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Volume 128 Issue 58
Mondav. December 8, 2014
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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DALTON KINGERYKANSAN
CarmaHop, a ridesharing service, officially launched in Lawrence over the weekend. The service gives Lawrence residents whiteboards so they can write their desired destination for passersby to recognize.
Political groups prepare for legislative session
ALLISON KITE
@Allie_Kite
As students wrap up the semester, political organizations are already planning their programming for next semester.
From membership development to tabling, educating students seems to be key in programming among multiple political student organizations next semester. Chief among several groups' goals is education.
COLLEGE REPUBLICANS
College Republicans, headed
to speak. However, because she is transferring to Wichita State University, much of the planning will be up to the new president, who will be elected this week.
YOUNG DEMOCRATS
Brittany Bodenheimer, a sophomore from Topeka and president of Young Democrats, said they too would focus on outreach, hoping to attract more students and get them involved in the political process. However, they will also place emphasis on equipping its current members with skills
izations," she said. "I think that the biggest issue that organizations in general are having right now — political or not — is just a lack of student involvement, so I would just encourage students to get involved with whatever fits best with their ideas and really grab on to something."
STUDENT LEGISLATIVE AWARENESS BOARD
The Student Legislative Awareness Board, a bi-partisan civic engagement group on campus, will likewise be paying close attention to the
BROOKLYN ALEXANDER IS A FRESHMAN MAJORING IN COMMUNICATIONS FROM ENGLEWOOD, CALIF.
Q: What made you choose communications?
A: I want to have my own non-profit foundation and I want to have a PR firm. Basically I want to take cancer kids and children out to events and make them feel as normal as possible and educate them on natural health that will counteract the chemotherapy.
Q: So what inspired you to do that?
My 10th grade year in high school I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, so basically I want to share my experience. I guess it's kind of like my inspiration, so I want to share my story with others and help them on their journey as well, just like mine was helped by others. I'm actually two years in remission.
A: The biggest challenge, 1 guess, basically would be feeling normal. Everyone looks at you differently, it's
Q: What was your biggest challenge in overcoming that, that normally people wouldn't think of?
like everyone talks to you differently, they make you feel kind of like you're worthless. I felt like everyone wanted to do everything for me and I hated that, and people would like, come around you and they'll make you feel like you're gonna die the next day type stuff and I didn't like that either. I guess it's feeling normal because I couldn't do certain things that everyone else could do.
A: My faith. God, and believing in him and depending on his strength.
Q: What do you think got you through that whole process?
Q2: So what's the name of your foundation?
A: It's gonna be called Brooklyn's Build-a-Bridge. We're building bridges with families, kind of filling that gap that doctor's don't give. Because they really tell you that you can do anything, you can eat anything you want, when in reality the food that you eat is like hurting you and it breaks down your immune system more.
u: What's the breakdown of your foundation? It sounds like you will have a lot of different things going on with it.
A: I want to be the one to emotionally, and in a way financially, support children who are going through cancer. I want to take them to events and places like to the movies or going to get their wigs. Like maybe shut down a whole movie theater, because when you have cancer, you don't want to be in big crowds because you're more likely to get sick in big crowds. I also want to educate them on natural health because that can be really beneficial during chemotherapy. I got sick one week, that was the week I lost my hair. Basically what brought that down was stress from seeing my hair fall out — it was just a lot to handle. Other than that I didn't feel too sick, I was tired sometimes, but not really.
21 KANSAN | DITL
Last week, student groups, including the Black Student Union, organized several events on campus to protest the issues going on in Ferguson and discuss what was happening
Cota said the task force that compiled the report and sent it out to many within KU's administration and did not get a response.
drugage has been base, resistor and often hateful. This reflects poorly on the entire K-State family and even more poorly on the individuals who are making these posts. The K-State community is better than this and we expect more of ourselves." part of the message said.
Miranda Davis
The accuser, whose name was never released, claimed Bavel placed his arm around her shoulder and his hand on her knee as he helped her study material from his symbolic logic course at Perkins — a place where he has met with students to provide help for
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professional life. When the Lawrence Journal-World recently published a story on the subject, Bavel's son, who lives in Lawrence, was asked about the accusations at work.
"My son was shown the article at work, and obviously he was hurt by it," Bavel said. "There have been reactions
Bavel has also become slightly more cautious when it comes to meeting with students to help them outside of class, though he's tried to continue to provide as much assistance as possible.
"Now, anytime a student asks to sit next to me in a booth, I'll refuse. Bavel said. "However,
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my students as my children or grandchildren, so my main goal is to help them."
While Bavel continues to be passionate about teaching at KU, he said decisions like these were typical of the University.
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