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Patty Wiggins works behind the register at the Hawk Stop in Murphy Hall. A petition circulated last week that gained nearly 500 signatures to prevent the shop from closing.
Hawk Stop in Murphy will close despite petition
CONNER MITCHELL
@connermitchell0
After news circulated around Murphy Hall last week that the building's Hawk Stop would be closing at the end of fall semester, Anna Menendez, a sophomore from LaGrange Park, Ill., decided she could not sit back and let the store close quietly.
Menendez started an online petition, which has garnered nearly 500 signatures. The petition asks University Dining Services to keep the Hawk Stop open.
"My goal with the petition was for it to get more notice to the situation and to get the process going," Menendez said. "We are not happy that they are closing a place that is so important to the students of Murphy Hall."
Menendez said students depend on the convenience of the Hawk Stop because many have short breaks between classes. Once the location is no longer available, she said she thinks students would be forced to resort to bringing their own lunches and that Dining Services would notice the loss in revenue.
"We will definitely be bringing
the petition to Dining Services to get their attention," she said. "They will lose so much revenue [by closing the Hawk Stop] because there is no time for students to go elsewhere for food, so they will start bringing their own lunches."
Mike Reid, director of public affairs, said the decision to close the location came down to a lack of student fees and the state of Kansas not funding Dining Services. Of the $444 campus fee each student pay each semester, the Union receives $37.50 to operate the 22 dining locations, Reid said.
"We would like to be able to keep all of our locations open," Reid said. "However, we have to depend on our own income to operate these locations and this operation lost at least $5,000 last year. We always keep trying to find ways to service students, but it doesn't always work out in some of the locations."
Jennifer Gartner, a sophomore from Salina, said the Hawk Stop closing would be a great inconvenience to music and theater students. She added that losing the main cashier, Patty Wiggins, would be a loss to the atmosphere of Murphy Hall as well.
"I go to the Hawk Stop almost every day. Music and theater students don't have time to run to the Burge or the Underground to get food unless we have at least an hour lunch break," Gartner said. "Also, Patty is the sweetest woman on the planet, and she is also full of uplifting advice and helps keep us sane."
Wiggins said the transition away from the Murphy Hall Hawk Stop would be difficult, but added that sometimes change has to come in situations like these.
"I've gotten to know everybody here, and I am attached to them. The students here have made my heart grow so big I can hardly carry it around," Wiggins said. "But I know change has to come, and change is hard, no matter what."
Reid said there have been discussions to keep the location open until spring 2016 when its replacement in the DeBruce Center officially opens. However, he said the Murphy Hall location is still scheduled to close at the conclusion of the fall semester.
Edited by Derek Johnson
University will adopt 22 of 27 recommendations from the Chancellor's Sexual Assault Task Force
MADI SCHULZ
@mad_dawgg
Of the 27 recommendations made by in May by the Chancellor's Task Force on Sexual Assault, 22 of them are implemented or are in the process of being implemented, according to a news release by the University.
Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little formed the task force to address issues facing the University regarding sexual assault. From Sept. 2014 to May 2015, the task force "undertook research and solicited feedback
and recommendations from members of the university community" before making their final recommendations, according to the Chancellor's Task Force on Sexual Assault.
"It could take a while to get to fully and meaningfully addressing the problem," Murphy said. "This is going to move us in the right direction."
Former co-chair of the task force Angela Murphy said she is impressed with the work the University is doing to address sexual assault, even if it will take some time to see results.
The recommendations are divided into four categories: Policy and Process Improvement, Prevention Practices, Support and Advocacy for Student Victims of Crime, and Evaluation of the Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities.
Fourteen of the recommendations are already implemented on campus and eight of the recommendations are being more thoroughly researched before implementation. The date of implementation is not yet known.
Five of the recommendations are not being implemented because they're deemed either unfeasible, impossible because of lack of resources or unnecessary.
Offices involved in the implementing the recommendations include Institutional Opportunity and Access, General Counsel, Public Safety, Student Affairs, Public Affairs, the Provost, the Chancellor, and others.
Murphy said even though the University is not implementing some of the recommendations now, they could in the future.
"They may be more applicable or feasible in the future," Murphy said. "I see [the recommendation] as a historical document that we will look back on and be used in the future to track our progress."
Recommendations in the process of implementation, according to the news release:
1. Revise definitions of sexual harassment and sexual assault
2. Create a central prevention and education research center
3. implement multiple prevention programs to all first-year students
4. Address the gaps in services, resources, education, planning and prevention for all students regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation
6. Create a sexual violence prevention advisory board
5. Develop college course for student leadership and peer educators
7. Modify fraternity and sorority recruitment/ membership intake practices
8. Modify discrimination statement and policy on KU website
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