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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102,NO.134
(USPS 650-640)
FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1993
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Marisol Romero, A.C.T.J.O.N.I! vice presidential candidate; responds to another candidate's comments during the Student Senate vice presidential debate at the Kansas Union. All four vice presidential candidates, including Jeff Russell, center, FOCUS party candidate, were at last night's debate. Brent Brossman, right, mediated.
Debate provides consensus
Vice presidential candidates focus on experiences
Kansan staff writer
By Brett Riggs
Last night's Student Senate vice presidential debate provided more consensus than conflict.
In a question-and-answer format that allowed little interaction between candidates, the vice presidential hopefuls focused mainly on their campaign platforms.
About 150 people attended the
debate at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. The debate was sponsored by the Audience Debate Forum.
The candidates answered questions from a three-person panel and the audience.
Responding to questions about Saferide, the candidates unanimously agreed Senate should seek outside funding to maintain the cab service at its current level. All four candidates said they supported seeking money from the Lawrence Tavern Owners' Association to maintain the service.
Another area that the candidates unanimously agreed on was the need for child care on campus, which included unanimous support for the expansion of Hilltop Child Development Center.
With little debate on the issues, the topics of experience and reaching out to students took center stage.
Tim Dawson, UNITE vice presidential candidate, said he thought his coalition had the most experience. He cited work by members of his coalition on the issues of financing Saferide and KU on Wheels as well as increasing involvement of students in multicultural activities as accomplishments the other coalitions could not match.
Russell, who has never been on Senate, said his coalition would address issues that were feasible for Senate to address, such as increasing its involvement with Student Union Activities and maintaining the Safeferd cab service.
tial candidate, downplayed the experience issue by doubting how much Senate had done for students in the oast.
Charles Frey, UNGANISHA vice presidential candidate, said that he would look to bring to Senate a new style, which would include making Senate more cost effective. His plan would cut six KU on Wheels bus routes, including the current routes that run from Daisy Hill to Gertrude Sellars Pearls-Sorin-Corbin Hall.
Marsiol Romero, A.C.T.J.O.N..! vice presidential candidate, responded by saying that her coalition was the most qualified and that it would address issues, such as tuition, that affect all students.
Jeff Russell, FOCUS vice presiden-
Cultural center coming to KU
Questions exist about project's purpose, goals
By Jess DeHaven Kansan staff writer
A year after a resolution was passed to establish a multicultural center at KU, a planning committee has been organized that should have the center operational by the 1994-95 academic year.
The center, which will be a branch of the Office of Minority Affairs, is aimed at increasing cultural awareness, but some questions exist on whether the center will produce cultural harmony.
Sherwood Thompson, director of the Office of Minority Affairs, said that although the center was proposed by Student Senate in Fall 1991, the office only recently had established the planning committee, which will meet on April 26 for the first time.
Thompson said it had taken so long to form the committee because the office had wanted to recruit a good mix of people.
"We were trying to be very accurate in how we select organizations and members for the planning committee," he said. "We wanted a broad base of perspectives from the University."
One other duty the committee will have is choosing a site for the center. Thompson said the plan was to use an existing building on campus to house the center.
The committee comprises undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff. They will outline target dates for the center's opening, discuss programs and decide on the management structure.
"I imagine we will be in the planning stages for at least a semester," Thompson said. "We need to decide what the particular niche for the center is and how we can incorporate that into the existing departments on campus."
Multicultural centers are established for a number of reasons.
Agapito Mendoza, assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs at the
University of Missouri in Kansas City has conducted a study of cultural centers. He said the purpose of a cultural center was to serve minority students who feel out of place on predominantly white campuses.
"They should be there to recruit and retain minority students," said Mendoza, who spoke yesterday at the Kansas Union at a forum about cultural centers. "They should also inform the campus as a whole about minority issues."
Marsiol Romero, Topeka junior and student senator, said she thought the center would address issues of diversity that affected the campus.
"Everyone has a culture, be it ethnic or lifestyle or otherwise," she sued. "We need to actively investigate existing resources and build upon the Office of Minority Affairs to accomplish diversity."
Romero, a vice presidential candidate for Student Senate, said she thought it was time for plans on the center to move forward and was pleased the planning committee had been formed.
Thompson said the center was necessary to reflect the growing ethnic diversity on campus.
"The purpose of the center is to increase cultural awareness on campus," he said. "We also want it to be something that will bring students together."
Mendoza said that he thought a multicultural center could work but that it would not be a cure for racial and ethnic tensions.
"It won't create harmony in a world of difference." Mendoza said.
During the past several months, problems have come up after a multicultural center was proposed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Thompson said. African-American students at the school had wanted a center for African Americans only and this caused relations between minority groups to deteriorate.
The dispute was solved when NBA basketball player and North Carolina alumnus Michael Jordan offered to finance an African-American center and the school agreed to finance the multicultural center.
Living groups help students grieve friends' deaths
Story continued, Page 5.
Kansan staff writer
By Will Lewis
Every time Danielle Brown enters her room at Gertrude Selkerson Pearson Hall, she expects to see her old roommate there.
She still has difficulty accepting the fact that Eileen Teahan, the student she had roomed with, died in a car accident early this semester.
"It's really different coming home to a room expecting her to be there and having someone else be there in her
place, "said Brown, Kansas City, Mo., freshman. "It affected me greatly in a lot of ways. No one will ever compare to living with her."
As in the case of Teahan's death and that of Emily Nelson, a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority who died Monday, a loss of a friend forces students in group living arrangements to deal with the pain.
Organized student living sometimes offers help in times of dealing with a crisis such as death. But they do not guarantee a complete and quick rem
edv.
The residence hall offered support at times, Brown said. But at other times she would have rather been alone.
"A lot of people have a lot of sympathy for you, but you don't want to talk to them," she said.
The death of a student often shocks residents, said Laura Cohen. Lawrence graduate student and residence hall director at GSP-Corbin.
Residents would sometimes avoid Brown because they had trouble finding the right words to say.
"I think it's scary, because when you get to college, you feel free and invincible," she said. "Then, all of a sudden, this happens."
The grieving process lasted several weeks when Teahan died, Cohen said.
But even then, things were never the same. she said.
Heather Frost, a psychologist at the Counseling and Psychological Services, said that different people reacted in different ways to death but that
sometimes group living could offer comfort.
Frost occasionally visits living groups to help residents deal with the grieving process.
"When you have a group that is grieving together, you have community grieving. The grief is shared," Frost said. "There's tremendous potential for support, and it can be very therapeutic."
Students in living groups should respect one another's feelings and emotions and the way in which they
express them, Frost said. Because individuals handle grief differently, Frost tells residents any method of dealing with grief is acceptable.
“It's important to be mindful, respectful and tolerant of people's individual differences in how they grieve and how they react,” she said.
Reactions range from denial to feelings of guilt about things said or not said to the person who died.
Everybody's got their own time line in the way they go through their own grief process, "Frost said.
Stocking up on success
Gays and church
Greg Anderson preaches the compatibility of the gay lifestyle with Christianity. He spoke yesterday at a forum at Ecumenical Christian Min
See story, Page 3.
By Ezra Wolfe
Kansan staff writer
What Morris, Topeka senior, does have is first place in Kansas in the fifth annual AT&T Collegiate Investment Challenge, in which imaginary money fuels imaginary investments in real stocks.
Vincent Morris earned more than $200,000 in four months, and he didn't even have a job.
Morris' earnings may not be real, but his success is.
He beat out 100 other Kansas students in the contest. And he placed 134th out of 9,772 students nationally.
Each student who participates in the challenge starts with a fictional $500,000 and a broker, who provides stock quotes and even loans money.
So what's the secret of beating out most stock brokers, mutual funds and bank interest rates?
"I picked stocks with low prices, about $3 to $6." Morris said. "So if the stocks went up, I would benefit more than if I bought $50 stocks."
The real secretism isn't asecret, though. Morris spent a lot of time poring over investment newsletters, magazines and general news publications.
"I look at and research the market strategy and psychology," he said, "I try to predict what everyone else will do. They have a herd mentality."
If a lot of people rush to buy one stock, he said, the price will increase. Morris tried to predict what everyone would buy before the actual rush began.
Morris said the Home Shopping Network was a good example. Before Christmas, articles about crowded malls elud Morris that television shopping might become more attractive to customers. He had read that television shopping programs were making more and more money, and sure enough, the stock price increased dramatically. he said.
Morris has no formal training in investing. He became interested when his mother invited him to a meeting of an investors' club in Topeka more than a year ago. After that meeting, he began to research investing.
Daron J. Bennett / KANSAN
Vincent Morris, Topeka senior, took first place out of 101 Kansas contestants in the AT&T College Investment Challenge.
Morris, an economics and business major, began advising the investors' club soon after.
Randy Parkman, promotions director for Replica Corp, the program's coordinator, said the investment challenge could help students get jobs after graduation.
"If you can prove you can take a dollar and multiply it, you are in demand," he said.
Morris, who outperformed students from Harvard University and University of California at Berkeley, said one company executive already had asked him for a resume.
As for investment advice, Morris said a company named Analog Devices had gone up 75 percent since he had bought it.
"It just went through the roof, and it's still going up," he said.