Wednesday, April 8.1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
Queers & Allies to request money for Pride Week
By Marc Sheforgen mssheforgen@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Queers and Allies has a lot on the line at tonight's Student Senate meeting.
Pride Week will begin April 20 and will continue through April 25.
Three keynote speakers, a drag show and a queer prom are among the events planned.
The group, a 28-year-old campus organization that exists to raise awareness of homosexual issues and events, is asking Senate for $8867 to help finance Pride Week, a five-day series of events that would promote the voice of Queers and Allies on campus.
Matt Dunbar, off-campus senator,
said he supported financing Pride Week. However, he said that he was worried that some senators may have a problem with the amount of money that Queers and Allies was requesting.
The bill to finance Pride Week calls for allocation of funds from the Senate Reserve Account. Although the account still contains $230,000, not all Student Senators are in favor of using this money to finance the events of organizations.
"I think the reserve account is for emergency situations," said Tom Preheim. Student Senate treasurer.
Preheim said that it was unfortunate that there was not more money left in Senate's unallocated account to finance organizations like Queers and Allies. But he said that it would not set a proper precedent to use the reserve account for this kind of assistance.
Dunbar said that he was concerned with senators using the disagreement to mask their prejudice towards homosexuals.
Katie Shay, director of Queers and Allies, said that without the money from Student Senate, Pride Week would face serious problems.
Although Queers and Allies had raised more than $2,000 on its own, it would not be able to pay the keynote speakers without help from Senate. Shay said.
She said that it would be unfair to deny her group funding just because it was late in the year and Senate may be running low on money.
"I don't think that Student Senate would be just in saying, 'Sorry, you get screwed because you happen to have your Pride Week during second semester, and we're all out of money,'" she said.
Shay said that Pride Week was open to the entire KU community, straight or gay.
"We don't discriminate, because we do know how it feels," Shay said.
Jewish singles win dates in contest
Couples matched by answers, stunts during Singled Out
By Susie Gura
sgura @kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Eating Twinkies covered in whipped cream was just one of the stunts performed by students during Jewish Singled Out last night.
The University of Kansas Hilliell Foundation sponsored its version of MTV's Singled Out last night in the Naismith Hall cafeteria. Seventy-five students attended.
Danny Cohn, Omaha junior and co-chairman of Singled Out, said that organizers planned the
"We heard people say that they didn't like meeting people at bars or parties, so we decided to do the game." Cohn said.
event after hearing about the struggles of students searching for romantic dates.
In Jewish Singled Out, contestants Andrew Zidel and Mandy Kaprall, Minnetonka, Minn., freshmen, asked student participants questions about their perfect mates. In addition to answering questions, students had to perform an accompanying stunt. If they successfully completed the stunts, they advanced closer to winning a date with Zidel or Kaprall. The game included two rounds of questioning.
Zidel and Kaprall were chosen following an interview with event coordinators.
"We had about 40 people interview," Cohn said. "We were looking for spunk and personality."
In addition to eating Twinkies covered in whipped cream, student participants had to eat cold chicken soup and sing.
Although everyone was encouraged to participate, many students simply watched and cheered the participants.
I came to support my friends that are involved," said Nikki Anesi, Buffalo Grove, Ill., sophomore.
Mike Furman, Plymouth,
Minn., freshman, made it to
the final round of the game but lost
in the bonus round.
"I came because I need a date," Furman said.
About 20 people participated in each round of the game.
"I came to find some beautiful Jewish studettes," Rappaport said.
Mike Rappaport, Minneapolis freshman, eagerly awaited his turn to play in the game.
Courtney Smith, Northfield,
Ill., freshman and R.J. Melman,
Winnetka, Ill., freshman, were
the winning participants. Smith
and Melman won dates to
Teller's, 746 Massachusetts St.
and a night out in Lawrence with
Zidel and Kapralr.
"The Hilill Foundation sponsored the date." Cohn said.
Amy Ravis, Singled Out cochairwoman and Overland Park junior, said she was pleased with the event.
"I was really happy with the turnout, it was a great time and I appreciate everyone who came," she said.
"Everyone was welcome to come," Cohn said. "We advertised for the event, and we also went to houses to talk about it."
Hemenway supports humanities endeavors
By Emily C. Forsyth
eforsyth@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Chancellor Robert Hemenway had a difficult time deciding on a title for the speech that he delivered to about 500 students, faculty and staff at the Lied Center last night.
"Your title sticks with you," Hemenway said. "You see it on posters. You're asked about it at cocktail parties."
Hemenway's lecture was the final installment in this year's Humanities Lecture
Series, sponsored by the Hall Center for the Humanities. This is the 50th anniversary of the lecture series.
Hemenway said that the humanities had come under public scrutiny in recent years and that the public's perception of the humanities led to political response. He said that part of the problem stemmed from vague definitions.
He said that misconceptions could be resolved if professors and those who believed in the value of studying the humanities explained their views.
"The way the humanities have been defined leads inexorably away from the public and toward the University," Hemenway said. "The humanities today are being debated in the public arena as never before."
Hemenway also said that the steady increase of women and minorities attending universities had led to a dramatic change in the social construction of the University and its curriculum.
"It is inevitable that the curriculum will to some degree reflect these demographic shifts." Hemenway said. "Curriculum reform has been part of the American university since the beginning, and we need not
fear it."
Following his lecture, Hemenway responded to several questions raised by the audience.
Barbara Schowen, director of the University Honor Programs, asked Hemenway what advice she should offer students who inquired about the future job market.
"Tell them 'Don't worry about it.' Hemenway said. "English majors always land on their feet."
Hemenway said that a good education would produce autonomy.
Jennifer Jones, Manchester, Mo., freshman, said that she was considering changing her major from
engineering and found Hemenway's advice encouraging.
"English majors don't work at McDonald's," Jones said. "They end up doing well."
Iris Smith, associate professor of English, said that the topics the chancellor addressed were relevant not only here at the University but also nationwide.
"I thought it was a very timely speech," Smith said. "We're at a crucial juncture for universities in regard to the future of the humanities. I'm delighted that Chancellor Hemenway is such a strong advocate for the humanities."
U.S. Senate urged to endorse anti-nuclear treaty
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Clinton administration urged the Senate to ratify a treaty banning all nuclear weapons tests by the fall or risk losing a role in trying to prod India, Pakistan and North Korea into signing the accord.
Declaring that the United States can rely on simulated tests for the American nuclear program, Undersecretary of State John Holum said the Senate has a historic opportunity to make it harder for non-nuclear nations to develop the weapons.
Even with several treaties to cut nuclear and chemical weapons arsenals, the threat of an
"Without testing, it's an insurmountable barrier." Holum told reporters as the State Department marked the 10th anniversary of a direct link between Washington and Moscow to alert each other to provocative moves that could jangle nuclear nerves.
attack is graver today because weapons are cheaper to make and are more portable, said Deputy Secretary Strobe Talbott.
Last year, 15,000 messages were exchanged
The Comprehensive Test Ban treaty has been signed by 149 countries and ratified by 13. The latest were Britain and France, the first nuclear powers to ratify the ban on all nuclear weapons test explosions.
For the treaty to take force,44 countries identified as having a nuclear
capability must ratify it. The United States has not, while three of the countries, India, Pakistan and North Korea, have not even signed the accord.
Holum said that polls indicated that only 13 percent of the American public opposed a ban on nuclear weapons tests and that the administration had the votes in the Senate for ratification if the Foreign Relations Committee were to act on the treaty.
If there is delay past the fall, when the Senate is due
to recess for the year, the United States may be unable to participate in a conference in the fall of 1999 that would consider ways to prod India, Pakistan and North Korea into signing the treaty, Holum said.
Without Senate ratification, it will be difficult for the United States to keep insisting that Iraq cooperate with U.N. inspectors who are looking for evidence of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs.
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