CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, September 28, 1992
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Jewish students celebrate Rosh Hashanah
Daron J. Bennett / KANSAN
The Kansas Room in the Kansas Union was the setting for last night's Rosh Hashanah dinner, sponsored by KLI Hillel.
By Kristy Dorsey
Kansan staff writer
Traditional foods, prayers and the lighting of candles marked the beginning of the Jewish New Year as more than 60 KU students gathered last night at the Kansas Union to celebrate Rosh Hashanah.
Rosh Hashanah is one of the most important Jewish holidays. Frequently celebrated with family at home, students far from home must look for other ways to celebrate. Many at last night's dinner said they were glad to have a way to observe the holiday.
"I'm here, and it's nice because I'm away from home, but I'm in familiar surroundings," said Ruth Gross, Long Island, N.Y., freshman. "I'm lucky to be able to come here. If I didn't have this to come to, I would be really depressed and missing my family. But
I'm here, surrounded by my friends, and everything, like the food and the prayers, is familiar."
Emily Greenbaum, Plymouth,
Minn., freshman, said she was happy
to have a place to gather with her
friends to celebrate the holiday.
"It's really good because you're not eating in the dorms on Rosh Hashanah," she said. "It's nice to have a place to go for the holidays. You have other people you can celebrate with."
Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning of the Yomin Noraim, or Days of Awe. This period, which lasts during the 10 days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, is a time when Jews are supposed to reassess the values of their lives.
"It's a time when Jews are reminded, mainly through tradition, to look back over their lives and see how they
can improve for the next year," said Mark Addleman, president of Hillel, a campus Jewish organization. "You look back for things you may have done, such as offending someone, and then you go and ask for their forgiveness. Even if you don't remember anything specific; tradition holds that you go back and ask, 'Have I offended you? If so, I'm sorry.'
"You can't just ask God for forgiveness, you have to go to the person you may have offended and ask their forgiveness."
Addleman said the traditional lighting of candles prior to dinner marks the official beginning of Rosh Hashanah.
"More than anything else, it's a symbol of God, the bringer of light, and it's a demarcation," he said.
Caryn Silver, Memphis, Tenn., senior, said she had been coming to
the Rosh Hashanah dinners at the University of Kansas she was a freshman. She said attendance had grown during the past few years.
"I look forward to this every year," she said. "More people are coming every year. My freshman year, we had about 40 people. This year we had between 60 and 70."
"I've been here for four years, and every year we have had more and more people come," Addleman said. "We couldn't fit any more people in the house. Last year we had over 50 people come, and we had to turn some away at the door."
Because more people are coming to the dimmers, Rosh Hashanah was held in the Union for first time since Hillel has been sponsoring the celebration, Addleman said.
Melissa Solomon, Tulsa, OKa., senior, covers her eyes in the welcoming of Rosh Hashanah during the blessing over the candles at the Jewish celebration.
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Company to market Kansas basketball
Kansan staff writer
By Kristi Fogler
Kennon staff writer
When Jim Huntington awoke from knee surgery last December, he had a vision — to bring Kansas basketball to alumni and fans across the country. As a result, he founded a home video company, Home Court Productions Inc., in Mission.
Home Court, which has an exclusive contract with the KU Athletic Department, will allow fans to buy videos of 10 Kansas basketball games from the 1992-93 season, fully edited and commercial free, an instructional video on Roy Williams' basketball camp and video entitled "Hawk Watch," highlighting the 1991-92 Big
Eight championship season. Videos range in price from $14 to $36 each.
Huntington, a 1967 KU graduate, joined Harold Goss, also a KU graduate, to found Home Court.
"I put two and two together." he said.
Seven years ago, Huntington moved to Pennsylvania. An avid basketball fan, he missed watching Kansas basketball games on television.
Huntington eventually moved back to the Kansas City area. When he joined the KU alumni board last fall, he was given data on where all the alumni lived across the country. After his surgery, he realized what Kansas basketball fans wanted.
KU was the first university Home Court targeted. Huntington said that if all went well, similar packages would be offered to other colleges. He
Home Court, now nine months old, will market basketball videos for select universities across the country. Huntington said.
said he was currently talking with representatives from Notre Dame and North Carolina.
"We're looking at colleges with a tremendous basketball tradition, strong programs and alumni following," he said.
Bob Fredrick, athletic director, said the contract with Home Court could lead to more KU video possibilities, including football and other special athletic games.
"Three years ago, when we beat Kentucky 150-90, I bet I had 1,000 people ask if they could get a videotape of the game." Fredrick said.
About 5 percent of the proceeds from the video sales would go to the athletic department, but only about 1 percent.
This was the first serious proposal the department had received for such a project, Fredrick
"we thought it was a first-class effort," he said.
"everything presented to us was of first-class quality."
Fredrick said the videos would fill a void for people not close to Lawrence. Two audiences are being targeted: those who do not have access to KU games and those who are interested in building a Kansas basketball library.
Huntington said he could not gauge how successful the company would be but said response to the videos had been good. He has mailed out information and order forms for the videos to 135,000 alumni and has been actively promoting the product across the state.
Fredrick said he was very pleased with the project.
"Ihope it goes well for them," he said. "It's really a quality product. Response may be slow at first but over time I think it will pick up."
"I made the decision that I wanted to do something for myself," said Huntington, who used to be a vice president for Lee Apparel Company Inc. "It's been a rewarding and trying nine months."
Basketball videos for the true fan
Three video packages are available from Home Court Productions Inc. featuring Kansas basketball.
Full-length videos of 10.1992-93 Kansas basketball games, including one Big Eight tournament game, will be available as a series. Each commercial-free game will include pre- and post-game comments from Kansas coach Roy Williams.
Fans would receive the following games: the BMA Holiday Classic, North Carolina State, Wichita State, Iowa State, two Colorado games, Oklahoma State, Missouri, Kansas State and the Big Eight tournament game.
The games should reach subscribers' homes within seven days of the original broadcast. The package retails for $175, including shipping and handling. Fans subscribing to this series would also get a free video of the 1992 "Late Night" celebration, which starts the Kansas basketball season.
For more information about the videos, contact the Allen Field House ticket office.
Another exclusive from Home Court is the "Roy Williams Kansas Basketball Camp" video. The 60-minute video includes basic basketball instruction by William, former Kansas players Milt Newton and Darrell Valentine and other basketball specialists. The tape costs $36 plus shipping and handling.
In the 45-minute video "Hawk Watch," Roy Williams uses highlights of the 1991-92 Big Eight championship season to relive some of the greatest moments using the "tellustrator," a video chalkboard. The video costs $26 plus shipping and handling.
Senex debates review process for programs
By KC Trauer
By KC Trauer
Kansan staff writer
Members of Senate Executive Committee Friday questioned the direction of program review, an effort by state schools to restructure — and in some cases eliminate — their academic programs.
The Board of Regents this year ordered its six state universities to examine its academic programs and make suggestions on how the universities could consolidate, reorganize, reduce or eliminate academic programs to save money.
Kansas State University recently proposed eliminating its speech pathology and audiology program, which enrolls 111 students.
The proposal, a product of K-State's program review, might burden other Board of Regents schools if enacted, said Nancy Dahl, SenEx chair.
"One of the things we have to recognize is that if somebody in the system eliminates slots for students, then those students will undoubtedly go somewhere else," Dahl said. "For example, if all of those students came here, which is not proposed at all, that would double our program."
Dahl said that KU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences already was straining to accommodate 208 more
first-year students than last year.
Sandra Zimdars-Swartz, associate professor of religious studies, said she was concerned the Regents schools were suggesting program cuts without considering how the cuts might affect the whole system.
"It bothers me that this is going on without taking a look at the whole picture, which was finally what this program review was supposed to do, so that we could have some coherent planning for the future," Zindars-Swartz said.
"It might be a good idea to combine programs and center them in one institution. That might make a lot of sense. But you have to have all the institutions involved in doing that," she said.
E. P. Johnson, professor of educational psychology and research, said no policies existed to help guide reevaluation once the reviews were completed.
Without objective guidelines to determine how to reorganize academic programs, program review had no way to enhance the strength of those programs, he said.
KU is in the middle of its program review process. The reviews are slated to be completed Oct. 20 and will be presented to the Board of Regents Nov. 20.
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