The Westport merchants only ask for a chance to operate businesses. The liberated youths surely have no use for reading. They are already adept at petty theft, assault, harassment, illegal use of drugs and alcohol and other skills preparing them for the futures the leaders of their community have in mind for them: inmates of prisons, spouse abusers and early guests of the medical examiner's office.
Absolutely brilliant.
Tad DeOrio
Kansas City, Missouri
Please, Mr. Phelps, go to New York! First, Kansas doesn't want you -- you're an embarrassment. Second, unlike the pickup drivers in Topeka, the cab drivers of New York will NOT miss.
You epitomize the face of evil in the name of your God. Notice I utilize "mister" rather than "reverend" when I address you. Your use of the term "reverend" is so abhorrent I cannot bring myself to use it in conjunction with your name. It is truly a shame that the God you worship is incapable of delivering his own "justice" in your eyes without the use of a plane piloted by terrorists.
Maybe you should switch to an all-powerful benevolent entity rather than the vindictive weakling you currently worship -- and ARE!
Barbara Spangler
Kansas City, Missouri
As one who has lived as an outsider by choice through the blueprint era, I can attest to the "Us and Them" mentality emitted by the "insiders." That attitude doesn't bother me nearly as badly as does being branded a terrorist because I do not choose to participate in, and have differing opinions about, "the cause." We live in a democracy. We have the right to our differing opinions without the fear of persecution. Perhaps the chancellor is the terrorist in this situation. Isn't brainwashing a component of terrorism?
Our governing process at the university is actually called the blueprint process. If anything, no matter how large or minute, does not pass through this elite governing body it is not now, or never will be, a topic for discussion or action.
I agree the university could benefit by changing the methods in which it conducts itself, but the blueprint process, under the auspice of leadership by Martha Gilliland and Gordon Starr, is not the way. It is a waste of precious time, money, energy and resources.
Thank you, Mr. Blackwood, for stating the facts so clearly and enlightening all of us to what lurks beneath.
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Kansas City, Missouri
Gilliland should pay attention to what happened at the University of Hawaii this past year. They went on strike -- and they won. I fear, however, that demands for fair pay will make my colleagues and me only look like the "academic terrorists" Blackwood reports that she has written about and that she either believes in ignoring or eliminating -- despite the fact that she has said we do "a tremendous job." If those of us who are so poorly paid did go on strike, we could shut the university down. Now there's a "breakthrough" that would mess up her nice blueprint.
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Kansas City, Missouri
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