University Daily Kansan / Monday, August 27, 1990
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University searches for a new director of Minority Affairs
By Holly M. Neuman
Kansan staff writer
A committee of administrators, faculty and students expects to find a director for the Office of Minority Affairs by Jan. 1, 1981.
Caryl Smith, associate vice chancellor for student affairs, said the office was left without a permanent director when Rosita Dorsey resigned in June 1989. Marshall Jackson is interim director.
Although more than a year has passed since Doresy resigned, Smith said the committee only recently had access to the staff. Vice chancellor for student affairs.
"The resignation occurred so late we couldn't appropriately do all we needed to fill the position until now," Smith said.
According to the position announcement, applications for the position must be submitted by Sept.
14.
"We didn't begin advertising until fairly recently, so we have to give applications a chance to start coming in." Smith said.
The minority affairs director will develop programs to encourage minority groups' values and cultures, according to the announcement. The director also will work to enhance the campus climate for all students to create an appreciation for diversity and will assess any academic barriers existing at the University.
Applicants must have a master's degree in counseling or a related field and have experience working with minority students.
Ann Eversole, a member of the committee and director of the Organizations and Activities Center, said that committee had not had its first meeting.
Halls hire more RAs; directors praise change
By Tracey Chalpin
Kansan staff writer
The department of student housing has hired 20 additional resident assistants to work at four residence halls and the ratio of hall staff to students.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said that since he took his position at the University of Kansas five years ago, he has wanted to add resident assistants. The plan is to hold staff in the stalls to one RA per wing.
He said he hoped the plan would be completed by the end of this academic year.
Stoner said increased staffs would make the RAs more interactive with their residents.
"They will probably not do any additional programming but will probably be more effective at it," he said.
Stoner said Ellsworth Hall added six RAs to its staff.
Deb Miller, residence hall director at Ellsworth, said expanding staff to one RA on each wing would make it easier for the RAs to get to know their residents.
Miller said Ellsworth, which has one men's and one women's wing on each floor, previously had only one RA on each floor. She said residents with personal problems would have to take the male or female RA under the new plan.
Mike Triplett, residence hall director at Hassinger Hall, said that because of his position as director of the RAS he heard was mainly from the RAs.
More pockets of problems occurred on wings that had no RA, he said.
Stoner said six RAs were added to the staff at Hashinger Hall.
Triplett said he thought the reason for immediate staff increases at
Ellsworth and Hashinger was to make RAs of both sexes available to residents on the coed floors.
Although the main goal of adding RA's was to improve RA-resident relationships, the staff increases the pressure to reevaluate noise and vandalism, he said.
LeeAnna Lamb, residence hall director at McColm Hall, said additional staff members would be needed to clean the floors, which now have no RAs.
Lamb said RA evaluations completed by residents on the wings without RAs contained complaints the residents never saw their RAs
Lamb said residents on those wings also had more noise complaints
Frank Harwood, residence hall director at Oliver Hall, also said he thought the staff increases would strengthen the floor community
Oliver added four RAs to its staff and now has two RAs on the men's floors.
Harwood said he thought emergency situations might be handled more effectively with additional staffing.
Four RAs were added to the staff at Gertrude Sears Pearson Corbin Hall so each floor would have an RA. Stoner said before the increase, some RAs were assigned to more than one floor at GSP Corbin.
Lt. John Mullens, KU police spokesperson, said that most reports the KU police received from residence halls involved burglaries.
Mullens said security might be strengthened when halls assigned more than one BA to each floor.
"The more people you have for that, the more coverage you have for, but pressure not totally be put in control situation like that," he said.
THE UNIVERSITY COUNSELING CENTER
The University Counseling Center is offering the following groups for students throughout the fall semester:
Counseling Groups and Workshops for Fall 1990
Adult children of alcoholics: An ongoing support group dealing with the problems and concerns resulting from growing up in an alcoholic family. Time: Mondays, 1:30-3:00 or Tuesdays, 2:00-3:30.
Grieving and loss: An ongoing counseling and support group to assist students in dealing with significant losses in their lives. Ting: Tuesday, 4:00-6:00.
Romance: wine & roses or ripple and dandelions? An ongoing support group dealing with the problems and concerns of commitment, communication, and expectations pertaining to romantic relationships. Time: Mondays, 11:30-1:00.
Eating disorders: An ongoing counseling and support group to assist students suffering from bulimia (or if anorexic, actively B+P) to change their problemable way of relating to food and themselves.
Time: Tuesdays; 9:30-10:45.
Women only: An ongoing counseling and support group dealing with issues of gaining greater understanding of themselves and ways of relating more comfortably with others. Will cover issues regarding competition, intimacy, self-acceptance and expression of feeling. Time: Thursdays, 1:00-2:20.
All groups held in 116 Bailey Hall. For information or to enroll, call the Center at 864-3931.
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