Vol. 99, No.11 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1864 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANNAN
Monday September 12, 1988
Station Greendahl/KANSAN
Rushing toward a new season
TOP: Right tackle Bill Hundell, Lenexa junior, and tailback Arnold Snell, M. Ternon, N.Y. senior, lead the Jawhays onto for their first game of the season. The Bayley beat the Jawhays 21-74 at Saturday afternoon at Memorial Stadium. RIGHT: Lesie Lamile, Independence senior; with her father Fire Mount, KU celebrated Paints Day on Saturday.
43,000 greet team at stadium
Kansan staff writer
By James Farquhar
As Foxilla deflated, the 30-foot orange and purple KCP 101*1 mascot belly-flatbed to the pavement Saturday morning, bringing down the beach in front of the beach party and a two-month kansas (Moss) University ball.
More than 100 people arrived at Memorial Stadium at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday for the pregamble festivities. The crowd grew to more than 300 by as onlookers locked in early for the game.
"I was hoping for a few more people at the pregame party," said Craig Haines, director of marketing and promotions for Kansas sports teams. "We're here because we'd never done anything like that."
But Haines said that his two months of hard
work paid off when a 32,900 fans, including visiting parents, showed up for the first home game. KU, playing under Couch Glen Mason for the first time, lost 27-14 to Baylor.
KU-Baylor game coverage
"I was hoping for 30,250 people to show up and fill the stadium," Haines said. "But I was very happy with the crowd that came out to support the team."
Haines solicited support from businesses for the promotional campaign.
This year's attendance increased nearly 10,000 from last year's first game attendance of
Fleming Companies Inc., parent company of United Star, IGA and Checks grocery stores.
Sundance Natural Juice Sparklers sponsored T-shirts with the Jahawk's slogan, "Meet me at the stadium this fall," on the front. Football tickets were given away with the purchase of the $5 shirt. Sundance soft drinks were available at the beach party.
bought 15, 000 tickets at discount prices and gave some of them away to its customers.
For the pregnancy party, Haines invited the radio station KCXP-10 to play music and to act
"The whole idea of the beach party was to get a party atmosphere going before the game and have people hang around to watch the game." Haines said.
KCFX announces Ken Johnson and John Morrill were hosts for the party.
KU professor makes history Bilingual poetry book a first
By Deb Gruve
Kansas staff writer
Through his book of poetry, a KU professor has changed publishing history.
Alan Leichter, associate professor of English, has altered history with the publication of "Czeanea" in the country recently published in Germany.
It is the first time that a U.S. poet's work has been originally published in Germany in bilingual form. one page of this book is written in English, the facing page in German.
"It began about three summers ago when I was in residence in Germany to get some new writing done. Licher said, "Something just clicked particularly well, and I got a sizable amount of poems written that I put that group of poems in reserve in the library to do something special with them."
Liechten went back to Germany last summer, made contact with a translator and worked with him the entire summer.
"Translating poetry is the most difficult of all written forms." Lachete suggests that it is best used for the metaphors or go for rhymes? Every translation a poem is going through can be described as:
Lichter said he wanted a publisher who would publish in bilingual form to repay the country that had provided him with his writing environment
While Lichter was in a bookstore, an acquaintance suggested publisher David Shapiro's poetry and sent it to English and German critics at a German university.
"Within a week," Lichter said, "he told me he wanted to publish me."
the author is invited to publish the
"Cezanne's Apples" is the title of
the lead poem.
"The poem is about Germany and
my ambivalent feelings about Germany because I am Jewish, and I still have a lot of problems about some things in our country of my closest friends are German.
Although Lichter said meet of the poems were about his feelings toward Germany, he said he didn't hear the poems had specific subjects.
Floyd Horowitz, professor of English, has read "Cezanne's Apples" and agreed with Lichter.
"The topics differ considerably and overall, they do not define an audience." Horowitz said.
Horwitz said he thought anyone interested in poetry would enjoy "Cezanne's Apples." He especially enjoyed the bilingual translation.
"I have a sense that this translation is a good one," Horace said. "The imagery is kept up, and the imagery is very important to maintain."
Whether Lichter nor Horowitz said they thought the work could be classified. But, Horowitz said it was definitely modern poetry.
Lieber said that he wrote for himself and that his poetry was a selfish act.
"Anyone looking for a rhyme scheme is not going to find it here." Horowitz said.
"I write for only one reason"
Lichter said, "I write to understand
as precisely as possible the feeling I
about something at a particular time."
Lether has taught fiction writing and poetry writing at the University of Kansas since the 1970-71 academic year.
"Cezanne the Apples!" will hit bookstores in Germany within the next few days. Arrangements are being made to appear in the United States.
Gunmen attack Haitian church
The Associated Press
PORTAU PRINCE, Hati - Mann armed with guns and machetes burst into the church of a militant Roman Catholic priest yesterday and killed at least three parishioners, wounded in a gunshot. The witnesses and news reports said.
Police stood near the church but none came to the rescue, witnesses said. After the attack, gangs of men roamed the desert streets and stoned the offices of two groups regime of Lt. Gen. Henri Nambry.
The Rev Jean-Bertrand Aristide an outspoken opponent of the military government, had just begin a a.m. (8: a.m.) CDT) Mass when group of men began rocking root at the church, pamphing hundred inside who rushed for the doors, saws journalist attending tb service
"Suddenly the doors at the back of the church burst open to 20 and 30 men with machetes, huge sticks and swords, a few civilians," the journalist said.
"They started shooting people, beating them, and stabbing and slashing them. They stabbed a
woman who was pregnant. They stabbed another man who ran outside the church. He died. Some people were shot "
Estimates of the numbers of parishioners in the church, inside a compound ringed by a wall, ranged from 600 to 1,500.
Frightened residents died to their homes after the attacks and only the bands of men remained on the streets. The attack came on a day groups had planned a protest of Nanjing's wounding the constitution in July.
A Crusade for the Constitution committee, headed by the political opposition, asked the media to dress in white when she showed a show of protest. Few people could be seen at protests.
Paul Latorre, a former senate candidate in Haiti, said he was sure the church attack was the work of the government and its supporters.
"They've wanted to kill Aristide for a long time," he said in San Juan, where he teaches economies at the University of Puerto Rico. "It is significant that the government tried to do this today, a day of protest."
Humanities enrollment declining, report shows
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A growing number of U.S. residents are buying books, visiting museums and joining clubs like The New York college humanities courses has fallen drastically in the past 20 years, a government report indicated yesterday.
The report by Lynne V. Cheney, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, describes "remarkable blossoming" of public interest in humanities, and says it is boosting book purchases.
U. S. residents who spent twice as much on sporting events as on cultural endeavors 20 years ago are now more likely to attend an event compared with $1.3 billion for
sports in 1986, according to the report.
The endowment, an independent federal agency, said the bad news was found at colleges and universities, where preparation for a money-making job had overtaken interest in getting well-rounded liberal arts education.
While the number of bachelor's degrees awarded increased 88 percent in the past two decades, degrees in foreign languages were down. Foreign language majors were down 29 percent, English majors were down 39%, philosophy majors 35 per cent, and psychology majors 34 per cent.
The report says that Western tradition is rich and creative, but that many colleges are abandoning courses that teach it.
Shortened add period has few enemies
By Jeremy Kohn
Almost every department and school at the University of Kansas' Lawrence campus is using a two-week add period this fall, and the system seems to be working well for faculty and students.
Kansan staff writer
"I do think that it does force us to choose our classes more efficiently and quickly," said Ted Reed.
James Carothers, associate dean of liberal arts, said, "The sooner students have their schedules fixed, the sooner they can focus their attention on their classes."
The official University add/drop policy sets the add period at four weeks and the drop period at five weeks, but schools can set shorter add periods.
Eight of the nine professional schools on the
average campus and 50 liberal arts department
offices.
began Aug. 30 and ends Sept. 15.
The School of Journalism, the religious studies department in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the College of Health Sciences and Kau, are different in their add/drop policies.
Mary Wallace, associate dean of journalism,
said the add period for journalism classes began
on Aug. 30 and ended Sept. 2. She started placing
students from a waiting list on Aug. 17. Students
who did not get their classes during main
enrollment last spring used the waiting list.
"If the students have missed one week, they have already missed a significant amount of class material."
He said the shortened add time was a departmental decision.
Robert Minor, chairman of the religious studies department, said the add period for his
Walter Gehbach, director of the center for student affairs at the College of Health Science
that said except for those training to be doctors.
students could add classes through Sept. 26.
Brower Burchell, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the two week add policy was set early last spring by the undergraduate advising committee.
The drop policies listed in the timetable are the same for all schools and departments.
The committee, which has representatives from each of the undergraduate schools, is not a policy making group. Gary Thompson, director of student records, said all the schools had agreed to have a shorter add time ending on the same day for consistency.
Crothers said all of the schools and colleges used a two-week add period last spring also. Some don't seem to notice the two-week add period.
Wallace Johnson, professor of East Asian language and culture, said, "I hasn't affected