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Volume 128 Issue 17
Mondav. September 22, 2014
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Kansan.com | The student voice since 1904
Lawrence Public Library's Banned Books Trading Card project features artwork from local artists that depict images from books that have been banned for censorship.
CONTRIBUTED ARTWORK FROM LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Lawrence Public Library launches trading card project for Banned Books Week
The Lawrence Public Library is giving out different Banned Books trading cards each day this week. Each card features artwork from local artists and depicts literatures that either have been banned or have faced possible censorship.
The titles of this year's trading cards are:
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey
"Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
"Little Red Riding Hood" by Charles Perrault
"Maus" by Art Spiegelman
Maus by AR Spiegelman "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
"Harriet the Spy" by Louise Fitzhugh
"The Old Man and the Sea"
by Ernest Hemingway
The Banned Books Trading Cards project, now in its third year, coincides with Banned Books Week, a national campaign that celebrates the freedom to read.
"I think a lot of times we fail to realize how many things are censored in our world."
said Jeni Daley, marketing coordinator for the library. "But we also can fail to realize the freedoms we have."
Daley said she thought it was amazing that Americans have the right to get mad and speak out against censorship.
important freedoms."
Library Director Brad Allen agreed.
"There is a high level of control of the dissemination of information in a massive amount of the world," Allen said. "And it's important to just remind yourself that these are
"I think a lot of times we fail to realize how many things are censored in our world. But we also can fail to realize the freedoms we have."
JENI DALEY
Lawrence Public Library
marketing coordinator
Since the project began three years ago, the cards themselves have become a popular
collector's item. The library has shipped previous years' card sets to all 50 states and most English-speaking countries. Allen said they have shipped the cards as far as Australia. The library will begin selling this year's card sets after the Banned Books Week for a small price.
Allen said they never thought of monetizing the project when the cards were first released in 2012. However, the cards' unexpected levels of popularity soon required the
library staff to think on its feet to develop shipping strategies and a licensing agreement for the local artists who had designed the cards.
Any Douglas County resident could submit the designs for cards; one of this year's winning cards was designed by a local middle school student. Allen said the local restriction helps showcase the artistic talents that Lawrence has to
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Secretary of State candidate discusses voting
ALLISON KITE
@Allie_Kite
Jean Schodorf, Democratic candidate for Kansas secretary of state, stopped by the University of Kansas Young Democrats meeting last Thursday to talk about student's involvement in the upcoming election season.
Student voting is an important issue to Schodorf in this election, and she said she's touring universities throughout Kansas to promote it. Her speech encouraged students to take an active part in their communities and become "lifelong voters." She also encouraged students to vote on every issue, not just national elections.
Studies have shown historically low turnout among voters age 18 to 24, and Schodorf said she has talked to many students who felt like their voice didn't matter.
"I'm talking about not just a fall election," Schodorf said. "A spring election, a school bond issue, a sales tax question."
"Students have said that they just didn't feel like voting made a difference, that it didn't affect them," she said.
Brittany Bodenheimer, a sophomore from Topeka and president of KU Young Democrats, said she believed that Schodorf's speech did a good job of demonstrating how and why students should be engaged in the election.
However, Schodorf said she believes students' choices directly affect them because their representative will make decisions concerning higher education funding.
Schodorf's stop at the University was part of her "Lifelong Voting" tour, where she has stopped at Kansas universities including Pittsburg State, Wichita State, Fort Hays State, Kansas State, Washburn and Johnson County Community College.
"Their vote does matter, and they can actually make a very big difference if they just get involved" Bodenheimer said.
Edited by Drew Parks
Civically engaged students have been working to get other students registered to vote. The Student Legislative Awareness Board has collected the number of forms completed since the start of the semester.
82 44 Voter registration forms Advanced ballot forms
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Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little listens to a panel of University of Kansas administrators during KU's sexual assault awareness forum Thursday at Spooner Hall.
Members of Chancellor's sexual assault panel address questions
MCKENNA HARFORD
@McKennaHartford
Questions from students, faculty and attendees were addressed at the sexual assault panel hosted by Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little on Thursday evening.
The panel consisted of Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little; Provost Jeff Vitter; Jane McQueeny, executive director of Office of Institutional
Opportunity and Access; Tammara Durham, vice provost for student affairs; Ralph Oliver, the University police chief; and Nathan Thomas, the vice provost for diversity and equity.
Many questions focused on the policies and procedures concerning sexual assault cases, which are handled by the IOA and the Office of Student Affairs. McQueeny and Durham reiterated that
the University does not use criminal procedures, but instead works to ensure that both parties are guaranteed equal educational opportunity.
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The Chancellor also noted that the University will work
"We take disciplinary action based on what's allowed by the code, and the reason those two are separate is to ensure due process," Durham said.
"I think we definitely recognize that consent is critical to all of the dialogue we are having." McQueeny said. "Let's make it so our
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Other questions focused on the language becoming more inclusive in the policies and having a clearer definition of consent.
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