Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, October 9, 1990
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Protesters denounce Columbus celebration
Campus rally draws about 65
By Holly M. Neuman
Kansan staff writer
Giving Christopher Columbus credit for discovering America ignores American Indian leaders and protesters on campus said yesterday afternoon
About 65 people stood in the rain east of Wescoe Hall to participate in a student rally that declared Columbus Day a day of miseducation. Similar rallies occurred on campuses across the nation.
"Don't lie to our children. You can't discover what already belongs to another." stated one protester's sign. Others stated, "Not discovered but taken," and "Reconquering what is ours."
Darren Fulcher, executive board member of Black Men of Today, handed outliers that stated, "For Native and African-Americans, Columbus Day marks the beginning of subsequent invasion, genocide, slavery and exploitation of the wealth of the land.
"This is not a celebration of Christopher Columbus' so-called discovery of America (which was not lost) but in actuality a celebration of the beginning of White World Supremacy."
In 1492, three Spanish ships led by Italian explorer Christopher Columbus landed in North America. Columbus arrived at the first landing, creating the mission, was yesterday.
Allan Hayton, president of the Native American Student Association, said the rally was not so much against Columbus but against miseducation.
"The purpose was partly to show that we need to establish a Native American studies program on campus." (Bethany W. Bunting, Columbus but to what the day repeats.)
'We are not opposed to Columbus but to what the day represents.'
— Allan Hayton
president of the Native American
Student Association
sents. There has been a Hollywood portraital of the whole thing. There was an advanced civilization here on par with the rest of the world."
Angela Cervantes, Hispanic American Leadership Organization president, said, "It is hard for me to get up and talk about Columbus because all my life I have been taught to believe he was a hero."
Cervantes told the crowd Column bus did do one good thing.
"He didn't accept the fact that the world was flat," she said. "He set out to prove it and went against the system. That is what we all should do. Question every single thing you have ever been taught."
Adolphus Lacey, Ottawa University junior, said, "I refuse to take part in a holiday like this. We marched and cried to give a Martin Luther King holiday, and not every one observes it. We don't all schools are willing to teach it. I dare you to find an open bank today.
"Let's look at one man who truly shaped our lives."
Jessica Powskey, Haskell Indian Junior College sophomore, said she went to the rally to show support.
"This day isn't versus him but the fact that he is honored for such things." Powske said. "He hunted Indians for sport, used them as slaves and paraded them naked in the streets."
Lacey said, "This is just another racist, White supremicist holiday."
Sophia Unshaw. Haskell sophomore, left, and Lisa Kirkle, Sioux Falls, S.D., freshman, join in protest.
Some Stouffer residents say maintenance is slow
Kansan staff writer
By Tracey Chalpin
Stouffer Place residents who have voiced concern about negligent maintenance in the complex may be taken to a hospital or a house in official said yesterday.
starron Temple, assistant director of housing, said there had not been an influx of complaints in the past two years from Stouffer tenants.
Rashid Malik, Stouffer resident, said weaknesses in maintenance were mainly because of a lack of communication between tenants and management.
Malki said many of his complaints had to be taken to the highest levels of the housing department to get any response.
"My experience is that I have to continue to remind them, and then they do something," he said.
Temple said, "I! think sometimes people are afraid to turn in maintenance requests, because they think they'll be charged."
Stouffer Place Apartments tenants are supplied with a maintenance crew that is there every day of the week. Temple said.
He said the last time he heard a large amount of tenant complaints was when tenants in building three complained about roof leaks.
Construction of a new prototype roof, the first step of a major renovation at Stouffer, is almost complete on that building.
Temple said he had not heard anything good or bad about the new roof
Lora Cohn, Stoutiff Neighborhood Association secretary, said she had heart complaints from tenants who were waiting a long time for repairs.
Some residents have complained about leaky roofs and holes left in walls after plumbing repairs, Cohn said.
"But I take that as a positive note," he said.
Brad Farney, Stouffer resident, said he had experienced problems with maintenance.
Ken Stoner, director of housing,
said that in Fall 1989 the department
began using pooled staffs that preva-
lence on the campus to separate KU
room housing.
Jim Modig, director of facilities planning, said Stouffer, along with other KU housing, was reaching the end of its life span, and the housing department could probably expect an increase in major repair projects.
"That way, we will get a broader base of expertise," he said.
Stouffer Place offers rent proposal
Modig said that being expeditious in repairs was a main housing concern and that an on-call architect had recently been hired.
Modig said that maintenance staff was responsible for watching buildings closely.
"There's a hole in the wall under the sink," Farney said. "Instead of repairing the wall, they put duct tape on it. I call every couple of months. In January, it will have been two years."
Resident representatives suggest increase of only 5 percent
By Tracey Chalpin Kansan staff writer
Ken Stoner, director of housing, said there had been a misunderstanding between previous officers of the Stouffer Place Neighborhood Association and the housing department.
bedroom apartments resulting from renovation are $350 and $395, respectively. The renovation will eliminate one-bedroom apart-
Stouffer Place representatives yesterday presented a proposal for a rent increase of 5 percent for the 91-92 lease period at a meeting of the Residential Programs Advisory Board.
One of the representatives, Melissa Gratton, president of the Stouffer Neighborhood Association, said residents on the Rent and Renovations Committee, a committee formed to discuss rent increases and try to come up with an alternative to rent increases.
wound vote against any Student Housing Department proposal for rent increase of more than 10 percent.
Stoner said he and officers had discussed the renovation project for four years, and they had misstated the five-to-ax year increase period.
Housing has proposed a $40 a month increase in rent for a one-bedroom apartment each year for two years, and a $50 a month increase in rent for a two-bedroom apartment each year for two years. That represents a 47 percent rent increase for one-bedroom apartments and 51 percent for two bedrooms during the two years.
The housing department's proposed figures for two- and three-
The resolution, passed Wednesday by the minority affairs committee, states that the University has an obligation to educate students about diversity in the past, present and future.
Senators challenge curricula Committee seeks
Committee seeks course diversity
"We are not asking them to change their curriculum but to be sensitive," said Aimee Hall, student body vice president.
Senate will vote on the resolution tomorrow.
By Jennifer Schultz
Kansan staff writer
Faculty members should be encouraged to incorporate topics of diversity into all courses, a Student Senate committee recommended last week.
"There has been a lot of publicity and talk about Western Civilization courses," she said. "Why not just put forth resuitations that all curriculum has to be more inclusive of minority groups. There is a lot room for expansion."
Liz Mendez, chairperson of the minority affairs committee, said that recent public discussion about the content of Western Civilization classes had spurred the committee to create the resolution.
Many students think that the Western Civilization program is not diverse enough and focuses only on one culture, she said.
"We are not picking on Western Civilization courses," she said. "We are including all courses in the resolution. But it's the perfect place to start because it has the biggest audience."
Ted Zenzinger, assistant director for the Western Civilization department, said the department was committed to diversity.
"In class they discuss different cultures and raise different questions," he said.
The reading list shows diversity, and each class is taught differently, he said.
Zenziinger said that he supported a class to teach cultural diversity but that he was not sure Western Civilization should be that class.
"Western Civilization was designed to be something different," he said. "The courses teach a section of our culture that is racist and sexist in order for us to understand our society."
Marchers remember victims of violence
150 join candlelight vigil in South Park to 'take back the night'
By Monica Mendoza
Kansan staff writer
Last night more than 150 women and men marched through downtown Lawrence to take back the night.
The march was organized by the Take Back the Night Steering Com-
The march was part of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The month was set aside to increase awareness of domestic violence, particularly toward women and children.
A candlelight vigil was conducted to remember those who had suffered from violence and to celebrate those who had survived.
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it's difficult to identify the violence that we've survived. But we know it is violence, and we won't be silent.
Connie Burk Lawrence graduate student
mittee and Students Against Violence Against Women.
Laura Alexander, Lawrence
"
senior, said that the march rose out of women's desire and right to go out where and when they wanted.
where and when
"We're here to take back the night,
and we're here to mourn those who
have not survived," Alexander said.
Connie Burk, Lawrence graduate student, said that women had been taught to fear the things that go bum in the night.
"It's difficult to identify the violence that we've survived," Burk said. "But we know it is violence, and we won't be silent."
Men and women gathered at the South Park gazebo, 13th and Massachusetts streets, about 6:45 p.m. The
women walked to Central Park, Seventh and Tennessee streets, where they formed a circle of lights, a fire department, and offered each other support.
Burk asked the women, who were victims of violence, to step into the center of the circle so that they could be honored.
one women then marched back to South Park, chanting. "Whatever I wear, where ever I go, yes means yes, and no means no."
Steve Kampanni, iola sophomore,
stand outside the Brass Buckle. 813
Massachusetts St., watching the
marchers.
"I think it's good to see them out here," Kampanini said.
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