Friday, March 16, 2001 The University Daily Kansan Section A · Page 5 Letters to the Editor Helping rich boosts the poor This is a response to John Audleheim's strawman attack on Bush's tax cuts ("The rich must pay more in taxes to help the poor," Tuesday). I would suggest that Mr. Audleham take any economic or business class at this fine university to gain a better understanding of how capitalism really works. In Audlehem's example there are four hypothetical people, a rich person, a poor person, a bureaust, and a bubblegum salesperson. But this example misses many key concepts that show why the Republican philosophy is right. Republican印地语 is right. First, he missed that the bureaucrat needs to get paid, so only half of what the rich or poor person contributes in taxes gets paid out as welfare to the poor person. That is why using the government as a form of distributive economic justice is inefficient. The poor person isn't nearly as well off as Audulehelm would have you believe. Second. the rich person employs the poor person. The rich stay rich through investment (not by hoarding money). Taken together, the rich person, through investment, pays the poor person more than before. Now the poor person is much better off than before and has earned it. The rich stimulate the economy through creating jobs for the poor. You will hear rich people say, "I've made a lot of money this quarter, I want to invest is in the stock market to make more money." That investment helps companies, which create jobs and pay wages that help the poor. Phillip Holmes Also, taxes are significant deterents to spending. If the rich person is taxed more for being rich, that decreases the amount of money that the rich person can invest. With less investment, the poor person gets paid less. Every economist would tell you that taxes are artificial restraints that suck resources out of the economy. Phillip Volen Shawnee senior Students can change Lawrence Students, understandably, feel no particular allegiance to Lawrence. Yet, in failing to exercise their right to vote, students have (by neglect) endorsed what has happened to the "cultural center" of Kansas, which is increasingly indistinguishable from hundreds of other shopping mall, "carland" communities. Students represent a potentially dominant voting block and have the power to change Lawrence's laws to their liking. College towns such as Berkeley, Calif, and Ann Arbor, Mich., stand as examples of the power of student votes. In Ann Arbor, business-oriented city council members learned their attempt to marginalize students in community life was political suicide. The right of University of Michigan students to register as "residents for voting purposes" was established by the Supreme Court of Michigan in Wilkins v. Bentley. Students promptly repealed marijuana laws, making possession of less than one ounce punishable by a $5 fine and ousting a slate of realators, bankers and businessmen. Robert C. Casad Jr. Lawrence resident Lawrence is the most bicycle-unfriendly college town in the United States. This is a joke, an embarrassment and an outrage. None of this will change unless students exercise their right to vote. Even though you will shortly leave this town to pursue careers of your own in other "carland" towns, please, in the name of the ideals of youth, rise up and be counted. You have until Monday, March 19 to register to vote in this important municipal election in which the future of (what's left of Lawrence) is at stake. Athletics should reverse cuts Like many of my friends, former coaches and former teammates, I'm saddened and disappointed by the announcement that the University of Kansas is dropping men's swimming and diving (and men's tennis). As a member of the women's swimming program from 1991 to 1995, a time when the men's and women's teams were integrated, I can say it was one of the best experiences of my life. The closeness between the programs was a major selling point and added to the enjoyment of the program. We had an extra 25 friends and teammates, another 25 people to cheer for and support us, another 25 people to push us harder. It made both programs better. I'm most upset that no options were given to save men's swimming, such as alumni endowments or across-the-board scholarship cuts. I question whether you really explored every opportunity to save these programs, or whether you took an easier road and simply decided to cut two sports you thought no one cared about and didn't add any value to the University That's incorrect on both counts. By now, the amazing level of love and dedication that Jayhawk swimmers (and Jayhawk swimming supporters) have for the program should be apparent. And although swimming may not be a high profile, high-revenue sport, take a look at the graduation rate of swimmers through the years. Look at the GPAs KU swimmers carry, despite a difficult competitive season that spans from October to March. Look at the academic and athletic All-Americans the programs have produced. If athletics director Bob Frederick truly cares, as he purports to, about the "student" part of student-athletes at KU, then you'll find no group better balanced than the swimmers. I urge Frederick to reconsider his decision, and find a way to save a valuable program and a terrific legacy. KU alumna and New York City resident Football team criticized unfairly During the past year, the football program has been the target of attack in the Kansan through editorials, student comments and through harsh words from a faculty member. Our mistakes have been magnified, and now we are being blamed for the difficult decision of cutting sports. For many of the players, these attacks have been painful and sometimes difficult to understand. We don't want to be portrayed as the enemy. It has never been our intention to embarrass anyone at the University of Kansas. This is our school, and we all choose to be here and represent it with pride. As student athletes representing a high-profile sport, we do accept the fact that when we make mistakes, the whole team pays the price. We are all guilty in the eyes of some people on campus who are eager to criticize. We can't change the past and the attitudes that have been formed. We apologize for the bad decisions by a few of our teammates. It is important that we concentrate on the future. Now, we are working harder than ever and are committed to bringing success to all fans of the University. All we ask from those of you who take pride in this University is to give us a chance to prove this commitment Bible is best science textbook Harrison Hill, Mate Dwyer, Marcus Rogers 2001 football team captains It was disheartening to read the headline "Genesis isn't science, rabbi says" (March 5). I could understand that comment coming from someone with little knowledge of the Bible or science. But that a rabbi believes the Bible is not a science book is disturbing. Science is the pursuit of facts, so here I will show facts. (The facts gathered were given to me by an unknown Most historians agree that the first book of the Bible was written around 2000 B.C. and that with 65 more books and 40 authors, it covers a time frame of 2,500 years. The Bible is full of science ahead of its time. author, but they are still facts). Let's start with the first verse of the first book, Herbert Spencer, a noted scientist, said that all knowledge could be put into five categories: time, force, action, space and matter. So let's look at Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning (time), God (force) created (action) the heavens (space) and the earth (matter)." This was written 3,000 years ago, and not until the end of the 1800s did someone get distinguished for that. In 1628, William Harvey discovered that our circulatory system was what sustained our life. Written about 1000 B.C., Leviticus 17:11 says, "The life of the flesh (man) is in the blood..." Man has always had crazy ideas about the Earth. Some believed it was suspended on the backs of elephants, a greater mass or on layers of honey. Though in Job 26:7, it says "He hangs the world on nothing." Man also believed the world was flat, square or triangular. But Iusman 40:22 talks of the "circle of the earth" and uses the Hebrew word for "sphere." Scientists today have discovered that stars send out emulations that can be picked up as sound waves. Written about 2000 B.C., Job 38:7 says "the morning stars sang." In 150 A.D., the astronomer Ptolemy thought that there were only just more than 1,000 stars. Some 700 years before, Jeremiah 31:37 said "only if the heavens above can be measured," saving the universe is infinite. Before the 17th century, man believed subterranean reservoirs pumped up water to fill the oceans, lakes and rivers. The water cycle is first described in Job 36:27-28: "He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams; the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind." The first law of thermodynamics says that energy, like mass, cannot be created or destroyed. This is conservation of energy. Ecclesiastes 1:10 says, "is there anything of which one can say, 'Look! This is something new? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time." Maybe these guys had no clue what they were talking about. Maybe I'm dissecting it too much. But I consider myself "open-minded," and maybe these guys knew what they were saying. Maybe the Bible is the best science book we have. 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