SPORTS
Beta Theta Pi began to defend its championship last Wednesday against Delta Epsilon. PAGE 12A
SPORTS
Kansan sportswriters give a position-by-position breakdown of tomorrow's game against Toledo. PAGE 9A
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
VOL.115 ISSUE 17
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10,2004
www.kansan.com
Elections draw more freshmen
BY LAURA FRANCOVIGIA
francovigia@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
The new freshmen student senators weren't able to celebrate with drinks at Johnny's Tavern, as the KUnited coalition celebrated its victories in last year's spring election.
Instead, Student Senate's newest members discovered their status by checking their e-mail.
The winners were excited.
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"I'm really stoked," said Jonathan
Doerr, Olathe freshman. "I'm still pretty giddy."
Doerr said he might celebrate with a coffee with some friends.
Three times as many freshmen voted in the this year's Student Senate election this than last year's. Five freshmen will represent their class at the Student Senate meeting next week.
The new representatives are Doerr, Hannah Love, Dennis Chanay, Alex Treaster and Selena Self. This marks the second time in KU history that the freshman class will be represented in
Student Senate.
"A lot of freshmen coming in don't know a lot about campus," said Treaster, Shawnee freshman. "It helps to have a representative in student government."
Vote counts for the election tallied about 420 compared to 140 last year. Along with the official candidates, write-in candidate John Kerry received two votes.
Treaster and Love, Dodge City freshman, said campaigning was the key to winning.
Love said she handed out heart-shaped flyers and Treaster said he campaigned by chalking the sidewalks and talking to people at Mrs. E's and on his floor in McColum Hall.
"I did a lot of campaigning," Love said. "If you really want it, you do what it takes."
Student Senate revamped the elections this year because of last year's poor results. Three major changes increased the success of the election.
SEE FRESHMEN ON PAGE 5A
"A lot of freshmen coming in don't know a lot about campus. It helps to have a representative in student government."
Alex Treaster
Shawnee freshman
Chancellor looks to future in address
By Ross Fitch
fritch@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Chancellor Robert Hemenway's message to faculty and staff yesterday was clear
"We can't be silent. We have to speak. We have to tell our story," Hemenway said.
Hemenway and Provost David Shulenburger spoke at the annual Faculty/Staff Convocation yesterday afternoon
Shulenburger recognized numerous teaching, leadership and research award recipients.
He also spoke of the challenges the University would face in the future. Kansas parents are not considering the University of Kansas as the top option for their children after high school. Political and cultural wars at the state and federal level are impeding the pursuit of knowledge, and some people think the University's sense of community could vanish as it gets closer to being a top-25 public university.
Central to the chancellor's address was his desire to see the University better tell its story to its key audiences, including prospective students, alumni and elected officials. In order to accomplish this, the chancellor intro-
SEE CHANCELLOR ON PAGE 5A
Student shares view on 9/11
Saudi Arabian student remembers tragedy talks to others about his experiences
AMANDA O'TOLE
aotole@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITE
It doesn't matter to Hamdan Alharbi that Sept. 11 is three years past. Furthermore, it's not important that the events were more than 12,000 miles away.
Three years later, Alharbi is affected every day.
Alhari is a Saudi Arabian studying at the University of Kansas.
In August 2001, Alharbi came to the University to study geology under his work contract with Armaco, a Saudi-based oil company.
The company had regularly sponsored international students' study abroad in return for working for the oil company for the same amount of years as a student's study.
The morning of the terrorist attacks, he walked to class, as any day, but something was different. The teacher was speaking too fast for his, at that time, limited English comprehension, he said. So he didn't know what happened.
It wasn't until he walked to the Kansas Union and saw the televisions that he got it: America was under attack, and worse yet, the suspects were from his country.
Alharbi didn't want to talk to people, he said, in fear of their reaction. He spent a lot of time listening.
The Sept. 11 attacks unfolded less than a month after Alharbi came to
It's been three years, and Alharbi still listens a lot. But his English is better now, making it easier for him to explain a religion and a culture that for many Americans remains perplexing. Explaining Islam
SEPT. 11 REMEMBERED
Two Air Force T-38 Talon aircraft will fly over Memorial Stadium at the University of Kansas before the football game against Toledo at 6 p.m. tomorrow.
KU Audio Reader, a program for people who are blind or visually impaired, will be broadcasting two of the programs that aired on Sept. 11, 2001, at
that aired on Sept. 11, 2001, at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. tomorrow.
The September Project will include panel discussions ranging from the Patriot Act to media's involvement in Sept. 11 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union.
Sources: University Relations
Lawrence.
He didn't know what to expect. He was from the same country, a part of the same religion and from a similar cultural background as the terrorists who were responsible the attacks.
Soon after the attacks, news started to spread about Muslim mistreatment in the United States.
Alharsi and his family worried that he would become a target of racist violence.
Alharib said some of his friends who were studying in Tulsa told him they had been ignored by people they were friendly with a short time before and they were harassed with jeers and cold
SEE 9/11 ON PAGE 5A
Courtney Kublen/KANSAN
Hamdan Alharbi, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, senior, said after Sept. 11, 2001, many people asked him about Islam and his home country. He said he acted as a liaison between Middle Eastern culture and KU students.
Juggling club finds funds, members
BY SHERI-DAWN DOWIS
editor@kansan.com
SPECIAL TO THE KANSAN
While many students juggle classes with work and extracurricular activities, Justin Gramarye, founding president of the KU juggling club, decided to take this cliché literally.
Wednesday night Student Senate passed a bill to fund the juggling club for $580. With this money they will purchase equipment such as bean bags, balls, rings, clubs and other juggling objects.
Gramarye, Fairfax, Va., graduate student, got the idea to start the club after sitting behind a classmate who was wearing a shirt that had two people juggling clubs on the back. This classmate is juggling club co-founder and treasurer, Emily Tremain. Tremain's speciality is
Tremain has been juggling for only two-and-a-half years. She was involved in a juggling club at her former college Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minn., but when she inquired about a juggling club at the University, she found no information.
contact juggling — a technique where the ball never leaves contact with one's body.
Justin Gramarye, Fairfax, Va., graduate student, Ananthnarayan Hariharan, Nasik, India, graduate student, and Bradley Bargei, Lawrence graduate student, cross balls in midair at the juggling club meeting Wednesday night.
It wasn't until they started asking around campus that they found out there had been a juggling club in the past.
"That's when we started pushing" Grammarve said.
According to a 1993 issue of the Kansan, the previous juggling club was established in 1991 and consisted of 10
Steven Bartkoski/KANSAN
SEE JUGGLING ON PAGE 5A
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A Jan. 5, 2005, trial date was scheduled for Martin K. "Marty" Miller yesterday in the Douglas County District Court, according to the Douglas County's District Attorney's Office.
Date set in librarian murder trial
Miller has been charged with the first-degree murder of his wife, Mary Miller, a 46-year-old KU librarian. Mary Miller had worked as a librarian since 1979. Initially, police believed Miller's death was an accident. Then a coroner ruled that Miller died of asphyxiation July 28 at the couple's home, 2105 Carolina St.
Election polls
Amanda O'Toole
The latest election polls show favor toward President Bush now that swing states Ohio and Missouri are leaning his way. PAGE 5A
Hall of Fame induction
Women's basketball great Lynette Woodard will be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in Massachusetts. PAGE 8A
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