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KANSAN
IN ITS 100TH YEAR AS THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Vol.114 Issue No.149
Tickets available tomorrow
High demand expected for Clinton lecture
By Anna Clovis aclovis@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Officials in the Lied Center and Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics expect the 1,900 tickets in the Lied Center to run out quickly after they become available tomorrow morning for former President Bill Clinton's scheduled speaking engagement.
Clinton, who defeated former Sen. Bob Dole in the 1996 presidential election, is scheduled to deliver the inaugural Dole Lecture Series lecture at 2:15 p.m. on Friday, May 21 in the Lied Center. Tickets will be available to the public beginning at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the Lied Center box office or at 864-ARTS. The tickets are free, but there is a two-ticket limit per person.
Kate Lorenz
Lawrence junior and
Lied Center box office
employee, said she
expected a large
demand for tickets.
"It's going to be crazy." Lorenz said.
Richard Konzem associate director for administration at the Institute, said the tick-
Chris Cardinal, Salina junior, said he was trying create a camping group, similar to the ones at basketball games, to get tickets for the event. Cardinal also said he planned to talk to officials at the
Institute, said the testers would be available for the general public and there would be no reserved time for students to get tickets before the box office opened.
Clinton
Institute to see whether they had guidelines or the camping for tickets would be student-run.
Bryan Behgam, vice president of the University of Kansas Young Democrats, said that members were going to the box office to get tickets on an individual basis instead of organizing a group event.
While students prepare to camp and wait for tickets, the Institute is taking part in other preparations. Konzem said the Secret Service would be on campus early next week to secure the area, as it did last July when former President Jimmy Carter spoke at the Institute dedication.
"It's not every day you get a former president on campus," Konzem said.
Edited by Cindy Yeo
HOW TO GET TICKETS
Tickets for former President Bill Clinton's Dole Lecture Series lecture will go on sale tomorrow at 11 a.m. and are available in the following ways:
At the Lied Center box office. Doors will open at 11 a.m. All ticket windows will be open.
Will be open. By calling the Lied Center ticket office at 864-ARTS.
There are no special ticket reservation times. Tickets will be offered for the general public when the box office opens. All tickets are for reserved seats and are free. There is a two-ticket limit per person.
Dynamic professor retires
Source: University Relations and Dole Institute of Politics
Roger Shimomura ends 35-year tenure to focus on being full-time artist
By Dave Nobles
dnobles@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
In a piece called The History of Art, a painter dressed in the garb of a samurai broadly strokes the canvas, with his body in an exaggerated martial arts stance.
in an exaggerated manner Through artwork like this, Roger Shimomura has influenced countless colleagues and students in and out of the classroom.
Roger Shimomura, distinguished art professor, will end his 35-year career at the University of Kansas on Friday. "It's a beginning for me, not an ending," he said. He will devote his time to his art. His style looks like cartoons, but conveys messages about racial equality.
But after 35 years at the University of Kansas, Shimomura is moving on.
A distinguished art professor at the University and a nationally recognized artist, Shimomura will leave academia on Stop Day and begin spending his time as a full-time artist.
a full-time artist:
"I'm not looking back," Shimomura said.
"It's a beginning for me, not an ending."
Possibly starting as early as this fall, a 60-piece "retrospective" of Shimomura's art will be on display in various museums across the country for two years.
As part of the legacy he will leave at the University, he has organized the formation of the Shimomura Faculty Research Fund for the development of studio art. He initiated the fund with a donation of $25,000. Donations can be made through the Kansas University Endowment Association.
against ethnic discrimination Mohamed El-Hodiri, professor of economics and a poet, has been the subject
Shimomura's artwork is cartoon-like but it carries a deeper message: a stance against ethnic discrimination.
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Shimomura uses real-life experiences as inspirations for his paintings. This work, titled The History of Art, was based on a conversation with a colleague who including him in her art history textbook.
Internet functional for most on Hill
By Rupal Gor
rgor@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Internet service on Daisy Hill has been restored.
been restored.
As of last Tuesday, only 125 machines were not restored, said Allison Rose Lopez, public relations manager for University of Kansas Information Services. This means that more than 90 percent of those affected have cleaned their computers and now have Internet access.
Students in McCollum Hall, Ellsworth Hall, Hashinger Hall, Lewis Hall, Templin Hall, Stouffier Place and Jayhawker Towers now have Internet if they put their computers through a five-step cleaning process.
step cleaning process. The process includes removing the super-worm and installing Microsoft Windows security patches.
windows security panel All students should have Internet access on their computers if they go through this process, which takes about 45 minutes. Macintosh and UNIX users do not have to go through the process.
"We're here to assist and as of now everything seems pretty calm," she said.
Turning in online quizzes and papers was difficult for Eva Bauer before she restored her Internet. The Lawrence sophomore and McCollum resident assistant said she was happy she did
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House passes illegal-immigrant tuition bill
Undocumented students would be eligible for in-state rates
By Marc Ingber
minger@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Andrea Pardo has dreamed of being able to attend Kansas State University to study architecture for a while. Pardo, 17, is a senior at Wyandotte High School in Kansas City, Kan., and has lived in Kansas for the last three years. Although she has been accepted to Kansas State, her dreams of attending the school this fall have been a long shot because she is an undocumented student and therefore not eligible for in-state tuition. But now all that is going to change.
The Kansas House of Representatives passed a bill last Tuesday that gave undocumented students living in Kansas the right to in-state tuition at the state's colleges and universities. An undocumented student is an illegal immigrant who has attended school in Kansas.
who has attended school. In order to receive in-state tuition, students must prove they attended at least three years of high school in Kansas. If the bill is signed by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, which will likely happer in the
next couple of weeks, it will go into effect July 1.
She said now that the bill has passed, she will be able to attend Kansas State.
"It was a miracle," Pardo said of the bill's passing. "We didn't think it was going to happen."
Ballard
According to The
According to The Kansas City Star, there are about 2,000 undocumented high school seniors in Kansas, who would be eligible for instate tuition.
There are undocumented students who have been living and going to school in Kansas for most of their lives, so it makes sense to make them eligible for instate tuition, said Rep. Barbara Ballard (D-Lawrence) and associate vice provost for student success at th University of Kansas.
"It seems to be a fairness issue," Ballard said. "If we have educated you for the majority of your life, why should we stop now?"
"It seems to be a fairness issue. If we have educated you for the majority of your life, why should we stop
now?"
Barbara Ballard State representative (D-Lawrence) and associate vice provost for student success
law-breakers.
"We're looking like fools right now," he said. "The message we're sending is wrong."
Rep. Scott Schwab (R-Olathe) said he voted against the bill because it rewarded law-breakers.
wrong.
He said one of the main problems with the bill was that it wasn't nation-specific, so it could help people from countries that the United States was at odds with.
"There are other nations we're at war with," he said. "We're giving them a discount to use our technology they could use against us."
use against us:
Rep. Sue Storm (D-Overland Park),
who drafted the bill, said any experience
TUITION COMPARISONS
Tuition figures for the University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Garden City Community College.
University of Kansas
■ In-State: $117.55 per credit hour
■ Out-of-State: $366.75 per credit hour
Kansas State University
In-State: $106.00 per credit hour
Out-of-state: $369.00 per credit hour
Garden City Community College In-State: $37.00 per credit hour Out-of-state: $65.00 per credit hour Sources: www.ku.edu, www.ksu.edu, www.gcocks.edu
that the United States has had with terrorists was when they were here with student visas. Student visas are used for international students who are not eligible for in-state tuition, the issue the bill deals with.
"This is not opening the door to terrorists," Storm said.
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