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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2005
INSIDENEWS
Two tight losses
After two consecutive losses, Kansas finds itself tied with Oklahoma State for first place in the Big 12 Conference. The team will head to Norman, Okla., tonight to face the surging Oklahoma Sooners. PAGE 1A
A screaming good time for Democrats
Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean will speak at Liberty Hall on Friday, but tickets to the event are already sold out. Liberty Hall sold all 900 tickets available to the public in about two-and-a-half hours yesterday. PAGE 1A
Fewer campus housing units to be available for 2005-2006
Swim Coach objects to Student Senate decision
With the closing of Hashinger Hall in the 2005-2006 school year, there will be about 230 fewer spots available for students in the residence halls. As a result, only about 350 contracts will be distributed to students who wish to return. MEG TA
Swim Coach Objects to Student Senate Following Student Senate's decision to expand the Student Recreation Fitness Center rather than build a new aquatic center, swimming coach Clark Campbell voiced his objection. PAGE 1A
KU Greens loses its freshness
The KU Greens gained popularity and influence in 2000 after Ralph Nader's involvement in the presidential election, but now suffer from declining membership. PAGE 2A
Black Student Union members attend conference
Members of the Black Student Union attended the Big 12 Minority Leadership Conference at the University of Colorado at Boulder this weekend. The conference included several leadership and educational workshops, keynote speakers and a gospel show. PAGE 2A
INSIDEOPINION
The conservatives are coming! The conservatives are coming! But guest columnist Andrew Fray insists that at best it's hypocritical to assert that Ann Coulter should not come to campus, at worst it's indirect censorship of other people's views. PAGE 5A
Growing up and growing into evolution
Growing up and growing into evolution
Sally Jane Tompkins breezed through life with nary a worry, secure in the knowledge that God created everything around her. So you can imagine her panic when her Biology 101 teacher explained that evolution was responsible for life. PAGE 5A
INSIDESPORTS
Women's team with Big 12 dreams
The women's basketball team powered past Nebraska yesterday, winning 67-53. The jayhawks are now 12-12 on the season, including a 5-8 mark in the Big 12 Conference. PAGE 1B
Column: Replacement time
It's time to give sophomore guard J.R. Giddens the red light, *Kansan* sportwriter Ryan Colainian says. Giddens went 1-for-11 in Saturday's defeat to Iowa State. Colainian says Galindo would make a great replacement. <font color="red">PAGE 1B</font>
Heading to Norman to win
Big win for Iowa State
Iowa State came to Lawrence and wrecked the Kansas seniors' perfect at-home conference record. The Jayhawks now have to look forward to a trip to Norman, Okla., tonight. PAGE 1B
Curtis Stinson contributed a game-high 29 points in Iowa State's victory against Kansas this weekend. In addition to scoring the game-winning bucket, he also contributed all seven of his team's overtime points. PAGE 18
Javhawks run over Jackrabbits
The Kansas baseball team swept last week's series with the South Dakota State jackrabbits, winning both parts of Friday's double-header. The Jayhawks gave up just three total runs in both of Friday's matchups. PAGE 2B
Big 12 anticipation
Both the men's and women's track squads headed to Norman, Okla., during the weekend to compete in the Sooner Invitational. The coaches viewed the meet as an opportunity for one last tune-up before heading into the Big 12 Championships. The Championships are next week in Lincoln, Neb. PAGE 2B
Two down, way down
The Kansas tennis team lost two during the weekend in University Park, Pa., falling to Yale and Penn State. The team faces the University of Utah in Topeka next. PAGE 2B
Junior guard scores big
Erica Hallman paced the jayhawks, adding 22 points and six assists in Kansas' victory against Nebraska, MEG 3B.
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KU Greens withers away
Group representing national Green Party loses members
BY JASON SHAAD
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KANSAN STAFF WRITER
After four years of political activism, the KU Greens is fading.
The Greens, a student organization that promoted the national Green Party, no longer meets regularly, said Sara Zafar, the group's chairwoman.
KEY VALUES
The group has helped establish fairtrade coffee sales on campus, hosted an anti-sweatshop fashion show and lobbied for a moratorium on the death penalty.
permanently Membership has dropped from about 25 students two years ago to about six people now.
Decreased membership is partly due to several of the founding members graduating. Laura Adams, Topea senior, said.
The remaining members do not have the time or resources to organize collective projects anymore, Zafar, Wichita senior and Kansan columnist, said.
"It's depressing." Zafar said. "We were so active and did a lot of work, but there aren't any clear ideas on what to do next."
Another reason for the Greens' dispersion is the lack of a well-defined national Green Party, said Galen Turner, Lawrence master's student and a founder of the KU Greens.
The 11 key values of the KU Greans are:
1. Grassroots democracy
2. Social justice and equal opportunity
3. Ecological wisdom
4. Non-violence
5. Decentralization
6. Community-based economics and economic justice
7. Feminism and gender equity
8. Respect for diversity
9. Personal and global responsibility
10. Future focus and sustainability
11. Quality of life
Source: KU Greens
"The national Greens failed to create a real movement," Turner said. "We were successful in what we did, but wanted to connect it to a bigger picture. That picture failed to develop."
Without a single focus issue like an election, people also divided into different interest groups, said Aaron Paden, another founder of the group.
"The Greens got us to all work together and inspired us to do our own projects on things we were more interested in." Adams said.
Even though the Greens no longer meet regularly, former members are still active, Adams said. She said members had dispersed to work independently instead of in the group.
Paden's time with the Greens was similar.
"The experience turned us all into die-hard citizens," he said.
Paden, Turner and another student formed the KU Greens in August 2000 after working on a petition to put Ralph Nader on the Kansas ballot.
Nader appeared on the Kansas ballot as an independent candidate in 2000.
The Greens continued to promote the idea of a third national party after the election, Paden said. Turner said he was upset the Greens were no longer active. The Greens didn't actively campaign in the 2004 election.
That hasn't stopped the old members from promoting political issues, he said.
Other political interests include a program to ensure the diversity of crop seeds, ecologically sustainable student housing and CLAS tuition increases.
"For a while the KU Greens group was the best method to do this," Turner said. "But due to changing political climates and changing lives the KU Greens are no longer the best avenue."
— Edited by Laura Francoviglia
LEADERSHIP
Minorities improve skills at conference
BY ESTUARDO GARCIA egarcia@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER
About 30 students from the KU Black Student Union attended the 28th annual Big 12 Minority Leadership Conference held at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
The three-day conference, which is held at the beginning of every year, provides African-American students with workshops, speakers and social events that try to provide students with skills they will need in the future. The conference also included a gospel and step shows. Alicia McDougal, Lenexa senior and president of the KU Black Student Union, took advantage of many of the leadership workshops.
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"My goal was to improve my leadership skills," she said. She also attended the leadership workshops with the officers of the organization. "Whatever they bring back will improve our organization as a whole."
think it's really important to meet leaders from different schools.It's important for people to network."
Alicia McDougal KU Black Student Union President, Lenexa senior
Some of the speakers who came to the conference included Tricia Rose, professor of American studies at the University of California, Toni Blackman, a poet, and Amon Rashidi, founder of Project Jams, a youth development organization.
Rona Remmie, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, attended the conference as a delegate and as vice president of the Black Student Union. Remmie focused on the
WORLD
educational aspects of the conference
She wanted to bring back these ideas and to educate the campus about African-American culture and issues. Students used the conference as an opportunity to get together and discuss the issues that concern them the most at their schools. Some of the issues discussed were minority relationships in predominately white schools and problems of minority retention. McDougal stressed the importance of new students attending the conference.
"I think it's really important to meet leaders from different schools," she said. "It's important for people to network."
Security needs 'cooperation'
CAIRO, Egypt — Al-Jazeera television aired a videotape yesterday airpeting to show Al Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri denouncing U.S. calls for reform in the region and urging the West to respect the Islamic world.
Al-Zawahri, who appeared sitting on the ground and in front of a brown background, said the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, "explains the truth about reforms and democracy that America alleges it wants to impose in our countries."
Edited by Austin Caster
"Reform is based on American detention camps like Bagram, Kandahar, Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, it will be based on cluster bombs and imposition of people like Karzai and Allawi," he said, referring to Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi.
"Real security is based on mutual cooperation with the Islamic nation on the basis of mutual respect and the stopping of aggression."
Al-Jazeera reported that the excerpt was part of a longer videotape.
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