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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. 2004
Birthday bash planned for Lawrence
BY STEPHANE FARLEY
sfarley@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
It's a party where you can see a beard-growing contest and 30 birthday cakes all in the same day. Students who call the University of Kansas home have the chance to celebrate Lawrence's history and eat birthday cake at the Lawrence Sesquicentennial, the city's 150th birthday.
The Lawrence Association was formed on Sept. 18, 1854, when Lawrence's town site, name and constitution were officially adopted.
The Sesquicentennial has been in planning since January 2000.
Clenice Hills, president of Lawrence's Sesquicentennial board, said a sense of community could be lost as a community got bigger, and the Sesquicentennial is a once in a lifetime experience for students. Hills said students should celebrate the Sesquicentennial because students who are in
Lawrence now might not be around for the Bicentennial.
Robert Foster, KU professor of music, said Lawrence's birthday was a way for students to celebrate the remarkable Lawrence community. Foster is planning the Sesquicentennial parade, which will be the biggest since Lawrence's Centennial parade. Foster said 100 entrants had signed up for the Sept. 18 celebration.
The KU Band will march in the parade, which will begin at 10 a.m. and is expected to last for more than two hours. Foster said the parade started at Seventh and Massachusetts streets and would travel south to
end at South Park.
John Lynch, director of bands for the University, said the parade will be the band's third time to perform in their new uniforms.
forms.
"We absolutely wanted to be a part of it from the beginning," Lynch said.
Steve Braswell, member of the Sesquicentennial commission, said there would be a birthday party for Lawrence after the parade ended. Braswell said Dillons Corporation had donated 30 birthday cakes to the party.
party. Lawrence's birthday party is child-oriented and will offer a petting zoo and pony rides, Braswell said.
Braswell said there would be a beard-growing contest, which will judge the length and the quality of the beard, on Sept. 18 at 2 p.m. at the gazebo in South Park. All are invited to enter the contest no registration will be required. Braswell said.
required, Braswell said one event he was excited about was the street dance in South Park on Sept. 18.
from 7 to 11 p.m. The street dance will feature two musical acts, soloist Kelley Hunt and Billy Ebeling performing with the Late to Dinner Band. On Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission approved up to $3,000 funding for the street dance.
No admission will be charged for the dance.
Braswell encouraged students to come downtown and take part in the celebration.
"How often does your hometown, or at least your temporary hometown, have its 150th birthday?" Braswell said. "You know, not very often."
He said the dance would give everyone in the town and University a chance to relax and have a good time.
"I sort of have a one-man campaign going on to reintroduce groovy to the common language," Braswell said. "I think it's going to be cool and groovy."
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U.S.military deaths in Iraq reached 1,000
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A spate of attacks including a suicide car bombing pushed the number of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq campaign past 1,000, with the majority inflicted by an insurgency that bloomed after President Bush declared major combat over.
Fighting with Sunni and Shiite insurgents killed eight Americans in the Baghdad area on Tuesday and yesterday, pushing the count to 1,003. The tally was compiled by The Associated Press based on Pentagon records and AP reporting from Iraq.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld cited progress on several fronts in the Bush administration's global war on terrorism and said U.S. enemies should not underestimate the willingness of the American people and its coalition allies to suffer casualties in Iraq and elsewhere.
"The progress has prompted a backlash, in effect, from those
who hope that at some point we might conclude that the pain and the cost of this fight isn't worth it." Rumsfeld said in a Pentagon news conference. "Well, our enemies have underestimated our country, our coalition. They have failed to understand the character of our people. And they certainly misread our commander in chief."
The Bush administration has long linked the Iraq conflict to the war on terrorism. The Sept. 11 Commission, however, concluded that Iraq and Al Qaeda did not have a "collaborative relationship" before the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.
The 1,003 figure includes deaths from hostile and nonhostile causes since the United States launched the Iraq campaign in March 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein's regime. All but 138 of the U.S. deaths came after Bush's May 1, 2003 declaration of an end to major combat operations after Saddam fell.
CALENDAR Delta Gamma planning 'Distinction' counterpart
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Johnson said Delta Gamma was in the process of handing out applications.
Applications were sent to the contact persons for all the organizations listed at the Student Involvement and Leadership Center.
The center includes groups likes fraternities and sororities, religious and political organizations, sport clubs, scholarship halls and other organizations.
She said students could also get applications by calling the Delta Gamma house at 843-5990 and one would be sent to them, or by going to the Delta Gamma house at 1015 Emery Road.
Applications can be filled
out by the applicants themselves, or by someone else who thinks they are worthy, Johnson said.
Applications are due Friday, Sept.17, by either turning them in to the house or giving them to a Delta Gamma member. The calendar is scheduled to come out by Nov. 1.
The new calendar has the potential to further the awareness of both men's and women's positive contributions to campus and the Lawrence community, said Katherine RoseMockry, director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center.
"Ideally, it's essential men and women are partners in addressing gender issues," she said.
The Emily Taylor Women's
Ideally, it's essential men and women
are partners in addressing gender issues."
Jaime Johnson Lincoln, Neb., junior and vice president for Foundation at Delta
Gamma
Resource Center oversees the Women of Distinction calendar.
Mockry said she supported the concept of the Men of KU calendar because it recognized outstanding contributions by students.
She also said there were
many areas where women were still not well-represented, and the Women of Distinction calendar's role was different from the Men of KU calendar in that it raised awareness of women's roles on campus.
The Men of KU concept is not new. Last year, James Owen, Lawrence resident, proposed a similar idea.
His proposal was denied, but he said he did not have bad feelings toward anyone involved with the decision last year or anyone involved with the current calendar.
He said he was happy the calendar was finally starting up.
"We were hoping this would continue and, apparently, it has," Owen said.
"That's good."
That's good. Owen, who graduated from the School of Law in May, said the Men of KU calendar was a good way to represent both genders.
Some students joked that the calendar would be better if it was similar to the Women of KU calendar.
Others felt the current plan had better taste.
No matter what men might say, most of them would take satisfaction in being honored in the calendar, said Steve Barbaro. St. Cloud, Minn., junior and Men's Outreach coordinator.
If he had the choice of being on a calendar that focused solely on appearance or on the Men of KU calendar, he said he would choose the latter.
"It would represent what I've done, what I stand for and
what I hope to do," Barbaro said.
Delta Gamma was still in the process of figuring out costs, Johnson said.
Student fees will not fund any of the costs of the calendar.
All proceeds will go to the Delta Gamma Foundation as a fundraising effort and will benefit the visually impaired community.
The Foundation takes the money and delves it out to the Delta Gamma philanthropy, Site Conservation and Aid to the Blind.
Money also goes to scholarships, loans and grants for Delta Gamma members, said Kelley Briant, Dallas senior and president of the University's Delta Gamma chapter.
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