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》 ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT
Group seeks to clean up shirt
BY KYLE CARTER
If one student committee has its way, the University's long-standing rivalry with Missouri will soon become less vulgar.
The Student Athlete Advisory Committee met Monday to discuss ways to discourage fans from wearing "Muck Fizzout" shirts at upcoming basketball games.
"I'm as much against Missouri as anyone, but we just want to make it more healthy," Pryor said. "We're better than that as a school."
At the College GameDay production during the lajayhawks' game against Texas A&M earlier this month, ESPN avoided filming students wearing the shirts.
Pryor said the committee discussed he University of Pittsburgh's student
the Athletics Department make an announcement to students encouraging them not to wear the shirts to the game.
Associate Athletes Director Jim Marchiony said ESPN requested that
The announcement to stop wearing the shirts was not made to students.
wore the shirts.
Chesley Pryor, Washington, Pa., senior, represents the women's golf team on the committee. She said that the committee hoped to seek student input because she felt the shirts represent the University poorly. The committee consists of about 50 students representing every varsity sport.
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Top Photo by Jon Goering/KANSAN
Niurca Marquez stands at the front of her flamenco class Tuesday morning in Robinson Hall, while Jose Luis Rodriguez accompanies on the guitar. Marquez and Rodriguez are working as guest artists-in-residence at the University, with a number of classes, shows and presentations sharing and teaching the art of flamenco dancing.
Niuura Marquez, Cuban-American flamenco dancer, left, answers questions from students after Marquez and Luis Luis Rodriguez, award-winning Spanish flamenco guitarist, right, lectured on the history of flamenco at Sworthout Real Hall in Murphy Hall Monday afternoon. Rodriguez played flamenco music examples for the audience during the lectures. "This is just a brief abbreviation of flamenco history," Marquez said.
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Duo shares talent with dance students
BY BETHANY BUNCH
Two award-winning Spanish flamenco artists are conducting daily dance technique classes and giving lectures this week for students and the general public at the University of Kansas.
Guitarist Jose Luis Rodriguez and Cuban-American flamenco dancer Niurca Marquez are helping nine students in the University Dance Company prepare for a performance in April.
"The students are amazing," Marquez said. "They picked up what I had planned for three days of choreography in one."
Toni Bolger, West Des Moines,
Iowa, junior, is one of the nine
The dancing duo of Rodriguez and Marquez met at a flamenco festival in California and they began working together shortly after. Marquez said they were dating, and though she said it seemed like they were married, they were not.
dancers who will perform in the flamenco recital in April and worked with Marquez this week.
"It's surprisingly really easy to
"It's a very different experience because none of us have had a formal flamenco experience before," Bolger said. "It's not like modern. It's not like ballet, I don't know what it's like."
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Referred bill vote could raise fees
BY ASHLEE KIELER
Today and Thursday students are voting on two referendums that would allow KU on Wheels to purchase 30 modern, but used, buses and allow a fare-free bus system for campus. Jessica Mortinger, Student Senate Transportation board member, said.
A special election begins today that could significantly increase student fees next year.
Each referendum includes a fee, the new bus fee would be $20 and the fare-free system fee would be $15. If both referendums pass, student fees will increase $35 per semester on the Lawrence campus, Mortinger said.
Not all student fee increases get a special election or a campus-wide vote. A referendum sends a question to a student vote.
"A significant increase to student fees should be sent to referendum." Andrew Payne, Senate student executive chair said, referring to the Senate rules and regulations book.
"Finance usually isn't as willing to raise fees so easily." Paine said.
Referendums are typically placed on a bill during committee meetings with the finance committee being the most likely to place a referendum on a bill.
Even with a referendum, a student vote doesn't always take place. The Senate has the ability to drop a referendum during full Senate meetings, and such a case presented itself this semester.
The Senate passed a bill on Jan
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Blogs play vital role in elections
BY TYLER HARBERT
Future elections may not be won solely by exceptional television commercials and memorable stump speeches.
Five experts from the blogging community think their media is already playing a much larger part in swaying, and informing, the American public. The bloggers spoke on Tuesday night at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, located west of the Lied Center.
"They're changing every aspect of our culture and society, even our
politics", said David D. Perlmutter, associate dean of graduate studies and research in journalism.
Last night, Permutter moderated the discussion "Blog to the Chief: The Impact of Political Blogs on the 2008 Election," which was part of the 2007 Presidential Lecture Series at the Dole Institute.
"The most important lesson from the past two election cycles is that this isn't a static media," said Joan McCarter, contributing editor at www.dailykos.com, a political blogging Web site.
McCarter was joined by fel
low bloggers Jerome Armstrong, co-author of "Crashing the Gate; Netroots, Grassroots and the Rise of People-Powered Politics;" Erick Erickson, managing editor at www.RedState.com, Patrick Hynes, president of New Media Strategies, an online intelligence, brand promotion and brand protection company; and Scott Johnson, co-founder of "Power Line" blog.
Armstrong said blog readership had already increased 100 times since the 2004 presidential election
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Political bloggers participate in a discussion on the role of blogging in the 2008 election. The discussion was moderated by David D. Perlmutter, pictured on the far left. The bloggers are Jerome Armstrong, Erick Patrick Hynes, Scott Johnson and Joan Carter.
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