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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.103.NO.6
FRIDAY, AUGUST 27,1993
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Relationships policy outlined
Meyen explains history of the plan to Council
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By Christoph Fuhrmans Kansan staff writer
KU administrators explained how the new consensual relationships policy came into effect to faculty and student leaders at the University Council meeting yesterday.
The presentation was led by Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor. David Shulenburg, vice chancellor for academic affairs, and Sandra Wick, assistant director of the college honors program, also spoke about the policy.
Meyen outlined a brief history of the plan.
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executive vice chancellor, and David
Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs.
appointed a task force on sexual harassment headed by Wick
Spring 1992: The task force submits its findings.
Spring 1983: Acting on the recommendations of the task force's report, the University establishes a draft of the consensual relationship policy. The draft proposal is sent to a committee of deans, campus organizations and University Governance officials for input.
Fall 1903: The policy is approved by Chancellor Gene Budig and goes into effect Aug.20.
Every group that reviewed the approval of it, Meyen said. Some even suggested an outright prohibition of consensual relationships, he said.
Meyen said the University received a lot of input from the groups before the policy was approved by Budig.
"It was not something we sat down and did in one day." Meven said.
Usually the University Senate Executive Committee and Council is offered the
"I was just surprised that they didn't use the normal governance procedure," she said. "University Governance was involved in the back end of the policy."
Shulenburger tried to put the policy into perspective. He said there was going to be no special action taken to enforce the policy.
"This is a University policy like any other policy," he said. "There is no special mechanism that needs to enforce it."
Although Wick said she was glad that the University acted on the recommendations of the task force, she said she was not pleased with how the University included University Governance in the approval of the policy.
chance to approve a policy before it goes to Budig or Meyen.
Despite fervent attempts by some Council members to discuss the policy with the administrators, the presentation was limited to 30 minutes.
The time limit was set so the presentation would not dominate the meeting. Council's next meeting, on Sept. 16, will be devoted solely to discussion of the policy.
Student Senate has accepted the policy but would like it to be revised.
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Guide claims racial tension rising at KU
Campus minority leaders say recent criticism unwarranted By Carlos Tejada
By Carlos Tejada
Kansan staff writer
The 1994 Fiske Guide to Colleges did not think that every aspect of life at the University of Kansas deserved four out of five stars.
Despite praise of KU's libraries and and other programs, the guide criticized the University's increasing tensions.
"Race relations have been good on the whole, but 'are becoming more visible and tense because of the activist nature of the minority groups' which are 'widely supported', reports one junior," the guide said.
Leaders of campus ninority organizations called the criticism unfair
Criticism unraveled.
"If there is a racial tension, I don't see it," said Terry Bell. Tampa, Fla., senior and president of the Black Student Union. "There's just a racial presence."
Arthur Chiu, Joplin, Mo., senior and president of the Asian American Student Union, agreed with Bell.
"It sounds as if we're separatists, and that's definitely not our objective," he said. "We're not trying to create tension, but we're trying to get our message across."
Pipe dream
Octavio Hinojosa, Hutchinson senior and president of the Hispanic American Leadership Organization, said there was a difference between positive activism and creating tension. He cited his group's protest in April of the University Daily Kansan for not covering the death of Hispanic labor activist Cesar Chavez. Protesters held a candlelight vigil in front of the Kansan's offices for a week.
"It didn't hurt anyone." Hinjosa said. "It didn't offend anyone. It just got attention."
Bell agreed with Hinojosa. He said there was a need for actions even though they might create the impression of tension
"I don't believe there is a divisive image of race relations on campus, but there's an awareness on campus that things aren't as they should be." Bell said. "The University isn't as diverse and multicultural as it could be."
Caryl Smith, dean of student life, said the statement in the guide was "unfortunate."
"It casts a cloud over an environment where I think so many people have worked so consistently and thoroughly to improve that," she said.
"I don't always agree with them, but I could say that about any organization," he said. "I think they play an important role in college life."
But student activism can be seen as positive and not just as a source of tension, said Donald Stull, professor of anthropology.
Stull said student minority organizations created opportunities for change.
"Student activist groups are often outside beating on the door, wanting to get in," he said. "School administrators are usually the ones who hold the door."
Stull, who has done surveys about race relations around the nation, also questioned the guide's methods for determining the presence of racial tension.
Geoff Shandler, editorial assistant to the guide, said that the guide's writers were moving its facilities to another office and could not be reached for comment.
Fall of communism enables and disables scholarly work
By Kathleen Stolle
Kansan staff writer
When jarslaw Piekakiewicz visited Poland in 1961, Stalinism reigned.
"I was followed everywhere I went by the police," said the KU professor of political science. "I wasn't intimidated, but I knew whoever I talked to, and whatever I said, they would be questioned later about it."
In 1991, Piekalkiewicz returned to Poland on a two-month sabbatical and served as a business advisor to the vice minister of foreign affairs.
The climate had changed considerably.
The titles and contents of courses at KU have changed since the fall of communism. Until two years ago, the class REES 895, Post-Communism and Marxism, could not have been offered because communism in the former Soviet Union was not dissolved until August 1991.
For Piekalkiewicz and many others at KU, the dissolution of communism in eastern Europe — especially the former Soviet Union — has meant many changes.
Pekalkiewicz, who teaches politics of east central Europe, now relies on news articles to keep abreast of new changes.
"I think it's extremely difficult to study those 'countries' because the changes are constant," Piekalkiewicz said. "In a term, it's chaos."
"The title 'Russian and East European Studies' was decided on
When the Center for Russian and East European Studies dropped "Soviet" for "Russian," it was a matter of evolution.
because our focus has always been on the Russian Federation and eastern Europe," said Lyne McElroy, outreach coordinator for the center. "Basically, our focus has not changed."
Maria Carlson, director of the center, said the increased level of activity at the center was significant.
The center serves as a resource not only to the University but also to community groups, educators and businesses.
The fall of communism enabled Eastern professors and students to
This fall, 17 students from the former Soviet Union are studying at KU through an exchange initiative signed by former presidents George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev. Seven more will arrive for the spring semester.
experience Western education.
Ron Francisco, associate professor of political science, sad scholars of eastern Europe may benefit from communism's disappearance.
"Research has changed a lot because information that was not available is now available," he said.
Howard Soloman agreed. Solman is finishing up his doctoral dissertation in Slavic languages and literature and said his own research had been enriched by the release of formerly classified KGB diaries and other documents.
But Soloman said the frazzled infrastructure of the former Soviet Union could hinder researchers.
"I may need something from the Ukraine and from Russia," he said. "So now I'm dealing with two separate entities."
Labeling plan on vitamins upsets advocates
By Liz Klinger
Peter Schultz, vitamin and herb manager for Wild Oats Community Market, does not like being referred to as a snake oil salesman, a term used to criticize people who make health claims about the use of vitamins for health-related purposes.
Kansan staff writer
Sally Khris, regional chapter director of Citizens for Health, said Schultz is just one of 80 million alternative health-care method users who may have to fight the Food and Drug Administration for the right to continue selling dietary supplements and herbs.
If the FDA's proposed restrictions under the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act go into
effect, Schultz will be forced to remove items including herbs in bottles and capsules, all vitamins, some bulk herbs and all amino acids.
Khrisul told a group of 30 people last night at Wild Oats, 1040 Vermont St. that the FDA had proposed rules that would limit health claims and levels of dietary supplements in the interest of public safety. The passage of a 1992 dietary supplement act gave Congress until Dec. 31 to investigate the impact of the proposed limitations.
Khris urged members of the group who wanted to maintain their right to choose alternative health-care methods to support the 1983 Dietary Supplemental Health and Education Act, which will undergo a Senate committee
hearing in mid-September.
"There is an ongoing terror in the public about the government telling us what can we and cannot put in our bodies," Khrus said.
She said the FDA defines food as a substance you eat and a drug as something you take for its health and therapeutic elements. Any dietary supplement or herb with a label proclaiming health benefits would be considered a drug.
If you use cayenne pepper to season food — fine. But if you take it as a health remedy, it's a drug," Khris said about the FDA's view.
Schultz said the FDA wanted people to be uneducated about alternative health-care methods.
"We just want to get people to hear our side," he said.
Photo illustration by Martin Altstaedt. KANBAN
Vitamins and herbal medicines are popular components of alternative health care, but legislation is endangering the public's right to buy them over the counter.