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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
KANSAS STATE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA KS 66612
VOL.102.NO.146
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TUESDAY, APRIL 27,1993
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Students to monitor minority progress
But the two chosen say appointments will delay action
Two students have been chosen to check the progress of the University on implementing recommendations for African-American student concerns.
By Dan England Kansan staff writer
But the students, James Baucom,
Topeka senior and president of the
Black Student Union, and Peter
Braithwaite, Evanston, III, senior.
former student senator and former president of BSU, said they thought the appointments would further delay action on student concerns.
Baucom and Braithwaite will meet regularly with Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor, and will act as a liaison between the University and the task force. Their first meeting with Meyen was last week.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, met with the students last week also. He sees the meetings as a check on the University.
"It puts some pressure on us to make mistakes" Ambler said.
Baucom said the appointments were a good effort on Meyen's part to act on student concerns.
But Baucom graduates in May and Braithwaite in December. Both are concerned it would take time for their replacements to learn how the administration worked.
"Brathwaite and I have been on the task force the longest, so we know what is going on," Bacoum said. "With new students the University may be able to use the same old delaying tactics that they used with us."
The task force was formed in Spring 1992 as a way to satisfy African-American students' demands stemming from campus demonstrations. The demonstrations began in the spring of 1991.
"We felt that our efforts were fruitless," Baucom said. "The University
was only making cosmetic changes that really did not make much of a difference."
The University sensed the group's frustration, Baucom said, and formed the 16-member task force. Baucom and Braithwaite were members of that committee.
"It was a last effort to put the demands of the group into the University's language," he said.
In Fall 1992 the committee completed a report with nine recommendations. The report proposed restructuring the Office of Minority Affairs so that an assistant executive vice chancellor position would be created to implement the programs, which included increasing the number of
African-American faculty and increasing the number of African-American students.
The University responded in December 1992. It accepted some of the task force's proposals, reaffirmed its commitment to others and called for more committees and task forces. Baucom called the University's reliance on committees a tactic to avoid addressing the concerns of the students. And he said he thought the administration was overlooking the task force and its recommendations
But Meyen said that he tried to meet with the task force several times but that it was difficult to find a time that everyone could be present. The one time that everyone could get together
the chair of the committee got sick. Evenso, he set up a series of responses from the administration to prove that it was working on the report.
Problems with coordination and communication may not be unique to the African-American students' concern task force.
Meyen saw similar problems with other University task forces, and he plans to meet regularly with futureences when they turn in their reports.
"Normally when a attack force turns in its report the University tries to work on the recommendations as best it can," Meyen said. "I felt it was time to change that. This is a better solution than to just put it on the shelf."
Warm days warrant weirdness
Spring antics include food fights, flashers, cemetery sunbathing
By Jess DeHaven Kansan staff writer
Just call it spring fever.
How else can the food fights, indecent exposures and cemetery submothing that have made being on campus a little weird lately be explained?
**Above:** Heather Seevers Kansas City, Mo., senior, and her snake, Qui Qui, enjoy the sunny afternoon with John Little. Independence junior. Below: From left, Jon Perehoneur, Coffeyville sophomore; Betsy Erickson, Lincoln, Neb.; sophomore; Andra Gill, Overland Park sophomore; and Tom Lvnch, Spring Lake N.J.). Junior study outdoors in Pioneer Cemetery on West Campus.
The warmer temperatures does bring a rise in slightly odd incidents on campus, said Lt John Mullens of the KU police. The activity generally picks up when the Chi Omega fountain, the location of many spring antics, is turned on.
"We've had several people dumped in the fountain," Mullens said. "And there has certainly been a rise in the number of indecent exposures on campus."
On Sunday afternoon a student strolled down West Campus Road with his pants pulled down to his knees, said Officer Burdel Welsh of the KU police.
The suspect was walking down the street in front of Carruth-O'Leary Hall, where the KU police department is, in view of three police secretaries. The suspect was arrested by an officer, Welsh said.
One of the more interesting cases from last week involved flying bananas in a residence hall cafeteria. Mullens said.
"Two groups of roommates were dumping various things in each other's rooms over the course of a few hours," he said. "Eventually, they ended up in a food fight in the cafeteria."
But a relatively harmless food fight turned into a real fight.
Following the food fight, one of the students left the building. Later that evening, when the student returned, he was assaulted by another student involved in the food fight. KU police were called to make an arrest.
Sgt. Mark Warren of the Lawrence police said the warm weather had a hand in the increase of police reports.
"Anytime the weather turns nice, people are going to be outside a lot more," he said. "There will be a lot of large and loud parties, and people will sleep with their windows open which can contribute to
the number of noise complaints.
"It's especially bad after we've had a long winter."
Sunbathing may not seem an unusual warm weather activity. Getting a tan in a cemetery could strike some as a bit odd.
For several students relaxing at Pioneer Cemetery on West Campus, however, the activity seemed natural.
"It's a spacious area and close to home," said Jamie Phillips, a Merriam sophomore who lives in Ellsworth Hall. "And he, everyone else seems to do it."
Betsy Erickson, Lincoln, Neb., sophomore, said that tanning among the tombstones did not bother her.
"It's really the closest spot to McCollum," she said. "Besides, I don't think we're laying on anyone."
Juice bar marks first nude dance club in Lawrence
Bv Will Lewis
Kansanstaffwriter
A new business featuring nude dancers that is opening tomorrow will sidestep city regulations on nudity in bars using one twist — it will serve nonalcoholic juice.
Juicers, a juice bar featuring completely nude live dancers, will open tomorrow at 913 N. Second St., said owner Jeff Wallace.
"Basically it's going to be a strip bar, but it's going to be nonalcoholic," Wallace said.
Jucers will be the only strip bar in the Lawrence city limits.
The Lawrence City Commission on January 19 adopted an ordinance prohibiting rudity in establishments that sell alcoholic liquor and cereal malt beverages. But because Juices will not sell alcohol, the ordinance will not apply to the business.
The bar will admit patrons who are 18 years old and older. Wallace said that he knew this might cause some concern from parents but that he thought the worries were unjustified.
"Why have their 18-year-old sons drive 45 miles outside the city when they can stay right here and be a whole lot safer?" Wallace said. "Lawrence doesn't have any adult entertainment in town, and I think they need it."
Wallace said the dancers, mostly KU students, will perform table and couch dances. Couch dances give the patrons more room and a more relaxed setting. Wallace said.
But he said no touching would be allowed between the dancers and the customers.
"It's going to be a clean establishment," Wallace said. Juicers is also clean as far as the law is concerned, said Dave Corliss, assistant city manager.
"There is no law that prohibits mity in establishments as long as they don't sell alcoholic liquor or cereal-malt beverages." Corliss said. "As long as they're not a bar, they can allow nudity."
He said that because no alcohol would be served, age restrictions would not be required.
Corliss said it was too early to tell what the Lawrence City Commission would do because it had not yet been asked to study the issue.
"It's premature to speculate the legality of that and whether or not Lawrence will do anything," Corliss said. "Right now, he's complying with the law."
But there would be constitutional support for regulating establishments with nudity that do not serve alcoholic beverages, he said.
Mike Wildgen, city manager, said the City Commission would be the judge of what restrictions, if any, would be placed on the establishment.
He said it was difficult to ban any activity completely.
Wallace said he would sue if any restrictions were placed on his establishment.
Off to Oxford
See story. Page 7.
Pam McEwele, KU's first female Rhodes Scholar, is working for Vice President Al Gore in the White House. She is one of only 32 students selected to study at Oxford University in England and will pursue a master's degree in forestry.
Graduate finds fiance, Lawrence sister city
By James J. Reece
Kansan staff writer
A summer in Germany and a basketball league helped KU graduate Don Anderson meet his future wife and helped Lawrence gain a sister city.
in the summer of 1988, Anderson, then a KU sophomore from Bartlesville, Okla., was studying in Eutin, Germany, with a group of KU and Lawrence High School students in an exchange program sponsored by the Office of Study Abroad.
Anderson, who was studying German,
joined a basketball club that sponsored
men's and women's teams. That is where
he met Stefanie Berger.
"The Americans played basketball with my club," said Berger, who works in a bank in Eutin. "We met at a birthday party for one of the Americans."
Three days after he met Berger, Anderson returned to KU for his sonmore hour.
Separated by about 3,000 miles and seven time zones, they saw each other once every six months and wrote letters in between visits.
"I wouldn't recommend that to anyone," Anderson said. "To have your main area of contact coming from letters."
But their relationship lasted, and they will be married in the summer of 1904.
Berger still lives in Eutin, Anderson graduated from KU in 1901 and now lives about a 100 miles away in Kiel, Germany, where he has studied for the past three years at the University of Kiel on a German Academic Exchange Scholarship.
A year after the two met, the cities of Lawrence and Eutin formed a relationship of their own and became sister cities.
Anderson had a hand in organizing the sister-city relationship. He accompanied Frank Baron, professor of German, who was the U.S. founder of the Lawrence-Eutin sister city relationship.
And the relationship between the cities continues.
Baron said the warm welcome of Eutin—the basketball tournament, firehouse picnics and other community events—prompted him to try to create a bond between the cities. He helped organize meetings with Lawrence citizens and city officials to get the sisterhood made official.
Baron said this would be the fourth year the cities had summer high school exchange programs. Next summer the cities will sponsor a bank-trainee exchange program.
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KU graduate Don Anderson met his fiancé, Stefanie Berger, while studying in Eutin, Germany. He later helped Eutin form a sister city relationship with Lawrence.