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University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 28, 1990
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Jane Rudolph/KANSAN
Rock Work
Film Scenic Production class. The scenery will be used for a production of "Thunder Rock".
Kim Maddrey, Prairie Village graduate student, paints styrofoam rocks at the University Theatre Scene Shop during theatre and剧院
Bv Holly M. Neuman
Kansan staff writer
Angela Davis, an internationally known political activist, will present a lecture tonight on the rise of racial tensions in nations nationwide
Davis will speak at 7:30 p.m. at
Hoch Audio-
rium. Doors open
at 7 p.m. The lectu-
re is free.
The lecture is expected to last about an hour and will be followed by a half-hour question-and answer session.
Angela Davis
Davis' lecture is sponsored by Student Union Activities, Student Senate, the departments of philozoeology and entomology, and the College of Today and Black Student Union.
Davis is a professor of women's studies at San Francisco State University. She also is associated with the American Racist and Political Oppression
Davis participated in civil-rights demonstrations and helped form the Black Students Council in San Diego.
Davis also was involved in a 1970 prison break that involved a shootout with police. George Jackson, a political prisoner, and others attempted to escape from the Marin County Calif. courthouse.
Davis was charged with kidnap
“
She worked not just for Black people, but for women, too. She stands up for her principles, even in the face of jail.
Peggy Woods BSU recording secretary
ping, conspiracy and murder in connection with the escape attempt. She was imprisoned but later was acquitted of all charges.
Peggy Woods,BSU recording secretary,said that she was planning to
attend the lecture with no preconceived notions but that she hoped Davis would discuss issues that concerned KU.
"That is what affects us most," she said. "I do think she is informed about KU."
Woods said she respected Davis' principles.
In addition, Davis was the 1980 vice-presidential candidate on the Communist Party U.S.A. ticket. She is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Lenin University in the Soviet Union.
"I respect her radical efforts during the 60s," Woods said. "She worked on behalf of women, too. She stands up for her principles, even in the face of all."
Student council discusses waiver
By Jennifer Schultz
Kansan staff writer
Members of the Graduate Student Council discussed the graduate teaching assistant fee waiver last night in the Kansas Union.
Kurt Davis, chairperson of the graduate executive committee, said he wanted the percentage of the GTA fee waiver to increase this year to 100 percent. The University pays for 75 percent of a GTA's tuition.
"Last year the administration bargained with the GTA fee waiver to get what they wanted," he said. "The administration decided to drop 5 percent of the GTA fee waiver. They were worried about the University because they weren't going to get the Margin of Excellence."
The Margin of Excellence was the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers. The Legislature financed the first two years, but not the third.
He said two Regents institutions already had a 100 percent graduate fee waiver for GTAs as well as for graduate research assistants.
He said GRAs at KU received no fee waiver.
"GRAs do a lot of research on campus," he said. "How KU is ranked depends on their research."
The Graduate Student Council represents all KU graduate students and allocates money to other graduate organizations.
Last week, KU administration and graduate students appealed to the Legislative Education Planning Committee in Topeka for an increase in the GTA tuition fee waiver from 75 percent to 100 percent.
Susan Buehler, secretary for the council, said, "The students were important as far as getting the human side of the story."
Oscar Quiros, executive coordinator of the council, testified in Topeka last week.
"The idea was to let them know, more or less, what the teaching learning assistant issue is," he said.
Quiros said that one of the major complaints that legislators had heard from student constituents was that they had not been given their foreign teaching assistants.
The graduate students explained to the committee that the screening process KU used was one of the most rigorous in the nation, he said.
"Those who pass must have a very good command of the language," Quiros said.
Construction crew ruptures gas main
By Elicia Hill
Kansan staff writer
A broken gas main at 5:03 p.m.
yesterday at 19th and Kentucky
streets was repaired by gas company
before any serious damage
occurred.
Steve Hanna, Kansas Public Service manager, said a construction crew was working in the area when it hit the gas line. No one was hurt, but police and fire officials were called in due to the flammability of the gas.
"I don't know if the line was mismarked or if the crew did not locate the line," Hanna said. "We tried to eliminate all powers of emission from vehicles, so we rerouted traffic. All it would have taken was a spark and it might have blown up." Traffic was detonated one block in
Traffic was detoured one block in all directions as a precaution.
While construction crews and KPS
employees worked to shut off the valve to the line, firefighters quickly examined area gas meters and inspected apartments in the area to detect if gas was leaking into any residences.
Bill Stark, fire captain for engine two, said if the firefighters had found gas in a residence, the area would have been evacuated.
Pete Cattano, Kansas City, Kan,
junior, was one of the KU students
who lived in Birchwood Gardens at
1829 Kentucky, an apartment complex
that firefighters were checking for gas. He was annoyed at the inconvenience of being displaced from his home.
"This is the second time in two weeks that things like this have happened. Cattano said. "Last month, when the phone lines, and today it's this."
Children to get new stop for bus service to Stouffer
By Tracey Chalpin
Kansan staff writer
By the end of 1990, children living at Stouffer Place Apartments will have a safe place to live and work. Most housing officials said yesterday.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said the new bus stop would be situated on a newly paved drive that would be about 60 feet from 19th Street and Anna Drive. The loop-shaped drive will connect the two streets. The present stop is at the intersection.
Stoner said the project, which is part of a series of improvements at Stouffer Place, would cost $50,000. Money for the project came from Stouffer Place reserves.
"the first issue was to pull children off 19th street." Stoneer said. "The project also provides additional sidewalks and sidewalks to adjoining houses."
The bus stop shelter will have a roof with the same design as the new roof on apartment building number three, Stoner said.
"The foreman said it wouldn't take that long, though." she said. Swain said that because of other needed renovations in the complex, the bus stop project had been put on hold.
Ruth Swain, Stouffer Place manager, said that work on the project began in the middle of this month and that the project contractors had 90 days to finish the project.
Nutrition-conscious swamp Health Fair
Kansan staff report
Students and faculty crowded Watkins Memorial Health Center yesterday for the first day of the third annual Health Fair, which features free nutritional counseling, blood tests and samples of healthy food.
A similar crowd is expected today. But Watkins staff members said they did not mind the extra people milling over the building's west overhang.
"We've been mobbed all day. It's fantastic," said Jim Strobl, director of student health services at Watkins
As Strobi surveyed the crowd, he munched one of the 480 bags of salt popcorn Watkins staff members gave to fairgoers.
Janie Demo, coordinator of health education at Watkins, estimated the turnover was more than twice what it was when 790 students visited the fair.
Free samples of yogurt from I Can't Believe It'S Yogurt were gone before noon. Demo said. The fair will take us 9 a.m. today and last until 3 p.m.
In addition to nutritional snack food, the fair offers free cholesterol and body-fat testing, which proved a popular attraction, Demo said. More than 150 people had their body fat tested yesterday, and the six nurses stationed just inside Watkins took more than 300 blood samples.
Watkins dietician Ann Davis gave more than 250 diet analyses and nutritional advice to fairgeers. In addition, more than 2,000 condiments are available from samples of non-alcoholic beverages went fast in the 90-degree weather.
"We have been swamped, which is great." Demo said. "It's fun for us, the staff at Watkins Health Center and it's fun for the students."
Stacev Goldenberg, St. Louis junior, has her blood glucose level tested.
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