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Vol.114 Issue No.57
KANSAN
Tuesday, November 11, 2003
The Student Newspaper of the University of Kansas
Week emphasizes respect
By Johanna M. Maska
jmaska@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Wescoe Beach mirrored a fashion show as two men with different campus groups displayed their goods.
The men, promoting garb, otherwise clashed. A tall African-American man with square glasses, a fashionable highzip coat and slacks was handing out free T-shirts. A shorter Bolivian man in a hand-woven Chasqui sweater stood selling wool products.
ng work produces. The African-American man, Tony Daniels, and the Bolivian man, Mario Andrade, were discussing their organizations. Daniels, associate director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, is promoting activities for Hate Out Week, a weeklong calendar of events encouraging discussion of multicultural issues. Andrade was selling sweaters for his Bolivian cooperative. He gives profits to needy Bolivians, he said. Both men, they agreed, were promoting equality and awareness.
HATE OUT WEEK ACTIVITIES
Today, 7 p.m. "How to Keep Hate Out of KU" panel discussion, Hawk's Nest, Kansas Union
Tomorrow, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Field of flags: an event to commemorate victims of hate crimes. Stauffer-Flint Hall lawn
Nov. 13, noon, The Field of Flags closing ceremony, Stauffer-Flint lawn
Nov. 14 to 16, Colors of KU retreat
Nov. 14, 19, 20 and 21, 7:30 p.m.; Nov.
15 and 22, 5 p.m. and 9 p.m.; and
Nov. 16 and 23, 2:30 p.m. and 7:30
p.m., *Cabaret*, Stage Tool Theatre,
Murphy Hall
Equality and awareness are central themes to Hate Out Week, Daniels said. Hate Out Week, in its third year, is a week sponsored by the Multicultural Resource Center, Diversity Peer Education Team, and the Office of Multicultural Affairs.
SEE RESPECT ON PAGE 5A
Tony Daniels, associate director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, tried on a pair of Alpacas gloves while Mario Andrade told him about items he is selling outside Wesco Beach this week. Andrade is selling wool-woven goods to benefit citizens of his native Bolivia.
Jared Soares/Kansan
Campaign promotes alcohol education
By Danielle Hillix
dhillix@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
If you're going to drink,drink responsibly.
That's the message the University of Kansas is sending students through a new alcohol education campaign launched this fall.
The new education program replaces the defunct Social Norms campaign, which tried to convince students that their peers were drinking "moderately or not at all."
"Hopefully, this is a different enough tact," said Diana Robertson, associate director of the Department of Student Housing and chairwoman of the committee that developed the program. "Not that past programs were preachy, but we really don't want to preach to students."
Instead of preaching, Robertson said the new campaign used facts to get students thinking about the effects of alcohol.
The campaign began with a poster series, which was put up in student housing throughout campus. Robertson said the posters brought attention to the impact of alcohol use.
Instead of using the Social Norms approach and telling students that "most KU students drink 0-5 drinks when they party," the posters tell students facts
The posters were funded by $500 left over from the Social Norms campaign, which ended last year. A $250,000 grant funded the Norms campaign.
SEE ALCOHOL ON PAGE 5A
Jared Soares/Kansan
Rainy day women
Brittany Zshoche, Lenexa senior, left, and Carolyn McKanna, Olathe sophomore, attempted to stay dry yesterday during an afternoon passing period in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall. Today's forecast calls for a 20 percent chance of rain.
Jared Source/Kansas
Harry Shaffer, professor of economics and profes-
sor ementus of Russian and Eastern Europ-
ean studies, posed in his office in Summerfield Hall. Shaffer has taught at the University of Kansas for 47 years.
Around the world in 84 years
Economics professor shares stories of love, life, travel and teaching
By Kevin Kampwirth
kkampwirth@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
It's 9:58 on a Tuesday morning when Harry Shaffer answers his door wearing a crimson robe and slippers.
"I completely forgot you were coming today," he says, something which, as a reporter, scares me a bit.
report, we walk into the living room and sit down on the couch, though, my fears are quickly subdued. He talks for the next hour barely stopping to take a breath.
"Ever since I was a young boy I knew I wanted to make my living talking," he says.
I write this down remembering something Shaffer would sometimes say during his class lectures: "This is important. Write it down."
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Though he's been a college professor for 55 years, is the author of 11 books about economics and a recent recipient of one of the most prestigious awards a teacher can receive, Harry Shaffer "the teacher" is only half the story.
To best understand Shaffer, cross the historic life experiences of Forrest Gump with the intelligence, accent and wild hair of Albert Einstein.
"Austria wasn't big enough for the two of us," Shaffer said. "He didn't want to leave, so I left instead."
Shaffer's story begins in Vienna, Austria, 84 years ago. He lived there until he was 19, but left in 1938 when Adolf Hitler began his ascent into power.
In 1940, he came to the United States
Over the next few years he lived in such diverse places as Italy, France and Cuba. Shortly after receiving his U.S. visa, Shaffer was drafted by the United States as a specialist in military intelligence. In the service, he was injured when a truck turned over and fell on top of him, which led to a six month hospital stay.
and settled in Miami working as a busboy and a waiter. He then moved to New York City and began attending college under the GI Bill. In just four years, he received his bachelor's and master's degree and completed one credit towards his doctorate degree.
"It was a lot to handle at one time," he said. "School, two jobs, and, at this point, I was married and had a son."
Shaffer thought that he would go into the import and export business because he spoke Spanish well. His mind quickly changed, however, when he took his first economics class.
"The professor teaching the course got me so interested in the subject matter, I decided to get my doctorate in economics instead," he said.
Shaffer took his first teaching job in 1948 at Concord College in Athens, W.Va. After two years there, he left and took a teaching position at the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
SEE SHAFFER ON PAGE 6A
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