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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
WWW.KANSAN.COM
VOLUME 120 ISSUE 23
EDITOR'S LETTER
Photos not meant to offend
The University Daily Kansan operates independently from the University. The only people who review our content before it goes to print are our student editors — no faculty members or anyone else. But with this freedom comes a responsibility to our readers, and that's why I'd like to respond to some concerns from our audience.
The Kansan and the University have heard from several people who objected to the photo on the cover of the "Sex on the Hill" section released Thursday. They objected not just to the sexual nature of the photo, but to the location of the photo: the top of the Campanile, a memorial to the 277 KU students, faculty and staff who died in World War II. These people thought the photo had defaced the Campanile and insulted what it stood for.
These objections took us at The Kansan somewhat by surprise, because none of us had considered before the section's publication that the Campanile was a World War II memorial. Someone certainly should have raised that point during our planning, and for that ignorance on our part, I apologize. The Kansan certainly had no intent to insult those who gave their lives for our country.
But our failure to consider the Campanile's significance illustrates that most students probably view the Campanile as a campus monument and a part of graduation-day tradition, but not as the war memorial it's meant to be. Thus, few students probably thought about the Campanile's purpose when they saw the photo Thursday.
Also important to this issue are The Kansan news staff's goals in producing the "Sex on the Hill" section. Our goal was not to sensationalize, to offend people or to encourage anyone to go to the top of the Campanile or Fraser Hall — please, please don't. Instead, we hoped to portray sex as what it is — a major topic in the lives of many students, and as much a part of those students' lives at KU as classes, sporting events or the buildings they pass by every day on campus. The Kansan certainly didn't aim to deface or disrespect the Campanile or any other campus location.
We here at the Kansan are students, just like the thousands of others at the University, learning as we go. Like those other students, we make mistakes — but our mistakes are printed out and distributed for thousands of people to see.
But people reading the paper and looking at the photos didn't see our intentions they saw only the results. This means we have to think about our content not just from our own perspective, but from the vast and varied perspectives of our audience. This incident has helped us learn that lesson.
So we at The Kansan promise to learn from this and from our other experiences, and to do a better job of keeping our readers in mind in every decision we make.
If you have an opinion about the cover photo or anything else in the "Sex on the Hill" section, please let us know about it. Send a letter to the editor to opinion@ kansan.com, or just send me an e-mail at merickson@kansan.com to let us know what you think. The best way for us at The Kansan to learn and improve is to hear what our readers think.
THEY'RE BACK
Erickson is Kansan editor-in-chief.
Jon Goering/KANSAN
Junior quarterback Todd Reesing celebrates with his offensive line after they helped get him into the end zone for the first Kansas touchdown of Saturday's game against Sam Houston State at Memorial Stadium. Reesing completed 23 of 38 of his passes for 356 yards and two touchdowns. He also recorded this rushing touchdown, which got the Hawks on the board after a scorless first quarter.
Junior wide receiver Kerry Meier leaps into the endzone at the end of a 68-yard touchdown reception on a pass from junior quarterback Todd Reesing. Meier recorded a career-high 136 receiving yards on eight catches. The second-quarter touchdown put the Hawks up 14-0.
Jon Goering/KANSAN
MEMORIAL
Ceremony to honor life of slain student activist
BY BETSY CUTCLIFF bcutcliff@kansan.com
The memorial will give friends and family the opportunity to celebrate Mackey, who had dedicated much of her time to women's rights.
The University of Kansas School of Law will host a memorial ceremony this evening in remembrance of KU law student Jana Mackey, who was murdered in her ex-boyfriend's Lawrence home on July 2.
Jessica Leffler, KU law student, said that Jana would have wanted her friends and family to celebrate her life instead of her death.
"If there ever was a life to celebrate, it was Janas', Leffler said. "By celebrating Jana's life, we hope to inspire others to do the same through their words and actions."
In honor of their daughter, parents Christie and Curt Brungardt launched a Web site encouraging others to continue Mackey's work and care about abuse victims. They named the site 1100torches.org after the 1,100 people who were at the initial memorial July 9. Through the site, they urge others to "pick up her fallen torch and find the courage to carry her work forward."
The memorial will take place at 6 p.m. in the Kansas Room at the Union.
RESIDENCE
Hemenway dedicates new scholarship hall
BY RYAN MCGEENEY rmcgeeney@kansan.com
Students, parents and alumni gathered near the corner of 13th and Ohio streets Saturday afternoon to celebrate the dedication of the University's newest scholarship halls, the Floyd H. and Kathryn Krebblief Scholarship Hall.
Krehbiel is the University's twelfth scholarship hall and was officially opened in August, about a year after construction crews first broke ground in 2007. It houses
50 men.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway led the dedication ceremony, which also featured brief addresses from Dale Seuferling, the president of KU Endowment and Sai Folmsbee, Topeka junior and the hall's president. Carl Krehbiel, who donated $4 million for the construction of the hall and a $400,000 maintenance fund, also spoke.
Krebbiel, a KU alumnus who lived in Stephenson Scholarship Hall until his graduation in 1970, named the new resi-
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