Friday, September 24, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 3
Cabinet member to sit on trade panel
Commerce secretary to field KU queries
By Michael Terry
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
United States Secretary of Commerce William M. Daley will make a special stop at the University of Kansas today to participate in a panel discussion for the National Trade Education Tour 1 p.m. at the Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Clyde Stoltenberg, co-director of the KU center for international business education and research and one of the forum's organizers, said the panel would discuss the importance of international trade to local economies.
The three central themes of the tour are how exports benefit local communities, the development of a national consensus on trade, and maintaining the United States' strength and competitiveness at the local and state levels through private-public relationships.
In addition to Daley, Lt. Gov Gary Sherrer and national and local business leaders will be fielding questions about international trade.
"This forum gives Daley and the panel the chance to hear from the public on how they feel international trade effects them," Stoltenberg said.
Charles Ranson, president of Kansas Inc., a Topeka-based economic research institution, is the moderator of the forum. He said
the public would be given a chance to ask the panel questions.
"I think the panel is a diverse group that will give anyone wanting to ask a specific question to an individual a person to direct it to," he said. "Questions can be directed to anyone on the panel, and they will respond to the question, and then another panel member can expand on it if they choose."
The tour, which has hit seven cities so far, started May 3 in Boston. Its unofficial motto has become "Trade Globally, Prosper Locally."
Stoltenberg said that when the tour schedule was first released, Daley only was planning to speak at conferences in Kansas City and Wichita that were closed to the public.
"In the summer we received a request from the U.S. Commerce Department for the tour to possibly make a special stop here and hold a panel discussion open to the public," he said. "We were happy to accommodate Daley's tour and think this forum will give a chance for the Lawrence community to discuss their concerns with international trade and its benefits."
Stoltenberg said people just didn't realize the magnitude of the role of international trade in local economies, including Lawrence. For example, he said, Jayhawk Bowling Supply, 530 Colorado St., exported equipment to China.
The event is free and open to the public.
—Edited by Jennifer Roush
Near-minister wows senators with pulpit-like passion
By Chris Borniger writer @kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
A little bit of the Baptist minister in Brad Carter came out last week, and although he was preaching, he wasn't at the pulpit.
At the first full Senate meeting Sept. 15, Carter, a first-year graduate senator, passionately spoke in favor of a resolution condemning the Kansas State Board of Education and its decision to restrict the teaching of evolution. His own family's disenchancement with the Southern Baptist Convention's increasing political conservatism played a role, he said.
"I have seen the machinations of reactionary religion take over and destroy institutions," Carter said. "They were advancing a narrow sectarian agenda by stealth, and I got worked up by this direct attack on religious and academic freedom."
The speech received a standing ovation — a rare occasion in Senate meetings, especially for a first-year senator at his first meeting, Partha Mazumdar said. Mazumdar, graduate senator, lobbied Carter last
year to run for Senate.
"In three years, I've only seen it once before," he said. "That was the greatest speech I've ever seen in Student Senate. People were turning around and asking me, 'Who is he? Where did you find him?'"
Indeed, religion has played a significant role in Carter's life. The Episcopalian son of a Baptist minister, he received his bachelor's degree in religion from William Jewell College, a Baptist college in Liberty, Mo. He then received his master's degree in theology studies from Seabury Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill., an Episcopalian institution.
That isn't all of his religious exposure. He spent nine years as dean of admissions and two as dean of students at a United Methodist school of theology in Kansas City, Mo. He also has worked for St. Louis University, which is a Catholic school, and on the religious affairs board of Planned Parenthood.
"I kind of an insider in the God and religion business, but I'm still pretty secular," he said. "My values
Carter, 35, also worked as a chaplain at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City. Mo. in 1987. In the last stages before becoming an Episcopalian priest, he had a change of heart.
"The experience of being a chaplain helped me figure out that I didn't want to be ordained," he said. "It just wasn't for me."
Carter wears many hats aside from his exposure to several religious denominations. A Ph.D candidate in American studies, he is a graduate teaching assistant in that department and the humanities and western civilization department.
Camille Payne, Kearney, Neb., junior and a student in one of Carter's classes, said his use of religion while teaching was limited but helpful.
"He keeps it pretty neutral," she said. "I think it's interesting because then you can look at your own religion and see different ways to analyze things."
Despite his spiritual background, Carter said the classroom, not the pulpit, was his proper place.
"My teaching is unavoidably informed by those
A poster of Jesus with a large gun, spoofing the National Rifle Association, decorates Brad Carter's office door. "The notion of Jesus as heavily armed ironically captures the way religious symbols are used to advance an unusual political agenda," Carter said. Photo by Roger Nomer/KANSAN
experiences," he said. "It's turned out that I've fallen in love with teaching. I'm priv-
illeged to be doing what I'm doing."
- Edited by Chris Hopkins
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