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University Daily Kansan, October 11, 1982
Irish poet utilizes theme of conflict for task
By VERONICA JONGENELEN Staff Reporter
The conflict in Northern Ireland existed in the minds of its people long before it was expressed in newspaper. It's Ireland's foremost poets said Friday.
The poet, Seamus Heaney, read selections of his work as part of an October lecture series sponsored by the English department. Despite threatening weather, more than 100 people attended the reading in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
"I just want to indicate, in a sense, that poetry, lyric poetry, can negotiate with politics," he said.
Heaney said that poetry, too, began and ended within an individual's psyche.
Henley read a poem that he said he wrote after witnessing the public humiliation of a supposed betrayer, Mr. Ward, who had been tarred and feathered for her crime.
"THIS WAS, I guess, my rebuke to myself for not doing or saying anything in the middle of this," he said.
The possibility of perfection in the midst of suffering is questioned in his poetry, he said.
Heaney gave the example of his own experiences teaching literature in a town to war by战.
The themes of many of the poems Heaney read dealt with this conflict, as well as with the traditions of his country.
He read several selections from
his critically acclaimed book,
"Poems 1965-1975."
HE CONNUED his reading for almost an hour and a half, at the urging of appreciative members of the audience.
Heiney read part of "Death of a Naturalist," which he said was once described as a "long, disappointing poem about frogs."
"To which my answer is, it is not a long poem at all," he said.
The poem describes a child's fascination with frog spawn and its transformation into tadpoles.
Potatoes, an Irish staple, are a recurring theme in much of Heaney's work.
HE READ a poem titled "Digging," in which a son watches his father digging potatoes with a spade. Heaney describes the sound of the spade hitting the rich soil, the father working as his father had taught him. But for the son, the pen substitutes for the spade.
Other selections dealt with the image of Irish bogs, which Heaney compared to the image of the United States as prairie land.
"Bog is one of the very few words in the English language to come from Ireland," he said.
He read a selection describing the head of a person who had fallen into a bog more than 1,500 years ago. The skin had a leather-like quality, and had remained remarkably normal. "Like an exhumb gourd," he said.
Seamus Heanev
Senate plans for budget crisis
By DON KNOX Staff Reporter
With the University of Kansas financial future clouded by the possibility of more budget cuts, Student Senate leaders are busy developing emergency plans they hope will allow student interests to be heard.
And those plans, student body president David Adkins said yesterday, hinge on a network of advisory committees approved last month to give students a say in the budget process.
Adkins proposed the creation of the committees in August. But concerns voiced by legislators Friday that the state could be broke by March may speed up the actual formation of those committees.
The committees, Adkins said, will be made up of senators and students within each academic school. Each
"Our guess is that none of those cuts will take place until November," said Adkins, whose term as student body president ends Nov. 19. "But we definitely want the framework for this established before I'm out of office."
committee will lobby with its respective dean as to how budget cuts should be made.
"Students may feel that they would rather have buildings open later as opposed to having telephones in professors' offices or classrooms, faculty concerns will be different."
ADKINS SAID the committees would work primarily with deans because Chancellor Gene A. Budig let academic deans determine where cuts were made during a 4 percent budget cut this summer.
Still, Adkins was unsure of the effectiveness of the committees.
"I think that, for the most part, many of these committees will be as effective as the deans let them be," he said. "But I think that we have to provide them with the format with which the exchange of ideas can take place."
Several KU deans said yesterday that the Senate program might be helpful.
them might be helpful.
"I think it would be effective," Howard Mossberg, dean of pharmacy, said. "The problem in July was that we had only 10 days to respond to the cuts. We'd certainly be open to visiting with them this time, but we're not talking about an area with great flexibility."
Patricia Ewalt, dean of social welfare, said, "I'm not sure the students were aware of what was happening when budget cuts were made over the summer. But whatever students would want to about what they desire, that's great."
ADKINS SAID response from KU administrators about the advisory
"They suffered a lot of frustration
the summer when students weren't
organized."
"When you think that only 4 percent was cut this summer — and the effects that had — the next cuts will have a major impact on the students."
Adkins said the committees would also concentrate on restricted fees assessed by academic departments in addition to tuition. The department of Fine Arts hasSES and the School of Fine Arts have approved such fees in the past, he said.
"IN FINE arts, the fee was imposed so music practice rooms could be kept open," Adkins said. "But those fees are the kinds of things that can be worked incrementally over a number of years until their effects are great."
Group forming to plan relays
The 1983 Kansas Relays are six months away, but planners are now looking for students for a committee to organize the annual track and field event.
Carolyn Coleman, Lawrence junior and co-chairman of the KU Relays student committee, said it was seeking new members to process Relay entries, self sponsorships for the Relays and officiate at them.
Coleman said the committee would accept applications through Friday.
She said the KU Relays were unique because they were the only relays in the United States to be run entirely by students.
"We want to recruit 25 to 30 people who will stay on the committee for the rest of the time they are at KU," Coleman said.
"Committee members do not have to have a sports background," she said. WC are looking for interested people selected about putting the meet together."
THE NEW committee members will replace members who have left, she said.
Frame said the committee wrote letters inviting schools to the Relays,
A 19-year-old KU student told police she was raped at a KU fraternity in the 1000 block of Stewart Avenue between 5th m. and midnight Friday, police said.
Lawrence police are still investigating a reported rape and attempted rape of two KU students Friday, police said yesterday.
2 KU women report attacks
The woman told police that the man was going to drive her home. She had gone with the man to his room in the house. The woman asked when he attacked her, she told police.
Police said no arrest has been made.
In the other incident, a 21-year-old KU student said two men attempted to rape her in her car about 12:15 a.m. Friday, police said. She told police that she was attacked at the corner of 14th and New York streets after two men jumped into her car. Police said the woman told them she was hit over the head and told that if she cooperated she would not get hurt.
Police did not say how the woman got away from the assaults.
Police said they do not have any suspects in the attempted rape case, but a woman did give them a description of the men and the car they were driving.
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"We do everything we can ahead of time to take some of the pressure off during the relays," she said. During the week, Relays the group works 12-hour days.
The committee usually has 40 to 50 members who meet once a month during the first semester, Coleman was during second semester they met once a month about two weeks before the RELays they meet three or four nights a week.
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On the record
BURGLARST STOLE $322 worth of items from a house in the 500 block of Fireside Drive sometime Saturday night. Law enforcement police said yesterday.
BURGLARS ALSO STOLE $1,800 worth of silver and servers utensils from a house in the 1500 block of El Camino to give some Friday night, police said.
BURGLARS STOLE $860 worth of items sometime Saturday night from an apartment in the 2000 block of West 27th Street Terrace, police said. The officer, a bicolor officer revolver, a .22-caliber semi-automatic pistol and a crossbow, police said.
BURGLARS STOLE A $1,800 1974 Ford Maverick from the 1900 block of Massachusetts Street between 12:45 and 2:45 a.m. Saturday, police said.
AN 18-YEAR-OLD KU STUDENT was robbed around 12:30 a.m. yesterday in the 900 block of Illinois Street and was forced to turn over the keys to his 1975 tan Camero, police said. Police are still looking for the car.
BURGLARS STOLE $300 worth of items from a car in the 2200 block of West Sixth Street between 1:30 and 2:30 a.m. Sunday, police said.
A 32-YEAR-OLD LAWRENCE woman was arrested Saturday night for hitting a police officer, police said. The woman, Lazel, 31 Maine St., was arrested for hitting an officer with a rocking chair at 266 Michigan St., police said.
Those speaking will be: state representative candidates Doug Lamborn, Betty Jo Charlton, Bob Schutte and Jess Brison崔; county commissioner candidates Nancy Hiebert and Hank Booth; U.S. congressional candidate Jim Slattery and a representative for his opponent, Morris Kay.
Panel features local, state candidates
The public is welcome.
A candidates' forum, featuring candidates for local, state and national offices, will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the South Park Recreation Center.
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