MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11,2002
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 3A
Sorority hawks pizza for charity
Brandon Baker/Kansan
Fundraiser challenges community to feast
Kevin McCabe, St. Louis senior, Megan Bolton, Overland Park senior, and Alison Swindler, Prairie Village senior, pick up a pizza and breadsticks from The Wheel Pizza Company below The Wheel, 507 W. 14th St. Delta Delta Delta and the Wheel Pizza Company sponsored "Make Your Meal" last week.
By Todd Rapp
trapp@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Students who bought a slice of pizza at The Wheel Pizza Company last week satisfied their late-night, bar-hopping hunger, but more importantly, aided St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Delta Delta Delta sponsored its first "Make Your Meal," at The Wheel Pizza Company, 507 W. 14th St. The fundraiser started Monday and ended last night.
Twenty-five cents per a slice of pizza or $2 per an entire pizza sold was donated to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, TriDelta's philanthropy.
Women from Tri-Delta were on hand from 5 p.m. until 2:30 a.m. every night, keeping tallies on slices sold, and hawking the event to passersby and patrons.
"We explained what we were doing to people who otherwise would have only bought one slice; they seemed really excited and bought more," Danielle Tripp, Tri-Delta member and St. Louis sophomore, said.
Tri-Delta members kept tallies on every slice of pizza sold; pieces eaten by individual chapters in
the fraternity and sorority system were also counted. The fraternity and sorority that ate the most pizza will be awarded a free party bus rental for an event their chapter will hold.
Jackie Smid, philanthropy chair for Tri-Delta, said the event was a type of campus-wide pizza eating tournament for a good cause, and that people had been
supportive.
supportive "We've basically challenged people; we wanted to see how much pizza the campus, the community, could eat," Smid, Overland Park junior, said. She said some chapters had been buying whole pizzas, and a couple of chapters planned to order pizza for their Sunday dinners, she said.
The amount raised had yet to be determined, but Smid said Tri-Delta didn't have a monetary goal to reach for because this was the first event.
They plan to do it again next year. More than 3,500 pieces of pizza had been sold as of yesterday afternoon.
Edited by Matt Norton
Grant will pay for new center on campus
By Justin Henning
jhenning@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas was awarded a $3.6 million grant to further its research on communication disorders.
The grant will be used to create a new center, called The Biobehavioral Neurosciences Communications Disorders Center, and will be directed by Mabel Rice, a distinguished professor of speech-language-hearing at the University.
The development of the center
will provide further research on projects that deal with communication disorders. Various projects include professor John Colombo's examination of an infant's capability to remember and recognize and how they relate to future problems with learning and speech. Another project is professor Susan Kemper's work, which shows how speech in older age relates to a decline in a person's working memory.
"The award attests to the high regard for the scientific accomplishments of individual investigators affiliated with the center, and the fact that KU's team of investigators is among the top teams in the nation," Rice said.
Previous research done at the University had already resulted in products, such as the first diagnostic test for Specific Language Impairment. Called the "Actifier," the device is a high-tech pacifier that helps premature babies learn to nurse and can detect developmental disabilities in the infant.
Studies. The grant, which is administered by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, can be renewed every five years. It marks the University as one of only 15 national centers that receive this federal funding.
This center will be the 13th established under the Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span
Steven Warren, Life Span Institute director, said the grant supported his belief that KU was one of the strongest programs in the country on communication development and disorders throughout the lifespan.
Edited by Christine Grubbs
Anarchists strive to promote equality during conference
By George Schulz
gschulz@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Anarchists don't see any irony in organization.
Participants in Saturday's Kansas Anarchist Caucus insist organizing a network of radicals from around the state does not go against anarchist theory.
It's oppressive government regimes leveraging too much control over docile masses of people they say they oppose.
"Anarchism simply means 'without rulers,'" said Dave Strano, Lawrence resident and organizer for the event. "You can have organization without rulers. Friendships exist without hierarchy in which people cooperate with each other. Anarchism is about cooperation and not competition."
About 30 anarchism activists from around the state gathered Saturday in Navarre Hall of the Haskell Indian Nations University to participate in a series of workshops and strategy sessions to address issues of concern to anarchists.
The list included labor issues, egalitarianism, ideological differences within the anarchist movement and ways to form a more cohesive network among activists throughout the state.
Proposals were designed beforehand to be addressed during the strategy sessions. With an emphasis on consensus among all participants, the goal was to promote equality.
Anarchists believe in racial, gender and economic equality driven not by the state as in communism, but by people organized collectively.
"Decisions have to be made by the community," Jared James, Lawrence resident, said during a workshop.
Nathan Hoffman, Kansas City Kan., sophomore, agreed.
"I'm here because in order to build a strong movement we have to have community in the surrounding area, not just sects of anarchists around the state," he said. "We should have open discussion with all others in the movement."
Hoffman added that he thought consensus voting among people would be more a effective social order than representative government.
"When the anarchist philosophy was first formed it depended on a strong organization of the community," he said. "It still relies on people making decisions as a community. It is a reality that society can be run by consensus."
Lawrence anarchists have largely slipped under the campus political radar. But last summer local anarchists organized a nationwide gathering in Lawrence at Clinton Lake. More than 300 activists traveled from as far away as Canada and Mexico to attend the conference and plan strategies about how the relatively unpopular idea of anarchism could be accepted as a viable alternative to current political system.
Saturday's caucus had similar goals as participants weighed the benefits of public demonstrations and other methods of advancing change including civil disobedience. The group also discussed workplace, neighborhood and housing assemblies for Kansas residents to play more of a role in decisions that impact their lives.
Strano said students should be more aware of community movements beyond the University's gates.
"There are tons of community groups that work beyond party lines," he said. "Any grass roots initiative is about community organization."
- Edited by Jessica Hood
It's Time to Stop the Hate! Hate Out Week 2002 The University of Kansas
November 11 Information tables on Wescoe Beach, Kansas Union and Mrs.E's 11am-2pm
Jon Hockman of Dream, Dare, Do Kansas Room in Kansas Union 7:30pm
November 12 "Student to Student: A Discussion on Diversity" Town Hall Meeting Hashinger Hall at 7pm
November 13 Body Image Discussion MRC Classroom at 12:15-1:00pm Brown Bag Diversity Series
November 14 Writing on the Wall Tear Down Ceremony Stauffer-Flint lawn 12noon
November 15-17 Colors of KU Retreat
Sponsored by
Multicultural Resource Center, Office of Multicultural Affairs Association of University Residence Halls KU Student Senate Hispanic American Leadership Organization KU Hillel Foundation Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic Association Queers and Allies First Nations Student Association Asian American Student Association Black Student Union National Pan-Hellenic Council
For More Information call the Multicultural Resource Center at 864-4350