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- THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS BRIEFS
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 2004
AMPUS
English department honors Irish author with festivities
The Department of English at the University of Kansas will present "Joyce's Ireland: A Celebration of the Bloomsday Centenary" from June 10 to June 17.
The event commemorates the 100th anniversary of the day that James Joyce's novel, Ulysses, was set.
There will be several events throughout the week including Irish music, a film about Joyce, a conference, a public lecture and a marathon reading of Ulysses.
"Since KU has such great Irish materials we felt it would be a great way to celebrate Ireland and James Joyce," said Kathryn Conrad, associate professor of English.
— Marc Ingber
LAWRENCE
Investigations suggest local store merchandise not angelic
Music store 7th Heaven,1000 Massachusetts St.,has closed for business. A representative for the store did not wish to comment.
On May 22, The Kansas City Star reported that a federal investigation into the sale of drug paraphernalia was being conducted on the 7th Heaven stores in Kansas City, Mo., and Sedalia, Mo., and store owners, Jan and Anita Fichman of Leawood.
The Drug Enforcement
The Drug Enforcement Administration, the Internal Revenue Service and the police departments in the respective cities are conducting the investigation.
— Marc Ingber
STATE
K-State adviser still on staff; job's fate with dean, provest
Kansas State University instructor Ron Johnson appears to have received a stay of execution as the adviser of the Kansas State Collegian.
When K-State Journalism Director Todd Simon informed Johnson last month that he would be assigned to "other teaching duties" for the 2004- 2005 academic year, it seemed likely that Johnson's tenure at the Collegian had come to an end.
But the board of Student Publications Inc., the corporate entity that produces the newspaper and the K-State yearbook, claimed in late May that Simon's move was unilateral and unofficial, and voted unanimously to allow Johnson to retain his post.
The final decision on Johnson's position now lies in the hands of Stephen White, dean of Arts and Sciences, and Provost James Coffman.
Coalition petitions city smoking ban
By Erik Johnson
ejohnson@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Business owners, students and curious citizens gathered at the American Legion, 3408 W. 6th St., yesterday to rally against a city ordinance that one attendee labeled as a new and wonderful form of socialism.
The Appeal to Reason and Tolerance, a Lawrence based coalition of independent business people, held the rally to start a petition drive to repeal an ordinance that will ban smoking beginning July 1st.
Chuck Magerl, owner of Free State Brewing Company, 636 Massachusetts St., and the committee's co-chairman, said the city-wide smoking ban was an extreme measure, that was passed too quickly without sufficient input from Lawrence citizens.
In May, the city commission voted 4-1 in favor of a citywide smoking ban Commissioners Dennis "Boog"
Highberger, David Dunfield and David Schauner joined Mayor Mike Rundle in approving the ban. Commissioner Sue Hack was the lone opponent.
Nick Carroll owns the Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts St., and is a member of the ART coalition. Carroll said the issue goes beyond health or clean air — it's about choice.
"I think when people go out, they like to smoke and drink at the same time," Carroll said. "And I think they should be able to do that."
The coalition has 180 days to gather 3,764 signatures of registered Lawrence voters — 25 percent of voters in the previous city election — for the city to consider a repeal. Magerl said gathering enough signatures should not be a problem and that the petition was more than a show of hands for angry people.
"This is not an opinion poll," Magerl said. "This is a political process."
Simon's initial attempt to remove Johnson as publications adviser came after a rocky semester at the Collegian.
In February, representatives of the Black Student Union at K-State called for Johnson to resign after the Collegian neglected to give what the protesters considered adequate coverage to the Big 12 Conference on Black Student Government, a forum held in Manhattan.
— Edited by Amanda O'Toole
Pat Bosco, dean of Student Life, then suggested that Johnson exert more control over the paper's student journalists, a move that prompted a quick rebuke from the Collegian staff. Members of the K-State community had expressed concerns previously about the Collegian's treatment of diversity issues.
The editorial staff of the paper attempted to address that issue by including a multicultural editor as part of the paper's summer staff.
Johnson survived a similar situation in 1998 when he was briefly relieved of his duties as newspaper adviser after he refused to review the Collegian's editorial content before publication.
President Reagan dies at 93, body displayed in Washington
Jay Senter
NATIONAL
Former President Ronald Reagan's body will be displayed in the Capitol Rotunda this evening and lie in state for 24 hours before a national funeral ceremony Friday.
Reagan died last Saturday of pneumonia at his home in Los Angeles. He was
93. Reagan had been kept out of the public eye for the past decade because of his escalating battle with Alzheimer's.
The two-term president from 1981 to 1989 was known for his mastery of communication. Reagan received more electoral-college votes than any other president in history with his 1984 reelection.
As the embodiment of 1980s conservatism, Reagan's legacy is mixed. His "trickle-down" economic policies are still lauded by fiscal conservatives. Liberals often fault Reagan for the recession that hit America in the early 1990s.
Many also credit Reagan with ushering in the end of the Cold War.
Originally an actor known for his roles in "B-movies," Reagan first became politically active as the head of the Screen Actors Guild during the height of anticommunist paranoia. He testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee on communists in Hollywood
Reagan stayed in the political arena, and was elected Governor of California in 1966. In 1976, he mounted a failed challenge for the Republican presidential nomination. But the exposure he gained paved the way for his nomination at the 1980 convention.
Official observation of Reagan's death began Monday when his body was brought to the Ronald Reagan presidential library in Simi Valley, Calif., for a private ceremony. Memorials will conclude Friday when Reagan's body is interred at a private ceremony. The federal government will shut down Friday to observe Reagan's death.
— Jay Senter
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