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Tuesday, March 29, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Story of Nehru
Steve Ballew, Lawrence resident, views the photographic exhibition of the Life and Work of Jawaharlal Nehru in the Kansas Union. Nehru was the first prime minister of India from its independence in 1947 until his death in 1964. The exhibit, which was on temporary loan from the University of Missouri at Kansas City, was on display in the Union during the weekend and Monday. The exhibit is on a national tour sponsored by Air India.
Election posters don't stay up long
By Jeff Moberg Kansan staff writer
Student Senate elections are still more than two weeks away, but poster wars are going strong.
Leon Baker, student body president, said that posters disappeared every year during elections and that the coalitions typically accused each other. He called it irresponsible and recommended to the coalitions not to put up all their posters too early.
"All you can do is hope your posters are a reminder of your campaign and not the main element," Krakow said.
Mark Flannagan, presidential candidate with the Focus coalition, said his coalition had put up about 1,000 posters so far. He said he was surer that he found even one still hanging.
"I think about every poster we had on campus was torn down," Flannagan said.
Frank Partny, presidential candidate of the Integrity coalition, said that if his coalition put its remaining posters up, it would have none left for the elections at the rate they were coming down.
“It's incredibly ironic when one of our posters gets torn down and one from another coalition replaces it,”
Partnoy said, who added that the coalition had put up about 700 posters so far. "You would think after a poster is put up, it would stay up for two or three hours.
Brook Menees, presidential candidate of the Top Priority coalition, said that not only had his coalition's posters been disappearing but also that he had found them ripped in half and wadded up. Menees said that his coalition had put up about 1,000 posters.
"All my posters are disappearing," he said. "We kind of expected it, but not this bad.
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known of Curll's "involuntary authors" is Jonathan Swift.
The department's Bond Periodicals and Newspaper Collection covers the 17th and 18th century development of the English periodical press and contains more than 1,100 items. Newspapers and periodicals give the researcher a picture of the daily life of a time period. One fourth of this collection is made up of essays written by Adison and Richard Steele's famous essay papers, the Spectator and the Tattler.
original editions of Cervantes" "Don Quixote," along with original editions of books by Virgil; James Joyce; Alfred Lord Tennyson; William Butler Yeats; D. H. Lawrence (including signed copies of the first edition of "Lady Chatterley's Eye"); and works of H. L. Mencen.
Clement said one of the most heavily used collections was the Science Fiction Collection. It contains both books and periodicals and is the source of the science fiction exhibit on display in the third floor lobby of the library.
"Our Science Fiction Collection is one of the top three in the country." Clement said. "There is great potential there for curricular applications and equally great scope for research."
Mason said, "There was considerable opposition to the science fiction collection because in the past, it was not considered respectable literature. Watson never collected any in those days, and I think they thought we were a little batty for wanting to. I see science fiction as our piece of popular literature that we are laying down for the future."
Both Mason and Clement stressed the need to maintain and improve collection facilities.
"This is a bad time for libraries." Mason said. "Nobody has any money
Josserand's responsibility is to identify the ones that will affect the University community. This session, Josserand will track bills dealing with the Margin of Excellence, classified employees, retirement, health care, medical malpractice and nursing salaries.
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Josserand spends most of his work week in Topeka, talking to legislators and explaining the University's viewpoint on issues.
He said that a lot of people thought that higher education owned the keys to success.
"I've spent a lot of time explaining that the Margin of Excellence is not an outlandish request," he said.
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The walls of Josserand's office are almost bare and might mislead visitors into believing that he is new to KU.
Although Josserand began his professional association with KU only last October, his familiarity with the university goes back to his college years.
Josserand graduated from KU in 1976 with a bachelor's degree in business administration and a concentration in political science. He received a law degree in 1979. But his experience at KU was more than books and classes.
He was involved in Student Senate, the Union Memorial Corporation and the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation.
"He was highly effective in student engagement and student affairs." Burger's notes.
Frank Burge, former director of the Kansas Union and the person for whom the Burge Union is named, remembers Josserand as an outstanding young man and an inspirational leader.
That success had been accomplished in an environment dramatically different from the one he grew up in. For Josserand, KU was a different world, seven hours removed from his home of Johnson City. He sees himself as a small-town kid from western Kansas.
"There are more people in McColum Hall than there are in my whole county," he said.
Back Jrier, former Kansas secretary of state, first knew Josserand when Josserand was in law school and working for him part-time.
of state's office in Topeka immediately after college. He spent eight years there, serving as the deputy assistant, assistant and special assistant secretary of state for a $2.1 million agency.
The contrast between Lawrence and Johnson City was so great that he almost decided to seek a degree elsewhere.
"A lot of my high school instructors encouraged me to go to small schools or go east," he said.
Josserdand led the drive to acquire the first computers for the secretary of state's office at a lower price than had been offered. Josserdand was also directly responsible for lobbying on behalf of the office.
The success that the small-town kid enjoyed at KU stayed with him when he landed a job in the secretary
But while Josserand was away from KU, he kept abreast of campus events. And when the chance to work for the University came up, he held the job.
As the chamber's registered lobbyist, Josserand worked last September on projects that included the special legislative session on highways.
Josserman left the secretary of state's office in 1986 to become vice president of government relations at Alohaita Area Chamber of Commerce.
After college
"Anybody who knows me knows how much I love the University of Kansas," he said.
A friend encouraged him to apply for the position, and Josserand did. When he got the job, one of his friends invited him to dinner, and he's got an excuse to a talk about KU.
Bibb, who works with Josserand on KU's legislative team, was a member of the selection committee that chose him. Josserand's personality, Bibb said, was one of the factors that clinched the job for him.
Josserand became KU's governmental affairs specialist last October. He was chosen out of a pool of more than 90 applicants.
The department has numerous
"Jon has the kind of acquaintance with legislators and political leaders that gives him a head start against anyone else," he said.
Legislators sense Joosander's feel for politics. and they admire him for that.
"He knows people, and he knows how this place works," said Sien. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, who was in law school with Josserand.
Rein, another member of the KU legislative team, talks with Josserand on a daily basis. Josserand, he said, plays the role of the eyes and ears in the Legislature.
Rein thinks there was another reason for Josserand's selection.
"He had blue blood in his veins," Rein said, referring to KU's colors and Josserand's love for KU.
Life in politics
Josserand's fascination for the governmental process seems to be a product of his upbringing.
His grandmother was involved in politics all her life, and both his grandfather and great-grandfather served in the State Legislature.
Josserand's rural Kansas heritage also contributed to his political leaning.
"People from less urban areas sometimes are more interested in the political process," he said.
Because agriculture is so dominant in Western Kansas, people spend a lot of time in the political process trying to improve it, he said.
Josserand is so dedicated to his professional interests that they enter into hi personal life.
He spends his free time, some evenings and Sunday mornings, reading newspapers, any newspaper he can get his hands on.
One of his preoccupations, in fact, is the public's lack of interest in other cities. Kansas, he said, is fortunate to have a more diversified economy than other states.
"Unless you read newspapers, you don't know what's going on locally in other markets," he said.
"University people complain about how poor things are. I tell you what, if you had been in Oklahoma or Texas in the last two years, the perceptions would be very different," he said.
When Josserand was working in the secretary of state's office, Brier said, he took home all the technical manuals on the office computers to read one weekend.
Josserman's curiosity goes further than his obvious affinity for politics.
One interest of Josserand's that never seems to fade is the University of Kansas.
"Out of all the political and governmental experience, he has never wavered in his love for the University of Kansas and the city of Lawrence," Brier said.
Josserand doesn't conceal the pride he has for KU.
He said that he considered himself fortunate to be able to work for KU. For him, that is a chance to pay back his friends and former professors.
Yet, the satisfaction that Josser- and receives from his job stems from something deeper.
"Hey, if I'm successful, I've bene fitted a hell of an institution."
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Monthly meeting Wednesday March 30,1988 7 p.m. in Learned Hall All hands and interested persons are welcome. Tune in the world with us.
COMMENCEMENT The University of Kansas
Degree Candidates and Faculty:
Order caps, gowns & hoods Now (starting March 28)
All participants, including faculty doctorate, law, Master's, and Bachelor's candidates, wear traditional regalia during the commencement ceremonies.
Candidates and faculty members may order caps, gowns, and/or hoods by visiting the concessions stand at gates 22 and 23 at the north end of Memorial Stadium between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on any weekday until Friday, April 29, or by mailing the order form from the graduation mailing. To ensure proper fit, participants are encouraged to order caps, gowns, and/or hoods at Memorial Stadium.