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"Writers are always selling somebody out."
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2007
Joan Dilton
Preface to "Sloowing Towards
Bethelehem," 1968
fact of the dav
3. Guest: Pearl Harbor still a day to remember
2. Donation made for baseball clubhouse
Joan Didion's latest book, "The Year of Magical Thinking" chronicles the extended illness of her daughter, Quintana. Although Quintana seems to get better during the book, she died after the book was complete. Didion said she would not change the book to reflect her daughter's death.
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4. Panel discussion kicks off Black History Month
1. Impromptu Café opens in Kansas Union
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5. Winter Wonderland
There are 64 days of class until Stop Day and 30 days of class until Spring Break. For a list of academic dates all the way to 2010, visit www.registrar.ku.edu/calendar.
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Spotlight on Organizations
Although February is the shortest month of the year, it is the February Sisters Association's most eventful.
February Sisters Association
BY JACQUE LUMSDEN
This student group organizes events to raise awareness around campus on different feminist, political, cultural and service oriented activities.
"I have been told that there have been annual events held every year since 1972 to recognize the efforts of the February Sisters," said Ailecia Ruscin, Anburn, Ala., graduate student and the GTA adviser for the
group. While annual events have been held since 1972, the group was officially founded in 2000 by three graduate students at the University of Kansas.
The group is named in honor of the February Sisters, a group of women who occupied the former East Asian studies building in 1972. The group was successful in its demands for a women's health care program, a women's studies program, affirmative action policies and a child-care program on campus.
The production is Feb. 8 to 10 at 7:30 p.m. at Alderson Auditorium, in the Kansas Union.
Ruskin said the February Sisters Association held events each year to honor the original Sisters' initiatives
to bring attention to gender issues.
The group, consisting of 30 to 35 members, is responsible for organizing the events that are held in February. The group raises approximately $3,000 to be donated to various Lawrence organizations fighting violence against women and girls.
Every year, they put on a production of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues."
Ruscin said audiences could come at 6:30 p.m. to attend the "V-Day Festival; which gives organizations in Lawrence an opportunity to educate people about local work.
Dylan Scholinski, Washington,
D.C., artist, will give his lecture
"Sent(a)Mental: Get Outta My Head,
I'm Just Queer" at 7:30 tonight at
Alderson Auditorium. Ruscin said
students should get involved if they
were interested in feminist issues,
or if they would like to know more
about organizing the events.
Ruscin said the group had no set meeting schedule, but it often met Thursdays. For more information, contact the February Sisters through the Student Involvement Leadership Center.
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Rising out of the rubble
Debbie Snell hangs an American flag she found in the rubble of a Paisley, Fla., neighborhood Sunday as she helped salvage goods from tornado-damaged homes. The recovery began Saturday, when Lake County Sheriff Gary Borders said he did not expect to find any more victims and President Bush designated four counties disaster areas eligible for millions of dollars in aid. The tornado hit Friday. See page BA for more information.
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What do you think?
BY FRANCESCA CHAMBERS
SHOULD STUDENTS HAVE TO PAY FOR SAFE RIDES?
BRANDON DUNKAU
Olathe senior
'It sounds like a good idea, but if it's above a dollar, less people are going to use it any way. People just need to wait!'
MARKYU Lenexa senior
"Not everyone should have to, which is what happens when they take it out of our tuition."
"If they don't feel safe, they shouldn't have to pay a price to get a ride. So it might as well be free."
AMANDA ROBINSON Overland Park freshman
DANIELLE MOURNING
Lenexa sophomore
"No, because by the time you call Safe Ride you've probably spent all of your money anyway. Or you don't know where your wallet is."
on campus
James J. Butler Jr. will present the lecture "What the Heck is a Phreatophyte? A Field Investigation of Ecohydrologic Processes in Stream-Aquifer Systems" at noon at Room 303 in the Multidisciplinary Research Building.
Jonathan Boyarin will present the seminar "The Unconverted Self: Jews, Indians, and the Identity of Christian Europe" at 3:30 p.m. at the Seminar Room in the Hall Center for the Humanities.
odd news Police chief gives himself ticket for passing bus
KEWASKUM, Wis. — Police Chief Richard Knoebel says he wasn't about to take the easy way out when he accidentally drove past a stopped school bus with its emergency lights flashing.
For violating traffic laws, Knoeibel wrote himself a ticket for $235, docked himself four points on his driving record and paid the fine the next day.
He said he was on patrol on four-lane U.S. 45 when he was distracted by a stopped dump truck. He said he didn't realize he had passed the bus until it was too late.
BOARDWALK FIRE Defense team contests as jury process begins
Jury selection will begin Tuesday for the murder trial of Jason Allen Rose.
Rose is accused of setting a fire at Boardwalk Apartments in October 2005 that killed three residents and injured several more. The trial will begin after Rose's attorney attempted to have the charges dropped last week, an effort that Judge Jack A. Murphy denied.
Rose's defense contended that its client suffered from mental abuse that kept Rose from delivering accurate testimony when he originally confessed to setting the fire.
KU senior Nicole Bingham, 21, along with 33-year-old Yolanda Riddle and 50-year-old Jose Gonzalez, died in the fire.
— Erick R. Schmidt
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