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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS
Wednesday, April 27, 1994
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Women honored for service
By Roberta Johnson
Kansan staff writer
Women who have dedicated themselves to service to the University of Kansas and community were honored last night at the Women's Recognition Program at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
"The people who care notice those things that come second nature," said Barbara Ballard, director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, which co-sponsored the event with the Commission on the Status of Women. "People asked. How do these people find the time to do these things? They make time."
State Rep. Carol Sader, D-Prairie Village, was the key speaker at the program. She said that making time for public service would make American history a history of achievements.
"President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said that we are all characters who are living in the book of democracy." Sader said. "Within these chapters we are writing, do we want to tell a story of retreat or a story of continuous advances and action-packed stories?"
Sader urged her listeners to become more involved in public service.
"Even today, in 1994, the world of politics and government remains a man's world," she said.
She said that only 20 percent of state legislators and 10 percent of national legislators were women.
"In my view, the reason why women are under-represented lies in the women themselves." Sader said "So few women run for public office. We're all losers for it.
"We must have the courage to translate values into change."
The under-representation of women in government symbolizes the lower status women continue to have, she said.
"Perhaps in time the mediocre woman will be able to achieve the same as the mediocre man," she said.
After Sader's speech, six faculty and staff members were inducted into the Women's Hall of Fame, which has existed since 1970. The inductees were: Ann Eversole, associate dean of student life; Elizabeth Kuzesnof, director of Latin American Studies; Nancy Peterson, professor of special education; Susanne Shaw, associate
professor of journalism: Ann Turnbull. professor of special education and Shelley Jane Miller. librarian who received the award posthumously.
Other awards included:
Outstanding Woman Student in Athletics. Angela Aycock, Dallas sophomore.
Outstanding Woman Student in Community Services: Jennifer Ford. Lawrence junior.
Outstanding Woman Student in Leadership; Vered Hankin, Overland Park junior, and Shanda Vangas, Derby senior.
Outstanding Woman Student in Student Services: Janet Pryor. Lawrence junior.
Outstanding Non-traditional Woman Student: Marcia Kelley. Lawrence senior.
Outstanding International Woman Student: Ana Cristina. Silva senior.
Outstanding Woman Teacher: Ellen Reid Gold. associate professor of communication studies.
Outstanding Woman Staff Member Sylvia Stone, secretary for women's studies.
Education's future topic of lecture
By Susan White
Kansan staff writer
Editors note: This is the third of five stories examining how higher education is chaining.
Jacob Neusner said he thought that the American public university was a growth industry that the nation cannot do without.
"People are very contemptuous about the education of Americans. but Americans are very smart people," said Neusner, a professor of research at the University of South Florida and a controversial speaker about the future of the American university.
But Neusner, who will speak at 8 tonightat Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union, said that the elite universities such as Harvard and Stanford were a dying breed.
"Harvard has a billion-dollar deficit because it cannot raise enough money for building maintenance" he said.
But Neusner said he had a lot more faith in the public education system than its critics.
Neusner said that education helped keep Americans questioning different issues, such as political correctness.
"Political correctness was invented to give the Left a bad name." he said. "It is a crisis of euphemisms. Groups who know they are don't use euphemisms to describe themselves."
Neusner said that people who did not use politically correct words were chastised unfairly.
If you speak your mind, you are required go through sensitivity train
ing or to take a course in brainwashing." he said.
Neusner said that political correctness, unlike public education, was at its end.
"Nobody ever took it seriously except salespeople of superficial formalities." he said.
Ryan Tarplay, a student member of the Western Civilization program committee. said that in addition to lectures on education. Neusner has written about 500 books, including several books about Jewish traditions. More than 200 of his books are housed in Watson Library. Tarplay said.
"The only one who has more than that is Shakespeare." he said.
Neusner will speak tomorrow about the importance of higher education in a lecture called "The Future of the American University: Is There Any?" The lecture is sponsored by the Western Civilization department.
The lecture is free.
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or more information. call John Carlton at 864-4358. Or stop by the Kansan in 119 Stauffer-Flint. Deadline Friday. April 29.