LIFE
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, January 21, 1992
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KU publications seek Senate financing
KANSAN illustration by Christine McFarlane
The publishers of Take This! and other campus publications want views other than the Kansan's to be read.
By Erik Bauer Kansan staff writer
Some KU students want to give all KU students the opportunity to contribute to and read independent publications that provide bolder opinions, more creative writing and other information that cannot be found in the University Daily Kansan'.
Take This!, Kiosh and Pinch are three independent student publications circulated on campus. Take This!, formerly Disorientation, is a political newspaper. Kiosh publishes fictional prose submitted by students. Pinch is satirical magazine.
All three publications depend on financing from the Student Senate activity fee.
It is important that the University finance student publications other than the Kansan, said Gary Ashwell, an editor of Take This!
"I certainly think the more voices the better," the Ashwill said. "It's a good idea to have student publications that aren't connected to the J-school."
But before a student publication goes to press, Senate must approve the financing. Students who want money for their publications must have a student senator introduce legislation that details a publication's purpose and budget. Based on the legislation, Senate decides if it will finance the publication.
Every year, these publications must reapply for financing if they want to continue being published.
It is important that Senate be responsible with the student money it allocates, said Ashwill, Overland Park senior.
Kiosk is a good outlet for students to get their work published at the college level, which will help them move on to larger publications, said Kiosk editor David Burgett, Overland Park senior.
Last semester, three students asked Senate to finance a new magazine, Who'sinations, that would focus on local musical, literary or artistic talent. The magazine also planned to take submissions from anyone in the University community. But the bill died in the finance committee. The committee determined that the publication was a duplication of others on campus.
"It was a judgment call," said Curt Broeckelmann, chair of the Senate finance committee.
Broeckelmann said he thought it was questionable whether Who's simulations was a duplication of services. Instead of deciding himself, he turned the decision over to the entire committee, which appealed the decision and voted it down.
"I don't know how they can rule on a duplication if they've never really seen the magazine," said Samantha Kaine, Mission Hills freshman and an editor of Who'sinations.
Kainesaid Who'sinationswasnot a duplication of services because, unlike Kiosk and Take This!, the format was very broad.
Kaine and the other two editors, Richard Mancinelli, Junction City junior, and Kevin Allen, Wichita freshman, decided to finance their magazine through advertising. The first issue will focus on interviews with alternative bands in Lawrence, Kansas City and Manhattan, and should debut in March.
Jenny Perry, Prairie Village junior, and Tina Chapman, Lawrence senior, are two other students seeking financing from Student Senate for a literary magazine they want to publish.
The same people are always being published in Kiosk, Chapman said.
Perry said that she thought the magazine focused on only one stole of
"Ithought ('Take This!') was a pretty good alternative to the Kansan," said Wilem Hartung, Lindsborg sophomore. "There's probably more to be told. You can't just take it all from one source."
writing and that it was published too infrequently.
Some students say they like reading publications besides the Kansan.
Croatian voices sing out for peace and patriotism
The Associated Press
ZAGREB, Yugoslavia — Words and images pour from Croatian radios and TV screens — uplifting songs of peace and patriotism punctuated by reminders of fratricidal war.
Scores, if not hundreds, of song-honoring the Croatian homeland or appealing for peace and international help have been written since fighting started after Croatia's declaration of independence June 25.
Video mix in shots of soldiers, sadened children and bombed-ouches church
On both radio and television, the message is interspersed with the latest details of a war that has gone badly — thousands have died in six months as Croatia has yielded a third of its territory to Serb-led forces.
Though the effort smacks of propaganda, TV and radio producers agree that a pop culture celebrating Croatian pride has evolved spontaneously, perhaps out of the need for a battered society to reassure itself of the justice of its cause.
"In these times, you must do something for the country or be in the war," said Aleksandar Kostadinov, music and entertainment producer at Croatian TV. "That's the most important reason all the musicians sing. Because they want to sleep better. They do what they can."
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