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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
WEDNESDAY,FEBRUARY 2,2005
VOL.115 ISSUE 86
Poster offends sponsor
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KU students display their Kansan inserts that state "Hey Quin ... Your program is in shambles, your team is defined by scandals, and your hair is more ridiculous than mine so ... You're fired," as the Missouri lineup is announced Monday night at Allen Fieldhouse.
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First Management to drop ads after Quin fiasco
By Ross Firch
ffitch@ansar.com
KANSEN SENIOR STAFF WRITER
After a satirical poster attacking Missouri coach Quin Snyder appeared in Allen Fieldhouse Monday night, First Management, Inc. is halting its sponsorship of University Daily Kansan ads it cannot approve.
First Management's logo appeared on the ad, which read "Hey Quin ... You're fired." Not only do First Management officials not support disrespecting coaches and players, but First Management president Doug Compton is also a close friend of Snyder.
First Management's main complaint, which led it to cease sponsoring the gameday ads, was that it was not allowed to approve the
ad before it was published.
Ashleigh Dyck, Kansan business manager, said sponsors were not allowed to see the ads ahead of time because they were not public property until published.
"We will not support, in any way, ads we cannot approve." Sheryl Krzanowsky of First Management said. "We're only going to advertise what we can approve."
Had the Kansan known of Compton's connection to Snyder, First Management would have been given the option to drop the logo, Dyck said. Not allowing the Kansan to take full blame for the posters, Dyck also said the purpose of the posters was made clear.
"They understood the purpose of the posters is satire," she said.
As for satirically attacking the
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Student aids tsunami victims
BY ESTUARDO GARCIA
egarcia@kansan.com
KANSAN SAKST WRITER
Kevin Raymer made arrangements two years ago to travel to India this year to work with an HIV program in a hospital in Chennai. He didn't expect that two weeks before his trip a tsunami would strike southeast Asia and parts of Africa.
Raymer, a fourth-year medical school student at the University of Kansas Medical Center, left for India Jan. 11 for an international elective program offered by the Med Center. His experiences are much different than he planned as a result of the tsunami, which struck Dec. 26.
Raymer's day starts with a two-hour bus ride to Pudupattinam, a city on the coast of India, where he spends four or five hours helping patients. He said that the No. 1 aliment he treats is respiratory tract infections because many of the people who were in the tsunami's wake swallowed a lot of sea water.
"It's a lot different from the U.S. it's a lot of primary care." Raymer said. "We see the patients and we do what we can. We see the patients really quickly and try to give them the medicines we have."
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Kevin Raymer, a fourth-year medical student at University of Kansas Medical Center, poses with citizens of Chennai, India. Raymer arrived in India two weeks after the tsunami hit and is working through an international elective program offered at the Med Center. He has provided victims of the tsunami with medical care.
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Bill Lacy, director of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, stands smiling in front of a picture of former president and boss Ronald Reagan. Reagan's presidency is the feature of the 2005 Presidential Lecture Series, which kicks off tomorrow and will last through the end of February.
Speakers share their memories of Reagan
BY JASON SHAAD
jishaad@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
As a student in 1975 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. Bill Lacy couldn't imagine he would someday serve as a political director for the future president and eat dinner with him. Lacy, director of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, recalled how he and a group of 14 other students dined with Ronald Reagan after a speech Reagan gave at Vanderbilt.
"I was very impressed with how affable and easy-going he was." Lacy said. "He was very interested in hearing what students had to say."
After serving two terms as director of the White House political department, Lacy is helping students discover what people have to say about Reagan.
The Dole Institute's third annual presidential lecture series, entitled "The Reagan Presidency" begins tomorrow with a lecture by Lou
"Lou was there from the
beginning to the very end. He provides a sort of overarching objective analysis of Reagan."
Bill Lacy
Director of Robert J. Dole
Institute of Politics
Cannon. a definitive Reagan biographer.
Jonathan Earle, associate director of programming for the institute, said he wanted to start the series with someone who could give a broad view of Reagan's life and presidency. Lacy had similar ideas.
"Lou was there from the very beginning to the very end," Lacy said. "He provides a sort of over-arching objective analysis of Reagan."
The series will feature three other lectures throughout February. Other lectures will focus on Reagan's presidential image, foreign policy and presidential campaigns.
Josh Steward, chairman of the KU College Republicans, said he attended some of the events last year and planned to attend all of the events this year.
Steward is most looking forward to the speech on Reagan's political campaigns, he said.
Previous series included lectures by Pulitzer Prize-
winning biographers and journalists, as well as former
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Accreditors weigh student, faculty suggestions
BY DANI LITT
dlltt@kansan.com
dllttKANSAN STAFF WRITE
Suggestions introduced by students, faculty and staff included allowing architecture students to design a building for campus rather than hiring outside contractors, strengthening government relations and utilizing University resources.
A team of scholars visiting the University of Kansas this week will look further into suggestions for reaccreditation.
The next step for the 12 scholars of the accreditation team will be to compile information from suggestions, concerns and individual meetings with other people at the University. Information will be measured against the criteria for reaccreditation. The suggestions the scholars provide will help the University become more successful, said Barbara Romzek, chairwoman of the steering committee and associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Twenty-two people attended the open four forums yesterday and Monday. Romzek said the accreditation team used the comments and concerns they heard at the open forums as another way to get information about the campus.
Michael D. Johnson, GTA for the department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, said he salary was 10 percent less at the University than at a northern school he taught at six years ago. But Johnson also said the department treated him well.
One of the four students at the forum was a graduate teaching assistant who voiced his concerns about GTA salaries and the University administration.
Johnson said the University easily found money, except for GTA salaries.
"Where are the priorities? Where is the money going?" he said.
The previous accreditation report from 1994 included a concern that GTAs were being overused and underpaid, according to the Self-Study report.
The 2005 Self-Study states that salaries and benefits for GTAs have increased, and the tuition enhancement has increased the availability of graduate fellowships.
In the staff forum, Dana Goble, associate comptroller, said she and her coworkers in the Comptrollers Office were not well acquainted with students.
"Staff in non-academic areas don't feel as connected with the students."
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The University is too publicly modest and needs to find a way to publicize its accomplishments without seeming arrogant, said Dan Consolver, director of academic technology services.
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Students and staff had one common concern: The way the University promotes itself both inside and outside the University.
Forum attendees discussed this issue in relation to the University and the students, as well the University's as connection to the Lawrence community.
she said.
Edited by Laura Francoviglia
Renovations
Seven renovation projects continue in Malott Hall, leaving the inside layered in dust. But it's the noise that students are complaining about. PAGE 3A
Ticket money return
For those who did not receive a ticket during the ticket lottery, the Athletics Department is offering a refund from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today in the Kansas Union. PAGE 1B
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