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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
KANSAS STATE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA KS 66612
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102,NO.117
WEDNESDAY. MARCH 10, 1993
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Five vie for affirmative action post
Committee is interviewing the finalists
By Dan England Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
The search committee for KU's new director of affirmative action has narrowed its list of candidates to five finalists.
The committee, which began interviewing the finalists on Feb. 24, will examine its last candidate on March 18.
the names of the candidates were given to the Kansan by a source who did not want to be named. Three of the five candidates, Marion Boenheim Maurice Bryan and Glenda Morris, confirmed that they were candidates. Phyllis Powell, who was interviewed
yesterday by the committee, could not be reached for comment. Tom Berger refused to comment.
Berger refused to comment Jackie McClain, who heads the committee, said there were about 50 applicants for the position. She said she thought that 10 candidates were screened and interviewed by telephone before the finalists were selected.
selected.
The committee first met Sept. 1, about 10 months after the former director, James "Skip" Turner, resigned. Turner resigned after he was put on paid leave by the University Berger succeeded Turner as acting director on Oct. 28, 1991.
The new director will be responsible for monitoring the University's hiring procedures and employment statistics to make sure they comply with federal equal opportunity and affirmative action laws. The office also handles grievance procedures.
McClain said the committee was looking for someone with experience and good credentials who would be
sensitive to minority issues.
"We want someone to create an environment that encourages diversity" she said.
McClain said that she was not concerned that only one candidate was a member of a minority group and that the director did not have to be a minority to do a good job.
A Native-American woman, Roberta Ferron, held the position before Turner, an African American. Two white women held the position before Ferron.
McClain said that women, people who have certain religious preferences, and war veterans, even though they are not ethnic minorities, are classified as minors in affirmative action. Berger is a veteran, Boenheim is a Jewish woman, Bryan is an African American man, and Morris and Powell are women.
The committee will vote on which candidate or candidates they will endorse after the final interview. The
The final five
The finalists for KU's director of affirmative action are:
Tom Berger, acting director of affirmative action at KU.
Motive action at the
western, director of affi-
ficial action and assistant to
the executive vice chancellor at the
University of Mississippi.
Maurice Bryan, director of the Center of Equal Opportunity at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash.
Glenda Morris, director of affirmative action services at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, Calif.
Phyllis Powell, affirmative action offi ce at Ferris State University in Big Ranches, Mich.
recommendation will go to the Office of Affirmative Action for approval. It then will go to Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor, who will make the final decision before the end of the semester.
Flash of spring
House considers change in liquor law
Some KU students relax on a hill near Clinton Lake. From left, Sarah Hall, Oklahoma City freshman, Monique Bollier and Heather Huston, Praire Village freshmen, Yvette Raphel, Overland Park freshman, and Gail Russell, Topeka freshman, were among those who went outside into spring-like temperatures in the 60s yesterday. Forecasters say the end of the week will be much colder. See the weather forecast, Page 2.
By Ben Grove
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Beer buyers in Kansas soon may not have to make a special trip to the liquor store to get the "strong stuff."
New legislation in the Kansas House of Representatives would allow grocery and convenience stores in the state to sell beer that contains 5 percent alcohol or less.
Kansas and four other states restrict grocery and convenience store sales to beer that contains 3.2 percent or less alcohol. Liquor stores are restricted to the sale of beer with a greater alcohol percentage than 3.2 percent. All stores may sell non-alcoholic beer, which has 5 percent alcohol or less.
Hearings on the bill began yesterday as supporters of the bill spoke in the Kansas House of Representatives Federal and State Affairs Committee. The bill's supporters said that there was no need for a 3.2 law in Kansas after the drinking age in the state was raised from 18 to 21.
The bill has drawn strong support from the state's grocery and convenience stores, which say they have lost out on a share of the beer market to liquor stores.
"We are hopeful we will regain our part of the market share that we have lost on over the years," said Casey's General Store attorney Robert Alderson. "We want to have a level playing field."
ly purchase beer with 3.2 percent alcohol or less.
Much of the discussion during the hearing centered on whether 18 year olds still would be able to sell beer in and convenience stores.
Steven Keamey, a Coastal Mart representative, said that the current restrictions amounted to a "legislatively protected market share."
Alderson assured the committee that his company would not ask the Legislature for permission to sell liquor.
absent from 15 to 23
Before that, 18 year olds could legal-
grocery and convenience stores
State Rep. Kenny Wilk, R-Lansing
said there was nothing to keep an 18 year-old clerk from selling beer to an underaged friend.
In Kansas, 18 year olds can sell beer in grocery and convenience stores, but clerks must be 21 to sell alcohol in liquor stores.
The committee heard testimony from several of the bill's proponents that 40 to 45 percent of liquor stores' sales were beer sales. Already, they said, they have received calls from liquor store owners who are not pleased about losing beer sales to other types of stores.
what we're doing is a really dramatic shift that is going to leave some people out of business," said State Rep. Phil Kline, R-Shawnee.
Opponents of the bill will speak today.
Paul Kotz / KANSAN
From left, Aaron Anderson, Johnson freshman, Scott Harms, Omaha, Neb., freshman, and Ben Miller, Cedar Falls, Iowa, graduate student, stand on the Allen Field House court, where they shot their way to free tuition.
Making bucks through baskets
Putting the ball through the hoop pays semester's tuition for three
By Jay Williams
Kansan sportswriter
Ben Miller had seen it all before. Miller, Diller Falls, Iowa, graduate student, had already seen the basketball go through the net before his turn at the Naismith Hall Free Tuition Shootout at the women's basketball game against Kansas State on Feb. 28.
A sports psychology major, Miller and a friend used visualization, a technique they had studied, before Miller took the floor. His friend had Miller rehearse the shots in his mind.
Then came Miller's moment: a man, a ball and the basket.
Layup, good. Free throw, good.
Three-pointer, bank shot. Not
pretty, but it counted.
"After I made the three-pointer, I thought, '1 better make this because I'm pretty broke,'" Miller said.
Swish from half court.
Swish Miller was one of three people to earn in-state tuition for a semester during the contest, which takes place during halftimes of the women's home games. Aaron Anderson, Johnson freshman, and Scott Harms, Omaha, Neb., freshman, also made a layup, free throw, three-point shot and a half-court shot in 30 seconds or less to win the prize.
Miller, who played basketball at Division III Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, as an undergraduate, is a graduate teaching assistant in the department of health and physical education and receives a tuition waiver already. He has an alternate plan for some of the money.
"I called my fiance and told her that won and would take $500 and use it on our honeymoon," Miller said.
Anderson and Harms were awarded their checks in a ceremony during the Jayhawks' final home game against Kansas State
Miller is still waiting for the
check, pending confirmation of his victory. Naismith Hall, the event sponsor, has an insurance policy that covers somebody winning. The company requires videotape confirmation and witnesses.
Harms, a trumpet player in the women's basketball pep band, made his shots Dec. 12 at halftime of the Florida Atlantic game. He said he signed up because he thought he had a chance to be selected to shoot.
"Hardly any students go to the games." Harms said.
Shes named He was perfect from the floor until he uncorked the first half-court shot. It came up short.
Then came a desperate race against the clock. Harms reloaded for one last heave.
"I looked up at the clock and saw I had three seconds left," he said. "It looked like a good shot."
He was correct.
Anderson, a varsity kid, just came to the Colorado game on Feb. 5 to watch his friends on the junior varisty rally squel cheer at the women's basketball game. It was his first women's basketball game of the season. He said he was driving by the field house and decided to stop in for a while. He signed up for the shootout as he entered the field house.
Like Harms, Anderson made both the layup and free throw on the first try. He missed the threepointer, but converted the second attempt. With the clock winding down, Anderson ran to the center circle for his only attempt.
"I didn't have any clue how much time was left," he said. "As I stepped on the half-court line, I just turned and drew it."
Bingo.
Budge Anderson had experience with buzzer beaters. In high school, he made a half-court shot before halftime, giving his team the lead.
50 when shot was beaten.
"The one in college, definitely," he said. "This one was worth $900."
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Graduate student seeks cure for AIDS-related infections
See story, Page 7.
Rv Terrilyn McCormick
Kansan staff writer
tions.
Ayomal Fernando, Sri Lanka graduate student, brought 14 different Sri Lankan plants, normally used as medicinal herbs, to the University of Kauasai for research last August. He said he hoped to find the active ingredients in the plants, extract them and use them for Western medicine.
In a fifth-floor Malot Hall laboratory, the traditional herbal medicine of Sri Lanka and medicine of the United States combine for a possible cure for AIDS-related infections.
Through his research at the University, Fernando has located a tree bark that has an active antifungal ingredient that possibly kill infections resulting from AIDS.
Fernando said that finding a cure for AIDS complications would be very gratifying
"This would help everyone, not just Sri Lankans," he said. "If I found a cure I would be thrilled, to the least." Lester Mitscher, professor of medicinal chemistry and Fernando's adviser, said. "This work is promising, but it takes years for the frustration of this kind of work to be realized." He said that it was rare that a student would still be working on the project in its final stages.
The bark used in Fernando's research is from a Sri Lankan tree that has little value in the Sri Lankan economy.
Fernando said he planned to go back to Sri Lanka in April or May to get a large quantity of the bark, make it into an extract and bring it back to the University for further research.
Brantingham County ARB offers a Western Fernando's research is funded by a grant from the World Laboratory, a Swiss organization that funds a Western education for graduate students in Third World countries. Fernando to learn We.
Also as part of his research, he is learning about the spread of AIDS. He is a member of the KU AIDS Task Force and the Douglas County AIDS Project.
The goal of the exchange is for Fernando to learn Western theories and research techniques and take them back to Sri Lanka for application.
in Sri Lanka for application. "This is very unique in the sense of a scholarship," he said. "The Swiss company provides the money for the research and travel."
Fernando is the first recipient at KU of the World Laboratory scholarship. The World Laboratory paired Fernando with Mitscher because of Mitscher's work. Mitscher was the first to discover another source of the anti-cancer drug taxol in the Himalayan Yew tree.
Kim Buche / KANBA
Ayomai Fernande, Sri Lanka graduate student, works in a Malott Hall laboratory.
Fernando said his match with Mitscher was appropriate. "Mitscher has traveled around the world with his research, so he knows about many different cultures," Fernando said. "It is nice that he understands the culture of my country."