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Tuesday, March 29, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Opinion
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Students must be considered in plans for parking garage
The decision to build a parking garage that will add about 650 parking spaces on campus is a welcome event. However, there are dangers lurking for the student driver.
Although the Board of Regents has approved preliminary plans for the $5 million structure, no one has determined who will be able to park in the new structure.
And as of now, students are not high on the list of priorities.
The main concern
And as of now, students are not high on the list of priorities. Ray Moore, parking board chairman, said the main concern was visitor parking. By moving visitor parking to the garage, the parking meters in lots on the south side of campus could be removed, he said.
But Moore also said current thinking was that once the meters were removed, those spaces would become red zone parking, not yellow zone parking used by students.
Moore said the board had casually discussed two options for the garbage. One good option would permit all classifications
the garbage. One good option would permit all classifications — blue, red, yellow. The other, also promising, would create "guaranteed parking," in which drivers would buy a permit for garage parking only. There would not be any oversell of parking spaces.
As with any proposal, there are pluses and minuses. It is up to the parking board to choose the best one. And the best one would include student parking in the garage or a reclassification of nearby lots for student parking.
Todd Cohen for the editorial board
Jayhawks overcame barriers
It was more than we ever imagined.
The Hawks are in the Final Four. Goin' to Kansas City. They did it, somewhat surprisingly. And we couldn't be happier.
Oh sure, during the preseason it was almost expected. The Jayhawks sported a full, talented and strong team. Danny Manning in his senior year. Archie Marshall back in the lineup. A slate of promising recruits. And Coach Larry Brown at the helm ready to steer the team to its second Final Four in three seasons.
The problems did not go away. But neither did the Jayhawks' desire to succeed
But then, it happened.
But then, it happened. Slowly and agonizingly, the road to Kansas City began to fall apart. Academic casualties, injuries and personal problems plagued the team throughout the course of the regular season. The ranks of the mighty Jayhawks began to dwindle, and Kansas City began to seem so far away.
Sucking with the 'Hawks throughout the season were more than 15,800 homecourt fans. Those same fans paraded down Jayhawk Boulevard on Sunday. They cheered at Forbes Field and at Allen Field House. They are the fans the Hawks need and appreciate.
Sadly, the University will receive only 1,625 Final Four tickets to distribute to these fans. Even sadder, only 20 percent of the tickets not going to players' families, the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation staff, the basketball traveling party, the basketball band, cheerleaders and chancellor's office requests will go to student fans. University faculty and staff will receive only 15 percent of the remaining tickets.
That leaves 65 percent of the remaining tickets for the Williams Fund contributors, which is not surprising.
To Duke — Watch out. The 'Hawks are on a roll.
To Coach Brown and the rest of the team and coaching staff Congratulations. Good luck.And thank you for a great season so far
To Duke — Watch out. The 'Hawks are on a roll.
To the students who got tickets — Yell loud. Wear the crimson and blue. You'll be in the minority of KU fans. Your presence will have to be felt.
Jody Dickson for the editorial board
To the Williams Fund contributors — Thanks for supporting the team with your money. Just please stand up and be vocal. The 'Hawks need you.
Editorials in this column are the opinions of the editorial board.
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The HeirApparent.
Democrats should choose Jackson
Nominating a black man would bring a referendum on racial discrimination
It's possible that when the primaries are over and the Democratic National Convention begins, Jesse Jackson will have the most delegates. Not enough to automatically win the nomination, but more than any of the other bumbers.
If that happens, what do the Democrats do?
From what they're saying now, they'll look at the other candidates, decide which one is the least feeble, then try to convince the voters that they have found someone of heroic stature.
Then this person will run and almost certainly lose to George Bush, who will be propped up by Ronald Reagan, and all those tens of millions of dollars in paid TV political propaganda will have been wasted.
Because they're almost certain to lose anyway, why don't the Democrats show some imagination and do something different, make a little history and put some pizzazz into the whole thing?
What they should do is this: If Jesse Jackson has the most delegates going into the convention, they should nominate him, making him the Democratic candidate for president.
That would be the fairest thing to do. After all, the Democrats have gone to great pains to get away from the old-time backroom dealing, the delegate swapping and the brokering. When George McGovern came in with the most delegates, he was nominated. When Walter Mondale was the leader, they threw the convention to him. So what do we the same if Jackson is the leader?
50 why let you to the same level back from the leader.
What's that you say? Jackson will be a cincah to lose? That's probably true, but so what? George McGregan was a cincah to loss, but that didn't stop the Democrats. Walter Mondale was a cincah to lose, and they went right ahead and let him do it.
Mike Royko Syndicated Columnist
Not only did they lose, but they left no legacy that would benefit the Democratic Party in future campaigns. Just the opposite: McGovern put in motion the alleged reforms that took Democratic politics away from the professional and led it to the present marathon primary system and the pandering to every goofy special interest group.
But by nominating Jackson, the Democratic Party would create a legacy by putting the national conscience to a true test. We would be having a referendum on racial discrimination, which is the most destructive and persistent of all our domestic problems.
Name any of our urban miseries — poverty, crime, unemployment, education, housing — and it boils down to race. Add up the costs, not only in dollars, but in fear and distrust, and the bottom line is race.
So why should the country waste time listening to some white nee-liberal, pseudo-liberal, old-time liberal or whatever the rest of those Democrats are, talking about all those social problems when we can have the genuine article, someone who has lived the social problems. In fact, some might even say that he is a living, breathing, social problem himself.
And what a perfect match-up it would be — Jackson vs. Bush. The Southern-born black man
from the humblest of backgrounds against the white Eastern aristocrat.
If Jackson got up and talked about what it was like to ride in the back of the bus, to be told he couldn't eat at a greasy spoon lunch counter, to have the job doors slammed in his face, to sip from a separate drinking fountain, how would Bush respond — by describing the difficulty finding reliable domestic help these days?
Compare that confrontation with say, a debate between Bush and Michael Dukakis. Even the ladies from the League of Women Voters might doze off.
It's said that despite our glorious constitution, our state of commitment to equality, we are really a racist nation. Even our allies say it. The British scolded us all during the 1960's black demonstrations. After all, it's one thing to shoot a few troublesome Irishmen, but what we did in Selma was absolutely unsporting. The French chided us for our bigotry, between bouts of mistreating their Algerians.
So this will be our opportunity to demonstrate that maybe we aren't as bad as they, and many of us, think we are. Or maybe we will find that we are as bad. Either way, we'll learn something. Remember, knowledge sets men free. We might have a few brawls while gaining the knowledge, but that would just make for livelier Ted Koppel shows.
Finally, by running Jackson, a black man, for president, we would bring this country closer to that magic moment that some cynics say will never come.
Surely, his candidacy would mean that at long last a black man would become a professional football coach.
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MAILBOX
State soil a good idea
As a 38-year Kansas resident whose daughter graduated from the University of Kansas in 1980, I was saddened to read the position of the Kansan on the State Soil issue, not so much because it was contrary to mine, but because it expressed an unbelievable ignorance or a decision to do less research than was necessary. Either position is uncompromising to students of KU's School of Journalism, in my view.
Your denunciation: "Telling the rest of the nation what kind of dirt Kansas has will not make a strong statement about the State," suggests your approval of the inaccurate statement now in our state's official publication, "Kansas Facts," which is, "the soils of Kansas are among the best in the world. These soils have come from decomposition of underlying rock formations or have been transported into the region by water, wind or ice."
Biologists and school teachers who support Senate bill 569 recognize our current soil statement's deficiencies and propose the following resolutions for adopting a state soil:
1) To acknowledge the unusual natural relationship among prairie plants; animals, including humans; geologic materials and climate that have interacted according to nature's laws to produce long-lasting, unusually fertile prairie soils
2) To acknowledge that Kansas has more acres of prairie soils than any other state and is second only to Texas in acres of prime farm land that has made Kansas first in production of wheat, grain sorghum and forage sorghum
3) To acknowledge and publicize the completion in October 1987 of the state's soil inventory that has been underway for nearly 50 years and is being used to implement the state's use-value land reamprraisal
4) To select one typical Kansas prairie soil of Kansas' 290 soils to which all others can be compared when teaching earth-science courses.
I agree that adoption of state symbols can be overdone, but it is not being immodest to tell the nation of the superiority of Kansas soils when they largely are responsible for providing six billion dollars annually to the state's
economy.
You will be pleased to know that Senate bill 569 never made it out of the Senate Agricultural Committee.
Orville W. Bidwell Manhattan resident
Agnostically concerned
I'm worried, really worried. Has anyone noticed that Good Friday is on the first of April this year? Doesn't this worry you? I mean, I'm no expert on calendars or anything (I even missed the word in my fourth grade spelling contest), but how do we know for sure that the "first Good Friday" wasn't also on the first of April? How do we know for sure that this resurrection stuff wasn't just a big April Fool's Day joke? How do we know for sure just who this "God" person is anyway?
P. S. — And should I ever be crucified on any day of the week whatsoever, I will back and possess the first person who names this day "Good" anything, resurrection or not.
Mark von Schlemmer Lawrence graduate student
BLOOM COUNTY
by Berke Breathed