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Vol. 109·No.91
The Kansas men's basketball team is host to the Nebraska Cornhuskers tonight. Nebraska defeated the Jayhawks Jan. 27 in Lincoln.
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KU journalism professor dies at age 62
John Ginn loses battle against lung cancer
By Chris Hopkins
Konson staff writer
"The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured."
Dean Acheson
That was the quotation that journalism professor John Ginn had posted outside his office, and those were the words by which his colleagues and students said he lived.
Gim died at 3:50 p.m. yesterday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, 325 Main St., two days after being admitted. He died of complications of lung cancer at the age of 62.
Carol Holstead, associate professor of journal
ism. read Acheson's quotation yesterday.
"I think it embodies the way he perceived his illness," she said. "He was a good man. Sort of comforting to know he felt that way."
Ginn had been an active member of the Lawrence community since he arrived at the University in 1992 as the first Knight Distinguished Professor of Journalism at the University of Kansas.
Ginn helped to create Leadership Lawrence and was a member of the initial Lied Center Creation Board.
Leadership Lawrence was created to identify potential leaders in the Lawrence community, to train them and to help them understand leadership issues.
Ginn remained on the Lied Center board until his death.
Jaqueline Davis, director of the Lied Center, said Ginn had been essential to the performing art center's work.
"He understood and loved the Lied Center and its programs," she said.
Ginn had tried to resign from the board when he decided to focus more time on his chemotherapy treatment, but Davis wouldn't let him, telling him that he would get better.
It was one of the few obligations that Ginn tried to drop. James Gentry, dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, said Ginn had taught classes through last week.
Gwen Olsen, Fall 1998 KU graduate and Ginn's teaching assistant last semester, said Ginn was extremely devoted to teaching.
Ginn: Was Knight Distinguished Professor of Journalism.
"He had me send him papers to grade in the Mayo Clinic," she said.
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Malcolm Gibson, assistant professor of journalism, said Ginn had fought a long bout with lung cancer.
"One of the people I came to rely on, before and after I came here, was John Ginn," Gibson said.
Another member of the school with whom Ginn was close was Tom Eblen, general manager of The University Daily Kansan. They both attended the University of Missouri in the 1950s.
"John was one of those people who you could just look at and know he would be successful," he said.
Ginn arrived at the University in 1992 after spending 17 years, from 1974 to 1991, as president and publisher of the Anderson Independent Mail in Anderson. S.C.
William Mitchell, senior vice president and editor of the Independent-Mail, was hired by Ginn in 1989.
"John Ginn was a big part of so much of the progress that Anderson made during the '70s and '80s," he said. "He helped build consensus to support major improvements in our public schools, our public hospital and our community as a whole. He was, above all, a journalist with high standards of ethics and integrity."
Gim recently helped his alma mater get funding for a new journalism building.
After graduation, he worked for the Charlotte Observer in North Carolina, the Kingsport Times News in Tennessee, and in the public relations department of Celanese Corporation. In 1972, he received his master's degree in business from Harvard University.
Ginn is survived by three grandchildren and three sons, Jack, Mark and Stan Ginn. Dianne Kelley Ginn, his ex-wife, returned to Lawrence in December to help take care of Ginn during his illness.
New garage may require special pass
Memorial services have not been announced.
By Nadia Mustafa
Kansan staff writer
Students may need more than a yellow permit to park in the parking garage that will be constructed north of the Kansas Union.
Construction is scheduled to begin in mid to late May, and the garage should be ready for use in fall 2000, said Rodger Oroke, director of parking and public safety, and utilities management.
The parking department has not yet finalized space allotment for the $10,025 million project that is currently being designed. This spring, the department will consider how many of the estimated 818 spaces to allot to students, faculty and staff with permits and to metered parking.
Don Kearns, director of parking services, said parking in the garage would be for faculty, staff and students, but he would not comment on how many spaces would be allotted for students.
Kearns said students, faculty and staff would have to purchase a separate parking permit — similar to the permit used to park in the garage by Allen Fieldhouse — to park in the new garage, but he would not say how much the permit would cost.
Oroké said that permit parking would not generate sufficient funds to finance the garage. He said the University would have to take into account people who preferred metered parking, permit holders and visitors.
Kearns said the University planned to expand student parking by changing the metered spaces in the parking lots north of the Spencer Art Museum and in the lot by Memorial Stadium to student and faculty permit parking.
"We have to look at the mix and determine what will be the most workable alternative which will nav for the facility." Oroke said.
See UNION on page 2A
Oscar list is page in history
By Ezra Sykes
Kansan staff writer
This year's Oscar nominations are packed with history.
Nominees for Best Picture include Elizabeth, Life is Beautiful, Saving Private Ryan, Shakespeare in Love and The Thin Red Line - a group of films that all recreated historical events to some degree.
Gwynne Pattrow and Joseph Fiennes in John Madden's *Sakespeare in Love*. The movie was nominated 13 times, including best actress for Pattrow. Contributed photo
Shakespeare in Love couldn't quite sink Titanic's record of 14 Oscar nominations last year, but with 13, the film topped the early favorite, Saving Private Ryan, which received 11 nominations.
Also to many critics' surprise, the World War II movie The Thin Red Line picked up seven nominations, signaling a triumphant return to the movies for director Terrence Malick, who hadn't made a film in two decades.
Elizabeth also picked up seven nominations.
The Italian film Life is Beautiful became the first movie in three decades to be nominated for both Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film.
John Tibbetts, assistant professor of theater and film, said he was not completely satisfied with the academy's choices.
"It's a disgrace that The Truman Show didn't get a Best Picture nod," Tibbets
Tibbetts said many Elizabethan experts said the film didn't jive with historical facts.
said. "Nominating Elizabeth is astonishing, too. I thought it was a badly botched piece of history."
"The movie made little sense as a story
except for the last 15 minutes, which was wonderful," he said. "Perhaps that was why it was nominated."
Nathaniel Green, El-Dorad senior.
See SHAKESPEARE on page 8A
And the nominees are ...
Best picture:
Elizabeth
Life is Beautiful
Saving Private Ryan
Shakespeare in Love
The Thin Red Line
Best leading actor:
Roberto Benigni — Life is Beautiful
Tom Hanks — Saving Private Ryan
 Ian McKellen — Gods and Monsters
Nick Noelle — Affliction
Edward Norton American History X
Best leading actress:
Best leading actress:
Date Blanchett — Elizabeth
Fernandina Montenegro — Central Station
Gwyneth Pattrow — Shakespeare in Lov
Myrle Strelt — One True Thing
Emily Watson — Hilary and Jackie
Best director:
Roberto Benigni — *Life is Beautiful*
Steven Spielberg — *Saving Private Ryan*
John Madden — *Shakespeare in Love*
Terrence Malick — *The Thin Red Line*
Peter Weir — *The Truman Show*
Current parking fees
Listed below are the parking permit fees for the 1998-99 academic year.
Red faculty and staff permit surface lots — $95 per year Allen Fieldhouse parking garage — $100 per year
Makeover plan will keep campus sitting pretty
Yellow student permit surface lots - $75 per year Allen Fieldhouse parking garage - $80 per year
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Blue permit (faculty whose years of service plus age equal 60 or more)
surface lots — $110 per year Allen Fieldhouse parking garage — $115 per year
By Kristi Reimer
Kansan staff writer
University hires KC firm to update landscape, signs
Decision makers at the University of Kansas aren't counting on beauty being in the eye of the beholder.
"When you're talking to alumni, their first impulse almost always is that KU is a beautiful place," Chancellor Robert Hemenway said. "It's almost like they have a videotape that plays in their minds."
They are preparing to spend millions of dollars on a campus landscape plan to ensure the University stays as attractive as conventional wisdom says it is.
But the University has to keep up appearances, he said.
"If you don't maintain beauty and try to enhance appear ance, it ends up deteriorating pretty fast," Hemenway said. "Given the financial constraints of the '70s and '80s, I don't think we gave it as much attention as we could have."
Before workers can start planting trees and shrubs, adding lights and updating signs on campus, they need a plan. That's where contractor Jeffrey Bruce comes in.
The University is paying Bruce's landscape architect and planning firm, Jeffrey L. Bruce & Co., $180,000 to develop a landscape strategy, said University architect Warren Corman. Bruce is based in Kansas City, Mo.
"We're excited about restoring and enhancing the legacy of the campus." Bruce said.
Bruce said he would work with the University to assess the existing conditions of the campus landscape and identify opportunities for improvement.
nstrm also will analyze the University's network of signs. Both Corman and Hemenway said the signs on campus were inadequate and outdated.
Another central facet of the plan is enhancing Jayhawk Boulevard in terms of safety and appearance.
Hemenway said vehicle access during peak hours could be restricted to reduce traffic congestion.
"We want to honor the traditional pedestrian orientation of the Boulevard," he said.
Until Bruce's plan is completed, there is no way to know how much the beautification project will cost, but administrators are estimating $3 million.
"That's kind of a wild guess," Corman said. "It might be more. It probably won't be less. We'll know a lot more in a few months."
Bruce's plan should be completed by midsummer.
Landscape and architecture ideas to update Jayhawk Boulevard include outdoor furnishings, new lights and accented pedestrian walkways. The proposal was part of Chancellor Robert Hemenway's 1997 Campus Plan. Contributed illustration
Hemenway said some state funds would go toward the project but that he planned to encourage people to give private donations.