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University Daily Kansan / Monday. November 19, 1990
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Volunteers get cash, rewards
By Jennifer Schultz
Kansan staff writer
A participant in the Special Olympics approached her in the bowling alley and asked her to be his partner at the dance after a tournament.
Amie Frantz, a Special Olympics volunteer through the Student Senate community service program, accepted the offer. Ten minutes after the dance began, he asked her to marry him.
"One of the most special thing is that when I meet someone, they hug me like I'm their best friend," she said. "They don't have inhibitions."
Frantz works with the mentally retarded as a volunteer in the Parks and Recreation Special Populations department.
She is one of the students who applied to work at a community service agency and receive a salary from State Senate community service program.
Frantz said that she chose to do community service through the Senate program because she was looking for a job and wanted to do
volunteer work. She also had an interest in working with the mentally retarded.
"It inspires you," she said. "We are in college and we need to make money. And we are doing something that makes you feel good."
Lisa Krisgett, Student Senate community service program director, said the program would pay the salaries of 12 student volunteers.
She said that about 40 students applied at 12 different community service agencies this semester. Krig-sten collected the applications and distributed them to the agencies that interviewed and hired the students
The Senate program provides consistent volunteer work for an agency that assists students who need to work and a volunteer for community service, she said.
Darren Fulcher, Kansas City, Mo., senior, works as a paid volunteer at Safehouse, a community service organization that provides temporary care for the homeless while attempting to integrate them into the workforce.
He said he wanted to work at the shelter because he was concerned about the number of homeless people in the United States.
"It is such a problem in America," he said. "By the year 2000, it is estimated there will be 19 million homeless in America. We are supposed to be the richest country in the world, and we still have people on the front steps dying. It's really upsetting."
Fulcher said community service was more than a job to him; it was something he wanted to do.
"You get paid for something you to do," he said. "That's everybody's dream."
Cassandra Turner is a paid volunteer at First Step House, an alcohol and druz rehabilitation center
"My major is community health," she said. "When I first came to college I just wanted to make money, but money is not important to me anymore. My goal is to work with an inner-city community."
Krigsten said the Student Senate community service program was
designed to be a clearinghouse for student volunteers. Any student can contact community service agencies or volunteer work, although only 12 will be accepted.
Interested students fill out a questionnaire in the Student Senate office. The questionnaire asks students about their interests and skills, she said. On the basis of the information provided, the program can direct students to appropriate community service opportunities.
The program is financed by the Educational Opportunity Fund, which is taken from students' tutions and educational and financial needs of the community.
Krigsten said she was looking into having a KU community service day once a month. Kansas State University has a similar day.
The idea is to publicize a community service event that the entire student body could participate in, she said. The day would be on the same day every month, so students would know when to expect it.
Senior class hands professor H.O.P.E.
By Yvonne Guzman
Kansan staff writer
"I was truly surprised," Snyder said. "That still has not sunk in, that I have won."
Rick Snyder, professor of psychology, was honored Saturday by the senior class before the KU-Missouri football game when he was selected from six finalists as the recipient of the 1990 H.O.P.E. award
The Honor for Outstanding the progressive Educator award is presented annually to a KU faculty member by the senior class, and is awarded to the award was especially meaningful because it came from students.
"That's the special thing," he said. Snyder came to the University of Kansas in 1972. He is a specialist in clinical psychology, and he is researching the ways in which people hope.
Katy Dillingham, vice president of the senior class, said she was pleased
with the choice of Snyder from more than 80 nominees. She also was pleased with the election process, which helped in the advertising for the election.
A mistake made by the Kansan on Wednesday caused some confusion, Dillingham said. Snyder's name was not included on the list of finalists in an advertisement encouraging seniors to vote.
Other nominees for the H.O.P.E award included Zamir Bavel, professor of computer science; Craig Martin, associate professor of botany; Pete Rowland, associate professor of political science; Robert Rowland, associate professor of communication studies; and Beverly Sypher, associate professor of communication studies.
Ombudsman decries racism
Snyder said he wished the award could have gone to more recipients because there were so many outstanding teachers at KU.
Black Men of Today sponsors open forum for greek students
Kansan staff writer
KU umbudman Robert Shelton told Greek students who attended a Black Men of Today forum about racism and cultural diversity Saturday about recent racist incidents at the University of Kansas
He told them of a telephone message that a Jewish woman who lives in a residence hall received recently and said he wanted to kill all Hebrews.
He told them about a Black woman who was studying in the stacks at Watson Library. She looked up to see a man peering through the shelves who said, "Hey, nigger," and ran away.
Shelton told them of a message recently written on a bathroom stall in Fraser Hall. "Kill all the faggots out our country," the message stated.
And he told the audience there was no way any KU student was free from racist feelings.
"Some of the things I suggest and
say will not be things you want to bear." Sheilton said. "But we need to recognize that White persons cannot avoid being racist, that men cannot avoid being sexist and that Christians cannot escape their anti-Semitism. It's OK to admit our racism. It's a given."
Shelton said there were some ways students could begin to combat their racist tendencies.
He said students should eliminate from their vocabulary words that degrade other people, think about how others do not have the same advantages and pay attention to the opportunities at the University to be informed about racism and cultural diversity.
Shelton was one of the concerned people who talked about racism to the audience of about 100 people. In addition to speakers, the forum included skits on racism and cultural diversity, videos and a Black history quiz.
Tom Cartmell, outgoing Interfraternity Council president, said at the forum that he was disappointed that the college of Greek students who attended
"There are over 4,000 people who are in the greek system," Cartmell said. "We can't get the uninterested
here. We need some leaders who will take what we've learned back to others. We need people inside the system to run with it."
Norma Norman, associate director of the Office of Minority Affairs, discussed the Black history quiz with her students whom were unaware of the answers.
"It is not to say you are deficient," she said. "But it is to say that our educational system is deficient."
The qui included identifying Thurgood Marshall, the first Black justice appointed to the Supreme Court; Daniel Hale Williams, a black physician who was the first to perform open heart surgery in the country; and Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress.
Norman said, "If you were to take this a year from now, we'd all be upset if you got them all wrong."
After the activities, the students discussed how they could make changes in the racial climate at KU.
John Lewis, executive board member of Black Men of Today, said students should realize that the goal of school is to educate people they think should all be alike.
"It's all right to be culturally different and still know where we have common ground," he said.
Naismith receives alumnus award
Kansan staff writer
By Karen Park
The long-standing tradition of KU basketball was commemorated Saturday night as KU basketball coach Roy Williams presented James P. Naismith, the grandfather of KU basketball, James Naismith, with an alumnus award.
The Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity awarded James P. Naismith the 1990 Outstanding Alumnus Award. In honor of the Naismith tradition at the fraternity, the award will be renamed the James Naismith Outstanding Alumnus Award, said Dale Seuflering, chapter alumni adviser of Sigma Phi Epsilon.
Even though James P. Naismith did not attend the University of Kansas, he was made an honorary member of the university's sports team.
The alumnus award is given in recognition of an individual's service to the fraternity or society, he said.
James P. Naismith's father, James S. Naismith,
graduated from KU in 1933. He was a member of the
Jack Naisimh, James S. Naisimh's brother, who graduated from KU in 1834, also was a member of the
James Naismith, who is credited with inventing basketball in Massachusetts, was a faculty adviser for the fraternity during the 1920s and 1936. Seefuring said he coded the jashkova from 1984 to 1997.
Williams said the way basketball was played today was not what Naismith had envisioned.
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My grandfather's involvement with basketball, like everything else in his life, was not an accident.
— James P. Naismith alumnus award winner
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He said Naismith especially would have been surprised by the outside shots that were taken Friday night when KU beat Sam Ragnone's AAU national championship team 110-101.
"My grandfather's involvement with basketball, like everything else in his life, was not an accident," James B.
James Naismith dropped out of high school after his freshman year, he said.
"I wasn't expecting that either." Williams said. James P. Naismith said he did not know his grandfather's name.
After working as a lumberjack in Canada, Naismith returned to high school with a 29.04 grade.
"He believed he could do a lot to help young people by taking to them and preaching to them, but he was also interested in learning about them."
He went on to work at a YMCA college in Springfield,
Mass., James P. Naismith said.
Joseph J. Lies/Special to the KANSAM
Dick Yates, left, a fencer from Johnson County, clashes with Trevour Kelleher, Lawrence junior.
Fencers practice prize fighting of 16th century at tournament
Kansan staff writer
By Wes Denton
They could have been extras in a movie starring Errol Flynn, standing aboard a Spanish galeon with the enemy waiting to attack the enemy ship.
But instead they were fencers from Kansas State University, Johnson County Community College and Kansas City Fencing Club, competing in the third- annual KU Fencing tournament.
Treour Kelleher, Lawrence senior, said he thought anybody who liked fencing had enjoyed watching Erroil Flynn's movies or the modern movie. "The Princess Bride."
"I have always liked those movies, still do," said Kelleher, who finished third in the foil competition.
The tournament, which took place Saturday at Robinson Center, included competitions using the foil, saber and epee.
The foil is the lightest sword used in competition. In foil matches, only the torso is the target area. A foil fencer scores when his or her sword touches the other fencer's metallic vest.
The epee is a heavier sword. The entire body area is considered a target area during epee matches.
The saber competition's rules are derived from the cavalry
John Dillard, faculty sponsor for the KU fencing club, said that competitive fencing was used as training during the 1500s.
where horsemen often would aim only above their enemies' hips, in an effort to protect the horses.
Dillard said that during local festivals, swordmen would compete for prizes in a square area similar to a boxing ring.
Arnold McMann, member of the Kansas City Fencing Club, said he had been fencing since 1967.
McMann, who took first in the foil competition and second in the epe competition, said he started the preparation program in high school.
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