FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 2003
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN - 7A
Collection contest reflects book appeal
By Erin Ohm
eohm@kansan.com
kansan writer
Oread Books and the University of Kansas Libraries are trying to encourage students who have a love for books by sponsoring the 47th Snyder Book Collecting Contest.
"It's a good indicator that says people are still collecting books, and it's still a valuable thing in an age when everything is going electronic," said Angie Rathmel, a library assistant in Watson Library.
Rathmil is one member of a three-member committee directing the contest.
She said the contest was directed to help students gain awareness of the value of book collecting.
KU Libraries is accepting
entries for the contest until 5 p.m.
March 31, and all KU students are
eligible to enter. Last year the
contest attracted 26 entrants, the
most since the mid-1960s.
Bill Myers, director of library development, said students could compile books on any area of interest, from sports literature to feminist writers to science fiction magazines.
"Like collecting anything, it's got that special quality about it," Rathmel said.
Myers said judges would consist of former contest winners, University faculty, local business owners and book collectors.
Judges look primarily at the entrant's essay explaining how he tied all the works together and what led them to be interested in the subject, Rathmel said.
Last year's first place graduate winner was Resha Cardone, who
will be judging the contest this year.
Cardone, Covelo, Calif. graduate student in Spanish and Portuguese, entered a collection on Chilean women writers. Part of her collection consisted of book objects, books that were disguised to not look like physical novels to evade military censorship during the dictatorship in Chile in 1973.
"It's wonderful in that it's intellectual, but it's also very personal," Cardone said. "You have to demonstrate why it is you decided to collect these books and what it is that fascinates you about this topic."
Cardone said some of the book objects she acquired included tarot cards and a shoebox full of paper scraps, both of which were created to avoid censorship.
The contest has graduate and
undergraduate divisions. Awards of $600 for first place, $400 for second place and $100 for honorable mention will be given to contest winners. Each winner will also receive a gift certificate to Oread Books.
Prizes will be awarded and a reception held at 3 p.m. on April 22 at Oread Books. Winning collections will be displayed at the second floor in the Kansas Union.
Prize money is awarded from a KU Endowment Association fund created by Elizabeth Snyder of Kansas City, Mo., who made the gift to reward contest winners. Snyder is a book collector who has donated several collections, including collections of A.A. Milne and H.L. Mencken, to KU Libraries.
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senator, agreed with Ng and Malone. Passing the Appleby, resolution would start a precedent that Senate is just a group of friends just wanting to thank its own, he said. Entwhistle said the Appleby resolution could discredit Senate because of this. So when Senate passes resolutions of weightier issues, such as lobbying state legislators about tuition increases, legislators could see the Appleby resolution and not take Senate seriously.
"Senate was doing this for themselves and not their constituencies," he said.
Senators supporting the veto also questioned the resolution's phrasing, which said that "Mike has been an excellent bartender, providing alcohol to many KU students of legal drinking age over the years," and "Mike has spun many hours of great tunes as a DI on KIHK."
Entwhistle was one of 26 senators to sponsor the original resolution. He has since removed his name.
John Paden, graduate senator, tried to offer up the compromise by asking why not wish Appleby well and also write a resolution to wish all students well who were deployed?
Ng and Malone said this wouldn't solve their problem with the resolution.
But Malone and Brian Thomas, resolution sponsor, said they would work on a writing a resolution to honor all deployed KU students.
Film details history of drug prohibition in the United States
By Nicole Roché
nroche@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Edited by Christy Dendurent
Chase Cookson wants everyone to know how much the war on drugs is costing America.
"It's always billions of dollars, and it's getting bigger and bigger," said Cookson, who is president of KU Students for a Sensible Drug Policy.
The drug war costs, which totaled $214.7 billion from 1980
to 1998, are broken down in the documentary Grass, shown at the Kansas Union last night to about 90 students. Students for a Sensible Drug Policy sponsored the event.
Grass, narrated by Woody Harrelson, is an 80-minute history of drug prohibition in the United States.
The film focused on legislation that has kept marijuana use illegal in the United States, from the El Paso Ordinance of 1914 to
the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986.
"Anyone who is a pothead and wants to know why they're a criminal should watch it," Cookson said.
Courtney Smith, Topeka junior, said the film did a good job of showing where marijuana use got its stigma.
"I never thought about where the negative thoughts about marijuana came from," she said. "It kind of makes me angry."
Another early marijuanacampaign promised users would
The documentary chronicled early ad campaigns targeted at the "evil weed."
One campaign told the story of a teenager named Marty who, after smoking marijuana, decided the fun way to open soda bottles was by smashing them against a wall. Marty's downfall occurred when he cut the inside of his mouth from the broken bottle.
endure "physical and moral ruin — and death." Other campaigns claimed users would become insane, violent, addicted to heroin and be "in the grip of Satan."
Chad Simmons, Lee Summit, Mo., freshman, said he initially heard about the film when researching for a project on marijuana last year. The film sheds light on drug use myths, he said.
"I find myself interested in finding out more about stereotypes and where they come from," Simmons said. "This film seems like it does a good job of showing that."
Simmons said that he supported decriminalization of marijuana. He said most of the time it seemed people were either completely for or against the drug.
"There is a midway opinion there," he said, "but it isn't really expressed."
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NATION
Protesters remain perched in trees
EUREKA, Calif. — Eighteen tree sitters trying to save California redwoods from loggers stood firm yesterday against a court-ordered deadline to come down from their perches.
The environmentalists spent a wet and windy morning shrouded in plastic tarps on their platforms, some at least 100 feet above ground.
Pacific Lumber Co. served the tree sitters with a temporary restraining order Wednesday giving them 24 hours to come down, company spokeswoman Mary Bullwinkel said.
Bullwinkel said there were no immediate plans to remove the protesters if they refuse, but added that contracted climbers have been hired in the past to remove similarly defiant activists
The trees are part of a more than 200,000-acre redwood forest owned by Pacific Lumber.
Court rules in favor of flag ban on highways
SAN FRANCISCO — California cannot tear down political signs posted along highways without also barring the U.S. flag, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.
The decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stems from a lawsuit brought by two women whose war protest signs were removed from over passes after the United States invaded Afghanistan.
The court agreed with the women's argument that muffling their freedom of expression while allowing expression in the form of the flag was unconstitutional.
To comply with the ruling, the state transportation department said it would bar all banners, including the American flag, from being posted on highway overpasses and along road-sides.
The department began removing political banners in
response to a rash of messages posted along highways following the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
Trujillo said the department had been leaving American flags and taking down other banners because a California highway code allowed the flag to be posted along roadways.
NASA spacecraft finds travel to Mars risky
PASADENA, Calif. — NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has confirmed suspicions that the radiation on Mars is so intense that it could endanger astronauts sent to explore the Red Planet, scientists said yesterday.
The high radiation levels measured by the unmanned probe also suggest that any extraterrestrial life that might call Mars home would have little chance of surviving unless it were shielded beneath the planet's dusty, cold surface, said Cary Zeitlin of the National Space Biomedical Research
Institute in Houston.
The conclusions stemmed from new data released by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory from the first year of scientific results from the $300 million mission.
NASA talks vaguely of future manned missions to Mars, where astronauts could use that ice for drinking water, fuel and oxygen to breathe. The new radiation findings suggest such a mission would be risky.
One memorial to honor victims of Sept. 11
NEW YORK — Members of the agency overseeing the rebuilding of ground zero said yesterday they will erect a single memorial recognizing all of the World Trade Center victims equally — a move that is all but certain to lead to hurt feelings.
That position puts the agency at odds with those who are demanding special recognition for the hundreds of firefighters, police and rescue workers killed
on Sept.11,2001.
During a meeting yesterday of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., board member Tom Johnson, who lost a son in the attacks, said, "What is called for is one memorial with no hierarchy of victims."
Several other board members agreed, and said they would vote on a written resolution next month.
Man sentenced to sleep in doghouse for 30 days
ORANGE, Texas — A man accused of mistreating his 11-year-old stepson was ordered Thursday to spend 30 nights in a doghouse.
Prosecutors said Curtis Lee Robin whipped Zachary Weiger with a car antenna, made him sleep in a doghouse and chop wood as punishment.
The boy later recanted the doghouse allegation, and Robin denied making him sleep outdoors. But Robin did not dispute the other claims.
He accepted a plea bargain that gave him a choice of 30 days in jail or 30 nights in a doghouse. He chose the doghouse so that he could continue to work as a foreman at a demolition company.
Robin was to spend his first night in the 2-by-3-foot state-supplied doghouse in his front yard on yesterday. Rain was forecast.
His lawyers argued he needed a bigger doghouse, a sleeping bag and mosquito netting. Judge Buddle Hahn said the state would provide a doghouse about the same size as the one the boy once claimed to have slept in.
Robin is allowed to sleep with either his head or feet outside, since he cannot fit all the way into the doghouse. A police officer will patrol his home periodically each night to ensure he serves his sentence.
The deal also called for Robin to serve eight years' probation and pay a $1,000 fine.
The Associated Press
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