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Wednesday, February 7, 1990 / University Dally Kansan
Opinion
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Reusing resources
Support from University community required for recycling to overcome failures of the past
Organizing one of the most progressive recycling efforts in the state can be difficult.
At a time when recycling proposals are being introduced at the state level and residents of cities such as Kansas City, Mo., are hoping to have recyclers make rounds like mailmen, the University of Kansas has curbside recycling.
Curbside recycling brings recyclers to homes or businesses to collect aluminum cans, paper or other recyclables. This semester, employees from River City Recycling Co. began making daily pickups across campus as part of the KU Recycling Effort (KURE) organized by Student Senate and Environs.
Skepticism seemingly runs high among certain University officials concerning KURE. Tom Anderson, director of facilities operations, said recently that he was not happy with the job Environs members did in maintaining their recycling program in Wescoe Hall. Anderson is right in criticizing the Spring 1989 program. In many respects, it failed. KURE, however, is a different program.
A 12-member task force, consisting of members from Environs, Student Senate and city government, maintains KURE. This group ensures that River City Recycling workers do their job. The task force meets regularly to
discuss the program's status.
Problems have become apparent since the program started last month. The containers on campus are not clearly marked for aluminum deposit. The opening in the top of each container is large enough for an uncrumpled can, but will not let through a can that is even partially crumpled. Task force members have taken measures to fix these problems.
The main barrier for campus recycling, however, cannot be fixed by anyone in Senate or Environs. That problem is a lack of cooperation by the University community.
Everything from gum to cups is being stuffed into the small holes meant only for aluminum cans. The containers are being moved, which means when River City Recycling workers arrive to collect the cans, they don't know where the cans are. One of the plastic barrels was moved to catch water from a leaky roof. One of the barrels was stolen.
The 12-member task force cannot do it alone. Faculty, students and administration should support the program. They can start by looking for the big, yellow barrels and making sure that aluminum, and only aluminum, finds its way into the containers.
Chris Evans for the editorial board
Briefly Stated
- Saturday, students once again had to be reminded that they go to school at KU. Roy Williams reminded them by circulating a statement before the Oklahoma basketball game. The coach is right. Show some class and keep profinity out of Allen Field House. Raise your voices in support. Besides, we don't live in Oklahoma.
1ne S.S. Beamer, a new Saturday bus route,
has made it possible for students and
Lawrence residents to travel from campus to the south side of Iowa Street. Riders can stop at many stores on Iowa, including K mart Discount Store and Wal-Mart. The bus makes a complete trip once every hour.
The regular Saturday downtown route is now free for riders with a pass, instead of costing 75 cents, as was the case last semester. For students without cars, the new Saturday routes provide new ways to get around the city.
No booze
Greek alcohol ban encourages social maturity
Members of the greek system are creating a safer, more responsible party atmosphere at the University of Kansas.
By the provisions of an amendment passed last week by the Interfraternity Council and member representatives, fraternities no longer will play host to open parties where alcohol is provided by the fraternity or brought independently to the house. The amendment will take effect Feb. 28.
The amendment will discourage the large numbers of underage drinkers who attend open fraternity parties and will safeguard fraternities from being liable for non-members.
Gradually, concerned greek members have adopted tighter alcohol policies to curb drunken driving and underage drinking.
During the past three years, many fraternities and sororites have adopted policies that require members to ride buses transporting members to parties, and designated driver
programs have been installed at many houses.
Jeff Risley, IFC vice president for public relations; said that the amendment would result in more date parties for members and more functions with other greek houses.
However, IFC cannot regulate underage drinking at fraternity functions with other Greek houses, as it is up to each individual chapter to set rules and regulations for minors.
Some fraternities may try to bend the rules at first. They'll throw an open party and somehow try to prove that the party didn't fall under the regulations of the new policy.
But fraternity members should realize that axing open parties doesn't mean ceasing all of the good times in college.
Instead, the new policy means a step toward mature socializing and more safety for both members and non-members of the greek system.
Jennifer Metz for the editorial board
South African predicts long road still ahead
The South African regime has dramatically announced its intention to seek new political solutions to problems
There is reason to be hopeful about South Africa's political future. The policy reversal has created a slight opening for the negotiation process to begin. As a South African, I am encouraged. But there is going to be a long and slippery road ahead for at least
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that it has been responsible for creating. It came to power more than 40 years ago, and its rule has been especially repressive in the last 10 years. White minority rule institutionalized racial domination to exclude Black participation in all decision-making.
The state lifted restrictions last week on Black organizations, the chief among which is the African National Congress (ANC), founded in 1912, which took up armed struggle after it was banned in 1960. President F.W. de Klek announced the release of political prisoners; the state of emergency, which had restricted the political freedom of individuals and organizations, has been partially laid; and some of the security laws are to be amended to allow the normalization of the political processes envisaged in the period ahead.
Surendra Bhana
Guest columnist
three reasons.
First, there is fundamental disagreement between the regime and the Mass Democratic Movement (MDM) opposing it. The government has agreed to universal franchise within the scope of its intention to preserve and maintain race-based group rights. The MDM's understanding of the term is derived from constitutionally guaranteed individual rights in a non-racial democracy. It insists that group rights are inherent in individual rights, and that therefore it is necessary special constitutional political or racial. The protection and group political or racial used group rights as a means of holding up white supremacy, and the MDM is naturally skeptical about the state's intention.
Second, there is likely to be protracted
negotiation about the negotiations themselves. How many constituencies are there, and who is to represent whom at the negotiations? How are the representatives to be elected? These are important issues for which there are no easy resolutions. The regime will insist upon the inclusion of the leadership from the Bantustans and political parties now operating in the Tri-racial Parliament to dilute the numerical strength of the MDM. The MDM has never accepted the legitimacy of the nominally independent Bantustans and has regarded their leaders as puppets of the regime. It will insist on negotiating with the government only without its political hangers-on.
Third, much of the apartheid machinery will remain intact in the immediate future. The Population Registration Act, which classifies people on the basis of race, and the Group Affairs Act, which has divided and maintained the country into racial zones, are but two laws that undergird segregation in education, health and welfare. The white regime hopes to enter the negotiations with apartheid's trappings as bargaining chips. If the elimination of apartheid and the rate at which it is to be phased out is to be in the
hands of a future, post-negotiation government, the present regime will want a big say in the nature and composition of that new government. Nobody should underestimate the difficulty of this process after 80 years of institutionalized segregation. For example, the Blacks who in 1985 made up more than 75 percent of the population now occupy only 13 percent of the land. The political decision to re-allocate the land will be accompanied by bitter conflict and rivalry.
The MDM's ultimate objective is its political empowerment. When that happens one can expect a fairly drastic transformation of the South African society. But that goal is by no means assured in the near future because the present government has taken only the first step towards normalizing politics in that country. The MDM will continue to maintain pressure on the Protoria regime.
Don't expect the ANC to dismantle its guerrilla operations. If the MDM is to succeed, it will require the continued support of the outside world. It is foolish to talk about ending sanctions at this early stage. That will simply delay the day that democracy comes to South Africa. In Zimbabwe, international sanctions were not ended until after the final
agreement was reached.
agreement will demand President Bush's intention to invite de Klerk is premature. He should rather give every encouragement to Nelson Mandela, undoubtedly the most popular leader in South Africa, whose role in creating the present climate of negotiations has been and will continue to be crucial significantly. Mr. Mandela is not likely to jump at Mr. Bush's invitation, given the United States' soft approach on the apartheid regime in the past.
What is significant about last week's developments is that whites in South Africa have finally conceded that their minority rule cannot be maintained in the face of massive resistance among the Blacks. Most have come around to the idea that they will have to share the country with their Black compatriots. Democracy will come to South Africa, and they will have the opportunity of honoring Mandela, the man who has dedicated his life towards that end. That is the least they can do for a man whom they have kept locked up in prison for 27 years.
> Surendra Bhana is a visiting professor of history.
Other Voices
In recent years, voting has become a choice for the lesser of two evils. The 1900 Kansas gubernatorial race appears to be no different
On the Democratic side of the race, a power struggle exists between the two party strongmen — John Carlin and Jim Slattery.
Gov. Mike Hayden says that he felt good about his 1986 campaign and has the same confidence in 1990.
Where are all of the strong third parties when we really need them?
> From the Hutchinson Community College Collegian, Feb. 2, 1990.
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Old Watkins was on top of the Hill, surrounded by buildings and Check-Point Charlies.
cars, no phone to call a taxi and no pass. How's this for a solution? Pretend that you are shopping at Crown Center, in Kansas City, Mo. Petition the health service to validate parking tickets. When you are sick and need to see a doctor, drive and park, then have the receptionist give you a dated, signed, one-time use sticker with your license plate number or KUID number on it, which you may affix to any parking ticket you might get in lot 90 that day. Then drop the ticket in the campus mail, and voila — no parking problem.
Michael B. Kelly, Ph.D.
Classes of '70, '73, and '75
LETTERS to the EDITOR What parking?
I read with a chuckle of amazement the article on the front of Monday's Kansan about student outpatient parking at Watkins Memorial Health Center. I don't want to sound like my father used to, "Why, when I was your age, I
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walked five miles through the snow...," but...
Parking at Watkins? When my of father was a KU student, circa 1940, he didn't have a car to park, so parking wan't a problem for a week when the big masseles epidemic of those days downed him.
When I was a KU student in the '60s and '70s, Watkins was still on the Hill, near Bailey and "New Fraser." This meant there was no parking at all; zip; zilch. But who cared? Other than the fact that very few students had cars by today's standards, Watkins was on
the Hill, and you couldn't get onto campus with a car anywhere, so the parking issue never came up! Besides spending a week as an inpatient with mono, I had many outpatient visits with post-mono complications. I had poison ivy; I got flu shots; I had a broken toe ice (Jennifer Hawkley Boulevard on the January ice was fun); and several other maladies during nine years with no parking.
CAMP UHNEELY
BY SCOTT PATTY
HURRY//WE HAVE AN EMERGENCY SITUATION DEVELOPING DOWN HERE!
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