University Daily Kansan / Wednesday. October 31, 1990
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IFC presidential candidates call for diversity
By Tracey Chalpin
Kansan staff writer
Presidential candidates for the Interfraternity Council not only want to continue the present council's work but also have new ideas they will boost fraternities' images in the faces of KU students and officials.
Candidates, who were nominated Nov. 23, outlined their goals for IPC this week in preparation for the election, which will take place Tuesday.
Derek Bridges
Derek Bridges, presidential candidate from Sigma Phi Epsilon, said that if elected, he would initiate a program to educate pledgees about problems facing fraternities, including lack of diversity and sexual harassment.
"We haven't educated our members as well as we could have," he said.
Bridges said he wanted to improve
relations between minority groups and fraternities.
"Blacks are very vocal, but there are other groups," he said. He said he wanted to form a committee to work with all minorities.
Bridges said he wanted to set up a task force to design a brochure on diversity for high schools.
Inviting faculty members to houses for various events could improve faculty relations with the greek system, he said.
"That way they can actually see that we are not just here to party," he said. "We are here to learn and get the best jobs we can."
Rick Church
Rick Church, presidential candidate from Lambda Chi Alpha, said he thought IPC's two main goals should focus on awareness and racial sensitivity.
He said that he did not think that Black and White fraternity governing bodies could be combined but that
the groups should have joint monthly meetings and work together in planning all-greek activities and community service projects
Church said he also favored having parties with Black fraternities.
By continuing to sponsor interracial forums, IFC could help improve communication between the groups, he said.
Jim Goodmiller
He said he would expand the board of judges for the Chapter Excellence Award, which was created by the present IFC executive board to commend chapters for their accomplishments. Judges would include members of Black Panhellenic, KU faculty and independent students.
Bryce Petty
Jim Goodmiller
Jim Goodmiller, presidential candidate from Sigma Chi, said the fraternity system could be strengthened in all aspects of greek living
He said that setting up interracial forums and activities could educate White fraternities and minority groups about each other.
"And we could figure out that everybody's not that different." he
Goodmiller said he wanted to work on relationships between houses so that fraternities could work together more effectively.
said.
The fraternity system needs to address date rape, he said.
"I don't think it's a greek problem," he said. "It's a societal problem. It's a problem that needs to be addressed."
Bryce Petty, president of Sigma Alpha Education and IFC presidential candidate, said he was interested in working on minority issues.
To help solve alcohol-related issues, Goodmiller said that he would work with Boost Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Students and that he would continue to support fraternity groups such as Brothers Against Drunk Driving.
Bryce Petty
opened the eyes of the members," he said.
He said that because of the incident, he would have to work harder to win the presidency but that he was determined to pass through the firsthand experience.
On March 30, a member of the fraternity struck a KU student and uttered a racial insult to her while she was delivering pizza to the SAE at Campus Road. The incident sparked several protests by campus groups.
"I'd like to get together with HALO, Black Student Union and Black Men of Today and get everyone focused in one direction," he said.
Petty said IFC executive board members could look forward to a lot of work next semester.
"I feel that those offices are going to be challenged and are going to be under a microscope," he said.
High waters
Richard QuinoKANSAN
Darrin Harrison, Lawrence senior, watches water from a broken underground sprinkler pipe cascade the stairs that lead to the Dole Human Development Center. Jim Mathes,
assistant director of landscape maintenance for facilities operations, said the line was being checked for repairs after being turned off during construction of the Dole Center.
Senate slams engineering-fee plan
By Jennifer Schultz
Kansan staff writer
The Student Senate University Affairs Committee yesterday unanimously passed a resolution stating that Senate adamantly opposed the proposed engineering credit-hour fee and strongly urged the Board of Regents not to approve the proposal.
The resolution also encourages the School of Engineering to consult and include engineering students and Senate in making decisions that affect students.
Mike Schreiner, student body president, said the fee would set a dangerous precedent.
major of their choice because of the cost.
The fee, $15 for each engineering credit hour a student enrols in, was proposed by the deans of engineering at KU, Kansas State University and Wichita State University. The proposal, designed to help schools cover the cost of equipment used in engineering courses, will be presented to the Regents in November.
Students' tuition is placed into a general fund, he said. Money from the general fund is then appropriated by legislators for higher education.
Schreiner said this was not the first year KU had seen the use of academic fees.
In other business, the chairperson of University Affairs' campus safety subcommittee gave a report on a meeting yesterday after informing the director, to discuss lighting.
Vince Calhoun, engineering senator, said about 200 engineering students had signed a petition protesting the fee at a booth in Learned Hall.
Alan Lowden, University Affairs chairperson, who also attended the meeting, said the subcommittee presented Wiechert with the idea to create a student fee for campus lighting.
Trick-or-treat, give me something canned to eat
By Tracev Chalpin
Kansan staff writer
Members of KU Students Against Hunger have organized teams of four people to trick-or-treat tonight, but instead of collecting candy they will knock for reward and throw the
Living groups and members of organizations are working in various ways to collect information.
The food collected will be donated to the Salvation Army, 94H New Hampshire St.
Jay Cooper, president of KU Students Against Hunger, said the food drive began on Friday.
On Monday, he said that he had called only one-fourth of the groups that would be contacted.
Cooper said he had organized seven collection teams from five groups, including Selardis Scholarship Hall, the KU Korean Student Organization and the Arnold Air Society.
Trick-or-treating for food is only part of the total effort. Area grocery stores, including Dillon Stores, Food Barn Stores Inc and Tidewater Produce, sell boxes of food in their stores. Cooper said,
Julie Mangell, member of KU Students Against Hunger, said Monday that she had contacted about to area businesses concerningly and was waiting for responses from five of them.
Mangell said she thought the group's efforts, along with community efforts in Lawrence, were impressive, but she was frustrated that some area businesses were not participating in the collection. Only one third of about 20 local businesses that Mangell contacted are conducting independent food drives.
John Churchill, Salvation Army corps administrator and the Salvation Army vali-
Kim Madsen, Panhellenic vice president for sorority affairs, said about 200 members of all KU sorority pledge classes participated in a trick-or-treat collection effort.
She said that pledges collected about 1,200 cans of food and that Salvation Army employees were scheduled to pick them up yesterday afternoon.
Madsen said pledges met Sunday at Deerfield Elementary School, West Junior High School, South Junior High School and area residences to collect cleaned goods.
"We rely heavily on groups like this early in the fall to replenish our food closes." he said. "It will help a lot at getting through the winter because we are almost out of food about two weeks ago."
Churchill said the food the Salvation Army received would be given to individuals and families.
By David Roach
Kansan staff writer
Winter says death penalty would not deter criminals
Using the death penalty as a deterrent against crime is a farce, State Wint. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, told KU Amnesty International last night.
Winter spoke to 10 Amnesty members at the Burge Union急诊 said he unquebuvelly the Army had been there.
"The enactment of a death penalty would be the single most important thing that would prevent a murderer from being prosecuted."
He said the death penalty had become a political indicator of a person's stance or crime, distorting issues regarding U.S. prisons.
The death penalty is not a deterrent to crime, Winter said.
"Most murders are crimes of passion," he said. "They are committed by people in a thoughtless fashion, and they are committed with an attitude that either getting caught or getting convicted."
He said that the U.S. justice system was not infallible and that the death penalty
He also said that executing criminals was as expensive as incarcerating them for life and that death-row facilities would require resources that already are at a premium.
"What the death penalty really is is an act of retribution and an act of payback," he said.
Winter also said he was against the death penalty for moral reasons.
"I frankly have a hard time with the callous notion that there is no value in a human's life, no matter how heinous the conduct of that person in the past," he said.
About 60 people have been executed in the United States and later were proved innocent.
Shaun Kershern, death penalty coordinator for Amnesty International, said his group was concerned only with the moral aspects of the death penalty, even though its members probably were in agreement with most of what Winter said.
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