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Friday, January 19, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Opinion
Jayhawk basketball team
Team's 19-0 record, University's actions give credibility to Number One ranking
The Jayhawks are already national champions.
The 'Hawks, who have emerged from the preseason pack to win 19 straight games and seize the No. 1 rating for the first time in 32 years, have done so with unselfish and inspiring action on and off the court
First, the Jayhawks had defied the experts.
Despite the lack of nationally televised games, KU basketball is capturing media attention. If people around the country would have listened to Big Eight coaches saying that Kansas would have a good team, perhaps the TV issue would be different. Still, it appears that others are waiting for the moment that KU humbles, just to say "I told you so."
Good teams are often judged by their ability to come from behind to win, for winning with few big names and playing as a team. Those elements are present on this team and were evident in the 98-93 win at Nebraska.
For that reason alone, our hats are off to a team climbing back into the thick of things after NCAA probation and scandal. KU has operated a clean program under Coach Roy Williams. He plays by the rules and wins.
But most important, the team has not
When Chris Lindley, a highly-touted recruit from Raytown, Mo., South High School was severely injured following an accident with a train, the KU coaching staff and the University did not back away. Lindley had signed with the school to play basketball next fall. Everyone on the team had become acquainted with him and he was part of the team. His accident touched each member deeply.
stopped there.
After the accident, the University extended an institutional scholarship to Lindley so he could attend school next fall. The scholarship was not a token, but given because the young man is an outstanding student and deserves to continue his education. On the court he averaged about 24 points a game for the No.1 high school team in Missouri and the sixth best team in the country. In the classroom he has nearly a 4.0 grade point average.
Williams and all the Jayhawks welcomed Lindley to the family. Students will welcome him next fall. The tragic accident and the concern shown by Williams, the players and the administration prove that KU basketball is a class act on and off the court and this season's No. 1 team despite the final rankings.
John P. Milburn for the editorial board
Divided Democrats
Slattery's coyness undercuts party's strength
In August, Kansas Congressman Jim Slattery said that he would not run against Gov. Mike Hayden in the upcoming gubernatorial election. He did so despite prodding by former Gov. John Carlin to enter the election. After Slattery bowed out, Carlin hinted that he would seek the party's support for the nomination.
Two weeks ago, Slattery announced that, at the urging of his supporters, he again was considering entering the race. Word soon was out that Carlin and Slattery would have a "showdown". January 12 to decide which of the two would run.
when the meeting ended and the gun smoke had cleared, nothing was changed. Carlin said he was committed to the race and would announce his candidacy in May. Slattery said that his candidacy was still a possibility.
Hayden is drawing more political fire and bad press than at any other time during his term in office. After his recent cuts in welfare, education and other programs, many Democrats, some Republicans and several newspapers have found cause to criticize the governor.
Before the showdown, Rep. Dan Glickman, one of the politicians invited to the meeting, said that Hayden was more vulnerable than ever.
Face to face with a well-organized Democratic party, Hayden's political demise might be more certain. As it stands, the governor remains a capable opponent.
"Hayden is not a sitting duck," Slattery said.
"He is a $360,000 Goliath. And we all know what happened to Goliath."
Goliath was killed by a well-aimed shot fired by a capable youth named David. What would have happened if one of David's friends had been trying to yank David's slingshot away as Goliath advanced?
Goliath would have squashed such a confused, uncertain David.
Chris Evans for the editorial board
Boston murder
Prejudice sways media, police and public
A imaginary Black man recently became real inside the head of a white man in Boston.
The.white man, Charles Stuart, claimed that he and his pregnant wife were attacked by a Black man in late October 1989.
Stuart created a highly-believable story about how the murder took place. Without a doubt, law enforcement officials immediately began to search for the 'Black murderer that Stuart had described as murdering his wife, harming his unborn child and wounding Stuart in the stomach.
Carol Stuart died, and the baby died a few days after the shooting.
Meanwhile, nearly 1,000 Black men were stopped and frisked in the Mission Hill neighborhood after the murder. Some men reported that they had been stopped as many as three times in one night, as officials continued to search for the imaginary Black attacker that was created in Stuart's sick mind.
Officials did not doubt Stuart's story. But in reality, they should have been questioning Charles Stuart, who later committed suicide after he learned he was the prime suspect in the case.
Officials focused their attention on the Black community in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston where the murder took place. They began to search for a Black man with a raspy voice who Charles Stuart had described as his attacker. Stuart thought this description of his attacker would work for the arrest of a suspect in the murder.
Journalists covering the bizarre murder reported the facts, and the public believed Stuart's story. What is revealed by the press is
supposed to be the truth.
But when Charles Stuart told his false story, the media was too quick to jump on the word "Black."
Officials never discounted that Stuart could have been a suspect in his wife's murder, but they never fully investigated this angle either
After the shocking murder, the Stuarts were pictured in the media in wedding attire. The photos painted a picture of an upper-middle class couple who had everything going for them.
Would the media have paid so much attention to the case if the couple had been poor or Black or even another minority? What if the murderer had been white?
Police focused the investigation in the Mission Hill neighborhood, eager to search for Black males fitting Stuart's description of the murderer.
The Black community in Boston has a right to be upset. Black men were searched until two Black men were arrested on unrelated charges.
Finally, William Bennett, one of the two suspects, was arrested for a sick white man's crime.
When officials received word that Charles Stuart could have murdered his wife, the case shifted from the Black community to the upper-middle class neighborhood where the Stuart's lived.
The Black community in the Mission Hill neighborhood has to pay for Charles Stuart's madness. Maybe the media was too quick to jump on the white man's story of being attacked by a Black man.
Other voices
Jennifer Metz for the editorial board
NCAA tackles drugs, social problems
The Milwaukee Journal on the NCAA convention:
With one important exception, the convention delegates confronted these issues in a wav that will ease such stresses.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association recently held what its executive director aptly called a "convention of the student-athlete." The meeting was dominated not so much by debate about the rules of sport as by concern about the intense and often competing social pressures that are put upon student-athletes and the schools they attend.
That single exception was the NCAA's adoption of Proposition 26, which significantly undercut a controversial measure the NCAA enacted last year to encourage scholastic achievement. That measure, called Proposition 42, denied athletic scholarships to incoming freshmen who failed to meet basic academic requirements while in high school. Proposition 42 had sent a much-needed message to these young people: If you want an athletic scholarship for college, start bitting the books now.
Proposition 26 does not repeal Proposition 42's restriction on athletic scholarships, but it does allow universities to grant aid based on financial need to freshmen athletes who fail to catch the mustard in their high school classrooms. In short, the NCAA created a giant loophole in Proposition 42. At some schools, the new measure might also mean less scholarship money for poor but academically motivated students who are not athletes.
The mere fact that academies, drugs and other social issues dominated the NCAA agenda shows that the major universities are aware of the problems they face. However imperfectly, the NCAA has begun to confront that new challenge and opportunity.
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Lip print collection shows personality
Lots of people collect autographs. It's a fairly common hobby, seeking the signatures of famous men and women.
Jilly Eddy, of Walnut Creek, Calif., has a similar, but quite different, hobby. Eddy collects lip prints.
"Lip prints are just what they sound like," said Eddy, who sells appliances for Sears. "They're prints of people's lips." Lip prints, she said, also are referred to as lipographs.
Eddy, 44, said that she had been collecting lip prints for almost 10 years. "I keep them in a lip print book," she said. "It's pretty much like an autograph book, except it's filled with people's lip prints."
On each page of her lip print book is the lip print of a different person. "A lip print is much more personal than an autograph." Eddy said. "People sign their names lots of times. They sign checks an stuff every day. They don't even think about it. A lip print, though, is special. You have to press your lips against a piece of paper. And each lip print is as individual as a fingerprint. No two lip prints are the same. But a lip print is much more sensuous than a fingerprint."
In order to give Eddy a lip print, a person must first put lipstick on his or her mouth (more about that in a
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moment). Then there is a certain technique... well, let's have Eddy explain it herself;
"You put the lipstick on. You keep your mouth open just a bit when you're pressing it onto the paper. While you do it, you should pretend that you're kissing someone you really like — pretend that you're giving that person a good kiss. Without any tongue, though, that leaves a smudge."
The results, she said, are beautiful:
"I like lip prints from a person who has nice, full lips — lips that have a nice shape to them. The best kind of upper lip, I think, has a bowed shape, and the bottom is just plain. The best lower lips are just a little fuller than the upper lip."
She claims she can tell something about a person just by his or her lip print:
"I have found that a person with full lips usually likes to talk a lot. People whose lip prints are full are
gabbers. People with thin lips tend to be more conservative."
Eddy collects lip prints from both men and women. This sometimes presents a problem. As we have noted, to give a lip print, a person must put on lipstick.
"Women tend to love the idea," Eddy said. "They really get into doing this. I tell them to put on a really bright red lipstick. Most women wear peach lipstick or pink lipstick. But for a lip print to look good, I tell the women to put on the kind of lipstick that Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield used to wear.
"Some men are willing to put lipstick on if they know it's for the purpose of a lip print. The others, though, I tell to kiss a woman who's wearing a lot of lipstick, and then to put their lip prints in my book while I'm drinking. So, you need lipstick. It's pretty easy: A man kisses a woman, then be kisses my book."
Interestingly, this man-kisses-a woman-then-kisses-the-book technique was first tried out on a rather well-known man: Johnny Cash.
"I was living in Bellingham, Wash, at the time, and I was driving a limoweing for a living." Eddy said. "I was driving Johnny Cash when he was in town, and I picked him up at the Holiday Inn. He was with his
manager and his lead guitarist. He signed his autograph for me, and I told him that I would rather have his lip print.
"He didn't say anything for a second, and then in this deep, deep voice he said: 'I don't wear lipstick.' So I said to him, 'Well, what you can do is kiss someone who does wear lipstick, and then kiss my book.' He said, 'Well, OK,' and he gave me a big kiss and then he kissed my lip print book.
And no, Eddy said, there is absolutely no way to tell from a person's lip print whether that person is a good kisser.
"Unfortunately, I was wearing this very expensive Estee Lauder non-smudge lipstick that day, and because it was non-smudge, not all that much of it got on Johnny Cash's lips, so his lip print in my book is sort of faint."
One of the nice things about collecting lip prints, Eddy said, is that, unlike autographs, a lip print from a non-celebrity can be as good as a lip print from a celebrity. With an autograph, it's how famous the person is; with a lip print, it's how good the person's lips are.
▶ Bob Greene is a columnist for the Chicago Tribune.
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