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"Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast." —Woody Allen
quote of the day
fact of the day
In the United States, an estimated 25.9 million men (23.9 percent) and 20.7 million women [18.1 percent] are smokers.
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Want to know what people are talking about? Here's a list of Monday's five most e-mailed stories from Kansan.com:
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3. Keefer: Cowboys give Jayhawks the boot in ugly showdown
1. Kansas falls out of rhythm in Oklahoma
4. Rains: Referee's busy schedule brings new meaning to "Love of the game"
2. Two Jayhawks experience family tragedies
5. Student strives to be on stage
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Professor Ann Rowland English Department
Where was your favorite place and why?
Yale when I first arrived as a freshman was the most exciting place and exciting experience. I went there having never been east of Chicago, growing up in Sioux Falls, S.D. and going to a public high school. Suddenly I was being exposed to all sorts of new ideas, new people, classes in art history, music, literature, history, even my economics class seemed mind-blowing. I'd go back to the dining hall after a class and we'd continue
BY KELCI SHIPLEY
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You have attended and taught at colleges throughout the U.S. and out of the country.Was education different depending on demographics?
I attended Yale for my BA and my PhD; I attended Oxford in between my undergraduate and graduate years at Yale and got a master's in philosophy there. I was never a student at Harvard. I was on the faculty there before moving here, although it was my first job, so I was learning an awful lot. I must say, these institutions were more alike than different, even Oxford. I loved my time at each of them, but they draw on basically the same pool of people for students and faculty. It can start to seem like a very small world after a while.
the conversation from class! I had spent my high school years hiding how much I liked academics in a desperate attempt to be cool – and now all the cool kids were smart and happy to talk about Derrida versus de Man, or various interpretations of the civil war. It was a thrilling time. Being just a train ride away from New York City didn't hurt either.
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How did you become interested in English?
I loved to read as a kid - I was one of those kids who was constantly reading a book. Walking around reading, reading in the car. When I learned to drive, I would have to throw my book in the back seat to stop myself from reading while driving. When I realized in college that I could get paid for
I was eager to get back to the Midwest and to teach at a public institution and really happy when KU advertised a job in my field. My husband grew up in Kansas City, so I was familiar with the area and very impressed with Lawrence and KU. I got really lucky when the job was offered to me: this was exactly the sort of institution and department I had been hoping to land in and we were able to move "back home" in a way so that my kids would have their grandparents, auts, uncles, cousins near by.
How did you end up at the University?
Did you ever think that you would become a professor?
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My father and both my sisters are medical doctors. I knew I didn't want to do that, but somehow thought the best alternative was becoming a lawyer. It wasn't until college and being exposed to professors and the academic life that I thought I might be able to do that.
reading and for talking about what I read - become an English professor, in other words - it seemed too good to be true.
What's your favorite thing about teaching?
I love introducing students to these incredible novels and poems and getting to hear what they think as they read them for the first time.
What's your favorite subject to teach and why?
Romantic poetry is probably my favorite, with gothic literature a very close second. They are my favorites because I know the most about them - have thought longer and harder and read more in these fields than others - and I love the chance to communicate and share my ideas and enthusiasm, love to
hear what the students think and to have them question or challenge my take on things. Talking about what you love, sharing it with others, convincing them that it's worth their close attention and hard work – that is the joy and challenge of teaching for me.
Are you currently working on any writings?
What's your favorite book at the moment?
I've been reading children's novels for fun lately – probably a sign that I'm regressing or something in my old age - latest read: "Freddy the Detective" by Walter Brooks.
I'm finishing a book manuscript on eighteenth and nineteenth-century images of children and childhood in Britain.
Do have any hobbies?
Do you have special talents or skills?
Getting dinner for four on the table before 7 p.m. when I've just arrived home at 6 p.m. and have worked all day - does that count?
Edited by Mandy Earles
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Douglas Fire Department's Nicholas Kramen, firefighter, pulls more hose to reach the edge of a flaming grass fire in Covington, Okla., Monday. The fire burned about 100 acres of grass, brush and hay bales.
Feelin' the heat
L. A. residents have the tastiest tap water, according to the judges of the world's largest and longestrunning water tasting contest.
BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va
ODD NEWS Drink up, Los Angeles
than 120 waters competing for top honors.
Sparkling, tap and bottled water from 19 states and nine foreign countries, including New Zealand, Romania, Macedonia and the Philippines, were judged by 10 journalists and food critics.
The 18th Annual Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting was held Saturday, with more
www.ContinuingEd.ku.edu (keyword: testprep) 785-864-5823
Judges based their rankings on taste, odor, mouth feel and aftertaste.
on campus
The workshop "Conducting Unclassified Professional & USS Searches" will begin at 9 a.m. in 103B Carruth-O'Leary Hall.
The lecture "What's wrong with this Picture? Analyzing Russia via Blogs" will begin at noon in 318 Bailey Hall.
The workshop "Office 2007: Making the Switch" will begin at 12:30 p.m. in the Anschutz Library instruction center.
The Faculty Executive Committee meeting will begin at 3 p.m. in the Regents Room on the second floor of Strong Hall.
The seminar "Behind the Rainbow: Judy Garland & the MGM musical" will begin at 2 p.m. at the Edwards Campus.
The panel discussion "Straight From the Trail: Part I" will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics.
The film "Tokyo Olympiad" will begin at 7 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The concert "Faculty Recital Genaro Mendez, tenor" will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
on the record
The concert "KU Symphony Orchestra" will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Lied Center.
The U.S. postal service reported a break-in at its Seventh and Vermont Streets location Saturday morning.
Lawrence police reported a stop sign stolen from University and Emery Streets on Saturday night.
Thor Nystrom, a Baxter,
Minn., senior, placed third and
won $1,000 in the competitions.
Brian Lewis-Jones, a Lenexa
senior, placed seventh and won
$500.
Monday's article "KU on Wheels deep in debt" showed in a sidebar that the $62,000 left of the debt would go unpaid. If another method is not found, this amount will be paid for out of the KU on Wheels reserve account.
Two University of Kansas students placed in the top 10 in sports writing for the William Randolph Hearst Foundation's Journalism Awards Program.
CLARIFICATION
JOURNALISM SCHOOL Students win sports writing Hearst awards
The University's school of Journalism is placed first in the Intercollegiate Writing Competition. BY CALEB SOMMERVILLE
Monday's article "Meet your Student Senator" misidentified Joseph Pinaire and Ray Wittlinger. The article featured Joseph Pinaire, junior/senior CLAS senator, not Ray Wittlinger.
CORRECTION
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