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University Daily Kansan
Opinion
Thursday, May 1, 1986
Keep credit union here
According to a prior agreement, no reason had to be given . . so none has been.
The KU Credit Union has received notice of the termination of its lease at 101C Carruth-O'Leary Hall. As things stand, the credit union will move off campus June 30 for the first time in 23 years.
When the current lease was drawn up, the credit union and the University agreed that either party could end the lease 30 days before the credit union had to vacate the space. They also agreed that no reason needed to given for ending the lease.
So the official word from the chancellor's office is that the space is needed for other uses.
The employees and equipment from the campus branch will move to the credit union's main branch at 603 W. 9th St.
But credit union officials say there is not much room at the main branch for all of the equipment and people.
But the issue of convenience is perhaps the most important in this case.
Many professors bank at the credit union because it is within walking distance, and many students cannot get to the downtown branch easily because they do not own cars.
The credit union will have to submit a request for space elsewhere on campus if this convenience is to continue. But credit union officials say they are worried that new space would only be taken back by the University in the future.
An agreement needs to be reached and the tradition of convenience that has lasted for more than two decades should continue.
Ticket season open
Get your checkbooks out.
All-Sports season tickets went
on sale yesterday.
KU students will have to pay a little more for their season tickets next year, but the only real losers probably will be next year's incoming freshman class.
The tickets will cost $55, $10 more than last year.
The ticket provides admission to all home football and basketball games plus the Kansas Relays. Thus divided, the $55 cost of the ticket averages out to just more than $2 an event.
Not a bad deal to see some exciting football, one of the top basketball programs in the country, and the multitude of sporting events contained in the Kansas Relays.
Those interested in buying should act quickly. Last year the 7,000 All-Sports tickets
allotted for students sold out.
The Athletic Department's choice to sell basketball tickets only when coupled with football tickets to assure that the football team will see continued support and not fall under the shadow of the nationally recognized basketball team.
Separate football season tickets may be purchased for $28. Separate basketball tickets will go on sale only if all All-Sports tickets remain next year.
Silence must be broken
But the time to buy is now, before several thousand brand-new hungry sports fans invade the campus next fall.
Last year's sellout coupled with the enormous success of this year's basketball team may mean that there will be few, if any, tickets available when next year's freshmen come to campus.
It is being called the world's worst nuclear accident. But the extent of the danger and damage of the Chernobyl meltdown in the Soviet Union may never be known.
Official Soviet reports say only two people have died, but experts estimate more than 2,000 people may have died in the accident.
But only speculative comments such as these can be made about the situation because the Soviet Union has refused to provide any information about the accident.
Unofficial reports now say a second reactor may have experienced a meltdown.
The increased radiation was first detected in Scandinavia on Sunday, but it was not confirmed by the Soviet Union until Monday.
Just as they denied a similar accident in 1957, the Soviets have kept any insight into this incident under wraps.
So, this official Soviet silence is nothing new. But in this case it is most definitely wrong.
Other European nations are directly affected by the radiation clouds drifting out of the Soviet Union, and many of
those countries now have warned their citizens about drinking contaminated rainwater and have recommended that small children be kept inside.
Leaders of those European countries are angrily demanding to know why the Soviet Union did not immediately alert the world about the accident.
Why indeed?
The Soviets should have realized that an accident of that magnitude could not be hidden from the world.
Differences should have been put aside and the Soviet Union should have immediately asked for, and received, help from anyone able to provide it.
The world may never know exactly what happened or how many people actually have died or will die from radiation poisoning.
The lack of information about this case is a travesty, and the Soviet Union needs to drop the facade, ask for help and provide the world with an explanation of what happened at Gernobyl.
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A new kind of warrior?
Terrorist tactics sink to lowest low
If so, some of them have to be the most unusual soldiers in the long history of warfare.
The Arab terrorists keep saying that they consider themselves warriors, soldiers, fighting a noble and holy war.
Consider Nezar Hindawi, or whatever his real name is. I'm no military historian, but I challenge anyone to名我 another warrior who used his unsuspecting pregnant girlfriend as a weapon.
What kind of medal do they give so someone like Hindawi? And how does his citation read? To warrior Nezar Hindiwi, who on April 17, 1986, did fearlessly take his pregnant and gullible Irish girlfriend to the enemy's Heathrow Airport in London.
But a pregnant girlfriend? That's sneakerier than any land mine or booby trap.
In the old days, it was rocks and clubs. Later, spear swords, bows and arrows. Cavalry charges with them. They came gunpowder, tanks, airplanes.
"There he gave her an airline ticket and told her he would meet her in Israel, where he would finally make an honest woman of her and
Mike Royko
Chicago Tribune
free her from life as a hotel chambermaid and they would live happily ever after.
"With total regard for his own safety, warrior Hindawi gave her a hug and a smooth goodbye and sent her to board the enemy's Eil Al airliner.
"Having fulfilled his mission, warrior Hindawi hastily withdrew to a hotel room to await further orders. He was so determined that mustache at another chambermaid
"This bomb would kill 388 passengers. Or 388 and a half, if we credit warrior Hindawi with his unborn child.
"For gallantry below the call of duty, warrior Hindawi is awarded the prestigiousphy. I'm Too Young To Get Married with, with three leaf clusters."
"In fulfilling his duties as a warrior, Hindawi gave his pregnant girlfriend some hand luggage comrade and helped blow up white the plane was in flight.
But if there is a medal for the likes of Hindawi, he won't be getting it.
Fortunately for his former lady love and the other passengers, El AI is one of the few airlines with enough checked-back out passengers and their luggage.
So the bomb was found and the poor young lady — her dreams of a simple cottage and a picket fence was held — she was told the cruel facts of life.
And within a couple of days, warrior Hindawi was picked up by Scotland Yard. In one of the funniest lines I ever read, the wire services said that Hindawi was persuaded to "give up without a fight."
Of course he gave up without a fight. Men who send pregnant women airboulder to be blown up are not the sort of guys who snap up pistols and yell out the window, "Come and get me, coppers."
Scotland Yard isn't saying much about Hindawi, but it's been reported that he's the brother of the warrior who was arrested in West Berlin for planting the bomb in the crowded disco. An instinct for dashing military exploits must run in the family.
But when the investigation of Hindawi is finished and he stands trial, it will be interesting to see what crack military unit he was part of.
Will it have a stirring slogan, as many military units have? Maybe something like:
"Never send a boy to do a man's job. And never send a man to do a pregnant woman's job."
Or possibly: "Promise her anything, but give her a bomb."
And maybe we'll find out what kind of special training warriors such as Hindawi are given. Basic seduction? Advanced advanced marriage proposals? Evasive action against the rhythm method?
Although his mission wasn't a success, it's still possible that Hindawi could be viewed by his superiors as a bero.
If so, maybe they'll put up a statue of him.
On the other hand, that might not be a good idea. Most *osstatuses* of warriors show them with a sword or weapon, traditional weapon on their hands.
In warrior Hindawi's case, what he'd have in his hand is too embarrassing to mention.
Only one dav for House to davdream
It was never a question of whether, but of when.
Exhibiting commando-caliber stealth, the House decided — long before most of the honorables knew what happened — to lift the ceiling on the amount members can earn on the chicken-and-mashed-potato circuit.
And last week, with less advance notice than an air raid on Libya and with the speed of an F-111 bomber, the House of Representatives struck.
Vote? Oh, no.
The House can stand up and be counted on issues such as aid for the rebels fighting in Nicaragua, easing up on federal gun control, cutting domestic programs and literally hundreds of others.
But pay and perks? Oh, no. Those issues are much too delicate to be decided by the casting of a vote.
So, on a languid Tuesday afternoon, Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa, with only a few of his colleagues present, took off and struck down hideous Rule XLVII of
Steve Gerstel
United Press International
the House. No one really likes Rule XLVII, so, of course, there was no one to object.
By repealing the rule, the amount of money that a congressman can earn giving speeches to groups willing to pay for the privilege jumped. That’s 40 percent of the annual $75,100 a congressman earns at his elected job.
The starving members of the House had to do with 30 percent or $22,530 since the start of the year while the fat cats in the Senate were one bodyBonus buried deep in last December's supplemental money bill.
The beauty of the maneuver was that by simply changing a rule, the House did not have to run the gaudlet in the Senate, which is certainly not averse to sticking it to the gentlemen and gentlewomen on the other side of the Capitol.
For one gleeful day, members of the House could daydream about the dollars ready to roll their way.
But it was not to be. About 24 hours later, a charnished House was forced to roll back, rescinding the change in her dress. The dress had a maximum of $2,530 in honoraria.
The heat of publicity proved too much.
Common Cause, the self-style citizens' lobby, called the rule change a "sneak attack on ethics" that wrote about the new largeseas.
"When the press picks up on it," Speaker Thomas O'Neill lamented, "the members chicken out."
Exactly what members chickened out will forever remain a secret. The rule was restored as it was rescinded — by anonymous voice vote.
There is also some question about how many members would have
O'Neill, Rep. Dan Rostenkowki, D-III., chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Morris Udall, D-Ariz. and some other committee chairmen as well as some of the New Right spellbinders can probably pick up as much as they want on the circuit.
benefited from the increased ceiling.
Most of the congressmen, however,
have trouble even getting up to
$2,530 in honoraria. Even O'Neill
conceded that maybe 20 percent of
the congressmen would have been
affected.
N'Neill said that members of Congress should be paid "at least a minimum of $100,000," but said, "The Senate should pay the people a pay raise for themselves."
What the House — and the Senate — really want is a pay raise, probably an impossible proposition in the heyday of Gramm-Rudman.
Now if there was just some way to do that without a roll call vote and without anyone finding out.
Mailbox
SDI will be reliable
First, our best minds cannot be held responsible for poor middle and upper management decisions. You seem to forget that the most reliable space system in the world was the victim of faulty management. The engineers were well aware of dangers far before a military or civilian maverick opened them in favor of satisfying the media.
An April 24 editorial said that "as the Titan incident and the shuttle disaster prove, our best minds don't seem capable of getting things consistently into space."
Second, your connections between the shuttle and Titan accidents to Strategic Defense Initiative have little or no grounds. SDI is in its infant stages and both the shuttle and Titan not only will be obsolete but have never been considered as the delivery system
SDI can have a reliable delivery system, and it won't be a victim of the managerial abuses of misguided administrators.
of SDL
You seem to put your faith in a management system which, in its openness to the media, has failed, rather than in a technology system which has yet to decide the future of space travel and SDI.
James P. Sisul St. Louis freshman
Perpetuating a myth
In his column of April 23, Victor Goodpasture states that he is baffled by the media's distrust of the United States government and its political systems, adding communist guerrillas in El Salvador with arms and training.
From my perspective, it's difficult to see how the media can be accused of being soft on Nicaragua when for five years it has been
Neither the government nor Goodpasture has offered any evidence to back these charges.
Charles L. Stansifer director of Latin American studies
Support will continue
regularly reporting our government's false charges about the Nicaragua-El Salvador arms traffic.
What is baffling is how anyone can take these charges seriously, and what is truly disappointing is the failure of the media to expose these charges. I can only conclude that the media is not only too credulous, it is perpetuating one of the great myths of our time — the myth of Ni c a r a g u an expansionism.
To Larry Brown and the men's basketball team;
As a graduating senior, I will soon begin a career in my home state. removing me from this area
that I have come to greatly appreciate.
A great source of satisfaction for me these past few years has been experiencing the increased success of the basketball team. The atmosphere and excitement of the field house on a sunny day from the everyday tension and pressure that comes with being a student.
After having suffered through losing seasons before coach Brown's arrival, I can truly appreciate the effort he and the team have put in, especially the injury sacrifices by the team members.
Although I will not have the opportunity to attend games next year — in the physical sense — I will be yelling at my television though we were in my seat behind them. Thanks for the memories.
Dean Brush
Palm Springs, Calif.. senior