THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL 100, NO.3 (USPS 650-640)
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
TUESDAY AUG.29,1989
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Diversity, sexual harassment addressed at GTA workshop
Kansan staff writer
By Jennifer Metz
Cultural diversity and sexual harassment were two issues addressed Friday at a mandatory orientation session for graduate teaching assistants in the department of French and Italian.
The session, sponsored by the Office of Affirmative Action, was a half-day workshop conducted by Thomas Bergert, assistant director of the office, and Melissa Nuckolls, associate director.
In Fall 1988, a: KU, sophomore complained to the office because she
was allegedly sexually harassed by a GTA from the department.
The office provided an orientation program Aug. 18 for GTAs from all departments at KU. This program was co-sponsored by the office of academic affairs.
"We're trying to make people more aware of how they can deal with these types of problems," Berger said.
Berger said that officials in the department of French and Italian asked the Office of Affirmative Action to participate in the additional orientation program for their department.
That workshop included a film called "Communicating Across Cultures," which explained the different ways gestures can be interpreted and how gestures interfere with communication between cultures. Berger said.
"I think the program has developed out of a need," said Pat Prohaska, Atchison GTA in the department. "Even if there hadn't been an incident, there is still need for awareness."
Berger said that sometimes differences in cultural background interfered with the ability to communicate with others.
By a Kansan reporter
A record number of students have enrolled at KU for the current semester, according to preliminary enrollment figures.
Enrollment sets record
A statement released by Chancellor Gene A. Budig yesterday announced that the unofficial first-day fall semester enrollment for all campuses was 28,956.
The preliminary results represent an increase of 237 compared with the previous record set in Fall, 1988.
"The University of Kansas continues to achieve its objectives of stabilizing enrollment and enhancing quality." Budig said. "The modest increase in students is what we anticipated."
The increase marks the fourth consecutive year of increased fall enrollments. In Fall 1985, first-day enrollment was 24,660.
Budig attributed the increase to the quality of education KU provides.
"Quality remains very high in our graduate and professional programs, which are among the finest in the Midwest," Budig said. "We expect college entrance scores to be up once again this fall."
the enrollment figures showed 24,622 students enrolled on the Lawrence campus or in off-campus programs, an increase of 174 over 1988. Enrollment at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City was 2,334, up 63 from last fall.
"We have every right to be pleased with the large number of able undergraduate and graduate students who select the University of Kansas," Budic said.
Official enrollment figures will be available on the 20th day of classes.
Police save fishermen at sandbar
By Doug Fishback Kansan staff writer
Two Topeka residents set foot again on terra firma Monday afternoon after being stranded for nearly a day on a sand bar.
Rescue crews shaked Shay Foley, 35, and David Sowell, 32, from a sandbar on the Kansas River near Lecompton, about 10 miles upstream from Lawrence.
Sowell said he and his friend had left about noon Sunday from the Oakland boat dock in Topeka for a three-day fishing trip down the river to Lawrence. At about 5 p.m., he said, the 38-year-old boat's motor stalled.
The two had turned back upstream to avoid camping on another sandbar inhabited by a pack of wild dogs, Sowell said. That is when the motor stalled, leaving the boat swirling in the river.
The two paddled to a nearby sand-bar, where they were doused by storms during the night.
After spending a night stranded on a sandbar, two Topeka residents, Shay Foley, seated left in the boat, wearing a hat, and David Sowell, seated right in the boat, are brought to shore by rescue workers.
"There's a couple of real wet sleeping bags out in that boat," Foley said.
A Douglas County sheriff's officer said a traveler on a nearby gravel-topped county road heard the noise and notified the Shawnee County sheriff, who relayed the call to Douglas County officials.
A Lawrence Fire Department spokesman said two rescue boats entered the Kansas River at
Shortly before dawn, the two hit upon the idea of throwing. 23-caliber rifle shells into their campfire to attract attention, they said.
Lawrence, then traveled upstream to rescue the two.
The second boat turned back when
the first approached the sandbar, the spokesman said.
Sowell still was able to find a bright
side to the episode.
China reports first student sentencing in protests
The Associated Press
BEIJING — A student received nine years in prison for allegedly spreading rumors to the Voice of America, a newspaper said yesterday in the first reported sentencing of a student participant in the spring democracy movement.
Also yesterday, former classmates of fugitive student leader Wu'er Kaixi resumed classes at Beijing Normal University with one week of required political study. But students said they were just going through the motions.
Zhang Weiping, 25, was sentenced Saturday by the Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court for spreading counterrevolutionary propaganda and instigating criminal acts.
according to China Youth News
Zhang, a senior at the Zhejiang Fine Aris Institute in the eastern city of Hangzhou, admitted to calling the U.S. government-funded radio station and to drawing eight cartoons of Communist Party and government officials to acknowledge his acts were counterrevolutionary, the daily said.
According to the court, on June 6, two days after the bloody military crackdown of the student' movement in Beijing, Zhang called VOA and said students in Hangzhou had forced authorities to fly the Chinese flag at half staff to mourn the dead in Beijing.
It said Zhang sent a tape of the VOA broadcast of his report to his university to be played on the
VOA, which has a large audience in China, has been criticized in the official media since the crackdown for "rumor-mongering" in its reports, and one of its correspondents was expelled.
Authorities have arrested thousands of workers and students who took part in the pro-democracy movement, and dozens of workers have been sentenced to long prison terms for rioting and causing social disturbances.
school's public address system, and "it created a very bad political influence."
Hundreds and perhaps thousands of people were killed in the June 3-4 crackdown of the pro-democracy movement, which called for an end to official corruption, freedom of the
press and a dialogue with government leaders.
The government has announced the arrests of eight of the 21 student leaders on a nationwide wanted list, but so far none has been brought to public trial.
Students at Beijing Normal University, where Wu'er was a freshmanlast year, said they spent their first day of classes yesterday watching government videoetapes of what is officially called a "counterrevolutionary rebellion."
Across China college students are returning to their campuses, but the atmosphere is very different from the spring.
The tapes, which appeared on TV this summer, glorify the soldiers, who are said to have exercised
utmost patience and restraint when faced with "hooligans" pitching stones and bottles and setting tanks on fire.
There are almost no students at Beijing. University's campus, a hotbed of student activism this spring. The start of classes has been delayed until Oct. 14, partly in an attempt to prevent any student protests on the Oct. 1 anniversary of 40 years of Communist rule in China.
The TV news yesterday showed more than 10,000 students from 15 schools in Shenyang, in northeastern China, hacking at overgrown weeds Sunday. The "voluntary labor" was organized by the provincial government and is part of the renewed emphasis on molding a correct proletarian attitude.
Student Senate informs members of duties at weekend retreat
By Lara Weber
Kansan staff writer
Starting her first term as a student senator, Teresa Luedek, Omaha, Neb., senior, said she was apprehensive about what would be expected of her by Student Senate leaders.
A Student Senate Leadership Training Seminar conducted Saturday and Sunday helped ease the architecture senator's fears.
Each year, the Senate organizes an out-of-town retreat at the beginning of the fall semester as an orientation for the upcoming year. Forty-one senators attended this year's retreat at the Topeka Ramada Inn.
"It made me more comfortable with my duties for the next year," she said. "This is my first year, so the retreat really helped."
The purpose of the retreat, said B. Jake White, North Platte, Neb., senior and student body president, was to orient the senators, give
them a chance to meet University admissuators, set goals for the year and catch up on what was done during the summer..
The retreat also allowed senators to get to know one another on an informal basis, White said.
"It it set us off to a good start," White said. "All of our senators have been trained on how we're structured and how we operate. We also got a chance to know each other even better."
Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, and David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, discussed their roles in student-government and the importance of Senate to the University.
Senators arrived in Topeka on Saturday evening in time for dinner at the Ramada Inn. Several administrators spoke to the group at the dinner.
Caryl Smith, dean of student life and Senate adviser, spoke to the senators about the history
of the organization and her duties as adviser.
Later, Jonathan Long, assistant director of leadership programs for the Organizations and Activities Center, conducted a get-to-know- each other game.
"It was a great icebreaker." White said. "It allowed us to be informal with each other."
The second day was spent getting to know other student leaders from Associated Students of Kansas and the University Senate Executive Committee.
The final event included a mock Senate meeting.
"The mock meeting gave us a light-hearted way to introduce students to the rules and procedures." White said.
Luedeke said the meeting was the most interesting part of the retreat because she was a new senator and wasn't familiar with how the meetings werestructured.
White said he thought the retreat accomplished the leaders' goal of making the students aware of the potential of Senate and the powers of Congress.
Jeff Morris, Salina senior and student body vice president, estimated that the retreat cost slightly more than $1,000, but final receipts had not been received yesterday. Last year, Senate members spent $1,080 on the retreat. Senate paid for all accommodations, dinner and brunch.
Money for the retreat was drawn from an internal account from the Senate Operating Committee. This account also provides money for the Senate leaders' salaries.
"Money was not taken from another organization to pay for the retreat," Morris said. He stressed the importance of going away from Lawrence for the retreat.
"If we'd stayed in Lawrence, we'd be hard-pressed to get it through to the University how important it is," Morris said.
Jayhawk shirt sales decrease
By Steve Buckner
By Steve Buckner Kansan staff writer
Without the windfall of a national college basketball championship, T-shirt sales in Lawrence dropped last year, said managers of three local shops that sell them.
T-shirt sales at the KU Bookstore in the Kansas Union were down 29 percent for the 1988-89 sales year that ended June 30, compared with the 1987-88 period, said Michael Reid, manager of the book store. But the decrease did not catch him unprepared.
"We anticipated the drop," Reid
said. "The national championship, will
increase."
Few vestiges of the 1888 men's basketball championship remain at the book store. Only one variety of championship T-shirts, license plates and bumper stickers are available at the book store.
"We still sell some, but the demand has fallen off quite a bit," Reid said of national championship items. He said that most of those sales were made to out-of-town customers.
Despite the sharp drop in T-shirt sales last year, sales at the book store still increased 6 to 8 percent compared with 1986-87, Reid said. He considered the increase as average growth and said T-shirt sales were an important part of the store's business.
"thirts are the most profitable item in the store," Reid said. Shirts and other items with the Jayhawk emblem accounted for 10 to 13 percent of the store's sales, he said.
Christy Mullins, sales clerk at the book store, said the traditional items had been selling well. The most popular item, she said, was the "reverse weave" gray Kansas sweatshirt. Other strong sellers were the standard white and gray T-shirts that have the name of the University with a picture of the Jayhawk, Mullins said.
Other local stores have experienced similar reduced T-shirt sales.
"We don't sell as many as we did"
"Owatl Millerken, of妒笑 hawk"
"jayawk"
He said most of his national championship items had been closed out through half-price and sidewalk sales.
He decided, however, to keep a national championship cap and T-shirt design in his catalog.
Bill Muggy, manager of the Jayhawk Bookstore, 1420 Crescent Road, also said he had sold fewer T-shirts this year.
Thrill ride voted second in world
By a Kensan reporter
The Timberwolf roller coaster, the newest attraction at the Worlds of Fun amusement park in Kansas City, Mo., has been voted the second-best roller coaster in the world by readers of an international roller-coaster enthusiasts magazine.
Lane Guns, super-vice of public information at Worlds of Fun, said that according to a teacher's poll taken by Inside Teen magazine, the Timberwolf ranked second only to the Beast at King's island in Cincinnati.