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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.103.NO.10
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2,1993
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Multicultural center funds nearing goal
Student Senate will try to match $10.000 this year
By Carlos Tejada
Kansan staff writer
In November 1991, Student Senate passed a petition calling on the University of Kansas to build a multicultural center on campus.
Now, two years and several changes later for the planned multicultural center, the Senate has yet to match the $10,000 the University contributed a year ago.
The matching funds from the Senate are likely to come this year, said Tim Dawson, Topeka senior and student body vice president.
"It's realistic we could do that, and I think the Student Senate will back the multicultural center," he said.
Pressure to finance the center has plagued the Senate since April 1992, when David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, announced KU's plan to erect a multicultural center by this fall. In that speech, he said KU would pledge $10,000 for programming costs and challenged the Senate to match that amount.
The center has been delayed at least until Spring 1994. The multicultural planning committee moved its loca-
Dawson said he was optimistic this year's Senate would appropriate the money.
"We stressed in our campaign that our goals are centered around multicultural interests," he said.
Dawson said he wanted to change the Senate's attitude toward multicultural affairs. Last year some senators complained about the amount of money the Senate spent on such groups, he said. He estimated that 80 percent of Senate funds were spent on multicultural groups last year.
There was some underlying tension," he said. "Even from some members of the executive board, there was tension."
The tension culminated with a column written by then-student body president Brad Garlinghouse in a newsletter published by the Organizations and Activities Committee. The column criticized spending such a high amount of money on groups that "represent exactly 5 percent of the student body."
Dawson said, " hopefully, I can portray a new attitude."
Sherwood Thompson, director of the Office of Minority Affairs, said he would be "disappointed" if the Senate did not appropriate money for the center.
"Student Senate support for the establishment of the multicultural center is critical to its success," he said. "The Senate is a representative body of the students, and the Senate has the voice of the students on campus."
Arthur Chiu, Joplin, Mo., senior and president of the Asian American Student Union, said he was optimistic the Senate would appropriate the money. The center is too important to be ignored, he said.
"It would be an advantage to the University," he said. "Many major universities have cultural centers, and this would be the University of Kansas' sign of the times."
The effort to create a multicultural center on campus has spanned two years and three buildings. The center is scheduled for completion in late spring.
Fall 1991 - Student Senate recommends multicultural center in renovated Hoch Auditorium.
Spring 1992 — KU announces multifacial center to be established in house at 1400 Louisiana St.
Spring 1993 - Garlinghouse protests spending 80 percent of Senate funds on multicultural affairs.
Summer 1993 - Multicultural planning committee suggests housing the proposed center in Supportive Educational Services building.
Source: Staff research KANSAN
Lottery system could determine basketball seats
By Shan Schwartz
Kansan staff writer
For the first time ever, a lottery may decide which students get tickets to KU basketball games this year.
Students picking up their sports combo tickets this week at Memorial Stadium are receiving only their football tickets. They are being told that basketball tickets will be available after October 1 and that some of them may not get tickets at all.
Bernie Kish, director of ticket operations for the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation, said the number of tickets ordered by students during spring and summer enrollment might be higher than the number of student seats available in Allen Field House.
This leaves officials in the department trying to determine the exact number of seats available in the field house and the exact number of students who have purchased tickets for those seats.
Most students had the opportunity to order tickets on an options card when they enrolled in the spring or summer, and they paid for those tickets with their tuition and fees. Kish said additional students who wanted tickets but did not order them on the options card were placed on a waiting list.
If there are not enough seats available for everyone who purchased tickets, the student members of the KUAC board will organize a lottery. Kish said.
Forty-five percent of the total seating in the field house, Kish said, was reserved for students. He said the actual number of seats available this year could not be determined until the department counted the seats and the capacity was approved by the fire marshal.
Last year, about 7,000 seats were available for students.
Last year, about 7,000 seats were available for students. Several hundred student seats, however, are used each day by both students and members and others on a pass list who get into the games free, said Pat Warren, student member of the KUAC board.
Warren said that the department was cross-checking the names on the pass list with the names of students who ordered tickets to eliminate duplications. When the cross-check is finished, the board will know exactly how many tickets are needed to supply all those who ordered them. At that point, the department will know if a lottery is necessary.
Warren said that a lottery was a likely possibility.
"Our hope is that everyone can get tickets," he said
If a lottery does take place, Warren said, students who paid for the combo package but did not get basketball tickets will be refunded the price of the basketball tickets. Any student can purchase season football tickets for $33. Basketball tickets, however, are only sold as part of the $85 sports combo.
"It's sad that we might have to go to a lottery," Warren said, "but we're still better off than a lot of schools. We have more seats than anyone in the Big Eight.
"I'd rather have a good program and a ticket lottery than a bad program with plenty of available seats."
Richard Devinki / KANSAN
front, Brookings, S.D. freshman auditions for the University Dance Company at Robinson Gym. The results of last night's auditions will be announced today.
KU officials may shorten dismissal process
Tryouts
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In its final report for the dismissal hearing of Emil Tonkovich, the Faculty Tenture and Related Problems Committee that considered his fate also considered how it could shorten the hearing process. It was a process that involved 33 days of hearings and generated 8,176 pages of testimony.
It was a process that some KU officials do not want to see again.
It took more than 2,500 hours of KU faculty members' volunteered time during 323 days.
Members of the Lawrence band Mountain Clyde may live and practice in a ramshackle warehouse, but their music and the following it has attracted are anything but shabby.
Kansan staff writer
"Capital trials for murder don't last that long," said David Shulenburger, vice chancellor for academic affairs. "We have a need to look at the rules of the procedure. We have to find a way to shorten this."
Out of the warehouse
, don't see how it can be shortened if you're going to give both sides an opportunity to present their arguments," Michel said. "If you give the hearing panel time off, that will put an added burden on the rest of their department."
Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor, said he wanted to maintain a balance between a fair hearing and a quick hearing.
Among these suggestions, the report said the University should free future committee members from other faculty duties, including teaching and on-going research, while serving at dismissal hearings.
The University Senate Executive Committee will consider proposed changes in the hearing process in late September, said Robert Friau, head of University Council. In the recent case of the nine-month Tonkovich hearing, the committee wrote 17 specific suggestions in its final 250-page report on how to shorten and improve the hearing process.
Tonkovich was dismissed from his position as KU Professor of Law on July 30 when the committee voted 3-2 to uphold Chancellor Gene Budig's decision to fire him based on moral turpitude.
"The basic problem was that I worked a minimum of 10 hours a week on this committee all year." Daid said. "In the meantime, I still had all my classes. This was an add-on load."
As a member of the committee for the Tonkovich case, Nancy Dahl, professor of biology, said she and other members each spent from 500 to 600 hours conducting the hearings and weighing the evidence.
The committee members also expressed concern in the report that they were losing research and teaching time, often factors that determine merit-based pay raises.
"The University's interest in securing a prompt resolution of a grievance against a professor ... is so great, and the service burden for committee members so extraordinary," the report stated, "that the members' other responsibilities should be suspended."
Committee member John Michel, professor of speech, language and hearing, said he doubted the University could realistically make the changes necessary for shortening the hearing process.
"When you don't have much experience with the process, you just do the best you can," Meyen said.
Female condom has high failure rate
By Liz Klinger
Kansan staff writer
The first FDA-approved female condom will be made available at the end of this year, and health officials at KU are considering whether to carry the contraceptive at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
"If people buy something at the health center, it should be effective." Yockey said. "This is the first thing that's come along that's not an automatic, it's available, let's get it." To my knowledge, the FDA hasn't authorized any contraceptive that has this high of a failure rate."
Watkins chief of staff Charles Yockey said a decision about carrying the female condom — a six-inch polyurethane sheath with two polyurethane rings — would be made in mid-fall.
Wisconsin Pharmaceutical company, the manufacturer of the Reality Female Condom, listed the failure rate at 26 percent.
The company conducted a study of 200
women who used the condom for six months. Since most contraceptive studies last one year, Pharmacal doubled the 15 six months to get 28 percent for the year.
The high rate of failure has raised doubts among health care professionals.
"The way the figures are only quoted for six months is highly unusual for contraceptives." Watkins physician Henry Buck said. He said that a 13 percent failure rate in a six-month study did not necessarily mean that the percentage would double in a year's time.
Health officials at Watkins said the failure rate for the male condom varied from 4 percent to 15 percent.
"It's very sad that the FDA is not letting us put that 13 percent in perspective," said Mary Ann Leeper, the condom manufacturer's senior vice president for development.
Buck said the Reality condom also did not completely protect the outer vaginal area from infection.
Students who examined the female condom for the first time had mixed reactions.
Leeper said the company used two measures for contraceptive effectiveness. When people in the study used the condom incorrectly or did not use it all the time, the condom had a 13 percent failure rate. If the condom was used correctly, she said, it had a 2.6 percent failure rate.
- That it covers the fact
Disadvantages include:
A 1 percent tear rate.
That it covers the labia.
The cost, which is about $2 to $2.50 per condom. They can be used only once.
harmful for Watkins nurse and health educator Candyce Waitley said some of the advantages of the female condom were:
- That people may find if cumbersome and difficult to insert and keep in place
the first time she had missed her day. Ann Francis, Lawrence said, "I defined in my place in society because women are taking more control of their lives."
Female condom
condom is still soon available. Thus far, they are the first barrier designated for women that provides protection against some sexually
transmitted diseases.
2. The inner ring is pushed up as far as possible with the index finger. The open end will remain aligned with the index finger.
Source: reality condom packet    John Paul Fogler/RAANSE