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- Long-term plan suggests toll lanes on K-10 corridor May 23, 2013 · 3 comments
- Republican tax plans would increase state revenue, analyses say May 22, 2013 · 37 comments
- Blog: Plans filed for restaurant/retail on South Iowa site once proposed for Olive Garden May 23, 2013 · 23 comments
- Editorial: Guns, speech May 23, 2013 · 16 comments
- Opinion: Why gay role models matter May 23, 2013 · 22 comments
- Weekday graduations get mixed reviews from parents and families May 22, 2013 · 22 comments
- City commissioner wants review of city's storm shelter policies in wake of Oklahoma tornado May 22, 2013 · 23 comments
- City commissioner wants state to revoke nightclub's liquor license May 21, 2013 · 84 comments
- Blog: GOP tax plans would increase taxes on low-wage Kansans, decrease taxes for high-income Kansans, report says May 23, 2013 · 14 comments
- Local Board of Realtors collecting items today for tornado survivors in Oklahoma City area May 23, 2013 · 8 comments
- Kobler to lead shift toward 'technology-rich' classrooms May 23, 2013
- Former Lawrence resident Sri Srinivasan confirmed for prestigious D.C. Court of Appeals May 23, 2013
- No consensus on McLemore's draft position after lottery May 23, 2013
- Off the Beaten Plate: Black Forest Crepe at A.B.'s May 23, 2013
- Two men face charges in Sunday morning shooting May 22, 2013
- 100 years ago: 'The vulturous Kaw triumped' over Billie Bob Atkinson May 23, 2013
- Hillcrest teacher honored with annual 'Bobs' Award' May 22, 2013
- House Republican leaders propose 1.5 percent cut to higher education for each of next two fiscal years May 21, 2013
- Free State students and parents share emotions at graduation May 22, 2013
- Letter: Serious issue May 21, 2013
Opinion: Campuses seek to abolish annoyances
Leave it to KU's enlightened and ethical administrators to assume racial harassment is at issue when an Asian woman terrorizes a random Caucasian one on campus for discriminatory reasons. You can forget any legally mandated minimal due process (hearing!!) at a backwoods school like KU too.
The HR will proceed to contact your boss with a knowingly false and hate-filled allegation-- including invented witnesses-- and place an accusatory letter in a worker's file with zero due process. Meanwhile the type of street harassment the misguided student who started the problem is engaging in is almost celebrated by ignorant lower Midwestern and Southern cultures who don't seem to always distinguish between "good manners "and treating certain groups of society as second-class citizens. It's incredibly bad-faith for an incompetent "investigator" to play the race card in a knowingly dishonest and defamatory way. That's apparently how the top- quality staff and lawyers do things at KU, however. It's the stuff hillybilly reputations are made of!
December 3, 2012 at 10:29 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Letter: Happy gesture
Everyone does not have the same story. Publishing these types of accounts might seem heartwarming, but it also encourages copycats, and the truth is that many if not the majority of stranger-on-stranger encounters are far from pleasant. Not everyone interprets being approached by strangers as an expression of good will. In this day and age it's often a threat.
No one but the devil deserves to be the object of prejudice in the guise of good manners that is so widely accepted in KS. It's nice for those behaving like this to believe they are "helping," but good intentions without good judgment and a measure of competence often lead straight to heck. How many times is Lawrence, KS noted on the national street harassment map? It may not be a badge of honor.
October 22, 2012 at 5:20 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Letter: Happy gesture
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October 22, 2012 at 3:54 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Letter: Happy gesture
Everyone deserves to feel safe on the streets. Those who regard it as socially acceptable to approach and aggress on unarmed strangers make this unlikely, especially since the issue often involves youngsters, women, the elderly and those perceived to have physical limitations-- in a word, it's often nothing but offensive bigotry. It's wrong for Kansas, MO and Southern-like ignorant parents to raise their kids to approach strangers on the street with a mindless, scripted, insulting question like, "Need help?" People like this might as well be robots. They must have a fricking, one-size-fits all chip in their heads that causes them to react the same way in every situation. Sure does obviously make them feel entitled and self-important to get up in people's business and terrorize strangers though.
It takes brains and understanding to contribute to the world. Anyone who lacks the intellectual capacity to question the political and safety implications of singling out strangers on the street for unwanted attention belongs in the Kansas hall of prejudice. Based on casual observation of this culture of busybodies it does seem like a pretty long and roomy hall though likely still not as crowded as US prisons. Please help stop street harassment!
October 22, 2012 at 3:52 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Column: Romney pulls off a tactical coup
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October 7, 2012 at 8:43 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Editorial: Clear victor
It's easy to win using the typical Republican tactic of bald-faced, power-abusing lies! Obama came off as far more honest if less glib and deceptive.
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October 7, 2012 at 4:40 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Column: Outdated attitudes revealed
Talk about outdated, paternalistic attitudes! They are way too prevalent in Lawrence, KS for my taste. Think whatever bigoted way you want, but no one has the right to harass and terrorize complete strangers by aggressively getting up in their business with their backward attitudes. People who behave in this way and feel entitled to extort gratitude from complete strangers need a lot of help with their brains. I'm a patient, generous, and open-minded person, but even nice people have their limits. I can't believe that the amazingly backward people who so aggressively stuck their prejudiced noses up in my business in Lawrence still exist in the 21st century world. Sons of bigots, for sure. No thanks. We do not belong in each other's stories.
October 7, 2012 at 4:22 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Federal suit against KU dismissed
* It does not require an idealist to wish for a more competent, honest and decent human being as an HR Director than Ola Faucher.
October 6, 2012 at 5:14 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Federal suit against KU dismissed
It does not require an idealist to widh for a more competent, honest and decent human being as an HR Director than Ola Faucher.
October 6, 2012 at 5:14 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Editorial: Justice, peace
It's very disappointing that both the President of Columbia and the LJWorld seem to equate "justice" with punishment. Anyone who sees justice in such punitive terms needs to rethink their values and stop pointing fingers of blame. This type of social values gives white-collar criminals the upper hand and invites Orwellian "black is white, wrong is right" kinds of thinking It's usually the accusatory, vindictive people who sadistically enjoy watching others get punished who are more at fault than others in situations of conflict and injustice--a big reason why places like Kansas carry such a bad name for stooping to southern-justice, dishonest tactics.
September 26, 2012 at 1:17 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )