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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 2009
FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 2009
CAMPUS GROUPS
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Jon Griffith, Leavonworth senior, and Grant Smith, Salina junior, write down contact information for incoming freshmen at the Campus. Crusade barbecue Monday. The barbecue gave new students an opportunity to get involved before the semester starts. Campus Crusade for Christ also informs freshmen of their group through helping them move into the residence halls.
Religious groups working to help
Clubs plan events at the beginning of the year for incoming students to gain members
BY RAY SEGEBRECHT
rsegebrecht@kansan.com
Cambridge, England, reminded Charles Goldberg, Chicago senior, of his move to Lawrence four years ago when he arrived there this summer on a study abroad program.
- were exactly the same.
It did not matter that the old, intricately carved stone steeples or large open grass meadows didn't really resemble Jayhawk Boulevard. His feelings — initially isolation and then comfort when he found the Chabad Jewish Student group — were exactly the same.
a. The KU online directory, for the first time this fall, has links to informational pages on every religious group on campus, said Aaron Quisenberry, associate director of the Student Involvement and Leadership Center.
"Especially when they figure out they're on their own," Goldberg said. "People need something to attach to, an anchor, frequently religious."
1.The KU A-Z Online Directory.
FINDING THE RIGHT RELIGIOUS GROUP
2. KU Religious Advisors.
b. Students can also search "religious" under "category," and all 43 registered religious groups on campus will appear.
2. KU Religious Adultery
a. All advisors in this council should carry cards that list all faith-based groups that are registered with KURA. Regardless of their faith, they can help direct students to a group that best fits the description the students are looking for
b. Students can also visit the KURA Web site at: http:// groupsku.edu/~kura/
Several faith-based student groups are making efforts in the first few weeks this fall that vary from informational booths to free dinners to reach out to new spiritual students.
3. Info Fair for Student Groups from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday, August 21, 2009 in the 4th Floor Lobb of the Kansas Union
"So much of college life is stressful!" Tiechtel said. "When a student engages in a spiritual experience, it's a way to relax and level the tension."
Rabbis Zalman Tiechtel, of the Lawrence Chabad Jewish Student Group and a member of KU Religious Advisors, said he had noticed more college students such as Goldberg who chose to seek out groups of faith at the University each year.
The University has 43 registered religious groups, said Aaron Quisenberry, associate director of the Student Involvement and
Leadership Center, and most of those groups have advisors who also serve on the KU Religious Advisors council.
Teichtel said the council printed a card with all religious groups on it and met monthly to talk about improving student life.
"We serve as guideposts," Teichtel said.
One of the groups represented in KU Religious Advisors, Campus Crusade for Christ, or CRU, began spreading the word to new students about its programs by helping new students move into their residence halls, said Emily Schuster, Larned senior and secretary for the group.
Schuster said she remembered feeling unsure about which religious group she should join when
she was a freshman because there were so many choices.
"My roommate and I had grown up in the church, but it was kind of difficult to know where to start." Schuster said. "Different groups have different focuses. Finding which one you fit into best is the biggest struggle."
She said she felt more comfortable choosing CRU after two of its members helped her move into the residence hall her freshman year.
"My parents were blown away"
Schuster said.
Ala Abdel-Halim, Tulkarem, Palestine, pharmacy student and exiting president of the KU Muslim Student Association, said he thought many new students used the Internet to search for the right
religious group.
"We have a Web site." Abdel-Halim said. "That will help a lot, but still there's some students that won't know about our group, and we're trying our best to reach those people. We are hoping to create the environment to feel they are not alone and give them support they need, almost like creating an environment so they feel like they are home."
Home was exactly how Goldberg described the sense he felt when he found the Chabad Jewish Student groups both in Cambridge and in Lawrence four years ago. Goldberg said he joined the Chabad Jewish Student Group in Lawrence with several of his Jewish Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity brothers after the center on 19th Street opened the spring of his freshman year.
"I felt like I had found not just a group of friends but a family," Goldberg said. "It was a godsend."
Goldberg will stay at the University for an extra semester to graduate in December with a Jewish Studies minor in addition to his psychology degree. He said the Chabad Jewish Student Group was a large part of that decision.
"College is a very transitional time," Goldberg said. "A lot of people spend time with introspection and finding themselves. It's nice to have a group of people who understand where you're coming from."
Edited by Megan Morriss and Alicia Banister
NATIONAL
Senator's funeral draws thousands of tributes, mourners
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOSTON — His life's journey ended, the body of Sen. Edward Kennedy traveled by motorcade Thursday from the family compound where he spent his last days, past the building where he opened his first office to the presidential library named for his slain brother.
Thousands of mourners assembled along the 70-mile route that was dotted with landmarks named for the Kennedys.
"It was Teddy's home team. It just seemed appropriate to leave him the cap," said James Jenner, 28, placing a Sox cap he was wearing near the entrance to the library. "It symbolizes everything that he loved about his home state and everything he was outside the Senate."
bor and local celebrity, whether he was taking a turn conducting the Boston Pops or throwing out the first pitch for the Red Sox.
go hand in hand," said Nylan, 38, who said people had been stopping near his house to leave flowers since Kennedy died late Tuesday.
For many, it was hard to untangle Kennedy's larger-than-life role as statesman from his role as neigh-
the senator's body to the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, where the Senate's third-longestserving member will lie in repose.
The motorcade started its trip in Hyannis Port, at the Cape Cod home where Kennedy's family held a private Mass. Eighty-five Kennedy relatives traveled with
By Thursday evening, thousands of people were waiting in line to pay their respects at Kennedy's public viewing. Officials allowed mourners to enter in groups of 35 to 40 to file past Kennedy's closed casket.
A bouquet of white and yellow lilies lay on the lawn of David Nylan's vacation rental near the Kennedy home, where a U.S. flag flew at half-staff in Kennedy's memory.
"The Kennedys and Hyannis and the Cape, they just kind of
MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER
KC Wizards will host students on Saturday night
BY JUSTIN LEVERETT
ileverett@kansan.com
Tomorrow night, the Kansas City Wizards will bus students to a 7:30 p.m. soccer game against Real Salt Lake, as part of an event called College Night. Besides transportation to and from the game, a $20 ticket will include a snack and a drink.
Emily Hanover, account executive for the KC Wizards, first organized College Night last year and collaborated with the greek community to do it again this year. Although most students attend the event with members of their Greek houses, Hanover said anyone was welcome. She said her goal was to help students get to know each other and to bridge the gap between Lawrence and Kansas City.
"We want to get the attention of younger people," she said. "And not just KU students, but people in Lawrence as well."
The game will be in Community
"We want to get the attention of younger people. And not just KU students, but people in Lawrence as well."
Alex Schriner, Lawrence sophomore, attended the event last year with her sorority Alpha Chi Omega. She said that the crowded stadium made the game more fun.
"We were shoulder to shoulder in the stands," she said. "I'm sure we were pretty rowdy, but
"There were supposed to be two buses but there was only one, and neither the driver nor us knew where we were going. In the end, though, it was a lot of
America Ballpark where the Wizards are holding games until owners complete an overhaul of Arrowhead Stadium. Construction on the stadium has met with delays, meaning the Wizards must share use of the ballpark with the Kansas City T-Bones minor league baseball team.
it's a soccer game. You gotta get rowdy."
Toby said that a lot went wrong at last year's College Night, but that the problems resulted in stronger friendships between Alpha Chi Omega and Sigma Phi Epsilon.
EMILY HANOVER Account executive for the KC Wizards
She and her friends met with members of fraternity Sigma Phi Epsilon before boarding buses provided by the Wizards. Rachel Toby, Overland Park junior and social chair for Alpha Chi Omega, attended last year's College Night.
Later that year, the two houses were partners in planning home-coming events.
fun," Toby said.
Drew Saylor,
Topeka senior,
also attended the event last year
with fellow members of his fraternity Beta Theta Pi. He said the
Wizards game was a new experience for him.
"They jumped on the offer," she said.
This year Toby is one of the event planners. She said when she mentioned to sorority members that they could do the event again this year, they reacted with excitement.
"I'd never been to an MLS game before," he said. "I was surprised at how upbeat the game was."
Buses will leave from the Lied Center at 5:30 p.m., but most of the houses will meet and leave from the fraternity houses.
NATIONAL
Edited By Lauren Cunningham
ASSOCIATED PRESS
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — A fire that started Thursday near a rail tanker car at a chemical plant spread quickly to silos holding gasoline, causing an inferno that sent huge plumes of black smoke billowing into the sky above Detroit and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people.
The fire at the Sterling Services Ltd. plant in Hamtramck broke out at about 11:30 a.m., and city officials quickly called in help from the Detroit and Highland Park fire departments. Hamtramck is surrounded by Detroit.
An evacuation order was lifted at mid-afternoon as firefighters worked to put out remaining hot spots.
Cause unknown for gas-fueled Michigan fire
The company stores gasoline, jet fuel and biofuels at the plant, so authorities evacuated
residents from about a half-mile area around the fire, said Kevin Kondrat, executive director of the Hamtramck Housing Commission. That included a nearby complex of 36 buildings containing 300 apartments and some 700 to 800 residents, though Kondrat said not all were home at the time of the blaze.
"The evacuation went very, very, very smooth," he said.
There were no injuries reported. City Manager Bill Cooper said.
He said it wasn't known what caused the spark.
Sterling Services is a subsidiary of Southfield-based Sterling Oil & Chemical Co. Inc., according to a company Web site. The Hamtramck facility is on more than five acres and has a storage capacity of about 5 million gallons.
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