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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Monday, September 18, 2000
Sports: The Kansas football team got its first win of the season Saturday, defeating Alabama- Birmingham 23-20.
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Inside: Learned Hall to receive an expansion and a new entrance.
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(USPS 650-640) • VOL. 111 NO. 17 For comments, contact Nathan Willis or Chris Borniger at 864-4810 or e-mail editor@kansan.com
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Fans' reactions vary to sexual assault protest
By Kursten Phelps
By Kursten Phels
writer@kansan.com
kansan staff writer
Reactions to handbills distributed before Saturday's football game ranged from apathy to concern and anger.
Twelve students associated with Delta Force, the Womyn's Empowerment Action Coalition and the KU Pro-Choice Coalition
distributed handbills that proclaimed "Sexual assault is not a KU tradition." The handbills were intended to draw attention to the University of Kansas Athletics Department's response to allegations of sexual assault.
Last spring, a female soccer player accused two KU football players of sexually assaulting her. She initially approached
coach Terry Allen instead of going to the police. Later, it was revealed that Allen punished the players by making them run extra stairs at practice.
Allen and the Athletics Department apologized publicly for the way the case was handled, and Lawrence police are investigating the soccer players' allegations.
Bob Frederick, athletics director, has said
that he thinks Allen was being unfairly attacked.
Mora Berberich, St. Louis junior and one of the demonstrators, said that one couple left the game after reading the handbill.
"They said, 'We had no idea,' and they left," she said.
But not everyone was so receptive. Demonstrator Kelli Graves, Overland
Park graduate student, said some people didn't appreciate the protest.
"A lot of people disagree with what we're doing," Graves said. "Some guy ripped it up and tried to hand it back. It seems like most people think we should pretend it never happened."
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Morgan Bowen, Overland Park junior, winds up to throw his dodge ball at fellow neo-socialist Ian Spiridigliozio, Flint, Mich., junior. The neo-socialists invite everyone to their dodge ball games at 5 p.m. every Saturday between Robinson Center and the Computer Center Continuing Education Building.
Photo by Craig Bennett/KANSAN
New club fuses politics, dodge ball
Students combine different ideas into unique group
By Meghan Bainum
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Ian Spiridigliozzi wanted to start a University of Kansas dodge ball club. His friend Morgan Bowen thought a neo-socialist club would be better.
Instead of arguing about which club to start, the two friends combined ideas and the KU Neo-socialist and Dodge Ball Club was born.
Bowen, Overland Park junior, said that even though the club combined neosocialism and dodge ball, the two were actually mutually exclusive parts.
"They don't have anything to do with one another," Bowen said. "People don't have to be a socialist to play dodge ball. The political aspect isn't important at all. If you want to play dodge ball, you can just play."
Spiridigloizzi, Flint, Mich., junior said that people could form their own teams and challenge the 10-member club to a match. The club plays at the field between Robinson Center and the Computer Center and hopes to sponsor a dodge ball playoff tournament eventually.
Bowen said that the socialist part of the club was still mostly uniformed because he was waiting to attract a strong base of people interested in socialism, a form of government in which everything is owned and governed by the community.
But Bowen said the socialist part of the club was more about community action than strict socialistic ideals.
"It's not socialism as in take private property and all that stuff," he said. "It's more like a social response to the needs of the community and giving KU students an outlet to take social action."
NEO-SOCIALIST AND DODGE BALL CLUB
For socialism information, contact Morgan Bowen at 838-9683 or mhowe@bukan.cc.ukans.edu
For dodge ball information, contact lan
Siridjadella70, tolfulimu@aol.com
spiritmizazz.net/ojoysmilippe.com
* Students interested in dodge ball can meet at 5 p.m. every Saturday in the field between Robinson Center and the Computer Center. This Saturday's game is cancelled because of Parents Day. A meeting time for the socialist part of the club will be announced soon.
The club will ask for money from Student Senate.
J. D. Jenkins, liberal arts and sciences senator and Shawnee senior, said he would support a bill to get funding for the club. He said the funding would help the club attract interested students.
Jimmy Appelhanz, Topeka senior, joined the club after he found out about it at an information table in the Kansas Union. He said he liked the club because it had no president, and every member was equal.
"If they get the word out, put the ads in the paper and hang up fliers with the money we give them, then that gets the word out that they are there, and students that are interested will know they exist and join," he said.
"The kids there just want to have fun," he said. "They're not interested in rank or impressing anyone. It's all about the dodge ball."
Some research costs unpaid to University
By Jason Kroll
By Jason Krail
writer @kanson.com
Kansan staff writer
— Edited by Warisa Chulindra
When a state, federal or private agency looks to sponsor research at the University of Kansas, administrators often ask for a percentage of the donation to cover the University's costs related to the project.
But sometimes sponsors don't abide by the suggested fee, known as overhead or indirect costs.
The University of Kansas is supposed to receive 45.5 percent of the donated funds on top of the donation for on-campus research, and 25 percent for grants to KU researchers using off-campus facilities. The University asks for a similar rate on training grants.
Universities negotiate a standard overhead rate with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for research sponsored outside the universities.
Although 45.5 percent is a standard overhead charge that is most often paid by federal agencies, the University rarely receives such a high percentage for sponsored research.
Jim Roberts, associate vice chancellor for research, said corporate research sponsors often agreed to the overhead fee, though state agencies did not.
"Savvy companies understand indirect costs better than anyone," he said. "The entire package, including overhead, all represents what it costs to do research."
David Katzman, professor of American Studies, said that although overhead supported research efforts when it was offered, it could guide which research projects received funding.
The National Institute of Health, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense usually paid all of the overhead costs requested, Roberts said, but others paid less or even none. The U.S. Department of Education, for example, donates 8 percent.
"It has a healthy input of spurring research, but it has this negative aspect of chasing the money," he said. "We seek spons-
RESEARCH FUNDS
The University of Kansas is supposed to receive 45.5 percent of the donated funds on top of donation for on-campus research, and 25 percent for grants to KU researchers using off-campus facilities.
The 45.5 percent is a standard overhead charge, which is most often paid by federal agencies, but the University rarely receives that large a percentage for sponsored research.
Of the overhead received, 15 percent goes back to the school that receives the sponsorship, and the other 85 percent goes to a general fund.
Fiscal year 1999: $123 million in total research sponsorship,
$18.5 million of which was overhead — about 15 percent
Fiscal year 1998: about $70 million in federal sponsorship,
$15 million went to overhead — about 21 percent
sorship with overhead rather than pursuing research that is essential to our mission."
In fiscal year 1999, KU took in $123 million in research sponsorship, with $18.5 million, or about 15 percent retained for overhead. A break down of overhead expenditures by each school in the University for 1999 is expected from the Center for Research within the next two weeks.
In 1998, the last year for which numbers were available, 56.9 percent of all research sponsorship came from federal agencies. Of just more than $70 million in federal sponsorship in that year, $15 million went to overhead costs.
Bob Collins, director of research information at the Center for Research, said the grants didn't always go directly to their designed project but rather to the good of the whole University.
"A portion of a grant designated for facilities and administration is not necessarily spent on that project," he said. "But it does help pay for all the research facilities on campus."
Of the overhead received, 15 percent goes back to the school that received the sponsorship and the other 85 percent goes to a general fund.
- Edited by J. R. Mendoza
Venida S. Chenault,
Haskell Indian
Nations University
faculty member, presents her views on
indian gaming and how it can help and
hurt area tribes.
Various speakers gathered this week-
end to discussed potential effects that would result from the changes.
Photo by Brad
Dreier/KANSAN
Conference argues Native-American issues
By Leita Schultes
By Laite Schuttes
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The status of Native Americans in the United States is changing fast, but plenty remains to be addressed — including the impact of casinos on Native Americans, said Clyde Bellecourt, co-founder of the American Indian Movement.
Native American leaders such as Bellecourt spoke at the conference, discussing the changing nature of Native American political activism. They recalled the Red Power movement of the 1960s and called for new reforms, such as integrating Native American history into social science curriculums.
Such issues were addressed this weekend at "American Indian Leaders: Red Power and Tribal Politics," a conference presented by the University of Kansas and Haskell Indian Nations University.
Of particular relevance to Lawrence, a possible site for a casino, was a breakout session on the impacts of gaming.
Venida S. Chenault, Haskell Indian Nations University faculty member, said indigenous gaming provided financial resources for Native American development.
"How do you begin rebuilding infrastructure?" she asked. "How do you begin finding the line of your sovereignty if you don't have resources?"
Tribes traditionally had been supported by government and private grants. Chenault said, but reliance on grants diminished the authority of tribal governments.
Gaming resources could strengthen tribal sovereignty by enabling Native Americans to exercise their right of self-governance, she said.
Nicholas Peroff, professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas
City, took a different approach to the issue.
"Gaming will change an Indian tribe because a tribe is a living, self-organizing and evolving human system," he said.
Sovereignty is inherent to a tribe, he said, and can not be granted or taken away. But he added that tribes were not completely sovereign because they were not completely isolated.
"It's one of the most corrupt things that ever happened to Indian people," he said.
Poverty-stricken Native Americans often saw money, Bellecourt said, and lost sight of what was important — culture retention and tribal sovereignty.
"It's pitting Indian against Indian," he said. "That's what gaming has done to us ... we're terminating ourselves."
Both Peroff and Chenault agreed that gaming had its pros and cons, but Bellecourt was strongly against it.
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Native-American leaders talk about the need for Native Americans to return to their roots.
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Bellecourt also discussed the history of Native Americans and its role in modern politics.
Westward expansion in the 1800s resulted in the world's greatest holocaust, he said, and the United States have yet to apologize to Native Americans.
Bellecourt said an apology should come from organized religion, educational systems and the government. Although Native Americans do not want land returned, he said, they do want history told and treaties upheld.