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Tuesday, September 11, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Western Civilization seeks diversity in reading list
By Tatsuya Shimizu
Kansan staff writer
The KU Western Civilization program is trying to incorporate more diversity in its classes.
James Wooelfel, director of the program, said the program would review its reading list this year to assess how much it reflected that reflected Western society.
The department reviews its reading list every three years.
"I'm going to raise this issue strongly and try to include female and Black authors," he said.
He said that in 1985 the program began incorporating readings that dealt with racism, sexism and anti-Semitism.
This semester, students in the class will read four works written by female or Black authors, including *The Tale of Kesu*, *Kaewouri* and Martin Luther King Jr.
Ted Zeezinger, assistant director of the program and an instructor of a Western Civilization class, said there was an orientation session in August to help Western Civilization instructors address issues of discrimination
Zenzinger said some instructors assigned additional works written by women.
spring, demanded that more material concerning minorities be included in the program.
Last semester, Students Concerned About Discrimination, a campus organization that formed in the
"We consider the Western Civilization class is taught from a White, male, Christian perspective," said Katzman, facilitator for SCAD.
"Women made up over 51 percent of the population, but we don't really learn about them. Almost every person has to take Western Civilization,
She said one example of the program's discrimination was that it did not include any works by American Indians.
and we don't have a choice."
SCAD plans to meet with deans of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and instructors in the Western Civilization program. Katzman said.
tant writers who could not be removed from the list.
Woelfeil said it was difficult to include more women and Black authors because there were impor-
Zenziinger said the controversy about replacing traditional core works with books that reflect diversity was difficult to resolve.
He said that traditional core books were important to understand the development of Western philosophy but that they did not give an accurate portrayal of the diversity of Western society.
Wescoe to get new soda fountains
Mark Brakeall. Shawnee junior, gets ice for canned or bottled drinks in Wescoe cafeteria
Machines to be in by weeks end
By Chris Oster
Kansan staff writer
Caffeine fiends who have been distressed by the lack of a functional soda dispenser in the West Side, have achieved later this week.
Bob Derby, University of Kansas concessions manager, said new, larger capacity machines should arrive during the next two weeks before the broken dispensers. The first of the two should arrive later this week.
Derby said the two dispensers in Wescoe Hall probably failed because of an increase in demand.
"As near as I can tell, they just are not handling the demand," Derby said. "We're doing the best we can, but like it any more the students do."
The incapacitated dispensers were installed in August 1899 and had similar output problems when first installed. Derby said.
Because the machines experienced no problems from that time to their recent breakdown, they were not a cause for concern.
Derbv said.
Until the new machines are installed, canned soda will be available in the cafeteria.
Stefanie Morris, St. Louis senior said the broken machines created
a problem.
"I think it's a big hasle," Morris said. "Sometimes on the way to class I want to enter into Wescoe for a soda. It slows me down a lot."
are installed, students will have another soda barrier.
Even when the new dispensers
Derby said the cafeteria would no longer allow refills of the plastic cups it sold.
Stephan joins in study of 120-year-old church
Bv Elicia Hill
Kansan staff writer
Attorney General Bob Stephan visited the Old English Lutheran Church, 1040 New Hampshire St. yesterday to see for himself the focus of a two-year controversy looked like.
State Sen. Wint Winter, R-
Lawrence, had asked Stephan to get
involved because of the length of the
conflict and the future of the 120-
old church.
Stephan and Winter, joined by the city commissioners, architects, engineers, lawyers and the curious, toured the 120-year-old church.
Arly Allen, left, talks to Eric Cleveland, center, and Bob Stephan.
Concerns that the building might be a historical site prevented him from receiving the permit.
The issue erupted two years ago when church owner Arly Ally sought demolition permit for the church, and a lawyer he meet from his business. Allen Press.
urban design. The results of the study will be presented to the city commission.
Winter, a board member of the Lawrence Preservation Alliance, said he was pleased the owner was able to examine the inside of the church
Stephan said that although a great deal of restoration was needed, the history was important to preserve.
"The state can't make a final opinion until the studies come out, but the statutes on historical buildings do apply here," Stephan said. "We try to leave the emotions out in determining the answer. There are so many factors involved, and all of them must be considered."
The church will be open for study to a variety of engineers and architects until Oct. 7, said Demis Domen, KU associate dean of architecture and
"Now that there is access they will finally be able to do an analysis of the building," he said. "The owner was very upset." Was it, was the basis of the whole problem?"
Allen said he had not denied access.
"I tried to get the state historical society in here in 1988, but they told me they didn't need to look at it," Allen said.
Todd Thompson, Allen's lawyer,
said the last time anyone requested a
tour was a few days before the city
opened the issued the issue in
spring of 1990.
During yesterday's walk-through tour, the church was filled with architects, but many refused to comment on the condition of the church.
Vance Kelley, preservationist architect with the Kansas Historical Society, said, "This building looks like a 120-year-old building. A building gets wrinkles just like people get when it gets old."
Steven McCabe, structural engineer and KU assistant professor of civil engineering, said, "I don't want to shoot from the hip because it's too early to give a solid opinion, but I will say that this building is in tremendous shape. It's amazing that a building this old looks this good."
The city has not done a structural review because the owner is responsible for proving that the building was constructed by City Commissioner Bob Schumm.
David Penny, city commissioner, said he could see a lot of surface cracks in the building.
"The building is in pretty rough shape," he said. "There isn't any question that the building will need a great deal of renovation."
Allen said he had paid a considerable sum of money to fight the opposition and had hired private engineers and architects to determine the building's soundness.
After most of the people had left, Demer accused Allen of not paying full property values on the church site.
County records show that the appraised value of the property in 1987 was $143,400. After four appeals, the property was valued at $5,500. Other commercial land property in the same area is listed as $46,900.
ASK assembly sets year's policy goals
ESU session determines '90'91 platform
By Jennifer Schultz
Kansan staff writer
The Associated Students of Kansas legislative assembly met at Emporia State University this weekend to platform for the 1990-91 academic year.
Mike Schreiner, KU student body president and ASK vice chairperson, said policy goals approved by the assembly supported a graduate teaching assistant fee waiver, the Board of Regents request for minority and graduate scholarship programs, and theMargin of Excellence and the expansion of Youth Educational Services (YES).
Delegates from the six of the seven Regents schools attended the assembly. Students from the Kansas Technology in Salina did not attend
Schreiner said each school received one assembly vote for every 1,000 students enrolled. KU had 27 votes in the assembly.
Greg Hughes, ASK director, said the assembly was beneficial because the students learned a lot about ASK
and were able to share their concerns with students from other schools
He said about 68 people, including 29 KU representatives, attended the assembly.
He said KU would benefit more from the GTA fee waivers than other schools because KU was a research institution, so greater GTAs than other Regents schools
Liz Mendez, liberal arts and sciences senator, said she was assigned to ASK's minority committee.
"We set foundations for proposals concerning YES," she said. "Right now the program is a pilot program. We want to change it to a statutory program and ask the Kansas Legislature to double the amount of financing."
Mendez said the assembly was informative because she had not known a lot about ASK.
"I now have a greater understanding of what ASK is," she said.
Schreiner said other committees focused on graduate issues, statewide visibility for ASK and the financing of higher education.
School of Architecture honors women in exhibit
Kansan staff writer
By Amy Zamierowski
The KU School of Architecture and Urban Design is co-sponsoring an exhibit featuring the achievements of women architects during the last 100 years, said Michael M. Swann, coordinator of the event.
"Usually an exhibit doesn't single out one group." Swann said. "But this exhibit demonstrates how successful and innovative women have been in a traditionally male-dominated profession."
The exhibit, "That Exceptional One: Women in American Architecture, 1888-1988," will be on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, 1111 Main St., in Kansas City, Mo.
The exhibit celebrates the 100th anniversary of the election of the first woman member to the Ameri-
tute Institute of Architects, Swann said.
Cynthia Frewen, 1977 KU graduate and architect with Frewen Architects in Kansas City, Mo. helped bring the exhibit to Kansas City. The exhibition has been to 14 cities across the United States since 1988, including New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
Frewen said the architecture field had opened up to women during the last 100 years.
"When I went into architecture. I didn't perceive it as a male-dominated profession." Frewen said.
Frewen said that since 1974, the number of female members of the
Lois Clair, assistant dean of architecture and urban design, said she conducted a graduate survey each year and found that women with architecture degrees did more mark-ing and management for firms than men.
Frewen said that only a few women occupied upper level positions in the architecture field, but that she expected the number to increase. In the Kansas City area, about five out of ten women have female owners, she said.
Clark said the percentage of female KU architecture graduates increased from 22 percent to 35 percent between 1899 and 1990. Forty percent of this fall's freshman architecture class are women.
architect institute had risen from 250 to more than 3,700 of the institute's 53,000 members.
"We have had a long tradition of women in the school, but they have always been a minority." Clark said. Laura Hamilton, Perryborough, Ontario, was chosen as a female architect today was not the difficult as it had been in the past.
"It has progressed to the point where women are considered equally with men when applying for a job," she said. "We have advantages for success are just as good."
Clark said the Kansas City chapter of the American Institute of Women's Studies has an annual women's projects in Kansas City for the exhibit at the Town Pavilion.
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