loudest anti-abortion noises come not from the mainstream Protestant tradition but from the fundamentalists themselves. Softer, infenfive noises come from the Catholic Church, whose position on life is respectable, if disagreeable. We owe no allegiance, however, to the religious right or to its misguided zealots who use religion as a tool of oppression and hatred.
There is no reason for a person who supports pro-choice to feel outnumbered or to apologize. Abortion can be as selfish as having a child; it also can be as responsible.
The choice not to have a child is as personal as the choice to have a child. One alternative, imposed on all, cannot be the solution to such a volatile question.
Mark Dugan is a third-year law student from Olathe.
Roe vs. Wade ignores rights of unborn Pro-abortion followers in United States have callous mindset
During a recent rally in Washington, D.C., pro-abortion groups gathered to support what they perceived to be a woman's sacred right to end the life of an innocent.
an innocent, innocent child
"Prochoice" is their ralving cry.
"Pro choice" is then taking crying.
But gratefully, there are millions of sane voices willing to stand up for what it's and see the pro-choice sham for what it is — murder
And when the Supreme Court reviews a Missouri case in the coming weeks, it can only be hoped that the disastrous Roe vs. Wade decision will be overturned, returning the decision to our elected representatives, where it belongs. It is time that our nation recognizes that the 1.6 million unborn children terminated each year deserve protection.
Our society must seriously question the logic of a position that would end the life of an innocent unborn simply for the sake of personal convenience or to avoid embarrassment.
Gloria Allred, a pro-abortion leader, said unequivocally that her position was "about choice, not about abortion." That statement is contradictory to what mindset that permeates the pro-abortion forces.
It is a sad fact that the pro-abortion supporters are so thoroughly blinded by their quest for unrestricted options that they fail to acknowledge, as an overwhelming majority of Americans believe, that life begins at conception. They don't even make the unborn a consideration but only worry about their self-proclaimed right to choose.
Christopher Wilson
Staff columnist
It seems that Alred, Molly Yard and the rest of their females were found where women were, in the bedroom,
our envoys rationalize their position by claiming that the present conditions in our society make abortion a necessary evil. I disagree. Social conditions call for a wider availability of legitimate birth control and a continuance of sexual education efforts that teach responsibility.
That may be a troubling notion to many elements of the anti-abortion movement, such as the Catholic Church. But if we realistically are to end abortion on demand, those who share my view on abortion must open their eyes and give a practical alternative to all levels of society. Birth control is surely preferable to infanticide in any case.
Present laws have created a climate in which abortion has become a twisted form of birth control within itself. Fully 40 percent of all women who received abortions had the procedure performed at least once before. And what's more, the abortion safety net discourages preventative methods such as contraceptives and sexual responsibility.
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Another area many pro-lifers reject or simply
It is hypocritical to say that abortions are justified in cases of rape and incest because a child is a child. But my position recognizes that, in those cases, the woman really didn't have a choice of becoming pregnant or not. I am tempted to treat a woman to carry a child that was a product of such a maleficent act.
avoid is the idea that abortion may be justified in some situations. In any case, I agree, abortion is murder. But our society is surely capable of making a humane determination as to what should be done by Roe vs. Wade is reversed. All laws consider circumstances, and abortion laws should be no different.
I also believe that a woman should never be forced to have a child if her life is in danger. If there is a legitimate argument against that, I'd like to hear it.
The simple fact is that abortion on demand must end. It is unfortunate that many women see the issue as only debate about their freedom and not about life. It is claimed by a problem-proof government has a right to question a woman's choice about abortion, but they are dead wrong.
All citizens have a stake in the abortion issue because it is truly a debate about life. The Supreme Court must do what is right and overturn Roe vs. Wade. Then, maybe, the unborn children of our nation might finally receive the protection that they deserve.
- Christopher Wilson is an Olathe senior manager in political science and personnel management.
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