CAMPUS/AREA
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, February 4. 1993
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ON CAMPUS
Japan-America will hold a conversation group from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. today at Alcev C in the Kansas Union. Bring a lunch and take part in English and Japanese conversation. For more information, call Ben Tompkins at 865-0116.
The Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Center for Humanities is holding a seminar, "Minority Politics and Apartheid: The Natal Indian Congress, 1944-1960," presented by Surenda Bhana, at 3:30 p.m. today at the Hall Conference Room in the Hall Center for Humanities. The seminar is open to all KU graduate students, faculty, staff and their guests. For information, call Joshua Rosenbloom at 864-3501 or the Hall Center at 864-4798.
■ Latin American Solidarity will hold a rice and beans dinner at 6 p.m. today at 1204 Oread Ave. For more information, call Marc Becker at 841-5660
The anthropology department will hold its undergraduate club meeting at 5 p.m. today at 633 Fraser Hall. For more information, call Destiny Crider at 832-1469.
KU Champions Club will meet at 6 p.m. today at Burge Union. For more information, call William Schmeelk at 841-5373.
Womyn's Concerns will meet at 6:30 p.m. today at the Pioneer Burge in Burge Union.
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship will meet at 7t tonight in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union. For more information, call Alica Thomas at 864-2099
Students Tutoring for Literacy will meet at 7 tonight at the Mallott Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Lynn McAdoo at 841-9583.
The Icthus Christian Fellowship will meet at 8:30 tonight at the Big 8 Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Jarrett Meek at 749-5365.
Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas will hold its general meeting at 7:30 tonight at the Pioneer Room in Burge Union.
KU Fencing Club will practice from 8:30 to 10:30 tonight and from 6 to 8:30 tomorrow night. For more information, call Jen Snyder at 841-6445
■ Women's Student Union will meet at 5 p.m. tomorrow at Alcove A in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Jennifer Roth at 832-1511.
Technology brings authors to KU
history
By Ezra Wolfe
Kansan staffwriter
The magic of modern technology brought five African-American writers to university televisions across the country.
The writers gathered in Fairfax, Va., and answered questions yesterday during a conference sponsored by Black Issues in Higher Education. The conference was telecast by satellite to universities, and students were asked to call in or send questions via fax. About 15 students watched in the Frontier room at the Burge Union at the University of Kansas.
As part of African-American history month, Nikki Giovanni, an African-American author, discusses how African-American literature relates to U.S. culture. The program was broadcast from Fairfax, Va., westward in the Burke Lauren
Kip Chin / KANSAN
The writers discussed many facets of writing and the African-American experience. Terry McMillan, author of "Waiting to Exhale," a recent New York Times best-seller, discussed her book.
One questioner from California quoted a paragraph from McMillan's book that contains descriptions of African-American men by the novel's female characters. The description portrayed them as "Ugly, stupid, in prison, unemployed crackheads" and continued using profane language to describe the men. The questioner asked if this portrait of men, without historical and sociological context, was not perpetuating a stereotype.
McMillan replied, "First of all, this is fiction, not nonfiction. I am not labeling anyone. These women were sitting and complaining because they're drunk."
"Sometimes when you are angry and disappointed and hurt you do have a tendency to stereotype."
Houston Baker, president of the Modern Language Association, a publishing group that promotes the study and criticism of modern languages, commended McMillan's book and added that the shock of recognition increased his pleasure of reading the book.
Charles Johnson, whose most recent book is "Middle Passage," said that he thought McMillan's writing was extraordinarily honest and that he and his friends talked about the book for three consecutive nights.
Jennifer Williams, Topea senior, said she agreed with McMillan that fiction should be separated from fact.
"Fiction is made up from having your own beliefs," she said. "That's her own experience, that's how she feels. The only problem I have with it is that white America holds up McMillan's fiction and says this is how Blacks really are."
It's fiction."
McMillan said that she was not out to attack anyone, particularly African Americans and that if she did not care about them she would not write about them.
McMillan said she had heard concern from the African-American community that she was airing their dirty laundry in public.
Designers learn the art of business
"I seems to me there are still a lot of people out there who are still preoccupied with what white people think," she said.
Studio gives students real-world experience
By Terrilyn McCormick Kansan staff writer
Brad Krause, Pleasant, Calif., senior, does all the work of a professional graphics designer but does not pick up a paycheck.
Krause is one of 15 student graphic designers in the Arts Group, a working design studio in the Art and Design Building staffed by students. The studio provides design, illustration and print production services for KU performing arts and other nonprofit clientele.
The students design the promotional material for about 50 productions like University Theater and the University Concert Series.
The Arts gives students real-world experience in college, said Abby Miesen, student director of the Arts.
The production aspect of the design process is new to the students.
Each student is given three or four projects throughout the semester. After they receive the project, they have to contact the client, set up the deadlines and work with a printer to choose the right paper for the printed design.
"in class, I never had to think about working under a budget," said Jessica Monson, Laurel,
Neb., junior. "I'm now learning how to design within guidelines."
Deanna Weston, Omaha, Neb., senior, said that the experience had taught her that design often takes a back seat to the production.
"Reality really hits you working here," she said. "You see that it's 80 percent business and 20 percent design."
One of the problems that makes the students' job even harder is the low budget they must operate under. Miesen said.
"In the professional firms the budgets are much bigger," she said. "It is more of a challenge to make something really great under a low budget."
The low budget forces the students to come up with creative low-cost solutions. In the past, students have painted color on the finished printed posters, and one student hand-stamped 200 miniature stars on his posters.
To become a designer in the Arts, a student's portfolio must pass two reviews. Design professors make the final selections based on the student's work and academic record. This semester, about 30 students applied for three openings.
Working at her desk in the Arts Group, a working design studio in the Art and Design building. Jessica Monson, Laurel, Neb., junior, puts the final touches on jazz concert poster. Students have three to four promotional projects to work on during the semester.
Renee Knoeber / KANSAN
By Ben Grove
Kansan staffwriter
TOPEKA — The University of Kansas Medical Center could grant 20 more medical school loans each year if a new Kansas Senate health-care bill passes.
State Sen. Sandy Praeger, RA Lawrence, chairperson for the Senate Public Health and Welfare committee, introduced a resolution last week that would ensure that all the money in a medical school loan fund would go to 50 students and not to a state general fund, as some of it has in the past.
Students in the University Medical Loan Program either can pay back the loan at 15 percent annual interest or serve in rural areas of the state for the same number of years that they borrowed money.
Praeger said about 40 to 50 percent of the students who borrowed money chose to pay back the loans and that the interest translated into money for new loans.
Marlin Rein, associate University director for governmental affairs, said that this year's 30 loans totaled about $1.3 million and that about $4 million a year, including interest, was
being repaid on current loans.
Since 1978, 30 medical school loans have been offered each year. In recent years, only about 30 students have applied for the loans, but last year 69 students applied, Rein said.
Kay Clawson, executive vice chancellor for the Med Center, said the increase in the loan's popularity was because medical students who chose to pay off their loans through service were no longer limited to western Kansas counties and could now serve anywhere except in the state's urban areas.
Clawson said that at least 60 of the state's 105 counties had a critical need for more physicians.
Praeger's resolution comes during a session when health care for the state's rural counties is one of the hottest issues in the Legislature. Praeger, whose husband is a Lawrence physician, said that western Kansas counties had a critical lack of physicians.
"It's easier to get them than it is to keep them," Praeger said. "These are doctors who are essentially on call seven days a week, 24 hours a day. They have virtually no time for themselves. It's a killer."
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