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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL. 100, NO. 1 (USPS 650-640)
BACK-TO-SCHOOL ISSUE
Minority affairs director leaves job
Resignation leaves many questions
by Derek Schmidt Kansan staff writer
The Williams had a misunderstanding with a professor last year. She wanted to discuss it with Rosita of the office of the minister of the office of minor affairs.
"Rosita was very cold and she seemed very uninterested." Williams said. "When somebody reacts to a question, it's hard to anything, so I just waited out."
Williams, then a Chesterfield, Mo., sophomore, expected to find Dorsey attentive. But Williams said that was not the case.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 23, 1989
And later, so did Dorsey. She resigned in late May, and the reasons for her resignation are unclear.
Fred Rodriguez, faculty adviser
for the Hispanic American Leadership Organization (HALO), was a member of the search committee that hired Dorsey.
"It's a mystery to me. I got the sense that she ruffed some feathers or was not happy, but I don't know exactly what it was," he said.
Williams said she was one of those whose feathers were ruffled.
She returned to the minority affairs office several weeks later to get information on student loans. She said she again found Dorsey curt and unhelpful and never got the financial assistance she was so upset with the way she was treated by Dorsey that she transferred to the University of Missouri.
"When a lot of people in positions of power treat you that way, it kind of turns you off about a school," Williams said.
Caryl Smith, associate vice chancellor for student affairs, declined to comment on Dorssey's resignation, citing the privacy of personnel matters. Dorssey could not be reached for comment.
"We had an excellent relationship," Litwin said. "We worked very closely together, particularly on the Martin King King Jr. celebration.
Joe Lee, faculty adviser for the Chinese Student Association, said his organization did not have much contact with Dorsey. But he said that most Asian students were in Lawrence for only a short time and may not have had time to become involved.
Daveen Litwin, director of Hillel, a campus Jewish organization, said Dorsey had always been supportive and willing to work with the group.
Other students tried to explain Dorsev's resignation.
Hamilton Dorsey, a Topesa senior not related to Rosita Dorsey, worked with Dorsey last summer during student orientation.
Hamilton Dorsey said he knew of occasions when Dorsey had changed organizational plans made with her co-workers without telling them in
"I'd say there might have been a problem with communication with people she worked with," Hamilton Dorsay said. "She is really business-
"The lack of interaction may not be her fault." Lee said.
Eladio Valdez, president of HALO,
said, "She was very principled in her
ways. You can say good or you can
be good. It depends on how you look
at it."
Valdez said that he did not know why Dorsey resigned, but he said that her expectations might have exceeded what she could accomplish.
But Dorsey has supporters.
"I just think she was 'frustrate with what she had to work with,' Valdez said. "She had these goals and didn't have the materials to work with. She felt she could do better anywhere else."
Dorsey was hired for the director's position in February 1988 and began work that March. She replaced Vernell Spearman, who stepped down to become the office of the office. Spearman has since left the office of minority affairs.
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tant professor and counselor for the college discovery program at the Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York.
After Dorsey's resignation from the KU staff in May, Marshall R. Jackson was named to serve as the head of minority affairs for one year.
Dorsey had been an adjunct assis-
Jackson, formerly assistant director in the placement center, said he had spent much of his time since his appointment try to fill staff positions. Two positions in the office have been for about a year. Job searches for the positions of associate director and assistant director at the University of Alabama negotiation. Jackson said the resignation had delayed the searches.
One goal is to expand the outreach program, which until recently operated only in the Kansas City area. The outreach program encourages high school students and junior high school students to stay in school.
Though he needs staff to accomplish them, Jackson said he has ideas and goals.
EPA files suit against asbestos removal firms
The Associated Press
KANAS SITY, Kan. — The Environmental Protection Agency filed suit yesterday against several Kansas contracting companies for early failing to take proper safety precautions while removing asbestos.
The Kansas suits were part of a series of civil actions by the EPA, which is suing 34 contracting companies in 11 states.
Officials said the cases represent only a small number of the hundreds of construction projects where abuses were removed without proper safeguards.
In a suit filed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan., the A.M.A. Construction Co. Inc. of Kansas City, Kan., was named as one defendant. The other defendants were not specified. The suit involves the June 1888 school district in which students from Southwest High School in Kansas City, Mo.
The agency estimated that as many as half the asbestos-connected demolitions and renovations conducted nationwide may not be in accordance with procedures required by federal air pollution laws.
The EPA said Matal failed to wet asbestos adequately during its handling and removal, then unlawfully disposed of the material.
The Mactial firm also was named as a defendant with the Kansas Power and Light Co., owner of the Lawrence Energy Center near Lawrence, where asbestos was removed in February 1988. In that action, the EPA also alleged the asbestos was not properly kept wet during its removal and storage before diagonal.
A similar suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Topeka against MPM Contractors of Wichita, and W.A. Michaelis of Wichita.
That suit alleges improper removal of asbestos in 1887 and 1980
See ASBESTOS v. 6
See ASBESTOS, p. 6
Index
Section C: Leisure
Kansans' love/hate relationship with the Wizard of Oz, page 1
Section A: News
Editorial, page 4
Campus/Area, page 5
Nation/World, page 7
Classified, page 15
Section E: On the Town Legal service helps with student housing, page 1
Section B: Sports KU football's 100th year, page 1
Tabloid section: Destination Kansas City
Section D: On the Hill KU punishes cheaters, page 1
Courtney Eblen/Special to the KANSAN
Sticky Situation
Teresa Brichache, Salina junior, battles a glob of caramel at an ice cream social which was sponsored by residents of Lewis Hall.
Senate still wants condom machines
by Rich Cornell
Kansan staff writer
Condom vending machines soon may be available in several campus buildings, including residence halls, libraries, and cafeterias. AIDS Task Force has its base in a nearby city.
Brebcca Newburn, task force chairman, said she plans to discuss the possibility of condom vending machines with a board of the Kansas Union. The board deals with the sale of concessions on campus.
University officials have maintained that education, not condom machines is the key to reducing HIV transmission and transmitted diseases on campus.
Newburn, Lawrence senior, salia the referendum held during Student Senate elections last April proved students wanted condom machines in favor of the machines. 538 voted against them.
The machines would provide an accessible preventive measure against AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, Newburn said.
"We're trying to be realistic about it," she said. "We care about our classmates on a personal level and to see them become alumni."
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said three students had been diagnosed with AIDS at Watkins since October 1986. Watkins performs two or three HIV tests a week.
Education about AIDS remains important, Newburn said, but condoms must be widely available for the education to be effective.
See related story p. 13, col. 1
Janine Demo, chairman of the AIDS/STD Education Committee, said a change of behavior must accompany education. In addition, the machines would encourage discussion between students and students would rather buy condoms in private than go to Watkins Health Center to purchase them. Demo said.
Finally, the idea that students plan for times that condoms may be needed is incorrect. Demo said.
"It's not practical thinking to expect people to stop doing what they're doing to come down to Wattkins," she said.
Jeff Morris, student body vice-president and Salina senior, said the Student Senate would attempt to pass a university resolution in support of mandates.
A resolution with such strong support may cause the administration to assess its opposition to the machines, Morris said.
"I don't think they're going to change their minds unless we can show that the students want them, and that they are safe." he said.
B. Jake White, student body president and North Platea, Neb., senior, said Student Senate would begin in October to resolution when it convenes Sept. 13.
"I believe that if it's passed
See CONDOMS, p. 6
Senate must tighten rules for elections
by Doug Fishback Kansan staff writer
In the wake of accusations, hearings and proposed sanctions, B. Jake White and Jeff Morris, student body president and vice-president, will have to rewrite the book on campaign at the University of Kansas.
White, North Platte, Neb., senior,
and Morris, Salina state, headed the
Common Cause coalition in last
spring's election. They will forfeit 20 percent of their salaries and will do
four hours of community service
each week if they do not take action
this semester to meet goals established
by David Ambler, vice
chancellor for student affairs.
After complaints by competing coalitions that Common Cause exceeded its maximum allowable budget in last spring's campaign, the Mayoral administration may Common Cause $150, which White and Morris paid.
Ambler's action came in response to a July recommendation by the University Judicial Board that the community service requirements for students would be decided to give White and Morris a way to avoid the sanctions.
The goals call for an impartial elections commission, tighter campaign controls, provisions for University staff supervision and changes in Student Senate rules and regulations on elections.
"The fault lies not in the coalition, but in the Student Senate bureaucracy." He said that already penalties imposed; . . . what we need is corrective action."
White agreed.
"More needs to be done than taking away someone's paycheck and making them do community service," he said.
The student body president receives a monthly salary of $400 and the vice-president $375.
White said student campaign reform was needed.
"It is really something that needs to be evaluated and worked on," he said.
Ambler said the Senate historically had not coordinated campaigns as well as it should have, and sometimes had failed to inform candidates of various procedures and deadlines. Mismanagement in 1994 resulted in the overturing of a Senate election, he said.
The controversy surrounding the Spring 1969 election hinged upon a Senate rules and regulations section prescribing how maximum allowable campaign budgets were to be calculated. White and Morris interpreted the section as allowing a budget of $35 for each senate candidate.
Opponents argued that the $35 limit
See SENATE, p. 6.
Med Center vice chancellor to retire in December
by Angela Baughman
Kansan staff writer
A quote sits framed on the book-shelf of a man who has achieved much by following its advice and not being afraid of challenges.
Eugena Staples, vice chancellor of the University of Kansas Medical Center since 1982, has announced he will retire Dec. 1.
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions perma it is because he hears a different drummer. Let them be heard," he says, "he weaver measured or faraway."
That man, Eugene Staples, will retire as vice chancellor of the University of Kansas Medical Center on Dec. 1.
Staples said that when he became the hospital administrator at the University of Kansas in March 1982, he was immediately confronted with a difficult situation. In early April of that year, the Kansas Legislature appointed him to commit to working with Med Center to make a recommendation to either turn over the management of the financially strapped facility or to sell it.
Staples said that with the backing of then-executive vice chancellor David Waxler and Chancellor Gene A. Budg, he was able to turn the situation around enough by the follicle transplantation tree gave the Med Center one year to show further improvement before a decision was made.
A year later, the Med Center passed inspection.
"In a year's time, September 1983, we'd improved enough that they had faith we could make the changes that were necessary." Staples said. "With the backing of the Chancellor and Dr. Waxler, we got it turned around."
Staples looks upon that as his biggest achievement at KU, and with so much invested in the University, he is not entirely happy to be retiring now. Staples said he would turn 63 on Saturday and considered this an
early retirement.
"I's with great mixed emotion that I look at this whole thing." Staples said. "I have a great love for it. It's really important to me, particularly the people. My career
has been very rewarding."
Staples said he was retiring to "recover my health, take a little time off to travel, rest and then decide what I want to do." Although he did not elaborate on his health, Staples
did hint that he would return to the medical field at some point.
Meanwhile, Staples will be missed, Budig said. Budig and Staples worked together at West Virginia University as part of both of their appointments at KU.
"He has been my good friend and trusted colleague for the past 13 years at two major state universities," Budg said. "I will miss him and his wise counsel in us, we wish health and happiness in his deserved retirement."
"No one has done more to enhance the standing of the University of Kansas Medical Center than Vice Chancellor Staples over the years," he said. "Replacing Gene represents a challenge for the Medical Center."
Don Wilson, president of the Kansas Hospital Association in Topeka, said he had known Staples for seven years.
"We certainly are going to miss Gene," Wilson said. "His record speaks for itself at KU Med and on general health policy." He is a professor of university for future. The search committee will have a tough time replacing him."
Staples was born in Walker, Mimn,
and served in the U.S. Navy from
1944 to 1946. He received his bachelor's degree and master's of hospital administration at the University of Minnesota.
He worked his way up in the University of Minnesota Hospital administration and then moved on to
See RETIRE, p. 6