UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Friday, September 13, 1996
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Clinton campaign opens Kansas headquarters
Kansas leaders still optimistic about winning
By Neal Shulenburger Kansan staff writer
President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore may not be from this state, but the opening of their campaign's Kansas headquarters proved that they have some support in their rival's home territory.
Last night in the State room of Topeka's Jayhawk Tower, 700 S.W. Jackson St., the Clinton/Gore campaign officially opened its Kansas headquarters. The day-to-day opera
tions of the headquarters will take place in the Garden Roof Suite of the Tower.
Joe Wagner, press secretary for the headquarters, said the headquarters would be used to distribute information and to organize events like debate-watching parties.
Wagner said that although he did not think Clinton had much of a chance in Kansas, the headquarters still was necessary.
"We want a presence in all 50 states," Wagner said. "We want Clinton's record of accomplishment out, even in Dole's backyard. People still need to know the truth."
State Rep. Troy Findley, D-Lawrence, the leader of the Kansas campaign, was a little more optimistic than Wagner.
"Now you all know the polls around the nation look very good for the
"We want Clinton's record of accomplishment out, even in Dole's backyard."
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one that takes place in 53 days."
president and the vice president," he said. "Most of them are showing our candidate leading by as much as 20 points, but what we must remember is that the only poll that matters is the
Because the Kansas representatives in the Electoral College cast all of their votes to the winner of the state's popular vote, Clinton's campaign could only be boosted by Kansas with a popular-victory vote in presidential candidate Bob Dole's home state.
"The number of individuals who ran and lost his state is one, Alf Landon." Langley said. "But Dole's so unpopular right now that yes he could lose Kansas, he could be the second candidate ever to lose his home state. If you were using conventional political wisdom I would say no, but conventional political wisdom hasn't been working so well in the last four years."
Dennis Langley, chairman of the Kansas Democratic party, agreed with Findley that Clinton and Gore could win Kansas.
Geoff Krleger/KANSAN
Dennis Langley, Clinton/Gore re-election co-chairman, addresses Democrats at the Jayhawk Tower in Topeka. Langley spoke at the opening of the Kansas Clinton/Gore campaign office yesterday..
Dean's Scholars program prepares students for future
By Eric Weslander Kansan staff writer
Students in the Dean's Scholars program connect with faculty in many ways — even dining on quiche and fresh fruit.
The scholars, minority students who are interested in graduate school, met with faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for dinner last night at the home of Beverly Davenport Svother program director.
"This is a way to connect them with us personally as well as academically or intellectually," said Sypher, who also is associate dean of the college of liberal arts and sciences. "We want them to see what the life of a faculty member is like."
Sypher said the ultimate goal of the two-year program was to increase the number of minority faculty members of colleges and universities by pairing the 14 scholars with KU faculty in their areas of interest. The program, which began in 1992, is funded by the college and by Student Senate.
Jamey McGilbray, Wichita junior, said that after meeting only once with his faculty mentor Jim Orr, professor
of physiology, he had identified goals that would help him get into physical therapy school.
"We went over some goals that I actually think about," he said. "He told me goals he had for me, and we put them toether."
McGilbray said the best thing about the program was the students' chance to interact with professors.
"You can talk to them one on one," he said. "They can tell you something you might not find out somewhere else. They've been through it and they know how it works."
To become a Dean's Scholar, a student must be a U.S. ethnic minority interested in pursuing a graduate degree in the liberal arts and sciences. Laura Yamhure, who teaches the scholars' one-credit class, said she hoped to get as many as four more students involved in the program this year.
The scholars, who receive a $500 stipend for two years, also take practice GRE exams and practice preparing their resumes for entrance to graduate school.
Rufus Coleman, Dallas junior, said the practice with resumes and interviews could make him a well-prepared applicants when it came time for him to apply for graduate school. He said the program had helped him see beyond his time in college.
Deborah Faurot, microbiology mentor, speaks with Jobrina Perez, Dean's Scholar, at a social gathering for the Dean's Scholars program last night.
"It's given me a chance to test the waters and see how much I want this." he said.
Internet site is student catch-all for term papers, tests and parties
y Bradley Brooks
Kansan staff writer
Downloading term papers and exams, placing classified ads, submitting resumes and posting the date of your next house party on the internet now are possible at one World Wide Web site.
"This is the center of the Internet for college students," said Kenny Sahr, creator of the Web site School Sucks. "If you want to know about parties, exams, term papers — you'll go here."
Sahr is a journalism student at Florida International University in Coral Gables, Fla., and a partner in SIG Online, an Internet company in Coral Gables.
The site, located at http://www.
schoolsucks.com, has been visited by more than 58,000 people and contains copies of students' term papers in subjects such as art, business, English, history, law and the sciences. There also is a classified section in which students can place ads and a calendar on which parties and other events can be posted.
The site was operational last June and is the first of its kind on the Web. Sahrsaid.
"The biggest surprise was why it hadn't been done before," he said.
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Sahr said that students send him
their exams and papers via the Web site.
"This is just an undergraduate academic library," Shrad said. "If I posted 1,000 thesis papers, no one would care."
Sahr has drawn considerable attention from the press and professors. He receives e-mail, which he posts on the site, from many in the academic community who are disgusted with the site and its easy access to papers and exams.
He recently got an e-mail from an anonymous person saying that he or she hoped Sahr was continuously mail bombed until he threw up.
"That is going just a little far," he said. "These are professors, realize. They have got to be embarrassed."
The papers on the site are a great way to obtain sources for various topics without plagiarizing, Sahr
said.
Aside from the obvious illegality of copying work, Sahr questions the quality of the writing in some of the papers he receives.
"The English papers are total crap," he said. "I wrote better than that in junior high. Who teaches these kids?"
James Carothers, associate dean of the college of liberal arts and sciences and a professor of English, said the site was a gateway to cheating.
"The opportunity for plagiarism is obvious and vast, regardless of the intentions of the creator of this site." Carothers said. "It is frustrating for those of us who believe in the integrity of the academic process."
Some students disagree. Zak Grove, Oakland, Calif., senior, is oneof them.
"It sounds like a good idea,' Grove said. "It is innovative, and you can't stop something like that. People use technology any way they can, even if it's close to cheating."
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