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THURSDAY,NOV.29,2001
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KEVIN GRITZKE
October 29,2030
KU 2030
Dear Dad,
How is the White House? I'm really enjoying my first year here at KU. The class sizes are not as intimidating as I thought they might be. With 10,000 other students in your English class, you can always be sure there is someone to borrow notes from. My dorm room, Coca-Cola Hall, is pretty nice, although sometimes I wish we had running water instead of a soda fountain. It goes very well with powdered soap, though.
Tell mom I've been eating well. I've really developed an appetite for Soilant Green. What's it made of?
I've been working out a lot, and playing ball at the Chenowith Center. They are real strict on the rules though. They don't let anyone dunk
I have tickets to the KU-MU game this weekend, if you'd like to come down to watch the 140 year old rivalry. It's still a good rivalry, even if they are both competing for last place in the Northeastern Midwest Division of the Big 48. I think they may sell out Haskell Stadium this week-end — a lot of alumni are planning on attending the game.
There is still a lot of construction being done on the new basketball arena - Roy Williams Fieldhouse. Who knew you could build a basketball arena out of a pothole? Coach Jacque Vaughn seems pretty confident this year, but I guess I would be too if I had won 10 consecutive national championships!
I tried writing a column for the Kansan last week, but they told me they only take reader feedback in the Free for All which now consumes three-fourths of the paper. Who knew Free for All could win a Pulitzer?
Well, I have to go now. We're going to drink some beers at the Wheel and watch the game. I guess some things never c
Submitted by Max Rieper,
2nd-year law student
FREE for ALL 864-0500
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unreasonable and untimely
Chancellor Hemenway should continue negotiating, rather than halting all contract negotiations, and he should do so with the priority of quality education for KU students. Persons wishing to express any opinions on this matter should contact Chancellor Hemenway at: 785-864-3131, 230 Strong Hall, KU, 66044, rhemenway@ukans.edu
unreasonable and untimely
Chancellor Hemenway should continue negotiating, rather than halting all contract negotiations, and he should do so with the priority of quality education for KU students. Persons wishing to express any opinions on this matter should contact Chancellor Hemenway at: 785-864-3131, 230 Strong Hall, KU, 66044, rhemenway@ukans.edu
Hey, I know a girl that doesn't shave her legs.
unreasonable and untimely
Chancellor Hemenway should continue negotiating, rather than halting all contract negotiations, and he should do so with the priority of quality education for KU students. Persons wishing to express any opinions on this matter should contact Chancellor Hemenway at: 785-864-3131, 230 Strong Hall, KU, 66044, rhemenway@ukans.edu
This message is for my bike: If you don't start switching gears, I'm going to sell you, and that's not a threat, it's a promise.
If we had a purely vocal language, imagine how much less paper we would have to recycle.
unreasonable and untimely
Chancellor Hemenway should continue negotiating, rather than halting all contract negotiations, and he should do so with the priority of quality education for KU students. Persons wishing to express any opinions on this matter should contact Chancellor Hemenway at: 785-864-3131, 230 Strong Hall, KU, 66044, rhemenway@ukans.edu
I just realized that the only good time to say, "I have syphilis" is when you're playing Scrabble.
Why is there a naked guy in my room?
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If I was a bird...
If there are any lonely girls out there, please call me.
David Haselhoff was just on Fear Factor, and he said he wanted to eat testicles.
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Your Son,
Does anyone else find it funny that the doors to the bathroom stalls are called heiny hiders?
--unreasonable and untimely
Chancellor Hemenway should continue negotiating, rather than halting all contract negotiations, and he should do so with the priority of quality education for KU students. Persons wishing to express any opinions on this matter should contact Chancellor Hemenway at: 785-864-3131, 230 Strong Hall, KU, 66044, rhemenway@ukans.edu
I'd like to thank the workers at Chipotle for letting me play with their burrito.
It's my third year at KU, and I have either been drunk or high at class. What's wrong with this picture?
It's frickin' freezing out here.
unreasonable and untimely
Chancellor Hemenway should continue negotiating, rather than halting all contract negotiations, and he should do so with the priority of quality education for KU students. Persons wishing to express any opinions on this matter should contact Chancellor Hemenway at: 785-864-3131, 230 Strong Hall, KU, 66044, rhemenway@ukans.edu
unreasonable and untimely
Chancellor Hemenway should continue negotiating, rather than halting all contract negotiations, and he should do so with the priority of quality education for KU students. Persons wishing to express any opinions on this matter should contact Chancellor Hemenway at: 785-864-3131, 230 Strong Hall, KU, 66044, rhemenway@ukans.edu
unreasonable and untimely
Chancellor Hemenway should continue negotiating, rather than halting all contract negotiations, and he should do so with the priority of quality education for KU students. Persons wishing to express any opinions on this matter should contact Chancellor Hemenway at: 785-864-3131, 230 Strong Hall, KU, 66044, rhemenway@ukans.edu
I'd just like to tell everybody to kiss my Kansas.
I was disappointed that there wasn't more mention on each former Kansas swimmer.
We need another soldier! You gotta come quick!
Max Rieper, Jr.
unreasonable and untimely
Chancellor Hemenway should continue negotiating, rather than halting all contract negotiations, and he should do so with the priority of quality education for KU students. Persons wishing to express any opinions on this matter should contact Chancellor Hemenway at: 785-864-3131, 230 Strong Hall, KU, 66044, rhemenway@ukans.edu
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You should ride that thing around, it's got wheels!
My roommate and I just spent all evening sealing our window with duct tape and a blanket. GSP, it's time to turn on the heaters. If our blanket falls, we're going to freeze to death.
unreasonable and untimely
Chancellor Hemenway should continue negotiating, rather than halting all contract negotiations, and he should do so with the priority of quality education for KU students. Persons wishing to express any opinions on this matter should contact Chancellor Hemenway at: 785-864-3131, 230 Strong Hall, KU, 66044, rhemenway@ukans.edu
Sometimes I think it a great injustice that there hasn't been a Full House reunion.
GTA PAY NEGOTIATION
Dear editor,
Dear editor,
On Nov. 19, the KU administration informed GTAC, the union representing graduate teachers, that KU wanted to walk out on GTA contract negotiations.
GTAC seeks to continue discussions about how to improve education at KU by negotiating a better contract for graduate teachers.
In the negotiation process, GTAC has already moved substantially in the content of our proposals. But KU's minimum salary proposal for the first year of the contract is still $7,000, just as it was last year. And graduate teachers certainly aren't asking for the sun and the moon, just for reasonable compensation, fair working conditions and respect.
The KU administration's salary proposals are particularly troubling because of the principle. Is the work of a GTA worth only $7,000 for the entire academic year? Tell that to our students and to all the people paying tuition. I also have been told that future tuition increases will not go toward teachers' salaries. Ask KU administrators where the money goes.
Graduate teachers feel disrespected and insulted. Heading into the final weeks of the semester and final exams, when teachers' labor is even more important than ever, GTAC finds KU's treatment of graduate teachers both unreasonable and unnecessary.
KU always complains about budget woes to justify cuts to basic educational needs. But part-time teaching faculty are only a small percentage of KU's entire operating budget.
Amy Cummins
Lawrence graduate student
GTAC president
graduate student senator
IN DEFENSE OF WESTERN CIV
Dear editor,
Robert Chamberlain's column ("Multiculturalism doesn't mean anything," Nov. 27) deserves comment. I won't discuss his apparent Islamophobia. However, he attacks the Western Civilization program for including the Quran in its curriculum as well as the curriculum itself. (I think he suggested there's too much reading to do.) As Senior Instructor in the Humanities and Western Civilization Program, I beg to differ on both points.
Mr. Chamberlain says that the Quran has no place in the Western Civ classes because it is a complex work of faith and as such demands a more in-depth treatment than can be provided by the densely packed Western Civ curriculum. Here he states that a week-long unit on Islam does not provide "useful knowledge to anyone in the class." By that rationale, any introductory course that is, by nature, a survey of the discipline involved is useless in providing a foundation for further inquiry. I doubt that it would be useful to jump into the 300-level class on the French Revolution without a survey class putting it into historical context. Nor would it be advisable to begin the study of chemistry with P-chem.
This is one essential flaw, among many, in Mr. Chamberlain's argument. Western Civ is a sophomore-level course designed to introduce students to the great ideas that have shaped the world in which we live. As such, it provides an important foundation for advanced courses across the University's curriculum philosophy, history, anthropology, religious studies, astronomy and others. Even students of political science such as Mr. Chamberlain could benefit from an introduction to Western Civilization. It's clear that Mr. Chamberlain waited until he was a senior to take Western Civ. Had he taken it as a sophomore he might have recognized its true value and learned that education, like anything else, begins with introductions.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
David P. Dewar
Tecumseh graduate student
Andrew Redden St. Louis sophomore
looking to build a high performance I say, good job Al Bohl for doing what you were hired to do. Thank you for trying to bring something to KU football. Thank you for doing the most possible to improve our program - to me that is the ultimate respect you can show KU coaches, players and fans.
FIRING ALLEN AT THE RIGHT TIME
Dear editor,
In response to the letter written by Russel Warren, Lawrence senior (Nov. 16), I would urge him to check his facts before denouncing the University for its firing of Terry Allen. Russel said that the University "lacked class" and did "the most disrespectful thing" by firing Allen during the middle of the season. He also called for a boycott of the rest of the games this year "to show we will not tolerate disrespect to coaches and players."
However, there is one very big reason why the University fired Allen when it did: recruitment. By firing Allen now, the University has time to find a new coach that can have a major impact on the recruiting capability of our football team. For this reason, the firing of coaches in college football during the middle of a season is now somewhat commonplace, especially for teams looking to build a winning program.
STUDENTS IN FRONT
Dear editor,
I am a freshman and I thought that the first basketball game of the year — my first to experience first hand — was exhilarating, full of school pride, and ... an extreme letdown. Being from Texas, my exposure to KU basketball has been limited to rare coverage on TV and reading the local paper. I have dreamed of being at a game in historic Allen Fieldhouse for years. When the chance finally arrived, where did I get to sit? About 15 rows up and behind the goal. I had to watch as alumni filled the large, lower sections behind the two lengthy baselines of the court. This baffled me, because I know that in a lot of other college arenas that I have seen, the college students pack the lower sections and the
Brian Good Dallas freshman
effect that it has, an intensified atmosphere and a deafening noise level, is substantial to the way the game is played and can further one's home court advantage. I appreciate the alumni that come out and support both KU teams, but the arrangement is just not effective. Instead of showing the students back into the upper corners of the field house and behind the baskets, let them surround the court with their young, loud voices that are full of school spirit. Think of what it would look like on TV, to possibly prospective students and people in general around the nation, to see hundreds of screaming students jumping up and down. The atmosphere would be evident and would rival those of other great venues around the nation. I think with the help of our active and avid athletic director, Al Bohl, this could be made possible, and hopefully before ESPN and CBS roll in to town. This is a proposal that needs to be carried out. Sorry alumni, but we are the students, and the moment should be ours.
INVESTIGATING KU SALARIES Deareditor
Dear editor,
After reading the rare opinion page love-fest regarding Student Senate and its leaders in the Nov. 28 paper, I had to write and share some love with the Kansan.
Kansan.
Simply: Kudos to Paul Smith for his incredibly poignant and enlightening "Swept Into Poverty" article.
In more than eight years of reading the Kansan (what can I say, I'm a dork who loves KUI), I honestly have to say this is the best treatment of such an important topic in years.
wage and poverty issues I know that the day-to-day fluff (see any Rock Chalk Revue story, Free for All, etc.) is necessary for attracting readers, but it's good to see investigative, in-
The stories told and situations laidbare were very compelling and disturbing at the same time. Let's hope it spurs the University community into greater state-level action and advocacy regarding University, education funding and wage and poverty issues.
depth reporting happening at the Kansan.
It's about time the budding news journalists at the Kansan threw off the yoke of moral relativism, a.k.a "journalism objectivity," and joined the ranks of those calling for social justice for all.
Too often in recent years, the Kansan has shied away from incisive coverage of such issues for fear of reactionaries that would rather their "news" conform to their head-in-the-sand worldview. Meanwhile these Rush Limbaugh-following, "liberal news media" adherents are steamrolling the public with such standards-bearers of objective journalism as Fox "News" and the Wall Street Journal.
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Hurrah for the Kansan! (But now, how about a strong editorial board endorsement of some statewide student and community ACTION on this and other issues?!)
Jason Fizell 1998 graduate
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