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VOL.115 ISSUE 26
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No student vote in new official's hiring
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2004
By Ross Fitch
rfitch@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Chancellor Robert Hemenway announced the appointment of Paul Carttar as executive vice chancellor for external affairs effective Oct. 4. The decision came without the vote of the students, to the chagrin of some student senators.
Cartar, former chief operating officer of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Mo., is a Kansas native and a KU alumnus. He is filling the position left by Janet Murguia, who left in March for the top post at the National Council of La Raza in Washington, D.C., according to yesterday's University Relations press release.
Members of Student Senate said they thought Cartar was a good choice, but they were upset that students did not have a vote in the final decision.
"Student Senate would have liked to have had a student representative on the search committee," said Katie Wolff, legislative director for student senate.
Although students were not allowed to vote for the candidates, members of student senate did meet with the candidates and gave feedback to Hemenway, said Lynn Bretz, Director of University Relations.
Bretz said students were not given a vote because job hirings at the University did not include student votes, and this hiring was no different.
Jeff Dunlap, student body vice president, said although Carttar had a University background, there were concerns about Carttar's lack of political contacts in Kansas. He said he still thought Carttar would do well, but student opinion could have been better heard.
Carttar said his main priority was to prepare for assuming his new position Oct.4. Carttar said the position fulfilled his desire to be back at the University.
"This is a culmination of everything I've thought about," he said.
Carttar will lead the University's public relations, communications, marketing and government relations efforts and coordinate the development and communication of planning priorities and initiatives across all the University campuses, according to yesterday's University Relations press release.
SEE OFFICIAL ON PAGE 8A
Brian Lewis/KANSAN
Provost David Shufenburger, the Chick-fil-A cow and attendees celebrate the opening of The Underground in Wescoe Hall yesterday. Shulenburger then sampled the ceremonial first chicken sandwich from the Chick-fil-A.
Underground opens
After soft opening, new eatery prepares for full day today
BY LAURA FRANCOVIGLA
lfrancoviglia@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
The Underground at Wescoe Hall is finally open after several delays. The eatery's grand opening is today, but nearly 1,000 students with watery
mouths and empty stomachs took advantage of the trial opening yesterday.
The Underground was first scheduled to open the first day of school, then was moved to after Labor Day and then again to Sept. 9 or 10.
Marie Clements, Stilwell sophomore, won the renaming contest during the summer. "The Underground" was chosen to replace the old name Wescoe Terrace.
Today is The Underground's first full day of business. Pulse, a coffee shop, and Chick-fil-A open at 7 a.m., and the other restaurants open for lunch
around 11 a.m.
At The Underground's preliminary opening yesterday, Provost David Shulenburger tasted a Chick-fil-A sandwich at the mini ribbon-cutting ceremony before the crowds got there.
"This is going to be one of the biggest honors of my life." Shulenburger said.
The provost took a bite out of a chicken sandwich wrapped in a signature red and white bag and chewed as he shook hands with the Chick-fil-A cow.
SEE EATERY ON PAGE 8A
Game on
Gary Van Horn (left) and Ryan Oshel, both Wellsville freshmen, play a game of NCAA 2005 yesterday at the SBC Yahoo tent. The SBC Yahoo tent will be giving away prizes by Watkins Memorial Health Center today from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and at Saturday's football game from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Speakers to debate same-sex marriage
BY ANDY HYLAND
ahyland@ku.edu
KANSAN STAFF WRITE
The Student Union Activities billed its discussion, "Should the government support same-sex marriage?" as the most controversial social question of the decade.
"I don't think the government should have anything to do with it," Shelton said. "I think it's important for a person to marry the person they love, regardless of whether that person is a man or a woman."
he dictates.
"It shouldn't be allowed," Fai Beal, Salina junior, said. "It's not a natural thing to have two people of the same sex to marry and have a child."
Joe Shelton, Lawrence freshman,
represented the other side of the issue.
students on Wescoe Beach yesterday afternoon talking about the SUA-sponsored discussion. The SUA will also sponsor a debate on same-sex marriage scheduled for 7 p.m. tonight at the Lied Center. Tickets are available for $5 with a KU ID and $8 without one at the SUA box office on the 4th floor of the Kansas Union and at the Lied Center Ticket Office.
Beal and Shelton were two of about 10
The debate will feature Jonathan Rauch and Genevieve Wood, who have debated this topic before at Boston University, said Megan Storm, social issues coordinator for SUA.
Rauch is a senior writer and columnist for the National Journal and author of a book supporting gay marriage. He is also a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly.
Wood is the vice president for communications at Family Research Council and a commentator on
"We're more about starting a
dialogue than promoting one side of the other."
Dawn Shew
SUA Program Adviser
MSNBC, FOX and CNN.
"It's very good to have informed opinions on a subject," Storm said. "It's a completely different perspective when you have someone who's devoted their entire life to an issue."
Dawn Shew, program adviser for SUA, said SUA usually had individual speakers come for students, but that it was important to have a debate on this issue.
DEBATE INFO
What: A debate on same-sex marriage.
"We're more about starting a dia
Who: Jonathan Rauch,
Who: Jonathan Rauch,
columnist and author,
Genevieve Wood, political
commentator.
Where: Lied Center
When: Tonight at 7 p.m
Outside Tournament
Cost $5 with KUID and $8 without one. Tickets are available at the SUA box office, 864-SHOW, and the Lied Center Ticket Office.
Source: Student Union Activities
logue than promoting one side or the other," she said.
- Edited by Marissa Stephenson
Kit Leffler/KANSAN
Jayhawks football fans get up on their feet during the second quarter of the Kansas and Northwestern game last Saturday in Evanston, Ill.
Fans flock to Hawks football
BY JONATHAN KEALING
jkealing@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTSWITER
More fans are coming to Memorial Stadium to see the Jayhawks play than at any other time since Mark Mangino became coach.
So far this season, Kansas has had home crowds of 40,646 and 41,251 against Tulsa and Toledo, respectively.
It's the largest opening attendance since the Jayhawks played Michigan State on Sept. 10, 1994.
In Mangino's first season at Kansas, the team averaged 36,083 fans per game.
The attendance against Toledo was also the largest for a second game since Kansas took on UCLA on Sept. 8, 2001.
Last season started off slowly, but sellouts against Missouri and Nebraska propelled the team to an average of 38,750 per game.
In both 2000 and 2002, the last two times that Kansas played only two nonconference opponents at home, the average attendance for those games was less than this year's. Average attendance for those games in 2000 was 29,500, while 2002's average was 36.083 per game.
This year's average so far is 40,948 per game.
"I must have seen 15 Kansas fans on the train up here," one Kansas fan said at the Alumni Association's pregame pep rally.
Another sign of an increased following of Jayhawk football is the number of fans who attended the team's game against Northwestern in Evanston, Ill.
Estimates of Kansas fan's attendance for the Northwestern game were between 10 and 20 percent of the total crowd of 24,817, but there are no official numbers.
This weekend, Kansas will face Texas Tech in both teams' Big 12 Conference opener.
The Athletics Department reports that 32,000 tickets have already been sold.
"We're expecting a really good walk up crowd," said Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director.
In addition to the excitement that has surrounded the Jayhawks since its 2.1 start, the environment and the timing have come together to provide a good weekend for football.
"The weather's going to be gorgeous, and it's the Big 12 opener," Marchiony said.
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Bracelets for bucks
A KU student finds another cause to support with the popular yellow LiveStrong bracelets. PAGE 3A
Volleyball
The Kansas volleyball won its first Big 12 Conference match of the season last night with a victory over Texas Tech. PAGE 1B
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