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3. Kansas State lottery throws snow at students
1. Campus to get 25 million for deferred maintenance
4. Minster: Military Activity should be voluntary
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2008
with
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Professor Frank Farmer English Department
BY ABBY OLCESE aolcese@kansan.com
Frank Farmer, associate professor of English, teaches composition and rhetorics at the University. Farmer said he enjoyed music and played guitar and mandolin in his free time.
How long have you been teaching at KU?
I arrived in 2000, and came from East Carolina University in North Carolina.
Did you always teach at the college level?
I taught high school for a couple of years and later, I got my Ph.D. in English from the University of Louisville. My speciality is rhetoric and composition, which basically means that I teach a variety of writing courses, as well as courses in rhetorical history and theory.
What made you want to come to KU?
This semester I'm teaching English 360 (Advanced Composition) and English 580, (Rhetorics of Everyday Life). I also teach the practicum for new English TAs, as well as an occasional seminar.
It was an attractive job and I was aware that KU had a strong English
What classes do you teach?
program. It was an advanced position in my field, and it offered me the opportunity to work with some people whose scholarship I greatly admire.
What do you do in your spare time?
I play guitar and listen to music. I'm a reader, and I like to have conversations about politics, music, and sports.
How long have you been playing guitar?
I've always been fascinated by its clean sound, and especially how the mandolin doubles as both a melodic and percussive instrument. I also enjoy old-timey and bluegrass music, and it's a pretty prominent instrument in those forms.
I'm interested in traditional music.
And I love Irish music. I guess you
I've been playing it for 30 years or so. I've also been playing mandolin for about five or six years.
What kind of music do you like to play?
What made you want to take up mandolin?
You've said you come from a family of stagehands, and you were one for a while. What made you switch to teaching?
could say I'm mostly drawn to the acoustic genres.
(Laughs). I wasn't a very good stagehand. I was always more interested in writing, reading and scholarship.
What books are you currently reading?
I just finished "Unspoken: A Rhetoric of Silence" by Cheryl Glenn. It's about the rhetorical importance of well-placed silences — for example, how there are any number of the silences that between words sometimes carry more meaning than the words themselves.
What books helped shape you into the person you are today?
-Edited by Sasha Roe
Even though my speciality is rhetoric and composition, most of my research involves the work of a Russian thinker named Mikhail Bakhtin. His writing was an important influence on my scholarship and my life. At the heart of his thinking is the notion of dialogue. In terms of my work in particular, his ideas suggest ways we can use dialogue to better understand rhetoric, discourse, and the teaching of writing. I'm also drawn to the ethical implications of his ideas.
Spreading the word
Rachel Anne Seymour/KANSAN
From left, Forrest Woods, Wichita freshman, Michael Smith, Goodland freshman, Walburg Al, El Dorado Hills, Cal., Junior, and May Davis, Clay Center sophomore, spread campaign information for United Students Monday at the Kansas Union. United Students are endorsing Adam McGonnie for president and Michael Gillaspie for vice president.
ODD NEWS Kitten found in N.Y. sub-
ground tunnels
way month after being lost
NEW YORK — A skittish kitten that campered out of its carrier on a subway platform has been found after 25 days in the under-
Transit workers tracked down 6-month-old Georgia under midtown Manhattan Saturday. Police reunited her with owner Ashley Phillips, a 24-year-old Bronx librarian.
might have been spotted below Lexington Avenue and East 55th Street, track workers Mark Dalessio and Efrain LaPorte went through the area making "meow" sounds.
After hearing that the black cat
Georgia had lost some weight and scratched her nose but was otherwise unhurt. She had disappeared while Phillips was bringing her home from a veterinarian visit last month.
Georgia responded, and they found her cowering in a drain between two tracks.
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on campus
Will Stebbins, Washington bureau chief of Al-Jazeera, will begin lecturing at 9:30 a.m. in the Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The seminar "Social Security Benefits in Retirement" will begin at 9 a.m. in the Big 12 Room in the Kansas Union.
The workshop "Access 2003: Queries" will begin at 9 a.m. in the Budig PC Lab.
"El Lissitzky's Futuristic Portfolios" will begin at 10 a.m. in the South Balcony Gallery in the Spencer Museum of Art.
The workshop "Word 2003: Everyday Tasks" will begin at 10 a.m. in the instruction center in the Anschutz Library.
The workshop "Copyright Basics for Creators of Intellectual Property" will begin at noon in the Seminar Room and Conference Hall in the Hall Center.
Jerry Mikkelson, Russian, East Euro and Eurasian Studies professor, will present the lecture "Varlam Shalaoa and the Soviet Gulag" at noon in 318 Bailey.
The workshop "Word 2003: Document Enhancement Features" will begin at 1 p.m. in the instruction center in the Anschutz Library.
Jennifer Schmidt will host "Gender, Race and Religion in American Politics with Public Opinion Strategist Nicole McClusky" at 3 p.m. in the Dole Institute of Politics.
The workshop "Teaching Tea: Designing and Implementing Midsemester Student Evaluations" will begin at 3 p.m. in 135 Budig.
Harsha Pothapragada will present the seminar "Solar Wind Interactions with Venus" Space & Astrophysical Plasma" at 4 p.m. in 3078 Malott.
Randal Jelks will present the lecture "Rediscovering the Life of a Black Religious Intellectual: Benjamin Elijah Mays in the Making of the American Civil Rights Movement" at 5:30 p.m. in the Dole Institute of Politics.
"The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley" will begin at 7 p.m. in the Lied Center.
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