OP-ED
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, October 12, 1993
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Ordinary humans don't kill embryos
In response to the pro-life cartoon "Logic" by Brian Thompson in the Oct. 6 Kansas: Does an ordinary oak tree ever kill an acorn? Is any ordinary chicken ever kill an egg? It's not an ordinary-natured human who kills a fertilized human ovum — an embryo who is inherently biologically alive at the origin of each and every human development, an embryo who is exclusively human, and a unique, individual, living genotype in each and every human, which is the same at conception as at death. The same biologic life, or being, the same exclusive human kindness, the same uniqueness of individuality — this is elementary a person. Abortion by choice is a human unkindness to our humankind. It is a transgression of
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
the spirit of the law, and it damages personal and national destinies and the harmony of the Earth.
Lawrence Eugene Smith
Lawrence resident
Air Jordan thanked for superstar years
As the man, the myth, the legend, Michael Jeffrey Jordan, hung up his Nikes with the announcement of his retirement Wednesday morning, one must thank him for the nine years of pure excitement he gave the NBA, the fans and the world.
You were the biggest one-man show ever to take the court, from your first high-flying, death- defying slam dunks in your 1985 Rookie of the Year season to the 69-point performance against Cleveland in 1990. Thank you for entertaining the world with your seven consecutive scoring
titles and being an All-Star every year you were in the league. Thank you for helping the U.S. Olympic Team capture two gold medals in '84 and '92. You have three regular season MVP titles, the NBA Final MVP titles, and most impressively, you did something Magic Johnson and Larry Bird could not. You led your team to three consecutive World Championships. Thank you for the trash talking with the New York Knicks and the Detroit Pistons. Thank you for dunking over seven-footers and making it look easy. The future players of the NBA will never be as great as you were, even in their midnight dreams.
"if five years down the road I get the urge and the Bulls and David Stern invite me back, maybe I'll come back." Michael, please follow your heart and "Just Do It!"
Northbrook, Ill. sophomore
Whining white males should face realities
I am writing to respond to Scott Gillaspie's editorial about political correctness and white males. I understand that his column was meant as a joke, but it touched some raw nerves because, even though I am a white male, I am sick and tired of hearing white men complain.
About Gillaspie list: First, there is racism. In order to be very successful at being racist, you've got to have one thing and that's power. In America, the group with the most power has been and is white men. I do not consider myself a racist, but, to the extent that I benefit from the uneven playing field of American society.
skewed toward men. Also, Gillasipa complains of being called a rapist. I'm not a rapist either, but I do see the point that many of the attitudes implicit in our culture's image of women encourage rape.
Second was sexism. I try not to be sexist, but I'd a fool not to see how I benefit from the ways our culture is
Anti-Semitism and homophobia are both deplorable, as are all forms of prejudice, but I have never heard anyone claim that only men are homophobic or anti-Semitic.
When I was born in 1971, the world was already prejudiced. That is not my fault. It helps no one to feel guilty for things you didn't do, but I don't think that most critics of white men want that. I think they want us to listen rather than lashing back at their criticism, and to work to make our society more just, rather than doing nothing as our skewed culture make our lives easier and other people's lives harder.
Jay Van Buren
Topeka senior
Students not Kansan are guilty of littering
As much as I may despise the Kansan for promoting the screaming of victimization, I must come to its defense on one letter that I read in last Wednesday's paper. Ken Krauss wrote that the Kansan should do away with the advertising inserts.
Krauss says "[a] large amount of money is spent paying people to pick up the messa..." What Mr. Krauss does not realize is that people, not the paper, drop the supplements around campus.
Let's try appealing to the people around us to get the garbage off the ground rather than telling the garbage to pick up itself.
Atchison junior
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