Friday, February 11, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 3
Student Senate to finance student poll
By Erint R. Barcumb
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Students could get the chance to tell their Student Senate representatives what's on their minds.
But don't call them; they might be calling you.
A bill to finance a comprehensive student telephone survey passed the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday night.
"National politicians have polls they run every single day," said Ben Walker, legislative director and the bill's sponsor. "We need to have scientific method to do this."
Korb Maxwell, student body president, said the professional survey would be used to see what students wanted.
Walker said the survey would be conducted by the University of Kansas Institute for Public Policy and Business Research.
"The point of this is, we say all the time, "We know what students want," Maxwell said. "But we actually have no idea what students want."
Maxwell said that aside from public opinion, the poll would ask students other questions, such as whether or not they voted.
The surveys would guide Senate to work on what students are interested in, Maxwell said. Although Senate tries to be non-partisan, the surveys could be considered in directing this spring's campaigns, he said.
Anna Deaverne Smith speaks with an audience member after her performance at the Lied Center last night. Smith illustrated important issues in her
"It's not a bad thing." Maxwell said. "I think it'a good thing."
Maxwell said the surveys ideally would be conducted late this month, and he said the results would be in by early March.
Chris Horak, director of the survey center at the IPBRR, said each survey was different and varied between clients.
The bill, which will go before Senate Wednesday, asks for $2,000 from the unallocated account. To cover the project's $5,700 cost, additional sources — including the Transportation Board, the Student Legislative Awareness Board and the Division of Students Affairs — have provided the remaining funds.
Presentation personalizes social issues
Actor/playwright is half lecturer, half performer
Bv Rvan Blethen
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
An elderly Hispanic-American man and a Jewish woman were two of several characters played by one woman last night at the Lied Center.
Actor and playwright Anna Deaverne Smith performed "Snapshots: Glimpses of America in Change" in front of about 300 people in what she called a lecture-performance.
Smith warned the crowd that the show would be more than just a performance.
"I'm going to be moving back and forth from acting to speaking." she said.
In her lecture-performance, Smith used the exact words of the people she had interviewed. Each character was used to impress upon the crowd a slice of American society and how people see things differently.
In a loud, gravely voice, Smith's first character talked about defining moments in history.
She then assumed the character of a woman she called Aunt Verna, who recounted World War II and her Japanese handyman who was sent to an internment camp.
Smith told of a Japanese girl who burst into tears because Verna did not feel outrage when he was imprisoned. Half the people sided with Verna and half with the Japanese girl. Smith said.
Smith did not say that either was wrong.
Another theme Smith explored was people's waning sensitivity.
"I was confused how the conversation dissolved into sides," she said. "I'm worried that the time we're entering into will allow us to see more than we want to see."
"The challenge," Smith said, "is for us to stay outside what I call our safe houses of identity."
speech with verbatim stories told to her by people who lived during major events. Photo by Craia Bennett/KANSAN
Although 'Smith's lecture and presentation dealt with weighty subjects such as race
and differences among Americans' perceptions, she kept the crowd laughing most of the time.
Kate Hazelwood, Salina sophomore, said she came because she had seen one of Smith's plays in her Introduction to Drama class.
I'm just curious to see her
in person " Hazelwood said.
Jamie Tucker, Parsons senior, went to see Smith because she had seen her on The Arsenio Hall Show during the Los Angeles riots in 1992. She said she had been impressed with Smith's performance the first time she saw her.
"I was totally freaked out by the transitions she made," Tucker said. "She's still way intense."
Smith was brought to the University of Kansas for the Millennium Series, sponsored by the Hall Center for the Humanities. Her speaker's fee was privately financed.
Union to deliver Mail Boxes Etc.
Store to provide shipping storage, copying services
By Doug Pacey
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Students wanting to send packages, store packages, box packages, et cetera soon will be able to go to the Kansas Union.
Mail Boxes Etc. will open on the fourth floor of the Union Monday.
"We've been asked by the campus community for some time to do something like this," said Eric Crop, owner of the Union's store and an existing store at 3514 Clinton Parkway. "We've been working for years on this."
The site will have the same capabilities
as other MBE stores on a smaller scale. Crop said, including traditional shipping, packaging and copying services. The prices also will be the same.
The opportunity for MBE to open in the Union came after University Duplication Services left the Union last summer, said Pat Beard, manager of building services.
"When they left, it left a void we felt that needed to be filled," he said. "We really do feel like it is something that the students will use. They have the copying facilities and all the other services they offer are icing on the cake for students."
MBE also is thinking about acting as a storage facility for students during the summer, Crop said. It would set up temporary stations at the end of the semester at the Burge Union and residence halls to allow students easier access to send items home and could hold items in storage, too.
Many students seemed to agree.
"If I had to ship something home, I would use it," Brad Lewis, Hutchinson freshman said.
"They do it at other universities and it
marks wonderful work." Cron said.
Rates for storing boxes have not been determined vet. Crop said.
A contract was signed in late December after the University put out a request for proposals.
MBE was the only group that responded, Beard said.
rte said MBE would pay $1,094 monthly and 1 percent of sales in excess of $27,000.
He said that the $27,000 figure was decided upon because that was what MBE needed to earn to break even after the cost of installing the store.
The two-year contract is renewable for up to 10 years, he said.
Eric Crop, owner of the new Mail Boxes Etc., inspects a copy as he prepares for the opening of the store at the Kansas Union. The store will provide shipping, packaging and copying services. Photo by Aaron Lindberg/KANSAN
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