Friday November 15,2002 Vol.113. Issue No.60
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President has support Novak says
By Kelly McNearney
kmcnearney@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Last week's election results indicated that the American public supported President Bush and had forgotten about Enron and WorldCom. Robert Novak told a large crowd at the Lied Center last night.
Novak
Novak, a political commentator, spoke as this year's School of Business Anderson Chandler lecturer.
Novak is the cohost of CNN's Evans, Novak, Hunt and Shields interview show. He often appears on the network's Capitol Gang and is a co-host of Crossfire. He is the author of "Inside Report," a nationally-syndicated column in its 36th year of publication.
Novak spoke to a large crowd of students, faculty and Lawrence residents at the Lied Center.
He held nothing back and spoke on a wide range of subjects.
The audience booed Novak when he confessed to being a die-hard Maryland basketball fan, and laughed when he suggested presidents should spend more time sleeping to avoid running the country into the ground.
He said the Enron scandal was not an issue that affected Americans enough to influence voters and that people voted Republican because they did not want to desert President Bush in the midst of the war on terrorism.
Novak said Bush was a stronger President since gaining control of both the House and Senate. He called him a man with limited vocabulary, but great leadership.
Kade Weiser, Salina senior and business major, said he enjoyed Novak's opinions on government involvement in business and the liberal media.
"I liked how he said his stance was for less government involvement in business as opposed to more," he said. "I agree with him. I definitely think that the media is liberal. I have yet to see anyone really ultra-conservative in the media."
Edited by Matt Gehrke
Students break wall, stereotypes
By Katie Nelson
knelson@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
A colorful array of umbrellas hovered above Stauffer-Flint lawn as a wall of hate came crashing down yesterday. Bright reds, dark blues, yellows, blacks and whites: the mix of umbrellas was almost as diverse as the people they shielded from the mist.
Since Wednesday morning, words phrases and symbols of discrimination were painted on an 8-foot tall cinder block wall by members of the KU community.
Racial slurs and stereotypes were smeared across gray bricks for all to see as they crossed campus.
"I think it's amazing," said C.J. Wilford, St. Louis senior, as he looked
together, then they succeeded."
But the the Writing on the Wall Project was more than that.
It was a project designed to raise awareness about the often invisible walls created by human hatred, said Janet Murguia, KU's executive vice chancellor for University Relations in the ceremony's keynote speech. The building, painting and subsequent tearing down of the wall symbolized a desire to rid society of the negative sentiments it holds.
Murguia commended the Association of University Residence Halls, the Multicultural Resource Center and the other groups who sponsored the event for helping others gain a greater appreciation for human diversity.
"Walls isolate and give a false sense of security," she said. "They need to be torn down to unite, to free from self imposed prisons."
After the about 50-member crew pulled the wall down with ropes, they tore down the remaining two feet of concrete with sledge hammers and their bare hands.
Students lined up to toss the unbroken cinder blocks into the pile. Eventually, one at a time, the unbroken blocks joined the rubble on the ground, shattering into little pieces.
"It shows us that discrimination does exist and it affects everyone," said Will Bohne, Leavenworth freshman and associate senator multicultural affairs committee. "Stereotypes exist within this University, so we need to realize that and break down those walls, so we can appreciate people for what and who they are."
— Edited by Christina Neff
Anton Bubnovskiv/Kansan
Mark Dupree, Kansas City, Kan.. junior and president of the Black Student Union, throws a brick from the Wall of Hate to help destroy it. Yesterday's destruction of the wall was part of Hate Out Week.
Anton Bubnovskiy/Kansan
Nathan Cooper, Boston freshman, draws a swastika on the Wall of Hate. Cooper said drawing on the wall that was destroyed yesterday was his contribution to Hate Out Week.
Beck's sold-out show ready to draw crowd
By Louise Stauffer
lstauffer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
For fans of Beck and The Flaming Lips, tomorrow night the Lied Center is where it's at.
James Heit, Larned freshman, said he wanted to get tickets to the show but couldn't get them because they sold out so quickly.
The Beck and Flaming Lips concert will begin at 8 p.m. tomorrow night, and the 2,024 tickets are sold out, Michael Stoecker, Lied Center employee said. The price is $35 before service charges.
Heit said he thought it was strange that Beck was performing at the Lied Center because it was a small venue.
Stoecker said about 1,500 tickets were sold during the online presale.
"I expected him to go to Kansas City." Stoecker, a Jetmore senior said. "But I was stoked when I heard. I've been a fan
since 'Loser.'"
Cassie Waddell, Stockton sophomore, said the main reason she was going to the show was to see The Flaming Lips.
Waddell said she got her ticket online through Ticketmaster five hours after the tickets went on sale. She acknowledged that dancing at the show would be impaired because of the assigned seating at the Lied Center.
"I've recently got into them," she said. "I love it."
Despite the expected full house, Stoecker said the Lied Center was planning to use normal house procedures.
"But I'd rather have them here than not at all," she said.
"The Beck crowd is pretty mellow," he said. "There might be a few more house users than normal."
SUA gave students one last chance for two tickets Wednesday night when it
SEE BECK ON PAGE 6A
Cemetery holds link to city's past
By Michelle Burhenn
mburhenn@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
New buildings on the University of Kansas' West Campus surroumd a six-acre reminder of Lawrence's past.
Kansas' earliest pioneers, including victims of Quantrill's Raid and the Civil War, are buried alongside KU faculty and employees in Pioneer Cemetery near the Lied Center.
Pioneer Cemetery was founded in 1855, a year after New Englanders arrived in Lawrence.
Established as Oread Cemetery, the City of Lawrence renamed it Pioneer Cemetery in 1928. The cemetery fell into disrepair after Oak Hill Cemetery was bought in 1865, said Karl Gridley, local historian.
The cemetery remained unused and became overgrown with weeds until Chancellor Franklin Murphy discovered the cemetery on a walk in 1952. Murphy worked with the city, and the property was deeded to the University of Kansas Endowment Association for its use as a cemetery. Since the Association acquired the cemetery, a fence and entryway were added.
After years of neglect, many of the headstones that would tell stories of Lawrence's history no longer remain.
SEE PIONEER ON PAGE 6A
John Mowrak/Kassen
A Lawrence resident observes the grave of Thomas W. Barber at Pioneer Cemetery on West Campus. Shot by Lecompton militants in 1855, Barber was the first casualty of slavery advocates in Kansas.