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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Tuesday, November 21, 2000
Sports: The basketball team cruised to another easy victory last night against Boise State.
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Inside: The Sketch Comedy Club wasn't laughing after Student Senate denied it funding.
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(USPS 650-640) • VOL.111 NO.60 For comments, contact Nathan Willis or Chris Borniger at 864-4810 or e-mail editor@kansap.com
Students arrested in demonstration
3,000 protest against School of Americas
By Rob Pazell
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Breeze Luetke-Stahlman sat in a bus, handcuffed for hours with eight other University of Kansas students, arrested for refusing to leave Fort Benning, Ga.
The students nonviolently demonstrated against reported human rights violations of the Latin School of the
Americas, which stands on the U.S.
Army Base.
Out of more than 3,000 protestors, 1,700 were processed — an action that Luetke-Stahlman, Olathe senior, said made the best statement.
"It made national news, and that's exactly what we were there to do," Luetke-Stahiman said.
A funeral procession with more than 3,000 people, including actor Martin Sheen, walked across a white line on a cold and rainy Sunday into Fort Benning. They were demonstrating against the School of the Americas, an organization accused of killing innocent people in Latin America. The protesters carried crosses and plastic coffins and read names of victims during the procession.
A half a mile into the base, the process
"It made national news,and that's exactly what we were there to do."
Breeze Luetke-Stahlman
Olathe senior
sion was stopped, and told to leave. Demonstrators could either walk off the base or get into buses that drove off the base.
Anna Wagner, Topeka senior and Latin American Solidarity member, said she and other members of an affinity group had discussed being processed and decided to stay when everyone was asked to leave the base.
They were a part of the "second wave" of the procession. She said the energy picked up when the remaining 1,700 "high risk" protesters kept moving forward.
"It became less solemn," said Wagner, who organized the University's student representation. "We were being nonviolent, but we wanted to make our point and not cooperate."
Those who marched farther were stopped two miles into the base and escorted onto buses — some went cooperatively, but others went limp and were handcuffed. They were taken to a processing station on the base where they waited for five hours to be processed and fingerprinted.
Wagner said she was not charged, but given a ban and a letter that said if she
crossed the line again, she could face up to six months in jail and or a $5,000 fine.
Wagner said she had crossed the line three years before, and more people were arrested this year than in years past. She said she thought the military made it a bigger deal to avert protests this year than in the past.
"They didn't want the media attention," Wagner said. "This definitely made a stronger statement than in years past."
Eliza Bennett, Marion senior, stood vigil and didn't cross the line. She said the arrests were completely expected, and it was a very calm situation.
"SOA watch did a wonderful job." Bennett said. "It never felt like things got out of control."
Rock Chalk winners ready to roll
— Edited by Amy Randolph
By J.D. McKenna
By J.D. McKeen
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff reporter
The Rock Chalk Advisory Board announced last night the five living organizations that will perform in March's Rock Chalk Revue.
The winners, who will perform their skits paired with another living organization, were selected from 12 living groups that submitted notebooks containing their ideas for their performances.
The winners, who will perform a skit based on the theme "On the Record," were: Gamma Phi Beta sorority and Beta Theta Pi fraternity; Pi Beta Phi sorority and Phi Delta Theta fraternity; Kappa Delta sorority and Sigma Nu fraternity; Delta Delta Delta sorority and Phi Gamma Delta fraternity; and Chi Omega sorority and Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
Erin Day, Chi Omega member and St. Francis junior, said she was thrilled to have her group chosen.
Day said it was hard to tell who would be selected for the revue before last night because she thought all of the groups were talented this year.
A group of anonymous judges who were either KU alumni or had some connection to theater and drama, selected the winners.
"For the Chi Omega women, this is the first time since 1989 that we've been selected," she said. "We've nicknamed it the Chi Omega curse. We just decided we were gone to break it, and we did."
Mandy Hanson, executive director of Rock Chalk and Marion senior, said the notes the judges made on each skit revealed there was an amazing amount of variety in the shows.
"All the shows we're really good," she said.
Anne Hoagland, assistant executive director and Lansing senior, agreed that there was a lot of variety among the programs submitted.
"I was really impressed with the creativity," Hoagland said. "The groups really stepped outside the normal Rock Chalk Revue themes. They really explored some new mediums."
Although all the winning organizations were greek, four residence halls banded together to create a notebook for the competition.
Templin Hall, Hashinger Hall, Lewis Hall and Ellsworth Hall all competed.
"They did a really good job." Hanson said. "I hope they do it again. Competition was really stiff this year."
The winning groups will have practices every day next semester until the show opens.
Rock Chalk Revue will take place at 7 p.m. from Thursday March 8, to Saturday, March 10, at the Lied Center.
The revue is the University's largest philanthropic effort. The proceeds from the show go to the United Way of Douglas County.
— Edited by Melissa Cooley
JOINT PERFORMERS
Gamma Phi Beta sorority and
Beta Theta Pi fraternity
Pi Beta Phi sorority and Phi Delta Theta fraternity
Kappa Delta sorority and Sigma Nu fraternity
- Delta Delta Delta sorority and Phi Gamma Delta fraternity
Chi Omega sorority and Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
Ashlee Mills, Savannah, Ga., senior and Elisabeth Ashley, Prairie Village junior, embrace after the announcement that their sorority, Chi Omega, and their teammate, Sigma Phi Epsilon, will be performers in the Rock Chalk Revue. This will be the first time since 1989 that members of Chi Omega have participated in Rock Chalk. The announcement came last night at Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St. Photo by Selena Jabaro/KANSAN
Tofu turkey to grace vegetarians' Thanksgiving tables
Holly Carter, Wichita junior, and Shannon Leslie, Wichita sophomore, prepare a vegetarian dinner at home. Carter and Leslie will prepare a tofu turkey for Thanksgiving. Photo by Aaron Lindberg/KANSAN
By Melissa Davis
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Holly Carter is excited for Thanksgiving break because she loves turkey.
She decided to become a vegetarian five years ago after sitting in a steak house and seeing pictures of cows on the wall — cows she was about to eat.
Carter, Wichita junior, loves turkey so much she can't eat it. Carter is a vegetarian.
"I was sitting there, and I saw my future meal — in a picture on a wall — and I decided that I couldn't eat that cow, or any animal, in fact," she said. "It just seemed wrong."
Carter has been a vegetarian since what she calls her "enlightened awaking" making this her fifth Thanksgiving as a vegetarian.
Carter said she would celebrate the holiday just as meat-eaters did
— with a turkey. But it's a special turkey.
"Yeah, I'm going to make a tofu turkey," she said. "It's real yummy."
Carter also doesn't eat dairy products or drink milk, which makes Thanksgiving dinner a little difficult, but manageable, she said.
"I still make mashed potatoes," she said. "But I make them with soy milk. For crying out loud, it's not rocket science."
Ann Chapman, registered dietitian at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said some students could be uneducated about healthy vegetarian diets. Cutting out some foods could cause a potential health risk if students are not informed, she said.
"You can be a vegetarian and be healthy," she said. "You just have to know how to fortify your diet with iron, zinc, calcium and other vitamins through foods." she said.
Chapman said she saw a fair amount of healthy vegetarians at Watkins, but she warned that vitamins were not a cure for a poorly planned diet. The best vitamins come from food, she said.
Carter agreed.
"This Thanksgiving, I will get all my vitamins from food," she said. "Like I do every meal."
But other vegetarians, such as Shannon Leslie, Wichita sophmore, aren't as lucky.
Leslie said going home for Thanksgiving would be a hassle, not because of her family, but because her eating habits were different from her meat-eating relatives.
"I will definitely have to pick around the food," she said. "I will probably eat a tofu sandwich later or just corn or a salad. It sucks, but not as much as it does for the turkey."
— Edited by Warisa Chulindra
Lofty utility bills prompt strict heat regulations
By Jason Krall writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
If faculty and staff don't cut back on natural gas and electricity use at the University of Kansas, the money to cover utility bills could come out of other University budgets, administrators said yesterday.
Jim Long, assistant provost, said if measures such as lowering thermostats and asking faculty not to use space heaters didn't reduce the University's utility bills, money could come from other University budgets to cover the cost.
"The first thing we'd want to do is devise ways to cut back energy consumption," Long said. "The next step would be to ask the state for supplemental funding. Third, we'd have to look to University budgets if that became necessary."
Long declined to comment on whether cuts could be made from schools and departments that failed to comply with the new energy standards handed down by Provost David Shulenburzer last week.
Shulenburger asked that thermostats in campus buildings be set to 68 degrees during daytime hours and 60 degrees overnight and on weekends. They should be set at 65 degrees from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. during winter break, when campus buildings are open, and 55 degrees overnight.
The new standards come following estimates that the University will spend about $2.37 million on natural gas this year, up almost $1 million from last year, because of higher natural gas prices.
Kristin Bowman-James, chairwoman of chemistry, said she had received complaints from students who planned to use chemistry labs on campus during the holiday break.
"Some students have noted that if they're going to be working over the break, which they're expected to, it could get pretty cold for them," Bowman-James said.
But Bowman-James said she had encouraged faculty and staff to comply.
"We would like to do everything we can to help," she said.
James Gentry, dean of journalism, sent an e-mail to journalism faculty encouraging them to abide by the provost's ban on space heaters and other measures to cut energy costs.
"If it doesn't cut the bill at the end of the year, all the units are going to have to kick in," he said. "But we don't think that's going to be the case."
Generally, other deans and department heads are encouraging staff to comply with the conservation measures, Gentry said.
"I think all the deans agree that this is the right thing to do," he said.
— Edited by Cress Franklin
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