University Daily Kansan
Wednesdav. February 20. 1980
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Black alumni group assists students with problems
By CINDY WHITCOME
Staff Reporter
The KU Black Alumni Committee may be the organization most likely to solve problems encountered by blacks at the University. Marshall Jeckison, assistant director of KU Black Alumni Committee.
Lack of funding for black organizations and a general reluctance to change has weakened the success of some black organizations, as workforce, but the com-
Jackson, a 1970 graduate, was one of the committee's organizers in October 1976.
The committee is attempting not only to increase black participation in alumni activities, but also to get involved in the activities of black students, Jackson said.
THE COMMITTEE sponsors activities with student groups such as the Black Student Union, the Black American Law Students Association and the Black Student Council, Jackson said. The committee also cosponsors Black History Month events.
The committee has sponsored an annual Career Day and Job Opportunities Fair for black students since 1977.
Leslie Saunders-Turner, assistant director of admissions and coordinator of special projects for the KU Alumni need students need someone to help them find jobs.
"Until the career conference, there was really nobody to tell black students how to prepare for jobs. This was the students have to identify with, 'Saunders-Turner said.
Saunders-Turner, a 1974 graduate, said her position with the Alumni Association was created in February 1979 to serve the needs of all minority alumni.
Faculty Council to fill open seats
By BILL MENEZES
By BILL MENEZES Staff Reporter
Nominations to fill opening Faculty Council positions came up seven short of the required number at last week's deadline.
Jance Zink, administrative assistant for governance, said yesterday that only 19 of 26 nominations needed for Faculty Council positions. The nominations closed Friday. The council's election procedures require at least two nominees for each of the 13 positions that serve on the Faculty Council.
The rest of the nominations will be made by the Faculty Council executive committee Zink said.
Faculty Senate members were nominated for positions on the council by petition from other members. The petitions required to be approved by least five members of the Faculty Senate.
Evelyn Swartz, Faculty Council member, said one reason for the lack of nominations might have been a willingness on the part of members to let others do the work of governance.
"With some there may be a degree of apathy," she said. "Sometimes people in governance just like to take time off."
But Swartz said that despite the low nomination turnout, Faculty Council performed an important function in governance.
"We need to have new blood coming in," she said. "It is very important that the faculty continue to have a part in decision-making." A long-range plan and faculty development
"In some of the smaller schools you may have just one nomination, and that doesn't make it much of an election."
Faculty Council comprises the 39 faculty
members of the University Council, a student-faculty body of University governance, at least one representative from each faculty or research departments from Watson and Sooner libraries.
Zink said election ballots and a form to indicate committee preferences would be sent to Faculty Senate members March 1. He decided for returning them in March 20.
Zink said that if two candidates were nominated from the same school but neither candidate was among the top 13, then the vote between the two would be the post.
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THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION has been cooperating in the Black Alumni Committee's efforts, Jackson said, and Dick Anderson has been involved, helped the committee since its beginning.
AFTER THE COMMITTEE was formed, the organizers contacted other black alumni by word of mouth. Jackson said.
"I thought Dick Wintermorte may have gotten some pressure from other alumni not to have the committee, but I can't prove that. I just had this feel," Jackson said.
"Some of the alumi start kicking around the idea of forming a committee," Jackson said, "because the activities of the Association were not attended by blacks.
The idea for the committee was formed while KU fans watched their football team upset Oklahoma on Nov. 8, 1975, he said.
The alumni contacted ranged from Elmer Jackson, a former Board of Regents
"The first meeting to organize the committee was in the fall of 78 and the first Career Day was in the spring of 77."
"Of course, we act as a sort of grievance committee," she said. "If there were no problems there would be a need for a committee, but we are more at a watchdog.
One of the first conflicts the organizers had to face was whether to be a part of the Alumni Association or to form a separate association, Jackson said.
SAUNDERS-TURNER SAID the committee acted as an instrument for voicing problems as well as positively promoting black activities.
"It was decided then that it woul be a more positive approach if we functioned as a part of the present Alumni Association," he said.
Today, the committee has 1,500 registered members, Saunders-Turner said.
recruiting more black faculty and staff members, she said.
"When a position is open at KU, a lot of time back appends it in the stack. But we can't do that too if it's too tall. We're trying to open nationwide communication to alumni so they can apply for positions."
member and a 1933 graduate, to 1976 graduates, Jackson said.
"It takes encouragement from both sides, black and white, to make the committee work."
THERE ARE PLANS to set up black alumn" core groups" around the country to involve more alumn in KU activities, accrue Marge Owen, chairman of the committee.
A majority of the participants in the activities are from Lawrence, Kansas City. Topeka and Wichita, Owens said.
"We have our goals to increase student involvement in our activities and at our meeting we will decide exactly what we are going to do to reach these goals," she said.
The Black Alumni Committee is funded primarily by the KU Endowment and the University of Arkansas affairs and records, the office of minority officers and the Black Faculty and Staff Council.
The committee also is concerned with
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