THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19.2012
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Students surround Clarence "Bro" Cope Tuesday afternoon on Wescoe Beach. Cope preached and debated with students for several hours.
Tempers flare as Wescoe man's preaching reaches fever pitch
ILUKE RANKER
Iranker@kansan.com
KU Office of Public Safety officers responded to an incident on Wescoe Beach Tuesday afternoon.
Clarence "Bro" Cope said he had been preaching for about three hours when a crowd of students began to argue with him. Cope said the preaching became "tumultuous" after some students became upset by his statement to "completely stop sinning."
"I said 'I stopped sinning,' and that generally sends them off in
Cope, who has been preaching on the University campus for 35 years, is an associate of Campus Ministries USA. He said he was not associated with the anti-abortion group that had a display set up near him.
another tirade," he said.
James Hoyt, a freshman from Haviland, Kan., saw Cope preaching around 2:30 p.m. He said a large crowd had gathered around Cope. Some were debating with him, others were yelling names at him.
"Even some of the Christians in
the group were telling him what he was saying is wrong." Hoyt said.
He said he left to go to class, but Cope was still preaching to a small group of people when he returned.
At the time of interview, Captain Schuyler Bailey of KU Public Safety, was unable to comment on the incident.
— Edited by Lauren Shelly
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Union welcomes Media Crossroads
TRAVIS YOUNG/KANSAN
Media Crossroads occupies the space near Alderson Auditorium on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union. It will offer media equipment available as a service of the University.
NIKKI WENTLING
nwentling@kansan.com
The fourth floor of the Kansas Union is changing this semester. Kaplan Test Prep and the Herb Harris Student Computing Lab moved to the third floor, and Media Crossroads, a new venture by the University, the journalism school and the Kansas Union, has taken the empty space.
Media Crossroads, which will open later this week or early next week, is a room containing various types of technology available to students, faculty and the Lawrence community. It includes equipment for television and radio, a full studio and a presence from student media outlets such as KUJH-TV, KJHK and the University Daily Kansan.
"It's undefined, and it can be whatever students, faculty or the larger community want it to be," said Scott Reinardy, associate professor in the journalism school and interim director of Media
Crossroads. "It's an opportunity to come in and create media."
Construction on joining the two rooms was completed last week. The first event in Media Crossroads took place Saturday morning, when KJHK broadcasted a live football pregame show from the space. Reinard said that KUJH and KJKH could run live programs out of the room for every home football and basketball game.
"The ideas that come to us are unending," Reinardy said. "It's going to open itself up to a lot of different opportunities."
Although Reinardy expects journalism students to use the space, he said Media Crossroads is a service for the University, and it could be used by all students and staff. He said one goal is to have Media Crossroads put on one big event for the public every day.
There are already several ideas that have been put forth. One is to teach senior citizens how to use some of the equipment to tell
their own stories. Another is to do something similar to National Public Radio's StoryCorps, where students and faculty broadcast their own stories over the radio.
The official opening of Media Crossroads is scheduled
for 10 a.m. on Oct.27, the day of homecoming. Staff will be available in the space to assist with using the technology.
— Edited by Brian Sisk
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