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THE UNIVERSITY JANIE KANSAN
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2009
NEWS
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LGBT (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
people didn't feel connected to the gay marriage movement, but issues such as equality should be important to everyone in a community, not just gay rights supporters.
"The debate over same-sex marriage really didn't become prominent until the turn of the century," Corvino said. "What I discuss is the importance of 'coming out', not just for gay people, but for anyone who is supportive of gay marriage."
Jeremy Adkison, Leavenworth sophomore, is one of the members of Queers & Allies helping sponsor Corvino's lecture. Adkison said he believed civil unions could be a step towards marriage equality.
Still, Adkison said gay and lesbian couples cared more about the idea behind marriage than the benefits that came with it.
"The truth is it's the word marriage. It's not the rights," Adkison said. "The 14th Amendment gives everyone equal rights, but people can't get married or extend insurance to their children because they're not considered the same."
Matt Kennitz, formation director of St. Lawrence Catholic Church, said gay marriage was wrong because acting on homosexual tendencies, not being homosexual in itself, was a sin. Corvino said he would respond to such beliefs tonight.
"I'm definitely going to address this disconnect," Corvino said. "I."
states with benefits
Same-sex marriage
Same-sex couples
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Civil Unions
New Jersey
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Domestic partnerships
- Oregon
- California
- Maryland
- Manie Hawaii
- Washington
- District of Columbia
Domestic partnership in
understand where it comes from. but there's something unnatural about drawing a line between orientation and action."
Lawrence
- Domestic partnership regis-
- The city recognizes registered same-sex couples as domestic
partners
- Domestic partnership registration creates no legal rights
- Registration fee is $75
- Registration fee is $75
Corvino said people frequently told him the lecture made them
age18
- Partners must plan to live to-
- Partners must have reached 18
independent Partners must not be mar
think more about homosexuality. Some, he said, even changed their views completely after his speech. While students may come to the lecture firm in their own beliefs, Corvino said the speech usually
gether for an indefinite duration Partners must be financially
ried, or have another domestic
partner.
Who: Dr. John Corvino
What:"What's Morally Wrong
with Homosexuality?"
"Who wrote the film The Throne?"
dents can better understand homosexuality
When: 7 p.m. Feb.12
Why: A lecture on how stu-
Where: Hashinger Hall Theater
Cost: Free
Why: A lecture on how students can better understand
Source: freedomtomarry.org
caused most of the audience to reevaluate their stance on homosexuality.
"Even if people in the audience have made up their minds on certain things, they haven't on everything," Corvino said. "Part of the dialogue we have with each other is to give the audience something to think about."
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HARTWIG (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
"You know you can play in college, but the guys you're going against in the NFL are older and smarter and in some cases physically bigger than guys you've been going against."
In his first year, the coaches moved him from tackle to guard. The next year he made a permanent switch to center. Although Hartwig went through multiple transitions in his football career,
none of them may have been as big as his switch to the center position.
In football, the center is an empowering position because the center has to know the offense and blocking schemes better than anyone on the line.
Park freshman, who is a Steelers and a Jayhawks football fan, said he thought Hartwig's position switch was impressive.
"I think that the ability to switch from playing tackle in college to center in the NFL speaks a lot to his overall ability as a football player," Gallagher said.
Hartwig compared the moves in his first two seasons to the growing process he experienced
"I look back fondly at my days at KU and appreciate where I came from..."
JUSTIN HARTWIG Steeler's center
Because of his versatility, Hartwig didn't have a problem playing a position on the line he had no experience with.
"I had never snapped the ball before and five days later I was starting my first preseason game against the Cleveland Browns," Hartwig said. "They moved me to center because I was playing really well and they said I would be their fifth best lineman."
Matthew Gallagher, Overland
as a freshman at the University.
"Going into a college football team where there are 22 and 23-year-old seniors, you kind of get thrown into the fire." Hartwig said. "Just from a growing up point, on the field and off
the field I had a lot of great experiences at KU and especially learned a lot about myself."
POST TENNESSEE YEARS
After leaving the Titans in 2005, Hartwig signed with the Carolina Panthers for the 2006 and 2007 seasons. After those seasons, the Panthers released him.
center. When Hartwig interviewed for the job with coach Mike Tomlin, Tomlin said if he came to Pittsburgh he would have a realistic chance to play for a Super Bowl every year.
Hartwig said he was extremely excited at the beginning of the 2008-09 season when the Steelers picked him up as their starting
Tomlin wasn't lying.
Late in the fourth quarter of this year's Super Bowl, a holding penalty on Hartwig in the end zone resulted in a safety. The Cardinals took advantage and scored quickly, but the Steelers and Hartwig remained poised. They got the ball back with a minute and a half left on the clock and drove down the field.
"The holding call definitely took the wind out of my sail for sure," Hartwig said. "But our calling card all year was winning all our close games and we did what we had to do."
The Steelers pulled out the come-from-behind victory, 27-23 over the Cardinals, and left Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla., as Super Bowl champions.
"There was just a really weird vibe in the air like I've never felt before," Hartwig said. "My adrenaline was absolutely sky high. It was a lot of fun, because you know that the whole world is watching and there is so much buildup to the game."
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SENATE (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
enough thought.
"If we're going to put a spending cap in place it needs to be done with a lot of thought, a lot of people involved in the process and it needs to be done at the beginning of the academic year," Heilman said. "This bill zoomed through committees and was only authored by one person."
Supporters of the bill said it would take important measures to funnel students requesting large chunks of money through the line item allocation process that happens once a year. When students apply for this type of funding, the groups appear together at one time before the Senate so that the senators can get a bigger picture of which groups on campus need money. Foss said that when groups who knew they would be requesting large amounts of money didn't go through line
item, it could cause problems down the road.
"During line item and block allocation we have a set amount that we give to block groups and a set amount that we hold over for nonallocated, so when these groups don't go through line item it catches us off guard," Foss said.
This past semester, layhawk Motorsports and Black Student Union missed the line item allocation deadline and Senate still chose to fund the groups $10,085 and $10,000, respectively. Those funding bills accounted for a quarter of spending for the fall semester.
Alex Porte, Great Falls, Va.
senior and student body treasurer.
Koga Moffor, Black Student Union president and Overland Park senior, said a bill like the one proposed would motivate her group to go through line item funding.
said the bill would have helped prevent similar things from happening in the future.
"It was disappointing to me that the Senate failed it because I felt it was very hypocritical for Senate to have a two hour debate on that bill about fiscal responsibility and then no more than half an hour after that we passed a $2,000 funding bill," Porte said.
Several senators expressed hope that something would come out of the discussion.
Michael Wade Smith, Goodland sophomore and deputy communications director, voted against the bill.
"I think a task force or some kind of committee needs to be formed that has more than four or five people working on it," Smith said.
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-Edited by Heather Melanson
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