OP-ED
Thursday, October 14, 1993
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Contraception shot not always effective
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Readers beware! Watkins be truthful!
The birth control shot advertised by Watkins Memorial Health Center does not fit within the common definition of "contraception." According to a 1988 pharmaceutical study, Depo-Provera allows ovulation to occur in 40 to 60 percent of women's ovulatory cycles. This means that conception (equated in the common definition with "fertilization") can occur. At an average annual conception rate of 25 percent, users of Depo-Provera will conceive during 10 percent of their cycles. Pregnancy, however, is unlikely because this drug alters the endometrium, making it hostile to implantation by the fertilized egg.
Dr. Jerome LeJueune, one of the world's leading geneticists, demonstrated that human life begins at the time of fertilization. Use of DepoProvera cuts that life short.
Jonathan J. de Jong
Lawrence law student
Media stereotypes frustrate reader again
The following remarks are in (indirect) response to Anne Bailey's column(s).
I wonder if any member of the news media can write an article on Somalia without that silly word, "warlord"? Even more pressing, I wonder if anyone in this country can think in terms other than good vs. evil, right vs. wrong, us vs. them? Is this world
realty that simple? Ah, the power of mass media. Call the enemy "evil" and we'll believe it! Call prejudice directed toward whites and white supremacy by the same word, "racism," and we'll believe that they're the same thing! Reduce, reduce, reduce. Ronald Reagan and Ross Perot are the most recent masters of this rhetorical strategy. I think Bailey's decision to stand firm by "what [she saw] on television" is especially telling. What we never see on television is the pain of starvation
— an agony that extends far beyond the 10-minute stretches of television between advertisements. One nice thing about the University is that it gives us that increasingly rare opportunity to think with the television turned off.
Chapel Hill, N.C., graduate student
Administration should preserve free speech
LesBlIGay rights are the same as "straight" people's rights. These rights are supposed to be defined as variations on a theme of life, liberty and property. There is no requirement in such a definition of rights that special treatment be given to people who happen to enjoy homosexuality. To this much, most people can agree.
However, in our modern University, people have been given the right not to have their feelings hurt. Unfortunately the enforcement of this "right" threats to trample on the more fundamental freedom of speech. In Tuesday's Kansan, the front page asserted that the administration would take a more active role in championing the LesBiGay cause by providing LesBiGay literature, "sensitivity training," and "anti-homophobia training for resident assistants," among other things. As anyone who has attended freshman orientation knows, the LesBiGay community already exerts considerable influence on administrative policy. The latest set of demands only adds to considerable administrative bias in favor of LesBiGay causes.
If the University is dedicated at all to preserving and understanding Western tradition, it will renounce its open support of a lifestyle that many find morally objectionable. By not caving in to special interest, and by regaining some measure of objectivity, the administration will preserve for the students, faculty and even the resident assistants the most vital freedom to a liberal education to the freedom of speech.
— the freedom of spec
Joseph Suber
Topeka sophomore
Fertilized human eggs are living beings
The editing of my letter titled "Pro Life is Humankind Logic," failed. The letter was printed as "Ordinary Humans Don't Kill Embryos" on page five, Oct. 12. The facts were obstructed.
A fertilized human ovum, a human embryo, is biologically alive. It is exclusively human and an unique individual because the embryo is inherently alive. The embryo has a whole exclusively human and uniquely individual genotype. This
genotype makes a human embryo a person — an individual human being. And also, the embryo is the inherent embodiment of a future person, whose life and property, alive and whole, are not to be deprived without due process of law according to the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Lawrence Smith
Definition of racism twisted in Kansan
Racism is an arbitrary doctrine that is not backed by sound reasoning abilities such as those which humans are (normally) naturally endowed with.
Staff columnist Tiffany Hurt stumbles upon some difficulties in her column. While she claims that "diverse representation in ... societal systems assures equal rights and justice for all," it would make more sense to say that equal consideration ensures equal rights. This consideration does not—except for in the conflated minds of reverse racists — imply that "a white male cannot adequately represent a minority as well as a minority can." Why is this? Hurt claims that it is because a minority can "... by being a minority ... identify with other minorities." Assuming that this is true, which is quite a load of propaganda to swallow, it still does not provide a logical reason for favoring minorities over white males in the field of legal representation of minority clients. And, this Hurt, is why your argument is still racist Jared Nave
Overland Park sophomore
California pioneers changes in education
I am a proud graduate of the class of 1982 from KU. I departed for the West (or left) Coast last year still in search of my elusive fortune. I have become friends with a couple of alumni from Stanford and Cal-Berkeley, and we frequently exchange stories about our old schools. Can you imagine how embarrassed I was when they somehow found out my alma mater still has ROTC detachments? In the Bay Area, San Francisco State has already started a gay studies program, and two other schools will soon follow suit.
At UC-Santa Cruz, there is no controversy about gays and the military because sexual orientation is irrelevant and the military is forgotten. The principal discord here stems from severe budget cutbacks resulting in significant teaching assistant casualties which threatens the narrative evaluation system — the grading system. Students and alumni passionately counter that the assignment of grades promotes competition and harms the learning process.
Gerhard Casper, the president of Stanford, has been making headlines about entirely revising the undergraduate curriculum at his school. Suggestions such as a three-year undergraduate program and scrapping the emphasis on majors are being explored. I never heard such dialogue about the legitimacy of the prevailing educational system while I was at KU.
Don Knutson Santa Cruz, CA
Board of Class Officers and Student Union Activities would like to recognize the winners of the EXCEL Award, for EXcellence in Community Education and Leadership.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Carmen San Martin
Trevor Thompson
1993-94 EX.C.E.L. Award Winners!
The winners will be honored at the Homecoming Parade,Friday at 2:20 and the Football game.
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