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Fridav September 10.1993
New position sought for office
Proposal to move Minority Affairs under consideration
By Carlos Tejada
Kansan staff writer
Ten years after the Office of Minority Affairs was moved from under the direct supervision of the executive vice chancellor's office, some students and student senators want to move it back in an effort to improve the representation of minority students on campus.
A proposal would move the office from its current position under the dean of student life, who reports to the vice chancellor for students affairs before reporting to the executive vice chancellor. The student proposal recommends that the office report directly to the executive vice chancellor.
In November 1992, Tim Dawson, Topeka senior and student body vice president, sponsored a resolution with then-senator Peter Braithwaite that called for the move. The resolution passed Student Senate one month later.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said the situation was under review by a committee that wanted to coordinate efforts to help minority students. Barbara Ballard, associate dean of student life and head of the committee, was not available for comment.
"We felt that in the position of Minority Affairs is in now, it doesn't have much weight," Dawson said. "The University hasn't given it any authority."
The office was moved under the authority of the dean of student life in 1983 to protect the program from budget cuts, Dawson said. At that time, branches of the administration were more susceptible to cuts than individual programs, he said.
Dawson said that by moving the office up the administrative ladder, the University would be able to deal more directly with minority concerns.
"For instance, if the Office of Minority Affairs were in a vice chancellor's spot, we would see a lot more done on the multicultural center," he said.
Dawson compared the search for space for the center with the School of Education's search for space. He said the school had received help from Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor, when it asked for and received permission to move into vacant Joseph R. Pearson Hall. Meyen is a faculty member and was dean of the school before he was appointed executive vice chancellor.
"When they needed space, they got that immediately," Dawson said. "With the multicultural center, they had to look around and around for space."
Braithwaite, Evanston, III, senior, agreed with Dawson. Braithwaite was a member of the African-American Student Concerns Task Force, which recommended moving the office last year.
"It does no good if they have no power over policies to help students," he said. "It's almost like a multicultural trash can. The University shoves all its problems with people of color into there."
Sherwood Thompson, director of the office, declined to comment.
"When there is a need to meet with the vice chancellor and the executive vice chancellor, that can be accomplished without any difficulty at all," he said. "Reporting directly there doesn't mean you'll have a stronger voice." He said the administration was too complex to consider
Ambler said he would keep an open mind about the proposal, but he questioned whether the office would be more effective if attached to the executive vice chancellor's office.
He said the administration was too complex to consider one dean or position higher than another.
"I understand that mentality, but unless you know how an administration works, you just don't understand," he said.
Going up?
Changing the status of the Office of Minority Affairs was suggested by Student Senate and the African American Student Concerns Task Force in 1992. The proposed change would make the office closer administratively to the Executive Vice Chancellor's Office.
Source: KANSAN staff reports
Micah Laaker / KANSAN
Festival shares Indian culture
Food, artwork to be featured
Kansan staff writer
By Donella Hearne Kansan staff writer
Between 10,000 and 15,000 people are expected to be roaming the Powwow grounds at Haskell Indian Nations University this weekend.
Show highlights
Patrons of the Fifth Annual Indian Market will be taking in food and entertainment while checking out the work of artists and craftsmans from across the country. The artists are being brought together by the Lawrence Indian Arts Show, a group that provides American-Indian artists with opportunities to showcase and sell their work.
"There will be items there selling for $2 and for some thousands of dollars," Hazlett said, "There's something for everyone."
Hazlett said there also would be food booths serving traditional Indian dishes. Several Haskell clubs also will be providing entertainment such as traditional dances.
The market will feature about 105 booths displaying and selling traditional and nontraditional artwork. Bead work, pottery, jewelry, sculpture, paintings and clothing are some of the items by the artists visiting the fair, said Sandra Hazlett, who is working at the market.
The Fifth Annual Lawrence Indian Arts Show begins with the benefit opening tonight and end Oct. 24.
Lawrence resident and painter, Laurie Houseman-WhiteHawk, said she would be displaying five or six of her paintings and would also have limited edition prints for sale. Houseman-WhiteHawk said she was on the founding committee of the Lawrence Indian Arts Show and said she thought the market was worth seeing.
"The one thing about the show is its quality," she said. "The work is all disjointed."
"It's educational too. People can see what the traditional crafts of many different tribes are."
Benefit Opening - 7:30-9:30 p.m.
Sept. 10 at the University of Kansas
Museum of Anthropology. By reservation.
$35 per person.
**Indian Market** — 10:00 a.m. -6:00
p.m. Sept. 11 and 11 a.m. a:500
p.m. Sept. 12 at the Haskell Indian
Nation Museum, Grounds
KANSAN
Indian Arts Show - Juried Competition.
Indian Arts Show, Sept. 11, 2014 at the Museum of Anthropology. Admission: adult $3, students $1, under 5 free.
Houseman-WhiteHawk said that at least 60 different tribes were represented at last year's show and that she expected at least that many this year.
One benefit of the show, she said, was that buyers could meet the artists whose work they were buying.
"I go to these shows all over. I've made friends, sold work and made gallery contacts." Houseman-White-Hawk said.
Don Nieto, a lab technician in the University of Kansas physics department, said he learned to make jewelry while growing up on the Santo Domingo Indian reservation in New Mexico.
Nieto makes contemporary and traditional jewelry from silver, turquoise, malachite and other shells and stones. Making jewelry and sculpting stone is something Nieto does part time. He said this would be his third year to have a booth at the market.
"We want to develop a community relationship between the Lawrence community and the Haskell community," he said. "I think it's a wonderful concept to have a market in Lawrence."
Nieto said he thought the show was great for the community.
William Alix / KANSAN
Paul Rabbideau, Lawrence graduate student, discusses business with Bank IV Human Resources Officer Bob Southern. The 12th Annual Business Career Fair was held yesterday afternoon at the Holiday Inn Holdome, 200 McDonald Drive.
Networking
CAMPUS BRIEFS
Ex-basketball player pleads not guilty in 1992 burglaries
Former Jayhawk basketball player Terry Brown pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges stemming from three 1992 burglaries.
Brown was arrested Aug. 20 and charged with one count of burglary, one count of felony theft and one count of midemionear theft. The charges involved two cases from August 1992 and one from December 1992
Brown was a guard on the 1989-90 and 1990-91 Hawk basketball teams. He made 200 three-point field goals, a Jayhawk record, in his two years at Kansas. Brown's trial has been scheduled to begin Sept. 22.
Man charged in drug possession
A 33-year old man was arrested by KU police on Wednesday and was charged with possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Vitale was taken to the Law Enforcement Center, where he was charged with operating a vehicle under the influence, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Police stopped Dan Vitale in the 500 block of West 14th Street on Wednesday night. He was given a sobriety test and a breath test at the site and failed both. Police also found a gold container containing what was thought to be marijuana.
He was later released after posting a $2,000 bond. His first appearance in Douglas County District Court is scheduled for Sept. 20.
Traveling show comes to town
A traveling bus with solar-powered refrigeration will bring Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream and a traveling performance to Lawrence on Saturday.
Ben and Jerry's traveling show will perform at 1 and 4 p.m. in South Park. The show, which is free, will include juggling, music, mimes and acrobatics, sad Kelly Kriegh, market and cheese manager of Wild Oats Community Market. The market is sponsoring the show.
Proceeds from ice cream sales will be donated to Therapeutic horseback riding in Lawrence, Kriegh said
The audience is encouraged to bring blankets and lawn chairs to the performance. Kriegh said.
Compiled by Scott J. Anderson and Tracl Carl
Cafeterias offer catering service
By Brian James
Kansan staff writer
When Mel Sandfort, director of Hashinger Hall, wanted to plan a retreat this weekend for 20 staff members, she knew one thing would be easy; planning their meals.
Sandfort ordered catering for the retreat from KU dining services.
"We're having it catered out of convenience," she said. "We want to focus on bonding and not so much the cooking."
All three dining halls — Lenoir Ekdahl dining commons, GSP-Corbin and Oliver — provide catering to KU residence hall students and staff members who request food or beverages for group activities in or out of the halls. Items are sold only in large quantities.
Barbara Quintero, assistant director of Student Housing, said the dining halls had been providing catering for eight to 10 years.
Sandfort and other Hashinger staff members will take beverages, cold cereal, sandwiches and ingredients for eight pizzas to cook on the retreat.
The group plans to stay at Camp Chippewa in Ottawa tomorrow and Sunday.
Mindy Pendreigh, director of dining services at the Ekdahl dineh commons in Lewis Hall, said the catering service was popular with staff members or residents who like to plan group activities.
"Sometimes an RA on the floor will arrange for food to be brought in for an activity or a meeting," she said. "It's not hard to do, since every floor has the funds to pay for it."
Dining services also provides catering for large, annual events such as "ClubMia" at McCollim Hall and "Rock-a-blee" at Columbo Restaurant.
She said that the number of catering events each week varied but that she needed to fill 10 catering orders within the next two weeks.
Pendrigue said the most common catered foods were fruit platters, cookies and beverages such as fruit punch. Picnic foods such as hamburgers, hot dogs and chips and summies such as nankins and cups are also available.
"We brought in ice cream also for the 'Ice Cream for Sex' event this week, which seemed to be a pretty popular program," she said.
ON THE RECORD
A student's car was damaged in the 1600 block of Edgehill Road on Monday or Tuesday, and the damage was estimated at $300.
A student's backpack and compact discs, valued together at $450, were taken in the 1500 block of Sigma Nu Place on Sept. 3. Lawrence police reported.
A student's bicycle valued at $26 was taken from the 1400 block of Ohio Street on Tuesday or Wednesday, Lawrence police reported.
A student's wallet and its contents, valued together at $60, were taken from a car in parking lot No. 72 on Sept. 3 or 4, KU police reported.
A student's parking permit valued at $35 was taken from a car in parking lot No. 100 on Tuesday or Wednesday, KU police reported.
STDs pose threat for students
Despite efforts at education, cases of disease not declining
By Liz Klinger
Gynecologist Henry Buck thinks things may have to get worse before they get better with sexually transmitted diseases.
Kansan staff writer
"The biggest concern is that we are still seeing huge numbers of new cases after a number of years of very intensive educational efforts," said Buck, a physician at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins, said STDs, urinary tract infections and pregnancy tests accounted for about 400 visits every month. The visits, which can average more than three a month per patient, primarily are by students.
No matter how much information or how many warnings students are given about the dangers of sexual activity,
Many students are too busy to pay attention. Buck said the only safe way to prevent an STD was through abstaining from sex. But for many that means a change in lifestyle.
"We have not yet learned the most effective way to bring
about prevention, which basically involves behavior modification," Buck said.
There are a number of precautions students can take to prevent STDs. Buck said it was important not to mix sexual activity with alcohol consumption, which is a common activity among college students.
it's as important to avoid mixing sexual activity with alcohol as it is to avoid mixing alcohol and driving." Buck said.
Long-standing mutual monogamy also reduces the risk of disease transmission.
Buck said that most cases of STDs occurred in relationships that partners considered monogamous. But having a series of monogamous relationships is not the same as having one relationship with one person, he said.
The three STDs most commonly treated at Watkins are chlamydia, human papillomavirus and genital herpes. Buck said.
Back said the vast majority of people who have STDs did not experience any of the diseases'symptoms.
Symptoms for chlamydia are burning in the pelvic area for women and pain in the testes for men. Both may experience a burning sensation when urinating.
Human papillomavirus can cause itching and painless warts that may not be visible to the naked eye.
Symptoms of genital herpes include painful lesions around the genitalia.
Risky business
Sexual behaviors have different levels of risk in getting sexually transmitted diseases. Using a condom can lower the risk in anal, vaginal
Source: American College Health Association
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