CAMPUS/AREA
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, February 21, 1996
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Center proposal angers students
Recreation center funds would come from student fee increases
By Nicole Kennedy Kansan staff writer
Some students are angry about a proposal that would increase student fees to finance a new recreation center, and they plan to make their voices heard.
The students are forming an opposition coalition called Students Against the Recreation Center in an effort to educate students
about the recreation center plans.
Jason Fizell, Olathe junior is one of three students organizing the coalition.
"One thing so far that has encouraged me is that the vast majority of people are against this," Fizell said. "I'm scared that people will get that impression and think they don't have to vote on the issue. On a one-issue referendum like this...the people who get out and vote are in favor of it."
The student referendum ___
on the recreation center issue will be held
next Tuesday and Wednesday.
courts, a free-weight room, a cardiovascular fitness training area, an aerobic studio, a combative arts studio, an indoor track and a rock-climbing wall. It would open in Fall 1999.
At a town-hall meeting on the issue last week, Shannon Tauscher, Lawrence graduate student, voiced her personal opposition to the recreation center.
"I'm scared that people will... think they don't have to vote on the issue."
Tauscher also is leading the opposition coalition.
Tauscher argued that there were many opportunities for recreation on campus already and that student fees should be spent to improve the computer center and make technological improvements at the University.
However, Fitzell said he agreed with improv-
Voting booths will be set up in the Kansas and Burge unions, Robinson Gymnasium, Strong Hall and Wescoe Hall.
With the proposal, per-semester student fees would increase by $30 next fall. The fees would continue to increase on a graduated scale until Fall 1999, when they would reach $90 per semester.
The increased fees would help pay for the building and operational costs of the $21 million recreation center.
The center would include seven gymnasium
Jason Fizell Olathejunior
sad he agreed with improving recreational opportunities for students. He said he would support an addition to the existing Robinson facilities.
"I myself do favor upgrading those, but it doesn't cost $21 million," Fitzell said.
He said he thought students should have more time to become in-formed about the center before the referendum.
"Senate would like to think that a week and a half is enough to do that, said.
Kim Cocks, student body president, said the opposition coalition and the Recreation Services Advisory Board, which will campaign in favor of the center, will have the same amount of time to mobilize before the referendum.
but it's not," Fizell said.
In addition, Cocks said Senate was working on an unbiased, get-out-and-vote campaign.
"For the next week, this office will be geared toward getting people out to vote on the issue," she said.
The opposition coalition will hold its first meeting at 7 tonight in Parlors A and B on the fifth floor in the Kansas Union.
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Members of the construction crew building Budig Hall spend their lunch break high up in the rafters. The hall is scheduled to be ready for classes in Fall 1997.
Spanish professor dies at 47
By Amy McVey
Kansan staff writer
Robert Arthur Granberg, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese, died in his home Monday of complications from AIDS. He was 47.
He will be remembered by friends as an experienced gardener, a wonderful teacher and a world traveler, said Daniel Bradish. Granberg's companion.
Granberg's sister, Elizabeth Barnhill, will remember his love for his English garden.
"I don't think there was a night in the summer that you wouldn't find him with a hose in his hand, and he always had fresh flowers on the table," she said. "Everything he did was artistic."
"He was very,very dedicated to his undergraduate students," said Feldman, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese. "He was the kind of person and professor who brought out the best in people."
Sharon Feldman, Granberg's co-worker and best friend, said Granberg was an expert in Spanish pronouns and an inspiring professor.
Sanjeev Agrawal, a student of Granberg's, said Granberg was one of the best teachers he ever had had.
"I could come up with probably a million adjectives to describe him," said Agrawal, St. Louis graduate student. "He was probably one of the best professors at the University of Kansas. He was very caring, and he knew how to communicate with his students."
Granberg was born in Pittsburg, Calif., on Dec. 6, 1948. He lived there until he left for the University of California, Davis. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1971.
He earned a master's degree in Spanish Language and Literature from San Francisco State University in 1976.
Granberg was a teaching fellow at San Francisco State University for two years and at UCLA for eight years.
He earned a doctorate in Hispanic Languages and Literature from UCLA in 1988,
and he lectured in the department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University from 1986 until he moved to Lawrence seven years ago.
Granberg was a member of the Modern Language Association and various committees at the University of Kansas.
He taught Intermediate Spanish II, Spanish Phonetics and Phonology and History of the Spanish Language here.
He is survived by companion Daniel Bradish of Lawrence; his parents, Arthur and Alice Granberg of Pittsburg, Calif.; his sister, Elizabeth Barnhill of Lawrence; two brothers, Kenneth A. Granberg of Alameda, Calif. and Wayne E. Granberg of Fresno, Calif.; nine nieces and nephews; and seven great nieces and nephews.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the Heartland Community Church, 1031 New Hampshire St.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Dr. Robert Granberg Memorial Scholarship in care of Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home, 601 Indiana St.
Speaker says rap's message not just a gangsta's paradise
By Heather Kirkwood
Kansan staff writer
Rap music is under attack.
William Perkins, faculty fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and educational director of the W.E.B. DuBois College House, said that the attack was coming from a conservative right that didn't understand the genre or the realities of life for many American youths.
Perkins gave a lecture to about 50 audience members last night titled The Future of Rap, a discussion on the culture of rap music and its artists at the Frontier Room in the Burge Union.
Listing a litany of rap music that has come under attack over the last several years, Perkins illustrated what he believed to be a double standard in society.
"It is curious to me that more of us have not asserted the moral high ground on this issue in holding white rock stars to the same rigors — and I might add artificial standards — that these moral commandos would hold us to," he said.
Perkins has spent the past 15 years studying rap music. He became interested in the field when his
children began listening to rap music in the early '80s. He researched the genre and was asked to assist with a 20/20 story by gathering the first documentary footage showing how rap was evolving in New York City.
"This is a way to penetrate and look into the interior through the prism of youth," Perkins said. "Rap is about being real. It's authentic no matter what color or class."
But rap is being attacked by those who find its lyrics offensive, and this elicits a passionate response from Perkins.
"The lyrical focus of rap reflects reality. It deserves our attention, not regulation," he said, pointing out that a threat to rap's ability to freely express experiences was a threat to everyone's ability to do the same.
Allen was also concerned about right wing attacks on rap music. "They have no context," he said. "They don't understand the misery."
"I wanted to see an intellectual discussion of rap," he said.
Brad Allen, Topeka junior, said he had been looking forward to the speech.
Flu outbreak strikes students
By Teresa Veazey Kansan staff writer
Shawn Harpstirre will be taking a vacation for the next two days, but he's not looking forward to it.
The Andover sophomore was diagnosed with influenza and will be spending the next couple of days in bed.
Harpstrife was one of dozens of students who visited Watkins Memorial Health Center yesterday and Monday because of the flu, said Charles Yockey, Watkins physician. He estimated that Watkins staff saw more than 100 cases on Monday alone.
"We had about double our usual volume," he said. "It seemed like over a third of patients had acute influenza."
"It just hits you," Yockey said. "One minute you're fine; the next minute you feel like you've been hit by a
The two types of influenza that Watkins physicians have seen are stomach flu and respiratory flu, which is the type that people get flu shots in the fall. Yockey said. People with respiratory flu can tell exactly when they get sick.
Feeling under the weather?
Students who are sick and have the following symptoms may have the flu. A visit to Watkins Health Center can help students feel better again.
Nausea
Vomiting
Diarrhea
Minor aches
A low-grade temperature
TREATMENT:
- Drink clear liquids until symptoms have subsided for 24 hours.
- Eat only foods that are easy on the stomach.
- No medication except anti-nausea medicine for people who can't keep anything down.
Respiratory flu
■ Severe muscle aches
■ Sore throat
■ Non-productive cough
■ Fever (around 103 degrees)
■ Headache
■ Prescription medicine (Amantadine) if taken within 48 hours of onset of symptoms.
■ Drink fluids that aren't dairy products. Dairy products make mucus during a fever and increase congestion.
Source: Dr. Charles Yockey, Watkins Health Center
truck."
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Yockey said that several Watkins staff members had the flu, so the challenge has been to see more patients with less staff.
Vockey recommended that students who wanted to keep the flu away should wash their hands before they eat, get enough sleep, avoid drinking a lot of alcohol and be cau
tious when sharing food with someone else.
The higher number of flu cases doesn't mean an epidemic, Yockey said.
"Unless we get 200 people in here in a day with the flu, we wouldn't call it an epidemic," he said. "We have a definite outbreak — it's too early to tell if it's large or small."
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