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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, April 18, 1994
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KU to offer interim housing
Plans include meals, storage
By Frank McCleary
Kapsan staff writer
The student housing department has approved a new plan to help students who are staying in Lawrence for summer school and need a place to live.
Interim housing will be available between the closing of the residence halls on May 12 and the opening of summer school housing on June 5. About 100 rooms in Lewis Hall will be open to students who have a summer housing contracts and who are enrolled in summer school classes. Students will be charged $240 for a
double-occupancy room and $360 for a single-occupancy room. The Ekdahl Dining Commons will serve three meals per day as part of the program.
Fred McElhenie, associate director of student housing, said there had been a demand for interim housing in the past.
The new program is an extension of similar housing programs, he said. Both Lewis and Templin Halls had been kept open during breaks this year.
McElhenny said food service was the most important difference between this program and previous interim housing programs.
The food service was added because some students participating in University programs will be living in Lewis during the interim period.
McElhenie said he had no expectations about the number of people who would apply for the interim housing
A similar plan may be in place to allow students to live in housing during the time between summer school and the fall semester, he said, but the department has not decided how it would be implemented.
Jamie Cutburth, president of the Association of University Residence Halls, said the program could be helpful for students who were unable to go home after the semester ended.
"I'm confident that we'll have students take advantage of this program," he said.
The housing department also will offer rental storage for students who do not want to live in Lewis during the interim period. The storage program also requires a valid summer housing contract and will cost $84. Students
who want to store their possessions must move them into an assigned room in Lewis on or after May 13.
The new interim housing policy does not worry some people who are trying to sublease their apartments or houses.
Megan Noller, Omaha, Neb., senior,
said that she did not know about the
new policy but that she wasn't worried
about subleasing her house.
"I don't think people would worry about people living in the dorms," she said.
Lorenda Morris, Kansas City, Kan,
juniur, said the new program could
hamper her efforts to sub-lease her
apartment.
For more information about either program, students should call the KU student housing department at 864-3611.
Martin Altstaedten / KANSAN
An eye on culture
Ileana Perez, Panama City, Panama, junior, prepares for her performance of the Ruwatan, a traditional going-away ceremony asking God to protect the traveler from danger. The ceremony was part of the Indonesian Cultural Night at the Lied Center Saturday.
Minority engineering student center opens
The Minority Engineering Student Study Center, 3018 Learned Hall, was dedicated Friday. ARCO Foundation donations made the center
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possible, said Carl Locke, dean of engineering.
"This marks the dedication we have to minority students," he said. "Our goal is to recruit and help minority students become engineers. The progress of the minority engineering program will help accomplish this."
Florence Boldridge, director of the minority engineering program, said the center originally was to be dedicated in the fall.
Fashion show to be held
At least 45 outfits from 22 nations around the world will be shown at an international fashion show at 8 tonight in the Kansas Union Ballroom. The show, sponsored by the Bangladesh Club and Student Senate, will feature traditional and modern outfits from nations such as Taiwan, India, Russia and France. The show is free. Committed to Kansas staff reports
Compiled from Kansan staff reports.
Martin Altstaedten/ KANSAN
"Nalty" tries to figure out the answer to a question from the audience. Nalty Killen, a stand-up comic with AIDS, performed at the Kansas Union Friday as part of LesBiGay Awareness Week.
Laughter is the best medicine for comic
By Denise Nell
Kansan staff writer
Decked in a glittering golden jacket and matching high-top tennis shoes, the man who goes by "Nalty" threw black Sheik Elite condoms into the audience while singing "Condoms Are a Girl's Best Friend" in his best Carol Channing voice.
"They're black for formal occasions." he said.
Nalty Killen, a self-described "CWA" — Comic With AIDS — performed his stand-up routine to an audience of 100 on Friday at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. The event, sponsored by LesBiGay Services of Kansas, was part of last week's LesBiGay Awareness Week.
Nalty, a native of Washington, D.C., who was diagnosed with AIDS in 1991, has been performing stand-up for the last 10 years. He began in New Orleans, where he became known for his impersonations of Joan Rivers.
"In 1984, she was hitting it big," he said. "I rode the wave in."
"I do this because it's my therapy," he said. "It's my job to remind people that we are people with AIDS, but we're still human beings."
Nalty's performance included celebrity impersonations and spoofs of songs. His songs included the "AIDS BCs," whichridicule the many acronyms associated with AIDS and its treatment and "Somewhere over the Pentagon," sung to the tune of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," which focused on the recent controversy over gays in the military.
Last year, Natty was a master of ceremonies for the kickoff of the March on Washington for Lesbian, Bisexual and Gay Rights and Liberation. Now, he travels the country with his routine, which pokes fun at his sexuality and aspects of life that people with AIDS deal with, such as hospitals, doctors and medications.
Nalty said that although many people, including his family, had trouble understanding why he wanted to joke about his sexuality and his disease, he hoped his routine helped them get past their fears.
"It's really important for people not to be so frightened, to know that yes, I need to be handled with care, but I don't need to be handled with kid gloves," he said. "I have a life to live, and I want to live it with as much dignity as possible."
"That very last bit was very important, especially for the straight people who showed up," she said. "That dignity is one of the most important things gas people can have, especially people with AIDS."
Michelle Agnew, Lawrence resident, said that she hoped Nalty's feelings about maintaining his dignity got through to the audience.
Scott Manning, director of LesBiGayS OK, said that talking about AIDS in any form was beneficial.
"I thought it was great," he said. "One of the big things about AIDS is how it's such a stigmatized disease. To make jokes about it and talk about it is really a very important thing to do."
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