4A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2006
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Moseley-Braun said that nontraditional candidates, such as women and minorities, always have a problem raising enough money to keep their campaigns going. She said it was a lack of money that caused both her and Elizabeth Dole to fade away in 2000. She said she was just as qualified, confident and well-prepared for the presidency as any of the men running.
"The role of money in campaigns is a modern-day civil rights imperative," she said.
She ended her speech with a call to action for every person in the room. She said that no matter how
each person was involved everyone would be working toward "forming a more perfect union" by advocating the election of the first woman president.
Rep. Barbara Ballard (D-Lawrence), associate director of the Dole Institute, said she was pleased there were a lot of students, but more specifically minority students attending. The room was so full that workers had to open the Simons Media Room to accommodate the extra crowd, who watched on closed-circuit television.
"I'm glad I came," said Kelly Dvorak, Overland Park freshman. "I had no idea a woman had ever run for president."
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The building itself holds an invaluable collection of KU athletics history, but it was the atmosphere of the barbershop in its heyday that really made the place special.
The Monroe family, including Bud's uncle, father and brothers, Raymond and Leonard, built Bud's Barbershop by themselves behind his home at 532 Michigan Street in the mid-1950s.
"He was the guy who knew every hair on my head," McClinton said. He said Bud was a good listener, and the shop was a place where he could go and "have a good black cup of coffee directly from the pot of the black community."
"A black man couldn't get a decent job besides construction," Leonard said. That's why they built the barbershop.
"Bud only cut men's hair," said Walda Monroe, Bud's daughter. "He absolutely wouldn't touch our hair."
Bud's shop was a place for young men to come and socialize.
She said she didn't hang out in the barbershop much, nor did she see her father often.
"My dad worked around the clock," she said. "We didn't cross paths much. He would come home from work and eat breakfast and go to work in the barbershop."
Bud led a busy life. He was born and raised in Lawrence. Shortly after graduating from Liberty Memorial High School, he took a job as a turnkey at the Douglas County Jail and worked his way up to the rank of lieutenant at the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.
During World War II, he served in the Seabees, a division of the U.S. Navy. He worked in Washington welding ships because a hernia wouldn't allow him to fight. He joined the KU Public Safety Office in 1965, working as a patrol officer, and then a sergeant and lieutenant. He was with the office for 21 years before his retirement in 1986, and continued to work security at KU basketball games at the request of former Athletics Director Bob Frederick.
Bud went to all of the games,
Frederick said. Afterward, Bud
would stay from midnight to 6
a.m. and work security.
He owned the small barbershop behind his home throughout his carer as a law enforcement officer.
Bud has been gone since 1999, and Walda is thinking about her options with the barbershop. She still lives in the house just behind it.
The Waldo "Bud" Monroe Police Command Center now stands as a small tribute to the many lives he touched at the University.
She said houses used to surround the shop before companies came in and bought them to build stores. She said Bud would never sell the place. He built it with his own hands and he liked it there. Now the store sits closed and the old pictures collect dust.
Shortly after his death in 1999, Bob Frederick and Roy Williams pushed to get the Memorial Stadium police center named after him.
Paint by numbers
"It needs a lot of work," she said. "I'm thinking of flattening it out."
"He was a great person and a great friend to many of our African-American athletes over the years," Frederick said.
— Edited by Lindsey St. Clair
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Two students examine graduate student projects on display in the Art and Design building on Tuesday. Projects range from paintings to slide projections and interactive pieces. The gallery will be open for public viewing until Friday.
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