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KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2004
VOL.115 ISSUE 11
www.kansan.com
Come on home
Events old,new celebrate Homecoming
By Ross Fitch
rfitch@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
It's Hawktoberfest at the University of Kansas in October, but unlike the traditional German Oktoberfest, beer at University events will not be flowing. Hawktoberfest is just the name for this year's homecoming.
Homecoming is Oct. 2 through Oct. 9. The theme for this year will be 'Home Is Where the Hawk Is.' Events and speakers will include Bill Rancic, winner of NBC's "The Apprentice," a 3-on-3 basketball tournament, a spinoff of "American Idol" and a community service day.
The University began its Homecoming tradition on a November evening in 1912, according to the Homecoming Web site, www.homecoming.ku.edu. Students, faculty, staff and alumni huddled around a bonfire, told stories, recalled memories and laid a wooden Tiger atop the fire to symbolize the University beating the University of Missouri in the next day's football game.
In 1956, "Songs for Victory" became a theme for the year's Homecoming. Themes have been incorporated into Homecoming ever since. Recent themes include "Jayhawk Generations: Bringing Back the Classics" in 2003 and "Traditions Anew in 2002: A Hawk
of a Good Time."
Homecoming was primarily a weekend celebration until 2001, when the celebration became weeklong.
This year's Homecoming follows the new tradition.
With more than 15 events and possibly two main speakers, the action at Hawktoberfest should be non-stop.
Sarah Lathrop, Phoenix. Ariz. junior and public relations chair for Homecoming, said that although Bill Cosby had accepted the invitation to perform at Homecoming, the logistics were still being worked out. Basically, Cossey accepted the offer, but a contract
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Dog days of summer
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Bryant Freeman plays outside of his home with his two dogs, a Clumber Spaniel, left, and Cocker Spaniel. Freeman is working to organize the University's first-ever dog club.
Fido's fellowship
BY LAURA FRANCOVIGIA
lfancovigia@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Bryant Freeman has loved dogs for as long as he can remember.
"I was born and raised in a kennel," said Freeman, director of the KU Institute of Haitian Studies. "When I went to my first dog show, I was still in the cradle."
Because of his passion for dogs, he decided it was time to start a club for dog lovers at the University of Kansas. He said he'd considered starting the club before, but now the KU Dog Lovers Club will be a reality.
The club's purpose, Freeman said, would be to bring people on campus who love dogs together. Freeman said
He said he hoped the club would inspire people to be responsible dog owners. The acronym for the KU Dog Lovers will appropriately be KUDL, Freeman said.
Freeman said he envisioned students running the club once it was formed, but he would be happy to be the adviser. Freeman said the student members of the club would decide how often the club would convene, but he guessed the
owning a dog wasn't a prerequisite for membership.
KU professor aims to start club for owners
The KU Dog Lovers Club's first meeting will be 7:30 tonight in Alpine D of the Kansas Union.
Contact Bryant Freeman at 842-1193.
KUDL UP TO YOUR CANINE
Dogs are not invited to the first meeting.
club might meet once a month.
Freeman said the students who ran the club would make decisions. Freeman said the club's members might decide to take trips with their dogs to places such as Mutt Run by Clinton Lake, where dogs would not have to be on a leash. The club would also
Moore's campus visit
SEE DOGS ON PAGE 3A
Representative Dennis Moore spoke with students outside Wescoe Hall yesterday. Moore spent yesterday on campus encouraging students to vote.
Joshua Kendall/ KANSAN
Moore discusses issues, KU days
BY ANDY HYLAND
ahyland@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
This sit-down interview with U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore (D-Kan.) is the first in a series designed to give students more information about the 3rd District U.S. House of Representatives race. When Republican challenger Kris Kobach makes a campus visit in late September, Kansan staff writer Andy Hyland will conduct a similar interview.
Q: What is your position on campaign finance reform?
A: I worked actually with Senator McCain on the last major revision of campaign finance laws, and I am a strong supporter of campaign finance reform, and I — frankly, I think these 527 organizations that are doing these political ads on both sides are spending millions of dollars in presidential races and maybe so as well congressional races. I've always said I think there's way too much money in politics, and we need to find a way to cut that out without adversely affecting the right to free speech, obviously.
Q: Do you support a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage?
A: When its been amended, it's always been to provide rights to people, not take rights away. My personal belief is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but I don't think the Constitution needs to be amended. We have a Federal Defense of Marriage Act, and there's one in Kansas as well. I think what this is, is frankly a cheap political shot.
Q: How does a Democrat win in Kansas?
A: I think 80 percent of people in the center are more concerned about their jobs, education for their children and everything it takes to live in this world besides Democrat and Republican politics. People may be registered Democrat or Independent or Republican, and if they know somebody and they're comfortable with that person, they'll vote for that person across party lines; I do. So my job as a Democrat in this heavily Republican state — I suppose, district — is to get people acquainted with me and what I believe in and tell them that if you agree with me on these things, I need your vote.
Student votes count, Congressman says
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BY ANANDA O'TOLE
aotole@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Dennis Moore spoke to a group of about 30 students yesterday afternoon at the Multicultural Resource Center. His messages were clear above the whirring of the building's window-unit air conditioners: Students' votes count and government decisions should not be determined by partisanship.
The Douglas County Coordinating Committee asked the center to host Moore's visit two weeks ago, said Santos Nuñez, program director of multicultural affairs. The committee provided the pizza in return.
The visit was a part of what Moore (D-Kansas) called his "college tour." The tour included a stop at Johnson County Community College last night. He will visit Kansas City Kansas Community College later this week.
"It's interesting to hear what college students are concerned about," he said with a piece of pizza in his hand.
"Those people in that room are too intelligent to give up their right to vote," he said. "If you don't vote, you're letting other people make life-altering decisions."
College students commonly think of different political issues than other voters, he said.
He said that people who did not vote were disrespectful to those who died to secure that right for all Americans.
Throughout the lunch, students asked Moore about local and international issues and touched on topics like weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the national debt.
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Moore said several times throughout the hour-long event that Congress and
Watson evacuated
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Smoke caused an evacuation of over an hour yesterday at Watson Library PAGE 3A
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City Commission holds off on vote The Lawrence City Commission decided to not vote yet on a law prohibiting parked cars on Lawrence streets for over 48 hours. PAGE 3A
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