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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1985
New club for faculty considered by Senate
By Gary Duda Of the Kansan staff
Some University Senate members and faculty members are discussing the possibility of creating a club for faculty members.
Sidney Shapiro, chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee, said yesterday that KU faculty members were being polled to determine whether a faculty club was needed.
The club, Shapiro said, would allow the more than 1,000 faculty members an opportunity to interact with one another.
He said the club, which could serve a variety of purposes for its members, was being considered because many faculty members thought their needs were not being met through the Learned Club in the Adams Alumni Center and the Prairie Room in the Kansas Union.
"I think it was based on the perception of some faculty that the Adams Alumni Center, that once was thought would be used by faculty, is not working out," he said.
The Learned Club is a club for alumni and faculty. The Prairie Room is a formal dining room for faculty.
Shapiro said SenEx appointed a committee to look into the possibility of creating a club for faculty members.
members
Dave Shulenburger, associate dean of business and a committee member, said questionnaires had
been mailed to all faculty members asking their opinions on the need for a faculty club.
He said the questionnaire asked faculty members whether their needs were being met by either the Learned Club or the Prairie Room.
The questionnaire requests that faculty members check off what needs they thought the club should serve.
Sandy Wick, SenEx administrative assistant, said that of the 1,200 questionnaires sent out last week, more than 200 had been received so far.
Kevin Carroll, general manager of the Alumni Center, said that about 400 faculty members were Learned Club members. He said all faculty members were allowed to join the club
Robert Friau, a member of the Faculty Executive Committee, said he had been a member of a KU faculty club that existed in the 1950s. He said it provided faculty members a place to get together.
He said a place was needed where faculty from different areas of the University could get together and exchange thoughts.
Carroll said to join the Learned club, however, a faculty member would first have to join the Alumni Association.
A Learned Club membership costs
$25 a year for Douglas County
residents and $15 for non-residents.
Joining the Alumni Association costs
$25 a year.
Ridiculous facts concerning pizza and its origins...
Pizza was actually invented in 1832 when the wife of Luigi Pizziano accidentally sat on a large ball of bread dough left to rise on a chair. The resulting pancake had such an interesting, saucer-like shape that she spread it with tomat sauce, tossed on some cheese, and popped it into her stone oven. Later, when pizza had become a Pizziano family staple, Luigi's wife took to throwing it at him, frisbee style, when he didn't come home on time. The first pizza delivery!
Women get slave labor at auction
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
Last night, 27 slaves were sold on campus.
But the slave auction wasn't a violation of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery. Nothing illegal was going on.
"This seemed like something fun and harmless," said Tammy Jones, resident director of Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall, where 27 members of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, 2000 Stewart Ave., made $353 by auctioning themselves for money.
About 50 residents of the hall sat in the North Corbin lobby, yelling bids at the auctioneer, who drew boxer shorts from a laundry basket.
The owner of the shorts came forward and was auctioned off to the highest bidder, who got to keep the shorts.
Chris Seferyn, Olathe freshman,
said the money raised would be used
to pay for a party and other pledge-
class projects.
Kirwin Reifschneider, Hays freshman, who sold for the highest bid of $17, was embarrassed by the auctioning — but flattered.
"We'll be slaves for one day this week and then get our underwear back. We use it for collateral."
"Eight of us got together and bought five guys," said Diane Schalon, Wichita freshman."
"This is fun." Reifschneider said.
"I won't mind working because it will be fun and you can to know the girls."
"This is a good way to meet girls"
said Todd Duchild, St. Louis sophomore, who, along with his red briefs, went for $27.
Schalon said her group spent more than $70 on their slaves.
Reifschneider said he didn't know the girls who bought him. Some of the girls bidding were little sisters of the fraternity, however.
"We're going to make them make us dinner, do our laundry, vacuum, clean floors, drive us to class and wash dishes," she said.
Shawn Hunter, Prairie Village senior, said his fraternity, Sigma Kli 1439 Tennessee St., had sold slaves for three years. The slave auction raised money in October during Derby Days, the fraternity's annual fund-raising event.
Hunter said the money raised from the auction was donated to Wallace Village, a home for mentally handicapped children in Broomfield. Colo.
Kevin Moore, Tula freshman and social chairman of the pledge class, said he got the idea for selling slaves from Benedictine College, Atchison, where he was a student. This is the first year the fraternity has auctioned slaves.
"We made $1,600 this year, which is more than we ever have." Hunter, said "We went to 11 sororities and a group of our little sisters, and auctioned off about three groups of two or three people. The top slave pair went for $105."
"This goes over really well," Moore said.
"Some houses make them mow the lawn, wash cars, do phone duty, and some are waiters," Hunter said. "Sometimes the house moms get in on the purchase."
Hunter said some of the slaves had to work hard.
Its Impact on Israeli Policy in the Middle East
a lecture by
Samir Abed-Rabbo PhD. In International Law
author of American Aid to Israel, and The International Law and Question of Palestine 1986
"The American taxpayer is paying for Israel's living standard, for its wars, for its conquests, and for those settlements which are going up throughout the occupied Arab territories by giving $10 billion a year to Israel."
-Abed-Rabbo, The International Law and Question of Palestine 1986
Tomorrow Nov. 7 7 p.m. Alderson Auditorium Kansas Union
Sponsored by the General Union of Palestinian Students