Tuesday
February 11, 2003
Vol. 113, Issue No.94
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Small steps start change
Steinem encourages crowd to make social change organize activist goals
By Lauren Bristow
lbristow@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Each person has enormous power to make a difference and change, renowned feminist and journalist Gloria Steinem told a crowd of about 1,600 people last night at the Lied Center.
Steinem focused her speech on the need for social change and the importance of individuals to organize to accomplish their activist goals.
"The flap of a butterfly's wing here changes the weather hundreds of miles away," she said. "Each one of us in this room combined makes one hell of a butterfly."
Steinem said social change is needed now more than ever.
"One of the main things that appealed to me was the need to get out and vote," Erik Cotter, Kansas City, Kan., Junior said. "I really hope she had an impact on
One example she offered that needed change was the number of registered voters that participated in the presidential election in 2000. Only about 29 percent voted, which means about 15 percent of the total population is running the country, Steinem said.
realizing the importance of voting. I'll be there to vote next time."
Another theme of the speech was the relative youth of the women's rights and equality movements.
We as a whole have a long ways to go when talking about women's equality, Steinem said. She referred to the assumption that anything a man can do, a woman can do also. "But how often do you hear everything a woman can do a man can do too?" she said.
"It was only about 50 or so years ago that women started being legally counted," Steinem said.
Kathy Rose-Mocky, director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, said she was thrilled that Steinem was
coming to campus.
"It's a great opportunity for students to look at gender roles and how it will impact us on campus," Mockry said. "It will help us look at ways to continue a dialogue about how gender impacts us."
Steinem co-founded Ms. Magazine in 1972 and remains active with the magazine as an editorial consultant and writer. She is also an advocate against child abuse and the death penalty and supports voting rights for all people.
Student Union Activities and Student Senate sponsored the speech as part of the Student Lecture Series. Steinem was paid $18,000 for her appearance.
Edited by Jason Elliott
Jared Soares/Kansan
Gloria Steinem, feminist, journalist and human rights activist, converses with the media during a press conference at the Governor's Room of the Kansas Union. She also spoke in the Lied Center last night.
Sales jobs profitable but remain suspicious
By Nicole Roché
nroche@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Chad Anderson, neatly dressed and prepared for an interview, entered a room full of fellow prospective employees. He was ready to compete for the position — he just wasn't sure what that position was.
Anderson, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, said he answered an ad that he saw in Snow Hall last year. It advertised flexible hours and $17.25-an-hour base pay but didn't describe what type of work he would be doing.
"The secretary was really vague about it," Anderson said. "I thought it might be like telemarketing."
His guess wasn't far off. The company, Vector Marketing, hires students to sell Cutco kitchen knives but doesn't disclose this information in its advertising. Anderson said the secrecy didn't bother him, but some students said the company was deceptive.
Rodney Armstrong, branch manager for Vector's West Kansas City location, said the company did not give out details because it would take too much time to explain the job to every person who called and inquired.
Erin Maike, Alma junior, said she didn't know what the position was until an hour or two into her interview at the Topeka location last summer.
"I thought, 'Something's fishy here,'"
Maike said. "It sounds too good to be true."
Ann Hartley, associate director for Career and Employment Services, said a job at Vector Marketing could be good sales experience. But she said it was strange that the company did not advertise more clearly.
"Ethically, there's a problem there," Hartley said. "It makes me wonder, 'What's going on with you that you can't be up front about it?'"
Maike said she was attracted to the high pay rate but quit after two weeks. She said she was frustrated that she had to purchase the knives she used in her demonstrations.
She said it took the company three months to pay her.
Brandon Delany, Alma sophomore also trained in Topeka last summer. He said Vector Marketing offered an opportunity to earn free knives in the first two weeks of employment, but he never received them.
"It wasn't worth it," she said.
Sometimes mistakes happen, said Armstrong. He said a paperwork error
SEE JOBS ON PAGE 8A
Chancellor Robert Hemenway and Callie Knoll, Omaha, Neb., freshman, met in his office at noon to commence the day's arrangement. Hemenway offered to got to Knoll's physics and afternoon classes but Cally didn't accept his offer. Knoll was randomly selected to be Chancellor for a Day through the Student Senate Legislative Awareness Board's voter registration drive.
Jarod Soares and Kelley Weiss/Kansan
Swapping spots: 'Chancellor for a Day' winner plays hookey, gains power
Jared Soares/Kansan
Caroline Knoll, Omaha, Neb., freshman, Chancellor Robert Hemenway, Executive Vice Chancellor of KU Medical Center Donald Hagen and Executive Assistant to the Chancellor Mary Burg finish the morning cabinet meeting. Knoll won the opportunity to be chancellor for a day as part of Student Senate's voter registration drive last fall. Every student who registered was entered in the contest.
Student schmoozes with top University executives; decides job isn't for her
By Kevin Wiggs
kwiggs@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Callie Knoll had an incredibly busy day.
Although the Omaha, Neb., freshman missed her morning class, she attended morning meetings yesterday as chancellor of the University of Kansas.
Knoll was randomly selected to be the 2003 Chancellor for a day last October as part of the Student Senate Legislative Awareness Board voter registration drive.
"I didn't know about it," she said. "I was surprised when I got the call. My parents thought it was funny."
Her day started at 7:50 a.m. with Chancellor Robert Hemenway at the chancellor's cabinet meeting. Knoll observed as the group discussed the budget.
"It was kind of intense," Knoll said. "The chancellor has a lot of responsibility."
After the meeting, Knoll and the chancellor went their separate ways. While Hemenway took notes at Knoll's art history class in Spencer Art Museum. Knoll attended a legislative briefing with Janet Murgua, executive vice chancellor for University Relations; Jon Josserand, assistant for governmental relations; Marlin Rein, University director emeritus; and Theresa Klinkenberg, chief financial officer for the University.
"It's a challenging line of work," Knoll said. "I
Chancellor Hemenway relaxes in art history; performs well as student
SEE STUDENT ON PAGE 8A
By Kelly Weiss
kweiss@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Chancellor Robert Hemenway learned what makes a good fresco painting as he took notes in an art history class yesterday morning.
Meanwhile, Callie Knoll, Omaha, Neb., freshman and winner of the Chancellor for a Day drawing, attended a legislative briefing with four of the University's top administrators. Yesterday, she and Hemenway switched positions for half of the day. Knoll is the third student to fill the chancellor's shoes.
"Whenever I visit classes I am most impressed with the quality of instruction. I was in an art history class with the lights off all hour and no one was even sleep-."
ing."
Robert Hemenway
Chancellor
From 9:30 a.m. to 10:20 a.m., Hemenway took between five and six pages of notes while sitting in for Knoll in her class.
Hemenway said he liked being able to see what happened in the classroom.
"Whenever I visit classes I am most impressed with the quality of instruction." Hemenway said. "I was in an art
Kelley Weiss/Kansan
Chancellor Robert Hemenway listens to Michelle Moseley, graduate teaching assistant in art history, lecture about ancient Egyptian art yesterday. Hemenway said by the end of the class he learned things about ancient Egyptian and Greek art, such as what makes a good fresco painting.
Michelle Moseley, graduate teaching assistant in art history, said the chancel-
history class with the lights off all hour and no one was even sleeping."
lor outshined some of her other students in class yesterday.
SEE HEMENWAY ON PAGE 8A
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