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Friday, December 7, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Opinion
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Alternate proposal
Engineering students correct to oppose creditfee; general-use fee would be more equitable method
This week's student referendum about the proposed $15-a-credit-hour engineering fee for engineering students at Kansas State University, the University of Kansas and Wichita State University has yielded mixed results.
A majority of voting engineering students at KU and Wichita State voted against the fee, while a majority of voting students at K-State voted for the fee. The students now have to wait for the Board of Regents Dec. 20 final vote on the proposal.
Don Rathborne, K-State dean of engineering, said the K-State results showed that students were willing to commit to financing a quality program. The implication is that KU and Wichita State students were not. But should they be expected to single-handedly finance the program?
Carl Locke, KU Dean of Engineering, has estimated that with the fee, engineering students would have to pay an average of $800 during the course of their education. But research compiled by KU engineering student senators shows that the average student would actually have to pay about $1,100. That is a heavy burden for students who already are dealing with increasing education costs.
University administrators are right to be concerned about the quality of education they will be able to maintain at their schools. And no one is denying that the schools need up-to-date equipment to maintain that quality. However, a new option exists that can ease the financial burden of engineering students-
That option would be to impose a $2-accredit-hour general-use equipment fee that would apply to all students at all Regents schools.
This general-use fee will impose a far less painful burden on all students than the engineering fee would impose on engineering students. The general-use fee also would benefit all Regents students with quality equipment, instead of students in a specific school, and it would avoid setting the dangerous precedent of a restricted fee that could snowball and be applied to other schools.
The Regents must find a way to finance equipment improvements for engineering students. They should consider the proposed $2-a-credit-hour general-use fee and take into account the advantages it offers over a restricted fee for a specific school.
Mary Neubauer for the editorial board
Justifying the video
Madonna's sexplicit romp has MTV sweating
The former Boy Toy expressed herself Monday on ABC's Nightline, challenging Forrest Sawyer and his viewing audience to reconsider their notions of what was sexually naughty and what was not.
The issue was Madonna's 'Justify My Love' video, with which she finally pushed the Music Television channel too far. The channel has refused to show Madonna's explicit exploration into heterosexual, homosexual and bisexual fantasy sequences.
MTV should not be pressured to show a video it considers unacceptable. The channel is nothing more than a promotional device for the music industry and those who buy commercial time on it. MTV simply chooses videos that its executives think viewers and advertisers will find appealing.
The exclusion of "Justify My Love," however, raises serious questions, many brought up by Madonna herself after Sawyer and his audience viewed the video.
Our society's eyes glaze over with familiarity as violent, sexist videos follow one after
another. Madonna noted that it was hypocritical of MTV to air videos depicting degradation of women and violence and not allow the broadcast of videos dealing with sexuality.
"Cherry Pie," a recent Warrant effort, springs to mind. In it, a buxom blonde, who is skating, drops a piece of cherry pie into her lap. The camera freezes the action when the wedge falls, point down, just below the woman's waist. The connection is clear and sophomoric.
Madonna's video is explicit, but, as Madonna pointed out on Nightline, she and the others featured in the video consented to the behavior. Violence and humiliation of women are absent — something that cannot be said for much of what has passed as acceptable.
Madonna blathers when she complains that a private company should use work that it considers unacceptable. But she's right when she mocks MTV for its inconsistent use of that term.
Rich Cornell for the editorial board
Thanks for the memories
This was going to be a column about condoms.
You know, rubbers, raincoats, saffes or rubbragbs. Those handy latex sheaths conveniently available in your local bar's restroom. I was going to encourage their usage and suggest buying party packs of varying brands for the loved ones on your Christmas list. But it was then that I realized, this is to be my final holiday season in Lawrence.
As a student I will remember the angry faces of protesters at Hoch auditorium, waiting for hours and
Yes, it's difficult to believe. However, with four and a half years (and several hundred gallons of Anheuser-Busch products) under the belt, it's time to push off and make way for a new regime of procrastinating minds. It seems like just yesterday (or was it just yesterday) that an overdue English paper was put off one more day. And that major project which has loomed in the distance since August — Well, it continues to loom through its deadline four days away.
Buck Taylor
Staff columnist
Since 1986, the people of Lawrence and KU have seen and triumphed over a world of changes, whether positive, negative, happy or sad.
These are fond memories, and of course they'll seem a whole lot forder if I could ever levitate my better half off the couch and complete them. But these should be only part of our feelings toward this town, whose fast food restaurants, police officers and drinking establishments have sheltered our frustrations and harbored our late-night stupidity.
risking possible violence just to shout their opinions at three Missouri Ku Klux Klan members.
Those were the same of the faces that experienced the euphoric sensation of victory during the last seconds of a basketball game in April 1988, when the entire nation cast its approving eyes on KU. Waking up with champagne-spiked hair and try not to scream, I stepped down Naismith Drive only precipitated good feelings of that 83-79 victory against Oklahoma.
As a Lawrence resident I joined in mourning the loss of several American Indians, whose causes of death still remain undetermined. And Lawrence will miss an excellent administrator in Buford Watson, although his memorial will live long enough that he names his name. There were sonem们事 that were lackly outweighed by five times as many humorous ones.
The snow will begin falling soon, which always proves an interesting time of year in Lawrence. Undoubtedly, this town has the worst snow removal system anywhere in the Western Hemisphere. Not only do the white flakes take the public works crews by surprise each year, (It's not like we're in Arizona — snow falls here!) but, when they attempt to
plow it, the drifts are piled in the middle of the streets. Why?
Of course my favorite was the poor woman who (oops!) drove her city snowplow truck through a Ninth Street apartment complex. Now if you've ever felt like an idiot, just look at the door. ("Boss," I swear that building wasn't there last year. Would you say I'm in a lot of trouble?"
And who could forget Omne?
Lake's elder assault artist whose naked form was seen emerging from bushes armed with a hammer? I mean, sure it would probably scary, and I don't want to downplay crimes. My sense of urgency that fright may have been in order. (Did he have to be naked?) Wouldn't the attacks have been just as gratifying if he'd have waded a Speede?)
Yes, the people of Lawrence have treated us well, and a few need public praise.
I want to thank a guy named Cowboy Rusty who told me dirty jokes at A.J.'s when I was depressed. The Hare Krushnia also give deserve an honorable mention for almost converting me but not quite being able to guarantee I could keep my Jamison Parkear皮帽. And finally to the faculty. You can bet every one of those stories I told you was true.
Thank you Lawrence for an entertaining stay. I hope you didn't mind the mess, but I think I cleaned most of it up.
Buck Taylor is a Winnetka, III.. senior majoring in journalism.
Draft the Bush family, then all the other rich, for gulf duty
T that politically dreaded “D” word is finally being uttered in Washington. “D,” as in draft, Draft, as in grab those young people, put them in uniform, teach them to aim a rifle and ship them out.
Military experts are now saying that if we're going to hurry up and fight Iraq, as President Bush wishes, we'll need more able bodies.
Simple arithmetic. We're putting a vast arm in Saudi Arabia, so we're shorthanded elsewhere. If we have to replace those in the US, we've got them. We are related, someone has to take their place.
And because young men and women aren't rushing to enlistment offices these days, the only way to fill the gap is to restore the draft, which ended in 1973.
If it must be, OK, it must be. But if we're going to have a draft, it should be done fairly.
The question is, what is fair? We all have our own ideas about fairness, so here's mine. What is fair to you?
(1) The first group should be the draft-age sons, daughters, nieces, nephews and grandparents. (2) The next group should be the parents.
Mike Royko Syndicated columnist
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ministration. And not for any typewriter or filing duty. No, they should be given a crash course in fighting against naked aggression and shipped directly to the front.
That's fair, I believe, because this rush to war is Bush's idea. He didn't ask the U.S. people, he didn't ask Congress, and maybe he carted it around. And at this point, he still hasn't asked.
Yes, he asked the United Nations, but I'm not sure how many U.S. citizens want their kids to get their marching orders from our old palts, the Soviet Union and China.
The offspring of the chief executive officers of the Fortune 500 companies. I have nothing personal against them, but I'm sure that if they have any thoughts about the advisability of a war, they can get Bush's attention a little easier than the guy who changes the oil in my car.
(2) The next draft-age group to be called should be the sons, daughters, grandchildren, etc., of those members of Congress who are Bush's cheerleaders. If they believe we should go charging into Iraq, let their kin lead the charge.
(3) The sons, daughters, etc., of the top executives of any U.S. corporations that sold Iraq any of the military gadgety and hardware that has helped make it possible for Saddam to become a pain in the international arena. (4) The same bang for his buck. Now go hear the bang.
(4) The offspring of the chief executive officers of the Fortune 500 companies. I have nothing personal against them, but I'm sure that if they have any thoughts about the advisability of a war, they can get Bush's attention, and then the guy who changes the oil in my car.
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(5) The young members of the 100,000 wealthiest families in the United States. Once they were educated, they went to work for large corporations.
that a hell of a lot more of these families voted for Bush, then, say, the 100,000 poorest families in the United States. So if he's their guy, they should show their enthusiasm and support for their commander-in-chief by junior into the arms of the drill sergeant.
(6) This might be difficult, but, in the modern age of technology, not impossible. A special task force should read every letters section of every newspaper published since the war crisis began. They should look for letters that say such as things：“Let's get in there and get this thing over with.” “or” "Let's blast Saddam back to. . .” or "Let us support our commander-in-chief in this. . ." The names of the letter writers should be
noted, and if they are not lame or infirmed,
they and their entire families should be sent
(7) While the task force is scanning the letters, it can check out the editorials and columns. Anybody who writes anything indicative of a boo-kill should shooting to start off to boo camp, killer
Have I missed anyone? Probably. I wonder how Henry Kissinger would look in a gas tank.
Some advocates of a fair draft say that there should be no deferments, as were there to the point of scandal during the Vietnam War.
But I disagree. I would grant an automatic deferment, upon request, to anyone whose father was killed or wounded and would apply to anyone whose father served in Vietnam.
They should have the right to say: "No thanks, Mr. Bush, our families provided all those names for one memorial wall in our church that don't you and your crowd fill in the next?"
Mike Royko is a syndicated columnist for the Chicago Tribune.
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