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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2007
quote of the day
"The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it."
Bill Nye
fact of the dav
Before hosting "Bill Nye the Science Guy," Bill Nye worked for The Boeing Company and designed a hydraulic pressure resonance suppressor that is still used on Boeing 747 jets.
most e-mailed
Want to know what people are talking about? Here's a list of Monday's most e-mailed stories from Kansan.com:
1. Select-a-Seat raises more than $11 million, creates windfall for athletics
2. Money outweighs loyalty in ticket system
3. Football schedule filled with pushovers
4. Rowing team anticipates successful season
5. Music program quality and test scores linked
et cetera
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Good clean fun
Little League World Series baseball fans, from front, Jake Botech and Hunter Coakley of Bridgewater, Mass., A.J. Yost, Jordan Neville, Jacob Neville, and Jake Richards of Anacortes, Wash., slide down the hill on Monday overlooking Lamade Field after rain suspended play in South Williamsport, Pa.
What do you think?
BY VANESSA CUNNINGHAM
DO YOU THINK THE SPANISH LANGUAGE SHOULD BE A REQUIRED CLASS FOR STUDENTS IN KINDERGARTEN THROUGH 12TH GRADE BECAUSE OF THE INCREASING NUMBER OF SPANISH-SPEAKING IMMIGRANTS?
SEAN MOORMAN Leawood junior
Leawood junior "I think that it would be good to have mandatory Spanish classes for grade school and middle school kids. However, once students reach high school they should have the choice to stop."
HIARALI GARCIA Windsor, Ontario, senior "I think so, because it will be beneficial. It's a way to have greater job opportunities, and it doesn't hurt to know another language."
SARAH SUMMERS
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Overland Park freshman
"It would be a good idea, but no, I don't think so. If you were born in America and English is your first language, then learning a second language should be a choice."
Inglewood, Calif., junior "It should be required, but students also have rights. Immigrants are growing, yes, but learning the language shouldn't be required."
DAVID GONZALEZ
with Professor Kevin Whitehead Department of English
Jason Baker/KANSAN
BY JASON BAKER
1. What courses do you teach?
I teach American studies and jazz literature courses, plus some writing courses about the arts and music.
2. Where did you go to college?
I did my undergraduate at State University of New York in Oswego, N.Y., and I also got my master's degree at Syracuse University in New York.
3. What made you want to teach?
I've been writing about jazz and felt like I should share it and try to turn people on to it and also give extra information to those who know something about it.
I saw "The Departed" on DVD last week, so that was my favorite last week.
4. What's your favorite movie?
5. What was your craziest moment in college?
Probably taking early morning classes with bad hangovers.
I can't think of any, but I've had funny students. One of them, Nikki Glaser, ended up on "Last Comic Standing."
6. Have you had any funny moments while teaching?
7. What's your favorite TV show?
"The Wire." I used to live in Baltimore, and the writing is exceptional. They have good actors as well.
8. What's your ideal weekend?
It would be five days long.
9. What's your favorite spot in Lawrence?
The Bourgeois Pig
10. Do you have a favorite sport to watch?
I don't follow any of them. Sorry, Jayhawks.
11. Do you have a favorite color?
No, not really. I dress without flair.
12. Favorite vacation spot?
Lake Ontario. I actually just got back from there.
13. What's your favorite country?
Holland. I lived there for four years and wrote my book there.
14. What's your book called?
I wrote "New Dutch Swing" in the mid-1990s. It's about the jazz music scene in Holland, Amsterdam particularly, and the funny things that occur in their music.
Correspondent Jason Baker can be reached at editor@kansan.com
Edited by Dianne Smith
In the mid-1900s there was a seven-hole golf course on campus near Potter Lake. Check out www.kuhistory.com for other cool historical tidbits.
on the record
KU Police arrested a suspect for urinating in front of Snow Hall early Sunday morning.
A KU student reported someone took her purse and its contents while it was laying on the floor of Mrs. E's on Saturday night. The estimated loss was $557.
A KU Bookstore employee reported a theft of $58 from the store Aug. 15. The shoplifter took a T-shirt and a jersey.
Several Lawrence residents reported criminal damage to their cars at apartments or businesses along 23rd Street the night of Aug.16. Damages were valued from $400 to $850.
on campus
A Student Senate Executive Committee meeting will be held from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Regents Room in Strong Hall.
Lu Yaoru of Tongji University will present the lecture "Karst Development Features and its Ecosystems in Main Karst Regions of China" at 4 p.m. in 103 Lindley Hall.
corrections
Yesterday's article "Spotlight on Organizations: Environs" misstated the date of the club's first meeting. The group will meet on Monday, Aug. 27, and it has yet to determine the dates of future meetings.
Monday's article "Select-a Seat creates windfall" said incorrectly that men's basketball season ticket seat selection using the Williams Fund points system would now take place every other year for all season-ticket holders. This change is only for faculty and staff. Regular season-ticket holders will continue to draft seats annually.
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Eric Jorgensen, Darla Slipke,
Matt Erickson or Ashlee Kieler at
864-4810 or
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