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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 02, 2001
Page
4
Established 1906 The G Telegram delaney gctelegram.com Draper gctelegram.com Editor and Publisher Managing Editor listing appears as a historical newspaper masthead item noting roles and contact references.
An address by Leroy S. Rouner of Boston University argues that college majors should be chosen for love, not immediate usefulness. He cites that future utility is unpredictable and that liberal education broadens the mind, fostering lifelong learning and human wisdom rather than narrow skills. Phi Beta Kappa is praised as gloriously useless, valuing goodness and wisdom alongside intellect.
Finney County commissioners held a road meeting in Pierceville with about 20 attendees, more than the usual county seat turnout. They plan continuing off campus sessions to bring government closer to constituents, noting zoning and nuisance issues and prioritizing road projects plus a Holcomb bridge and Main Street. City officials in Garden City are urged to also hold occasional evening sessions to boost public participation and oversight.
In a candid chat Senator Sam Brownback and Hillary Clinton, both Methodists from opposite sides of the spectrum, discuss restoring civility amid partisan rancor. The piece notes Brownback’s McCain Feingold vote, money in politics, and the broader struggle for integrity in a system fueled by power and money.
May 2 marks key events across centuries. Stonewall Jackson wounded at Chancellorsville in 1863, da Vinci died in 1519 at Cloux, Oklahoma Territory organized in 1890, Prokofiev premiered Peter and the Wolf in 1936, and Berlin fell with Nazi capitulations in 1945. Thoughtful quote from Henry Ward Beecher adds moral reflection.
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