University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, August 24, 1988
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For some, rushing ends painfully
Bv Katv Monk
Kansan staff writer
The system is planned carefully to assure that everyone ends up in the right place. It's planned for fairness and accuracy. The computer pro- used for the sorority rush system was tested and been tested an found to work well.
But it doesn't work perfectly. It didn't work for Jamie Elliott
Elliott, Tulsa freshman, went through rush Aug. 16-21 with飞彩 colors. All 14 lorisettes participating in the race were on all parties. Throughout rush, her choices remained wide, and on preference night Sunday, the final night of parties, she even had to turn down a sorority because the women were not in attendance.
"I'm kind of bummed," she said.
"But there's no use crying over spilled milk.
But the next morning, her rush counselor told her that she hadn't received bids from any of the houses.
"What really makes me sad is my mom. All this week, her friends have been calling her and asking, What houses did Jamie get? It makes me sad to think of having to say, Jamie didn't get anything."
Would-be sorority members face reality of being rejected
of the 972 women who entered rush this fall, 627 withdrew during rush, 635 became pledges, and 52 — the equivalent of a sorority pledge class
Elliott was not alone. On Monday morning, 51 other women learned they had not been invited to pledge a sorority.
— did not receive bids. Last fall,
more than 1,200 women went through
rush, but only 16 did not receive bids.
Michelle Roberts, Pamellenic vice president for membership, said most women who did not receive bids had decided to "sucke" this year to stake their chances on only one house, instead of two or three. In a 2015 study by the university, chances of pledging a house by half or two-thirds.
Rush ended Monday, but for virtually every woman who went through, the repercussions are still strong. More than 650 women have become victims of sexual assault in the system. The rest must cope with their emotions and decide what to do
New director appointed to fund
Stew Walsh, the executive director of the Kansas Special Olympics for the past two years, has been appointed executive director of the Williams Fund at the University of Kansas.
The Associated Press
"The girls on my floor, even this morning, they were so nice to me." Elliott said Monday. "But it's going to be hard for me to be on the outside of all that. From the beginning, I just assumed 'd be in a house.'"
Several women who did not pledge houses said they felt left out and were often alone among their friends at KU not to receive kidns. Some women who went through rush training they thought that work and that it did not work for everyone.
Some who were left out had 4.0 grade point averages and knew many women in the houses. For those women, the selection process was
The Williams Fund, with more than 3,400 donors, is the annual fundraising program of Kansas athletics to help more than 200 students to more than 400 male and female
student-athletes.
now.
Walsh, 29, was responsible for the development and administration of the Kansas Special Olympics. He served as the director of athletic fund-raising and promotion at the University of Louisiana in Louisiana from 1984 to 1985.
Susan Steiner, rush chairman for Kappa Alpha Theta, said each rashebet met with several members of the sorority during the narties.
Walsh is a 1981 graduate of Louisiana State University. He received his master's degree from Ohio State University in 1984.
"Don't say, 'Look for this, this and this.' A lot of it's based on the impression you get talking to a girl at a party," Steiner said. "In everyday life when you meet someone, you will be surprised that you have to be friends with You just click."
Steiner said that many women going through rush did not understand the commitment involved in being pregnant, and approached rash as if they simply were choosing a place to live. She said those women were at a disade-
"Sure, it's unfair to girls who don't understand the sorority system and what a sorority's all about," she said. "I know some people who think the things people wear and the things
you say, and that does have an effect on how a girl does in rush."
Kappa Kappa Gamma rush chairman Kappa Kappa Hads said sororities based decisions on qualities that have led to houses, not houses, on negative impressions.
Christi Baugh, Kappa Kappa Gamma pledge, saw the selection process from the rushee's viewpoint. "It's how well you hit it off with your hostess at that house," she said. "If you have a bad hostess, you're not going to be able to A lot of girls had dropped one house and duged the house."
Opinions varied widely during rush week, and so did emotions. To help women cope with the stresses of rush week, our group included 61 sorso member this year as rush counselors, or Rho Chi's. The women were instructed in counseling, listening skills and effective communication to deal with rushes concerns.
Baugh said her opinion of certain houses changed greatly from one party to the next as she was paired with different women.
Beta Phi, worked with 14 women. By the end of rush, eight of them had pledged houses, four had dropped out and two had not received bids.
"It can be very painful," she said.
"I's the feeling you are being judged on your appearance — that what you wear is everything, if you smile right and face them, and they feel they're being respected because of those things."
"That's not the reality of it. It's not how they look, what they wear; it's who they meet, how many people they meet that qualifies them to get invited back. But no matter how hard they try, you still. I'm being rejected. And nothing you say is going to make a difference right now."
Architect may demolish vacant fraternity house in favor of apartments
By M. Meredith Relph
Kansan staff writer
Although the former Theta Chi fraternity house at Ninth and Eminem streets has long been a target of local graffiti artists and campus rumors, the site could become an apartment complex by next fall.
The house has been vacant since 1970, when the fraternity became defunct because of a membership decline. Since then, the property has changed ownership several times, including one by Shaver, an architect from Salina.
"If the financing goes as planned,
we'll start tearing down the old buildings sometime this fall," Shaver said.
The former Theta Chi house, which was one of the first to use the concept of slip-form construction, was built in 1959, according to plans drawn by DeRos Hogue, a member of the fraternity and a 1959 graduate. It is named the Theta Chi house under the fraternity no longer afforded the house.
Shaver said the apartment complex would include six, and eight-plexes, with two and four bedroom apartments. He said he hoped the complex would be ready by the beginning of the 1989 fall semester.
Shaver said he had sold a portion of the property to allow Ninth Street to be developed. The corner. He also said plans included the elimination of the Ninth Street connection.
"That driveway is not in good shape," he said. "We'll get rid of it and have another access."
"The seventies weren't a good time
for greens," said Pat Palmer, a village Village leader. The Chi-Chi Community School provided Greek at that time, and it became financially unfeasible to maintain
The fraternity became defunct and moved out of the house, giving up all property. A few years later there were no Theta Chi members at the University of Kansas until the late 1980s.
Nearly two decades after the original house was abandoned, it has now fallen into disrepair. Vardahs have run rampant, spray-painting almost every inch of the three-story cement structure. Rock groups, students' walls, ceilings and obscurities cover the walls, ceilings and steps of the house.
The grounds are overgrown and littered with broken bottles, cans and trash. The floor next to the living quarters is falling in, and the driveway is flaming.
However, Theta Chi members and members of a riotum of a fire, which supposedly led to the house being vacated, or that the building is slowly sliding.
The house he purchased was renovated during the summer and is being leased to members of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority.
Shaver has already improved property adjacent to the lot at Ninth and Emery streets.
In the past, owners of the property had planned renovations for the house but none materialized.
Discovery crew members say they are eager for next space flight attempt
The Associated Press
SPACE CENTER, Houston — The dangers in returning U.S. astronauts to space flight are shadowed by the rewards, says one of five astronauts scheduled to return from a space mission since the Challenger disaster.
there are certain things in life whose importance really transcends any danger that's involved or risk that's involved." Marine
Lt. Col. Dave Hilmers said Monday at the last news conference he and fellow Discovery crew members will hold before their flight
The launch of Discovery, scheduled for late September or early October, will return to manned space flight. On Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenge exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, killing its crew of three.
Navy Capt. Rick Hauck, who will command the veteran crew on Discovery's four-day test flight, said the flight was important in establishing confidence in the space program.
"We clearly could not afford to lose another vehicle, much less another crew." Haack said. "I don't think the manned space flight program could withstand any Challenger on (this
flight).
"That's high stakes, but I'm not concerned that that's going to happen. In the last year and a half, I've seen how we've modified that machine and how we've done business," she said, "and I'm very comfortable with the flight."
The other crew members are Air Force Clof. Richard Covey, the pilot, and mission specialists George Nelson and Mike Lounge.
The astronauts' main goal will be to deploy a communications satellite. They also will conduct 11 research and technology experiments.
Officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have been hesitant to set a date for the often postponed launch of the new mission, fitting with problems that developed during a test firing of Discov-
ery's engines on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral on Aug. 10.
NASA officials say they hope to announce resolutions of the prob-
In addition to the changes in the orbiter, there were 50 modifications to the shuttle's booster rock-
As the engineers continued their study, crew members expressed eagerness to return to space.
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