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The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, April 21, 1998
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Phi Alpha Delta Pre-Law Society Presents
KU Law Professor and Past Supreme Court Glerk
Steve McAllister
April 23 6:00pm in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union Gome learn about what it is like to work for a Supreme Court Justice and the differences between teaching and practicing law.
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Man beaten in alleged hazing
Kappa Alpha Psi chapter at K-State under investigation
Kansas State University suspended the local chapter of the fraternity yesterday. Kappa Alpha Psi has been linked to hazing incidents at two other universities and settled a $2.25 million lawsuit in December 1996 with the family of a man who died after a beating.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A man was beaten severely in an apparent hazing ritual, and he had dropped out of the same fraternity's initiation process last year after suffering injuries in a similar incident.
The Associated Press
Ernest L. Harris Jr., 23, was in serious but stable condition yesterday after being beaten Saturday in Manhattan in an apparent hazing ritual required to join the Kappa Alpha Psifraternity.
this week or early next week.
Harris suffered kidney injuries that will cause him to undergo dialysis. Ben Cowley said at a news conference at the University of Kansas Medical Center. But such injuries generally are reversible, and Harris could leave the hospital by late
Harris was at the home of a fraternity member Saturday when he was beaten, said his father, Ernest L. Harris Sr., of Wichita. His son had welts and bruises across much of his body, especially his buttocks and legs.
The elder Harris said his son had dropped out of the initiation process for the same fraternity last year after he was injured. He offered few other details of that incident.
"He stopped it (last year) and said he wasn't going to go through with it," Harris said. "Then some of his associates made him trust them again, so he went through it again."
to say that he was disappointed. The younger Harris' fiancee, Jaimee Denby, said the initiation got out of hand because some of those at the house were drunk. She said Harris wanted to join the fraternity because it provided community work, social interaction and networking opportunities.
"He just wanted to be affiliated with a service organization," she said. "He was very interested in the positive aspects of the group."
The elder Harris said those responsible used paddle boards, fists and canes to beat his son.
"I tried to talk to him (about joining the fraternity), but he had his mind made up," Harris said. "He trusted them."
Kansas State said in a statement that apparently only one member of the four-member Beta Psi chapter was involved.
Six to eight other people who had no relation to the fraternity or to Kansas State may have been involved, said Pat Bosco, associate vice president for institutional advancement and dean of student life.
But Bosco said the involvement of one member was enough to suspend the fraternity to show that such conduct would not be tolerated.
Riley County police were investigating.
Harris graduated from Kansas State in December with a degree in business administration. The school said he was an alumni member of Kappa Alpha Psi.
The suspension is the first step toward expulsion of the fraternity. At least two other campus groups
— the Multicultural Student Organization and the National Pan-Hellenic Council — were expected to consider exelling the fraternity.
Bosco said the fraternity was suspended for violations of the Kansas State student conduct code, including a provision that prohibits hazing.
"He just wanted to be affiliated with a service organization. He was very interested in the positive aspects of the group."
Kappa Alpha Psi recently has been linked to other alleged hazing incidents at two other universities. Five pledges at the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore were beaten with wooden paddles and canes during a two-month initiation from Feb. 8 to April 4, officials said.
The pledges were hospitalized and underwent surgery for cuts and infections on their buttocks, caused by daily spankings, authorities said.
Jaimee Denby Victim's fiancee
The fraternity settled a $2.25 million lawsuit in December 1996 with the family of Michael Davis, who died in February 1994 after being beaten, body-slammed and kicked in the chest by fraternity members at Southeast Missouri State University.
Big universities flunk undergraduate study
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Big universities too often neglect undergraduates in favor of research, even though undergraduates pay a big share of the costs, says an independent report released yesterday.
The panel of scholars and some outsiders assembled by the nonprofit organization found that undergraduate students often were taught by poorly trained or untrained teaching assistants, not the famous professors touted in the catalogs or recruiting materials, and many students graduate without a coherent body of knowledge.
"Baccalureaate students are the second-class citizens who are allowed to pay taxes but are barred from voting, the guests at the banquet who pay their share of the tab but are given leftovers," said the report from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Few have access that distinguishes the research universities from liberal arts colleges: the access to a diverse, interdisciplinary opportunities for experience-based education.
The report, "Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities," said universities should involve more undergraduates in those research projects, whether in medicine or the humanities, beginning with freshmen.
"Research universities are distinctively different from small colleges, and they need to offer an experience that is a clear alternative to the college experience," the report said, adding that a number of institutions have made changes.
Syracuse University, using a
"Research universities are distinctively different from small colleges, and they need to offer an experience that is a clear alternative to the college experience."
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching report
grant, helps develop teaching abilities of graduate students. A program at the State University of New York in Stony Brook gives undergraduates the opportunity to work with faculty researchers and artists at area laboratories, such as Brookhaven National Laboratory.
The universities mentioned as emphasizing graduate education and research instead of undergraduate studies include Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Kent State University. The 125
research institutions in this country make up only 3 percent of the institutions of higher learning, yet those schools award nearly a third of the bachelor's degrees.
The report recommends that freshmen be placed in small groups where they live together and take the same courses. It also says students should be involved in the research conducted by senior faculty and that they should be encouraged to conduct original research that could become their transition into graduate school.
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