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Friday, November 17, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Opinion
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Hayden must take a stand on abortion for re-election
Gov. Mike Hayden has staked out an almost untenable position in the firestorm of the abortion debate.
Last week, Hayden he would call for laws requiring parental consent for abortions for girls younger than 16. He also plans to restrict abortions for women after the 22nd week of pregnancy. Abortions after that time would be allowed only in cases of rape, incest, the endangerment of the mother's life or a malformed fetus.
Hayden's proposals are unlikely to satisfy either side in the debate. Although the restrictions are not as stringent as those being discussed in other states, they chip away at the idea of a woman's right to choose.
Anti-abortion activists criticize Hayden for not outlawing abortions altogether, although they welcome the parental consent as a first step to ending abortions.
Pro-choice advocates were less happy with Hayden's announcements. They say the consent requirement will send girls to illegal abortion clinics, not their parents.
girls to megab abortion clinics; for instance, Hayden is being forced to walk a tightrope on the issue, and he quickly will lose his balance. There is no politically safe position that will satisfy one side or the other. Although polls show that the public leans heavily toward the pro-choice position, anti-abortion advocates are the most vocal and well-organized. This places Hayden in the uncomfortable position of choosing between what the public prefers or what can get him re-elected. Without a doubt, the anti-abortion forces can mobilize voters and resources to put pressure on Hayden and state lawmakers to restrict abortion.
Consequently, Hayden has tried to satisfy both sides. He will not be able to do so for long. Hayden eventually will have to listen to one side or the other and either give women the right to choose or further restrict abortions.
Daniel Niemi for the editorial board
Drug prevention program is good way to fight abuse
Hooray for the Lawrence School Board
Hoody for the Law Enforcement Earlier this week the board decided, amid controversy and numerous objections, to implement a drug prevention program at South Junior High School. The program, called "Skills for Adolescence," is a comprehensive approach to tackling such "real-life" problems as drug abuse. Other units in the program include building self-confidence, peer support versus peer pressure and decision making.
The program will be introduced next semester to a group of 100 students. These students will be compared to a control group, and the results will be reported to the board for review in July.
in this. This is a positive first step in attacking the growing problem of drug abuse among the young in Lawrence. Unfortunately, the program sparked criticism by parents because of its humanistic approach to problem solving.
humaneistic approach to problem Many of the program's units encourage students to tackle problems through group counseling and support. Some parents feared that this would undermine familial and religious influences in the child's life and encourage students to question the values instilled by their parents.
the values instilled by their parents. These fears are understandable. No one wants the school system to interfere with family values. However, the need for action is too great to rely on those influences alone. We need programs in the schools to supplement them, and we need them now.
besides supplementing strong parental values, "Skills for Adolescence" will also fill a void for the child who doesn't have a strong family life or religious commitment. (Believe it or not, there are some students in Lawrence whose parents might not bother to teach them any values at all. It happens.) Without a program like this, where would those kids learn the skills necessary for making healthy, positive decisions?
Drug abuse is as much a societal problem as it as a family one, and the public school system has a responsibility to help in the fight. Members of the Lawrence School Board should be congratulated and encouraged. They're on the right track.
Craig Welch for the editorial board
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Waiters just trying to earn a living
Julio Iglesias warbles Spanish melodies from the speakers throughout the Mexican restaurant. The hostess smiles as a blue-collar couple walk through the front doors. The husband, hair greased back and belly protruding over jeans, grunts as the hostess asks, "Two for dinner?" Taking this as a yes, she leads the man and his scowling, workworn wife into the dining room.
from where I migrify by the bus tubs, I see that the hostess is sitting them in my station. I adjust my polyester curacara uniform, grab a tray and a basket of chips, summon a fake smile and head into the dining room. Here we go again.
I approach Table Two "Will you please bring me another margarita?" Yuppie Businessman
A typical scene in what is known as the family restaurant. Some details are different, such as the Spanish music and the chips, but whether the cuisine is Mexican, Oriental, American or Greek, they all require waiters and waitresses. And waiters and waitresses, especially in family restaurants, work hard and need a lot of patience, a great memory and a sense of humor.
Usually, I have a four-table station. I make my rounds about every five minutes to make sure that everyone's satisfied. I approach Table One. Junior shoves an empty chip basket at me and demands, "More chips," as chips shoot from his mouth onto the table. I smile, masking my disgust, and assure Junior's parents that I'll be back with more chips right away.
Kris Keller
Guest columnist
asks politely. He looks across the table at his wife, Yuppie Lawyer. Her glass is half full. "Bring her another one, too."
"No, really . . . " Yuppie Lawyer protests, holding up her hand.
"Come on, hon."
"Well, OK . . . wait — make it a white wine." Yuppie Businessman and Yuppie Lawyer look up at me, proud of themselves, their success and their marriage.
"Come on, non.
"Well, OK. . . wait — make it a white wine."
I head toward Table Three, thinking again and again to myself, "Chips, margarita, white wine
again to myself, "Chips, margarita, white whisk ... chips, margarita, white wine." It seems that Table Three has a complaint. Grandpa's burrito is cold inside; besides that, he ordered no onions, and the green things on top clearly are onions. I take the offending burrito and head back to the kitchen, ignoring Table Four's frantic gestures. After all, one can only keep track of so much information.
Back in the kitehen. I can rant and rave to my heart's content. After raving like a woman possessed, I blankly look at the half-eaten burrito on my tray. I see the onions - my memory is triggered. I inform the cook that the green things
on top clearly are onions. "Remove them, por favor." I demand, using my high school Spanish, to lighten the tension in the kitchen. After ordering another margarita and white wine from the bartender and refilling the chip basket, I go back into the dining room to pacify Table Four.
Berlin.
At the rate the wails are coming down, European soon will want to know what communism is. The wave of the future is fast becoming an eddy of the past. To see what communism was like, the curious will have to follow Richard Nixon to Beijing — quick, while Deng Xioaping, 65, still dies and breathes. Even Todor Zhikov, Bulgaria's commissar since 1954, has resigned, refuting the popular suspicion that he had been stuffed sometime in the 1970s. Every day the Berlin Wall is being undermined, bypassed and gaping holes are cut in its sides for people to pass through. That makes it the perfect symbol of a crumbling communism.
Just what Adlai Stevenson prophesied in the most eloquent presidential campaign many of us can remember now has come to pass. "My friends," he told us back in 1952, "the building of free-world strength does more than just restrain Soviet aggression. Its effect is to make the free world itself, both because of its freedom and because of its strength, a potent counter-attraction to Soviet power. And the emergence of this world, united, powerful, friendly and free, will exert an ever-increasing influence on the captive states within the Soviet empire." Until the walls come
It's universal. Every waist and waitress feels a common bond, a kind of us-against-the philosophy. And who are "they"? They are the yuppies, the well-to-do, and the belligerent adolescents. In short, they are the customers and the customers are always right.
I'll admit that spending three summers and holiday breaks bowing and scraping for tips has given me a chip on my shoulder. I'm not saying that the customer should not expect the best service from a waitress or waiter, but a customer should be ready to give the waitperson the gratuity he or she has earned. Part of the reason that I have such a poor attitude toward customers is that most of them did not leave the standard tip, which is 15 to 20 percent of the check, according to the 1989-1990 copy of Frommer's Dollarwise USA by Edouard de Blayne.
The most apropos quote on the dramatic news out of Berlin comes from 1963. That's when John F. Kennedy said, "There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or who say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and the communist world. Let them come to Berlin. There are some who say that communism is the wave of the future. Let them come to Berlin!"
I think we all enjoy eating out where someone else does the cooking, serving and cleaning. My advice, and perhaps my plea, is for diners to treat their waitperson as a person who is there to make you happy and to earn a living.
> Kria Keller is an Overland Park senior majoring in magazine journalism.
Berlin Wall, communism crumble
Paul Greenberg
Syndicated columnist
The scenes in Berlin are those of the best kind of victory celebration, one that didn't require a war NATO has triumphed without firing a shot. It has done exactly what it was designed to do: deter war and much more. It has assured victory and containment has worked even better than its author, George Kemnan, anticipated. A strong and united defense has allowed the economic and political attractions of freedom to slowly, peacefully pull the East apart.
Nothing, not even defeat, may disorganize a force like victory. That is the challenge facing NATO now. At last the question posed in all those unread editors of the past four decades ("Wither NATO?") becomes interesting. The fear of communism was NATO's reason for existence. And what happens if communism fades? The answer is that the fear of it should not fade.
answer is that the fate of newly reborn mittelgebraeu does not lie in Berlin, Prague or Budapest so much as in Moscow. Should the latest Russian revolution, the one under Mikhail Gorbachev, prove only a false hope, all this euphoria could vanish in a moment. The Iron Curtain, rusty as it is, could come crashing down again with the snap of a tyrant's hand.
tumbling down. And now they are
finger, particularly if NATO is allowed to deterate. The Western alliance will need to be more flexible, more adaptable and stronger than ever. It will have to change, not disappear. Like any military officer off duty, the alliance may want to travel in multi, but it must remain on call.
The worst thing the West could do at this propitious hour would be to pretend that there is no more need for its military strength. Of course the Soviets would love a straight swap: their crumbling, unreliable, distressed and essentially useless Warsaw Pact for our free, united and strong NATO. The Western alliance may have its own differences, but they are tactical, not essential.
Only Western weakness might give the Soviets reason to reassert their control in Eastern Europe. That is why the biggest mistake the West could make would be to disarm. The threat to the emerging peace comes not only from some dramatic reversal of course in Moscow but from the same old forces in Washington who would cut back on everything from Star Wars to Trident submarines. Just as U.S. strength is gaining the victory, there are those who would undercut it.
Whatever the treaties say, a dictatorship can rearm much more quickly—and secretly—than a democracy. It has happened twice before in this century: When Europe seemed to grow peaceful, an historically amnesiac United States has disarmed and lost interest.
The best response to current and happy events is a calm and watchful jubilation, not a complete loss of memory.
- Paul Greenberg is editorial page editor for the Pine Bluff (Ark.) Commercial.
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