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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2008
quote of the day
"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow."
— Jeff Valdez
fact of the day
The greatest snowfall ever in a single storm was 189 inches at the Mount Shasta Ski Bowl in February, 1959.
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2. Campus to get $25 M for deferred maintenance
4. KU Hockey to play first home game of the semester
3. Nystrom: Judging a Coach by his cover
5. Anderson: Palestine needs our help
PRESIDENTIAL RACE Obama to make address in Kansas City today
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will speak at a town hall style meeting at 5:45 tonight at the Municipal Auditorium Exhibition Hall, 301 W. 13th St., Kansas City, Mo. The meeting will be open to the public and doors will open at 3:45 p.m. Clarissa Unger, state coordinator of Students for Barack Obama, said Obama would give a speech, but she said she was unsure whether Obama would take questions.
-Francesca Chambers
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BY KELCI SHIPLEY
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Q&A with Professor Mary Klayder English Department and Honors Program
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How did you first become interested in English and writing?
"My brother taught me how to read when I was young; I would just read and read and read, I would also make up stories with pictures I had drawn."
Did you ever think you would end up being a professor?
"I was always drawn to teaching. I was a freshman at KU in Honors English, but if someone would've poked me and told me that I would be a professor here I would have laughed."
Are you currently working on any writings? If so, what?
"I'm working on a collection of personal essays about place and memory."
Favorite book/author at the moment?
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"I've always loved Virginia Wolff, but right now I'm reading Juno Diaz's "The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wow" and other works of current fiction."
Although you teach English 105 and a creative writing tutorial in the Honors program, most have come to know and love
you as their advisor, do you like guiding clueless college students?
"I like helping people figure out their strengths and what will excite them rather than what will fulfill a requirement. I'd rather them use the University to find a meaningful path; they can fulfil requirements along the wav."
When advising students it's tough to stay sane. What advice do you think college students should hear?
"I call it experimental learning. It's about paying attention when you're in the middle of something."
Do you think that students learn better in an unfamiliar environment?
"Stay open to new possibilities, don't stick to what you had originally planned."
Your next endeavor is the Lon
don Review over Spring Break;
how long has the trip been in
effect? How did it start out?
The Mary A. Klayder scholarship was recently established, how do you hope this benefits kids?
"It mainly benefits the Study Abroad program, and helps open people up to the idea of it."
Aside from teaching you're also involved in Study Abroad. You just got back from the Costa Rica program. How was it? What's the main idea behind the trip?
"It was beautiful; the people were wonderful. Costa Rica is an inter-disciplinary class. It's about travel- writing pieces and satisfies
English 360 and Honors 492."
"It started in 1996. The honors department wanted more short-term programs, and I had first gone to London after college and thought that it would be a great
place. I thought 'we could put together a book' (entitled The London Review). It went from twelve to fifteen and now thirty students."
What's one of your favorite things about Costa Rica and London?
"In Costa Rica the weather is beautiful. People have a direct warmth and passion. That's why the course is called "Put a Vida," like "it's all good."
"In London I love the energy, history and currency, like the immediate issues mixed with 13th century buildings. It's diverse and complicated, it's old and it's new."
Where's a place you would visit if you haven't already? "Chiua"
Where do you see yourself in ten years? Teaching? Traveling'
"If I'm teaching I'd like to keep traveling and writing, perhaps in different percentages."
Anything else you would like readers to know?
"I would be happy to discuss Study Abroad.. It's one of the best things you can do."
Walking with sunshine
Edited by Nick Manaiaracina
Autumn Hun, Reeds Spring, Mo., senior, and her boyfriend, Byung Kim, Springfield, Mo., senior, take a walk by Potter Lake with Han's Shih Tzu, Momo, on Monday. Warmer temperatures have brought many students outside to enjoy the weather. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the warm weather could come to a halt today with a predicted high in the low thirties and a slight chance of snow.
LAWRENCE
City drops charges against former medicine director
The City of Lawrence dropped all six charges against the Athletics Department's former director of sports medicine, William Dent, pending a diversionary agreement, according to the county clerk's office.
Dent was charged on six counts including the assault of both his ex-wife, Marissa Dent, and her friend, John Clark, while walking through a restraining order last April.
Dent, who retired from the University last October, will walk away
In addition, Dent agreed not to have any contact with either his ex-wife or John Clark. Dent has violated this same order on two previous occasions.
If Dent fails to keep the terms of his diversion during the diversionary period, he will be sent to trial for all of the charges against him.
from a trial paying only the $128.00 cost of his diversion and 50 hours of community service.
-Jessica Wicks
ON THE RUN
Officials seek to capture steer loose in city
day were looking for an Angus steer that postponed its date with a slaughterhouse by bolting out a gate that had been inadvertently left open.
CINCINNATI- Searchers on the ground and in a helicopter Mon-
The more than 1,000-pound animal escaped from a slaughterhouse holding pen Monday morning and ran into the woods of suburban Cincinnati, according to Colerain Township police and the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office.
Dick Steinhil, co-owner of the meat packing business, said the bovine should be approached with caution.
on the record
Associated Press
Lawrence police are investigating a report that a man and a woman, both in their 20s, had illegal relations with a six year-old in a West Lawrence residence over a five month period June through October 2007. No further details have been released yet.
Lawrence police are investigating a report that a 28 year-old woman had illegal relations with two Lawrence boys, ages 13 and 15. The father of the two victims reported the incident.
on campus
KU Libraries Instructional Services will hold the workshop RefWorks: Writing and Citing at 8:30 a.m. in the Anschutz Library Instructional Center.
The workshop Blackboard Strategies and Tools will begin at 9 a.m. in room 6 of Budig Hall and will be presented by KU Libraries Instructional Services.
The workshop LUNA Insight:
An Introduction to KU Digital Images will be presented by KU Libraries Instructional Services at 11 a.m. in the Anschutz Library Instruction Center.
Shelley Koch will present "The Right Way to Shop: The Social Organization of Food Provisioning" at 11:30 a.m. in 706 Fraser.
KU Libraries Instructional Services will present the workshop InDesign: Introduction at 12 p.m. in the Budlg PC Lab.
Anna Cienciaal, Professor Emerita of History, will present the lecture "The Soviet Massacre of Polish POWs in Spring 1940: Motives, Timing, and a Half Century of Lies" at noon in 318 Bailey Hall.
Adrian Melott, physics and astronomy professor, will present the Astrobiology Seminar, "Did a comet impact North America 12,900 years ago, inducing megafaunal extinctions, ending the Clovis culture, and triggering massive regiplaction?" at 12:30 p.m. in 1089 Malott.
The Faculty Executive Committee Meeting will begin at 3 p.m. in the Regents Room of the 2nd floor of the Chancellors Complex of Strong Hall.
Richard Longworth will present "Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in an Age of Globalism" at 7 p.m. in 164 Regnier.
"Military Bloggers and America's Wars," a panel discussion about this dynamic and growing internet community, will take place at the Dole Institute of Politics at 7:30 p.m.
KU Opera will present "La Traviata" at 7:30 p.m. in the Robert Baustian Theatre in Murphy Hall.
The Foreign Film "I'm Not Scared" will be presented by Student Union Activities at 8 p.m. In the Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
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