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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.102,NO.62
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1992
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French professor receives H.O.P.E
Students credit his Socratic approach
By Lynne McAdoo
Kansan staff writer
The sixteen students in Professor Ted Johnson's humanities class sat in a conference room in the Spencer Museum of Art. Johnson made half of them face the wall and the other half view a multi-colored drawing. He then asked the students to describe the drawing to the ones who were turned around.
He walked around the room smiling as the students tried to describe how the picture sounded.
Andrew Rynnil. Spring Hill senior, said that he thought the picture looked like a child's drawing that might be posted on a refrigerator.
One student described it as a New York traffic jam; another student described it as a noisy playground. He gently prodded the students to try and form a mental image of the picture from the descriptions.
"That's wonderful, develop that idea." Johnson fired back.
The discussion wandered to the topic of how the refrigerator might be the most important appliance in the house.
AP poll favors KU
The number within parentheses represents the total first-place votes received.
last year
points last year's final rank
1. Michigan (23) 1,536 15
2. KANSAS (19) 1,513 2
3. Duke (15) 1,504 1
4. Indiana (6) 1,489 5
5. Kentucky 1,341 6
6. Seton Hall (2) 1,300 19
Three other Big-8 teams are ranked See related story on Page 9
'Hawks land second spot in first poll
By David Dorsey
Kansan sportswriter
Lost Remembrance of a Captive Spirit
As I look into my sleepiness unknown there, a form, consumes my stare consumes a fascination I've never felt before. Such an image intensely pulls my awareness but covering reality like a dark, forgeful past. It comes to focus and presents its features. The leathered texture surrounds many valleys traversing a unique landscape yet it is defined and molded to a blood of many other souls. The others are vague while this soul seems to invoke upon me a purpose...
earth tones, a warm breeze,
and the soft, porous ground
were once the bases for the beginning of a
challenging yet an optimistic life to this spirit,
A spirit defined
defined uniquely to that soul
as an eagle
as a flower
as a tree
as a deer
as a form to guide its life
and soul.
But as time wears on, a living form tires
and becomes weaker.
The once soft, elastic skin becomes dry
like the great sun pulls vital moisture
from an oak leaf which has been
pulled from its body.
The canyons begin to form
mapping the long and arduous trails
which are encountered in life.
The once glistening, shining eyes are now
depressed
depressed further inside
where it can be closer to its vital spirit.
The eyes are drawn in by two dying moons,
shrived by their absence of strength.
And the hills shadow, dominating a once smooth,
placed terrain.
Blanchened fields
DARK fields of vision are held within a realm of
despair and sorrow.
This chasm of life is now devoid of warmth.
A raspy and distant voice can faintly be heard
echoing along this mosaic pattern of flesh.
It sounds as if to cry for loved-ones
or someone who can understand
a now silenced voice.
Oh, I can hear it now,
only to fade away as the cry disperSES
into nowhere.
The valleys become deeper and deeper
just as the unforgiving flow of water
grinds, extracts, and carries a once firm
and tightly bound rock from its river bed.
The rock becomes
separated
further away
leaving
differently those
further away leaving the permanent scar for only those who just happen to see u. Many only pass over the effect unaware and oblivious to the cause.
And a drought begins uncovering even more detail:
detail of despair
detail of anguish
detail of destruction
detail of a lame horse
detail of a starving, blind owl
detail of an emaciated buffalo
detail of a hawk with no feathers
detail of an unfertile land, stripped of life
and detail of a long trail that has finally ended
There is no choice of direction now.
There is no choice of direction now.
I look again...
and begin to absorb an extremely painful past.
I need not ask what I see.
I need not ask why I see it.
I need to feel and learn about it by immersing my own spirit into his dreams,
to try to understand the depth of feeling
to vision what he visions
to desire his needs
to smell and taste as he would
to walk in his path
to finally see his spirit
But as I search for an entrance, a tear falls slowly down...
carrying the last essence of living material only to succumb to a slow desiccation in the outer world.
Yet this tear shines and glistens in its own gentle way and flows along the deep crevices of an old canyon without any hesitance.
It reminds me of a butterfly that has emerged from its chrysalis
free of its long-endured and claustrophobic environment.
But the butterfly lives only briefly only to fulfill its one purpose... and then dies.
The tear has now traveled far
and has little substance left.
It reaches the end of the canyon and hangs,
awaiting its final journey...
A tear of sadness
A tear of lost hope
But this is a tear that has left its scarred and
worn body.
It is now free from its dying shell.
Shouldn't it be happier?
Barry C. Kinney
It now falls away to a final, unknown resting place.
And the face fades away, gone gone forever.
But just because I can no longer see him or hear his earnest cry,
I will always know he existed in body and in SPIRIT.
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Iliams said he was not surprised at ing, which was the highest the Jaypreseason since his tenure began in
iight for the Kansas men's basketball ing the NCAA Tournament, the Jay's. 2 in the nation in the final Association.
he high this season, as the Jayhawks
2 ranking two weeks before their
Michigan, which lost the NCAA
last season to Duke, was the top-
released yesterday.
ing was to be expected, especially (publications ranked us so highly," ig this means is that people do have ", in basketball, you have to do it on ibs. Our players and coaching staff
tations, "Dick Vitale's Basketball" College/Prep Preview",ranked theiation.
nasas, Duke, Indiana and Kentucky 'the AP's preseason poll. Eric Pauley said that the poll did but that Kansas belonged in the top
one starter from last season, for Seni
guards Rex Walters and its considered to be one of the top y. Junior forward Richard Scott,
'very game last season, returns as
are guard, said he agreed with the in the poll but not necessarily with
uld be any of those five teams," he in pinpoint who is the best team in
hose teams probably belongs up
look at what we accomplished
we do this year. A lot of things can
r first exhibition game of the seaat 7 p.m. Thursday in Allen Field
gular season for the Jayhawks is
idea about my team after Thurs-
could indicate the validity of the issus will play No. 4 Indiana in the polis. That same day, the defend the third-ranked Duke Blue Devil Michigan Wolverines in a iCAA championship game.
award
November 13, 1992 • *K~you* • ARTS & LITERATURE
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