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Bible'admonishes all sexual orientations
I am tired of being told that God does not love me because of six biblical "admonitions" concerning homosexual behavior. In the Bible there are 362 "admonitions" concerning heterosexual behavior. Does this, then, mean that God does not love straight people as well? I think not, but there is an implication that perhaps straight people need a great deal more supervision. Eric Moore Lawrence junior
Campus beauty relies on actions of students
It's time that people start taking responsibility for their own actions and quit putting the blame on someone else (a thought applicable to many other areas, by the way). Is it really that much of an inconvenience to carry the ads until you get to a trash can, and if you don't want them, toss them in? Believe me, I've done it; it's not that hard.
John Percival
Leneva senior
I was glad to see the letter in the Kansan regarding its use of insert advertisements. It prompted me to write about what I've thought for a long time.
I have watched with amazement
countless people, not two feet
from a trash can, have stood at the
Kansan boxes, taken the advertisements
out and thrown them on the ground.
In case you folks haven't noticed, we have one of the most beautiful campuses in the country, and it's everyone's responsibility not to trash it.
Parties aren't factors in foreign policy
The secretary of defense expressed his concern that the mission had not been clearly defined. He could not see how U.S. troops were to be withdrawn after the planned three month deployment. The country in question was involved in civil war. There was concern that the mission could not be won.
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Then, the mission changed. The U.S. took an active, direct role in the civil war. Soon, there was a tragic loss of U.S. troops.
Somalia? No. Beirut, Lebanon in October 1983.
John Sunun can think 'the Democrats are screwing up foreign policy' if he wants. Let's not forget President Reagan was the commander in chief when 241 marines, who were not allowed to have their weapons loaded, were killed in an attack on their Beirut barracks Oct. 23, 1983.
Foreign policy disasters are not exclusive to either political party. Presidents Reagan and Clinton are to blame. But the tragedy in Somalia shouldn't serve to label Democrats as inept at foreign policy. It should serve to show that peacekeeping missions (where there is no peace to be kept) under the bureaucratic United Nations are doomed to failure and tragedy.
Mark Crouse
Lenexa iunior
Big business benefits from trade agreement
In a recent editorial, the Kansan suggested that Ross Perot opposed the North American Free Trade Agreement for selfish reasons, which is plausible enough. However, self-interest definitely motivates many trade agreement supporters, including transnational corporations, banks, investment firms and their minions in the government and the press. In addition to taking advantage of low wages in Mexico and lax environmental enforcement, corporations will benefit from relaxed investment laws, increased control of financial services and increased intellectual property protection. These trade policies will generate large profits for big U.S. and Mexican companies at the expense of the majority.
The Mexican government is another trade agreement supporter, controlled by the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which also has interests at stake. In February, President Salinas asked 30 of Mexico's top industrialists, who control almost half of the Mexican economy, to pledge an average of $25 million each to the party. These industrialists benefited greatly from 10 years of economic "reform" and will benefit even more from the trade agreement. Meanwhile, Mexican wages have fallen 60 percent and may fall further under the trade agreement, which probably will increase urban migration when U.S. agribusiness wipes out Mexican corn producers.
Michael Barfield
Lawrence graduate student
View misrepresents history of America
One doesn't know where to start to reply in a satisfactory way to the column presented by Lance Hamby. I recommend that your staff columnist enroll in some history courses in the near future, especially because he pointed out the ignorance of the students at Haskell Indians Nations University. At this point, I only want to respond to two issues: First, his understanding of social Darwinism as a justification of the European "victory" against the American Indians basically resembles the same reasoning that was employed during Hitler's period in Germany, which led to the Holocaust. Second, the first Europeans who came to this continent were unable to deal with their new environment without the help of American Indians, regardless of their so-called "superior technologies." One also must note that we still must deal with the consequences of these imported technologies. Just look at the environmental history of the United States. Michael Noll Lawrence graduate student
Bible should not be basis for persecution
Jonathan, help me out! I need some help finding a Bible passage concerning closed-minded, Bible-thumping Kansans willing to "throw the book" at those who do not agree with their religion.
religious scripture of one of the world's prominent religions. However, the possibility just might be there that somebody, somewhere in history, throughout all of the translations, transcriptions and editions this book has gone through, may have slipped up. Who knows for sure what actually was written down in the first place?
The Bible is indeed an important
The point is that you have no right pulling quotations out of the Bible and telling other people what is right or what is wrong.
Howard Sacks
Kansas City, Mo., senior
Columnist not aware of truth behind myth
In his Oct. 19 editorial blasting Haskell Indian Nations University students, Lance Hamby contends that Columbus Day protests are not based on facts. It is, however, Hamby who is ignorant of the facts and guilty of not-so-subtle racism.
Hamby's editorial is so littered with historical errors that it is meaningless to counter them all. The driving force behind his ideas, however, is the now discredited belief that Columbus was a "Great Man." Columbus myths have been so thoroughly debunked that it rings strangely anachronistic for Hamby to cling so tightly to them.
It is, fundamentally, ethnocentrism which drove the genocide European colonialism practiced on the Americas and which nation-states continue to exercise against native populations today.
If Hamby would have bothered to attend the Native American talks in front of the Kansas Union Oct. 11, if he were to go to Haskell to talk with students, or even if he were to read books by Native American authors he would be struck by a fundamentally different concept of the world which characterizes native culture. If he were to do this, he then might be aware of the profound ignorance of history and culture which he demonstrated in his editorial.
I am writing to state that I will no longer be listening to KU's supposedly alternative radio station, JKHK, until Russ Johnson is removed from his show or offers an apology for his comments.
Comments on KJHK were inappropriate
Monday, October 25, 1993
A person who can state that words don't matter or do any real harm obviously doesn't have the sensitivity or intelligence to understand that a fundamental basis of power and its abuse is to be found in language itself. I cannot accept, as I expect members, of other minority groups cannot, that such an individual be allowed to continue practices over public airways, on the steps of a public building dedicated to education and inquiry, and under the institutional aegis of the University itself, that are so blatantly manipulative, abusive, destructive, bigoted and ignorant. When none of the media in Topeka will cover Phelps' homophobic antics, I will not tolerate KJHK's granting him a forum for the dissemination of his fanciful and hateful ideas.
A. Casagrande Lawrence graduate student
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