WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 10,2004
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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FACULTY: Professors offered alternative seating
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were season ticket holders.
He said the problem could be alleviated if students didn't stand on the benches.
"One of the things we don't want to do is stifle the enthusiasm of students," Marchiony said. "But students can help the situation immensely by standing on the floor and not on the seats."
He said the athletics department would continue to work with Senate to encourage standing on the floor.
Carl Daniels, whose wife is a faculty member, sat in section 10 during Sunday's game. He said he was angry because the poor view was not worth the high ticket price.
"We didn't see the whole first half," Daniels said. "We paid $40 to look at the back of that guy's shirt."
Student Body President Steve Munch said Senate could not please everyone, but senators were open to suggestions to resolve the problem.
"You will always have angry people, but we want to do as much as possible to appease the faculty," Munch said.
Some of the students at Sunday's game were not as eager to take action.
"It is their problem," Vanessa Jamison, Emporia freshman, said of the faculty. "We are students and we are going to watch the game how we want."
English professor Dorice Elliot also has seats in section 10. She said that the view was the worst during the first half of Sunday's game when the Jayhawks were scoring on the south basket.
"During the first half, when KU was at this end, everyone left because they couldn't see,"
Other faculty members, like David Guth, said it wasn't as easy for some of the older faculty members to stand for the entire game as it was for students.
Elliot said.
"Standing on a seat for two hours is nothing to a 22-year-old." Guth, journalism professor, said in an e-mail. "But when you are 52 years old with bad knees, that's a different story."
Regardless of how University officials decide to resolve the issue, Gentry said he thought it would be easiest to adjust the seating plan.
Guth said he was pleased to hear that University administrators had taken steps to find a resolution.
in basketball, coaches change their game plan during a time-out or during halftime if things aren't working. "Gentry said." "Clearly this is not working."
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Allen Fieldhouse Seating
four million evangelical Christians, and those efforts helped Republicans win on election day.
Loomis said those "moral values," as defined by a pollster, probably meant Christian religious values in the minds of those polled.
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"I think they affected the election, especially in rural Ohio and the South," he said.
VOTERS: President focused on values, policy
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He said people went to the polls and voted on morals on election day, but the president highlighted an agenda focused on tax cuts, social security reform and Iraq on Thursday.
Loomis said he wasn't sure whether the Republican Party would concentrate on moral issues this term.
"Suddenly the moral-values
element is gone," Loomis said. "At the same time, they may well be voting for tax cuts for the rich."
Kathleen Daughtey, president of the KU Young Democrats, said taxes and policy should be the president's main focus.
She said that movement would likely infringe on civil liberties and increase discrimination. She said it would also make it more difficult for the government to deal with Islamic fundamentalism.
"I think a lot of people put their personal values over their economic interests," she said. "There is a fundamentalist movement eclipsing the separation of church and state."
Bickerstaff said he wasn't surprised Bush didn't come right out and talk about moral values.
"He's not on some moral cruse to turn America into Christians," he said. "He's got to do his job and address these other issues."
He said he knew moral values were at the forefront of the president's mind because of his character. Bush would help lead a cultural shift towards more conservative thinking, he said, and that would take a long time, so he didn't expect results right away.
"Some people say you shouldn't legislate values, but no matter who is put into power, their values are going to affect their decisions," he said.
Bickerstaff said that the Republicans would have a mandate from the voters to provide support for right to life and sanctity of marriage issues.
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Heard on the Hill
"I don't think religion should play a role. I think that's something that's gone wrong with our country."
Elise Katzif, Prairie Village junior
KATZIF
"I think people do vote based on their morals,
but I think that's wrong." James Murdoch, Dallas sophomore
BAALMAN
MURDOCH
"it's probably one of the major roles for me. I've been raised very strong in my religion, so in politics, I try to pick somebody who's going to represent the beliefs that have been instilled in me."
Allison Baalman, Grinnell sophomore
What role does religion play for you in selecting a political candidate?
"If that candidate would do something for me, then I'd vote for that candidate, so it falls in the same category as other issues for me."
Fadullah Firman, Jakarta, Indonesia,
junior
"Not much at all, because I don't think it should influence politics."
Jon Anderson,
Shawnee sophomore
ANDERSON
Sarah Anning, Overland Park junior
"I would say a big role, because it's a big part of my life, so it's definitely something I consider when picking a candidate."
AFRICA: Geography doctoral student speaks about differences in culture and language in Tanzania
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lecture because of her participation, said Garth Myers, associate professor of geography. This was the first time that the University had a student participate in this program for the Swahili language. The program includes two years of studying the language at the University and then an intensive education in that language-speaking country.
"It makes you fluent in the language," Myers said.
The best way to learn a language was to experience the people and culture behind it, Myers said. That was how he became fluent in Swahili when he went to Tanzania in 1989.
"I hope that this is the first of many KU students to go," Myers said. "We would like to see people going every year."
Smiley is one of Myers' students and said she was focused on urban and cultural geography.
Smiley earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Cincinnati and came to Kansas because of its strong programs
in geography and African studies. The University was a way to marry both passions together, she said. Smiley became interested in African studies as an undergraduate in 1999 when she worked for Oxfam America in Washington, DC. Oxfam America is a Boston-based international development and relief agency. That summer Smiley worked on African issues, specifically debt relief. This later became the subject for her Master's thesis.
"I was hooked and have been studying the continent ever since." she said.
Smiley studied Swahili for two years at the University before traveling to Dar es Salaam, a city in Tanzania with a population of more than two million.
Part of the learning experience for Smiley was staying with a host family for four weekends during the trip. Staying with a host family can
"I knew enough to get by, but the way to learn is to speak the language." Smiley said.
be overwhelming. Smiley said, but it was a way to learn what daily life was like. She helped with the daily chores, such as cooking and doing laundry, when she stayed with her host family of six. Her host family worked longer days because they had to start the day earlier than her family in America.
"We have toasters and ovens, they had a coal fire and an electric hot plate," Smiley said.
They didn't have a washer or dryer either, Smiley said. The laundry was done in a wash tub.
"It took them longer to do everything, but they still got more done in an average day than Americans do here," she said.
Experiencing the culture was a highlight for Smiley.
"You can learn a language, but to actually go and see how the language is used and to form relationships with people is wonderful," she said.
The people she meet were welcoming. Smiley said. Most people were happy to meet an American interested in learning African culture and language.
The last lecture in the UJAMA Brown Bag Series will be given by General Carlton W. Fulford, director of African Center for Strategic Studies at National Defense University in Fort McNair Washington, DC. The lecture will take place from 4 to 5:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 29, at room 109 in Bailey Hall. His lecture is titled. "U.S. Military Policy Towards Africa in an Era of Wars."
To Smiley, what stuck out about the culture in Tanzania was the importance of food and drink in relation to socializing.
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Smiley said she wanted to return to Tanzania next fall to conduct her doctoral dissertation research. She will study local newspapers and television to see how the city's popular culture is represented.
Every day her host family took two tea breaks.
"We have coffee breaks here, but as a student it was something I was not use to." Smiley said.
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