Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan / Monday, September 10. 1990
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Add/drop lines long but speedy
By Yvonne Guzman
Kansan staff writer
John Holmberg began waiting in line to change his schedule at 11:45 a.m. Friday. By the time the enrollment center opened at 1 p.m., a line extended to the foot of the rotunda stairway in Strong Hall.
"I think there's a metaphor for education in our times," said Holmberg, La Cruces, N.M., graduate student. "Standing in lines."
At other times during this semester's add-drop period, the line
Strong's hallway and up to the third floor.
Gary Thompson, director of
sales said there were
probably about 30,000 drops dur-
ing this session.
Although the number of students going through the process was typical, enrollment center officials had to open terminals Friday in two rooms in addition to the main enrollment center. Thompson said.
'I think there's a metaphor for education in our times. Standing in lines.'
The additions were necessary because some terminals broke down and because of the rush of students trying to change their schedules on the last day to add a class without a dean's stamp or adviser's signature.
Normally, 10 terminals are in use at the enrollment center, Thompson said. With the additional rooms Friday, 20 terminals were in use.
But the add-drop period is traditionally a hectic two weeks, Shulen burger said.
Dave Shulenburger, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the add-drop period was busy because of this year's record enrollment and because there were no new applicants in the center to handle the increase.
"They've been this long before." Shulenburger said of the lines. "They've been much longer actually."
The survey allowed students to
The lines may become shorter if a drop survey used this semester yields information that will help administrators set policy to reduce the number of drops, Shulenburger said.
— John Holmberg Las Cruces, N.M. graduate student
explain why they were dropping classes. All students were required to complete a survey.
Students did not seem to have trouble with the reoaid
forms, Shulenburger said.
"In general, students have been just real helpful," Shulenburger said. "And in turn we certainly are obliged to help them in a way that will help the situation."
Students questioned seemed pleased about the add-drop process this semester. Although the line was usually long, it moved fairly quickly and most students said the forms were easy to fill out.
"It's not a big deal," Stephanie Kelman, Shawne junior, said of the forms. "It takes two seconds.
Coleen Dodson, Little Rock, Ark.
junior, said that she agreed the forms were simple and that add-drop went faster for her this year than last.
"I'm really lucky," she said. "My sophomore year I had to enroll late so i didn't have a good chance to get the job I needed. This year it been good."
The Shawnee Heights band keeps time in the Band Day parade.
Band Day strikes responsive chord
By Jamie Elliott
Kansan staff writer
Kansas won its first football game of the season Saturday, but for more than 2,300 high school teams the best part of the game.
Forty-five high school bands from across Kansas and Missouri came to Lawrence on Saturday for the 43rd annual KU Band Day, which began with a morning parade through downtown and ended with a halftime performance with the KU Marching Jayhawks.
Band Day started early for the Chase County High School Band, which boarded a bus at about 6 a.m. in Cottonwood Falls, about 25 miles west of Emporia. It was four hours after many band members got home after a late night Friday at an away football game.
By 9 a.m., the band was in line for a parade down Massachusetts Street, which was lined with onlookers and proud parents carrying cameras and video equipment. Chase County Band member Randy Musthrus marched in his sacks.
By 11 a.m., the bands were amassed at Memorial Stadium and practicing the halftime show. They formed a rectangle around the KU Band as a loudspeaker blared.
"Our uniform is black shoes," Musrush said. "And I forgot them. But I had black socks."
"This is a concert B-flat," a voice said. "Let's see how close we can get."
After a satisfactory rehearsal of the program's five pieces, the band members were dismissed to the stands to wait for halftime.
Most of the Chase County Band ran for the concession stand and the shade under the stadium. Despite the heat, Chase County Band member Aaron Alexander said he was glad to be there.
"It's a great idea that they're doing this," Alexander said. " we're getting to see a college band. We're getting to play where they do and getting the idea what it would be like."
After a two-hour wait in the hot sun, the pre-game ceremony began with KU Band members, wearing T-shirts, shorts and white baseball caps, running onto the field from under the stadium.
"It's awesome," Alexander said as he watched the band play and change formations on the field. "Much better than K.State. It looks so awsome when they re出 there doing all those things. It feels like I'm putting them up. Their formation when they came in — that was excellent."
Zibola Fuld, KU Band member,
said she remembered attending
Band Day when she was a part of the
Lawrence High School Band.
"It's fun," Mofid said. "It's really neat to get all the bands together and make this big sound.
During halftime, the massed band performed "I'm a Jayhawk. Let Lee Funk play," the theme for ice-fire Castles, "Hot Shot," and "Patriotic Finale."
About 10 minutes before halftime, the bands in the stands began taking out their instruments and struggling into heavy uniforms, some of which included Chase County Band band to test T shirts, black shorts and of course, black shoes.
Professor explains Iraqi perspective
Bv Tatsuva Shimizu
Kansan staff writer
The U.S. public should not bash Iraq President Addis Ababa's decision for the invasion of Kuwait, a KU agreement that is intended to be a
Deborah Gerner, assistant professor of political science, spoke to about 80 people at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union. The lecture, titled "Middle East Crisis: Iraq Invasion," was the second lecture of the Think Global Issues on Friday (TGFE) lecture series.
Gerner, who recently returned from the Middle East, said U.S. media had reported that "bad, evil, awful Iraq invaded innocent Kuwait and threatened Saudi Arabia."
But she said that she would not endorse Saddam Hussein and that international law did not allow them to commit war crimes.
Ira has tremendous oil reserves and abundant agricultural resources, she said. But the nine-year-old company had already filed a complaint.
"Iraq needed revenue badly,very badly," she said.
To understand the crisis, Americans need to consider the background of the Middle East, she said. The media do not cover some important facts about the crisis.
Americans should consider money, power and territory when studying the crisis, Gerner said.
Before the Iraqi invasion, Kuwait drove down the price of oil by producing more than the quota set by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, she said. She would share higher prices rather than higher prices.
Gerner said that Kuwait could afford to sell at the low price because it was a rich country but that its exports were not good for the economy.
Saddam Hussein likes to see himself as the leader of the Arab world, Gerner said. He thinks he can lead Arab countries to glory in the international community.
To inspire the Arab people, Saddam Hussein had been telling the people of non-oil-producing Arab countries that oil-producing Gulf states were selfish and didn't help Arab unity, Gerner said.
"This plays very, very well in certain communities," she said.
Kuwait sporadically had been part of Iraq before becoming independent from Britain in early 1960s. Gerner said. Iraqi consider Kuwait part of their country. However, they do not have a clear, formal boundary and have had trouble claiming Kuwaiti territory in the past.
Gerner questioned whether trade sanctions against Iraq were appropriate because the sanctions hurt not only Saddam Hussein, who is viewed as the United States as a dictator, but the entire country.
invade Kuwait," she said.
"This is the third occasion by Iraq to try to
She said there was hostility against the United States in the Middle East because the United States had been a major source of
Aida Dabbas, Amman, Jordan, graduate stud-
eer, said Jordanians were supporting Saddam Hussein.
"To them, the American intervention in the Middle East is far worse than what Saddam Hussein is doing. They found that the American intervention is just an extension of colonialism,"
Saleh Al-Khabibian, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, graduate student said Said Khabibian supported the study.
However, Al-Kafkhan said there would be problems as troops remained in Saudi Arabia some time.
"This is the most open society Saudi Arabia is the most conservative, closed society. We may disagree on things."
skateboarders gather to protest proposed ban
By Elicia Hill
The 38 people gathered on the steps of Wescoe Hall yesterday had one thing in common, they were protesters. A man of skateboard riding on campus.
Kansan staff writer
The protesters, who ranged in age
Some were riding on their skateboards, in obvious rebellion to "No Skateboarding" signs placed on camper trailers. They were milling with boards on ground.
The "No Skateboarding" signs were erected after the Aug. 27 attack in which a 29-year-old KU student was struck in the head by a skateboard while she was sitting in a cafeteria area behind Wescoe Hall.
from 11 to 17, said they thought they might raise awareness about how there is no safe place to skateboard inhere other than KU.
The accident happened when an 11-year-old skateboard rider lost control of his skateboard on a second-
floor patio of Wescoe.
Thirteen-year-old Jon Klassen, one of yesterday's protesters, said, "This is so unfair to us kids. They don't ban cars after they have accidents. Why do they ban skateboards after just one accident?"
Lt. John Mullens of the KU police said there was no written University policy that banned skateboards on campus. Despite the signs, it is not illegal to skateboard on campus, he said.
The University is considering recommending expansion of city skateboard riding restrictions to include the campus, Mullens said.
Charles Hartman, who had a son and a niece at the protest, said that he was chaperoning the event.
University Senate will vote on ROTC policy
"It's pretty dumb to do this to the kids," he said. "They don't have the skateboard or their kiteboard. I'm proud of them, but they are using their free speech rights."
By Karen Park
University senate members will vote through mail-in ballots on University Council's resolution denying ROTC course credit hours from counting toward graduation, said Sam Scott, Senate executive officer.
Kansan staff writer
The Senate discussed the resolution at Thursday's meeting, but because there was no quorum, no vote was taken.
He said the mail-in ballot would be sent within seven days of the meeting. The members then would have 10 days to respond.
For a quorum to be present, one-fifth of the entire body - 249 of the 1,244 members - must be present. The meeting members attended the meeting. Scott said.
Members also will receive a summary of the issue as discussed at the meeting, he said.
The resolution, which was passed May 3, states that a Department of Defense policy, which excludes members based on sexual orientation from receiving scholarships and being commissioned, violates the University's anti-discrimination policy.
The University's policy states that a student may not be denied the rights of access to or participation in any University-sponsored or University-approved activity because of race, religion, sex, disability, national origin, political affiliation, age, ancestry or sexual orientation.
Robert Friau, professor of physics and astronomy, said at the Senate meeting that using course credit as a penalty on such an policy would set a bad precedent.
"If we set a policy of denying credit for courses because of our own dislikes, this is a very dangerous precedent," he said.
Other Senate members had differing views about the proposed resolution.
Donald Marquis, associate professor of philosophy, said he questioned why the University had an anti-discrimination policy if it was willing to tolerate a program that contradicted that policy.
"It seems to me as if we're being hypocrites." he said.
Pat Warren, Student Senate Executive Committee chairperson, said he was dissatisfied with Chancellor Gene A. Budig's policy, which Warren said was to work with the Department of Defense to urge the Department of Defense to change the policy affecting homosexuals.
Air Force ROTC Capt. Todd Rennar said in an interview that people concerned about changing the policy needed to talk to the congressmen
Renner also said that homosexual students could enroll in ROTC classes but that they would have to enroll as special ROTC students. Foreign students, students who are not interested in serving in the military and homosexuals are placed on special student status.
Walnut Valley Festival 19th National Flat-Picking Championships September 13,14,15,16,1990
**Featuring In Person:**
* Mike Cross
* Behrn, Cranny & Hickman
* Dunn, Brian
* Treportow
* Paul Adams & The Borderline Band
* John McCathane
* The Special Consensus
* Michael & Company
* The Band
* Art Therne
* Cathy Fink & Marry Marker
* Hoehler High Claggers
* Southern Light
* Aleen & Eli Thomas
* Harvey Reil
* Bluestem
*Four Hands In A Cloud of Dust*
*Dixie Chicks*
*Spontaneous Combustion*
*Danger in The Air*
*Happy Traum*
*Cary Galler Band*
*Cary Galler Home & Fleming*
*Turtle Creek*
*Linda Bilon*
*Judy Dees*
*Lia Griffith*
*Wild Rose Ensemble*
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