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University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 21, 1990
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Cooperating students can help KU diversity
Blind Faith
Jen Rothman, left, St. Louis freshman, gives directions to a blindfolded Michael Malerby, Denver freshman. The two were performing an exercise in trust for their improvisation class yesterday afternoon outside Murphy Hall.
By Holly M. Neuman
Minority affairs candidate talks to Black Men
Kansan staff writer
A candidate for director of minority affairs said last night that the way to improve KU's cultural climate was not to burn buildings and chant insulting overtime, "as was done in the 1980s," she said as a positive force to bring change.
Joyce Williams, a guidance counselor at Leavenworth High School, said University of Kansas faculty to be as a positive force to bring change.
"On Sept. 20, 1990, you as a black leaders, are still seeking change," Williams, a former KU student, said. "We want a more diverse, every student has a right to learn."
Williams, who spoke to about 50 students at a Black Men of Today meeting in the Kansas Union, said he was "very proud" of force was to work together, and
identify goals and guidelines.
"You have got to get yourselves together," she said. "In numbers there is diversity and strength, in isolation you are not going to make
The solution should include reflecting on events and issues which were important in the past, but it also encourages organizing the sys- Williams said.
"There is no way on God's green Earth that your goals can be accomplished without coming together and identifying terms and values and then pulling on resources from the community." she said.
Williams said after the meeting that problems facing Black students at KU were present at other schools but that other universities have sorted through the problems better than KU had.
"The University of Missouri is
trying to overcome the problem by recruiting minority students." Williams said. "Kansas State is working with our alumni to help scholarships to minority students."
Groups like Black Men of Today and Black Student Union are groups that are trying to move in the right direction. Williams said.
"You have to have power to be empowered," she said. "These groups are working to do that."
Felice Dougherty, Leavenworth sophomore, she said she invited Williams to speak at the meeting when she watched that Williams had applied for the position.
"I graduated from the high school where she is a counselor." Dougherty said. "Ask any student who knew Ms. Williams at the school, and they will all tell you that she is an outstanding candidate."
44 Regents minority scholarships go to KU students
By Jennifer Schultz
Kansan staff writer
The Board of Regents announced last week that 44 KU students received minority scholarship awards from its Kansas Minority Scholarship program.
Clahnia McCurdy, director of financial aid for the Regents, said that 131 scholarship were awarded to minority students who achieved a public progress attending universities in Kansas.
Last year, 44 KU students were minority scholarships from the 94 available.
The Legislature finances the program, which is in its second year. The program provides a $1,500 renewable award each academic year.
Marshall Jackson, interim director of minority affairs, said qualifications in the Regents scholarship program differed from criteria for the 35 minority scholarships offered this week as a result of Campaign Kansas contributions. The Regents offered minority scholarships to all students in Kansas colleges, while only KU students qualified for the minority scholarships available under the endowment fund.
McCurdy said the Regents not only encouraged those students with high academic scores to apply, but also those students with a solid academic background.
"We want to attract those students that may be less likely to get big academic scholarships but are academically successful." she said.
McCurdy said once the student met the criteria, selection was based on financial
To be eligible, students must be recognized by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. To apply, please contact us by email.
one College Board. They also must have a high school grade point average of 3.0 or higher, a composite score of 19 or higher on the ACT, an SAT combined score of 816 or higher and be ranked in the upper one-third of their high school graduating class.
Students from the following ethnic groups are eligible for the scholarship: American Indian, Alaskan native, Asian or Pacific Islander, Black or Hispanic.
Mkansas students are eligible to apply
McCurdy said students already enrolled in a college or university were eligible for the program as long as they met the application
All Kansas students are eligible to apply
criteria and maintained a GPA above 2.0.
Jeff Weinberg, assistant vice chancellor for student affairs, said he was pleased that so many of the minority students who had won the scholarships were attending KU.
McCurdy said the program was financed this year by 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 the number to 100 percent of their peers. The Legislature granted the first two years but not the third.
Two doctors join Watkins health staff
By Courtney Eblen
Kansan staff writer
the recent influx of ill KU students to Watkins Memorial Health Center has been easier for Watkins staff to handle, thanks to two physicians who recently began work
Patsy Denning, an internist, and Dee Ann DeRoin, a family practitioner, have boosted the number of female physicians at Watkins to three.
This has proven a relief to KU students who prefer female physicians for gynecological examinations and checkups, said Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins.
Denning and DeRoin replaced Paul Reith, who left Watkins earlier this year to start a teaching program at the University of Illinois School of Medicine. Yokeck said.
Rather than hire one full-time staff member, Watkins denies Dening and Deionk on a contract basis.
Dee Ann DeRoin, right, and Patsy Denning recently joined the staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, bringing the number of female physicians to three.
"It's been an incredible benefit," he said. They both be here in the afternoons, with a cup of coffee.
Both physicians have found themselves with a multi-faceted role working as student-health doctors. In addition to treating students' illnesses, Denning and DeRoin serve as counselors and educators, roles they said they enjoyed.
This is a new experience for Deming, who said she was accustomed to dealing with this kind of stress.
"It's a never-ending challenge," she said. "When I was in private practice, most of the clients were women."
Dennis said she began college at Kansas State University, intending to become a
veterinarian. But midway through college, he began a human health care and transferred to KU.
She graduated from KU's School of Medicine in 1982
Denning said she met her husband, Dale, in a freshman chemistry class at K-State. They married less than a week after she graduated from medical school.
Dale Denning, a surgeon, practices in
Lawrence. The Dennings completed their residences through the School of Medicine's program in Wichita, where their sons, Patrick, 4, and Bryant, 1, were born.
DeRoin, also a wife and mother, said she had eight years of student health experience as a physician at Haskell Indian Junior College.
DeRoin, who is half Iowa Indian, is from Wmore. Neb.
She said she received degrees in psychology and health education from the University of California at Berkeley before graduating in 1974 from Stanford Medical School.
After a three-year family practice in Seattle, Dekton returned to the Midwest to begin
Now that she has moved her practice to Dekton, the only difficult part of the job is taking Dekton is with the cost-cost.
trol methods at Watkins, she said. Her patients at Haskell usually were subsidized by the Indian Health Service, part of the Division of Public Health.
"We have to figure out the way to provide the best, least expensive way to treat students who are on limited budgets," DeRoyka said. "Account how much a prescription will cost."