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University Daily Kansan, March 9. 1984
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Graffiti covers campus halls, walls, stalls
By STEPHANIE HEARN Staff Renorter
What is the meaning of life? What rock groups are "cool"? How boring are classes?
One of the hot spots for campus graffiti is on desk tops like this one in the basement of Fraser Hall.
Answers to these questions and new numbers for "little black books" can be found in campus phone booths, on restroom walls and stalls, in the library stacks and on desks at the University of Kansas.
The University is constantly fighting the problem of graffiti in campus buildings, said Richard Bivens, KU professor and housekeeper for Facilities Operations.
ALTHOUGH STUDENTS may say they do not approve of the writing of graffiti, most enjoy reading it and can write time when they wrote on a desk or wall.
Steve Wright, Lenexa junior, said graffiti made him angry. When he was part-owner of a tavern in Lawrence, the walls were spray-painted with graffiti.
"We reported it to the police," Wright said, "but there was nothing they could find."
Yet, despite his disgust with graffiti,
Wright said, he once wrote on a bathroom wall in response to something written about a friend.
Cindy Oneli, Gladstone, Mo., junior,
said that although she disliked people
destroying property by writing on it,
she knew that she had taken out her pen
before she had been tempted to
write her reaction to a comment.
Noel Nieto, Wichita junior, said, "I like to read graffiti — it's entertaining to read writing on the desk when class gets boring."
Nieto said he thought students were
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more prone to write on desks if the desks already had writing on them.
Bivens said that he thought students brought on furnishings of a need to be ready.
"It doesn't seem as harmful then," he said.
But Janelle Hosinger, Goddard sophromore, said she thought people wrote on bathroom walls because, "it was the thing to do."
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BUT THAT WAS in high school, she said.
"BATHROOM WALLS in bars are usually the most creative," he said, "because people are drunk when they write on them."
Instead of comments about how "stuck up" the cheerleaders are, or who did what to whom, college students should talk to a faithful readers something to think about.
Wright said that he really enjoyed reading the rhymes because they were
But not all graffiti is humorous
Nieta said, "I've read political stuff written by foreign students against the United States."
But, whether students like it or not, graffiti will probably always be around because, Bivens said, "nothing can solve the problem."
"Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think," was written on a bathroom wall in Wesco Hall amid comments stressing women's rights to equality and deference. "People who write on bathroom walls.
Graffiti has been around since ancient times when people wrote in stone.
"The best the University can do is try to keep up with it." Bivens said. "Sometimes all we can do is paint over it
"Actually the students, themselves,
are paying for it through taxes and
commuting."
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But this year fewer people than ever before are participating in the program.
Traditionally, spring and Thanksgiving breaks have been a time for cultural exchange for many foreign students participating in the Homestay program.
For 11 years, the Homestay program, offered through the office of foreign student services, has been placing foreign students in the homes of local teachers for two spring breaks. Diann Stewart, assistant director of the service, said recently.
Most of the foreign students stay with families who live on farms around Wichita.
THIS YEAR ONLY 21 students signed up for the program, she said, and the office placed just nine students for the spring break. In previous years,
about 50 students had usually signed up for the program.
One reason for the decline may be that foreign students are traveling abroad.
She said that of the 21 students who had signed up, four later decided not to participate and eight were turned down because not enough homes were available.
Students participating in the program during spring break spend five days with an American family, she said. Sometimes the students' families also stay with the host family. After five days, students must make their own arrangements for a place to stay, she said.
"The only thing they have to pay for is their transporation." Stewart said.
Even though staying with a family during the break may ease financial burdens for foreign students, financial assistance is only reason for the program, she said.
"THE PURPOSE OF Homestay is so
But Stewart said that both students and host families had begun to lose interest in the program. Interest has been decreasing for several years, and the lack of interest perplexed her, she said.
that foreign students can visit American families and see what life is like off campuses," she said. "It's also, so many cultures, that people from different cultures are like.
"I'm not real sure why as many people didn't sign up," she said. "I'm
"Last year 50 students signed up, and I placed somewhere in the thirties."
"We enjoy learning about other cultures, and we thought it would be a good experience for our three children," she said.
We have spent a lot of time talking about languages and cultures."
Deanna Entz, who lives on a farm near Whitewater, said that this was the third time her family had signed up for the program.
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