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Calendar
Tuesday, Jan. 20
What: State of the Union watch party
When: 8 to 10 p.m.
Where: Kansas Union, Traditions area, Fourth Floor
About: The Kansas Union is hosting a watch party for President Obama's State of the Union address
What: Student Recital Series
When: 7:30 p.m.
Where: 328 Murphy Hall
About: Student trumpet player
Mason Tyler will be featured in the latest concert in the School of Music
Student Recital Series
Wednesday, Jan. 21
What: SUA Presents: Cider and Ceramics When: 2 to 4 p.m. Where: Kansas Union, Fourth Floor About: Students can come paint a ceramic of their choice while drinking cider or coffee. This event is free with a KU ID.
Thursday, Jan. 22
What: Water Charette: Food Deserts
When: 6 p.m.
Where: Spooner Hall, the Commons About: Students register at 6 p.m. to participate in groups that will work to come up with solutions to access to water and how that affects farming in certain parts of the world.
What: Tea at Three
When: 3 to 4 p.m.
Where: Kansas Union, Fourth Floor
About: Tea at Three is held every Thursday in the Union, where tea and snacks will be provided.
Friday, Jan. 23
What: Graduate Reading Series When: 7 to 9 p.m. Where: Decade Coffee Shop, 920 Delaware St. About: Graduate students from the University's creative writing department will be reading their work.
What: Human Migration Series
When: Noon
**Where:** Spooner Hall, the Commons
**About:** African women and the quest for land in 19th century Angola and Brazil
Semester starts with new social media policy
The University's social media policy is in effect, but revisions to the current policy will be reviewed again in May by the Kansas Board of Regents after consultation with Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little, said Breeze Richardson, director of communications for the Regents.
SKYLAR ROLSTAD
@SkyRolNews
DECEMBER 2013: A new social media policy was unanimously passed by
Richardson said in an email that the policy did not fundamentally change, but the language regarding disciplinary procedure was revised to make it more clear.
The policy only applies to staff and faculty, and excludes students, student employees and graduate teaching assistants. However, it does not apply when a faculty or staff member speaks as a public citizen.
Check out the events leading up to the current situation:
"[The policy changes] merely set forth the guidelines regarding the use of social media and protected-versus-unprotected speech in accordance with current U.S. law," Richardson said.
"There was nothing mandated and nothing outlined for implementation."
the Regents in response to journalism professor David Guth's controversial tweet directed at family members of the National Rifle Association.
APRIL 2014: In response to staff and faculty frustration that the December 2013 policy was too restrictive of their right to free speech, the Regents began working to revise the social media policy. Those revisions included changing the disciplinary language that the previous policy contained and accounting for existing free speech protections.
The revised policy states that an accusation of a violation will be handled in two steps: a review panel will decide whether a full investigation is necessary and, if it is, a recommendation from another review panel will be sent to the provost about what action to take.
MAY 2014: The Regents continued to revise the policy's disciplinary language. Some of these changes emphasized freedom of speech and academic rights but retained some disciplinary language that the Regents tried to eliminate.
"I fear that faculty and staff will still not be sure which kinds of expression are safe and which are not," said Charles Epp, a member of the Regents' Governance Committee.
Others criticized the policy for its potential effects on free speech - some said the policy placed restrictions on faculty and staff when they attempt to discuss controversial subjects on social media.
"One of the many roles of academia is to have potentially unpleasant discourse going on, and this policy means that we can't do that," said Michael Walker, a graduate student representative in Student Senate.
DECEMBER 2014: The Regents finalized the language regarding disciplinary procedure, allowing individual universities to decide how to handle a policy violation and to take action if it happens. The changes came after questions remained regarding the social media policy and its effects on faculty and staff.
“[The policy] makes faculty and staff more cautious about how they use social media in general because it's vague, so there could be self-censorship going on,” Jonathan Mayhew, president of the University Senate, said in September. “The language creates a sense of uncertainty because it needs to be interpreted.”
Edited by Emma LeGault
Jefferson's Restaurant remains closed after fire
TIM MCGINNIS
@tim mcginnis
Jefferson's Restaurant, 743 Massachusetts St., is still closed after a fire on the second floor damaged the roof and the back of the building Thursday. Lawrence Fire Department officials said the damage is extensive, but it may be a few weeks before they can fully assess the damage.
@tim_mcginnis
Officials have not yet been able to enter the building because the roof is weak and the structure is not safe. The cause of the fire is still unknown.
"A generator blew out behind the building, but we are not sure if that was the cause of the fire or not."
Graham said only employees were on the main floor when the fire started, and no one was injured.
"At the moment I do not know when the restaurant will reopen," Graham said. "We will know more once we are able to enter the building."
Owner Brandon Graham said he's not sure how long it will take to repair the restaurant.
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Graham said.
L'OSSERVATORE ROMANO/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Pope Francis celebrates Mass at the Manila Cathedral, in Manila, Philippines, Jan. 16. Pope Francis had earlier issued his strongest defense yet of church teaching opposing artificial contraception on Friday, using a rally in Asia's largest Catholic nation to urge families to be "sanctuaries of respect for life."
African bishops, in particular, have long complained about how progressive, Western ideas about birth control and gay rights are increasingly being imposed on the developing world by groups, institutions or individual nations, often as a condition for development aid.
Speaking to reporters en route home from the Philippines, Francis said there are plenty of church-approved ways to regulate births. But he said most importantly, no outside institution should impose its views on regulating family size, blasting what he called the "ideological colonization" of the developing world.
"Every people deserves to conserve its identity without being ideologically colonized." Francis said.
Associated Press
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis is firmly upholding church teaching banning contraception, but said Monday that Catholics don't have to breed "like rabbits" and should instead practice "responsible parenting."
Pope: Catholics don't have to breed 'like rabbits'
His comments, taken together with his defense of the Catholic Church's ban on artificial contraception during the trip, signal that he is increasingly showing his more conservative bent, which has largely been ignored by public opinion or obscured by a media narrative that has tended to highlight his populist persona.
On the trip, Francis gave his strongest defense yet of the 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae, which enshrined the church's opposition to artificial birth control. He
warned against "insidious attacks" against the family—a reference to gay marriage proposals — echoing language often used by overwhelmingly conservative U.S. bishops. And he insisted that "openness to life is a condition of the sacrament of matrimony."
At the same time, however, he said it's not true that to be a good Catholic "you have to be like rabbits." On the contrary, he said "responsible parenthood" requires that couples regulate the births of their children, as church teaching allows. He cited the case of a woman he met who was pregnant with her eighth child after seven Cesarean sections.
He said there are many "licit" ways of regulating births that are approved by the church, an apparent reference to the Natural Family Planning method of monitoring a woman's cycle to avoid intercourse when she is ovulating.
"That is an irresponsibility," he said. The woman might argue that she should trust in God. "But God gives you methods to be responsible," he said.
During the Vatican's recent meeting on the family, African bishops denounced how aid groups and lending institutions often condition their assistance on a country's compliance with their ideals: allowing health care workers to distribute condoms, or withdrawing assistance if legislation discriminating against gays is passed.
"When imposed conditions come from imperial colonizers, they search to make people lose their own identity and make a sameness," he said. "This is ideological colonization."
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