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Disappointing turn-out The annual Hate Out Week suffered low attendance for many of this year's activities, but closed on a successful note with 45 students attending the Colors of KU weekend retreat in Linwood. PAGE 3A
An international affair
A group of students from the University of Kansas hosted a dinner in which the proceeds went to
assisting third world children get the resources they need to stay healthy.PAGE 5A
After its loss to Oklahoma State,the football team prepares for a
Kansas moves past loss
sixth victory of the season over Iowa State. PAGE12A
'Hawks win despite lineup The Kansas Jayhawks annihiated St. Louis Goldstar, 79- 28, yesterday in an exhibition game at Allen Fieldhouse. PAGE 12A
Cross country season over
While the women's cross country team finished up its season in Stillwater,
Okla., this weekend, the men's team waits for word on their postseason prospects. PAGE 7A
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KANSAN
Vol. 114 Issue No.61
Monday, November 17, 2003
The Student Newspaper of the University of Kansas
Adviser pleads for unity
John Nowak/Kansan
By Zack Hemenway
zhemenway@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
David Gergen recalled a moment with former Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas during Gergen's time in Washington, D.C. Gergen has worked for presidents Clinton and Reagan and is the editor at large for U.S. News & World Report. He spoke at the Lied Center last night.
When David Gergen spoke, the nearly full Lied Center crowd listened, just as four presidents had.
Gergen has served in an advisory role to former Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.
His speech last night was the third in a Presidential Lecture series presented by the Robert J. Dole Institute of Political Science.
Gergen is a professor of political science at Harvard University and is wellknown through his work in television and magazine commentary, but he made it clear which lines in his resume were most important.
"It's a privilege for any American citizen to work for the president," he said. "I've been very blessed to work for four."
After opening with a few self-effacing jokes and a short tribute to former Sen. Bob Dole, Gergen dove into the main points of his speech.
His voice became louder and his pace quickened as he described his experiences with different presidents and how they related to his primary subject: what it takes to be a great leader.
Gergen said this was an important topic because America was grooming the next generation of leaders. He spoke directly to the members of that generation in the audience.
"You matter." Gergen said. "Each of you matters. We need you in this next century."
Gergen said that there were three qualities required to become a great leader and a great president: ambition, intellectual curiosity and capacity and character.
Gergen said that Nixon and Clinton fit the first two requirements almost
perfectly; however, Gergen said, both failed to meet his final criterion of character.
After outlining his experiences, Gergen applied his leadership test to the current president.
While noting that it was still too soon to tell, Gergen said he worried George W. Bush might be the opposite of Clinton and Nixon — sound in character and ambition but lacking in intellectual curiosity.
Gergen closed his speech with a heartfelt appeal to political compromise, telling the crowd, "We're all in this together."
Andrew Winetroub, Leavenworth high school senior, said Gergen's closing was powerful.
"Things are pretty divisive in the political world right now," Winetroub said. "I thought it was a great message."
Edited by Doyle Murphy
Waving victory
Defender Maggie Mason walked off the field as defender Amy Geha and forwards Monica Brothers and Carmel Kaplinger "waved the wheat" to the crowd after defeating Missouri 2-0 in Columbia, Mo. The victory put the Jawhawks in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament. **SEE STORY ON PAGE 12A.**
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Campus housing costs likely to increase
By Abby Mills almills@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Despite a proposed increase in housing costs, living at the University of Kansas will still be comparatively cheap.
"Even with the increases proposed our rates are among the lowest in the Big 12," said Ken Stoner, director of the department. "It's still a great deal."
The Department of Student Housing has proposed a 3.1 percent increase, $78, for a double occupancy room. The rate will rise from $2,498 per year to $2,576.
The highest increase at the University will be at Miller and Watkins scholarship halls, where residents will pay $300 more than last semester.
The rate increase proposals must be approved by the Board of Regents.
Stoner said rates rose every year, mostly because of inflation.
He said the department was also facing higher operating costs because of high utility rates and increases in costs for cable television.
Stoner said the rise had to do with issues surrounding the halls' trust fund and increases in operating expenses.
SEE HOUSING ON PAGE 5A
Sharon Schmiege, Tulsa senior, moved in for a better view as retired professor Henry Fitch described the anatomy of a non-poisonous garter snake at the Fitch Natural History Reserve Oct 1. Fitch has lived on the Reserve since 1950 and is currently recovering from hip surgery.
University professor continues to teach, research about snakes
By Amber Byarlay
abyarlay@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Henry Fitch's interest in snakes began when he was growing up at his father's Oregon pear orchard.
"I could, in fact, scatter a group of adults by coming up to them carrying a big bull snake," Fitch said. "That was quite a feeling of power for a five-year-old."
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Nearly 90 years and eight poisonous snake bites later, Fitch is still catching and showing off snakes.
He is working with George Pisani on a timber rattlesnake study. Pisani is a former University employee and a herpetologist, someone studying reptiles and amphibians.
The two are working on an on-going study about timber rattlesnakes in Kansas.
Fitch, who will turn 94 in December is a former University of Kansas professor in zoology.
Fitch began teaching ecology at the University in 1948. He was also hired to maintain and research an area about one square mile. Fitch did all three until his retirement in 1980. Maintaining the Fitch Natural History Reserve includes ensuring that hunters and domesticated animals stay out of it. He also keeps records on the wildlife.
in the reserve. Her mother recorded the information her father found about plants and animals on the reserve. The grasses in the reserve were tall and thick, and Echelle would get separated from her parents when she would explore.
Now he continues to research and
When Echelle was young, she would accompany her parents on research trips
"It was a great place to grow up," Echelle said. "It spelled me for living anywhere else, I think, for ever after. I always felt very, very lucky."
"I would look up and realize I was lost," she said. "They'd shout directions to me."
care for animals and plants on the reserve, where he has lived since March 1, 1950. Alice Echelle, Fitch's daughter, said she enjoyed growing up in the nature reserve.
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