Thursday, April 19, 2001
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 3
Senate solves complaints from election
By Brooke Hesler
By Brooke Hesler writer@kanson.com Kanson staff writer
Student Senate election results were certified last night after the elections commission heard campaign violation complaints.
Kyle Brownning, vice president-elect, said Delta Force decided to withdraw all complaints filed against the VOICE coalition for leaving campaign materials unattended and posting a sign on private property without permission.
VOICE did not withdraw campaign violations filed against Delta Force, which was fined $25 for three separate counts of leaving campaign material unattended. Delta Force was found not responsible for posting filers in a prohibited area.
Also last night, Kiran Jiran, who won a graduate seat with Delta Force, withdrew from his seat. The elections commission also decided Kelly Schellman, who won a fine arts seat with Delta Force, could not take office. Both candidates failed to attend a mandatory candidate workshop. That means Ignacio Ibarguren and Ashley Peterson from theVOICE coalition will get seats because they were the next-highest vote getters.
Also last night, Senate committees met for the last time of the semester. The Student Rights committee elected Katie Bartlett as chairwoman for next year, Anna Gregory as vice chairwoman and Amanda Meglermre as secretary. The Finance Committee elected Adam Obley as chairman, Kit Brauer as vice chairman and Kevin Haskinson as secretary. The University Affairs Committee elected Kate Harding as chairwoman, Kari Kelley as vice chairwoman, Shannon Snapp as secretary and Jessica Bankston to the KU Athletics Corporation. The Multicultural Affairs Committee elected Casey Collier as chairwoman and Fallon Farokhi vice chairwoman.
—Edited by Melinda Weaver
Speaker digs dead bodies
By Sarah Warren
writer @kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Dead bodies are what William M. Bass lives for.
"I can have a headache and not feel good and I get a phone call for a case and my headache goes away and I feel great," Bass said. "There's nothing better than a dead body."
Bass is the founder and the director emeritus of the Body Farm. The farm, officially called the Forensic Anthropology Laboratory, is located near the campus of the University of Tennessee, and is the world's only facility devoted to studying what happens to a human body if it is not traditionally buried. Researchers at the farm focus on the sequence of changes that a cadaver goes through as time passes while not buried or in a shallow grave.
Before creating the Body Farm, Bass taught at the University of Kansas for 11
years and served as chairman of the department of anthropology from 1967 to 1971. He came back to the University and gave a lecture last night to 100 people who packed the Apollo Auditorium in Nichols Hall to capacity.
Bass treated the audience not to half-decayed bodies from the farm, but rather to a slide show spotlighting a handful of forensic cases he had helped solve in nearly three decades as a forensic anthropologist.
"You would never invite me back if I showed you slides from the Body Farm," Bass said.
The first two cases involved victims burned in cars, which he said could be difficult because of a lack of actual bone matter.
nor because of you die in a fire because it's not pretty, "Bass said. 'First your arms and legs burn up. Then, if your skull doesn't have a hole in it, it breaks apart into several pieces the size of a quarter. The last thing to go is your pelvis, and that's what
"When you retire in the academic community and become an emeritus, you still stay active," said Wakefield Dort, an old colleague of Bass' and professor of geology. "And Bill is certainly active on the farm. He loves what he does."
Besides being continually active on the farm, Bass still thinks like an educator. After showing all the slides of his cases he gave the audience a "finaltest" to see if they could use their new knowledge to figure out how something had died. In the next second a slide of road kill with a bright orange line down the middle flashed onto the screen.
"You see, this is a possum who became what we call road kill in Tennessee," said Bass, grinning. "The poor sucker was hit by a automobile and then, as a final injustice, run over by a Tennessee Department of Transportation paint truck.
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"Poor guy."
Edited by Jason McKee
Unorthodox concert enlivens crowd
By Michelle Ward
writer@kansan.com
wrter@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Devina Gifford's purple scarf added a splash of color to her traditionally black dress and showed the brightened mood of last night's KU Concert Choir performance.
The Exploring Multicultural Choral Music Concert at Murphy Hall had a cosmopolitan feel as the choir performed songs from 12 different countries in each song's original language. More than 200 people attended the show, which included music ranging from a South African song based on poetry to an Indonesia folk song.
"We wanted to be different," said Gifford, Burlington freshman. "The music is not orthodox. Having all these different languages and styles, we had to relearn our methods of singing."
The 52-member choral group started by forming a semi-circle around the audience and singing a New Zealand lullaby. They soon shifted geares by singing an up tempo Cameroon processional song.
The choir then mimicked the chugging
of a train during the beginning of the group's next song, a Taiwanese number.
"It gives us a different way of looking at the world," said James Daugherty, director and assistant professor in music and dance. "For the moment, we are looking through someone else's eyes."
The group prepared for the concert with the help of native speakers. They had to rethink their approach to songs, such as the Australian number "Past Life Melodies." The song contained numerous syllables and sounds but no words. It was a new experience for the group.
"It's basically a learning process," said Jonathan Glawe, Waterloo, Iowa freshman. "We had to learn how speak all these different languages. It's very difficult."
The choir continued with two songs from Indonesia, which were accompanied by a percussion orchestra. Members of the choir played various instruments they had just learned to play.
The Central Junior High School of Lawrence choir and Wichita State University choir also performed at the event.
Edited by Brent Wasko
Jody Britten, Lawrence Ph.D. candidate; performs an interpretive dance to music sung by the KU Concert Choir. The song was based on a poem by Benedict Wallet Vilakazi and was performed during the Exploring Multicultural Choral Music concert last night at Murphy Hall. Photo by J. E. Wilson/KANSAN
Roberts asks for student support
By Erin Adamson
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Sen. Pat Roberts called for an end to United States food, medicine and travel sanctions on Cuba and asked the 100 audience members yesterday on campus to support legislation that would end the sanctions.
"It's exceedingly important for Kansas farmers and ranchers," Roberts said. "Cuba isn't a big market, but it's an important market."
Roberts said lifting the sanctions would promote Kansas agriculture and democracy and a smooth transition from the Castro government when the Cuban dictator was no longer in office.
Lifting agricultural sanctions on Cuba would open a new market for the Kansas agricultural industry, Roberts said in a speech at Smith Hall. According to the Kansas Department of Commerce and Housing, Kansas exports of agricultural crops to Latin America fell by $52 million in 2000. Kansas exported $488 million worth of agricultural and manufacturing products to Central and South America and the Caribbean in 2000, which accounted for 10 percent of the state's international exports.
Roberts said U.S. sanctions on Cuba were outdated and not in either country's best interest. He said the sanctions no longer served a strategic political purpose and Cuba was no longer a national security threat because Castro wasn't sponsoring terrorism.
Roberts traveled with a United States delegation to Cuba this year and met with President Fidel Castro to discuss the lifting of the food, medicine and travel sanctions. He said sanctions on necessities were hurting the average Cuban and organizations such as Catholic Relief wanted the United States government to help make their relief efforts possible.
Lifting the travel ban would allow United States culture, which Roberts said was the United States' most important export, to influence in Cuba and promote a democracy.
Roberts also said Castro and the United States should be concerned about increasing Cuban drugtraffic as tourism from Europe and other parts of the world increased.
Federico Carranza Kopper, San Jose, Costa Rica senior, asked Roberts if Castro's anti-American rhetoric would impede progress on trade between the two nations.
Carranza Kopper said he attended the talk in order to gain perspective on relations between the United States and Cuba. He said as a Latin-American, the United States' policies toward Latin America were of personal interest to him.
Brown said Roberts did not address the possibility of exacerbating the disparity of wealth in Cuba if the ban were lifted and the Cuban elite controlled all trade.
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