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Beer cans barred in residence halls
Policy to outlaw empty containers
By Jessie Meyer
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The zero-tolerance alcohol policy at the University of Kansas just got tougher.
A policy banning empty alcohol containers in student housing will go into effect this fall, said Ken Stoner, director of student housing.
Josh Burdette, president of the Association of University Residence Halls and Student Housing Advisory Board member, said the advisory board approved the policy to help curb drinking in both the residence and scholarship halls.
"There was concern about having a lot of empty containers, because there can be no knowledge if they are empty or
not, short of checking every can." Burdette said.
But the safety The policy covers all containers that have held, or were specifically created to hold. alcoholic beverages.
"It takes the guesswork out of it," said Diana Robertson, associate director for residence life. "It makes it very clear to residents and staff members."
One of the main concerns the AURH had with the policy was in regard to collections and other projects in which the cans and bottles were used. To account for this, the board added a clause in the policy allowing for collections that specifically states:
clearly states:
"Empty containers that have been physically altered to serve a solely decorative purpose are permitted with prior approval from hall complex or scholarship hall directors." Burdette said.
Robertson said that students would need to register their collections through the hall in which they live.
Jill Tharp, Overland Park freshman and resident of Gertrude Sellars
Pearson-Corbin Hall, said she had been in several residence hall rooms where there were beer can and bottle displays.
"I don't think it will make a difference," Tharp said of the policy, "Part of having the collection is to prove that you drank all those beers, and people will get alcohol in the halls if they want it."
Kim Lorenz, Omaha, Neb., freshman,
agreed.
"I don't understand why empty containers would be banned," she said. "If there is no alcohol in them, they should be allowed."
The details surrounding the enforcement and punishments have not been nailed down.
"There are never any random room checks," Burdette said. "And there is no real set punishment. Right now it would be considered a policy violation like any others."
Because many specifies have not been decided, no action has taken place for several months. The next step is to put it into writing.
ALCOHOL POLICY CHANGE
Alcohol policy change
The new student housing alcohol policy, with choices in bold:
- "Cereal malt beverages and alcoholic liquor may not be brought into or consumed in educational buildings or in University student housing facilities. This regulation pertains to any person, regardless of age, student status or position within or outside of the University setting. To avoid any possible misunderstanding, alcoholic beverage containers of any type are not allowed in University housing facilities. Discovery of an alcoholic beverage container will require the immediate discarding of the container and its contents, if any, in the presence of a staff member. Empty containers that have been physically altered to serve solely decorative purposes are permitted with the prior approval of the hall's Complex or Scholarship Hall Director."
Casey Lauer, Lawrence freshman, studies at a room in Battenfeld Scholarship Hall. Beginning next fall, empty alcoholic beverage containers will not be allowed at University housing unless they have been physically altered for decorative purposes and have received prior approval. Photo by Tara Kraus/KANSAN
New program would stretch donations
By Katrina Hull
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
The University of Kansas may be losing to Missouri in a modern border war for money, Kansas University Endowment Association officials say.
Missouri is more attractive to donors dedicating dollars that entice top-notch professors because the state matches private donations to form professorships.
Kansas does not. But legislators are considering placing Kansas on a level battlefield with its Civil War rival when attracting university donations.
That could change if the Senate endorses the Kansas Partnership for Faculty Distinction program, which passed in the House of Representatives in the 1999 session
"In greater Kansas City, the state line is quite prominent," said Dale Seuferling, vice president for development at KU Endowment Association. "For the last four years, it has been more attractive to go to Missouri."
LIKE Missouri's program, the partner ship would require Kansas to match do lars for private donations that create new faculty positions, making Kansas a state where donor dollars stretch farther.
"Competition for the pool of available philanthropic dollars is keen, and these programs have been active in other states for several years," Seuferling said. "A program like this would be an important step in assisting the University of Kansas and other state universities in attracting and retaining the best faculty possible."
Bill Docking, chairman of the Board of
The proposed Kansas partnership would require a minimum donation to kick in the state's matching obligation.
"Frankly, Kansas is not keeping up with the competition," Docking said.
At the University, gifts of $500,000 or more would activate the program. Seuferling said that in the last two years, the Endowment Association had received three gifts that met the minimum requirements and had three more that might meet the requirement in the next few years. KANSAS Legislature
If enacted, the immediate impact at the University could be five new professorships in the next year, Seuferling said.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway told legislators
Seuferling said that donors were watching the legislation but that he could not release their names.
Thursday that the
Hospital had opened from
The Senate Ways and Means Committee is scheduled to vote on the proposal on March 1. Mike Matson, Regents director of external relations, said he thought legislators seemed receptive to the program despite the tight budget.
University had dropped from 85th to 101st in faculty compensation in U.S. Neus and World Report and that faculty compensation caused the University to drop from 30th to 38th overall.
The Legislature promised $8.4 million for faculty salary increases with higher education restructuring last year, but Docking said that was not enough to keep Kansas competitive.
"It is unreasonable to expect total state support to finance the level of quality, which we endeavor to maintain," Docking said. "For this, we must depend on the generosity of individuals who have strong allegiances to an institution."
Student sports fee may be eliminated
Bv Erinn R. Barcomb
By ERNIT R. BURGESS
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Members of the athletics department and one student spoke last night in favor of keeping a $20 per-semester student fee that pays for women's and nonrevenue sports.
Vocal opposition to the fee was absent when the student fees subcommittee met with representatives from the University of Kansas Athletic Corp.
An open forum for concerned students was scheduled as part of the meeting, but Michael Henry, Student Senate campus director, was the only student to speak.
Henry gave examples of former student athletes who had participated in nonrevenue sports at the University and went on to pursue medical degrees or become teachers.
"This is about 587 student athletes this fee affects," Henry said.
Henry said.
The price of the fee is what a student might spend on a Saturday night, Henry said. But $20 a semester also can mean four years of memories to a student athlete, he said.
The fee generates between $850,000 and $900,000 annually. Women's basketball receives the largest portion of the fee about $150,000.
Korb Maxwell, student body president, had said that, although he supported women's and nonrevenue sports, he did not think the fee
"Our primary goal is to serve student athletes, but we have to look at what all students want."
Bob Frederick
Athletics Director
provided a service for students like the libraries fee,for example.
Bob Frederick, athletics director, Pat Warren, assistant athletics director, and Susan Wachter, chief financial officer of KUAC, answered questions from the committee about the use of student fees for women's and nonrevenue sports.
"Our primary goal is to serve student athletes, but we have to look at what all students want," Frederick said.
Frederick said that KUAC paid the largest amount of student fees because of grants-in-aid provided to student athletes.
The fee is why students do not have to pay to see women's and nonrevenue sports, Frederick said. Wachter added that fees kept basketball and football ticket prices low, as well.
Frederick said KUAC would have to cut a program or find another source of revenue if fees were eliminated.
The committee will make a decision about the fee within one or two weeks.
Speaker urges crowd to pull together, make University more inclusive
Ed Harvey, who played on the Jayhawk football team, was one of the first African Americans to attend the University. Photo courtesy of University Relations.
By Ryan Blethen
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Around the turn of the 20th century, the University of Kansas attracted a large group of African-American students, but since then, the University has slid backward, said Bill Tuttle, professor of history and American studies, to a crowd of 75 people last night at the Frontier Room in the Burge Union.
African Americans gravitated toward the University a century ago because other area schools such as the University of Oklahoma and the University of Arkansas would not accept them, Tuttle said in his lecture titled "If These Walls Could Talk; African Americans at KU."
The lecture was part of African-American History Month. Alton Scales, director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, said the idea of the lecture was to look at African-American history as it pertained to the University.
University. The first African American to graduate from Kansas was Blanche K. Bruce in 1865, Tuttle said. Sherman Harvey, another 19th-century African-American graduate of Kansas, was admitted to the bar. Sherman's brother, Ed Harvey, played on the football
team in 1893.
But the strides these students made faded a couple of decades latter, Tuttle said.
"By 1920, the school was rigidly segregated," Tuttle said. "This sort of hatred had the sanction of the chancellor and the administration."
Tuttle said that students at that time had to pass a swimming test to graduate but that African-American students were not required to take the test, because administration did not want them in the pool. He said African Americans were allowed to swim in the pool once a month, but afterward the pool was drained.
"When the war ended in 1945, there was already a civil rights movement on campus," he said. "Returning vets just added to this."
he said. Returning verbally, In the 1980s, the momentum continued because of Chancellor Franklin Murphy, Tuttle said.
He attributed this change to an open-minded
gamus and returning veterans.
Tuttle said things improved during and after World War II.
"Let's all pull together and make this the place it ought to be," Turtle said.
At the end of his speech, Tuttle urged the crowd to make the University more inclusive.
Blanche K. Bruce was the first African-American student to graduate from the University. Photo courtesy of University Relations