THE UNIVERSITY HARRY KANSAN
THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2007
NEWS
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"We're not pot smokers, but we have enjoyed it in the past." Wallace said. "It's not a habit and that's the nice thing about marijuana."
Stephanie Covington, associate director of the Office of Student Financial Aid, said although it hasn't been a huge issue on this campus, the University complies with the federal requirements.
"The FAFSA is what we have to take into consideration," Covington said.
Janet Roecker, associate director of the Office of Student Financial Aid, said if students indicate that they have a drug conviction on the FAFSA, they are required to fill out an additional worksheet that determines when their conviction occurred and if the student completed a drug rehabilitation program.
Students could then bring in the worksheet to the financial aid office to determine if they could be eligible for aid at some point during the semester, she said.
Covington said students who
apply for tuition grants or awards from the University must still fill out the FAFSA.
Diane Lindemann, director of student financial assistance for the Kansas Board of Regents Office, said the board also follows the same federal guidelines.
"It actually has never come up for us," said Lindelman, who has worked for the board for seven years.
Both Wallace and Maher said they knew people who had been kicked out of residence and scholarship halls at the University for marijuana use.
Wallace said while the department of student housing has a clear-cut policy on alcohol, its policy on drug use doesn't specify what happens to students if they violate it.
The handbook on the department of student housing's Web site states, "Manufacturing, possessing, selling, transmitting, using or being party to any illegal drug activity, controlled substance, or drug paraphernalia is a violation of university and housing policy as well as a violation of the law"
Maher said harsh drug laws had affected him as a child because his stepfather, who owned a successful catering business, was convicted of possessing a small amount of marijuana and was imprisoned.
"It caused my mom a huge burden and it was totally unfair," Maher said. "It also hurt the local economy, because his business was gone."
Wallace said in order to get the drug provision in the Higher Education Act changed, students should call their U.S. Senators and tell them they want the provision removed.
Wallace said it had been tough so far to gauge student interest.
"People think it's awesome and it's great but they don't want their name involved," she said. "It's really important to speak out on policy."
Kansan staff writer Tyler Harbert can be contacted at tharbert@ kansan.com.
— Edited by Mark Vierthaler
Panda play date
Two giant pandas enjoy a moment together at the China Panda Protection and Research Center in Wolong, southwest China's Sichuan Province, on Wednesday. The pair of pandas were a gift for the 10th anniversary of the founding of Hong Kong's Special Administrative Region.
Xinhua. Chen Xie/ASSOCIATED PRESS
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Iran schedules new talks about uranium program
ANKARA, Turkey — Senior Iranian and Western envoys on Wednesday scheduled a new round of talks in two weeks after speaking of progress in trying to break the deadlock over Tehran's refusal to meet U.N. Security Council demands that it freeze its uranium enrichment program.
European Union senior foreign policy chief Javier Solana and senior Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani spoke after their second meeting of the day — unscheduled dinner talks that documented potential headway in the dispute even before the announcement of a new round in coming weeks.
"We will have some talks tomorow and in two weeks," Larijani told reporters at the end of the two rounds of discussions that ran nearly six hours. He described them as "pleasant talks."
Solana spoke of a "very constructive dinner,"adding the talks "will continue tomorrow and in the coming weeks also."
Iran is running more than 1,300 centrifuge machines at Natanz.
Associated Press
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wife kept him young. Betty drops him off on campus and picks him up after he teaches his class.
The couple met in 1984 in New York City's Penn Station during a March blizzard. Betty was a school social worker from Newport Beach, Cal., going to visit her son at Harvard University when Harry was on his way to Harvard to give a lecture.
Harry said he pursued her relentlessly, sending her roses with homemade cards and calling her daily.
"It's the Austrian romantic part of Harry," Betty said.
The "Austrian romantic" left his native country at age 18 in 1938.
"When Hitler came, it wasn't big enough for him and me," Harry said. "He didn't want to leave, so I left."
After leaving Austria, Harry lived in Cuba for two years while his
United States immigration visa was pending. He then served with U.S. Army intelligence during World War II as a German translator.
After the war, the G.I. Bill of Rights paid for four years of school at New York University. In four years, he received both his bachelor's and masters degrees in economics and completed a course toward his doctorate.
"I want to make my living talking," Harry recalled thinking when he was young.
After Harry taught economics at Concord College in Athens, W. Va., for a year and a half, he taught at the University of Alabama for six years.
In 1956, Authorine Lucy was the first black woman to be admitted to the university. Harry said three thousand students protested against her.
The University of Alabama
expelled Lucy on charges of defamation after she claimed the university did not provide her with adequate protection, Harry said he and 28 other professors felt they couldn't be honorably associated with the University of Alabama and decided to leave the school.
"And that's how KU got lucky enough to get me," Harry said.
When he came to Lawrence from Alabama, Harry said the University had less than 10,000 students. There was no required permit for parking on campus and one-way streets. There was no need to lock his house on Alabama Street at the time, he said. He only locked his car when tests were inside.
Laura Dague, Washington senior and head teaching assistant for Harry's introduction to economics course, said Shaffer's jovial rapport
with students helped them understand economics on an individual level.
As a testament to his popularity, a Harry Shaffer fan club on Facebook has more than 700 members.
"it's nice to have a broader perspective than just a theory," she said.
Harry said the point of his economics classes was to portray the social issues of economics, using examples to illustrate and generate interest about the national debt or inflation.
"Wherever I go, I have people coming to me saying 'Professor Shaffer, I took your course.' Some come to me and say 'Professor Shaffer, my father took your course,' " he said. "Only once did I have somebody say 'Professor Shaffer, my grandfather took your course.'"
Harry has also advocated social issues in Lawrence. He led a desegregation advocacy group when he
moved to the town in 1956, and later marched in protest of the Vietnam War.
Today, he said he is adamant about equality of all people. He has protested the Iraq war at 11th and Massachusetts streets and continues to write letters to the editor for such papers as the Lawrence Journal-World.
"These aren't all economic issues," he said. "For me, they're moral issues."
Even though he has raised his activist voice, Harry's speaking volume is often inhibited by non-malignant papillomas on his vocal chords that return no matter how often they are removed. He said his first operation was in 1947. He expects his 25th operation will be this summer.
"They cut them off, burn them off, freeze them off, they always come back," Harry said. "It's very unfortunate for a teacher, but it's a
fact of life."
Despite temporarily losing his voice after operations, Harry continues to teach economics and tries to keep it somewhat simple, giving real examples for theories introduced within the course.
He said one of the biggest highlights of his career was receiving the 2003 Career Achievement Teaching Award. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences threw him a party to celebrate the award, with many of his fellow teachers and students in attendance.
"If we all loved doing what we do as much as Harry does, it would be a great world," Betty said.
Kansan staff writer Brian Lewis Jones can be contacted at bljones@kansan.com.
— Edited by Mark Vierthaler
THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS
KU ROTARACT
gives you'an
KU Rotaract is a new club on campus interested in personal and community development through community service! This club
opportunity to get involved in the KU and Lawrence communities as well as network with those who are part of the International Rotary organization.
If you are interested or would like more information, please e-mail KUroraet@houmail.com
April 26th, 2007
PRE PHYSICAL THERAPY CLUB Meeting
Coordinator of DPT Admissions at KU Medical Center will speak. 6 pm tonight at Watkins Health Center 2nd Floor, Crimson and Blue Room If you ordered shirts you can pick them up!
Moll Swalley.
Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Education
2007 "Picture the World"
Photo Contest
Tea-Time, Thursday, April 26th 3:00-4:00 p.m. in the Kansas Union
See the Winners!
YOU DECIDE • Best Male/Female/Group Awards!
FREE Admission!!
Pre-registration required by email: msiaku@ http://www.geocities.com/msiaku
Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
PAID FOR BY KU
7. 00 P.M.
A CCO Music Mentors Fundraiser
Presented by KK $\Psi$ & TB $\Sigma$
Friday, May 4 2007
Kansas Union Ballroom
On the campus of
The University of Kansas
6:00pm-10:00pm
$3 with student ID
$5 without ID
tickets available at the door
doors open at 5:15pm
reserve tickets at
oreadmusicfest@hotmail.com
http://www.geocities.com/msiaku
April 28, 2007 (Saturday)
Music Festival
1st ANNUAL
KABAOKG Nite '07
Malaysian Students Association at KU (M'SIA KU) proudly presents :
THE UNIVERSITY OF KU
KANSAS
145 Murray Avenue, Davenport
Coca-Cola
KU YOUNG DEMOCRATS
Kansas Young Democrats is having a convention April 27-28 in Lawrence, and KU is host!
Friday, April 27
THE SCHEDULE:
fri:bbay, April 27
6:00 - Committee Meetings
7:00 - Executive committee meeting
8:00 - social event, bowling
Saturday, April 28
9:00 Tuesday, April 26
8:00 - registration
9:00 - Burdett Loomis
10:00 - KDP training & canvass
noon - lunch
1:00 - issue workshop w/ Steve
Boyda and Owen Delong
3:00 - Credentials
3:30 - State Committee meeting
(until 5)
6:00 - Reception
7:00 Banquet and awards ceremony
All events, with the exception of the canvass, reception and banquet will be held in the Kansas Union of the University of Kansas. The reception and banquet will be held at Marisco's.
If there are any questions, please contact Jamie Epstein at 913-220-8699 or yonahana@ku.edu