TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11. 2003
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 3A
Community leaders group promotes abstaining from sex
By Janette Yost editor@kansan.com Special to the Kansan
Douglas County has declared February "Abstinence Awareness Month." And the Training Leaders for the Community project are working hard to get the message out.
The project employs 14 University of Kansas students who give presentations throughout the schoolyeartoyoungpeopleages 10-17 on the physical and emotional consequences of promiscuous sex, and how to develop good charac
ter. The point of the project is to help high school and middle school students make good decisions before they are faced with the pressure of engaging in sexual intercourse.
During the week leading up to Valentine's Day, Feb. 10 through Feb. 14, the project is targeting all of Douglas County, parents and college students included, with its message of abstinence.
"The idea of awareness week is to get people just thinking about it, regardless of what decisions they'll make," said Katie Pretz, Osawatomie junior and three-year
project employee. "Having them think about it means a lot to me."
The projects employees have been busy organizing events for the week, which include manning tables on Wescoe Beach, giving out raffle prizes at certain public locations around town and an open mic night at Paradise Cafe on Wednesday at 8 p.m.
Independent of the project, Watkins Health Center is hosting Sexual Responsibility Week, sponsored by the Boost Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Student (BACCHUS) and Greeks Advocating the Mature Management of Alcohol (GAMMA) Peer Education Network, which sponsors the week on national college campuses every year.
The Community project and Watkins will work together on a few events, despite their differences in opinion on what safe sex is.
Bill Smith, Watkins health educator, hopes that the projects message of abstinence has an effect on KU students. He said that Watkins will be supporting not only the use of contraceptives when having sex, but also the choices of abstinence or postponement, which is what
Smith calls "waiting for the right time." He said that the students who have decided not to engage in sexual behavior needed support.
"But we have to recognize the students who are sexually active," he said.
Smith said the efforts of Watkins and the community project to reach KU students would complement each other well.
The federal government provides funding for all of the projects events through the Title V Abstinence Education grant.
- Edited by Leah Shaffer
Abstinence Awareness Week events:
Monday: Information tables on Wescoe Beach, 11 a.m.
to 1 p.m.
Tuesday: Tables on Wescoe Beach, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Wednesday: Open mic night at Paradise Cafe, 8 p.m.
Thursday:
Mentor/Community
Lawrence Catholic Center, 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.;
Mentor/Community training on "How to Talk to Kids About Sex" at St.
presentations at area high schools
Friday: presentations at area high schools
Search to begin for Catholic professor
By Meghan Brune editor@kansan.com Special to the Kansan
For 26 years, the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center has worked to reunite the Catholic religion with the University of Kansas.
A $400,000 donation in December has helped the ministry raise $1.4 million to fund a professor of Catholic thought in the religious studies department at the University.
The last time the Catholic religion was represented at the University was in 1977, the year a department of religious studies was established.
"The state of Kansas legislated that it would match any private donation to fund a professorship," said Father Vince Krische, director of St. Lawrence.
The ministry has $1 million of the $1.4 million needed, but the fund matching from the state comes in the form of
accumulated interest over the next four years. With fund matching, the state matches the interest earned from the $1 million and gives it to the center.
The University signed an agreement with the ministry two years ago that will allow the ministry to be included in the search for a new professor in exchange for the funding.
Tim Miller, professor of religious studies, said the search would follow the same process as the search for any other professor.
"St. Lawrence will not have a vote, but we will keep them updated," Miller said.
Although the Catholic religion hasn't been a force at the University for 26 years, it has a long history here. In 1902, the Disciples of Christ Church bought a farmhouse at what is now Smith Hall.
the University for $1 per year. Students earned KU credit for some of the classes offered through the School of Religion. At that time, two Catholic teachers were part of the corporation along with eight other regional religious teachers.
Until 1977, the School of Religion was leased from the Disciples of Christ Church to
When the School of Religion became a department at the University, the religious teachers became state faculty and no other professors of Catholic thought were hired since.
"We considered it a big loss and have always wondered if we could ever restore that," Krische said.
Krische said about 90 percent of students are educated in public schools and universities and only 10 percent receive a Catholic education.
"We would like to enhance the knowledge of the Catholic intellectual history and we hope to do this through a professor at the University," Krische said.
Miller said he welcomed the idea of a new professor in the religious studies department. But he said education is different at a church than at a university.
"We look at religion from a cultural and historical point of view," Miller said. "We are more free-ranging, while a church is grounded in faith."
The ministry has offered free theology classes to students for five years at the center. This semester, 350 students have enrolled. Mike Scherschligt, director of ministries teaches sections of the four classes: Creed I, Creed II, Virtue, and Theology of the Body.
"Students have all kinds of questions about their lives and happiness," Scherschligt said. "The most important thing we can give students is a set of principles by which they can gain happiness."
Edited by Lindsay Hanson and Erin Chapman
Power outage leaves speaker in the dark
By JJ Hensley
jhensley@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Russ Burger doesn't make it to Lawrence very much, but next time he may be tempted to bring his own generator.
Last winter, the Dallas-based architect was in town to speak as part of the School of Architecture's lecture series. The appearance was ultimately thwarted by a major ice-storm and the accompanying power outages.
Yesterday morning the power gremlin struck again. Just as Burger was getting in to his presentation at Alderson Auditorium, a power outage left the Kansas Union and a handful other buildings on the northeast end of campus without power.
Union policy is to move visitors to a naturally-lit area and figure out the problem. Building
engineer for the KU Memorial Unions, Wayne Pearse, was among several Union employees who determined the risks for injury outweighed the advantages of keeping a dark, powerless Union open.
"There's no set response to these situations," Pearse said. "If it was dark out, everyone would have been evacuated immediately. If it was really cold outside we would have kept everybody indoors. Today was nice so it gave us a chance to catch our breath and make a decision."
At the time the evacuation order was given, about 20 minutes after power went out, officials did not know the cause of the outage or when power might be restored.
After about a half-hour, power was restored.
Edited by Melissa Hermreck
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