WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2002
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Joris to read work in campus event
Internationally known poet, translator and anthologist Pierre Joris will read his work at 4:30 p.m. Thursday at the Centennial Room in the Kansas Union. Joris has written more than 20 books, many volumes of poetry and prose and translated poets such as Paul Celan and Pablo Picasso. Joris was born in Luxembourg and educated there as well as Paris, the United States and Great Britain. He is a professor at the State University of New York at Albany. Professor Ken Irby said Joris would be reading translations of Celan and Picasso's poetry, among other writers. Irby said Joris was invited to the University of Kansas because of his wide range of abilities. The event is sponsored by the Department of English. Refreshments will be served
Louise Stauffer
Student Senate voting on bills tonight
Student Senate will meet at 6:30 p.m.today at room 330 in Strong Hall. Items on the agenda,which is subject to change,include:
Presentations about Teach for America, a task force for women students' needs and a men's outreach program.
Bills on the agenda, which, if no senators object, all will be voted on collectively.
A bill to fund advertising in the University Daily Kansan for university blood drives.
A bill to fund the Center for Community Outreach.
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A bill to fund Latin American Solidarity.
Bureau of Investigation. "We've had arrests of some of the older growers who it seemed had been doing it a long time."
A bill to fund the home-
coming steering committee.
Celah Northweh
Brandau is also the head of Kansas' Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Program, or Erad, which was initiated in 1979, with all 50 states participating by 1985. The program involves a partnership between the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Kansas Highway Patrol and KBI. Erad is funded by the DEA and focuses on the domestic indoor and outdoor growth of marijuana.
Brandau said, although no government agency knows exactly how much pot was grown, sold or transported in the United States. Erad was having an impact — at least in the sense that it has led Kansas growers to pursue different tactics.
Brandeau said that 10 years ago, marijuana fields tended to be large, making them easier to locate. But now, more operations have been moved indoors, while outdoor growth is done on smaller plots of land.
-Caleb Nothwehr
Statistics account for only the eradicated plants reported to KBI's offices by local law enforcement. In 2002,484 indoor plants and 1,126 outdoor plants have been eradicated through the program.
"It's more difficult to locate and identify," he said.
But the reported amounts only account for pot grown and cultivated in Kansas.
Nationwide, FBI statistics show that arrests for marijuana trafficking, sale and possession have steadily increased since 1995. In particular, arrests for possession of marijuana rose from 503,350 in 1995 to 646,042 in 2000, and nearly half of the drug arrests made in 2000 were for marijuana possession.
Statewide, statistics vary year to year, and no single law enforcement agency can be attributed for the woes of recreational pot users.
Lt. John Eichorn of the Kansas Highway Patrol said statistics for highway drug busts hinge upon everything from the quantity of drugs confiscated, to the resources available to assist in enforcing drug laws.
Highway interdiction alone led to the confiscation in Kansas of as much as 13,410 pounds of marijuana in 1996 to as low as 6,346 pounds just last year, said Eichkorn.
For now, desperate marijuana users must settle for what they can get.
According to a 2000 Department of Health and Human Services study, 76 million Americans admitted to having tried marijuana once. But that was only when they could find it.
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understand myself as a spiritual person and as a person of faith?").
Born in 1940, Holcombe grew up on his parents' cattle ranch in rural Oklahoma.
"What we have to understand is that all these areas are not a hierarchy, but a web, and they're all integral and interrelated to one another," Holcombe said.
"I think my first experiences as a person being aware of spirituality was outside in nature, and recognizing my relation to nature was a profound experience," Holcombe said.
and I tried to understand and move and put something on that skeleton."
"As I got older I participated in a small Presbyterian church and that gave me a language and a way to understand some of the things that were going on in my experiences. My faith then came out of those experiences
Holecombe said one of the most important moments in his life was during his junior year of college when he studied in India. He said after the trip he had a new perspective on the world and on his own life and knew he wanted to be involved full time in campus ministry.
Holcombe's work at ECM is his full time job, for which he is paid $49,500 yearly, including housing, pension and medical expenses. In addition to his work at ECM Holcombe is an ordained minister through the United Church of Christ and the Presbyterian Church, though at ECM he also represents Quakers and the Church of the Brethren. He said the money for his salary came from these four denominations as well as individual donors and groups that paid to use the building.
Outside of the ministry, Hol-
combe also works one-on-one with students and performs marriages and baptisms.
"Thead has been a really good role model, a great friend, and he's always there to talk to," said Burch. "He's open to student ideas, and he really lets students guide the programs at ECM. He's kind of like a father figure and a friend and a mentor."
Holcombe is also a family man, married to Linda Watts, a social worker in Topeka. Their children are Anna, 22, and Kara, 18. He said his experience as a parent had helped him in his work.
"I've really learned an awful lot about patience and a lot about boundaries, which is helpful for me as a mentor to others," he said.
Holcombe said his role ultimately was to help people find their way in the world and make the most of their lives.
Edited by Katie Teske
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