THE UNIVERSITY DARY KANSAN
FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2008
NEWS 5A
POLITICS
Brokaw speaks at University
Former anchor calls for return to New Deal values
Tom Brokaw, former NBC Nightly News anchor, speaks about his book "Boom Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today" at the Dole Institute of Politics Thursday afternoon.
BY JESSICA WICKS
jwicks@kansan.com
Tom Brokaw, former NBC Nightly News anchor, started his speech Thursday at the Dole Institute of politics with four words: "Mario Chalmers for president."
On a more serious note, Brokaw called for students to get involved in the history of their time at the Dole Institute of Politics Thursday
He said the Dole Institute was what this nation needed to move forward in a time that paralleled the 1940s and 1960s in importance.
"Students and citizens can come here to learn the reward and honor of public service." Brokaw said.
Brokaw said his parents raised him on values that came out of the Great Depression. He said humility, compromise and service to country, like that in the 1930s and '40s, was what America needed to address its problems today.
Brokaw said the saddest part of politics today was that senators did not get the chance to sit down and reflect because special interest groups demanded so much of their time. He said that even in election coverage the real issues were not being addressed.
"There is too much commentary and too little coverage," Brokaw said.
"Unfortunatley a lot of coverage has been reduced to gotcha's," he said, referring to the quarrel-
ting between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
"It is nice that with all the big names he knows in politics, he can still find time to be the friend of a
Clarissa Unger, Colby junior and Dole Institute intern, said that Brokaw's genuine attitude surprised her.
"He was just so real," Unger
"There is too much commentary and too little coverage."
TOM BROKAW
Former NBC news anchor
said. "He walked into the room and immediately wanted to know who everyone was individually."
1944 KU Alumna Scottie Lingelbach asked Tom Brokaw, her old friend, to come speak in Kansas.
little old white
haired lady
from Kansas."
Lingelbach was involved in politics during her college years.
another pin-up girl. I wanted to make a difference," Lingelbach said. "And they used that quote," she added.
Brokaw said students should get to know their parents' generation to better understand their own.
He said a woman told him that she never got along with her father until she read Brokaw's book, "The Greatest Generation," which details the mindset of World War II.
"For the first time she was able to go back and actually meet her father," Brokaw said.
Unger said that Brokaw's visit was special because he has had this kind of influence on many people.
"He's just done so much," Unger said. "I remember listening to him every night with my father growing up."
Brokaw said he could only stay for a few hours because, although he was retired, he still had a hard time saying no when it came to important events.
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day afternoon, despite coming in third in the Student Senate presidential election.
Adam Wood, Lawrence Junior, and Eric Hyde, Lawrence sopomore, were upbeat at the Students of Liberty camp Thurs-
STUDENT SENATE
Students of Liberty
vow to return next year
United Students
candidates Adam McGo-ngle, Wichita sophomore, and Michael Gillaspie.
STUDENTS OF LIBERTY
ADAM WOOD & ERIC HYDE
Ashland junior, won the election with 48 percent of the vote.
Wood, Students of Liberty presidential candidate, said that despite the loss, he was proud of the election results.
ran on Student's of Liberty's environmental platform, which included adding solar panels to campus buildings and implementing lead platinum standard - the highest eco standard - for all new campus buildings.
The Students of Liberty campaign, consisting of only seven student senators, picked up 7 percent of the vote, and only spent about $75.
"I think it's pretty impressive that we did as well as Student Rights did last year," Wood said. "We did as well as they did and they had a lot more people and a lot more money."
Both Wood and Hyde, the coalition's vice presidential candidate, said the campaign was a victory for Students of Liberty because its campaign influenced both United Students and ConnectKU
environmental platform came right out of our mouths," he said. "But that's just something that typically happens in politics."
"The United Students' entire
Wood said United Students
Wood said Students of Liberty's
campaign also
influenced ConnectKU to move further toward fiscal responsibility.
Both candidates said they planned on running on similar platforms in next year's Student Senate election.
"We're running again next year so if they don't do what they say they will then we'll get in there and do it," he said. "We'll be back in full force."
Andy Greenhaw
STUDENT SENATE ConnectKU deals with defeat in election
ConnectKU fell 200 votes shy of the presidential and vice presidential nominations for this year's Student Senate elections.
With 43 percent of the
total vote, Austin Kelly, Lawrence Junior, and Jason Oruch, Plano, Texas, Junior, received 1,805 votes to United Students' 2.005.
Members of ConnectKU gathered at SetEm Up Jacks Bar and Grill Thursday night for the announcement of the election's results, read live on KUJH.
Austin Kelly, presidential candidate for ConnectKU, said he thought his coalition did well in many of the smaller elections, despite falling short in the vote for president and vice president.
"We had thought we were going to win." Kelly said. "It just turned out the students didn't respond to it the way we hoped."
Kelly said he thought ConnectKU did a good job emphasizing student initiatives and student input in its campaign. Some of the coalition's proposed projects included the WIKUpedia Project, the initiative to clean up Potter Lake and a push to replace Outlook Express with Gmail as the University's e-mail provider.
Jason Oruch, vice presidential candidate for ConnectKU,
echoed the sentiment of many of the coalition's members.
"I thought it was going to be very close," Oruch said. "I'm very disappointed."
Mary Sorrick
Student Senate election results
Architecture Kate Penning ConnectKU Valerie Gustafson ConnectKU
Business Landon Plumer United Students Robert Spangler United Students
Education Travis Lindeman ConnectKU Christie A. Jones United Students
Engineering
Andy Haverkamp ConnectKU
John Kenny ConnectKU
Ibrahim Alangar ConnectKU
Journalism Bill Walberg Jay Benedict
United Students United Students
Graduate
Mark Payne
ConnectKU
Stacey Elmer
United Students
Rachel Magario
United Students
Robert Geiger
United Students
Law
Eric Foss
Brian Hardouin
United Students Independent
Off-Campus
Molly Sailors United Students
Mitch Knopp United Students
May Davis United Students
Courtney Montie United Students
Meghan Watson ConnectCU
**Pharmacy**
Laurel Mussel
Shawn Glass
**ConnectKU**
United Students
Residential Jose Artiaga
CLAS Freshman Sophomore
ConnectKU
Non-Traditional Kelly Gilhane
Libby Johnson United Students
Michael Perry United Students
Forrest Woods United Students
Tyler Enders United Students
Mason Heilman United Students
Kirsten Devin United Students
Doug Brady United Students
Tonia Salas United Students
Mark Campbell United Students
Rachel Werner United Students
Kate August United Students
Alex Earles United Students
Sara Vestal United Students
Grant Treater United Students
Non-Traditional
Kelly Gibbens ConnectKU
Mohammed Alnasiri ConnectKU
Elise Higgins ConnectKU
Nathan Mack ConnectKU
Benjamin Cohen ConnectKU
Thomas Cox ConnectKU
Sara Medhansky ConnectKU
Matt Enriquez ConnectKU
Katie Wiley ConnectKU
England Porter ConnectKU
Julia Groebblacher ConnectKU
Christie M. Jones ConnectKU
Sonia Marcinkowski ConnectKU
Quinton Cheney ConnectKU
Max Schnepper United Studentz
Alison Zeigler
Referendum 1
Would you support a $20 per semester increase to the Campus Transportation Fee to create a fare-free system that would allow any student to board any KU on Wheels bus by just showing their KUID?
Yes 64%
"I thought it would be easier to do than a full-length show, but it turned out to be pretty hard," Gieschen said. "But because my actors' schedules are so diverse, it's helped to have rehearsals where I only need some of the cast instead of everyone, or one or two people in every scene."
THEATER
Referendum 2
— Brenna Hawley
In one of the show's scenes, "Universal Language," cast member Denny Dorrell, Overland Park sophomore, plays a con man who speaks most of his lines in an imaginary language that Ives, the playwright, invented. Dorrell said it wasn't easy getting the strange dialogue down.
It's'All in the Timing'
Gieschen said he chose to do a collection of short plays instead of one long production because it required less set construction.
Student director makes Kansas stage debut
"They have one show every semester, and she asked me if I'd like to do it," Gieschen said. "I did theater in high school, and I had a fun time doing it, so I said yes."
BY ABBY OLCESE editor@kansan.com
"It's really unique because there are no stage directions, so the director can put his or her vision into it, and I think it really turned out well." Gieschen said.
No, these aren't bad jokes, or even bad dreams. These are descriptions of three of the humorous one-act plays that make up "All in the Timing," a collection of six short works by David Ives, performed at the Hashinger Hall Theater April 11, 12 and 13 at 7 p.m.
Matt Gieschen, Overland Park freshman, directed the show. He volunteered to help the production after being approached by Lauren Eby, director of the Arts Council of Hashinger's hall government.
Three monkeys sit in a laboratory pounding at typewriters as they attempt to write "Hamlet." A man has a sudden personal crisis while trying to buy a loaf of bread. A con man teaches an indecipherable gibberish language to his gullible mark.
Of the scenes, Giesen said he liked "Phillip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread" the most. The action concerns a man's internal struggles after running into a former girlfriend at a bakery.
"Ives likes to play with words, and he's really whimsical with his treatment of humanity," he said. "This show really plays and experiments with different possibilities, and that's why I like it so much."
"I haven't been in many shows, but from what I know personally, it was really hard," Dorrell said. "After
Gieschen said the six acts of the show were tied together by a sense of playfulness with language and human nature.
"This was a different kind of production than the one we did in high school," Gallagher said. "It was fun to work with it from a different perspective." Gallagher is also making her first appearance on-stage at the University after some experience working with backstage crews on other productions.
Gieschen said he enjoyed his experience directing the show, and wouldn't mind doing it again.
a while you learn to go with it, and you can always make up words if you forget your lines"
CLAS Junior Senior
Dorrell said he was grateful Ives provided a translation of the gibberish lines so he could understand the tone of the scene.
"Once I got the hang of it, it was a blast," Dorrell said.
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"I like acting, too, but directing has been very interesting," he said.
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