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friday, april 23, 2004
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Korean War remembered: Tribute to forgotten war
After years of talking about a Korean War memorial at the University of Kansas, it will finally be built, taking a proper spot on Memorial Drive.
A $50,000 gift from the International Communication Foundation of Seoul, Republic of Korea, assured
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The Korean War memorial will be a good reminder of an often forgotten war.
that construction on the memorial will begin, most likely in June.
Han's efforts to give back to the University in this man ner are applauded.
Young Bin Min, a refugee during the war, started the foundation as a means to spread understanding and to promote Korean culture. Jong Woo Han, a 1959 graduate of the University, made the most significant strides in finalizing the gift.
The memorial will be built along Memorial Drive, east of the Vietnam memorial and west of the Memorial Campanile, as a skillful representation of the Korean War's history. Sandwiched between World War II and the Vietnam War, the still-unresolved war in Korea has long been characterized as a forgotten one. But more than 33,600 Americans lost their lives during the conflict, which lasted from 1950 to 1953.
A memorial here will assure that the 60 people within the University community who died in Korea will not be forgotten.
It's easy to take the existing memorials on campus for granted. But every ringing of the campanile's carillon, and every time the Vietnam memorial is passed on the way to class, should be a gentle reminder of the sacrifices others before us have made. So too will it be with a new and just as deserving memorial.
Zach Newton for The University Daily Kansan
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video-game basketball players are hot.
Blondes are way overrated. Brunettes are so much hotter.
For the last time people, 4/20 is not Bob Marley's birthday. Get your facts straight. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
I just saw a guy on campus with a tail that wasn't the wolf guy. Alfred, it looks like you got some competition.
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Damn, I wish KU men were hot.
No, I don't want to leave a message
And mature.
I was wondering when the Sigma Alpha Epsilon petting zoo is?
I just want everyone to know that May 7th is coming. No pants day.
Hi, I like bananas. Weeeee.
Hi, do you want to touch my belly. Weee.
Don't stop believing; hold on to that feeling.
to the girl in Wascoe this morning:
FYL., that was the men's bathroom
that you walked into.
nist and reporter Ryan Greene also ran into the same wall. He found out, as I recently did, that it is more like a 10-foot-high steel wall with barbed wire guarding the top. Greene said the football team was the hardest team in the University to get to. But Greene also said that the kind of stronghold Mangino had over information was not uncommon in athletic departments. Former Missouri sports reporter Maureen Fulton said that it would be close to impossible to interview a University of Missouri football player out of season, and the media are highly regulated during the season as well.
I am sitting with three friends of mine and we all just realized that Lawrence needs more ladies' nights.
Why isn't this line ever available?
nist and reporter Ryan Greene also ran into the same wall. He found out, as I recently did, that it is more like a 10-foot-high steel wall with barbed wire guarding the top. Greene said the football team was the hardest team in the University to get to. But Greene also said that the kind of stronghold Mangino had over information was not uncommon in athletic departments. Former Missouri sports reporter Maureen Fulton said that it would be close to impossible to interview a University of Missouri football player out of season, and the media are highly regulated during the season as well.
PERSPECTIVE
Where's Mangino? Coach speechless
This is not the column I originally intended it to be.
I wanted to write about the football team's rape prevention program, "sensitivity training"—or so I heard it was called. I was first directed to football operations director George Matsakis, who had never heard of "sensitivity training" and said there was no distinct program of its sort. So I called a football player who, I soon found out, could not be interviewed without permission from coach Mark Mangino. To get permission I called associate media relations director Nathan Logan, who needed the name of the player I wanted to speak with and the subject of my article. He said that information would be relayed to Mangino, who could then give permission. As of now, one week later, I haven't received a response.
After, I called two service centers on campus whom I suspected may be involved in a rape-prevention program but I was forced to give up.
Topic-less, I was left to analyze the system — a system in which I couldn't even talk on the record with a classmate who happens to be a football player. The University Daily Kansan sports column-
COMMENTARY
Sara Behunek opinion@kansan.com
However, it is uncommon to a non-
sports reporter — me — who has been taught vociferously about Americans' right to freedom of speech. It came as a shock that a mere coach could decide who can speak to the press, squashing his teams" "inalienable" rights. Mangino, to this effect, also decides how much you, the reader, can know.
When football player John Randle was arrested on suspicion of domestic battery and suspicion of criminal damage of property last semester, he was "locked down tight," according to Greene, who wrote the Kansan article about the incident. Mangino refused interviews with the player for weeks.
It is the controversial topics, such as the arrest, that Mangino is selective in allowing interviews for, yet these are the stories that have the most impact on the University and its reputation.
Mangino's reticence may just be part of a trend — one that has rendered journalists as untrustworthy as lawyers or politicians. Recent studies conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, reveal that the age old view of reporters as money- and fame-hungry vultures has become more distinct in the society's mind than ever.
Distrust has its foundation in biased reporting, a history of inaccuracy, sensationalism and unflattering postchildren such as Jayson Blair, said Peggy Kuhr, Knight chairwoman in community journalism. It may also have to do with Mangino's concern for his and his team's public image. "We're not afraid of the camera, but we sure don't want to have wrinkles." Kuhr said.
But not every journalist wants to emphasize "the wrinkles" if you have a story to tell. We are here to disseminate information, not for personal benefit, but for the sake of knowledge. And you count on us to deliver that information because, let's admit it, jumping through hoops to get the story on the football team is not on your day's "to do" list. The carefully controlled interview process at the football department makes it difficult for reporters to get a balanced story. That's what I was looking for: a fair and balanced story to tell you. And all I wanted was a 15-minute interview with an athlete.
Behunek is a Fort Collins, Cole., senior in journalism.
MUSIC OF MY MIND
Don't overlook success of neighbors
"Walk like a champion / Talk like a champion...""—Buju Banton, "Champion" from the 1995 reggae classic, "Til Shiloh
I am horrible at bowling. I'm not just talking about horrible as in I can't knock the pins down, I'm talking about horrible approach, horrible form, everything. None of that butter-smooth stuff over here.
My lack of skill on the narrow lanes of polished hardwood has affected the most unlikely of things -my dating life being a prime example.
COMMENTARY
Cornelius Minor opinion@kansan.com
As an all too woman-crazy teen with parents who would not allow their 14-year-old to date, my only hope of catching a glimpse of a female outside of school hours was to meet her at the bowling alley.
My parents would leave me and my crew of guy-friends for an afternoon of bowling, and the girls would have similarly conspired to have their parents drop them off for, coincidentally, an afternoon of bowling. Once at the bowling complex, we would say our timid middle school hellos, and spend the rest of the evening being afraid of one another.
In that pre-pubescent world, the only guys who ever seemed to get any attention from the ladies were the ones with the style and grace in the lane. Cornelius had neither. Consequently, nobody was passing me any love letters in home-room.
Because of my tragic inability to bowl, I have an immense respect for the people who possess the bowling-alley smoothness that has been persistently lacking in my social or athletic life.
I guess that's what makes me so extraordinarily proud and even a little envious of the KU bowling program. Last week the women's bowling team finished fifth in the nation at the Inter-collegiate bowling championships. The men finished first.
I saw those folks on the news, and had I grown up with them, any one of them
Though I know that bowling is not a marquee sport here, I've been shocked by what little fuss has been made over our schoolmates and their incredible success.
would have macked down my entire middle school. Both teams are just that impressive.
We just elected a Student Senate that advocated for "one community." As we do the work of becoming that dream, it is important for us to know and to remember that in the communal sense, what is good for my sister or my brother is good for me.
According to the media that we consume, we idolize elusive and untouchable figures such as Donald Trump and Paris Hilton, yet each day we overlook the incredible successes of our neighbors — folks right here on campus. These kids don't just exist in our world, they rock it.
If we can't recognize and support the visibly stellar aspects of our microcosm society, will we ever develop the sensitivity to see the parts that are not as visible?
What about the professors and graduate students who work tirelessly in our labs and classrooms? What of the brave and patient people who staff our offices
and administer our programs? Have we really stopped to thank or even consider the people who keep our buildings clean and the trees nicely manicured?
What of the brilliance of KU debate team, the dedication of the ROTC or of the creativity of fencing club? There are a lot of excellent folks here, and they should not be taken for granted. My time in Kansas has been beautiful primarily because the people here have made it so.
I'm proud to go to a school that can offer me a world class educational experience, and at times I'm even prouder that I go to a school where people know how to bowl. Though I never really developed it when I was 14, maybe if I hang out on campus long enough I'll feel some of that bowling-alley smoothness by association.
If any of you were wondering where all the ladies were this week, they were probably at the Jaybowl with Kelly Zapf, Rhino Page, Mike Fine and the rest of the crew — well, at least that's where they would be if things were as simple now as they were back in middle school.
Minor is an Atlanta graduate student in American Studies. He is a co-host of KJHK Voice Activated at 7:30 p.m. on Thursdays.
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Kendall Dix Lynze Ford Laura Francoviglia
Amy Hammontree Kelly Hollowell Teresa Lo
Mindy Osborne Ryan Scarrow Elizabeth
Willy Paul Whitmorette Zach Stinson Zach
Newton Wiesson Sara Behunek Kevin
Flaherty Brandon Gay Zack Hemenway
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Matheusen Travis Metcalf Mike Norris
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