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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2008
"The beauty of daylight-saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier"
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3. Long-awaited victory
3. Long-awaited victory
4. New program lets chemistry students go abroad
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5. Final farewell
Sunday is the beginning of daylight-saving time, which means that before you go to bed Saturday night, be sure to turn your clock ahead one hour.
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Associate professor Bartholomew Dean Department of Anthropology
Bartolomew Dean, associate professor of anthropology said he chose the field because he wants to make a difference in the world. Dean's travels include trips to the Peruvian Amazon.
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How did you end up working with the Urarina people of the Peruvian Amazon? It started 20 years ago. I wanted to have an experience with different peoples. The Urarina have different lives, they don't use money, they have multiple wives and practice infanticide.
Anthropologists leave the comfort of what we are familiar with and question the world. We understand important things in life that we take for granted.
Why did you choose anthropology? I wanted to make a difference in the world. I was naïve and wanted to be like a young Che Guevara and anthropology seemed to be the area in which I could help.
How can anthropology help change the world? It expands the narrow views most people have of humanity. It challenges stereotypes and helps us understand differences and similarities and come to the conclusion that we have much in common. It also challenges labels and why we use them. The power to label is the power to control people. It breaks their spirit.
I am originally from England and went to Canada as an immigrant, so I always felt misplaced. But after the first time I went to Mexico I started a love affair with Latin America.
You are coordinating a study abroad program in Peru. What can students learn by going there? A different way of life. It is a profound region on the planet in which early civilizations appeared thousands of years ago. Students can learn about their current challenges, poverty and inequalities. But they can also celebrate the beauty of their cultural tradition.
In 2003 you received a Fulbright Senior Scholar grant to do research in Latin America. What did you research? Political violence, in par-
ticular the impact of drug economies in Peru and Colombia. I also studied human rights violations during the civil wars in those countries.
I wanted to understand them and help them defend themselves. I wanted to put them on the map.
I also studied diseases like Tuberculosis and its patterns in Mexico, Peru and Central America. It still kills a lot of people in these countries, especially now that it has become drug resistant.
Many students have no idea about what happens outside of their world and I want to teach them about it. I've done my job if they can think critically because the future is in their hands.
What brought you to KU? It was a wonderful job opportunity. The anthropology department is very good and the faculty and students are very open-minded.
How was your experience living in the Amazon? Was there culture shock? In the beginning there was great culture shock. But then I began to love the Amazon. I even became a Peruvian resident, so I will retire in Peru.
After working in the U.S. and Peru I feel that I can make a greater difference in Peru. Students there are more engaged because the stakes for their education are greater.
Do you still do fieldwork? Yes,
especially through the exchange
program between KU and the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Peru. I do it mostly through grants given by KU and private foundations.
What is the most exciting thing about doing fieldwork? Have you worked with other Indigenous groups? I have also worked with the Tarahumara, from Northern Mexico.
The most exciting thing is the sense of discovery, seeing the smile in somebody's face. I like to teach people who are going to become anthropologists in Peru or who will work for the government. That is wonderful because I can influence policy-makers. I want to educate them about the world we live in.
—Edited by Samuel Lamb
Coke on campus
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Bryant William, Altanta Ga., sophomore, talks Thursday with Coca-Cola marketing representative Scott Haymaker outside the Kansas Union. Haymaker said that Coca-Cola was on campus, "just to create brand awareness and get people to buy it more." Haymaker and his team have been on campus all week.
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Do You Know KU?
BY SAMANTHA FOSTER
When Carrie Morehouse Watson began her work at the university library, it consisted of a collection of 2,000 pieces of mostly irrelevant reference material contained in a single room. By the time she retired 34 years later, the library held 140,000 volumes, 1,185 periodicals, and 121 newspapers. In 1924, as a gesture of respect for her dedication, the new library building was named for her.
In 1924, the State Board of Administration approved the naming of Watson Library after Carrie Watson, a university librarian from 1878 to 1921.
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Watson was born in New York in 1858, and soon afterward her family moved to Kansas Territory. She enrolled at the University of Kansas in 1870 as a preparatory student. In 1877 she graduated with an AB degree, but turned up in Chancellor James Marvin's office "complaining about having nothing to do" according to an interview with the Lawrence Journal-World in 1938. She told the Kansas City Star in 1931 that at that point, she "suddenly
How did this single woman accomplish so much?
Although she was only considered the "assistant" librarian, Watson essentially ran the library herself. When the librarian, mathematics professor Ephraim Miller, resigned from the post in 1887, Carrie Watson took over his position and began her 34-year career as University librarian.
Watson reputedly fit the image of a stern, spinster librarian, who with a flash of her eye quelled any misbehavior. However, she was also a kind, helpful woman who never harbored any resentment towards students, even those she scolded.
Chancellor Lindley's objections may have come mainly from Watson's infamous management of the library. According to "Madara Librarian," an article by John H. McCool, the faculty was "up in arms" over her incompetence, and Chancellor Francis H. Snow was called upon to rectify the situation.
One such student, William Allen White, championed the naming of Watson Library in 1924 along with Jonathan M. Davis, then governor of Kansas. Although Chancellor Ernest H. Lindley objected to naming the building after Watson, the State Board of Administration approved
wanted to be back in the university" and to be "in some way a part of it." She was hired as a part-time secretary to the chancellor and assistant librarian in 1878.
Twenty-nine years after Watson's death, the University honored her memory by declaring March 29, 1972, to be Carrie Watson Day. Guest speakers and the public were welcomed to her library to commemorate the day and to remember how influential Watson had been at the University. Today, Watson Library continues to honor the memory of Carrie Watson.
A permanent Library Committee was established in 1901—Watson was purposefully excluded. Chancellor Frank Strong took over from Snow in 1901 but was unable to hire a new librarian. Campus opinion again called for Watson's replacement in 1915, but as before, Watson retained her position.
McCool's article calls her tenacious and formidable while showing a deep commitment to the University. She found it hard to relinquish her work at the library after her retirement, but she did not wish to be seen as "meddlesome."
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Without being fired, Carrie Watson calmly retired in 1921.
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The Association of American University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show will take place all day at University Press of Kansas.
The workshop "Hardening Network Setup on Computers" will begin at 9 a.m. in the Anschutz Library Instruction Center.
"Job Search Skills for International Students" will begin at 3 p.m. in 149 Burge Union.
"Copyright in Academia: Challenges and Opportunities" will begin at 9 a.m. In the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union.
Baseball will compete against North Dakota State at 3 p.m. at Hoglund Ballpark.
Rock Chalk Revue will begin at 7 p.m. in the Lied Center.
"Town & Gown Forum: Japan and International Modernism: 1950-1970" will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Central Court & Galleries in the Spencer Museum of Art.
John Pettegrew will present the "Peace, War and Global Change Seminar" at 3:30 p.m. in he Hall Center Seminar Room.
The 31st Annual Jazz Festival will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Lawrence High School.
"Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare will begin at 7:30 p.m.in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall.
The film "I Am Legend" will begin at 8 p.m. in the Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Cosmic Bowling will begin at 10 p.m. In Jaybowl in the Kansas Union.
HEALTH
Jon Goering/KANSAN
"No smoking" signs went up in the outdoor stairwalls of Wescoe Hall Wednesday. The signs were a result of a complaint filed with human resources.
One smoker thinks the signs are not a big deal.
Alassane Fall, lecturer of African studies, said the signs were a good thing.
Jill Jess of University Relations said Wesco occupants filed a complaint with human resources regarding health concerns because the area was so close to the doors.
"No smoking" signs were put up in the outdoor stairwells of Wescoe Hall Wednesday.
Administrators respond to complaints with signs
"I hate to see people smoking," Fall said. "Find your place, and do your thing."
"It doesn't bother me," said Nathan Roser, DeSoto graduate student. "It's not something I worry about."
— Caleb Sommerville
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