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NEWS
NEWS Neighbors of the old Alpha Omicron Pi house have avoided the dilapidated building since Lambda Chi Alpha left. PAGE 3A
SPORTS
The Kansas football team spent fall break resting, healing and watching football. Now it is preparing for No.2 Oklahoma. PAGE 1B
KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2004
VOL.115 ISSUE 43
Working out the kinks
Joshua Kendall/KANSAN
Matt Wadan, Wichita senior, and Lucas Merrifield, Newton junior, waited for less than a minute yesterday to get their Kansas men's basketball tickets. "I thought it was funny to walk by and see the big lines because they said they weren't going to sell out except for the big games," Wadan said.
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Ticket pick-up improves daily
BY MIRANDA LENNING
mlenning@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Picking up men's basketball tickets was much quicker yesterday than it was on Monday. The lines outside the ticket windows at Allen Fieldhouse took about 15 minutes throughout the day.
Yesterday, two "express" windows were available for students who wanted to pick-up only one set of tickets. Marchiony said students redeeming tickets for numerous people was one of the main issues that caused Monday's lines to stretch out to Javawk Boulevard.
Students who stood in Monday's lines to pick up their tickets probably panicked because they thought there would be a lottery, said Jim Marehony, associate athletics director.
"The lines for the kids who had just one ID was very minimal and in some cases, nothing at all," Marchiony said.
When Matt Wadan, Wichita senior, picked up his tickets just after 4 yesterday afternoon, he walked directly to the ticket window without standing in
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Professor decries homophobia
Professor Robert Minor gave a seminar about the homophobia and socially imposed gender roles last night at the Ecumenical Christain Ministries, 1204 Oread Avenue. "Society isn't afraid of gays. It is afraid of them not acting straight enough," Minor said.
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BY LAURA FRANCOVIGLIA
francoviglia@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
At the end of the 20th century, American culture was probably the most homophobic society ever to exist, said Robert Minor, professor of Religious Studies.
Minor led a workshop titled Scared Straight: How Homophobia Hurts Us All last night at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Minor said he presents workshops around the nation, though only seven people participated in last night's workshop.
Minor defined homophobia as "the fear of getting close to one's own sex."
"If you're brought up in the U.S. you are homophobic," Minor said. "You're trained to be."
He said all people in American culture suffered from homophobia — whether people classified themselves as heterosexual, bisexual or homosexual.
Overcoming homophobia means accepting yourself and being comfortable with who you are, he said.
Gender roles are instilled in people from an early age, he said. The first question asked when a baby is born, is
Minor's workshop focused on how gender roles are created and perpetuated and "how to be healthy when the society around you is sick."
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Thomas Frank signs copies of his book "What's the Matter with Kansas" yesterday evening in the Kansas Union
Kansas' politics explained
BY ANDY HYLAND
ahyland@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Thomas Frank offered his explanation last night for what he saw as a strange phenomenon.
He was confused by a particular direction in American politics. The poorest county in America, he said, is in Nebraska, and its citizens voted for George W. Bush in the 2000 election with 80 percent of the vote.
"I used to think the Democrats were the party of the poor, the weak, the victimized," he said.
That trend has changed, he argued last night at the Kansas Union and in his book, What's the Matter With Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America.
He said conservatives used a strategy that he called "the Great Backlash," where culture outweighs economics and values matter above all else.
"The leaders of the backlash may talk Christ, but they wage corporate," he said. "You vote to stop abortion, and you receive a rollback in capital gains taxes."
this strategy allowed conservatives to win the votes of farmers and union workers in Kansas, who voted on their values instead of the economy.
Web evaluations unpopular so far
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BY LAURA FRANCOVIGLIA
francoviglia@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Few students took time to fill out the online course evaluations at the end of last semester, student body vice president Jeff Dunlap said.
In an Organic Chemistry class taught by Robert Carlson, professor in the department of chemistry, about 28 percent of students filled out the online course evaluations. Carlson said the results wouldn't be representative of the class because so few students filled out the evaluations.
Only five percent of Leslie Tuttle's 127-person Western Civilization class completed the online evaluation last spring.
different from those distributed by instructors in class at the end of each semester. They are intended to help students plan their schedules for the next semester, said Steve Munch, student body president.
Tuttle, an assistant professor of history, said she found student comments
Munch, Bellevue, Neb., junior, said that if the evaluations were completed, they would help students gauge instructors' teaching styles and popularities.
Students can not type their own comments on the online course evaluations. Because the evaluations are public, the faculty and administration would not allow student comments on them, Dunlap, Leawood senior, said.
The online course evaluations are
Education dean bows out
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Lumpkin plans to return next semester as a full-time teacher
By Ross Fitch
rfitch@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Angela Lumpkin, dean of education, announced Monday that she would step down from the position for personal reasons, effective Sunday.
"It's an unusual time of a semester for a dean to step down," David Shulenburger, provost and executive vice chancellor, said.
The school will announce the new interim dean sometime this week, he said.
After the semester ends, Lumpkin will return to full-time teaching at the University of Kansas, he said.
Lumpkin was not available to comment yesterday.
Searches for permanent replacements usually last between six and eight
months, Todd Cohen, University Relations spokesperson, said.
A new permanent dean could be named sometime next year, but it is not guaranteed. he said.
Lumpkin's announcement came as a surprise to Keith Tennant, a colleague and chair of health, sport and exercise sciences. Lumpkin has had a positive influence of the School of Education, he said.
"I always had a good working relationship with Dean Lumpkin," he said. "She was an excellent dean."
School of Education students will probably not notice the change, he said.
Last spring, controversy arose when Lumpkin announced that the school would cut its physical education program, but she later allowed students to enter the program again.
She also taught at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina.
Lumpkin was previously a faculty member and dean of the State University of West Georgia before coming to the University of Kansas.
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She became the University's 14th dean of education in August 2001.
Lumpkin's accomplishments as dean included raising $1 million for the school's first two endowed professorships, according to Monday's news
Tennant said she made a decision that she thought was best at the time.
Men's basketball
High school senior C.J. Miles announced yesterday he will play basketball at Texas. The 6-foot-5 guard had considered Kansas before making his final decision. PAGE 1B
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City Commission
It will be a Godzilla extravaganza in Lawrence as both the city commission and the University have big plans to celebrate the reptile's 50th birthday. PAGE 3A
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