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April 24, 2003
Vol. 113. Issue No.141
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New vice provost spot filled
Position puts focus on student success
By Lauren Airey lairey@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Marlesa Roney, a Kansas native who currently oversees student services at the University of Akron in Ohio, has been named vice provost for student success at the University of Kansas, Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett, senior vice provost, said yesterday.
Roney, vice president of student affairs at Akron since 2000, will begin her new duties in the Office for Student Success at the University June 23.
Loren Malone, a member of the search committee, said Roney was enthusiastic and concerned with what was in the best interest of the students.
"She did a lot of things at her previous universities to help students out," Malone said. "She was very compassionate and she seemed like she would fit into the University very well."
Roney
Roney will oversee academic and student services that promote student retention, academic success and graduation at the University. She replaces the vice provost of student affairs, David Ambler, who retired after 25 years at the University. The title change reflects reorganization and streamlining of services that were approved last year.
The Office of Student Success includes the KU Memorial Unions, Stu
"We are very pleased to have someone of Marlesa Roney's caliber join us at KU." McCluskey-Fawcett said in a press
release yesterday. "She has an outstanding record as a student advocate and is a visionary administrator."
dent Health Services,Student Housing Student Financial Aid and the Department of Student Life.
At Akron, Roney oversees 13 departments, including admissions, financial aid, international programs, student recreation and student health. She
served for six years as the registrar of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., and received her doctoral degree in student personnel administration in 1985 from Purdue. She earned her master's and two undergraduate degrees from Kansas State University in 1981 and 1980 and is a graduate of Concordia High School.
"As an administrator and a colleague, she is a problem solver, a person of great integrity and a great advocate for student issues," said Oletha Thompson, associate vice president for campus life at the University of Akron. "We will certainly miss her, but talented people are always identified and its hard to keep them."
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Courtney Kuhlen/Kansan
Sam Pierron, nontraditional senator, asked why the proposed student fee increase for the Multicultural Resource Center should not be voted on by the student body. He suggested an online vote for the issue yesterday night using the same setup used in the recent elections.
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Jonathan Ng and Loren Malone react to comments about their past year as student body president and vice president. Yesterday night's Senate meeting was the final one of the year and Ng and Malone's last at their positions.
Senate ends with fee approval
By Cate Batchelder
cbatchelder@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
There was some crying, good crying.
There were some shout-outs. There was the drama, always the drama.
At last night's joint Student Senate meeting, the old showed the new what to look forward to next year.
The instigator creating the drama this time around was Sam Pierron, nontraditional senator.
Pierron proposed to make the student fee for the new Multicultural Resource Center go to a special referendum for students to vote on. The vote would take place in two weeks in an online vote at the election polling sites.
He said he supported the fee, which is $3.50 for students enrolled in more than six hours, but thought the online referendum would hold the next year's KUnited coalition to its "Have a say before you pay" campaign promise.
Andy Knopp, KUnited student body president-elect, sat a few rows behind Pierron. He smiled when his coalition's slogan was mentioned.
"I think this is a good testament," he said.
HOLDOVER SENATORS
The 2002-2003 Student Senate elected next year's holdover senators last night. They are:
Drew Thomas
Casey Collier
Jeff Allmon
"I'd hate to have seen a political joke interfere with a year's work of progress with the new MRC," Knopp said.
Knopp said he planned to stand by
nts campaign promise of asking students' opinions about student fees. But he also said previous resolutions and bills already passed in Student Senate supporting the new Multicultural Resource Center were enough to make the decision last night without a special referendum.
The motion to put the fee to referendum failed 13-45. The Multicultural Resource Center student fee passed 55-2.
"It's out of our hands, thank God," Ng said. "Hopefully, we can open this bad boy up by Fall 2005."
— Edited by Melissa Hermreck
Queer group revives idea to establish fraternity
By Jessica Palimenio jpalimenio@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Since the late '80s, gay, bisexual and lesbian fraternities and sororities have been forming at universities across the country.
One of the largest organizations is Delta Lambda Phi national social fraternity. The original chapter was formed in Washington, D.C., in 1986 and has now grown to 20 active chapters and five colonies across the country.
The organization's mission states that it was formed "To enhance the quality of life among gay, bisexual, and progressive men by providing
See story on Asian groups' efforts to create fraternity and sorority on page 3A
dignified and purposeful social, service, and recreational activities."
In the past, efforts to create a similar organization at the University of Kansas have not been successful, but the idea has been revived.
In November, Jimmie Manning. Lawrence graduate student, took the responsibility of forming the fraternity, which he believes is important.
Manning said people claimed that gay men had difficulty connecting and this was a positive outlet for them to accomplish that.
The organization's mission states that it was formed "to enhance the quality of life among gay, bisexual, and progressive men by providing dignified and purposeful social, service, and recreational activities."
Past attempts to start a fraternity have failed because of a simple lack of follow through, Manning said
To be registered as a fraternity by the University of Kansas, it will have to be recognized by one of the three councils that oversee the the fraternity and sorority community: the Interfraternity Council, the National Pan-Hellenic Council and the Panthellenic Association.
A request for recognition will be reviewed and voted on by the council that receives the request. The fraternity can only apply to the Interfraternity Council or the National Pan-Hellenic Council; the Panhellenic Association is composed of only sororities.
Angie Carr, coordinator for fraternity and sorority life, said past efforts to form the organization were well received by the fraternity and sorority system.
"I feel quite confident that they will be given the opportunity to participate in whichever council they choose," Carr said.
SEE FRATERNITY ON PAGE 10A
Regents to consider use of private funding
By Lauren Airey lairey@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
The Board of Regents is trying to keep pace with other Big 12 Universities and the rest of the country when it comes to administrative salaries, said the Regents president.
President Reginald Robinson said the Regents recognized the national trend toward higher salaries for university presidents and chancellors by forming a working group to consider the use of private donations to build on state-paid salaries.
'It's the same way that state universities use private funds for salaries for distinguished professors or endowed funds to
The issue of private salary supplements is still in the early stages and a date has not been set for the working group's first meeting, Carter said. At the March Regents meeting, Robinson told the Regents a trend had been developing to establish private salary supplements to attract and retain university chief executive officers. Robinson appointed nine people, including the Kansas University Endowment Association president Dale Seuferling, to a working group to gather data and information about private supplements and make a recommendation to the Regents.
attract and retain top faculty," Dick Carter, director of external relations for the Regents, said. "It's adding value to state dollars."
"There is a need for this, given that other states and universities do this combination of support with state support and private donations," Seuferling said.
None of the five state university presidents or Chancellor Robert Hemenway currently receive private funds as part of their salaries. Robinson said a private donor had initiated steps to create a fund to supplement the salaries of the CEOs at the University of Kansas and Kansas State University.
Three university presidents in the Big 12, including Kansas State President Jon Wefalid, earn less than Hemenway. The University will pay Hemenway $219,420 next year. It also provides him with his house and a car.
COMPENSATION FOR PUBLIC-COLLEGE PRESIDENTS $ ^{*} $
Texas A&M at College Station $365,400
University of Oklahoma $285,304
 Iowa State University $281,875
University of Texas at Austin $253,224
Texas Tech University $245,440
University of Nebraska-Lincoln $228,000
University of Colorado-Boulder $225,000
University of Kansas $191,420
Oklahoma State University $215,000
University of Missouri-Columbia $212,920
Kansas State University $209,820
Hemenway's secretary said the chancellor was not available for comment.
Only one public university in the Big 12 supplements the salary of its CEO with private donations. Larry Faulkner, president of the University of Texas at Austin, has $187,279 of his $253,224
- does not include Baylor University, a private university.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
salary paid with private funds, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Seuferling said he was not yet aware of a timeline for the group to present a recommendation on the issue of private donations.
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