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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 6. 1990
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Center for women is open to all
By Karen Park
Kansan staff writer
a cramped three-room office on the first floor of Strong Hall is home to the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center.
Barbara Ballard, director of the center, said the center opened in 1978 and provided students with job opportunities and career opportunities.
"Our target population is undergraduate women," she said. "But the center is available to anybody who wants to use it."
Ballard said that the center was unable to give money to people but that it tried to help students find available aid.
"We also help women find childcare facilities," she said.
Kshama Gargesh, a graduate assistant working at the center, said the center offered workshops each week that covered topics ranging from resume writing to avoiding date rape.
Gargesh also said the center offered books on various topics that could be checked out for two weeks to students with a KUID.
The most popular items in the center were the Occupational Outlook Handbook, published by the U.S. Department of Labor, and the Directory of Financial Aid, she said.
Ballard said the center was named in honor of Emily Taylor, a former KU dean of women.
Lisa Golda Taylor Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, said she had used the center for about two years.
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"Most of the time, I'm in here looking up scholarship information," she said. "It has tons of information that you can use."
The center also offers an outreach program in which Ballard and the graduate assistants visit residence halls, greek houses and other living groups.
Ballard said she visited about 4,000 students last year.
"We don't wait for people to come to us," she said. "We go to them."
Taylor (left), and Dara Sernoffsky, Ottawa freshman, browse at the resource center in Strong Hall.
Group wants better climate for women
Kansan staff writer
By Holly M. Neuman
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Members of a KU women's organization said that people might be more sensitive today about issues concerning race, sex and sexual orientation than a year ago but that the University could take even more steps to improve the climate for women.
Members of the Women's Student Union said the group was formed in April after a member of the Sigma Alpha Epidauria struktur and uttered racial slurs against African Americans. The fraternity, 140 West Campus
Marcie Gilliland, WSU member,
said, "The incident at the SAE
house was a racist issue, but it was
something that people forgot."
Kristin Lange, WSU member, said the main problem facing women at KU was safety.
"Basically there is a blatant disregard for women's safety at KU." Lange said.
She said one problem was bad lighting
Lange said that women she had talked to said they did not feel safe on campus at night.
Traci Edwardson, WSU member, said another problem women faced on campus was sexual assault
Gilliand said the group wanted to form a sexual assault response center for people to contact if they had been raped. The center would refer people to KU or community organizations for assistance
She said the group wanted to serve as an umbrella group that could answer questions concerning women's issues.
The group also wants to promote more female representation in
Gillandl said organization members spent the summer planning for the beginning of the fall semester, a student response had been positive.
Western Civilization readings and more women's history classes, she said.
Edwardson said, "I'm excited to see the new students. I think people realize there is a definite need for our organization on campus."
The group's first meeting of the semester will be at 5 p.m. tomorrow in the Walnut Room of the Kansas Union.
School requests more test time
By Yvonne Guzman
Kansan staff writer
Although KU undergraduate soon may face a shorter, six-day final period, law students may have nearly two weeks to take their finals.
Frances Ingemann, University Senate Executive Committee chairperson, a request from law school officials to allow a different semester calendar for law students had been forwarded to the Board of Regents by Cancellor Gene A. Budig.
"They felt they needed a longer examination period," Ingemann said.
The law school has a nine-day examination schedule.
In the proposed calendar, law students would start and finish the semester on the same days as other students, but their regular classes would end five days earlier and their final period would last about 10 days.
To meet the Regents requirement of having 75 instructional days a semester, the law school would offer
classes on three weekends in the middle of the semester.
Al Johnson, associate dean of the law school, said law students needed a longer finals period because their grades were more dependent on finals. Most law classes do not have quizzes or tests during the semester.
"It's traditional that law schools have a very long finals period," Johnson said. "So much rides on it."
The average law school has an 11-day final period in the fall and a 10-day final period in the spring, he said.
The school is required to offer students a sufficiently long final period by American Bar Association accreditation rules, Johnson said.
In other business, SenEx discussed complaints about faculty and students smoking in campus building stairwells.
Action on the complaints was tabled until SenEx members study KU' on-campus smoking policy.
Students restore Italian structure
Ingemann said it was likely that the problem could be solved by posting "No Smoking" signs in stair-wells.
15 study architecture on estate
Kansan staff writer
By Amy Zamierowski
Fifteen KU students spent the summer in Italy using their bare hands to restore an old farmhouse and rebuild a large acre surrounding a 2,000 acre estate.
David Moss, Hill City senior, said the students in the KU School of Architecture and Urban Design spend June on an estate 12 miles southwest of Manhattan. He taught the tural study program. This was the program's eight summer session.
"The program integrated architectural labor and architectural theory." Moss said. "We built with the architects who analyzed buildings and building types."
Moss said that besides preserving and modernizing a building, students drew floor plans and geometrical drawings. Moss said the students visited towns in the Italian hillside that dated back to the Roman Age.
"There are walls which have been built upon for centuries," Moss said. "You can see a layering effect of stone upon stone."
Moss said the students stayed in servants' quarters on the estate. They were responsible for preparing food at a large dreary store in town.
"Most of the Italians couldn't speak English so we had a shopping cart in one hand and a phrase book in
the other," Moss said. "Mainly, we did a lot of gesturing and pointing."
Margaret Lednicky, Lee's Summit, Mo., senior, she decided to participate in the program after Harris Stone, coordinator of the program, showed slides from past trips to introductory architecture class.
"It was a great learning process," Lednicky said. "When you put back a stone that has fallen from a 12th floor, you know you make feel like a part of history."
Lednicky said the students used no machinery and mixed cement by hand. They also searched for buildings made of ashes as trees and stones on the stone.
"I had a feeling of what people felt in the past because we built things the way they did," Lednicky said.
Students also rebuilt stone walls around the estate.
"Building the walls was difficult because no cement was used," Lednicky said. "You couldn't just toss the wall and make it an art fitting the stones together."
Jeremy Carvallo, Baldwin City senior, said he was able to experience the culture, architecture and people of Italy.
"The construction work was more satisfying than it might seem," Carvaho said. "Working in onaly on a building is an experience I can't describe."
Increasing enrollment in environmental law reflects students' concern
By Mike Brassfield
Kansan staff writer
Student interest in environmental law at KU has been rising steadily in recent years, said George Cognigs. Frank E. Tyler distinguished professor of law.
Coggins said enrollment in environmental law classes was increased after a lag during the pandemic.
In addition, competition to make the
National Environmental Moot Court Team has grown increasingly fierce, he said. The moot competition is held each year at Pace University in New York.
also is increasing, he said ELS members are involved in recycling, seminar participation and lobbying for international environmental initiatives.
Coggins said the law school first sent a team in 1989, which placed second. Three KU teams attended the competition in February of 1990.
KU is the flagship institution for development and dissemination of the American Bar Inter-Generational Accord on the International Law of the Environment (ABIGALE).
Membership in the KU Environmental Law Society, which has about 50 members.
ABIGAILE is an attempt by the American
Bar Association to draft international environmental law accords. ABA membership hopes to present the accords to the United Nations at their international conference in 1992.
David Sunders, third-year law student,
said about 20 KU law students were involved
C.J. Poirier, Kansas City, Mo., attorney,
said the accords included laws dealing with
the use of firearms in the state.
Although students may be responding to increased demand for environmental law expertise, Coggins said he thought their motivation was idealism, not money.
"My impression is that youthful altruism, after a period of relative hibernation, is once again rearing her," he said. "I sense an awakening in you and in us as well as a desire to succeed as a lawyer."
protection of the ozone layer.