Wednesday, April 21, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
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Section A·Page 3
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Amy Lynch, Prairie Village junior, relaxes on her front porch after her classes. She wanted to take advantage of the beautiful weather. Photo by Robyn Brooks/Kansas.
Forum explores history of conflict in Kosovo
By Dan Curry
dcurry@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
By Dan Curry
In 1985 a Mercedes drove down a central avenue in Kosovo with a flag, which bore the single star of the Albanian nation, extended from the window.
Words on the flag read: "Kosovo, independent republic."
Marc Greenberg, associate professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, used this incident as an example when he explained the increasing nationalism in Kosovo in the 1980s to about 150 people yesterday at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union.
He said that a defining moment for the Serbian people occurred in 1389 at the Battle of Kosovo, where the Serbs stopped the advance of the Turks through Europe.
The ethnic Albanians, linguistically and religiously different from the Serbians, were said to have fought on the side of the Turks in that battle.
Greenberg was one of three professors who, along with an army captain, tried to make sense of the current conflict in Kosovo at a panel discussion sponsored by the Office of International Programs and the Center for Russian and East European Studies.
Many of the questions posed to the panel dealt with the probability of dispatching NATO ground troops into the region.
Army Capt. Steve Calhoun, Lawrence graduate student, briefed the audience about the terrain in Kosovo, which he described as mountainous, rugged topography. This terrain makes vehicular movement difficult.
"Bottom line, from a military perspective, Yugoslavia and Kosovo would be a tough nut to crack," he said. "There are at least 60,000 Yugoslavian troops in Kosovo."
Fresh off the plane from the Boston Marathon, Paul D'Amiert, associate professor of political science, said that the air campaign against Serbia would not be effective.
"Nobody ever forced anybody to do anything by simply dropping bombs," D'Anieri said. "Right now the facts on the ground very much favor Yugoslavia."
"They're not going to be negotiating something that if they keep on fighting they get to keep."
Norm Saul, professor of history, said he saw no easy solution to the conflict.
"I don't see how Serbians and Albanians can live together again," he said. "The only potential solution — if there is a solution — is a division of the land."
- Edited by Allan Davis
Tutu lecture fails to draw expected crowd
By Jennifer Roush
jrush@kanson.com
Kansas staff writer
Despite widespread advertising, attendance was lower than anticipated at Sunday's lecture by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Cody Simms, Student Union Activities forums coordinator, said that 5,500 people were projected to attend the event. Of the 3,933 people who attended, about 2,000 were students.
SUA, Student Senate and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences spent at least $70,000 to bring Tutu, 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner and a leader in the fight against South African apartheid, to the University of Kansas. About $5,000-$6,000 of this money was spent on advertising.
Simms said the fact that SUA lost money on the event was not cause for concern.
"We're not disappointed at all," he said. "We're thrilled to have more than 2,000 students at a lecture."
Simms emphasized that SUA was a non-profit organization that brought people and events to the University that students might not otherwise be able to see.
SUA distributed 1,500 free tickets to the lecture, Jeff LaCroix, vice president of University Relations said that tickets went to radio stations 90.7, 105.9 and 103.3 for promotions, to students whose professors requested they attend for class, and to the Kansan advertising staff in lieu of payment for advertisements promoting the lecture.
Simms said that most of the promotion SUA did for the lecture were within the campus community rather than throughout Lawrence. There were posters in campus buildings in addition to the advertisements in the Kansan.
"We put up posters around town and counted on the Journal-World to pick up the story." Simms said.
Because SUA members had a limited budget to pay for promotion, they spent the money in places that would reach the widest possible audience. Simms said.
For instance, they took out advertisements in The Kansas City Star and placed two billboards on Interstate 70—one in Topeka and one east of Lawrence.
LaCroix said promotions in the community included postcards and posters, which were sent to
local churches. SUA also offered discounts to groups that bought tickets in bulk.
Students who attended the lecture said the lower-than-expected turnout was not because of a lack of advertising.
"I saw the sign on the Chi Omega house and in the paper, and one of my friends is from South Africa," said Chris Smith. St. Louis junior and Zeta Beta Tau fraternity member. "A lot of guys in my house went."
"I found out about it from my anthropology class," Shaw said. "I saw it in the paper after I found out about it. But I think a lot of people didn't know who he was."
Melissa Shaw, Kansas City, Kan., junior, said she also saw promotions in the newspaper.
Edited by Steph Brewer
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