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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5. 2005
Dr. Stanley Lombardo Director of the Honors Program
Stanley Lombardo is a professor of classics at the University of Kansas. Lombardo teaches Greek and Latin, as well as classes on mythology, literature and culture of ancient Greece. He is well known both on and off campus for his translation of Homer's epic tale "The Iliad."
What inspired you to translate classic works such as "The Iliad" and "The Aeneid?"
When I was in college I wanted to be a poet and I began the study of Greek and Latin so I could read the poets. Literary translation was a natural step. Translating authors such as Homer and Virgil is an opportunity to engage deeply with their poetry, lock eyebrows with the master of old, blend my voice and theirs and make something new.
How are your translations different?
What do you consider is your great at accomplishment in translation
Igo for a strong authorial voice, performance qualities, and energy more than most translators.
"The Odyssey" being a New York Times Book of the Year, reading it on C-SPAN, reading "The
could at times be mistaken for a priest, struggles with his identity and mission in life, has to with a mother who is the goddess of love, commits himself to peace and self-control, makes great personal sacrifices, and in the end gives in to blind passion. Aeneas is too much like me. I prefer Achilles.
What is a typical day like for you?
Zen practice early in the morning, off to Nunemaker to run the Honors Program, teach a classics course, work with students, play three-cushion billiards, translate when I can, quiet time with my wife and family.
What is your favorite KU tradition? Rock Chalk, Jayhawk, KU.
Car-less students find rides online
TRANSPORTATION
- Edited by Becca Evanhoe
BY LOUIS Mora
lmora@kansan.com
KANSAN STUDENT WRITER
With no car and the bus route no longer stopping at Lorimar Town Homes, transportation proved difficult for Michelle Tran last year. She had to turn to car pooling for transportation to school but had trouble finding a ride.
This experience sparked the Derby junior to come up with a way to communicate with other students without transportation through the new Web site, KU Carpool. On the Web site, www. ku.edu/~carpool, students can post their information and communicate with others who may be heading to similar destinations.
"It's very flexible," she said. "We want to give people the freedom to post as little or as much information as they want."
Tran said she tried using the commuter board on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union, where students can post messages requesting rides. But when she tried to find out more information about the board, she was sent around to different places and never found an answer.
She said the site provided more organization than the commuter board and was more efficient for students who needed rides to school or transportation during fall break.
Tran said that with increasing gas prices she had received interest from other students. She has already found a ride to Wichita
for fall break through the site.
Kathryn Orth, 2001 KU alumna, stumbled upon the site while looking around the University site.
When she entered the site she found it could help her get back to Wichita for Thanksgiving break. She normally goes back by bus but no longer has to worry about transportation because she found a ride with a member on the site.
Orth said car pooling would save her money and time.
Michael Legg, Great Bend senior, designed the car pooling site with simplicity in mind.
He said there were several options for creating the site but decided to make it more of a message board to provide access to contact information so
that students would not have to travel to the Union.
"It's right there at their finger-tips whenever they want it," he said.
The site has caught the attention of KU Environs. Members are encouraged to use the site to find rides to reduce pollution.
Emelia LaFortune, Tulsa Okla., senior and member of KU Environs, said if students shared rides they could cut down on the carbon dioxide used which impacts the environment.
"With gas prices rising and climate change taking its toll with these two hurricanes, measurements such as KU Carpool are becoming increasingly valuable," she said.
- Edited by Alison Peterson
ECONOMY
Jefferson softens up for nickel redesign
BY MARTIN CRUTSINGER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON After nearly 100 years of depicting presidents in somber profiles on the nation's coins, the Mint is trying something different: The new nickel features Thomas Jefferson, facing forward, with the hint of a smile.
"It isn't a silly smile or a smirk, but a sense of optimism that I was trying to convey with the expression," says Jamie Franki, an associate professor of art at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. His drawing was chosen out of 147 entries.
son was an appropriate way to commemorate his support for expanding the country through the Louisiana Purchase and sending Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the territory in 1804-05.
In unveiling the design Tuesday, Mint officials said they believed the new image of Jeffer-
For the past two years, the Mint has changed the design of the nickel every six months to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark expedition, both of which occurred during Jefferson's administration.
The new five-cent coin, which will go into circulation early next year, is the last scheduled change in the nickel's design. Between 1.4 and 1.8 billion of the nickels are expected to go into circulation next year.
This artist rendering provided by the U.S. Mint shows the front and back of the new nickel that will go into production in 2006. After nearly 100 years of depicting presidents in somber profiles on the nation's coins, the Mint is trying something different: The new nickel features Thomas Jefferson, facing forward, with the hint of a smile. The reverse will feature an updated image of Jefferson's Monticello that first began appearing on the nickel in 1938.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beatles for sale
Irvina Penn/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
This photo provided by Christies auction house shows one of four Beatles prints by photographer Richard Avedon. The print is part of a group of photos to be auctioned by Christie's in New York next Monday.
NATION
CARE CANAVERAL Fla
Space tourist orbits in Russian rocket
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
— A rich entrepreneur scientist who bought his own ticket to the international space station said from orbit Tuesday that the trip was worth the millions of dollars he paid, and his only fear on launch day was not going.
"This is my fourth day and I'm really enjoying it," Gregory Olsen said at a news conference broadcast from the space station. "Just to look out and see the Earth from about 230 miles up is just great."
The best part, Olsen said,
is "just being here." As for the
reported $20 million he paid
for the 10-day trip, "It's like
the price and value argument. This
is something I wanted to do. I
love doing, so to me, yes, it's
worth the money."
With his launch aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket on Saturday from Kazakhstan, Olsen became the world's third paying space tourist. He made his fortune with Sensors Unlimited Inc. of Princeton, N.J., a company that makes devices for fiberoptic communications and infrared imaging. He is chairman of the board of directors and a co-founder.
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