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The University replaced five soda vending machines with milk
machines that offer the dairy drink to go. PAGE 3A
Binge drinking research While many area bars hype their drink specials, a new Harvard University study says there is a link between drink discounts and binge drinking. PAGE 8A
Finishing on top
The Kansas men's golf team, led by Andrew Price outplayed the competition
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Like father, like son
in the Fall Invitational at Alvamar Golf and Country Club. PAGE1B
Football assistant Seth Littrell followed his father's footsteps to college football success. Now he wants to use his experience to help the Jayhawks. PAGE1B
Not so fond memories
Kansas football players remember how it felt to watch Missouri players and fans tear down the goalposts last year in columbia. PAGE 3B
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Wednesday, September 24, 2003 The Student Newspaper of the University of Kansas
Reno packs Lied Center
Former Attorney General Janet Reno smiled as she responded to a question about the effects of the media on her life. Reno gave a speech at the Lied Center last night about what lawyers could do for the country and then allowed questions from the audience.
Kit Löffler/Kennan
By Meghan Brune
mbrune@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
As former United States Attorney General Janet Reno took questions from the audience last night at the Lied Center, a student asked a two-part question. First, he asked what students who were not studying to be lawyers could do to help their country. Second, he wanted to know if he could shake her hand.
To the first question, the former Reno said all citizens should find time for public service. To the second, she simply bent down from the stage and offered her hand.
Reno spent the day speaking to law students and professors and addressed a packed house at the Lied Center last night. Student Union Activities and the University of Kansas School of Law funded Reno's visit.
As Reno began to speak at the Lied center, she described what first attracted her to her profession.
"I love the law and I love good and caring lawyers," Reno said.
Reno said she acted with conviction in her job and that sometimes led opponents to criticize her. She also said it was important to be able to laugh at herself.
"How else could I make it on to Saturday Night Live?" Reno said.
Reno served as attorney general under President Clinton for eight years beginning in 1993. She was the first woman to hold the position.
During the question-and-answer session at the Lied Center, Reno addressed what she considered the major issues facing the United States: health care, education equality, fairness in voting and the protection of civil liberties.
Madelaine Marchin, technology executive for the KU Democrats, said she agreed with many of Reno's views, especially those on education.
"I think that early childhood intervention is important so that every child gets started on the right track," said Marchin, a Manhattan senior.
Janet Murguia, executive vice chancellor, said she thought Reno's speech was positive and reflected her work as attorney general.
Murguia worked with Reno from 1994 to 1999 on legislative initiatives while she was a deputy assistant to President Clinton.
"It is always helpful to students to gain a perspective from someone who serves such a key position historically," Murguia said.
Reno extended a challenge to law students to be better fact-finders and prob-
"I went on with life and forgot that I had a disability."
Janet Reno
former United States Attorney General
lem-solvers in order to use the law to maintain democracy. She said she suggested public service to all lawyers.
"The greatest opportunity a lawyer can have is to use the law the right way to make the world a safer and better place," Reno said.
Reno referred once to dealing with Parkinson's disease when asked a question about students with disabilities. Reno was diagnosed with the disease in October 1995.
"I went on with life and forgot that I had a disability," Reno said.
"I hope for them what I have had," she said. "To work in a profession that has exceeded my expectations."
Edited by JJ Hensley
Safety week to address ledge issue
By Paul Kramer
pkramer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The recent death of an Oliver Hall resident has brought an added emphasis to the upcoming campus safety week.
The death of Eric Wellhausen Sept. 12 brought attention to issues that the Campus Safety Advisory Board wants to include in this year's campus safety week, which begins Oct. 7. Wellhausen fell from a ledge outside his seventh-floor window.
Shannon Bell, Campus Safety Advisory Board chairwoman, said the board had not had time to work on awareness strategies since the last board meeting.
"We met the Friday that it happened, and so we didn't have time to come up with
much of anything at that meeting." Bell said.
One idea, involving a sticker on all residence hall windows warning students of possible dangers, came from Lindsay Poe, Campus Safety Advisory Board member.
"It's not going to be a scare tactic," Poa said. "I just think a lot of freshman aren't aware of things that have happened."
While the board continues to meet about possible ways to address the issue of residence hall safety, it also pursues other safety interests.
One is walking at night on campus. This was an issue students noted on surveys given out at last years' campus safety week booth, and one where students will see action this year.
Jay Walk is program that will provide an escort for students who are on campus late at night. Students can use the service from
9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Sunday through Thursday.
The program will be run out of Anschutz Library and will operate in a system similar to SafeRide.
Students on-campus can call 4-3222 and one male and one female will come to them and either walk with them to a certain location or wait with them at a bus stop or for SafeRide.
Poe said that Student Senate had been going to group meetings and giving out applications and recruiting for Jay Walk volunteers was going better than expected
The service will begin Oct. 12.
Along with residence hall safety and campus safety, the board is working with campus groups such as the Emily Taylor Resource Women's Center on women's safety and on traditional issues like campus lighting.
Bell said the board went on a campus lighting tour last year to identify dark areas on campus in need of light. One of those areas is near the KJHK radio station just north of Memorial Stadium and another is near the scholarship halls on Louisiana Street.
"The proposals and funding are done, and we hope to have the lights by December." Bell said.
The advisory board will meet Friday to discuss ideas such as a bike helmet safety program, alcohol and drug awareness and items to be put on this year's survey.
Campus safety week will run from Oct. 7 to Oct. 9, with fliers, hot chocolate and hot cider at the Campus Safety Advisory Board's booth on Wescoe Beach.
Alumni group seeks more representation
— Edited by Shane Mettlen
By Johanna Maska
jmaska@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
"I fell in love with the campus," Jimmy Banks, 1978 business school graduate, said of his days at the University of Kansas. But 25 years later, Banks sees a different campus. It's a tougher place for minority students, Banks said.
A campus reunion isn't always a welcome return for alumni.
"[C's intimidating," Banks said.
The campus' classrooms, filled with mostly white bodies, are what Banks finds intimidating. When he attended the University, Banks said, there were many more minorities on campus. Now, he said, the numbers just aren't there.
In an effort to increase African-American enrollment, Banks, president of the newly formed African-American Alumni Association, leads a group of more than 60 African-American Alumni aiming to provide a base for current African-American students and support to incoming students.
Fueled by their disappointment with diversity at the University, the members
ofthe group and some African-American members of the University's faculty sought help from the University last January when it met with Chancellor Robert Hemenway. The group's goal was to kick-start African-American recruitment and retention as well as foster an alumni community in which members share a common bond. The Chancellor seemed to warm to these goals, Banks said, and pledged his support.
Which is why Banks is surprised that nine months later his group hasn't heard much.
At the January meeting, Banks said, the Chancellor agreed to set up a meeting between the groups that met with him and the University of Kansas Alumni Association to coordinate efforts.
Fred Williams, president of the University Alumni Association, said that it was not fair to say Chancellor Hemenway hadn't acted.
"He has mentioned the interest and I thought I had responded." Williams said.
Williams, upon the Chancellor's request, conducted a study of minority
SEE ALUMNI ON PAGE 5A
Stirred up over spades
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Tony Stubbs, Lake Worth, Fla., junior and Kansas football player, argued over the game's score at the second-annual Black Student Union Spades and Dominoes Tournament last night at the Burge Union. "It's a way for some of the members to kick back after Monday's meeting and enjoy each other," said Tray Allen, Wichita sophomore and Black Student Union president.
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