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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 26, 1991
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KU sponsors debate contest
Julie Jacobson/KANSAN
Josh Hoe, Central State University senior, debates at excessive power granted to law enforcement agencies by the Supreme Court.
Heart of America tournament draws nation's top 16 teams
Kansan staff writer
Sarah Davis
They came from as far away as Vermont and California.
The 35th annual Heart of America debate tournament drew 108 teams from across the nation to the University of Kansas for a three-day tournament.
KU's debate team, along with the other schools', participated in eight preliminary rounds Saturday and the final round last night in the final round last night.
"The Heart of America is such a good tournament," said Karla Leeper, one of six KU assistant debate coaches who helped run the event. "It's one of the oldest and most prestigious."
"You don't generally participate in your own tournament in the elimination round because if you win your own tournament, it might
'KU debate is a lot like the Boston Celtics.'
— Robert Rowland director of forensics
look bad," said Robert Rowland, director of forensics.
But KU debaters benefited in other wavs.
"Out of the top 16 teams, we are here," said John Fritch, KU assistant debate coach. "We can learn a lot by watching and listening to them. We can model some of their strategies, but it itself makes us better."
Rowland said this tournament also was important because it was a warm-up for the national debate tournament, which will be the last week of March and the first week of April.
"That's one of the reasons we draw so well," he said. "It's their last major chance to tune up before Nationals."
The top 16 teams debated yesterday in the Kansas Union and were eliminated one by one until there was a winner.
"It's very much like the Big Eight tournament, except there are more teams," Leeper said.
The teams debated in two categories: National Debate Tournament and Cross Examination Debate Association. The NDT topic was trade policy in the Far East, and the CEDA topic was law enforcement.
Debaters researched their topics since July for the tournament. Because they have only 15 minutes to talk during a debate, they talk fast — about 250 words a minute as opposed to the normal 150 words.
"It's really academically challenging," Leeper said. "It's a really tough tournament, but we try to make this an educational as well as competitive activity."
Both education and competition are important to the KU debate team, which has been doing well this season. The team's future looks bright.
"We're winning 50 percent more awards this year than we did last," he said. "We're always optimistic."
Rowland said the freshman and sophomore debate team at KU was ranked sixth in the country in policy debate, ahead of Harvard, Dartmouth, Michigan and Northwestern, four top debating schools.
Health workers question idea of mandatory tests for AIDS
He said KU was committed to debate.
"KU debate is a lot like the Boston Celtics," Rowland said. "There's an ongoing excellence and a sense of family and commitment."
By Amy Francis
Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
The discussion of mandatory AIDS testing for health workers has brought back the issue of protection against HIV, the right of privacy for the worker.
Discussion heated up when two days of hearings about mandatory AIDS testing for health workers began Thursday in Atlanta
The hearings, conducted by the national Centers for Disease Control, were brought about partially because of three Florida patients who contracted the AIDS virus from their dentist.
But many, including some local health-care workers, say mandatory testing is not the answer to the AIDS problem.
"I'm pretty much opposed to mandatory testing at this time," said Jim Conney, director of the Kansas AIDS
Education and Training Center.
"Anyone who is a health professional should know if they're at risk."
Lawrence Magee, physician at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said. "it really opens up a lot of pain." When someone I would if someone forced me to.
One reason for opposition is that both the health worker and the patient can transfer the virus.
The cost of the testing could also be a problem.
"The cost factor is going to be horrendous," Cooney said. ("One test) isn't going to do it.
"How often do you want people to do it?" The test in and of itself is not a sure thing. If it is a sure thing, it's only a sure thing at that time."
Magee said an AIDS test cost
100, and the $o. 30, depending on
when you went to the hospital.
Besides financial cost, a person
But despite the problems of mandatory testing, both Maggee and Ocney said they thought people in their groups should be tested voluntarily.
also might suffer embarrassment Magee said.
"I wouldn't mind being tested for AIDS," Magee said. "It would be nice if people would just voluntarily leave the country and go away to control this disease now right."
But Cooney said that even though there should not be mandatory testing, health workers should reduce patients' worries.
"I think we've got to reassure the patients," he said.
The use of rubber gloves and a mask are precautions that a doctor can take, he said.
"I do not think the general public should be nervous about seeing a doctor or nurse," he said.
Hurston's African-American folklore illustrates pride and beauty of culture
Kansan staff writer
By Benjamin W. Allen
Zora Neale Hurston was among the foremost writers of African-American folklore in the history of the United States and was an integral part of the Harlem Renais sance of the 1920s.
Her eight novels and numerous short stories, usually written in the African-American dialect of the deep South were well-received by literary critics.
However, some members of the Harlem Renaissance complained that her portrayal of African-Americans as happy go-lucky was because she did not show the brutality of the conditions they lived under.
Hurston defended herself by saying that describing African-Americans only in relation to their white oppressors sors was exploitive.
She was known for careful investigation of the lan guage and culture she wrote about.
Her novel "Mules and Men" was perhaps the first investigation of voodoo practices among African-Ameri cappi in the United States.
Hurston's most commercially and artistically success ful novel was
She was considered flamboyant and outrageous because of her pride in her race as well as her scorn for traditional roles for women.
"Their Eyes Were Watching God," which presented frank accounts of romantic and sensual love of African-American women.
Hurston was married twice, both times for less than a year.
She wrote that her personal relationships failed at the point where she was expected to give up her work because of illness. She must maintain the expected role of a wife.
Hurston was born Jan. 7, 1903, in Eatonville, Fla., which provided much of the material she wrote about.
Many historians attribute Hurston's pride in African-
American culture, where there were no
whites and where raceist incidents
were few.
Eatonville was the first incorporated all African-American town
Hurston's education included a degree from Morgan College in 1918 and studies of writing at Howard University from 1919 to 1924.
Hurston said in an essay on expression that no one could deny the fact that African-Americans had revised the English language and that the revision had been accepted by the ruling class.
She also studied anthropology at Barnard College from 1925 to 1927.
in a preface to Robert Hemenway's biography of Hurston, Alice Walker said there was no book more famous than "Their Eyes Were Watching God."
"No one listening to a Southern
white man talk could deny this," she said.
She said Hurston's pride in African-Americans was so pronounced for the times she lived in that she would pay attention to African-Americans suspicious and uncomfortable.
Walker said, "Only W.E.B. Du Bois showed an equally consistent delight in the beauty and spirit of Black peon."
Pressing matters
Georgia Thomas, employee of Scotch Fabric Care Services, steam presses a flag at Scotch's cleaning plant at 1517 W. Sixth St. Laurie Clark, Lawrence division general manager, said that Scotch always maintained a policy of cleaning flags for free but that the company decided to post a sign at the 1526 W. 23rd St. location reminding the public of the service because of the Persian Gulf War.
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