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KS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA, KS 66612
VOL. 104, NO. 10
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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2.1994
(USPS 650-640)
Kansas fans rejoice; 'Hawks crush Cougars
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Graduate students in the School of Business celebrate as the Kansas football team scores a touchdown against Houston. The students watched the game last night at the Yacht Club, 530 Wisconsin St. The Jayhawks won their season opener 35-13 at the Astrodome.
There's Spirits run free as 'Hawks play their first game
There's cheer in the beer
By David Wilson Kansan staff writer
KU students gathered at Lawrence bars last night to watch what many of them called a season-opening "ego-booster," the Jayhawk's 35-13 trouncing of the Houston Cougars, which was shown on KSMO62, channel 3 on Sunflower Cablevision in Lawrence.
Houston's inadequacy didn't mean KU wasn't doing well, said Ryan Spelak, Kansas City junior, who watched the game while perched on a wooden stool at The Crossing, 618 W. 12th Street.
"KU looks good," he said.
At the Yacht Club, 530 Wisconsin, about 20 MBA candidates from KU's school of business huddled around pitchers of beer and roared every time the Jayhawks gained yards. They reserved their loudest yells for touchdowns but acknowledged good defensive tackles with conversation-level "yeahs."
Jody Schrandt, a Lansing graduate student, said he and his fellow business students were out-cheering a group of law school students who were milling outside on the Yacht Club's patio.
"The they paid $100 for a keg to sit outside and watch the air," he said. "We were smart and got to the TVs."
Scharndt looked longingly at the more than 1,000 screaming Jayhawk waving for the television cameras at the Houston Astrodome.
Ross DeVore, Wichita graduate student, said the preseason injuries that plagued the Cougars would ensure $ \varrho $
"I want to be there," he said.
Jayhawk victory.
"If you take off four starters of any team, you've got it made," he said.
Outside on the patio, Jon Hunt, a third-year law student from Lincoln, Neb., said he wasn't watching the game because he was a Cornhusker fan.
"We hope Kansas does well so that when Nebraska beats them, they look better," he said.
But Sal Intagliata, a third-year law student from Overland Park, stepped in to defend Jiahawk pride.
back inside, Joe Bosco, a 1992 graduate of KU, sat calmly at a back table with four friends and a pitcher of Bud Light.
"The day they win the Orange Bowl is the day you can talk to me about Nebraska football," he said.
Boscopredictedan easy win for the Jayhawks.
Paul Kotz / KANSAN
"They're just not a good team," he said of the Cougars.
Kansas quarterback Asheki Preston, No. 9, passes over the Jayhawks offensive line during the first quarter of yesterday's game against the Houston Cougars.
Rosh Hashana begins Monday
By Nathan Olson
Kansan staff writer
Monday will be the year 5755 in the Hebrew calendar
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Rosh Hashana is the beginning of the High Holidays,
which are made up of Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and the
10 days between the two.
Monday will be the year 5755 in the Hebrew calendar. The day is known in the Jewish culture as Rosh Hashana and is celebrated on the first and second days of the month of Tishri.
Steve Jacobson, director of KU Hillel, said that the days were a bit like New Year's Day.
"During Rosh Hashana, we begin to look back on the year past," he said.
Rosh Hashana, which will be celebrated Monday and Tuesday, represents a time of reflection, both for humans on their deeds and for God to judge their actions. The holiday also represents a chance to look to the current year.
Jacobson said that community was extremely important both to Jewish tradition in general and to Rosh Hashana specifically.
Nathan Olson / KANSAN
"My wife and I have 12 to
14 people coming over for dinner," Jacobson said. "Then we were going to head to the synagogue together."
For Jacobson, Rosh Hashana is also a day of contemplation.
"I'll read about Rosh Hashana," he said. "I won't watch TV but might out some Jewish music on."
susan Elkins, coordinator of KU Info, said that in addition to normal services at the Lawrence Jewish Community Center, an alternative service would be conducted for students. The service, which was designed by Elkins and former Hillel director Daveen Litwin, is less traditional, Elkins said.
"Sometimes tradition and repetition are very good for remembering the past," Elkins said. "But sometimes tradition can be negative. We're trying to make it positive."
Eldkins said that the service, which would be be devoid of sexist language, would include music and more English translations of Hebrew prayers.
Fugitive believed in Lawrence area
By Manny Lopez
Kansan staff writer
One of two prisoners who escaped from an Fort Smith, Ark., jail Tuesday remained on the run yesterday, and authorities said they believed he was in the Lawrence area.
Although Scott Scanlon, 31, was arrested yesterday near Fredonia, police still are looking for Chad Beers, 24, of Lawrence. Sightings of the two have been reported to police between Lawrence and Arkansas.
A truck that police say Beers and Scanlon stole in Chouteau, Oklawa, was found yesterday in Lawrence. Lawrence police said that sometime between 8 p.m. Wednesday and 6 a.m. either on or both of the men also
Chad Beers
stole a 1988 blue Chevrolet pickup from Quality Electric,
1011 E 31st. St.
Beers and Scanlon escaped from the Sebastian County
Jail in Fort Smith Tuesday night. Both men may have been
in Lawrence Wednesday night or yesterday morning,
police said.
Since their escape Tuesday, Beers' and Scanlon's jour-
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Tackling the season
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Youth center needs KU students as volunteers
By Carlos Tejada Kansan staff writer
Fraser Hall is plainly visible if one stands in front of the new Lawrence Teen Center.
But according to Patrick Sumner, Lawrence junior and youth coordinator of Project Freedom of Lawrence, KU students need to be even more visible to area youths.
Sumner and city leaders are seeking KU students who have the time and desire to volunteer at the teen center, 1141 Massachusetts St. The center, which is designed to be an alternative to drugs and alcohol and to give Lawrence junior high and high school students a place to go, is long on ambition but short on able hands, Sumner said.
"So often, KU students think the Hill is their own little city," Summer said. "But I'm down here, and I see that that institution has vast resources that can be used."
Volunteers would interact directly with Lawrence teenagers and serve as role models. Sumner said.
"You've got to reach kids where they're at now," he said. "They wouldn't be hall monitors. They'd make it a creative, interactive environment."
Sumner said KU students tended to be closer in age to
the youths have the same generation we're talking about," he said. "We're at the other end, and we can show them our insight."
the youths and would provide them with an example.
In addition to a meeting place, the center provides video games, pool and a television room. He also said long-term plans included enlarging the outside area for controlled bonfires, poetry slams and live bands.
The center, which opened Aug. 23, now is open only in the afternoon. Sumner said the center could be open longer if it had more volunteers.
The center's idea came about when Jo Andersen, Lawrence mayor, spoke to youths hanging out in her neighborhood in East Lawrence. Andersen said the teenagers told her the town offered its young people nothing to do.
Summer said volunteering at the center would provide an
To advise the center, Andersen said, she created the Mayor's Youth Advisory Committee, which answers to Andersen and keeps the Lawrence City Commission abreast of youth issues.
"In listening to them say there was nothing to do, I heard cynicism." she said. "That was very distressing to me."
Andersen said the youth told her the answer was a teen center, a place where they had control.
Meghan Dougherty / KANSAN
Kem Foster, 15, spends the afternoon playing pool at the Lawrence Teen Center, 1141 Massachusetts St. The center, which is looking for KU students to volunteer their time, is an interactive environment for local teens that gives them a place to hang out with their friends.
"You can say to yourself, I made an impact with my work in college," he said. "That's an education."
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experience beyond the KU classroom.
Interested students should call Sumner at the Project Freedom office at 842-5006.
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