Tuesday, December 12, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Letters to the editor Athletics trumps academics in parking war at University
I have a question for the University of Kansas administration. Which is more important to you: The students who pay a considerable amount of money to attend your University or the amount of money that can be made off parking for intercollegiate athletics?
Every time there is a KU basketball game, hundreds of students are not allowed to park at the Robinson Gymnasium parking lot. Why not? These students have paid at least $100 to $300 per credit hour and also have paid $55 for a parking permit that specifically allows them to park at Robinson. These students are generally graduate students who work full-time jobs or graduate students who are employees of the University. No matter; KU administrators have decided that even though you have a parking permit and likely have gone into debt to pay tuition, you cannot park here.
An then it's time for KU to turn a profit.
On basketball game days, administrators will say these students can simply pay the $6 to park there (effectively making them pay for the same parking spot (wice) or say they can park elsewhere and walk. Parking somewhere else simply does not work. Many night-class students race from work to get here on time, and they do not have time to find a parking spot six blocks from the University. If an administrator thinks this is no big deal, I challenge him or her to try to pull off this feat.
Also, a large majority of graduate teaching assistants and graduate research assistants — employees of this University — are unable to park at their worksite. So even though GTAs could get to school at 6:00 a.m. and never leave school until they get done with night class, they have to move their vehicle or get towed.
Please remember: These students are employees of the University, pay tuition and have purchased a parking permit that is now rendered worthless. I am sure this letter will fall upon deaf ears. It seems much more important for KU to make $6 on every car that parks at Robinson than it is for our students and employees to attend the University. It seems much more important that this University make a profit that to allow hard-working students to have any rights.
After all, how much would it hurt to let these students park? How much can you profit from athletics before this school becomes the University of Kansas Corporation?
John Thyfault Overland Park doctoral candidate
Recreational sex promotes false intimacy, ignores God
ational sex, promiscuity and lust ("Different strokes for different folks," Nov. 30). As love's opposite, lust is a wanderer; impersonal, unfocused, short-lived and concerned with taking rather than giving.
I am concerned with the recent Kansan article that used sensationalism to promote recre-
The Kansan speaks out against a female soccer player being fondled and is likely disturbed by its reported incidences of rape; however, it readily approves of behaviors and attitudes that feed from this same trough of seeing others as a means to an end — as mere objects from which one finds self gratification.
Are we mere animals after all? Sex will always fascinate and lure us, yet its pleasure becomes an addiction for millions while only masking a deeper pain. Its false intimacy fails to satisfy our intense yet God-given longings for acceptance and meaning.
Yes, I am saddened by the way we've sold sex as an end in and of itself when it is really a sacred and mysterious bond. However, I am even more disturbed that beneath this behavior is a human heart that disregards a Loving Creator. All of us seek false gods and, therefore, live for ourselves in various ways, yet until our hearts are broken before Love Incarinate, we will never find the fulfillment and purpose God intended.
Jana Borchardt KU Libraries
Article wrongly asserts that raves revolve around ecstasy
I feel that your article on ecstasy ("Raving about ecstasy," Wednesday) was very misinformed. The dates on your timeline were not correct, as well as the supposed composition of the pills. As for the erroneous and closed-minded assumption that raves center around the drug use, your writers clearly revealed their ignorance and incompetence regarding the rave community.
This misrepresentation is more than deserving of an apology. I, as well as a number of my friends are members of DanceSafe, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the rave community on safety matters concerning ecstasy. I encourage you to look at the Web site for more information: www.dancesafe.org. I would be very interested in setting the record straight
Amanda Rogers Wichita freshman
Kansan tobacco ad conflicts with paper's editorial content
Isn't it funny when college campus papers run article after article on movements to end smoking in buildings, on responsible drinking and when the paper serves a state institution that does not allow smoking in state buildings, runs an ad for chewing tobacco? Isn't it funny that a college campus paper that serves an institution of higher learning where we learn first hand all that tobacco can do to a person
runs an ad for chewing tobacco? Isn't it funny how irresponsible this ad is? Isn't it funny how the ad reads "The Legend Continues" when tobacco can kill! Isn't it funny that a campus paper that serves the students would help promote a product that is known to be deadly to students? Isn't it funny that almost everyone of us can point to someone in our life that has been affected by tobacco and wish they were still here?
Isn't it funny? No!
We see what the tobacco money can do to stop or slow legislation, but what is worse is how they can throw enough money into advertising, that papers, networks and other media will bow to the money and lose their spines.
This letter is written to the editors of the University Daily Kansan after receiving the Dec. 7 edition of the paper and noticing the full-page advertisement on the back cover. Thank you all for helping to promote this erroneous image of smokeless tobacco. I lost two people in my life to tobacco (not smoking). I sigh they were still with me today!
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Andy W. Jett
University should make changes before fire strikes housing
I am a freshman at KU and a resident of McCollum Hall. I am writing to voice my concern about the frequent and unnecessary fire drills in not only my hall, but all of the residence halls. I can't count on all of my appendedes the number of times I have awakened to the blaring of a horn at 3 in the morning. Why?
Not because there is a real fire, but because a drunk, bored freshman has stumbled in and thinks it would be the perfect nightcap to an evening of getting thrown out of The Hawk. What is even more annoying than freezing my butt off for 20 minutes in pajama pants and my shower sandals is the lack of effort to catch the [people] who pulled the alarm on the part of the administration. I am paying how many thousands of dollars to come here and they can't even put a box over the alarm or a camera to monitor it? I think if the administration were woken up by the unholy sound of a fire alarm, they might do something about it.
In addition, it has become a "boy who cried wolf" situation. Most of the people in my hall now assume that it's just a drill and hide in their closet until it's over. Not only is this stupid, but it also endangers lives. Hello? Anyone heard of Seton Hall in New Jersey? Sixteen people died in the same situation. It costs a lot more money to replace a life than to put in a surveillance camera. I have no problem stumbling down a flight of $'s tairs in a sleepy haze at 4 a.m. if there is a real fire hazard. I do have a problem with finding out that nothing is being done about this serious situation.
Kate McInerney Irvine, Calif., freshman
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