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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.103.NO.119
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
KANSAS STATE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA KS 66612
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FRIDAY.MARCH 11.1994
(USPS 650-640)
Resident is remembered at party
Fund established to help pay bills
By Cheryl Cadue Kansan staff writer
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Students gathered last night on the main floor of McCollum Hall to remember Anthony Thomas and to raise money for the memorial fund in his name.
Thomas, Kansas City, Kan., junior, died on Feb. 18 of meningitis. Thomas lived on the seventh floor of McCollum.
Suzanne Racine, Arlington Heights, Ill., senior, said the McCollum resident assistants organized the event to help Thomas' family, who did not have medical insurance.
"He's one of our residents, and we want to help him out anyway we can," she said. "If this is how we can help, then this is what we do."
"Anthony was a very big part of our floor," said Glory Vaughn, resident assistant at McCollum. "He was a comedian, and he always had something good to say."
Gregory Mintz, complex director of McCollum, said the party was a way for some students to deal with the death of Thomas.
"He's someone who had a lot of potential," he said. "I think the University misses him, and the students do, too. He's someone these kids are going to remember."
Racine said she had expected about 200 people to attend, but at 10:00 p.m. 25 people were in attendance.
Barbara Slattery, Colorado Springs,
Co., freshman, said the fund raiser
united students.
A Roy Williams autographed basketball and a KU banner were raffled off to raise money, and other residence halls also donated money.
"I think it's nice that the residence
Donations
Donations can be sent to:
Brotherhood Bank and Trust in care of The Anthony Thomas Memorial Fund 756 Minnesota,
Kansas City, Kan., 66101
KANSAN
halls are coming together to try and raise money for him," she said.
Trish Edwards, Wichita freshmen, said that she did not know Thomas very well but that she went to the fund raiser because she wanted to help out Thomas family.
Valerie Bontrager / KANSAN
Ann Eversole, interim dean of student life, looks over one of the many letters that she gets every day. Eversole is one of the few women administrators at the University of Kansas.
KU struggles to fit women into administration
By Jamie Munn
Vancouver staff writer
Barbara Ballard, who has been the director of the Emily Taylor Resource Center since 1980, said the small number of women in university administrative roles was a problem across the country.
And the University of Kansas is no exception, said Ballard, who is also a state representative and associate dean of student life.
"If you look at universities across the nation, we do not have equal representation from women," Ballard said.
Ballard also said the University had more women in high administrative positions in the past.
"But now we're on the downside," she said.
Ballard said she thought the University had included women in its searches to fill administrative positions. She said that KU's lower salaries, in comparison to its peer institutions and universities on the east and west coasts, contributed to KU's lack of women administrators.
Another top administrator, Ann Eversole, has been the interim dean of student life since the first of this year. She previously had been the director of the Organizations and Activities Center.
Eversole said she praised current personnel decisions, but there was always room for more women in University positions.
"I were no critic, but we all wish there were more," she said. "I do think it's important for women to aspire to the highest level in their discipline."
Eversole said she didn't think KU had slighted women in administrative roles.
"Typically, KU has had a pretty good record," she said. "It's just the snapshot of time you look at that matters."
Eversole said the trend of few women in high administrative positions was reflected in businesses. She said the fact that few women held CEO positions in Fortune 500 companies was one example.
Eversole said she was encouraged by affirmative action programs that sought out applicants for interviews instead of the earlier practices of just appointing men to positions.
"Any system that makes the process fair, open and accessible, helps anybody, including minorities," she said.
Frances Ingemann, professor of linguistics, has served as the department chair several times since 1958.
Ingemann said that she hadn't compared the number of women administrators at KU to other schools but that she thought the University had a history of supporting women in those positions.
"At the moment, there might not be many, but that doesn't mean there won't be in the future," Ingmann said.
She also said she thought KU had
taken positive steps toward hiring women. But she thought women had been modest about their talents in the past and perhaps had been less likely to enter their names in administration job searches.
"If they don't take the initiative to apply, then they can't be considered," she said.
But she said that as more women moved into lower level administration positions, the pool of women for the higher jobs would increase.
'Non-trads' lack time for night out
Many don't consider bar scene an option
By Angelina Lopez
Kansan staff writer
While the weather was warm and pleasant last Friday, Kris McCusker and a friend took a long walk, stopped for ice cream and arrived home by 5:30 p.m.
For McCusker, graduate student and secretary for OAKS — Non-Traditional Students Organization, this was her Friday night out.
McCusker has a problem with her social life that many non-traditional students suffer. She doesn't have one. A daily schedule crammed with work, school and sometimes family leaves little time for a non-traditional student to enjoy a night on the town. Instead, non-traditional students said they attempt to have a good time whenever they can, wherever they are.
McCusker said the typical course load of graduate students made studying late at night or in the early morning their only options. Such a schedule encourages daytime activities and discourages late-night bar-hopping.
And even free time must have a sense of accomplishment, McCusker said. She works as much meaningful activity into her free time as she can.
"Even during social activities, I have to have a sense of productivity or I feel like I'm wasting my time," she said.
Gerri Vernon, graduate student and president of OAKS, agreed with McCusker. He said that when he went out with friends, they chose quiet places so that they could catch up with news.
"We don't get a lot of time to talk to each other," Vernon said.
Vernon said that the most important aspect of his social life was the people with whom he spent his free time. He takes week night courses, his wife works on weekends and his daughters are involved in after-school activities. On the few nights that they can spend together, Vernon spreads a blanket on the floor in front of the television and orders pizza for a
After hours
Although most entertainment in Lawrence is geared to younger students, these are some of the hard-to-track adult students spend their time;
Micah Laaker/KANSAN
"Family Pizza Night."
But for social activities outside the home, the loud, smoky settings of many bars represents nothing but a waste of time.
McCusker said that the prices of drinks in bars were too expensive for many non-traditional students. In order to save for a house, she and her boyfriend have given up alcohol, she said.
"When you're a non-tad, you're less likely to do stuff that involves hangovers," she said.
McCusker said that Saturdays and Sundays were the only days that non-traditional students could concentrate on their school work. She said that they do not have the time to be distracted by hangovers.
When they do have the desire to grab a beer, McCusker said, nontraditional students frequent several places. She said she liked going to the Jazzahaus, 926 Massachusetts St., because the clientele was older.
Vernon said his favorite places were the Brass Apple, 3300 W. 15th St., and Henry T's Bar and Grill, 3520 W. 6th St., because those bars had good atmosphere, were quiet and never over-crowded.
But Vernon said even that time was limited by other factors.
"How late I get to stay out depends on how old my babysitter is," he said.
Big Eight tourney begins
The No.11 Kansas men's basketball team opens Big Eight Conference Tournament play at 8:20 tonight against in-state rival Kansas State. The tournament takes place at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Mo., and will span three days.
- If the Jayhawks defeat K-State, they will play Saturday at 3:20 p.m. against the winner of the Oklahoma State-Iowa State game.
Missouri is the No. 1 seed and enters the tournament with a 14-0 conference record.
All games will be televised on the Raycom Network, channels 4 and 13. The championship game will be at noon Sunday.
TOURNAMENT: See complete coverage. Page 9.
Catch this
The No.11 Kansas softball team prepares for two home games this weekend.The team will face the University of Tulsa and UMKC.
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COACHING A WINNING ARGUMENT
Scott Harris has a zeal for debate and a fierce desire to win --- but to his team, he is a friend first and a coach second.
KU debate coach Scott Harris advises Kirk Redmond, Wichita Junior, on how to make the best counterpoint during a debate team practice. Harris has coached the team for three years.
It was 5:00 a.m. Kansas debate conch Scott Harris was hunkered over in the closet, working by a small light. He had been there all night.
"I had gone to bed around 2 a.m., and then woke up around 5," said Zve, Reno, Nevada, senior. "There was Harris in the closet, working. He was preparing us for the next day. I was surprised he was in the closet. I mean, there was a chair and desk in the room."
"I just didn't want to wake you," Harris said.
That's how Josh Zive remembers it.
Harris, Zive, and the rest of the Kansas debate team were in Kentucky, competing at one of the toughest tournaments of the year.
Harris turned and looked at Zive.
Scott Harris, debate coach at the University of Kansas, has managed to combine intensity, experience and drive into a unique relationship with his debaters, a relationship that they say crosses the boundaries of a coach and teacher to a genuine friend. He's also kept alive KU's national ranking in the top 25 of university debate teams.
"Scott has saved me from mediocrity," Zive said. "Without him, I'd be a .500 debater."
But Harris' ability to coach isn't what makes him a success, say his debaters. It's
Instead, Zive has won more than 300 debates. Harris has coached Zive, and his partner, Ryan Boyd, into Kansas' top 25 in all-time victories.
his willingness to be a friend first.
"He understands what it's like to be a college debater," Zive said. "He understands school pressures and social sacrifices. He relates to us as a friend first and coach second."
Boyd, Lees Summit, Mo., junior, agreed.
"There's no doubt he's the best coach I've ever had," he said. "I consider him to be a good friend first. There are times when situations get tense just because of the activity, but he doesn't let that get in the way of friendship."
See DEBATING, Page 6.
"As the director of the program, I am responsible for discipline," he said. "As See DERATIMA Page 6
But he said he had his own perspectives on things.
Story by
Andrew Gilman
Photos by
Brian Vandervilet