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tuesday, April 4, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Opinion
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Voice of Haskell students on controversy still silent
In fact, they have not been able to comment on anything because the newspaper, the Indian Leader, hasn't published since Oct. 28. Originally, it was shut down because the faculty adviser quit, and the students were not allowed to publish without an adviser.
The situation at Haskell Indian Junior College is getting out of hand. But the students cannot comment on it in their newspaper.
But now they have an acting adviser - and legal counsel. A temporary restraining order has been issued to prevent the publication or distribution of the newspaper. The order will be in effect at least until an April 7 preliminary injunction hearing
A free press is essential to ensure other freedoms. If the Haskell students are not allowed to produce their own newspaper and exercise First Amendment rights, they cannot speak out on other possible rights violations.
The newspaper was supposed to resume twice-monthly publication on Wednesday. But the version that was prepared for print did not include stories that had been assigned by the student managing editor and covered alleged rights violations on the campus.
A student newspaper is not a public relations sheet for a college. It is a forum for students, by students.
However, a strange twist has been added to the situation. Dario Robertson, a KU associate professor of law who has been advising the Haskell students on their rights, took the prepared lavout pages for the newspaper, preventing publication.
Robertson said he was acting on behalf of the student managing editor when he removed the sheets. He submitted them to the court as evidence. However, it would have been more appropriate to go through legal channels to obtain the pages. The court could have subpoenaed the pages if it had deemed it necessary.
Still, the students at Haskell suffer. They are being denied the most precious right of U.S. citizens, that guaranteed by the First Amendment. And without that right, they have no power to combat other violations.
Jill Jess for the editorial board
Doctor must help patients, not show them ways to die
It may be impossible to legislate morality, but a 12-member committee of doctors is taking a shot at it.
The committee published a report March 23 in the New England Journal of Medicine, concluding that physicians ethically could help terminally ill patients commit suicide by administering opioids and then telling them what dose would end their lives.
Although the right-to-die issue can't be covered with a blanket moral statement, helping another person commit suicide steps beyond the boundaries of the health profession's rights.
Medicine exists to heal and to ease pain and suffering. It should not exist to hasten death or destroy biological functions. Medical technology improves so rapidly that it has turned the right-to-die issue into an ethical mine field. Nevertheless, medicine should be used only to extend a person's life, not to destroy it.
Many people who are not physicians have been charged with aiding a person's suicide and have been sent to jail. We should prescribe the same laws for physicians as we do for their fellow citizens.
The question of enforcement on such an issue remains sticky, though, because the doctor-patient relationship is confidential and should remain so. Therefore, if a physician counsels a patient on the best way to commit suicide, the patient's family and the medical profession never may know.
It is up to physicians, then, to hold themselves to a high ethical standard and to avoid counseling their patients that suicide is a solution to terminal illness or any illness that causes excessive pain and suffering. Instead, physicians should look for other ways to ease the pain and suffering of the patient. Those methods should not necessarily extend life at the cost of all normal human functioning, but neither should they shorten life by artificially destroying the biological process.
Mark Tilford for the editorial board
News staff
Julie Adam ... Editor
Karen Boring ... Managing editor
Jill Jess ... News editor
Don Graver ... Planning editor
James Fuarhqi ... Editorial editor
Elaine Sung ... Campus editor
Tom Slinger ... Sports editor
Janine Swiatkowski ... Photo editor
Dave Eames ... Graphics editor
Noel Gearls ... Art/Features editor
Ton Elfman ... General manager, news adviser
Business staff
Debra Cole... Business manager
Pamela Nolem... Retail sales manager
Kevin Martin... Campus sales manager
Scott Freigeer... National sales manager
Michelle Garland... Promotions manager
Brad Lehant... Sales development manager
Indra Prasad... Production manager
Debra Martin... Asst. production manager
Kim Coleman.
Cary Chesler... Co-op sales manager
Nathan Hunt... Classified manager
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Bipartisan Ship
Baseball is more than just a game
Fans come to ball park to do more than watch the national pastime
Top of the sixth inning here at Plywood Stadium, and the Scampering Mice have the heart of their batting order up. This is the Frothy BEE rally inning.
and if the Mice manage to score this inning, we'll
have a nice win. The deluxe
beer keg tap, repurpose to a lassy history.
Leading off is designated kit Fox, batting in the Drippie Paint Giveway Sweep-stakes. Here's the first pitch... lined down the rightfield line into the corner. Fox is around first and headed for second base, standing up with a double. That means we'll be giving our a $100 Drippie Paint gift certificate to Louella Touche, wife of Jeff Touche, a former Maine. I'm sure hotel officials will have a long talk with Louella about those $100 worth of paint supplies she plans to use in her apartment.
Runner at second, nobody out and a left-hander begins to work in the bullpen. Catcher Stubby Entdable is headed out to the mound to stall for time, while the relief pitcher warms up. And that good news for the Society for the Prevention of Self-Pity for Whiners. That beloved charity is a little bit richer because Catchter Entdable agreed this season to donate 60 for the charity, which is one pitcher. I know of at least one pitcher this year who has lobbed a soft one right over the heart of the plate and watched the ball go sailing into the gap, just to let his battery-mate hand over another 50 bills.
Bill Kempin Staff columnist
Charity does indeed begin at home.
They've decided to pitch around slugger Bats Beltry and try their luck with shortstop Roger Milceo. Ball four, and Beltry is intentionally walked. Which reminds me . . . wouldn't this be a good time to intentionally walk to your cupboard or a bag of Mudhatch's Extra-Crunchy Pork tinds, the snack with the taste you can never get out of your mouth?
Infield at double-play depth, as Wilcoe heads for the plate. He's batting .232 with three home runs and 35 RBIs. His on-base percentage is .297, and his slugging percentage is a paltry .323. He's often the highest scorer in the game, who have been in scoring position with less than two outs. And the odds are 5-1 that he'll hit a single to the opposite field if he gets behind in the count. Of course, all the kids in attendance at today's game already know this because today is Chewy Chocolate Caramel Bar side rule Day at the ballpark. The team is also accompanied by a paying adult is now the proud owner of a precision slide rule in the shape
of a Chewy Chocolate Caramel Bar that performs most arithmetical functions, until it gets too warm and melts.
Here's the pitch . . . and there it goes. Deep to left. It might be, it could be, it is! A home run over the leftfield wall! And here at Plywood Stadium, when they hit it over the wall, they hit it over a knothole wall. Built with the finest triple-streep lumber that doesn't give an inch more power than a Soft Sidelock. Solid enough to put a guy on the 21-day disabled list, but filmsy enough to come apart and leave splinters in the hand of any outfielder foolish enough to climb after a long ball.
That's the 147th round-tripper this year for the Scampering Mice, so if you have a bottle cap with the number 147 inside the peel-away label, you could be the grand prize winner in the Ranck Cola Home Run Holiday Contest. That lucky suce will accompany Rattink, the teammate of the grand congressional junkt to visit wealthy foreign nations seeking an increase in military aid.
As the relief pitcher rides in from the bullein in a 1988 Yugo, official 'cam car of the Major League Players Association, let's take a relief break with this word from Belcher Selzer .
Bill Kempin is a Lawrence graduate student in journalism.
Inefficient information
Perhaps additional funds need to be allocated to KU Info. It seems that they are extremely busy from approximately 1 a.m. until 6 a.m. I work nights and consistently receive a busy signal during this time. This "24-hour" organization must be handling a large volume of calls in order for all three times to be in use this early in the morning.
Maybe fewer costs and more efficient employees are the answer.
K. Andrew Wroblewski Olathe sophomore
Passive addiction
It's scary to hear about all of the abuse women get from men these days. It's especially scary when the abuse is physical. What gives men the right? Is it that men are the more aggressive race, or the fact that men have been abused against them? Not only are women being abused by their husbands, but college women are being "pushed around" by their college boyfriends.
will the abuse ever stop? It seems the only solution is for one of the participants in the relationship to drastically change, but who is willing to change? I wish abused women in today's society could surpass their addiction to their abusive boysfriend and move on. Move on in the sense of doing themselves a favor and letting go of their dangerous addiction.
Today's society is changing so rapidly, and women really need to step in and seek happiness for themselves. Why let a man degrade your selfworth when there are so many other fish in the sea. Sure, this might be easy to say, but taking action is a lot harder than words can project. Ending a relationship is probably one of the most difficult things we face in life as human beings, but come on, women, "the women are smarter."
Jennifer Mancuso
Glenview. Ill.. sophomore
Rebuttal, please
I write to proclaim that I have had it up to three times my height with women's problems, women's rights, women's support groups, women's health, women's awareness week, women's right to murder, women's sex roles, how we mistakenly view women and a mile-high heap of other stuff that totalitarian feminist tyrants have heaped on the students of the Kansas National Socialist School of Reverse Sexism. I guess the 13,000 men at KNNSRS (alias KU) might as well pack up and take the next Greshawk home!
Where can a man go if he gets raped,
harassed or abused? I guess the University believes the garbage that such things never happen to men. I guess the only men here are sadistic prowers just looking for someone to rape. One in three women? No men! And men are sexist? You mean that I have made friends with 6,000 women and 2,000 of them have been raped, and no one told me about even one? I have hugged (a friend) 1,200 women, and now you tell me that, unknown to me, 400 of them are rape victims! And "most of us will know at least several hundred" As I say this, we must not assume that everyone is rape-prate these crimes, and we are never victims. Women are always innocent victims. Well, poor men, why don't we let these tyrants have their way, go home and rename the place KWU (Kansas Women's University)? We would have been better off in Auschwitz.
Michael McVey Lawrence graduate student
Goodbye polarity
According to the front page photo of the March 29 Kansas, we're all doomed. If water is not a linear molecule, you can kiss your luscious, two-thirds water logged butt goodbye. No more polarity. No more hydrogen bonding. No more life. Hey, it didn't make my day.
P. S. These pharmacy students formed the atoms (not molecules) that make up water (a molecule).
Boring, Ore., graduate student
BLOOM COUNTY
by Berke Breathed