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Students endorse free speech not conversion on campus
By Maggie Koerth
Kansan staff writer
The goal of all religions is to provide answers, especially to questions of morality and the divine. In order to gain a better understanding of what people believe, The University Daily Kansan will feature a question of the week where we ask members of various religions a particular moral or ethical question. We hope the answers will illuminate the differences and sometimes surprising similarities between different beliefs.
Q. How important is it to you to tell other people about your religion? Should religious prose-lytizing be allowed on campus?
A. Rachelle Cauton, atheist and president of KU Objectivists
"I think that's something that always comes with having a strong belief in anything is the will to bring other people in and let them see the validity and necessity of the things that you value. As far as proselytizing on campus, I think it's a basic issue of freedom of speech. So long as you are on public land, I think you have the right to espouse and say whatever you will, regardless of how abrasive or stupid or irritating your beliefs may be. So if you don't like something on campus you can be unresponsive, which I think is the best way to get rid of it. But suppressing ideas because you don't like them on campus is the wrong thing, especially for a university to do."
A. Andrew Zidel, president of KU Hillel
"It's very important for me as a law and as a minority to educate
people about our religion and beliefs. I think it's a good lesson in tolerance and in pluralism. Fear and hatred usually stem from ignorance. However, it seems to me that religious education and education about beliefs should be more like a free-will thing. If you are curious, then there are ways to learn more about others. But campus is a place where people should feel safe to walk from class to class without being challenged or confronted with any major theological debates. So I am against
people who I've seen stand on ladders and tell the whole campus they are going to hell. I am against that. Campus is no place for that. There are campus organizations where there are appropriate places for learning or for discussion, but campus proselytizing is not the way to educate."
If you have a question you'd like to have answered in the Question of the Week, contact Koerth at mkoreth@kansan.com. This story was edited by Justin Guenley.
Student directs bus system
Transportation Coordinator Mike Appleby, Lawrence junior, is responsible for keeping the KU on Wheels program running smoothly. Appleby is currently trying to get a new bus shelter built in front of Learned Hall.
Mike Appleby keeps KU on Wheels running when not in class
AARON LERNER/KANSAN
By Adam Pracht Kansan staff reporter
Mike Appleby wore black combat boots and a backwards cap. A passing glance probably wouldn't reveal the importance of his job to the University of Kansas.
"I'm like a low-rent super hero who just happens to know everything about buses," said Appleby, who has worked since the beginning of the school year as director of KU on Wheels.
KU on Wheels is the bus system that services KU's Lawrence campus, areas in Lawrence such as downtown and various apartment complexes.
ine bus system gives 22 million rides annually with Safe Ride giving another 22,000 rides a year, Appleby said.
Student body president Justin Mills appointed Appleby, a Lawrence junior, to the position. Appleby is also a nontraditional student senator.
In addition to majoring in environmental studies and East Asian studies and bartending in the evening, Appleby spends 20 hours each week working in the KU on Wheels office. He spends 10 to 15 hours each week in various meetings.
Planning bus routes, selling passes, working with the Student Senate transportation committee and planning around poor weather conditions are some of Appleby's many responsibilities. He also handled complaints, refunds and unexpected holdups
in bus routes.
"My job is to sit in my office and brainstorm ways to make things work more efficiently," he said.
Holly Krebs, the previous KU on Wheels director and Lawrence resident, said the job was an important student position.
"It's one of the student positions on campus that's closest to being an administrator," she said, "It's a major responsibility. It's something that's required for the University."
She said that a great variety of people have held the position.
"None of them are the people that you would expect to take a position like this," she said, "The link is that they see the need for a good bus system."
Katie Bartlett, Wiltmette, Ill. senior, is a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences senator. Bartlett is chair of the transportation board, said that Appleby was passionate about his work.
"He's a bus dork. He likes
them," Bartlett said, "So that's a good thing. For someone who's going to spend about 30 hours or so during their week doing this, it's really important to have someone who cares that much about it."
While the system usually runs smoothly, Appleby said that problems occasionally appear. He has dealt with problems ranging from a bus collision to a student whose face was accidentally caught in the door, breaking her glasses.
Aaron Quisenberry, advisor to the transportation board, said that Appleby handled the bus system well.
"I admire somebody to be able to do that because I could barely put gas in my car as an undergrad," Quisenberry said. "He loves doing things for the community. Whatever he'll do, he'll do it with all of his heart."
Contact Pracht at aprecht@kansan.com. This story was edited by Sarah Warren.
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