OPINION
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, September 21, 1993
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Kansan must advocate prevention of violence
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
This letter is in response to Scott Gillaspie's column in the Sept. 17 Kansan.
Obviously doing background research for a column is foreign to you. You just hear something on the radio and think you mastered the topic. I would lecture you about professionalism, but more importantly, you aren't writing just a class paper here.
You gave credibility to a system that allows the abuse of women. One in three women will be sexually assaulted in her lifetime. Odds are that it will be by the hands of someone she knows. Fifty percent of all women are or will be abused in their own homes. Obviously not all of them are killing their husbands, so we can assume there is a pretty severe situation in cases where the women kill. If they do kill their husbands during abuse, women are twice as likely to be convicted and serve a life sentence than their husbands are.
Instead of blaming the victim, you should be using the power of the
press to advocate better funding of abuse shelters, stronger domestic abuse laws, and better public awareness. Meanwhile, keep in mind that the main reason women go to hospital emergency rooms in this country is domestic abuse. Michele Kumm Leawed junior
Sixteen lines added to computer access
In the "Letters to the Editor" column on Sept. 16, titled "Access to Computers Increased by Phones," there were two errors of fact which should be corrected. The number of dial lines for computer access has been increased this fall from 32 to 48, an increase of 50 percent. User authorization is required for accessing the 16 new lines, but there is no charge for the service for faculty, staff or students. Users may sign up for the service at the system access office in the southwest corner of the main floor of the computer center, Monday-Friday.
Jerry Niebaum Director of Academic Computing Services
Stations to blame for lapse in service
I must disagree with the Kansan editorial board's opinion (Sept. 16) that subscribers are guaranteed that Sunflower Cablevision will carry the Kansas City ABC and Fox affiliates and that if they stop doing it everyone should rise up and protest against the cable company.
Because of the money demanded by two of the many stations Sunflower carries, the company is faced with the possibility of having to eliminate two stations. Other stations have agreed not to charge Sunflower Cablevision for their feed. These two Kansas City stations have not yet seen the wisdom of that. Considering that those stations are dependent upon advertising revenue, one would think their advertisers would begin to demand that their rates on these two stations drop with the loss their viewing audience.
Rather than encouraging people to protest Sunflower Cable's proposed action by way of letters or petitions, the Kansan editorial board should be suggesting that people contact KSHB and KMBC protesting their
decision. Let the stations be the ones cutting off their noses to spite their faces, don't suggest that subscribers do so by disconnecting their cable.
Kendall Simmons
Watson Library staff member
Kansan hypocritical on recycling issue
An article on the back page of the Sept. 14 Kansan suggests the terrible wastes developed by "junk" mail. The article makes a tip of getting students' names off these "junk" mailing lists to avoid environmental destruction.
I find it interesting that the same issue of the *Kansan* included an elaborate advertisement for Ralph Lauren. I saw piles of them in the trash.
Perhaps the Kansan staff should get together and determine what "junk" really is.
What right do we have to tell the corporate world to cut waste when we waste so much ourselves? I guess it's hard to set an example when the checks are so big, eh?
**Roy Schmidt**
**Tulsa senior**
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