FRIDAY NOVEMBER 15 2002
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15,2002
News briefs
CAMPUS
Workshop to help graduates move to nonacademic jobs
The Graduate School will sponsor a brown-bag workshop on Monday to educate graduate students about the various career options available to them. The workshop is part of the school's Preparing Future Professionals program.
The authors of the book So What Are You Going to Do with That? A Guide to Career-Changing for M.A.s and Ph.D.s will share their research on the transition from earning a graduate degree to landing a nonacademic job.
The authors, Susan Basalla, director of the Writing Center at Georgetown University, and Maggie Debelius, a principal at the Denver company Ph.D. Consulting, will give advice to students.
The workshop will run from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union. A reception and book signing will follow from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.at the KU Bookstore in the Kansas Union. The event is free.
-Erin Beatty
Group to solicit pledges on America Recycles Day
KU Enviroons and the Environmental Studies Student Association will encourage students to pledge to recycle today on Wescoe Beach.
The two groups are co-sponsoring America Recycles Day. As part of the national event, environmental groups around the country are circulating pledge cards that people can sign to indicate their commitment to recycling and buying recycled products said Sarah Stratton, ESSA member and Derby sophomore.
Environs and ESSA will have pledge cards at a table on Wescoe Beach between 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m today. Students who sign and return the card will be entered into a national drawing for prizes including a Trek mountain bike, Stratton said.
Stacey Reding, chairwoman of the Student Environmental Awareness Board, said that to commemorate the day, the board had sent letters to the chairpersons of academic departments on campus asking them to encourage their faculty members to make an announcement about America Recycles Day and the importance of recycling.
— Kansan staff reports
LAWRENCE
English family tracing roots to "Jayhawk" abolitionist
LAWRENCEN — An English woman hopes to find evidence linking her to a Kansas abolitionist reputed to have been one of the original Jayhawks.
Sheila Margaret Coates and her husband, Peter Coates, of Hull, England, visited remnants of the Lawrence home of John Doy this week. Doy arrived in the area in 1854 with the New England Emigrant Aid Co., which brought the first settlers to Lawrence.
On Jan. 20, 1859, Doy was escorting 12 escaped slaves to Oskaloosa when the group was captured by 20 Missouri border ruffians.
Doy was accused of the federal offense of helping slaves escape and was held in a jail for five months until 10 Lawrence men lied their way into the jail and rescued Doy and his son, Charles.
These days, Doy is known mainly because of the photograph showing him seated in front of his 10 grim-faced rescuers. The photo has been used in city promotional literature as depicting "the original Jayhawks."
The couple came across Doy by accident when a family member brought home a book on the American Wild West.
Through Judy Sweets, collection manager at the Watkins Community Museum, they learned the Kansas abolitionist had ties to their hometown of Hull and perhaps their own family.
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Matthew Podszus, KU alumnus and Lawrence resident, makes his move, as Jacob Hodges, Sterling junior, looks on. Podszus lost the match, which took place yesterday at the Hawk's Nest in the Kansas Union.
NATION
Nine army linguists dismissed; translators still needed for war
The soldiers' dismissals come at a time when the military is facing a critical shortage of translators and interpreters for the war on terrorism.
SAN FRANCISCO — Nine Army linguists, including six trained to speak Arabic, have been dismissed from the military because they are gay.
trouble when they were caught together after curfew, said Steve Rails, spokesman for the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, a group that defends homosexuals in the military.
Six were specializing in Arabic, two were studying Korean and one was studying Mandarin Chinese. All were at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, the military's primary language training center.
linguists said the military's policy on gavs is hurting its cause.
"It's not a gay-rights issue. I'm arguing military proficiency issues — they're throwing out good, quality people," said Alastair Gamble, a former Army specialist.
The government has aggressively recruited Arabic speakers since the Sept. 11 attacks. One of the discharged
Seven of the soldiers were discharged after telling superiors they were gay, and the two others got in
Harvey Perritt, spokesman for the Army Training and Doctrine Command at Fort Monroe in Tidewater, Va., confirmed the dismissals occurred between October 2001 and September 2002.
The Associated Press
ON CAMPUS — For more events, go to kucalendar.com
Hall Center for the Humanities will present a lecture with Reina Pennington from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. today at the conference room in the Hall Center. Contact the center at 864-4798.
KU Karate Kobudo Club will practice at 9:50 a.m. tomorrow in the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center. Contact Hannah Reynolds at 812-3422.
KU Ki Aikido Club will meet from 10 a.m.to noon tomorrow at 207 Robinson Center. Contact Jason Ziegler at 843-4732.
KU Tae Kwon Do Club will meet from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at 207
Robinson Center. Contact Samantha
Nondorf at 218-3544.
Lawrence Life Fellowship will host a Bible study from 7 to 8:30 tonight at the Oread Room in the Kansas Union. Contact Zach Keatts at 838-9093.
Spencer Museum of Art will offer the last day of the exhibition "Milk & Eggs: The American Revival of Tempera Painting, 1930-1950" all day Sunday in the museum. Contact the museum at 864-4710.
St. John Catholic Apostolic Church will hold mass at 6 tomorrow night and noon Sunday in the Ecumenik
cal Christian Ministries building. Contact Father Joseph Dang at 843-4933.
Student Union Activities will show the film Minority Report at 7 and 9:30 tonight at Wooldruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Tickets are $2 or free with an SUA movie card. Contact the SUA at 864-7469.
Womyn's Empowerment Action Coalition will present a community forum on the role of men in the "Womyn Take Back the Night" march at 2 p.m. tomorrow in the Lawrence Public Library. Contact Luke Middleton at 864-9107.
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