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Comic strip to end later this year ■ CARTOON: The str p first appeared in 1986. and is distributed to almost 2,400 newspapers KANSAS CITY. Mo (AP) Calvin and Hobbes, the terrible tyke and Ins sidekick tiger, will be retired from the funny pages on Dot:. 31 In a letter to newspaper edi tors Thursday, cartoonist Hill Wntterson said the decision to end the strip was not a re» ent or easy decision "I believe I've done what I (.an do within the constraints of daily deadlines and small pan els." Wntterson. tH, said in the letter "I am eager to work nt a more thoughtful pace, with fewer artistic compromises Calvin and Hobbes hit the comic pages in 1‘lBfi and enter tained millions with the antics a 6-year-old boy with an ov(trac tive imagination and a not so stuffed tiger The letter featured a drawing of the two cartoon characters getting kicked out a door The two buddies are shown (dutch mg each other as they fly through the air, leaving n trail of stars. In the past nine years, the pair Uum tied i ountless snowball ambushes, journeyed through space, tormented a baby sitter and ran afoul of Calvin's patient parents Colxm and Hohhrs is distrib uted internationally to nearly 2.400 newspapers More than 2.1 million c opies of books based on the cartoon are in print All I t collections were million-dollar sellers in their first year In his letter. VVatterson said he had not decided on what he will do nest !.*>«} Salem, editorial director at the Univerul Press Syndii ate in Kansas City, said that after Dei 31. the company will not provide reruns of the strip to newspapers the way it did when Watterson took a nine-month leave of absence in 1991 and again last year Salem said two Calvin anil Hobbes hook collections will In* released next year The books include comic strips that have already appeared m newspa pers Beyond that. Salem said t int versa! Press does not know if Watterson will produce new book* or other materials "We hope he'll come up with something wecan use in the mar ket." Salem said, "but wr don't know what the market will be " t he reclusive cartoonist has refused to lie interviewed and will not reveal where he lives Credited free speech series starts next week ■ LECTURE: University President David Frohnmayer's brother heads list of speakers By Mara Stine Higbei fiducatton Reporter Students can earn one credit by attending a free, week-long lecture series on free speech and censorship entitled “A Nation of Chickens: Our Forgotten First Amendment." Talks begin at 9 a.in and end at 10:50 a hi and take place at the Alumni l.ounge in Gerlinger Mall. John Frohnmayer, former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts and brother of Universi ty President David Frohnmayer. will lead the series. Topics include: "Hate Speech: Should Intolerance be Tolerat ed'" on Monday, Nov Ul; "Col lisions on the Information Superhighway” on Tuesday: "Mending the Constitution with Reckless Abandon” on Wednes day; "Censorship: The Tyranny of the Majority" on Thursday, and "Ethic:, Politics and Art: Aliens to Each Other” on Friday Students interested in attend SPEECH CALENDAR ■ Monday. Nov. 13 Hate Speech Should Intolerance Be Tolerated? ■ Tuesday, Nov. 14 Collisions on the Information Superhighway ■ Wednesday. Nov 15 Amending the Constitution with Reckless Abandon ■ Thursday, Nov. 16 Censorship: The Tyranny of the Majority ■ Friday. Nov. 17 Ethics. Politics and Art Aliens to Each Other f Ml RAID ing the series lor credit < an call the Arts and Administration Pro gram at 346-3639 for informa tion. The publh is also welcome to attend the talks said l.indu Ettinger, program director of the Arts and Administration Pro gram. Free speech issues are now more than ever in tin* forefront of our cultural and national con cerns. Ettinger said “All of us realize how many different perspectives there ar** in this nation, and it's difficult to say it's all right for one group to speak and not another." slut said. The First Amendment is always under attack, said Garrett l.pps. an assistant law professor who is teaching a First Amend ment class at the University's Law School “There are always some groups with political power who want to explain why their polit ical aims should be honored to the detriment of free speech," he said. The series is important because the issue of free speech is crucial to a free society, said David Schuman, Assistant Dean of the law School. “This is an opportunity to hear first hand accounts of someone who has dealt with official cen sorship at the highest levels. ’ he said Epps said he doubts people will fall asleep during the talks "I expect it will lie a very live ly and interesting series." he said "Mr Frohnmayer is not afraid to stir controversy and that 's good Cash For Textbooks Mon.-Sat. 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Schmidt said "J was tho one assaulted Tho Si was a stalomonl to say ‘You're wrong and in il for the money.'" While Schmidt still fat os a criminal trial on Jan. 30, Morrow said that the deci sion in the civil court case will probably foreshadow f the ouU ome of the criminal cose. “For us to have prevailed in that civil rase, the jury had to find that the evident« weighed greater in our favor Morrow said, adding that in order for the district attorney to convict Schmidt on fourth-degree assault, it would have to he proven beyond a reasonable doubt that F.ngelmann was the one who got assaulted “Given the fact that the evidence has been tested. I don't think it will go for ward." 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