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Thursday, April 7, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Opinion
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Jayhawks showed country what KU basketball is about
Dance, Jayhawks, dance!
Go ahead, do the Cabbage Patch shuffle. You earned it. You're the only team in the country that ended the season with a victory. You showed the world that the Kansas team can beat Oklahoma at its own famous run-and-gun game.
You showed the world that nice guys CAN finish first. That the team that makes time to work and play with Special Olympians also can take command of a national championship game. That with enough talent, teamwork and strategy, you can wipe the grin off Billy Tubbs' face. (Feels good, doesn't it?)
You showed the world that a difficult season couldn't break your spirit. That injuries and ineligibilities only gave you more determination. That you kept the faith.
You showed the world that you had class. Boy oh boy, was it fun to watch you send those arrogant Sooners back to the showers! Somehow it was hard to feel sorry for Billy and friends when it was over.
(And we didn't even try to feel sorry for Duke when you took sweet revenge for that ill-officiated game a couple of years ago. No, sir, we didn't feel a bit sorry!)
Back here in Lawrence, we fans were doing our part to show the world that we are head-over-heels crazy in love with our team. While the rest of the world was wondering how you pulled it off, we were screaming our heads off and hugging strangers and drinking beer and running up and down Jayhawk Boulevard and setting off fireworks and loving you guys to death. Man, was it sweet!
None of us will ever forget the night of April 4, 1988. None of us will ever forget your names. None of us will ever forget the way you made us feel.
It was incredible. It's still incredible. It's still almost too much to believe.
But it feels good. It feels good. Boy oh boy, does it feel 000000000000000!
Katy Monk for the editorial board
McBucks hit Yugoslavia
Ronald McDonald meet Misha the Bear. Hamburglar has landed behind the Iron Curtain. It's U.S.-style glasnost complete with capitalism.
It's no surprise that McDonald's has opened another restaurant, but the Golden Arches at this store have a strange red tint to them.
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of openness seems to have drifted with the Chernobyl haze into Belgrade, Yugoslavia, where a McDonald's recently opened.
Maybe the Yugoslavs have seen the light of Mikky's glassnost plan. Maybe they actually listen to Ronald Reagan. Maybe they just got a hankering for a Big Ivan.
Regardless, the lesson to be drawn from this vanguard of better relations between the monolith philosophies of world affairs is this: Profit and deficit mean the same in Russian or Serbo-Croatian as they do in English.
What's up next? Could the Soviets be thinking of letting Wendy set up shop in Moscow? Boris meets the Burger King? Zdrastvuyte Taco Bell?
It could be the answer to Soviet unemployment. It could mean the end to blah Soviet food. It could shorten the rift between the United States and the Soviet Union.
But most importantly, it means that all those McCommunists slaying, under the hand of Captain Crook are making a buck.
Russell Gray for the editorial board
Problems still exist in South Africa
Could it be that all is well in South Africa? Not on your life
Could it be that all is well in South Africa, Just last month the South African government banned the activities of 17 leading anti-apartheid organizations, including the nation's largest, the United Democratic Front, and prohibited a labor federation from all political action. The oppression was followed by a restriction of the movements of 18 prominent black leaders. Now the white government has banned for three months the New Nation, a leading newspaper opposed to this racial system.
The pressure has to be continually and consistently applied. Ignoring South Africa's problems is like a silent endorsement.
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Swaggart has right to return to work
Evangelist should receive the same treatment that all show-biz people get
Jimmy Swaggart, the TV evangelist with a roving eye for ldwel women, says he's going to return to preaching in a few weeks, despite what his church elders say.
They want him to hush up for at least a year and spend two years being counseled about straying from the path of righteousness. As you recall, he straved all the way to those seedy motels.
But Swaggart has decided that a year or two is too long for his flock to be deprived of his spiritual guidance. So he's going to get back to the pulpit in May.
And I don't blame him. Why should he be singled out for sterner punishment than is meted out to others in his line of work?
We're read of dozens of show-business people — rock stars, actors, actresses, comedians, movie producers and other — who have been busted for sniffing and smoking illegal herbs and spices. As quickly as they make bond, they are back on stage or screen earning their big bucks.
We've lost count of the number of star athletes who have done the same. They short white powder, miss a game or two, spend a few weeks in a rehab resort, and return to their teams as soon as their eyes become unscroched.
Sometimes it is more than dope. Now and then, we read of a football star forcing his masculine charms on some helpless female in the basement of a bar. He is arrested and stands trial.
But is that enough to get him barred from earning a living for one or two years?
Of course not. Just as soon as his lawyer can settle with the female, the athlete is back on the field.
The fans aren't offended. They sometimes welcome the wayward joists with standing ova-
What's that you say? He's not a rock star or an
So why shouldn't Swaggart be allowed to go back to work?
Mike Royko
Syndicated Columnist
athlete? He is a preacher, a man of the cloth, so he should be held to different standards?
in shoes or in bib. Nonsense. Rock stars are in show biz. Professional athletes are in show biz. And Jimmy Swaggart, preacher though he be, is in show biz.
The rock stars are pedding music, the comedians peddle laughs, the athletes violence and vicarious thrills.
Sweagart is pedding salvation, with a little bit
Swaggart is peddling salvation, with a little bit of religious bigotry and intolerance thrown in.
Like the others, he's out there on the air waves hustling a buck. Millions of bucks, since he's been the biggest of the show-biz preachers.
And he knows that being benched for a year or two while some shrink asks him when he first developed a craving for dirty pictures is going to cost him millions.
Why, even before he made his decision to return in May, he was hustling his faithful followers for whatever they could spare.
He sent out a mass mailing that included these ooaint lines:
"For some time, Frances and I have worked until the point of total exhaustion, and in the midst of this, Satan was trying to destroy me with a terrible problem."
He didn't elaborate on what Satan made him do, but I assume it was his habit of putting on a jogging suit and taking hookers to a motel. That Satan, he gets such kinky ideas.
He went on: "Oh, the days and nights spent in praver, the tears shed, the days of fasting."
Not to mention, of course, the dread that the motor keeper might not be fooled by the sunglasses and recognize him.
"However, I think most of you know that from the very moment this tragedy began, even though I have suffered humiliation and shame as possibly no human being on the face of the earth has ever suffered. I have done the right thing; and that is what I want to emphasize."
The right thing? Did he give the hooker a generous tip?
"When I stood before the whole world and repented, that was the right thing to do."
It was also the smartest thing to do. It made for great show biz. He blubbered. His kid blubbered. The audience blubbered. I haven't seen that much effective sobbing since actress Jane Wyman was in her weeny prime.
After blaming the devil for what he did, rather than his own horny tendencies, he said:
"I have sought direction from God as I have never sought it before, and He has told me in the very depths of my being. 'Feed My Sheep.' "'
Does that mean that Swaggart is going to do benance by working on a sheep farm?
No, he explains: "Now I need your help. I need your hand. I need your heart. I need your pravers."
And besides that, he needs greenbacks. And at the end of the letter is the pitch. It’s the part right before the eighth.
"Yes, Brother Swaggart, you can count on my support. Enclosed is my gift of $..."
So I say that Swaggart shouldn't be treated differently than any of our other show-biz figures who have their little flings. Let him make his bucks. If the Lord didn't believe in free enterprise, he wouldn't have given us computerized mailing lists.
And, as Swagwart said, he has a urgent mission rom.God. He must feed those sheep.
Or did he say fleece?
gnashing of teeth in Topeka when the first student is burned to death in an unsafe KU building. For the responsibility will be there, in the Statehouse.
Priorities are dangerous
Elizabeth C. Banks
Two articles in the March 24 Kansan suggest that the people of the State of Kansas have peculiar and, indeed, dangerous priorities. On Page One, we read of campus buildings that have been cited for fire safety violations. And Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, says that funding to bring the buildings up to code is not available. Yel on page 13, we读见 that Danny Manning and Larry Brown have meant some $6 million in contributions to the Athletic Fund in recent years. Apparently, Kansans will fund a winning athletic program but are unwilling to support with their legislators' efforts by the KU administration and Board of Regents to provide a safe environment for what is the real work of the University. Let there be no hypocritical wailing and
Elizabeth C. Banks Associate professor of classics
Classes come first
I would like to congratulate the KU basketball team for their success in the tournament. At the same time, I am writing to express my disgust with the University of Kansas administration for canceling classes on Tuesday. I did not come to this University to attend app rallels. I am furious that I will not be allowed to attend every class period that my tuition paid me. We are going to stop at the stop and finals be postponed for a day so that we can have a make-up day of classes. If this is not possible, I would like a portion of my tuition refunded in compensation.
Rex Boyd Overland Park junior
Great job, Jayhawks
I want to add my congratulations to Coach Larry Brown and to the great 1987-1988 Jayhawk basketball team. They richly deserve the national title. Coach Brown and this team have provided a lesson to the University community, including the academic units. This lesson is a simple one: A unit can go much further on cooperation and a spirit of team play than on the individual solo performance of the unit's members. The academic community should take this lesson to heart because the concept of teamwork for a common goal has been lost in some quarters much to the detriment of teaching the future leaders of America and the world.
Again, congratulations to the Jayhawk basketball team for providing a season of thrills and culminating in being Number One!
Robert T. Hersh Professor of biochemistry
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