Friday, April 28, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
Step show acts as fund-raiser unifier for greek groups
By Jessie Meyer writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Members of the National Pan- Hellenic Council will step into the Lied Center at 7:30 tonight for their annual step show.
"It's an aggressive tap dance, usually making music with your feet to different rhythms," said Anthony Hersey, Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity member and participant in the show. "It's also militant because the movements are quick and precise."
The eight fraternities and sororities participating — seven of which historically are African-American organizations and one that historically is Latino — each will perform a number, combining stomping and clapping to create music and a storyline.
But it also adds an element of surprise.
"It's up to each fraternity or sorority to pick a theme, if they chose to do so," Hersey, Kansas City, Mo., senior, said. "That's where the creativity comes in." But it also adds an element of
"It's got to be a surprise to keep it exciting, but it is going to be nice," said Jessica Cornelius, Delta Sigma Theta sorority member and participant in the show. "But we do fun skirts that are usually modern."
Hersey said the event was much more than a dance number.
"Historically, it's done as an expression of unity among the Greek community and within ourselves," he said. "It's an expression of pulling together because everyone has to be on the same page."
The proceeds from the step show will go toward the Latina Sullivan Scholarship Fund, created in honor of Sullivan, a Delta Sigma Theta member who died of an asthma attack during the summer of 1997, said Kelly McClland, president of Delta Sigma Theta and Lawrence senior.
the five sororities and three fraternities will compete against one another, and a winner will be announced at the end of the program, she said.
"It's a lot of fun, a lot of hard work, and it takes a lot of practice and time." McClelland said. "But it's fun to get out there and do it."
Tickets are available at the Lied Center box office for $10.50.
University names new dean
Graduate school to benefit from Carlin's studies
By Katrina Hull
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
The University named a new dean of graduate school and international programs yesterday.
Diana Carlin, professor of communication studies and interim assistant provost, will begin her new position July 1. She will replace Andrew Debicki, who will return to teaching at the end of this summer.
For Carlin, the promoter is a chance to put her previous research to work. Carlin chaired the KU Initiative 2001 Task Force, which set goals for the University. The task force report included sections addressing international studies and graduate research.
"Here I spent a year of my life attending meetings and doing research, and now I
have an opportunity to actually take those blue-prints and do something with them." Carlin said.
Carlin, who joined the communications studies department in 1987, spent
the fall semester as interim associate provost for student support services and this spring as an interim assistant provost, filling in for staff on sabbatical.
Carlin said she didn't think she would have applied for an administration job a year ago.
"The experience in the provost office is what convinced me I could handle it." she
said. "This experience gave me the confidence. I can do this and I enjoy it."
While in the communications studies department, Carlin was promoted to assistant professor, associate professor and then full professor in 1999.
"I am very pleased that Diana Carlin has accepted the position," said Provost
David Shulenburger. "Her various administrative experiences in the University have given her a solid overall perspective of the institution as a whole."
Last August, Carlin was
Carlin: will begin her duties this summer.
one of 20 KU faculty
members who received a
W.T. Kemper
Fellowship for
Teach ing
Excellence.
Carlin has served on the President's Advisory Committee on the Arts and the Advisory Board Commission on Presidential Debates, chaired the state Kids
Voting project and coordinated the research project Debate Watch '96 on the presidential debates.
In 1998, Carlin was named an "Outstanding Educator" by the KU chapter of Mortar Board, a national honor society, and also was inducted into the KU Women's Hall of Fame.
Carlin said she had worked
"Here I spent a year of my life attending meetings and doing research, and now I have an opportunity to actually take those blueprints and do something with them."
Diana Carlin
new dean of graduate school
with graduate students and been involved with international scholars, students and travel. She said both graduate and international studies needed more funding at the University.
Debicki said he looked forward to working with Carlin during the summer as the transition between deans was made.
"I think she's a wonderful choice," Debicki said. "I worked with her in the past, and I am impressed by her skills and abilities."
SNL comedian to perform on campus
By Michael Sudhalter
Special to the Kansan
Special to the Kansan
Jimmy Fallon, who joined the popular television show Saturday Night Live in October 1998, will display his unique blend of stand-up comedy and parodies of hit songs at 8 p.m. tomorrow at 120 Budig Hall.
"Fallon is the next Adam Sandler with the way he uses the guitar in his song parodies," said Stacy Chain, Garden City senior and special events coordinator for Student Union Activities.
Chain, who has been a fan of Fallon's since his SNL debut, was instrumental in scheduling and promoting him at the University.
"We had a committee watch a video of Jimmy Fallon, and they thought it was a good idea to schedule him." Chain said.
"His material includes impressions of others, yet it is all original."
Fallon: has been compared to SNL alumnus Adam Sandler.
With his impressions of other comedians such as Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler and Howard Stern, as well as parodies of Marilyn Manson, Eminem and Ricky
Martin, Fallon has been an important addition to the SNL cast.
raion, 26, grew up in upstate New York and began a career as a comedian in 1991. While making a name for himself as an impressionist, he chased his dream by moving to Los Angeles four years later. After playing Los Angeles-area comedy
clubs in the such as the Comedy Store and the Laugh Factory, Fallon was chosen for the SNL cast.
In addition to his performing skills, Fallon is the co-writer of a new comedy book, I Hate This Place: The Pessimist's Guide to Life.
"We put his face on all of the promotional advertisements because many people know his face but not his name." Chain said. Johanna Wagenkentch, Olathe senior, also is a fan of Fallon's style of comedy.
heard one of my professors talking about how funny he was," she said.
Wagenknecht, who does not watch SNL on a regular basis, said she was expecting the performance to validate the great things she had heard about Fallon.
"Fallon is the next Adam Sandler with the way he uses the guitar in his song parodies,"
Garden City senior
Stacy Chain
Andrew Rosdahl, Nortonville freshman and Templin Hall resident, said he was encouraging other residents to attend Fallon's show.
"I saw the posters for it around campus and thought it would be a great social event for the dorm," he said.
Attending a campus event also eliminates issues of travel expenses, inconvenience and liabilities that go along with a social event in Kansas City or Topeka, he said.
"One of my friends wanted to go to a comedy club in Kansas City, but that would mean we would have to deal with travel fees and other issues," Rosdahl said. "This is much more convenient."
Rosdahl said he had not seen many of Fallon's performances but was aware of his reputation as a rising comedy star.
The show costs $8 for students with a KUID and $15 for the public.
KU students to join others for gay march in Washington
By Kimberly Thompson writer@kansan.com Special to the Kansan
The weekend will have several events and conferences and will end with the march on Sunday.
Lisa Braun, Deerfield senior, and her partner, Sabrina Channel, are going to Washington, D.C., this weekend to join thousands of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people for the fourth national March on Washington.
When Braun heard about the march, she compared it to being able to hear Martin Luther King speak.
"It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience," she said.
Braun said that several famous people would be in Washington, D.C., including Garth Brooks, George Michael, k.d. lang and Ellen DeGeneres. A six-block festival with books and information, chances to contact Congress and an Equality Rocks concert in Robert. F. Kennedy Stadium also would be offered, she said.
though it was really neat, the
Channel, who will be a junior next year
at the University, said that in addition to
doing some sightseeing, she and Braun
planned to visit the U.S. Holocaust
Museum, which has an exhibit on the
persecution of homosexuals.
Channel also said she was looking forward to meeting a lot of people and doing some networking for school.
"I'll just be hanging out with a bunch of people like me," she said.
David Hardy, Lesbian Bisexual Gay and Transgender liaison, went to the march in 1987. Other marches were in 1979 and 1993.
"They had to work the last couple years to get this off the ground," he said. "I think it's going to be successful."
Hardy said that in previous years the march had been in October because Oct. 11 was National Coming Out Day. This year, the march is in April because of the 2000 presidential elections.
Braun said that it was a very important year to vote and that the event would influence more people.
"Any time you get people in Washington, it increases knowledge of the government," she said. "It's an incredible opportunity to get your voice heard."
Braun said that although she had been to conferences around the Midwest, this one would be different because it was a national event and it was politically driven
"It's not just for college students; it's not just for lesbians," she said. "It's for the whole spectrum that is queer."
Salaries for Med Center officials reflect national market, provost says
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"They are considered an employ
faculty and administrative salaries in the top 100 list are very low relative to the top salaries elsewhere."
Not all of the money included in the list of figured salaries comes from state funds. Many of the salaries that made the list are only partially funded by state dollars. The rest comes from research grants, endowments and private funding.
For instance, when William Fuerst, a Texas A&M administrator, takes over as dean of business on July 3, $150,000 of his $225,000 salary will come from state dollars. The remaining $75,000 of Fuerst's salary will come from an endowed professorship.
Butler, who ranks sixth on the list, receives only 25.7 percent of his annual salary of $246,036 from state funds.
Theresa Klinkenberg, director of university administration, said professors whose salaries were funded less than one-half by state dollars still were considered state employees, which was why they made the list.
Hemenay, ranked 23rd, and Shulenburger, ranked 70th, are two of only 16 on the list whose salaries are funded completely by the state.
ee if they are on our payroll," Klinkenberg said. "Even if a faculty member is an endowed professor, the University writes a check for the whole amount of their salary, and then the Endowment Association reimburses the University."
Not included in the list are athletic coaches. Men's basketball coach Roy Williams makes in excess of $400,000, but his salary, as
well as that of football coach Terry Allen, is funded entirely by the privately owned KU Athletic Corporation.
"That means Roy Williams and Terry Allen are not state employees." Klinkenberg said.
The University's more than 75 faculty and administrators on the list greatly outnumber those on the list from other Regents institutions. Only nine faculty and administrators from Kansas State University made the list, and of those nine, only K-State President Jon Wefold broke the top 50.
Shulenburger said the fact that the University of Kansas was the only research institution in the state put it in competition with a different set of schools than the other Regents institutions and contributed to the fact that more KU salaries made the list.
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