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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS IN BRIEF
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2004
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Stars and Bars billboards raise concerns
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. LOUIS — The man responsible for billboards in St. Louis suggesting that supporting changes to the city's government is akin to supporting the Confederate flag yesterday ordered them taken down.
The man, Gregory Colombo, 35 of St. Louis County, agreed to instead donate the space to the NAACP, Sltoday.com, the Web site for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, reported.
Colombo said his company financed
Colombo told the newspaper he was asked to put up the signs because he has advertised before with the company and could get a discounted rate.
the billboards to generate attention to the upcoming vote. But he said it generated only negative publicity.
"We wanted to get some heightened awareness out of this, but it could have probably been done in a more tasteful manner." Colombo said.
The billboards read: "A vote for Charter Amendments A, B, C and D equals support for the Confederate
The billboards also state, "A vote against A, B, C and D protects your right to vote."
Flag." A representation of the stars and bars of the Confederate flag appears next to those words.
The propositions on the Nov. 2 ballot would convert several elected positions in the city into appointed jobs, reduce the size of the Board of Aldermen, allow certain appointed jobs to become civil service positions and consolidate decision-making power to the mayor's office.
Carl Star, 45, said he was shocked to
see the Confederate flag displayed at an intersection in a mostly black neighborhood, over a black-owned business.
"It's blatantly disrespectful," Star said. "It's blatantly racist."
Claude Brown, vice president of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, filed a complaint Wednesday with the Missouri Ethics Commission. Brown's Vigilant Communications firm is running the campaign related to changing the city charter.
Up in lights
Steven Bartkoski/KANSAN
Janna Graham, Olathe junior, hangs lights at the Lied Center for the show Amazones. Amazones is part of the Lied Center's World Series and will be performed at 7:30 tonight.
CAMPUS
Alumni Association to host 'Thank God It's Friday' event
The University of Kansas Alumni Association is hosting a campus "Thank God It's Friday" end-of-the-work-week gathering today.
University faculty and staff along with Lied Center, Kansas University Endowment Association and Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics staff are invited.
"It is an effort to connect with the University community," said Laura Stoppel, vice president for administration and executive assistant to the president and CEO of the Alumni Association.
The Adams Alumni Center is not on campus, so alcohol is permitted.
Free soft drinks and hors d'ouevres will be served. Beer and wine will also be available for sale.
the fellowship and to get to know one another on a casual basis.
Students are not invited because beer and wine are served, Stoppel said.
The Alumni Association sponsors the event in conjunction with the Kansas Memorial Union, which will provide the hors d'oeuvres.
Campus TGIF starts at 4 p.m. at the Adams Alumni Center, located across from the Kansas Union parking garage.
Student services is encouraging students included in the high risk group for receiving the influenza vaccine to attend the Flu-X clinic from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. tomorrow at Free State High School, 4700 Overland Drive in northwest Lawrence.
Flu shots available for those in high risk group tomorrow
Vaccine costs $12 for children 3 and younger and $17 for all other persons,
said Janelle Martin, Lawrence-Douglas County Health Board communications coordinator.
The following are considered in the high risk group:
All children 6 months to 23 months old. Aventis is producing enough pediatric vaccine for this group.
Adults 65 years and older.
Persons 2 years to 64 years old with underlying chronic medical conditions.
All women who will be pregnant during influenza season.
Residents of nursing homes and long-term care facilities.
Children 6 months to 18 years of age on chronic aspirin therapy
Health care workers with direct patient care.
Out-of-home caregivers and household contacts of children aged 6 months old and younger.
- Amanda O'Toole
CORRECTION
Yesterday's University Daily Kansan contained an error. The article "CLAS tuition could increase" stated that a student taking 15 hours, all CLAS classes, would pay $900 per semester. Students would pay $450 per semester.
ON THE RECORD
A 19-year-old KU student reported to Lawrence police that someone had stolen his specialized Hard Rock bicycle sometime between 5 p.m. Sunday and 2 p.m. Monday. His loss is estimated at $550.
ON CAMPUS
Hall Center for Humanities will host a Peace, War and Global Change seminar by Nicole Anslover today from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the Hall Center Conference Room.
The Center for Russian and East European Studies presents Friday Night at the Kino: Repentance at 7 tonight at 318 Bailey Hall.
- Ecumenical Christian Ministries will host a forum called Conscientious Objection: Reality vs. Rumor at 7:30 Sunday night at the ECM, 1204 Oread Ave.
The School of Fine Arts will have a KU Camerata at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Spencer Museum of Art
The School of Fine Arts' Student Recital Series will hold a Fall Tuba/Euphonium Fest Grand Recital at 4:30 p.m. Sunday at the Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
The School of Fine Arts will have Art and Gallery Exhibitions starting today through Nov. 5 during gallery hours on the third floor of the Art and Design Building.
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