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Monday, April 11, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Opinion
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Top Priority offers students the best chance for progress
The top choice for Student Senate is Top Priority.
Led by R. Brook Menees and Pam Holley, the Top Priority coalition offers the student body a well-researched and pragmatic program for progress. The ideas are good, the goals achieveable.
Top Priority has addressed issues that directly affect students, including the following:
- Top Priority has developed plans for an "off-campus" center that would offer services for off-campus students. The brightest idea is for computerized apartment and rental housing listings. The computer would be able to match students with the kind of apartments they are looking for in terms of price, size, location, rules, furnishing, etc. The computer also would be able to match roommates. Top Priority also wants to use the computer to match people who need rides by class schedule.
- Top Priority plans to pursue a computer advising program that the University is developing, and the establishment of a peer and faculty advising system that would include advising directed toward helping students choose a career.
- Top Priority plans to establish a Student Advisory Board to advise the University's financial aid office. Student input in that office is vital. The board would be modeled after the Student Health Advisory Board to Watkins and the board advising Legal Services.
Top Priority also has said that they would enforce the current Student Senate attendance policy, not weaken it.
The coalition has good ideas and has shown the ability to research their proposals, devise and common sense in their respective respect.
If Top Priority is given the nod by students on Wednesday and Thursday, it has the best chance to turn Senate around and give it purpose and respect. It has the potential to deliver a good Senate term.
If the coalition immediately does its homework on the Student Senate structure and strongly defends its programs against pressure from the administration and legislators, the potential increases. And the term could be capped off by returning SecureCab to the students.
Of all the coalitions, Top Priority is the one most receptive to all the students' needs. Students should give it the chance. Vote for Top Priority.
The editorial board
Fast food clogs 23rd Street
Wendy's, Dunkin' Donuts, Schlotzsky's, TJ Cinnamon's, I Can't Believe It Yogurt, TCBY, Rax, McDonald's, Godfather's, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Burger King, Taco Bell, Long John Silver's, Baskin-Robbins, Border Bandido, Pizza Hut, Arby's, Sub & Stuff, Taco John's, Mrs. Winner's, Carol Lee Donuts, Yello Sub, Hardee's, eight sit-down restaurants and several convenience stores.
Twenty-third Street doesn't need any more fast-food joints. The Lawrence City Commission knows that. It also knows that 23rd Street has one of the worst traffic problems in the city. Yet on Tuesday it approved, 4-1, plans for two more fast food restaurants on the strip.
Granted, the commissioners grumbled and fumed about it before they approved the plans. They knew what the addition of two more eating places at the swollen Naismith Drive intersection would mean. But, as commissioner Sandra Praeger said, the fact that commissioners didn't like the idea was no reason not to approve it.
In other words, the commissioners approved plans they strongly objected to only because the plans fulfilled all the legal requirements.
If that is their reasoning, the commissioners need to rethink their jobs. They are not there to follow rules blindly out the window. They are there to do what's best for the city.
Approving two more restaurants in that already jam-packed area was wrong for the city. The commission should have taken the opportunity to create a new rule — to impose some sort of a ceiling on the number of businesses and the amount of expansion in overcrowded areas; to rezone if necessary.
Katy Monk for the editorial board
Instead, they added to Lawrence's problems because they didn't seem to think they had an option. Until the commissioners realize that their hands are not tied, Lawrence is headed for trouble.
Katy Monk for the editorial board Editorials in this column are the opinions of the editorial board
The editorial board consists of Alison Young, Todd Cohen, Alan Player, Jody Dickson, Katy Monk, Van Jenerette and Russell Gray.
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Line for Kansans was absurd drama
Wednesday, April 6, I waited in line in the Kansas Union to purchase a copy of the previous day's Kansas. The line
WW Kansas Union to purchase a copy of the previous day's Kansan. The line extended from the browsing room of level four to the no-smoking section. Being a theater student, as I listened to the comments of those standing in line, I couldn't keep my mind from drifting to thoughts of a certain Beckett play.
"How long have you been waiting?"
"About 5 minutes."
This is what I heard:
"Has the line moved any since you've been here?"
"None. I heard up ahead that they ran out of the first batch about an hour ago. They started taking names for reservations but stopped when they got up to 800."
"You mean we're waiting in line for papers that might not show up for hours?"
lol
A girl came up to a guy wearing a Final Four T-shirt a few feet in front of me. "Are you gonna stand in line here for a paper?"
"I never thought I'd be standing in line for a newspaper."
"How much are they charging?"
"For yesterday's news in a paper we're supposed to be naving for with our tuition?"
"Yeah. Bites, doesn't it? But it's not much after paying $10 for this shirt."
David
Dempsay
Guest Columnist
How long you gonna wait?''
"I dumon, what difference does it make? In the four years I've been here, I've waited in lines to enroll, pay fees, check out a book, get something to eat, see basketball games. What's one more
"I stayed up on campus all night Monday. By the time I got to one of the boxes the papers were gone. I guess they went in about a half hour. My roommate and her boyfriend got about a hundred between them. Why don't you come with me? I'm sure I can get you one."
They left. I from behind me, there was more. "I got a girl for my uncle Larry. He went to engineering school here. And I also gotta get one for my Uncle Roger so he won't feel out left."
"I get to get one for my Uncle Lyman. He's in a wheelchair, but he likes to watch basketball games on television. He's a receptionist at a bank, and the bank president went to OU."
"I gotta get one for my father. He went to school before he droned out and joined the Army."
Through the front doors of the Union, I could see a van of the type that delivers the papers parking there.
There was a frustrated voice from up ahead. *"Why didn't they print enough papers?" Isn't it somebody's job to know that this edition would be more popular than most?"*
A journalism student piped up. "The J-school is not obliged to print papers for days when classes are not in session. This, as it turned out, was just an extra edition."
"I guess that's because this is a college newspaper and not a professional one."
"Why do you say that? Because the students don't have to pay for the individual issues?"
The crowd was getting ugly
"The only reason they're being sold is to pay for the cost of the second printed."
The van returned; and soon after, a large cart *containing hundreds of copies of the previous day's* paper was pushed in. From the looks of crowd, it was obvious that many were thinking about grabbing a handful of papers and running
Soon, the line started progressing and I reached the front and bought four papers and a poster of the front page.
On the way out, I heard someone in line ask the person next to him what he thought of the game. The response was truly a line befitting an absurdist play.
it. I don't like basketball."
"I didn't see it. I don't like basketball"
in theater and media graduate student majoring * in
Dartmouth.
Lauri Dusselier
Shawnee sophomore
Dear Coach Brown:
We are definitely with you in the "great times." We love being part of your "supporting cast." Thanks. We love you.
Feeling is awesome
In reply to your first question to us at the rally, "How does it feel?"：
It feels awesome. Not only the thrill of victory and the pride in our team, but also the wonderful feeling we had walking on campus in the morning that everyone was more united. There was a special energy in everyone, not just from the day off from classes, but from knowing that most of the people had given hugs, high-fives, shouts and jumps for joy, and many smiles together last Monday night and Tuesday. I don't think any of us have ever seen so many people so excited and happy about the same thing.
Your National Championship has done a lot for the University of Kansas externally by all the publicity, and it has done great things for us internally by creating a sense of unity and pride shared by everyone. It feels awesome.
Sometimes during the season, your "sixth man" did not have all of its heart in the game, like those times when Allen Field House had sections around the top that were vacant. You've shown us what it means to have heart.
OU had misconceptions
In Wednesday's Kansan you may have noticed a short article about how quiet it is on OU's campus.
Imagine that.
You also might have noticed a few interesting quotes. Kaari Nelson, Chicago sophomore at OU, said "I don't think the best team won." Bouldy?
Really?
Or how about Julia Hughes, Wichita freshman at OU, who said "The records show that OU is the best team. We've beaten Kansas twice this year."
three this year.
That they did, Julia. But who won it when it was all on the line? Who won the National Championship, Oklahoma?
I believe it is our responsibility to correct these Oklahoma misconceptions. Let's all sit down and scratch out a note to Kaari and Julia telling them that, yes, Oklahoma may be the cultural center of the universe, but KU has the number one basketball team in the country.
Direct all correspondence to: Billy Tubbs and other Oklahoma basketball fans, e/o University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla., 73019.
Kansas City, Kan., junior
leff Williams
Letter was arrogant
Lori Nobert's April 4 letter about the Integrity coalition is not only full of lies, but also represents the blaspheme of a Student Senate which has wasted millions of our
First, Nobert falsely claims that Union Square could generate a profit in six months. Union Square would have to clear more than $3.7 million just to break even from renovation costs. According to the Union's own statistics, every student would have to spend $16 a day for six months straight to cover these costs.
Second, state law would allow a McDonald's on campus. Wesco already contains a private corporation, the Union. Besides, we could put a restaurant like Yello Sub in the Burge Union, which is not state-owned. Further, we have been advised that the Union's monopoly is already violating federal antitrust statutes.
Third, the millions of dollars in profits will save students more than $150 each through lower textbook prices. The legality of such action was confirmed in a campus-wide study four years ago.
Finally, Nobert opposes the expansion of the elite, insulated polithuro known as Senate. Rather than make empty promises, we backed our words with more than 150 dedicated and qualified people. Senate should represent everyone. And anyone who knows the current structure of Senate well, as Nobert should, knows this: It can't get any worse.
leff Mullins
Jeff Mulins
Leavenworth junior
Member of Integrity coalition
BLOOM COUNTY
198 Washington Post Co
REMEMBER FOUR YEARS AGO
WHEN THE MEADOW PARTY
SENT YOU OUT FOR DING DONGS
AND THEN NAMED YOU
THEIR CANDIDATE FOR VICE-
PRESIDENT IN ABSENTIA?
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