CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, May 2, 1995
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Bed put on rocky ground
Brian Vandervliet/ KANSAN
Thomas S. David, Lawrence doctoral student, examines from a distance the large rocks that were placed in front of a heating vent near the Dole Human Development Center. Facilities operations workers placed the rocks by the vent where David often slept.
Nothing grew where homeless man slept
By Sarah Morrison Kansan staff writer
An area homeless man who often sleeps by a heating vent behind Dole Human Development Center no longer will find it a comfortable place to slumber.
"We did it for aesthetics," Green said. "Since he has slept there so much, we couldn't get anything to grow there."
Facilities operations ground maintenance crews placed large cement rocks by the vent Thursday because the man slept there, Tanya Green. ground maintenance supervisor, said.
Green said another reason the rocks were placed by the vent was that students had complained about the smell of the man.
The homeless man is Thomas S. David, a Lawrence doctoral student. David had no comment about the rocks.
On Feb. 22, the Kansan reported that David was responsible for writing chalk messages protesting divorce on campus sidewalks. Green said maintenance crews had been kept busy washing off the chalk messages each day.
"He sleeps there in the morning because he is up all night," Green said. "That is when he does his chalk writing up and down the sidewalk. We are keeping track of how much time we have spent cleaning up the messages."
She said ground crews had been frustrated by the costly and time consuming process.
Bence Williams, assistant director of personnel of facilities operations, said that the rocks had not been placed to prevent David from sleeping there.
Recently sidewalk messages have criticized incoming Chancellor Robert Hemenway, who has been divorced twice and has a third wife. Some of the messages have called the chancellor's house a brothel. Green said David was responsible for those messages.
"My understanding of it was they were extending the flower bed but not for the purpose to put that guy out of a place to sleep," Williams said.
"We are concerned over the things he has been writing about the new chancellor. We would like for him to stop writing on the sidewalk," she said. "No one likes to look at that on the sidewalk."
But Green said that facilities operations was not trying to run David off campus.
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"He has killed the grass there," she said. "We are just trying to make it look nicer."
'Cinco de Mayo'held tonight
By Eduardo A. Molina Kansan staff writer
HALO won't have a celebration on May 5 because of finals, but it will celebrate at 7 tonight at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union.
The Cinco de Mayo celebration means fiesta for many Mexican-American communities in the United States. The Hispanic American Leadership Association at the University of Kansas couldn't miss the opportunity to celebrate the holiday.
Matt Duran, Salina sophomore and president of HALO, said that the Cinco de Mayo reminded Mexican-Americans about their culture.
"This is a celebration when we show our nationalism and that we feel proud of being Mexicans," he said.
For tonight's celebration, Juan Velasco, as assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese, will speak about Mexican history and the meaning of Cinco de Mayo for Mexicans and Mexican-Americans.
"The Cinco de Mayo in the United States is more a party than the commemoration of a historic event."
in Latin American and Mexican- American communities in the United States in commemoration of the 1862 defeat of French troops at the battle of Puebla.
"The celebration had a historic significance, but it is not considered as important as the Mexican independence day," he said. "The Cinco de Mayo in the United States is more a party than the commemoration of a historic event."
But in addition to the talk, people attending will have a chance to taste some Mexican food.
Cinco de Mayo, or May 5,
is observed by Mexican communities
Velasco said that the Cinco de Mayo celebration had changed through the years in the United States.
Juan Velasco assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese
"The celebration is becoming an ethnic celebration of all Hispanics because it has a more universal meaning compared to the Mexican independence day," he said. "The Cinco de Mayo begun as a celebration of the Mexican culture, but it is a Hispanic party now."
Velasco said that the celebration had a special meaning for Mexicans but that it was becoming more open to other Hispanics in the United States.
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