THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2004
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Multicultural 'Hawks
Steven Bartkoski/KANSAN
Rep. Barbara Ballard (D-Lawrence), HAWKLink supporter and Kansas representative for seven years, addresses the new class of students yesterday by describing how they are all Jayhawks. HAWKLink is an all-inclusive program that promotes student success and involvement through the office of Multicultural Affairs at 145 Strong Hall.
By LAURA FRANCOVIGLIA
francoviglia@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Senate approves speakers' funding
The bill to fund Bill Cosby passed at the Student Senate Committee meetings last night, but the finance committee amended the bill to fund $1,000 of the original $5,000.
The funding will pay for the use of Allen Fieldhouse. Cosby will come even without the lost $4,000 from Student Senate. His total cost will be about $100,000.
The finance committee voted to fund Homecoming educational speaker Bill Rancic for $6,500. Rancic will speak in the Kansas Union Ballroom, which seats about 900 people.
He is the winner of last season's hit show The Apprentice on NBC. The event will be free and open to the public.
The full Student Senate will vote whether to partially fund wireless Internet next week.
The committees approved the bill to fund $45,551, which will come out of the reserve account.
The cost will be a one-time fee, said Steve Munch, student body president.
He said KU Information Services would pay for the annual maintenance costs.
The funds Student Senate would put toward the cost of wireless Internet would pay for the expediency of the project, said Jeff Dunlap, student body vice president.
Student Senate's committees passed $81,036 worth of legislation last night.
All legislation passed in the committees will go onto Student Senate next week for further scrutiny.
The Senate Committees tabled the following bills until the next committee meeting in two weeks:
A bill to fund Into the Streets Week speaker Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation
A bill to fund the Architecture Student Council for the architecture lecture series
The following bills passed through the regular committee agenda for general funding:
A bill to fund the Juggling Club for $580, which will be used for juggling equipment such as beanbags, rings, crystal sticks and stage balls.
Chaplain offers new services at ECM Asian Center
A bill to fund the expansion of the KU History Galleries to pay for ten panels at $1,500 each
BY ANDY HYLAN
ahyland@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
— Edited by Steve Schmidt
On Sunday, Father Joseph Tung Dang celebrated Mass, just as he has the past two years.
But this was no ordinary Mass.
It celebrated his two-year ordination anniversary, and it was in Vietnamese.
The Mass served as a kick-off for the Ecumenical Christian Ministries' new Asian
Community Center.
Dang, a chaplain at ECM, will serve as head of the Center, a project that has been near to his heart.
"My goal has always been to open an Asian Center," he said. "No matter what, I am an Asian, and I'm willing to work with all Asian people."
Dang, who lived in Vietnam before moving to Lawrence, plans to provide Asian students and residents with translation services and a Vietnamese Mass
once a month.
Dang said language was one of the biggest barriers for immigrants, which is why the service, which will be housed in the ECM building, 1204 Oread Ave., will provide translation services from Chinese, Laotian and Vietnamese into English.
The center will also offer English as a second language classes and a Vietnamese class for English speakers.
class was a good idea for the Center.
"I've always wondered why KU never offered a Vietnamese class," said Khu, whose parents are from Vietnam. "I would think a lot of people would want to learn Vietnamese, with what happened in that country in the 1960s."
"It's going to probably start off slow, but eventually it'll hit off," Khuu said.
The Vietnamese Mass will be held on the first Sunday of every month, at 2:30 p.m. at the ECM building.
Dang also plans to offer a Vietnamese class on Wednesdays from 8-9:30 p.m. but is unsure when the class will begin.
"Our funding is still very limited," he said.
Steve Nguyen, owner of Jade
Nguyen donated money to the Asian Center to help Dang's cause.
Mongolian Barbecue, is trying to relieve some of those concerns.
Dang said the center is still planning most of the activities, but will help Asian students and residents in any way they can.
"We will be there, hand in hand, with the Asian community," he said.
- Edited by Marissa Stephenson
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bush suspended from flying jets for not meeting standards
Air National Guard.
WASHINGTON - The White House released memos last night saying that George W. Bush was suspended from flying fighter jets for failing to meet standards of the Texas
The Vietnam-era memos add new dimensions to the bare-bones explanation of Bush's aides over the years that he was suspended simply because he decided to skip his annual physical exam.
The exam was scheduled during a year in which Bush left Texas, where he had been flying fighter jets, to work on a U.S. Senate campaign in Alabama.
White House communications director Dan Bartlett told
CBS' 60 Minutes, which first obtained the memos, that Bush's superiors granted permission to train in Alabama in a non-flying status and that "many of the documents you have here affirm just that.
"On this date I ordered that
1st Lt. Bush be suspended from flight status due to failure to perform to USAF/TANG standards and failure to meet annual physical examination ... as ordered," states an Aug. 1, 1972, memo by Lt. Col. Jerry Killian.
A memo a year later points to turmoil among Bush's superiors over how to rate his performance because there was no "feedback" from Guard officials in 1972 and 1973 in Alabama, where Bush had been largely inactive.
THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS
SEPTEMBER 9,2004
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