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Wednesday, March 2, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Rhodes Scholar bill tackles problem at the wrong end
A good secondary education is about as hard to come by in Kansas as a decent price for wheat or a spring without tornadoes. Kansas' ever-worsening financial straits have brought educational hardship upon many communities already limited by their size.
limited by their size. The state government has realized that there is a problem, but it is taking a backward approach to solving it. Senators are pondering a bill designed to attract Rhodes Scholars to state universities when they should be considering how to produce high school seniors capable of attaining success in their own right.
right.
Often, when there is a seemingly insurmountable problem to be solved, the reaction is to take care of the tiny issues while letting the important ones continue to slide. That seems to be the psychology at work behind this bill. By providing scholarships for Kansas Rhodes Scholars — there are three this year — legislators and constituents can assure themselves that
Measures like this one take the focus away from the real problems. If the bill allows Kansas to attract Rhodes Scholars, the state still lacks what it takes to create good elementary, secondary and even university programs: teachers, equipment and money. At worst, such measures could lead Kansans to think the problems are solved.
think the problems are not true. The problem with education in Kansas does not lie at the postgraduate level. Yes, it certainly would be nice for Kansas to have a few Rhodes Scholars at its universities for purposes of prestige or recruiting. But they would only be dressing up the windows of a condemned house.
Katy Monk for the editorial board
Fundamentalists lose again
The general population sure is lucky the fundamentalists are looking out for it, working to keep exposure to "godless" textbooks out of the classroom.
The Supreme Court, a permanent blister on the foot of fundamentalists, last week upheld a ruling that a Tennessee school district does not have to create separate reading sessions for fundamentalists' children.
The fundamentalists complained about the use of such radical books as "The Wizard of Oz," "Cinderella" and "The Diary of Anne Frank." They also objected to the innocuous fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen.
fairy tales of Hans Christian. These books and others are considered unacceptable because they deal with occultism, evolution, disobedience to parents, pacifism, feminism and (gasp) secular humanism.
pachish, renishth and other "A dark cloud of religious oppression looms over America's schoolhouse today," said the president of a fundamentalist group
give On the contrary, a potential cloud of oppressive religious groups dissinated before it ever got here.
The fundamentalists have hoped to ride the coattails of the "Reagan Revolution" to return religion to the classroom. And by the way, that's their religion, not anybody else's.
The Supreme Court also has thumped the fundamentalists on "voluntary prayer," tax deductible donations to discriminatory religious academies and "equal treatment" of evolution and creationism in the classroom.
Maybe now that the fundamentalists are zero for four with the Supreme Court, they'll realize that the only way they can protect their children from exposure to these ideas is by locking the children and themselves into a room. A padded room.
Exposure does not compel the children to accept beliefs that contradict their or their parents' religious beliefs. Fundamentalists are fond of trotting out the argument that the home is the place to settle tricky moral questions.
Now it's time to put their actions where their mouths are
Russell Gray for the editorial board
And if the fundamentalists really want to help the rest of us, they should go sit quietly in the corner and wait for the reincarnation of the "Reagan Revolution."
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Swaggart may have been set up
Bush's CIA background gives him experience in hatching sneaky plots
It has the makings of a political bombshell — a high-level Washington mystery worthy of the best-seller list.
The question: Did the forces of Vice President George Bush somehow arouse Jimmy Swaggart's libido, driving the TV preacher into the clutches of a barlot and public disgrace?
No, this is not the product of my demented mind. It originated, more or less, with Pat Robertson, one of Bush's political rivals
Robertson suspects that it's far more than mere coincidence that Swaggart's sex capers became public knowledge shortly before the Super Tuesday primaries.
As Robertson put it: "The timing "stretches the imagination and stretches credulity."
"Nothing happens to people by accident," he said. "It is kind of funny this came up two weeks before the most important primaries in the nation.
haught.
"I think somebody had something to do with it.
Somebody else planned all these things, I am afraid."
Robertson didn't come right out and blame Bush for the Swaggart frolic. But in the same interview, he pointedly talked about how the Bush campaign has been planning all sorts of "dirty tricks" in the primaries.
And what could be a dirtier trick than for one of the nation's leading TV preachers to be caught cavorting with a hooker at a time when one of the nation's other leading TV preachers is running for president?
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It's the old guilt-by-association trick.
What Robertson seems to be saying is that because Swaggart has been a rascal, voters might think that other TV evangelists, such as Robertson, are rascals, too.
Naturally, Bush's people say that Robertson's suspicions are about as dippy as anything they've
Mike Royko
Syndicated Columnist
But as an avid reader of intrigue-conspiracy-cloak-and-dagger novels, I don't think Robertson's suspicions should be so lightly dismissed.
ever heard.
I'm not saying that there is a Bush-Swaggart connection, but let us consider some of the possibilities.
possibilities.
For example, Bush was once head of the CIA. What better background could one have for hatching ornate plots? Sure, Bush looks like a chair boy, but you can't work for the CIA without being somewhat sneaky. It's a required part of your resume.
Is it inconceivable that at a planning session, Bush or one of his operatives said: "Say, why don't we embarrass Robertson by somehow getting someone like Jimmy Swaggart to carry on with a lewd woman, then get the news out to the public just before Super Tuesday?"
"Good thinking. That's even better than making Dan Rather swallow his tongue."
The first step, obviously, would be to find a way to arouse Swaggart's lusts. That wouldn't be easy, of course, because Swaggart has always condemned bed-hopping and other popular but sinful activities.
But as Swaggart himself admitted, according to his church elders, he has long had a secret fascination for pornography. It's a sad vice, but at least it doesn't cause lung cancer or emphysema.
embarrassing tendency, they might have covertly goaded Swaggart by buying him subscriptions to Penthouse, Hustler or other peekabo magazine.
assuming that Bush's plotters knew of this
Or, even worse, they could have bought him a set of porn star Seka's autographed undies, which she sends out in plain brown wrappers.
As the followers of Swaggart and Robertson well know, being exposed to such literature and lewd objects can drive an otherwise normal man to unspeakable acts.
Why, my friend Slåbogn, as a young man, read a novel called "Forever Amber," which was considered the most lurid book of its day, condemned by preachers and the American Legion. Within a year of reading that book, Slats had been so crazed by passion that he got married.
Anyway, let us just consider the possibility that Bush's people did this - forced smut into Swaggart's hands.
The next step might be to have a female agent phone him and breath heavily or even moan, driving him into a frenzy of creepy desires.
Atter that, everything would be easy. A woman of low morals making herself available. Then the fatal visits to the motel while a spook lurks nearby to take pictures of Swaggart and the female.
The result? Tragedy. Swaggart, an otherwise decent man, becoming nothing but a pawn in the big-stakes game of power politics. And Robertson, a victim of a baroque political plot.
I think Robertson's suspicions should be taken seriously and an investigation should be conducted.
The first thing that should be done is to find and interrogate that hooker.
If Robertson is right, chances are that she'll turn out to be a liberal.
Classic religion is best
Midterms are creeping up, and, as a hobby, I would like to tell a joke. But instead, I will tell one that has some serious overtones.
It is funny and sad to see so much wasted time, money and effort by the American people go into such meaningless vacuums as the PTL, the "Assemblies of God" and the sort. Not only do they confess to doing atrocities, but they fight among themselves in and out of court, for the settlement of the billions of dollars involved.
You might say, "Everyone makes mistakes." This is true; but should a "preacher," someone to give advice and to be a role model, be of the sort that makes mistakes that could cost billions of dollars. Smells funny to me; and I think the I.R.S. smelled it too.
If we accept this mess of "Assemblies" as worthy and valid entities, then we are saying
that anyone can preach and make a living without contributing to the betterment of society. Also, if we are to listen to everyone without some prior credibility established, things would certainly lead to chaos.
Not wanting to get any deeper into the implications of such attitudes, I would like to bring my joke to a close so that I can put this computer terminal to better use.
computer terminal. Did you hear the one about the freak telling the college student not to trust anyone over 30? Oh, that's old; but let me map it out. I have a hard time accepting any religion, or philosophy for that matter, that is younger than I am.
Latey, a couple of people have asked me to check out their "church." "It was founded in 1980 in Kansas City." No thanks. I think I'll stick to the one that got started about 1,988 years ago.
Overland Park senior
Let Klan waste breath
I can hardly see how J. Allen Moran's right to free speech was in any way inhibited by the University of Kansas; he's still whining, isn't
he? Perhaps the University decided to spare him the waste of money and time (not to mention breath) in coming here to discuss his archaic beliefs.
I believe in free speech, and Moran is free to speak until he realizes no one is listening. Moran was quoted in the Kansan as saying, "We (the Klan) would like for once to address the entire student body." Moran is free to set up his grubby little soap box in the middle of Jayhawk Blvd, and orate until he's purple, but I think the students on this campus are intelligent enough not to pay much attention. In fact, I'd consider hiring a non-partisan group to tabulate how many serious listeners he'd get versus how many came to sneer (mark me and ten of my best friends down already). The student body here is modern, and it understands what is meant by all men are created equal and have certain unilainable rights. Moran's old-fashioned and unjustifiable beliefs show that he is not only narrow-minded, but also narrow-visioned, which only makes the revered title 'exalted cyclops' more suiting.
Julia E. Mathias
Overland Park freshman
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