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Monday, February 13, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Opinion
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Women's basketball excels deserves equal recognition
Kansas the ultimate basketball machine? Well, almost. The men's team and women's team at KU parallel each other in many ways.
Both have had two of the greatest impact players in their sport. Danny Manning and Lymette Woodward, respectively.
Both have excelled recently in the NCAA and Big Eight tournaments. Both have consistently played well against nationally ranked teams.
provide enthusiastic support So why don't the programs stand on equal footing on "memoirs"?
And each has a separate band and cheerleading squad that provide enthusiastic support.
Maybe it's because only a miniscule percentage of students ever see the women's team play, while thousands pack Allen Field House several times a year to see the men play.
That lack of support is not fair to the coaching staff or players of the women's program, who work as hard as the men's program and play with as much determination.
men's program. Obviously, national television and big-time sponsors don't con-
tinue to offer men's basketball programs like they do men's teams.
But that is no excuse for KU students and alumni not to offer
equal support by packing the field house.
Everybody wants to see a successful program that represents KU well, but it takes as much effort on the part of students and alumni as it does on the players and coaches.
Especially on Saturday when the women's and men's team play back to back, it shouldn't be too difficult for students to stay an extra two hours and cheer on the women's team, or for Kansas City and Lawrence residents to come to the field house two hours early or stay two hours after a men's game to show support for the women.
Both programs at KU are successful and have built the foundations to excel in the future. But without fan support, both programs' chances for success are in jeopardy.
Obviously, the men's program feels a little more secure about its future right now.
Mark Tilford for the editorial board
New South African leader must try to end apartheid
With the resignation of South African President P.W. Botha, that country is in a position to reform and offer change to its people and the world.
However, Botha's replacement, F.W. de Klek, does not show many signs of improving South Africa's oppressive state.
Botha has propagated apartheid, trying to appease both white conservatives and blacks. His inaction and submissiveness have catered to the Conservative Party's goal of racial separation and white domination. The situation worsened as Botha attempted to pacify all groups.
De Klerk, who is a member of the more moderate National Party, must tear down the walls between the Conservative Party and the outlawed African National Congress.
Party and the outdated halls. The Conservative Party in many cities recently voted to exclude non-whites from such public places as swimming pools, tennis courts and town halles. It is up to de Klerk to undo similar past mistakes; now is the time to stop the country's inhumane practices.
military praise that he was committed to permitting blacks to participate in local and regional governments. But changes need to be made at the national level. And talk is cheap. Meeting with the African National Congress is essential. Black leaders must be able to voice their opinions, and their voices must be heard and heeded.
must be heard and is important.
Apartheid is not a black problem. It is a matter of human rights; it affects all of us. The United States must politically and economically support the abolition of apartheid.
The University of Kansas can do its part, too. It must divest from all companies in South Africa, not only those that violate the Sullivan guidelines. Those guidelines state that U.S. companies in South Africa must integrate their operations, provide equal and fair pay and institute fair employment practices.
Apartheid is our problem. De Klerk must start to solve it.
Grace Hobson for the editorial board
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Some helpful facts about the cold The freezing point of oil,the feel of icy flesh and other truisms
I've been watching a lot of weather reports lately. Sure, that sounds boring, but what are you supposed to do when it's cold enough outside to make an Eskimo Pie seem like a hot meal — work on
an Eskimo Pie seem like a hot meal -
your tan?
Not that I'm complaining, although many people do "it's been cold for a week now!" they exclaim. This surprises them? Hey kids, the name of the University is spelled K-A-N-S-A-S, not F-L-O-R-I-D-A-T-A-T-E.
no PI.PL people continue to be amazed by the cold. The media especially are fascinated. Thanks to satellite technology and dedicated television journalists with Live MiniActionNewsCams, we can watch report after report about just how cold it is out there.
Actually, I have seen a few educational tibbits about cold in the news. A number of reports have answered the Carsonesque question, "How cold was it?" by saying what happens at such extreme temperatures. For example, the reports said that at the temperatures reached in Alaska, colder than 70 degrees below zero, exposed skin freezes in seconds and motor oil becomes like thick jelly.
takes jelly.
Reports such as this intrigued me, so I did a little research and compiled a whole list of such facts about the cold. Some you probably know, but some are pretty amazing. Did you know, for example, that:
EXAMPLE TRUE:
At 32 degrees Fahrenheit, water freezes.
At 30 degrees, a 10-mph wind feels like 16
degrees on exposed flesh.
At 27 degrees, your roommate walks into your comfortably heated room and says, "Gosh, it's stuffy in here. Can we open a window?"
At 25 degrees, a 10-mph breeze feels like 10
Michael
Merschel
Staff columnist
legrees on your exposed flesh.
Ten degrees feels absolutely balmy compared with the look your girlfriend gives you when you forget about your date and go out drinking instead.
Instead.
At 7 degrees, your roommate says, "Gosh, you have the heat turned all the way up to 65? We can't afford that!" and turns off the heater.
At 5 degrees, a 10-mph wind feels so cold, you could care less about the stupid wind-chill factor
could care less about the stupho what-ffm factored. At 3 degrees, you start to think that puffy wool cap Aunt Martha knitted for you won't mess up your hair that much after all.
At 0 degrees, you decide the polka-dot scarf she made doesn't clash with your striped winter coat, either.
At 3 degrees below zero, you discover that your roommate has borrowed the hat and scarf Aunt Martha knitted for you.
MATH:
A 10 degrees below zero, motor oil turns thick and jelly-like. Actually, motor oil is fine at 10 below, but this is what you will tell your boss instead of, "It was too cold to come to work."
At 15 degrees below zero, you'll go to work anyway because even though it's boring, at least it
it's a hard job to keep at 20 degrees below zero, a 200-mph wind will rip most thermometers right off the wall. It does the same at 70 degrees, and it doesn't feel much
better.
better.
At 27 degrees below zero, you think they might have canceled your night class, but you decide to go anyway.
Too bad: You were the only one stupid enough to go out, and they canceled the class way back at 20 degrees below zero.
At 27 degrees below zero, you're too cold to care.
At 34 degrees below zero, you decide to build a nice, cozy fire in the living room, despite the fact that you don't have a fireplace.
you don't have a roommate.
At 37 below zero, your roommate says, "I hope you don't mind, but I used all the hot water again."
At 37 below zero, you also decide that no jury would ever convict you, and besides, they'll never find your roommate's body in all that snow. But you realize that to throw her body in a snowbank, you'd have to go outside. You nail her in her bedroom instead and turn the thermostat up to 90, promising to let her out in May.
At 52 degrees below zero, the morning news programs stop talking to scientists who are experts about the Greenhouse Effect and start talking to experts about the New Ice Age.
At 55 degrees below zero, you turn off the TV, pull the blanket over your head, and decide you'll come out when it's time to release your roommate.
matter.
Coming soon: amazing findings about the heat index. I'm sure we'll all be complaining about it in no time.
Michael Merschel in a Lakewood, Colo., senior majoring in journalism.
Convoluted contract
Dick Liesey's Feb. 6 column, "Bill would cut aid, alter social contract," presents as a welcome step forward Sam Nunn's bill to eliminate financial aid and establish a "voluntary" national service program. The proposed legislation would make federal student financial aid available only upon completion of a tour of duty.
George Mitchell, Senate majority leader, argues that the bill is "an effort to redefine the social contract between Americans and the government." Let's hope it fails. The deceit encompassed in Numi's bill should be clear to any American (other than a legislator) who understands what a republic means: Our "social contract" is among individuals, whose liberty is based upon the remarkable principle that they do not have to "contract" with the government. Government is the agent of the people, not the reverse.
It the policy intent to subsidize post-secondary education still remains, why offer this convoluted scheme to accomplish the same objective? Lipsey alludes to one reason: The new-age draft will mold better citizens from the selfish, egotistical children of the 1980s. I've a better solution: Let's draft our congressmen and put them to work peeling the military's potatoes. And, with time away from Congress, inane legislation won't get passed; the profits reaped by citizens could be applied to taking care of their own educational needs.
associate professor of business
Stewards of the land
On Sunday, Jan. 29, we reflected on our Kansas heritage and our 128 years. Because agriculture is still the number one industry in the world, the United States, Kansas and Douglas County and does the most to boost our gross national product, we congratulate the Douglas National conservation award winners of 1988. It was with pleasure that the patrons of the Lawrence Journal-World read the special
conservation section of the Jan. 19 paper. These award-winning individuals personify what it means to be good stewards of the land
When government officials vote to rezone agricultural lands to a more intensive use, serious thought must be given to their actions beforehand. Our elected officials need to be good stewards of the land. Agricultural land should not be considered the least important category of the zoning classifications. Such land should not be seep as land inherently ripe for commercial development. Rather, its use should be the one most compatible with enhancing the environment and maintaining open spaces.
A special "bats off" goes to Harold and Margaret Gabriel, the tree conservation award-winners, for furthering our valuable natural resources. Their wind-break lessons the erosion of soil, build up the moisture reserve, absorbs toxins from the air, and returns oxygen to the ground. The Gabriels are enrichers. God bless and help us to enrich our goals of conservation and preservation. We want to be good caretakers of the earth.
Kristi Lewis Lawrence resident
BLOOM COUNTY
by Berke Breathed