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Thursdav November 20.1986 / University Daily Kansan
Law student named to national office
Post offers opportunity to give ideas
Cheryl Youngblood/KANSAN
Cathy Stueckemann, Lawrence law student, is the new secretary-treasurer of the American Bar Association-Law School Division.
By PAMELA SPINGLER
Staff writer
A KU law student is looking forward to bringing her ideas to national attention.
Cathy Stueckemann, Lawrence law student, was named the secretary-treasurer of the American Bar Association-Law School Division earlier this month at a regional conference in New Orleans.
"The best thing about this is I'll be at a level where I can let my opinions be known to the people who are in charge," she said. "As an individual, you sometimes think 'I can't do anything.' But I found out the best way to get things done is to get involved."
becoming involved with the group was a quirk of fate; she said.
Last year's representative from the University of Kansas asked Stuckemann to fill in at a regional meeting in Dallas in the summer of 1985. When attending the meeting, she became interested in the organization.
She said she was excited about the prospect of holding the national office.
"It's a springboard to wherever I want to take it," Stueckmann said Tuesday. "I still get excited
when I think about it."
Al Johnson, associate dean of law, said he was very happy for her.
"We're just very proud of her," he said. "Cathy is a hard-working, industrious student who has a great career ahead of her."
Johnson said Stueckemann's appointment to the secretary-treasurer position also brought national attention to the school.
accolade for her, but it also gives more national attention on the law school. It's just one more piece of its growing reputation."
Stueckmann agreed, "I would like to think I can be an ambassador for KU. It makes people aware that the Midwest has good schools. I can see it bringing good things to KU."
sueckemann's official duties are those of any secretary-treasurer, she said, but she is able
to include her own interests in the position.
One of her goals is to examine the problems of the law dealing with minorities, she said, adding her special interest is in problems American Indians face.
Stueckemann received her bachelor's degree in cultural and social anthropology from KU in 1976 and a master's degree in health care administration from KU three years later.
She worked for Kansas Indian tribes for eight years before entering law school. She worked with the Kickapoo tribe in northeast Kansas as an administrator for health care and at Haskell Indian Junior College in Lawrence in the alcohol and drug abuse program
"Most people don't understand the cultural differences between Indians and whites," she said. For example, Steuckemann said, some Indian tribes think that looking people in the eye is a sign of disrespect, whereas most Americans are taught that looking people in the eye is a sign of sincerity.
Stueckemann said she wanted to make minority law her specialization.
"I won't take the route most people take and go into a firm," she said. "I want to have a one-person firm.
"I think individual ability is important to get things accomplished. People should try to tap inner resources that they don't even know they have."
Geography program could get new degree
By ATLE BJORGE
Staff writer
The KU geography department came a step closer last week to obtaining a more technical undergraduate program than the current bachelor of arts degree.
The College of Liberal Arts and Science's Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising on Nov. 11 approved a new bachelor of science degree and a revised bachelor of arts degree after little discussion.
The College Assembly will vote on the bachelor of science degree when it meets Dec. 2.
The revised bachelor of arts degree doesn't require a vote because modifications of degrees don't need to be approved by the assembly, said Terry Slocum, assistant professor of geography and a member of the committee.
The change was made to help future graduates. If you are one where our people are being
employed and we can see what the companies are asking for." Slocum said. "They're asking for technical abilities you can't get with a B.A."
In many areas of geography, such as mapmaking, technology has advanced the field.
Although almost all maps were hand drawn 20 years ago, Siocum said some people had predicted that soon all maps would be produced by computers.
The geography department, touted as one of the top 15 departments in the country, has only one computer equipped for the sophisticated color graphics used in mapmaking.
John Augelli, chairman of the department, said that if the bachelor of science degree was approved, the department would want both programs to go into effect in the fall of 1987.
The program will use existing - although inadequate - resources, Slocum said, and only cause slightly increased enrollment in some science
classes.
For example, GEG 512, Methods of Analyzing Geographical Data, will no longer be required for the revised bachelor of arts degree, but it will be required for the new bachelor of science degree.
For the proposed bachelor of science degree, students would take about 45 hours of required classes in geography. For the current bachelor of arts degree, students take about 30 hours of geography classes.
Students also would take mathematics up to MATH 122, Calculus II; two courses in chemistry or physics; and two courses in biology, geology or meteorology.
Under the current bachelor of arts degree, one course in calculus fulfills the requirement.
The revised bachelor of arts degree requires five freshman-level geography classes and about 15 hours of geography electives from one of five areas of study.
The KU housing department is asking the Board of Regents to approve spending $2.6 million for the remodeling of scholarship and residence halls and for the construction of a new warehouse.
Bv PAM MILLER
KU housing seeks money for changes
The requests are made for the next two fiscal years. The housing department requests $1,050,000 for the fiscal 1987 and $1,550,000 for fiscal year 1988. Fiscal 1987 began July 1.
The relegits will consider the housing requests at their meeting tomorrow in Topeka. Final approval on the requests will be in December.
Kenneth Stoner, director of student housing, said the department was not asking the Regents for the money from the state, but was asking for authority to use money held in housing accounts.
The money would come from reserve funds and trust funds maintained by the Kansas University Endowment Association.
The department has requested money for the next year to help renovate the former Corbin Hall dining room, no longer used for serving food, into offices for the student housing department and the office of residential programs. Corbin Hall residents now eat in the Gertrude Sellards Pearson dining room.
Stoner said that some preliminary work had already been done to get construction underway to turn the abandoned area into workable offices.
The department of housing and the office of residential programs work closely together but now maintain separate offices. The housing department is in McColum Hall and residential programs is in Strong Hall.
Although Stoner said he did not know specifically when the Corbin Hall renovations would be complete, he hoped to have residential programs moved into the space by fall 1988.
Part of the $80,000 requested to renovate the hall would be used to repair other parts of the building. Stoner said.
Jean Morrow, assistant director of the office of residential programs, said she thought it would be great to be able to work with the housing department in the same building, starting next fall.
"It am very much looking forward to it," she said. "As a housing body,
we are two arms of that body that are too far apart. The fact that we, as the programming part of housing, will have daily contact with maintenance and food service can be nothing but positive."
Morrow said that the office was committed to moving out of Strong Hall by August 1.
The housing department also requested authority to use $250,000 to remodel Battenfield Scholarship Hall.
Stoner said that he wanted to make improvements on the kitchen, bathrooms, roof and windows.
Michael Neal, Sterling freshman, said that the hall definitely could use the money for improvements. He said that the kitchen needed some renovations.
"We have a stove that doesn't function very well," he said. "It looks like a fire hazard."
Neal said he thought that the living room, television room and study rooms needed some new furniture and renovations, because not many residents wanted to spend much time in them.
Stoner said that for fiscal 1988 the department is asking for $250,000 for renovations to Pearson Scholarship Hall to make similar kinds of improvements.
The housing department also wants the Regents permission to spend $50,000 on the renovation of McCollin Hall. The renovation would include remodeling the ground floor office area that the housing department will vacate for the new office in Corbin. Stoner said.
Stoner said that the housing department was planning to make major improvements on all of the residence and scholarship halls on a yearly basis.
"All of the scholarship halls need some kind of attention." Stoner said. "They're all aging. We've worked it out to do some really significant modernization attempts to one or two buildings a year."
The housing department also is seeking to spend $800,000 to build a warehouse just west of the housing maintenance shop on 2303 W. 15th St.
Housing uses storage room in Oliver Hall right now. Stoner said, and shares the 21,000 square feet of office in Presses Press and the purchasing office.
The housing department, the purchasing office and the Regents Press jointly will pay for the new warehouse.
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