TUESDAY,APRIL8.2003
6A = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
TUESDAY,APRIL8,2003
KUnited candidates ride on platform of free campus bus
By Cote Batschelder
cbatchelder@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The "Jayhawk Express" rides high at the top of the red, KUnited handbills.
If elected, KUnited says all students can ride free.
"It makes sense," said Catherine Bell, KUnited vice-presidential candidate. "If students pay $32 for a campus transportation fee, then they should be able to
ride one bus route for free."
A "free" bus route would require a transportation fee increase of about $15. It is now set at $18. KU on Wheels might also have to modify an off-campus route, said Eric Braun, transportation board chairman.
The Jayhawk Express route would travel from Memorial Stadium to campus locations such as JRP Hall and the new recreation center. The route would essentially create another Park and
Ride system by using the lot at the stadium. Bell and Knopp, KUnited student body presidential candidates, said the program could eventually be subsidized by the Park and Ride program from the Parking Department.
When students buy $130 Park and Ride passes, KU on Wheels sends $50 of the fee to the Parking Department. The increase in sales of those passes has caused KU on Wheels to lose money because fewer students buy the normal
yearly $120 bus passes KU on Wheels lost $40,000 this year but has a reserve account of $400,000.
The transportation board met yesterday to vote on bus routes for next year. The board didn't see KUnited's bus proposal.
Bell, transportation board member, said her coalition hadn't proposed the route because it
wanted to gauge the students' reactionsfirst.
"If students vote for a change, it's as simple as that," he said.
Knopp said the results from the elections would determine what should be done. Because the Jayhawk Express is on the KUnited platform, electing Knopp and Bell would mandate them to follow through with the coalition's causes.
Tim Akright, transportation board coordinator, said anything
"I mean, we dropped the JRP route last November," he said. "It's whatever the board wants to do."
could happen.
Some off-campus routes don't reach peak efficiency and could be moved around to compensate for the Jayhawk Express, he said.
"The maps don't go to the printers for a couple months," he said.
Edited by Lindsay Hanson
Class teaches understanding of stereotypes against women
Psychology course encourages equality between genders
By Kevin Wiggs
kwiggs@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
University of Kansas men that take the Psychology of Women class for an easy 'A' or to meet women may learn a thing or two about stereotypes and opportunity.
"Psychology of Women" is offered every semester in an
attempt to further the movement for women's equality and understanding.
There are seven men taking the class this semester, which is about average according to Zoe Peterson, graduate teaching assistant, and the teacher this semester. She said men took it for a variety of reasons. Most are psychology majors, some are male feminists and some just go wanting a debate.
Peterson teaches the class this
"I've heard more from people that haven't taken it," she said. "Most of them joke about using it to meet women."
semester, but Charlene Muehlenhard has taught it since she came to the University in 1988. She said the purpose of the class was to encourage critical thinking about stereotypical gender roles.
"There are a lot of myths and misinformation out there that this course can help shatter," Muehlenhard said. "A lot of the things people think they know turn out to be false."
Muehlenhard said the class was started at the University, which has one of the oldest women's study programs in the country, because all of the psychological theories before the second wave of feminism in the late 1960s and 70s were based on men. The class examines those theories critically and compares it to modern data.
Peterson said it was important formen to not be intimidated, and to sign up because gender role stereotypes were harmful to men and women.
"Of course it's helpful for women because they are the ones disadvantaged by these stereotypes," she said. "But challenging these ideas gives men a range of options in life."
"There are a lot of myths and misinformation out there that this course can help shatter."
Charlene Muehlenhard course instructor
Chris Shaw, Fargo, N.D., junior, took the class because he is a psychology major and it seemed intriguing.
"Everyone should take a women's studies class," he said. "I saw some ways I was biased against women that I had never
thought about. You really don't know what you're missing."
The class will be offered again next semester from 9:30 a.m. to 10:50 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays and will be taught by Muchlenhard.
There are no plans to start a "Psychology of Men" class, said Greg Simpson. Department of Psychology chairperson. He said they would consider starting such a class if a faculty member was interested in teaching it and it fit into the curriculum.
Edited by Melissa Hermreck
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