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Learning from `Jayplay`
Read Jayplay to learn the secrets of how to please women
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Dramatic education
The Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center will sponsor The Yellow Dress,a
Artful negotiations
play about an abusive college relationship. PAGE 3A
The department of music and dance in the School of Fine Arts has proposed a tuition differential to increase funding for necessary improvements. PAGE 3A
Rallying cry
The Kansas volleyball team fought back against Missouri
during game
five to defeat the Tigers 3-2 in the Border War. PAGE12A
Soon enough
The No.21- ranked soccer team is out to win its first post-season game tonight
against the Sooners. PAGE 12A
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Thursday, November 6, 2003
Interest in GSP declines
By Abby Mills almills@kansan.com kansas staff writer
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
The Student Newspaper of the University of Kansas
GSP Hall has more vacancies this semester than any other residence hall, leaving the Department of Student Housing wondering what to do with the GSP gaps.
Vacancies prompt department to look at changes
"It's not a cause for alarm," said Diana Robertson, associate director of the department. "It's something to look at and ask what it means and what can, or should, we do about it."
GSP has 67 openings this semester. The next highest is the men's section of McCollum Hall with 39 vacancies.
Robertson said students tended to
choose renovated halls — Templin, Lewis or Ellsworth — over other halls, which may contribute to the decline in students picking GSP. She said GSP could be affected more than other halls because its rooms are 6 inches smaller than rooms in other halls.
One of the options the department is looking into is making GSP co-ed. Opening up the hall to men could attract people who would have chosen different housing options, Robertson said.
"If the preference is co-ed, and we offer more co-ed spaces we open the possibility of decreasing those vacancies," she said.
Robertson said the department had no evidence that the decline in residents
was because of GSP's single-sex status and said that demand for Corbin was still high.
Kansas City, Mo., freshman Tiffany Logan said factors other than GSP's single-sex status could continue to keep people from choosing to live in the hall.
"It has smaller rooms, there's no storage, the fuses blow all the time, dining stinks and there is a curfew for boys. It's only one factor out of many," she said.
Resident Ann Marie Harris disagreed and said providing all-female living gave GSP an advantage over other residence halls.
"It seems like with all the other dorms,
The Department of Student Housing could change GSP Hall to a co-ed residence hall because of the high number of vacancies. See the number of residents for each hall, with vacancies in parenthesis, below.
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RESIDENCE HALLVACANCIES
Hall Male Female
GSP — 407 (67)
Corbin — 290 (6)
Ellsworth 260 (7) 261 (2)
Hashinger 195 (4) 192 (4)
Lewis 127 (2) 152 (2)
Templin 152 (3) 127 (2)
McCollum 478 (39) 418 (2)
Oliver 302 (0) 342 (7)
Total 1514 (55) 2189 (92)
Burning glory
Source: Department of Student Housing
A man walks past the Moses statue in front of Smith Hall late Tuesday night. Sculpted by Lawrence artist Eldon Tafft, the statue took 10 years to complete and was given to the University in 1982. It faces a stained glass window of a burning bush, taken from the University's seal, created in 1866. One interpretation of the bush is that it represents Lawrence surviving Quantrill's burning of the town during the Civil War.
John Nowak/Kansai
Regents consider sex class policies
By Maggie Newcomer
nnewcomer@kansan.com
mansan staff writer
A controversy over sexually explicit classes born at the University of Kansas now has all six of the state's public universities involved.
The Board of Regents formed a six-person task force last month to write a policy in response to Sen. Susan Wagle's May 23 request for regulations on classes that use sexually explicit materials.
Blake Shuart is the Ione University voice on the task force. The Topeka senior turned in his recommendations and revisions for the policy yesterday, but said he could not disclose his recommendations.
The task force members are each leaders at their respective universities, said Reggie Robinson, president and CEO of the Board of Regents. The task force consists of two students, two faculty senate presidents and two provosts, who were selected for the task force from the state's six public universities.
The policy is in response to a debate Wagle started last year about Dennis Dailey's "Human Sexuality in Everyday Life" class. Wagle based her arguments on accusations from a former student of Dailey's that he used pornographic material, promoted pedophilia and harassed female students in class.
The policy must address the teaching of human sexuality, the use of sexually explicit materials, the teaching of pedophilia and sexual harassment that could arise from such subject matter, according to Wagle's request.
The University eventually cleared Dailey of the accusations. Dailey did not return phone calls for this article.
Kansas State University Provost James Coffman is writing the new draft.
Robinson said Wagle's request was for each university to write its own policy. Robinson said he decided to form the task force to develop a uniform response all the schools could follow.
Coffman said it was premature to discuss whether any changes would need to be made to Dailey's class after the policy took effect.
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'Matrix'sequel hits Lawrence
By Meghan Brune
mbrune@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The end is here.
The third and final part of the Matrix trilogy opened yesterday at South Wind 12 Theatres, 3433 Iowa St.
Matrix Revolutions was shown on two screens, starting at 12:30 p.m and running until 10:30 p.m.
Yesterday's 1 p.m. showing :vas not
sold out, said South Wind employee Austin Gilmore, but the 7 p.m. tickets were almost gone.
Gilmore, Overland Park junior, said many people were coming in early to buy tickets, but he didn't think there was much danger of all the shows selling out.
"The demand for these tickets is about the same as Matrix Reloaded;" Gilmore said.
The Matrix, released in 1999, stars
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Reeves' Neo is a computer hacker who discovers that humans are living in a false reality controlled by machines. In the film, he joins the crew of a ship from humanity's last stronghold, Zion, led by Morpheus.
Keanu Reeves as Neo, Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus and Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity.
In The Matrix: Reloaded, the second film, the people of Zion continued to fight against the machine army, which
was trying to destroy the last remaining humans. Reloaded's cliffhanger ending leaves Nea comatose and the future uncertain.
In Revolutions, the machines have broken through to Zion and the humans' last hope is Neo.
Austin Hickert and two of his coworkers bought tickets to the 1 p.m. showing The Lawrence resident said he had seen
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