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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2007
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"I if we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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China has more English speakers than the United States.
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Lorraine Haricombe Dean of Libraries
BY ALEXANDRA GARRY
BY ALEXANDRA GARRY
aqarry@kansan.com
Shortly after her arrival, Haricomb saw for the first time a picture of someone who had a big impact on her life.
When Lorraine Haricombe arrived in the United States in 1986, she saw a nation and culture starkly different from that in which she grew up.
Haricome, then 33, had emigrated from South Africa with her two young daughters to pursue a
master's degree in library science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne.
Mandela was incarcerated from 1964 to 1990 and became South Africa's first completely democratically elected president in 1994.
"We always heard about Nelson Mandela, but we were not allowed to see a picture," Haricombe said. "I did not know what he looked like until I came to Illinois. It was very exciting to have this free access to information; that was a big change from life in South Africa."
The picture was of Nelson Mandela, the leader of South Africa's resistance against the country's racially separatist government.
Though Haricombe had spent her entire life up to that point in South Africa, she had never seen Mandela, whose face is now internationally associated with the nation of South Africa because the apartheid government banned his image from being reproduced. Bans were not limited to photographs.
"I was a librarian for 11 years before I came to the United States and I had a library where I could not buy certain books because they were banned and censored by the South African government," Haricombe said. "When I arrived in Illinois, I saw some of those books on the shelves and I could not believe that they were available for people to
read. It was very exciting to see those books."
Harcombe completed her master's and continued to study at Illinois, eventually receiving a doctoral degree in library science. Following the completion of her educational program, she worked at Northern Illinois University and Bowling Green State University before coming to the University of Kansas in August of last year.
Haricombe described the move to Kansas as a "very new experience" for her and her husband, but sees some similarities to her previous places of residence.
"The commonality between my experience in South Africa and here is that I was born, reared and lived in a big university town, and after coming here, I have lived only in university towns," she said.
As dean of libraries, Haricombe oversees the budget, the programs and the effort of the libraries "to keep the libraries relevant to the students' needs."
"We are here to serve the students," Haricombe said of the librarians.
Mesmerized by pumpkins
Kate D'Avanoz, Oceanide, Cal., junior, paints a ghost on a pumpkin to participate in the Kansas Union pumpkin painting competition. Students gathered in the Kansas Union food court Tuesday afternoon to compete.
ODD NEWS Sculptor's 'Spaceship' crashes down to Earth
KENNESAW, Ga. — It took Finnish-born sculptor Eino roughly four months to rebuild the world.
His million-dollar stone sculpture, "Spaceship Earth," mysteriously collapsed in December at Kennesaw State University. The artwork was intended to remind future generations of the Earth's fragility.
Eino called the work "Spaceship Earth" to honor environmentalist David Brower, a Sierra Club leader. It depicted a bronze figure of
Brower standing on the globe. The founders of PowerBar paid for the sculpture.
Inadequate adhesive was initially blamed for the 175-ton, 22-foot-high sculpture's collapse, but Eino said he has reason to suspect it was vandalism.
He said an expert from Holland-based Stone Advice examined the wreckage and concluded it collapsed from "mechanical-induced failure."
He called the disintegration of his artwork "devastating."
"I felt absolutely horrible when it came down, but I felt a responsibility to put it back up," he said.
Council member Ray Helen Lawrence said she voted for the ordinance only because she got numerous calls from constituents who consider the look unfashionable.
Violators could be fined $25 to $250 for a first offense, and $250 to $500 for repeat offenses.
Eino said he modified the design during reconstruction to ensure his artwork made of Brazilian blue quartzite with 2,400 bronze pieces stays together.
PORT ALLEN, La. — Another Cajun-country town has banned saggy pants from its streets.
City makes sure residents hitch up saggy britches
The ordinance, passed unanimously Monday by the Port Allen City Council, requires pants to be secured at the waist so they do not fall below the hips, expose underwear or create indecent exposure.
Stephanie DeLaney, one of two women asking the council to reject the proposal, said lightheartedly that she has lost weight, so she sometimes wears baggy pants.
"I'd hate for someone to call the cops on me for that," she said.
Associated Press
Robertson, 54, pleaded guilty Monday to bank robbery after admitting he robbed the First Kansas Bank and Trust in Edgerton on June 6. He was convicted of a similar crime in 1992, receiving a nearly nine-year sentence for robbing the Bank of Wellsville, less than eight miles up the road.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Should Dale Robertson ever decide to rob a bank, he might consider one in a different state.
odd news
Bad luck plagues Kansas bank robber
Upon looking at the photos, Layton realized it was Robertson. A bank clerk later identified Robertson as the man who robbed her at gunpoint in Edderton.
The man he held up at gunpoint in the robbery 15 years ago. Wellsville President Steve Layton, Identified Robertson from surveillance photos in the June robbery.
Robertson faces up to 25 years in prison.
Eight-year-old turns in drunk mother
VANCOUVER. Wash. — An 8-year-old boy riding in a car with his mom called 911 several times to report that she wasn't "acting normal," leading to her arrest for drunken driving and other charges, authorities said.
Paulette Lynn Spears, 33,
was arrested Saturday after she
drove to a fire station and said
she had a medical problem.
Based on the boy's description of what he could see from the car, as well as by GPS phone call tracking, deputies arrived at the station less than a minute later.
At one point, Spears took a cell phone from the boy, told the dispatcher not to worry and hung up, Sheriff's Sgt. Randon M. Walker said.
"The mother kept interru-
ting the 8-year-old," he said. "It
happened at least twice."
At one point, Walker said,
Spears apparently bit the boy's
hand to get the telephone away
from him.
Associated Press
Until the early 1940s, only unmarried women were admitted to KU's nursing school, and had to remain single until they completed the program.
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