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Thursday, March 4, 1993
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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More KU students receive notices to appear in connection with false driver's license ring
The number of students served notices in an Oliver Hall fake driver's license operation has reached 23.
KU police Lt. John Mullens said that police suspected two more people were connected with the operation but had not been able to identify
rice arrested Robert Martin, West Des Moines, Iowa, freshman, Feb. 24 after responding to a call on the KU Crimeoplasters hot line that said a student in Oliver had been making fake licenses. Martin has been charged in Douglas County District Court with dealing in false identification. Martin's preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Wednesday.
Sixteen students given notices to appear in court are residents of Oliver. The other seven live in Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall. The students have been charged with either possessing a false license or attempting to possess a false license.
Martin's roommate, Clint Reiss, Plains freshman, is scheduled to make his first appearance today in Douglas County District Court on a charge of possession of false identification. Police arrested Reiss the same day as Martin.
The remaining students have notices to appear in court either March 11 or March 18.
Having a fake license is a Class B misdemeanor, punishable by a maximum of six months in jail with an optional fine of up to $1,000.
Student Senate election process gets underway as coalition becomes first to file for candidacy
The A.C.T.I.O.N! coalition became the first student coalition to file for presidential and vice president candidacy for the 1993 Student Senate election yesterday, said Diane King, elections commissioner.
Jason McIntosh, liberal arts and sciences senator, is the coalition's presidential candidate, and Marisol Romero, off-campus senator, is his vice presidential running mate.
The presidential and vice presidential filing period started yesterday and will end at 5 p.m. Wednesday. The filing office is in the Office of Student Life, 300 Strong Hall.
According to the Student Senate Elections Code, coalitions and independent candidates also must file their initial campaign activity reports Wednesday.
The filing period for student senators is March 10-17.
The elections will be April 14-15.
Family of late Alumni Association president donates $300,000 to establish two funds at KU
A gift of $300,000 from the family of the late W. W. Keeler will establish two funds for the KU faculty and students.
The money will be used for intra-University professorships that allow faculty members to study and lecture outside their fields and to support students in the M.D./Ph. D. joint degree track.
The three sons of W. W. Keeler, who attended KU with the class of 1932, and the late Ruby Keeler gave the money to the KU Endowment Association.
W. W. Keeler was president of the KU Alumni Association in 1968.
KU Fraternity, Sorority Foundation donates $3,000 to local organization that gives help to mentally ill
KU's Fraternity and Sorority Foundation donated $3,000 yesterday to Project Acceptance Inc., a Lawrence organization that provides peer support and care for the mentally ill.
The foundation, a subcommittee of the Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic, collected funds for the donation during the 1991-92 academic year. The donation is the second one presented by the foundation, which gives money to Lawrence organizations, said Jay Curran, who heads the Fraternity and Sorority Foundation.
Project Acceptance will use the donation to construct a ramp for wheelchair access at its headquarters at 407 Maine St., Curran said.
St. Lawrence choir member begin preparations for August performance before pope in Denver
The St. Lawrence Collegiate Choir held a kick-off meeting last night to begin preparations for a youth gathering and mass with Pope John Paul II in August.
"The meeting is just to get the choir pumped-up," said Sally Hudnall, music assistant at St. Lawrence Catholic Center, 1631 Crescent Rd.
Day Mass in Deliver. Ninety of the memorial plaques go to Hudson Hall.
The choir was chosen as one of nine U.S. choirs to sing at the mass.
Lynn Trapp, the choir's organist and Lawrence graduate student, was chosen to serve as co-conductor at the event, Huddah said.
All 130 choir members were given the option to attend the World Youth Day Mass in Denver. Ninety of the members plan to go, Huddall said.
One million people are expected to attend the gathering, she said.
Compiled by Kansan staff writers Vicki Bode, Mark Klefer and Brett Riggs.
Minority Affairs may change
By Frank McCleary Kansan staff writer
Office restructuring being considered
A Student Senate resolution to restructure the Office of Minority Affairs, passed last semester, has resurfaced this semester.
The resolution, which passed Nov. 18, called for the renaming of the Office of Minority Affairs as the Office of Multicultural Affairs, giving the office a position in either the chancellor's office or the executive vice chancellor's office and giving the director of minority affairs the title of associate or assistant executive vice
chancellor
Moving all minority affairs offices at Big Eight schools to executive-level status was a short-term goal on the agenda of the Big Eight Council on Black Student Government.
The council, which represents all Big Eight schools, last met during the 16th Annual Big Eight Conference on Black Student Government, held at KU last month.
James Baucom, president of KU's Black Student Union, was one of two delegates from KU at the meeting. The restructuring of the Office of Minority Affairs requires immediate attention from the administration, he said.
"KU needs to move right now," he said.
Baucom said that an executive level position holder could better represent minority students.
"It would put someone who advocates minority affairs on the chancellor's cabinet," he said. "It would have a direct impact on University activities."
The office currently is in the Office of Student Affairs.
Sherwood Thompson, director of minority affairs, said that the office needs representation at a higher level in University affairs.
"Students feel that minorities need to have representation at the cabinet level for decisions that affect minority students." Thompson said.
Lance Wright, student body vice president, said the issue was imoor-
tant to the Senate. The fact that the administration has taken a action against him was made known.
The program review recommendation suggested that the administration study campus programs that benefited students, and their coordination and effectiveness.
Ed Meyen executive vice chancellor, said the administration was considering the Senate resolution, an African-American Student Concerns Task Force report from last semester and a program review recommendation. The administration will look at all three before making a decision about restructuring, he said.
Meyen asked the task force to suggest some students who could meet with him on a regular basis.
Renee Knoebeer / KANSAN
Carla Smith, Shawne sophomore, makes the numbers on her cadaver match her answers on the exam. The Biology 301 and 302 classes had tests requiring them to label muscles and tendons of the upper body yesterday.
Students trade books for bodies
By Terrilyn McCormick Kansan staff writer
After gagging three times on the first day of class, Schellie Payne, Paola sophomore, almost dropped her anatomy lab class.
"The horrible smell and the whole aspect of cutting into a human being really bothered me," she said.
"It has definitely got better," she says. "But I smell all day long. My roommates tend to leave when I come home."
Now, halfway through the semester, Payne says that she has become accustomed to the idea of cutting and observing the six cadavers but that she still has trouble with the smell of formaldehyde.
The pungent smell of formaldehyde fills the lab room that is home to six cadavers. They are the textbooks for the six Biology 301 and 302 classes, where cutting and probing dead bodies is a requirement.
The six bodies, two females and four males, all older than the age of 62, will be used throughout the
semester for the classes.
Darrin Good, graduate teaching assistant for the classes, said the bodies came from the University of Kansas Medical Center. The donors all died of natural causes.
Now they lie on steel tables, end to end down the center of the room. Stripped of skin from the waist up, the bodies are partially covered by yellow-stained towels. Some of the hands, hanging over the sides of the tables, are missing fingernails. The remaining ones are black.
With her hand encased in a rubber glove, Teresa Reichert, Ottawa, Canada, sophomore, picks up a flayed hand and separates the arteries with the casualness of an auto mechanic changing spark plugs during a tune-up.
By semester's end, the students will have examined every part of the
cadavers' bodies. Good said.
"Ive had students tell me that they have nightmares with the cadavers in them," he said. "Then later in the semester they're not in their nightmares but just in their dreams."
Good said that only a few students each semester had difficulty working with the bodies and that only one person had fainted in the lab during his two years of teaching the class.
Payne said that she had learned more about her own body from dissecting the cadavers.
"It's easy to see what eating junk food and fast food will do to you," she said. "You can see where the fat goes. It is all over the body."
Several students have complained about eating meat after a semester of dissecting human bodies, Good said.
"They know what the veins and arteries in the meat really are," he said. "Before the class, they weren't aware of what they were eating."
After the students take their final examination, the cadavers will be returned to the Med Center, where they will be cremated.
Community unites with KU for drug forum
Kansan staff writer
A forum on drug and alcohol abuse will bring representatives from the University of Kansas and the community together to discuss the issue today and tomorrow.
"These are issues that are almost indivisible," said Jeff Weinberg, assistant vice chancellor of student affairs. "The problems associated with alcohol and drugs can't be dealt with in isolation because we're all one community and can't be considered separate enclaves."
Representatives from KU, Baker University, Haskell Indian Junior College, the city of Lawrence and the Lawrence and Baldwin City police departments will meet at the Adams Alumni Center for the event.
The forum, sponsored by Health Promotion Resources of St. Paul, Minn., will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. tomorrow. Only the representatives can attend the forum.
The forum will include discussion of the roles of public transportation, law enforcement, the media and advertising in substance abuse, and the responsibilities of private businesses that sell alcohol.
Weinberg said it was important that people in the community join efforts in dealing with the drug and alcohol problem.
"A problem on the campus can very quickly be a problem in the community," he said. "These aren't issues that are only of concern to one part of the community or another."
But the forum is not being held to imply that KU has a larger than average drug and alcohol problem, Weinberg said.
"It's unfair and inappropriate to say it's a serious problem here," he said. "It's a serious problem in all parts of our community. No one's emphasizing that it's an overwhelming problem on the college campus."
Educational institutions across the country are aware of the problem, Weinberg said.
"Every university, every college, every high school in this country realizes that alcohol and drugs are serious problems," he said. "This is a unique opportunity to look at solutions for concerns we all have."
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The University of Kansas Howard Hughes Undergraduate Research Fellowships FOR WOMEN AND MINORITY MEN
Program: Undergraduate summer research fellowships in Biochemistry, Cell Biology, General Genetics, Molecular Genetics, Physiology, and Microbiology. The program is funded through a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
2. Undergraduates who have completed their freshman year with a minimum 3.0 grade point average
1. Women nd minority men who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents
3. Demonstrable leadership ability, scholastic ability and an interest in pursuing a career in the biological sciences.
Stipend and Allowances: $2,000 stipend for an eight week program, tuition and fees for 2 credit hours of undergraduate research, room, board and travel stipend.
Submission Format: Obtain an application from your Biology Department (or rom the address below): send an application, an official transcript, and two letters of recommendation, to the Howard Hughes Program, 2045 Haworth, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-2106.
Application Deadline Date: April 1, 1993 For Additional Information, write to: Sylvia M. Suarez Howard Hughes Program 2045 Haworth Hall The University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045-2106
Program Date: June 8-July 31, 1992