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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 24, 1991
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'Call me Ishmael'
'Moby Dick' read to honor Melville
3y Jonathan Plummer
<ansan staff writer
Today may be the first time that a whale has appeared on Wescoe Beach.
A 24-hour reading of "Moby Dick" will take place today in front of Wescoe Hall, to commemorate the death of the death of Herman Melville.
Elizabeth Schultz, professor of English and the event's organizer, said 70 people would read from the novel for 20 minutes at a time.
Schultz said the readers were KU students, faculty and staff, as well as members of the Lawrence community.
'There are more people interested in this than I ever anticipated. I hope those who are not reading come by just to listen.'
Among those reading, she said, will be a KU English professor who is returning from his leave in Chicago and a former member of KU's English department who now teaches at the University of Missouri-Rolla.
— Elizabeth Schultz professor of English
Schultz said the number of people who asked to join the reading was so great that she had had to shorten the word list. "The students' *s*ments to fit in more readers."
"There are more people intere in this than I ever anticipated," said. "I hope those who are reading come by just to listen."
Though the event is meant coincide with a speech toom about Melville by Richard Brhead, Yale University visiting fessor. Schultz said she welcomes chance to read the novel aloud.
"It takes on new meanings w read aloud," she said. "Melvi language is so rich, and the sty based on the epic, the drama lyric poetry, all of which are m to be heard."
Schultz's passion for the nov reflected in the decoration of Wescoe office.
It is decorated with Melville jrs, cartoons about the great v whale, and a hanging mobil navigate past to sit by her desk, navigate past to sit by her desk.
"The novel has come into ar Can culture," she said. "Every knows the name, the great v whale. 'Call me Ishmael.' But those who have read the book care, it resensures with meaning
Charlie Kim, Kansas City,
senior, said his passion for the
what lead him to sign up fc
reading at 2 a.m.
As Kim spoke of the love to book he found last semeste Schultz's honors class on the n word and gave it to her words to express his emotions.
"I hope this sparks an inter-
people," he said. "It's not ij
search for a whale, it is rea
metaphysical voyage. It is a si
for the 'ungraspable phanto-
life.'"
KU is seeking tuition relief
Budig says endowment programs will provide scholarship money
By Eric Nelson Kansan staff writer
Last week the Board of Regents increased tuition by 8 percent for residents and by 15 percent for non-residents for the 1901-92 academic year.
KU officials are looking to the Kansas University Endowment Association for relief from tuition increases.
This increase will be followed by a proposed increase for 1992-93 of 8 percent for resident students in smaller regional schools, 10 percent for residents in research schools such as and 12; percent for all non-residents.
Budig said the University would rely on programs such as Campaign Kansas to carry the burden of finding scholarship money.
Along with approving increases, the Regents tabled a proposal by the student advisory committee for new scholarships.
After the Regents action, Chancellor Gene Budig said, "I don't expect the state to increase student scholarship in a way in the immediate years ahead."
"We must be sensitive to the magnitude of these increases," he said. "This action places great pressure on the University of Kansas to raise funding."
Todd Seymour, president of the endowment association, said the association had already received grants from this year for student scholarships.
tunities at KU."
"Scholarships are one of the main things we're raising money for all the time," he said.
He said that small amounts donated may go directly to scholarships, while some larger amounts go to special funds. The income generated from funds' investments go to scholarships.
John Scarife, director of public relations for the association, said that when endowment funds began counting toward Campaign Kansas in 1, 1877, the goal for scholarships and fellowships was set at $20 million.
He said the association always had worked hard to help students meet financial needs.
As of January 1911, $39.9 million had been pledged or committed to scholarship funds, he said. Money will continue to count toward the campaign until June 1912, even if the organization has already exceeded its goal.
"It's a popular item to give for," Scarfe said of the scholarships.
"That has always been one of our
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