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Conservation agency opens in Topeka
By Derek Schmidt Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — A non-profit organization that office preserves tracts of the natural environment has opened a Kansas campus.
The Nature Conservancy, which now has offices in every state and seven Latin American countries, opened its Topeka office yesterday with a ceremony at Cedar Crest, the governor's mansion.
"Throughout the world, no organization commands greater respect for environmental protection," Gov.
Mike Hayden told an audience of about 60 people. The Conservancy presented Hayden with an award for his work on conservation projects in Kansas.
Hayden said a goal of conservation was to protect the diversity of the ecosystem. He said agriculture, medicine and recreation would benefit from diverse plant and animal life.
"The Earth represents a natural endowment to each one of us, and as intelligent stewards we must not squander that endowment," Hayden said.
Cliff Messinger, national Conservancy chairman, praised Hayden for supporting the Kansas Natural and Scientific Areas Preservation Act, which is designed to preserve ecologically important tracts of land.
"Gov. Hayden has made significant contributions in the area of preserving biological diversity." Messinger said.
Alan Pollom, new state director of the Conservancy, said he would work to increase support for conservation in Kansas.
"This is a big,big job," he said.
The Conservancy, founded in 1981, operates more than 1,000 natural preserves that protect about 4 million acres of wild land worldwide. According to documents from the $33,000-member group, that makes it the world's largest conservation organization.
The Conservancy has started a program of contacting Kansas landowners and identifying ecological sites that might need protection. Polloi said the group worked with landowners and did not use confrontational tactics.
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Alcohol consumption is common in residence halls at KU.
Alcohol
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He said possession or consumption of alcohol in residence halls by students more than 21 years old was a violation of contractual law, not state law. Bailey said only minors that possessed or were consuming alcohol would be in violation of state law.
Heather Yates, a resident assistant at McCollum Hall, said the alcohol policy was flexible depending on the situation. She said residence hall staff changed the details concerning enforcement of the policy from year to year.
*Depending on the situation,*
*the student may or may not get written*
*material.*
She said the resident's name and KUID number were usually recorded in a log book and kept for future reference. The log book formed an unofficial part of disciplinary action, because it was not an official record.
Yates said dumping open containers of alcohol was usually more effective than writing a student up. She said policy was usually discussed by an offender and the residence hall director.
According to the All Residence Hall Handbook for 1989-1990, offenders "will face disciplinary action." But the handbook is not specific.
Shawn O'Brien, a former security monitor at Jayhawker Towers, said the security staff was told not to allow alcohol into the building but was not allowed to search students' possessions in even the most obvious circumstances.
"People would wheel in kegs on dolls covered by blankets, and there was nothing you could do," he said.
On campus property near the residence halls, but a world apart from them in how alcohol policy is conducted and enforced, are the Stouffer Place Apartments.
Ruth Swain, manager of Stouffer Place, said that the Stouffer Neighborhood Association had been known to have keg parties in the past but that it was a practice that had been stopped.
"I explained to them that we had to be part of University policy," she said. "If the University made us an exception we'd see parties from the residence halls moving onto our grounds."
She said that there were no room checks at Stoffner Place and there were no security guards.
Sandy Hill, general manager of Naismith Hall, said that the Kansas Landlord and Tenant Act and other applicable state laws formed Nais-
Where the policies of the University do not have authority, the laws of the state dictate alcohol policies.
mith's alcohol policy.
"Any kind of misconduct is dealt with on a person-to-person basis," she said. "We issue a warning, a 30-day warning, and then the tenant can be evicted."
Greek reforms
Responsibility with alcohol has, in recent years, become an important issue within the greek system as alcohol awareness has increased campuswide.
Carol Krekeler, president of Panhellenic, said tradition continued to play a role when new policies were implemented.
“It's a matter of tradition that sororites do not allow alcohol,” she said. “We stand for high academics and high ideales, and the fratts do as well, but traditionally they have been allowed to have alcohol.”
She said some sororities had to maintain an annex for members in campus housing, or in off-campus housing, if there was no room available in the sorority house. Krekeler said enforcing the traditional alcohol policy in the annexes was difficult.
The Greek President's Forum, an organization of the presidents of all greek houses, is working to create a new Greek system that promotes business ideas within the greek system.
for Fall 1988 stated that Greek houses did not condone irresponsible drinking and urged that 13 steps be taken to accomplish a goal of compliance with state law and to promote responsible drinking.
Leslie Lockridge, who signed the statement for Chi Omega last year, said that it was not meant to be imposed on the greek system, but rather to serve as an idea source.
She said that the President's Forum met Wednesday to update the statement and that a revised statement should be available soon.
Todd Fowler, president of the Interfraternity Council, said the Forum was an expression of the greek system's concern that changes come from the bottom and not the top.
"Most national fraternity and sorority organizations have leveled the boom on the houses, insisting that no alcohol be purchased with house funds and that students must be bused to and from parties," he said. "The insurance risk is also being addressed."
The Forum's Statement on Alcohol
"We felt a need to change, to take on the resiliency ourselves, without someone putting pressure on us," he said.
Fowler said most members of the Forum were seniors and were nervous about what direction their houses would take once they left.
KU receives 4-star rating for academics
The University of Kansas is far removed from New York, but it has reaped reviews from a New York Times education columnist who rates the University as one of the nation's best.
By a Kansan reporter
Fiske placed KU among the nation's top eight colleges and universities in its price range.
The seventh edition of Fiske's
gated nearly 300 of what Fiske
described as "the best and
leading" institutions in the
nation.
Edward B. Flake, author of the 1900 edition of Fiske's Guide to Colleges, gave KU academic programs a four star rating, the best rating given to a high Conference school. The highest rank on Fiske's scale is five stars.
Iowa State University, Kansas State University and the universities of Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma each received three-stars for their academic programs. Oklahoma State University was the only Big Eight program not included in the guide.
Fiske's honor is not the only one that had recently been bestowed upon the University. Al Neuharth, founder of USA Today and retired chairman of the Gannett Corp., rated the nation's journalism schools in his autobiography, "Confessions of an S.O.B."
The School of Journalism at the University of Kansas was ranked second best in the nation by Neuromotor and the University of North Carolina.
The journalism school at the University of Missouri-Columbia was ranked eighth.
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chancellor, said she was concerned about this perception.
"We have been making a real effort to talk to students and find out what their concerns are," she said.
Ramaley said it was important to enroll the Black enrollment problem.
"It's important to draw yourself away from the KU campus and look at the nation as a whole," she said. "This is a trend that is of so much concern to people in higher education across the country."
Marshall Jackson, director of the office of minority affairs, said that the admissions office was the center for recruitment efforts but that his office was indirectly involved by its administration. He said something needed to be done from both a recruitment and a retention standpoint.
In terms of recruitment, he said, more effort was needed in contacting out-of-state students.
Jackson also recruitment at community colleges was important.
"We have to get serious about going out of state," Jackson said. "We're competing for 8 percent of the votes with all the other state legislatures."
In response to student complaints about complacency in the administration, Jackson said that many of the suggestions of the Minority Issues Task Force were just being implemented.
"There are some things happening,
but it's going to take some time," he said.
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