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Soul food sticks to the heart
Man encourages communication by mastication has for 10 years
By Morc Sheforgen msheforgen@kansan.com
(USPS 650-640)
Kansan staff writer
Garland's got greens tonight, and pork steak smothered with thick gravy, and whipped potatoes with just enough pepper, and soft, hot biscuits, and fried green beans, and corn, and ham hocks, and sticky peach cobbler.
Grab a plate, take a seat over there with the rest of the group next to Paul Pierce.
What's on TV?
Where's Garland?
Settled in his chair, smiling, welcoming hungry students, his "sons," one after another, into his home. Into his life. They're here to fill their bellies and soak up the wisdom and generosity of one of Lawrence's unknown greats.
For 10 years Garland Hall has fed scores of students, athletes and just plain kids. They are his surrogate sons, mostly KU students. They roll through his house at 12th and Connecticut from 3:30 p.m. to midnight most Sundays—and they'me hungry.
Cooking for as many as 20 young men has become a Sunday tradition for Garland, a social worker and part-time Reverend.
It's a tradition that may be coming to an end, however, the casualty of a new youth that doesn't seem to care.
High-profile KU basketball players, the likes of Adonis Jordan, Jacque Vaughn, Paul Pierce and Billy Thomas are, or have been, regulars at "G."s.
He does love basketball. to be sure
But Garland doesn't cook to rub elbows with fame
And yeah, there have been players who claimed Garland as family, allowing him to go to games, home and away. All "Rev," "G," "Garland," has to do is come through with the grub.
But this year, Garland didn't go to any basketball games. Too busy. He kept on cooking though.
Garland is just old fashioned. He believes in a community raising its young people.
For Garland, it's not about high-fiving ball players or scoring tickets. He feeds many non-athletes as well.
"Back when I was growing up, the whole
neighborhood raised you," he says.
He wants to be a mentor, a provider for young men who are away from home. He wants to be a father figure.
Gartland Hall and longtime friend Pierre Lisk, a Sierra Leone track and field runner for four years, share a laugh before a Sunday night dinner. Lisk has been eaten with Hall for more than five years.
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Garland, 43, was raised in Coffeyville by his maternal grandparents. He didn't meet his own father until age 15.
"We learn from experience," Garland says. "I guess what my father taught me, because he wasn't there a lot of the time for me when I was growing up, is that I do want to be there for my kids."
Garland and his wife have raised two daughters, and they're not the only ones he's there for. He has dozens of sons as well. Kids of all ethnic backgrounds are welcomed in this father figure's home.
Jose Cornejo has worked with Garland for seven years as a social worker at the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center. He said that Garland wants these young men to
And it is nice to have someone there for you. Someone who Macolom Nash, KU basketball player from 1990-92, calls "a father away from home."
"I've always believed that people need someone to help them along the way, and it's nice to be there for somebody when they're going through college," he says.
See RAISED on page 8A
Hall makes his famous mashed potatoes and fried green beans. Hall serves Sunday dinners many KU students. Photo by Tara Bradley/ KANSAN
Effects of new polling sites yet to be seen
By Melissa Nao
Kansan staff writer
By Melissa Ngo
www.kent.edu
Although the weather and living organizations continue to affect voter turnout, debate surrounds whether new residence hall polling sites will increase the number of voters.
During the last five years, between 14 and 17 percent of University of Kansas students have voted in Student Senate elections.
Keeping the sites will be a referendum issue that students can vote for during Student Senate elections today and tomorrow.
"Freshmen vote the most, and they live in the residence halls," said Audrey Nogle, elections commissioner. "I think that with the new sites they will swish polling sites, but there won't be a significant increase in voter turnout."
Of the 3,810 students who voted last year, 27.7 percent were freshmen. Nobile said
"Last year we had miserable weather. It was 30 or 40 degrees during elections," he said. "It'll be better weather this year, and that will increase the number of people who vote."
Weather might affect voter turnout, said Brad Finkeldei, Elections Commission chairman.
student body president, said he expected voter turnout to increase.
Kevin Yoder, Campus Cause candidate for
"When you make it more convenient for people to vote, they will," he said.
Emily Heath, Delta Force candidate for student body president, said that organized living groups such as fraternities, sororites and scholarship halls tended to vote more.
Lung Huang, Goodland junior and Interfraternity Council vice president for public relations, said that approximately 18.2 percent of
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"I think it's easier to mobilize people when they live together and see each other every day," she said.
In addition to freshmen, other large voting populations include living organizations.
eligible voters were members of fraternities and sororites.
Dave Diefendorf, Littleton, Colo., sophomore and Delta Tau Delta president, said that a lot of fraternity and sorority members voted.
Finkeldei said he thought organized living might affect whether students voted, but it ultimately was an individual's decision.
"There are designated people who go around to all the houses and remind them to get out and vote during elections." he said.
"I think voting is more driven by what people are interested in," he said.
Elections begin today and will continue through tomorrow afternoon. Students must bring their KUIDs with Spring 1998 stickers, not their smartcards, to be eligible to vote.
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1- Don't Care ... 34%
2- Candidates Behavior ... 1%
3- Know Someone Running ... 6%
4- Marketing ... 10%
5- Money ... 10%
6- Candidate Personalities ... 8%
7- Parent Issues ... 10%
8- Dishung ... 10%
9- Safety ... 4%
10- Enrollment ... 4%
11- Recreation Center ... 2%
12- Diversity ... 2%
13- Technology ... 1%
14- Fail Risks ... 1%
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Diversity may be a class act in future
By Emily C. Forsyth
eforsyth@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The proposal will be reviewed by the College Assembly next fall, and if approved, it will be enacted in Fall 1999.
The Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising voted unanimously yesterday to implement a diversity requirement for students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The diversity requirement would stipulate that a student who receives bachelor's degree from the college must take a class that emphasizes the diverse cultures of the United States.
A list of courses currently offered at the University of Kansas that would fulfill the requirement includes Sociology 601: Introduction to Feminist Social Theory, English 571: American Indian Literature and History 631: Contemporary African-American Experience. The list also includes courses from American studies, communications, political science, anthropology and sociology.
"I imagine there will be a lot of misconceptions about the details of how the diversity requirement will work," Votaw said. "It does not necessarily mean students will be taking an extra three hours."
koeneie voaw, Lawrence senior and co-chairwoman of the Ad Hoc Committee for the U.S. Diversity Requirement, has been working with a group of about 20 students, faculty and staff to pass the requirement.
One important aspect of the requirement is that it can be fulfilled by courses that satisfy
One important aspect of the requirement is that it can be fulfilled by courses that satisfy other distribution requirements. Votaw said.
Shepherd said that the Ad Hoc Committee provided strong arguments for passing the proposal.
Greg Shepherd, associate professor and member of the committee, said that many committee members were concerned about adding credit hour requirements.
"I think it would be a good thing for the college, which is why I voted for it," Shepherd said. "It is a requirement that's increasingly common at universities around the country. While we have a requirement for Western and non-Western courses, we have no requirement for studying the diversity within the United States."
Gloria Flores, associate director of the Office of Minority Affairs, said that the decision was an important step in helping KU students become more well-rounded and open to diversity.
"This is just one of many efforts that we should attempt at KU for diversity education." Flores said.
What: A requirement mandating that a student who earns a bachelor's degree from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences must take a course that emphasizes diverse cultures in the United States.
DIVERSITY REQUIREMENT:
■ When: The proposal was passed yesterday by the Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising. a group of 12 faculty members
Proposal's future: The proposal will be reviewed by the College Assembly next fall and if passed, it will take effect in Fall 1999
- **Courses:** A list of courses currently offered at the University that would fulfill the requirement includes AMS 110: The American People, AMS 522: American Racial and Ethnic Relations, ANTH 376: North American Indians, ANTH 378: Contemporary North American Indians, COMS 246: Introduction to Intercultural Communication, COMS 447: Intercultural Communication, ENGL 571: American Indian Literature, ENGL 574: African-American Literature, HIST 348: Peoples of Kansas, HIST 631: Contemporary African-American Experience, POLS 614: Urban Politics, SOC 352: Sociology of Sex Soles, SOC 601: Introduction to Feminist Social Theory
CLARIFICATION:
An informational graphic on the front page of yesterday's Kansan incorrectly implied that a bill in the Kansas Legislature that would revoke the full-time state employee status of graduate teaching assistants had passed. The bill has not passed but is being considered.
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