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Kansan
Monday
September 8,1997
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Vol.104-No.12
Mother Teresa
Mother to the world will lie in state in India until her funeral on Saturday.
The Kansas football team overcame injuries Saturday to win its second game of the season and remain undefeated.
Sports today
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Riding the wave
At least 9,400 music lovers gathered yesterday at Clinton State Park and listened to seven bands. See story on page 8A. Photo by Eric B. Howell/KANSAN
Diana's funeral leaves KU graduate on island of sorrow
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By Barbara Kollmeyer Special to the Kansan
Editor's note: The writer is a 1990 KU graduate living in London. She is bureau chief for "Futures World News," a financial news wire and commodity service, and is president of the London chapter of the Foreign Press Association.
On the day of Princess Diana's funeral, Iycled 40 minutes through a silent and still London. The sky was atypically clear and bright. People were filing into the city wearing everything from full black mourning gear to jeans and T-shirts.
I thought of the day I met Diana three years ago.
She was the guest at a luncheon for the American press in London, and we were given strict instructions not to talk to British press or paparazzi or to write anything about the day, what she was wearing or what she said. The paparazzi were waiting for her at the hotel that day, but I think she avoided them. They had cameras with lenses the circumference of a baby's head and the length of a person's arm.
"So this is what its like for her," I thought.
Most of us were star-struck when she
finally walked into the room where we had been waiting. She was tall, elegant and charming, and I stammered and stuttered in front of her as she patiently smiled. She could have been utterly uninterested in what I had to say that day. (What I said I can't clearly remember now.) But I never would.
Kollmeyer; Like many, touched by Diana's funeral
On Saturday, my companion and I made our way to the Mall, the length.
have known, so rapt was her attention.
Praise of Diana is endless at the moment — ironically, from some journalists who had only criticism for her while she was alive.
As a financial journalist living here, I always have thought that attention given to the royals is overdone. Yet many times I would find myself casually thumbing through the various episodes of their lives in the papers.
How I came to feel her loss with the millions of others mystifies me, but it was infectious.
wide road that leads from Buckingham Palace toward Westminster Abbey. We joined those who had been waiting several hours, some all night. From about 25 feet we could just see over the heads of those in front of us to the road on which the cortex would pass.
Although I could not see the procession coming, I knew when it had arrived. The crowd went still and silent, and the few sounds were the clips of the horses' hooves and the wheels of the gun barrel on which her casket rode.
Hands holding cameras shot up in the air - mine included, I confess. As the cortege moved closer, I saw the casket graced with the flag of the royal crest. Policemen were instructed not to watch the procession in order to keep an eye on the crowd, but it would have been difficult not to look.
I let my camera drop after a couple of photos, thinking how inappropriate it felt to be taking pictures.
The image of Prince William will stay with me forever. I could glimpse him and his father, Charles, trailing the casket. William seemed unable to lift his eyes or his head to the grieving thousands lining the path.
See DIANA'S on page 6A
Cat goes into closet when burglar breaks into bath
Kansan staff report
A University of Kansas employee woke up Wednesday night to find a would-be burlar in his bathroom.
Lawrence police said Edward Jones, who works as a custodian in Learned Hall, was sleeping at 11:30 p.m. at his home in the 2200 block of Rhode Island Street when he heard a noise in his bathroom.
Jones said he had gone into the bathroom, had turned on the light and had come face to face with the intruder, who had come in through an unlocked window.
"We looked at each other for what seemed to be an eternity but was probably only two seconds," Jones said. "Then, he started hitting me with a flashlight."
"I tried to get to the phone to call, the police, but he kept hitting me," Jones said. "Finally, I told him I didn't even have anything in the house to steal and told him to leave."
Jones said the man had hit him until he fell to the floor.
Jones said he had put up a fight before the intruder ran from the house empty-handed.
some scratches," he said. "He didn't have a shirt on when he went out the front door."
After calling the police and filing a report, Jones went to Lawrence Memorial Hospital and received six stitches for a head wound.
"I tore his coat off and gave him
Jones said the incident affected his cat more than him.
"The cat stayed in my closet for two days after that, she was so scared," he said. "She's getting over it, though."
Jones described the intruder as a male of medium height and medium build who had dark clothes, black hair and appeared to be in his 20s.
Parking prices don't drive away sales of permits
Parking department raised prices on passes of all colors
By Antoinette Patterson
Special to the Kansan
Despite an almost 50 percent price hike in annual student parking permits, sales haven't slowed one bit, a University of Kansas parking department official said late last week.
The cost for yellow parking permits jumped from $53 to $75. All faculty and staff permit prices rose by $25. The additional money will finance parking lot improvements.
The department had sold 5,554 student permits and 2,141 faculty and staff permits by Aug. 29. Other permits, including those for residence halls, Stouffer Place and Jayhawker Towers, comprised an additional 1,468 sold.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of the parking department, said the department had sold 6,620 student permits and more than 2,500 faculty and staff permits last fall.
Hultine said the department heard more complaints from faculty and staff than from students. But tentative lot improvements may appease upset staff and faculty.
The additional revenue from parking permits will pay for future parking lot improvements, but the department doesn't yet know which ones, Hultine said.
"It's a long-range plan," Hultine said. "There's a peacking order on what lots will be improved."
She said the parking department was considering improvements to the Oliver Hall and Stouffer Place lots using the additional money from permit sales. Other lots also face an uncertain future.
Hultine called the lot in front of Lewis Hall a lot hanging in limbo. If plans to renovate the hall proceed, the lot will not be improved until the summer of 1999. just before the hall reopenes that fall.
Other Daisy Hill lots already have benefited from last year's permit fees. During the summer, the department added almost 200 stalls to the Daisy Hill area. Hultine said.
Aaron North, Chicago senior, said it didn't matter what the additional money was used for because drivers have little choice but to buy from the department.
"On a campus this large, it's a seller's market because of the demand," North said. "They can pretty much charge us as much as they want."
Spanish classes to be restructured to accommodate students' needs
Changes could diminish exodus to Johnson County
By Jennifer A. Yeoman
By Jennifer A. Yeoman
jyeoman@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Change is under way for the department of Spanish and Portuguese. And the overwhelming response is that it's about time.
we should change, too."
"We've been doing what we are doing for a long time," said William Blue, chairman of the department of Spanish and Portuguese. "There has been a change in the way classes have been taught in other places, and we decided that if there was going to be change
Spanish changes
In an effort to hold students' attention and keep them enrolled in Spanish courses at the University of Kansas, the department of Spanish and Portuguese is restructuring its program beginning
New Spanish
104, 212 will
begin in spring
98.
New Spanish 108, 216 will begin in fall '98
next semester with Spanish 104.
Students now enrolled in lower-level courses must attend classes taught by GTAs five days a week.
"This is a grand adventure," Blue said. "We're sticking our necks out, but we're looking forward to it."
The class will be taught once a week by a professor in a large lecture, and the other four weekly classes will be taught by graduate teaching assistants. Spanish 108 also will use this format in the fall of 1998.
Spanish 216 only provides instruction in basic grammar and conversation.
The course is being redesigned to allow more interesting choices, Blue said. The GTAs teaching the classes will decide what the class will cover. However, Blue foresees that there will be classes on media, business, literature and history.
More drastic changes will take place in Spanish 212 and 216. Spanish 212 will serve as a grammar review of level 104 and 108 classes.
However, Spanish 216 will change the most. The course will be structured more like the higher-level classes, in which students choose from a variety of sections.
"In the fourth level, they've already done all of the grammar," Blue said. "If we keep that up, they'll fall asleep in three minutes, and I don't blame them. We want some new classes that will involve the students and keep them interested."
Blue hoped the more interesting classes also would help keep students from driving to Johnson County Community College to take Spanish courses.
"I'm baffled that students would want to drive 45 minutes to take a class at Johnson County that they can take here." Blue said. "I can't understand why anyone would want to do that."
But some students need to make the trin.
"For me, the Spanish department at KU is just too difficult and frustrating," said Jay Erickson, Minneapolis, Minn., junior, who has taken two Spanish courses at Johnson County. "It's worth the 45-minute drive because there is no way I could have completed it at KU. When I took the first two levels here, I had to drop other classes to deal with the load."
Some students just drop out all together. "I dropped out of the College of Liberal Arts so that I wouldn't have to finish Spanish," said Kelly Bridges, Olathe sophomore. "I was placed in a level that was too high for me even though I told the teacher I couldn't handle it. By the time the teacher realized I was right, I had to scramble around and beg to get into another class."
Blue said he had no idea students were having problems with the courses but he hoped the new program would eliminate problems and encourage others to major in Spanish.
"I think that this new program will encourage more students to keep going," said Erin Dametz, Olathe junior and a Spanish major. "The classes will not be as repetitive, which will help a lot of students to do better and learn more."