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Friday, October 15, 1993
OPINION
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VIEWPOINT
Monetary aid to Russia should be long-term
In giving money to Russia, the United States needs to ensure that the aid given is used for long-term purposes.
The problems with short-term aid are already evident. In many cases, the aid never reaches its intended target. This is one reason groups like Heart-to-Heart personally escort medical supplies and other forms of assistance to their destinations. The practice of shortterm aid needs to be eliminated because it encourages dependency and corruption in the country that receives the aid.
One need fulfilled by long-term aid would be the education of the Russian people. For over 70 years,people in Russia were told that capitalism and private property led to extreme inequalities between socioeconomic classes.In just a few short years,the message has been changed to one professing free enterprise to bring better living standards for all Russians.
What is needed now in Russia is instruction on how to set up a banking system, enactment of laws dealing with private property and education on all the many facets of a free enterprise system of economics.
Recent events in Moscow show long-term aid to be far preferable. We are hopeful that President Boris Yeltsin will follow through on strengthening democracy and making the economic changes he desires. If he should fail, a long-term investment in the education of the Russian people might prove to be the key to Russia avoiding another 70 years living under a totalitarian system of government.
TOM GRELINGER FOR THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Clinton's stance toward Haiti is the correct one
President Clinton has acted deftly in recalling troops bound for Haiti and in using diplomacy in an attempt to return democracy to the troubled nation. Following a bloody coup in September 1991 that removed President Aristide from power, the U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions against Haiti to' undermine the power of the new military regime. The sanctions weakened the military government under General Raoul Cedras, and he agreed in July to return Aristide to power. Since then, with the pressure of sanctions removed, conditions in Haiti have again deteriorated, and the military regime has broken its promise to transfer power. On Wednesday, the U.N. Security Council voted to reinstate sanctions if Cedras does not adhere to the terms of the treaty.
Clinton acted decisively in recalling a small number troops bound for Haiti on Tuesday. The noncombatant advisers were to help in the smooth transfer of power back to Aristide on October 30. Instead of pressing on and placing U.S. and U.N. troops in danger, Clinton and his administration acted quickly in withdrawing troops and asking the United Nations to act. Military force, or even a military presence on the island, should be used as a last resort in international efforts to return democracy to Haiti. Expanded sanctions or a military blockade are options that Clinton is considering and should use with the approval of the United Nations if Cedras does not relinquish control. Only when the mission and safety of U.S. forces have been cleared through diplomacy should U.S. troops attempt another landing on Haitian soil.
CHRIS REEDY FOR THE EDITORIAL BOARD
If you want to kiss, check with your notary public
Sex. For immumerable college students it's a part of their private lives. But for students at Antioch College, sex is no longer just a personal choice but a matter of public policy.
Antioch, located in Yellow Springs, Ohio, recently enacted a sexual offense policy that describes in no uncertain terms how students should behave in matters concerning sex.
According to the policy, "consent must be obtained verbally before there is any any sexual contact or conduct; if the level of sexual intimacy increases during an interaction. (i.e., if two people move from kissing while fully clothed — which is one level — to undressing for direct physical contact, which is another level), the people involved need to express their clear verbal consent before moving to that new level...if you have had a particular level of intimacy before with someone, you still must ask each and every time..."
The policy was enacted in an effort to prevent sexual harassment and rape. Although it has good intentions, the policy is ludicrous. Students are constantly bombarded with rules in virtually every aspect of their lives, but to regulate their sex lives is comical.
What?! Suddenly sex is no longer a personal issue, but one that is regulated by college officials. Students who are found to have violated the policy face serious consequences including expulsion.
STAFF COLUMNIST
SAMPLE DATE SCENARIO:
Chris: I wish to kiss your lips and simultaneously place my hand on your knee. Does this meet with your approval?
Romantic music plays softly in the background. The lights are dim, and Chris and Gloria gaze into each others' eyes. Chris leans toward Gloria...
Gloria: You have my expressed verbal consent to proceed.
Not only does the policy effectively squelch any inking of romance, but it is positively unenforceable. Every possible infraction of the policy would simply be a matter of he said/she said. No violation could be proven, so disputes would simply degenerate into his word against hers.
How romantic. This policy just screams spontaneity and affection.
Obviously the only reasonable solution is to hire a notary public to document all sexual interactions.
SAMPLE DATE SCENARIO-Part II:
Gloria: How thoughtful! That's the most romantic thing anyone's done for me. You have my expressed verbal consent to hire a notary public.
Chris: Gloria, we've been dating for a few months now, and I think we're getting pretty serious about each other. I think we're ready for the next logical step in our relationship — I'd like to hire a notary public.
What fun. How could anyone pass up the fun and exciting evenings you and your date would enjoy with your own personal notary public at your sides?
This policy seems laughable, but it's serious business with serious consequences to students at Antioch College. The policy was proposed and passed in hopes of protecting female students from sexual abuse and rape. Though the policy's intent is to protect women, the policy actually treats women as if they are unable to express their own opinions.
College students are adults. Men and women alike should be capable of expressing their wishes in matters of sexual interaction.
And if all else fails, make sure to
and a notary public on call.
Colleen McCain is a Salina sophomore majoring in Journalism.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Meyen's response to task force inadequate
It is clear that executive vice chancellor Ed Meyen spent considerable time and effort on his "Response to the Report of the Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Concerns Study Committee." I appreciate that. I also appreciate the fact that he met with representatives of the LesBiGay community on Oct. 7 before he made his response public and that he made some of the changes in the document that we suggested.
I was convinced at that meeting of Dr. Meyen's sincere support for the LesBiGay community. Unfortunately, I don't think it comes across adequately in his written response.
The committee report asks first and foremost for the administration to address the LesBiGay community, assuring us that we are welcome here.
Instead, Meyen's "Response to the Report" seems to take the wider community as its main audience, and it offers only general reminders about education as the solution to our "challenges."
goal is creating an "accepting and nurturing environment for us all" are too vague to be particularly useful. When you leave it to your audience to imagine an inclusive "all," I think people tend to picture only those with whom they are already comfortable.
Statements asserting that KU's
Rhetoric is the most important tool available to the executive vice chancellor, but the rhetoric in his "Response" does not rise to the occasion. What our community needs is a total climactic change.
Maggie Childs Chair, GLASA
New York is temptation for tourists from Kansas
I used to be afraid of New York. It's kind of funny considering that I've wandered the streets of almost every major city in Western Europe. But New York was different, I thought. It was big, and it was violent. The people were rude. People would shoot at you in the subway for your Nikes. And as you bled to death, passengers would walk by blind to your pleas for help.
Didn't they?
I admit that I was always tempted to go to that great Sodom of the East. I had friends who would go. And they came back alive. But the stories they would tell. About the topless jogger who ran down Broadway. (I don't even go power walking without a support bra.) And the mother and daughter who were arguing at Rockefeller Center. The daughter tried to run off, and the mother—to the horror of several onlookers—yanked off her prosthetic arm. The duo, my friend said, just looked at each other, giggled and ran off.
So I had reasons for thinking that New York was a strange place.
So what's a girl to do? I went.
But then the flight wars lowered the price of a round trip ticket to a mere $154.
I asked all my friends whom I considered seasoned New Yorkers what to see, what to do and what to avoid. Go to Soho, they said. The East Village. Don't ride the subway late at night, and especially, don't venture into the Bronx.
STAFF COLUMNIST
My friend picked me up at the airport. After dumping my bags off at her apartment in (gasp) the Bronx, we hit the town. While we wandered the city, I kept a look out. Maybe I was in the wrong part of Manhattan, but there were no naked joggers, women wielding prosthetic appendages or gun-toting crack fiends to be found.
The next day, sightseeing on my own, people actually went out of their way to give me directions. On the subway, I saw parents taking their children to the park.
At the Guggenheim museum, I even ran into a guy I knew from KU. We gossiped for a while about mutual friends from school and laughed about what a small world it really was.
This definitely was not the New York I expected. It was just a regular metropolitan city. And the people were just like everyone else. Oh, I did manage to find a surly waiter in little Italy. But I was more amused than unset bv it.
So then the country mouse came home from her vacation in the big city.
My friends all asked me how my trip was, and I dutifully recounted the places I'd been, the famous people I'd seen and the things I'd done in an appropriately blase manner. If they really want to know what New York is like, they will just have to go and see for themselves.
Going to New York made me a part of that intimate club shared by me and about 3 billion others. We can all recognize location shots from Woody Allen movies.
Val Huber Is a Lawrence graduate student
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