UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, December 9.1993
THEIR FINAL WORDS
These columns are the best works from Professor John Ginn's Editorial and Interpretive Writing class.
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Pit bull's disposition in owner's hands
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Someone deeply hurt my girlfriend, Korrie.
Korrie has a dog named Sally. Sally is an idiot. She is one of those dogs whom you can just look at and realize she is simple-minded, even for a dog. She will forever be a puppy—curious and happy.
Jacob Arnold
When I came along, I received some of the love that had always been Sally's. Sally had a generous heart though, and she didn't mind. As long as she could lie with Korie and me while we watched TV, she was happy. Sometimes she would give us slobbery puppy kisses if she saw us in an embrace. She just wanted to be with us. The only thing Sally ever asked for was somebody to play with.
Korrie got Sally as a puppy a year and a half ago. right before her
Korrie loves Sally and Sally loved her back.
Sally is not Korrie's first dog or even her second or third. Sally was special, though. Sally gave an unconditional love. Sally trusted Korrie when nobody else did. Sally needed Korrie when nobody else did. Sally often slept in Korrie's bed, a living teddy bear for a scared little girl in a woman's body.
already chaotic life turned upside down. Korrie has lived on her own since she was fifteen. Her life has been rough, but she has survived. One of the things that has helped her get through all the betrayals and hard luck has been her pets.
Korrie has had to uproot and move several times in the last year and a half. Sally has remained the one constant. When Korrie moved to Lawrence, Sally was her only friend. Sally kept Korrie company while I was away at class.
Korrie is an animal lover and has had a lot of pets, everything from tarantulas to a 10-foot Burmese python named Mr. Jones. These animals kept her company.
Pit bulls are feared, loathed, and, in some places, banned because of the unhappy fate of a few unlucky creatures. Sally, a cherished pet, could easily have come to this fate if she had been stolen by one of these heartless demons.
Then some cruel and heartless person took Sally away.
Don't blame the breed, though
These inhumane owners are the ones who give pit bulls a bad name. Pit bulls are powerful dogs with lots of endurance. They are built for fighting, but it is humans who teach them to fight. Only man has the mental capacity to be mean, but he can teach it to animals.
Korrie came home Saturday and found her silly puppy missing. Sally's chain was gone too, but her stake was still in the ground. Either some horribly evil person took this beloved pet off her stake, or an even lower scum stole her.
Sally is a beautiful red with yellow eyes. She has a terrific disposition and wags her tail whenever she sees people. She is also a pit bull. That makes her valuable.
We were lucky. The police found Sally Tuesday morning. We will never know what really happened to Sally.
When someone talks about how horrible pit bulls are, I think of a forlorn little girl wandering around in the dark and cold calling for her stupid red dog.
When Korrie went to the pound, they were holding eight other pit bulls. These poor dogs were covered in scars. Some had partially healed wounds and others were still caked in dried in blood. One was so scared of people that he cowered in a corner when someone looked at him. These pathetic creatures had been seized in a raid that captured 84 fighting dogs. Now they are being held until the trials of their owners. Most will be destroyed because they are too mean to keep.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
expert in a field; assert ideology. We are not here to have drones and unquestioningly accept information from an opinionated professor. Our purpose here is to argue, rationalize and discuss what we have learned through readings and discussion; only then can we approach true learning. And Jurcyk does not punish dissent in her class. I, in fact, am probably her greatest skentic.
The most commonly cited statistic is that one in nine women will be diagnosed with
breast cancer. Roughly translated that means that in the 1990s 1.5 million women will be diagnosed with the disease and half a million of them will die of it.
I will continue to laud Jurcyk for her integrity. She knows the history of Western Civilization and is a fair instructor. Although I disagree with Jurcyk's ideology almost constantly, I admire her ability to create and sustain a relevant forum. Jurcyk has suppressed NO ONE. This is not kindergarten, nor is it day camp. If you cannot sufficiently understand the true process of pedagogy, get out of the proverbial kitchen. It is you who is unaccepting of the divergent viewpoints at the University.
Although medical experts are reluctant to call this an epidemic, it begins to sound like one. Consider that in the last decade, 450,000 women died of breast cancer and 194,000 people died from the epidemic known as AIDS.
own health.
Mary Bernard
In about the time it takes to read the editorial page, another woman will have died of breast cancer. Every 12 minutes, one more. The clock is ticking. Before time runs out, we must learn to take responsibility for our
What I see in Abbott's letter is the assumption that fairness for all viewpoints is necessary in academia. What he fails to realize is that acceptance of all views is itself an ideology preached by instructors. Recently, in fact, it has been portrayed as "better than others." Jurycik is doing in her classroom what every instructor has earned the right to do by becoming an
Richard Wetzel Denver senior
But this isn't a competition. It is a fight for our lives.
I am writing in response to Russell Abbott's letter in the Kansan on Friday. He asserted that Ann Jurcyk, a graduate teaching assistant in the Western Civilization program, was unfit for her role because of her lack of "proper objectivity and acceptance of divergent viewpoints." Ignoring the snipes Abbott made toward Jurcyk, which tend to cloud his argument, I would like to assert that Jurcyk's method of instruction is indeed relevant and vibrant, as well as necessary, in the University forum.
More research funding needed to battle with breast cancer
Western Civilization teacher creates open forum for ideas
Doctors know that smoking causes lung cancer and that a bad gene causes colon cancer, but ironically they have no clue to what causes breast cancer.
Researchers have come up with a list of risk factors such as having a close relative who had the disease, early menstruation, late menopause or giving birth late in life. Some new research suggests that exposure to electromagnetic fields, DDT or even automobile emissions may be factors. But the exact mechanism remains unknown.
Breast self-exams and annual mammograms for women over the age of 50 are still the best diagnostic tools available. All women should be strongly urged to use them. But neither diagnostic tool prevents the incidence of the disease. They simply help detect it in the early stages. Only research that isolates the causes of breast cancer will hasten its cure.
And the lists of risk factors can be misleading. Depending on which study you look at, 70 to 85 percent of the women who get breast cancer have no known risk factors at all.
To that end we must call for increased research on the causes of breast cancer.
We must call for more money to fund that research.
And we must call for a comprehensive national strategy on breast cancer that emanates from the White House. Nothing less is acceptable.
We must call for universal access to screening for all women, even those without health insurance.
Sherry Kohlenberg, a 37-year-old wife and mother with breast cancer who spoke last spring at the nation's capital, may have said it best: "This year, 46,000 women will die of breast cancer. I will probably be among the statistics. But I will not go silently. I will go shouting into the dark night, enough is enough."
Sherry Kohlenberg died on July 14, 1993.
The time has come. Enough is enough.
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