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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2014
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Endowment campaign honors donor support
ALICIA GARZA
@AliciaoftheUDK
Rock Chalk Stop the Clock booths will be at Wesco Beach, Anschutz Library and Mrs. E's from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and at the Student Recreation Fitness Center from 2 to 4 p.m today. The booths will be set up to teach students about how donor and alumni support have contributed to the University.
If the University ran solely on government funding and tuition to pay for University spending, today is the day it would have run out, said Sara Brigham, a senior from Shawnee who is the chair head for the event's board. Without donor support and grants provided by alumni, the University would shut down in mid-November.
Graham Naasz, a senior from Overland Park who serves as Student Endowment Board president, said tuition and government funding only covers a third of all operation costs for the year.
"We're trying to get the word out that there are alumni out there doing these amazing things for students that are
giving back to the University to help make the University a better place," Brigham said. "So, really just if they can get that initial spark like 'Oh, wow, my tuition doesn't cover everything that the University is doing', because I think that is just a huge misconception. It's as small as that."
SARA BRIGHAM Chair head for Rock Chalk Stop the Clock
"We're trying to get the word out that there are alumni out there doing these amazing things for students ..."
Today, students have the opportunity to learn about Rock Chalk Stop the Clock. Booths will be set up around campus giving out T-shirts, cookies, water bottles, USB drives and information about what KU Endowment does, the role of alumni and the work that goes into supporting student and the University.
"I would like students to take out of this an appreciation for the amount of work that KU Endowment does and better support for the school, as well as appreciation towards the alumni for helping support the students here." Naasz said.
In order for students to receive a T-shirt at one of these booths, they must sign a thank you banner for the alumni. Student Endowment takes pictures of the banner in the Student Endowment office every year and sends it to alumni and donors so they know they are appreciated on campus. New and recent donors also receive postcards from Student Endowment.
Domestic violence advocate discusses new book at Dole
Several hundred students come out to the booths every year the event has been running, Brigham said. Although students were able to receive different information from each booth in previous years, this year, the same information will be available at every booth so students won't have to visit each location. In the years when students had to travel to different locations for different information, some students were not able to attend each booth.
Edited by Alyssa Scott
MAEGAN BULL
@Maegan_Bull
Dr. Ludy Green, a world-renowned domestic violence advocate and the president and founder of Second Chance Employment Services a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping at-risk women find work spoke Tuesday at the Dole Institute of Politics about the different forms of domestic violence and compared it to a dog being kept in captivity.
Green said it first starts with the abuser building an "invisible fence" over time and then leads to domestic captivity, which Green describes as someone not being able to leave the house or having to ask approval for something. The captivity later turns into domestic disempowerment, a topic covered in her new book, "Ending Domestic Violence Captivity: A Guide to Economic Freedom," where the victim is in constant state of vulnerability and feels trapped.
Green's new book focuses on economic abuse, which, according to Green, is one of the three different types of sexual assault. The other forms of domestic violence are physical and verbal abuse. Her book covers some of the most difficult questions surrounding domestic violence: Why does she stay and why does she return?
"[Universities] should bring in more people who can educate the students, women and men, to learn about respect, understanding what that is, and how much the uses of alcohol and drugs affect these people."
DR. LUDY GREEN Domestic violence advocate
Green said she decided to get involved in stopping domestic violence after volunteering at a women's shelter in her mid-twenties.
"This is my life's mission," she said.
"Domestic violence affects not only Caucasians, but other minorities as well," Green said. "It affects the educated and the uneducated."
When asked how universities can help stop sexual assault and domestic violence on campus, Green said awareness, education and training are key.
According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, one in four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime, with an estimated 1.3 million women abused each year.
"[Universities] should bring in more people who can educate the students, women and men, to learn about respect, understanding what that is, and how much the uses of alcohol and drugs affect these people," Green said. "If they don't educate people in all these areas, then how can you stop it?"
Green has served as cultural ambassador of the United States in Human Trafficking to Jordan and Syria, presented at the Qatar International Business Women Forum and participated in the International Women Forum. She has also won awards such as the 2008 Woman of Vision Award and Washingtonian of the Year, according to a Dole Institute press release.
Edited by Kelsey Phillips
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Sigma Pi speaks about organ donation
"A lot of us are really excited about it because it's not just any philanthropy, we're also saving lives." Sayed said.
Chandler Boese
The men of the Sigma Pi fraternity are speaking to students this week about organ donation as part of the Midwest Transplant Network's campaign, Donate Life. Bader Sayeyed, a freshman member of Sigma Pi from Overland Park, said this campaign is part of the fraternity's national philanthropy.
Sigma Pi will be tailing on Wescoe Beach from noon to p.m. all week. The fraternity is giving away prizes, including hand sanitizer, pens and bracelets, to students who are registered organ donors, as well as handing out flyers to inform students about organ donation.
Ahmad Qarini, another freshman member of the fraternity from Overland Park, said every day there are 18 people who die because the organ they need to
Interested students must sign up online at YesTheyWantMe.com, or give their consent next time they renew their driver's license. More information about the Donate Life campaign can be found at DonateLifeChallenge.org.
survive isn't available to them.
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three hours of your day." Schwartz said. "It's a hard process."
Schwartz said the purpose of the fraternity's separate internal investigation was to speak to the members who attended an unsponsored, spontaneous event at the house on the night of the complaints. Schwartz said it was Schimmel's decision not to hand over the interview notes to the University.
"Really, we are trying not to hide anything from the University," Schwartz said.
"We don't want any of our language or anything we do to get misconstrued and interpreted in any wrong way."
Schimmel said neither the Lawrence Police Department nor the Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access has identified or accused an individual member as a suspect of a sexual offense. Schimmel said if that were the case, the member would be removed from the office.
The fraternity has been on interim suspension since Sept. 30 after several extensions to collect evidence for
Last weekend Wisconsin's Melvin Gordon rushed for 408 yards, breaking LaDainian Tomlinson's 1999 record of 406. That record was preceded by KU's Tony Sands with 396 rushing yards in a 1991
game against Missouri.
In his statement, Caboni said he was a former fraternity president.
the case
"I understand what it means to be a member of a fraternity, and the bonds of brotherhood do not extend to hampering a sexual assault investigation," Caboni said. "The sooner the members of Kappa Sigma provide the full cooperation their attorney claims has been provided, the sooner the investigation can be completed."
Edited by Jordan Fox