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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, November 17, 1992
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University picks woman to act as associate vice chancellor Kansan staff report
Carole Ross, associate dean of graduate studies in the School of Fine Arts, will be acting associate vice chancellor for academic affairs starting Jan. 1.
She will replace David Shulenburger, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, who will be acting vice chancellor for academic affairs while Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, goes on leave next semester.
Undergraduate matters will be Ross' principal responsibility as acting associate vice chancellor.
Brinkman will be on leave to research the personal writings of William Allen White, famed editor of The Emporia Gazette.
"Carole Ross" exemplary service in the School of Fine Arts brought her immediately to mind when we were introduced with this vacancy in academical affairs," Studentin said. "her concern for students is well-known."
"In addition, her recent service on the University wide committee during the program-review process has given her an overview of the University that few faculty on this campus has."
Ross now is responsible for graduate studies in the fine arts school and teaches piano.
She came to the University from Shenandoah University in Winchester, Va, in 1970.
Ross was director of graduate studies in the KU School of Fine Arts from 1980 to 1983, when she became associate dean.
Women, sex and the U.S. media to be subject of lecture tonight Kansan staff report
Brenda Verner thinks the U.S. media are saturated with sex.
"You can't turn on the TV, or open a magazine without feeling defiled," she said. Verner, president of Verner Communication in Chicago, will present a lecture and slide show at 7 tonight in 3035 Wescoe called "Public Property: Media Images of Black and White Women."
Verner said she would show the history of how advertising has depicted both African-American and white women. She said she will use her collection of posters, magazine and television ads and postcards to show how the U.S. media have created stereotypes.
"Early advertising often showed Black women to be ugly and ignorant, "Verner said. "A lot of ads associated dark skin color with dirt. Advertising for soap especially perpetuated this message."
Verner is a nationally known lecturer on media imagery. She is the founder of the African-American Women's Causeus, which is part of the National Women's Studies Association, and co-founder of the African-American Women's Political Action League. Her free lecture is sponsored by the Black Student Union.
Verner said modern advertising now completely revolved around the selling of sex. She said this was because she believed that
Verner said she presented lectures around the country to inform people about the power of the media.
"We in America have to say the people should be able control media stereotypes and imagery," she said. "Unless people become informed and try to take back the airwaves, we will remain like clowns in a cage at the circus."
Man pleads guilty in burglaries
Kansan stuff report
A 45-year-old Kansas City, Kan. man pleaded guilty yesterday in Douglas County district court to three counts of aggravated burglary, two of which took place in University of Kansas residence halls.
Salaam Haken, also known as Carl Fellis, pleaded guilty to entering rooms in Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Corbin and Ellsworth halls and a residence in the 1000 block of Tennessee Street with the intent to commit a theft. The aggravated burglaries, which took place on Sept. 13, are class C felonies. The district attorney's office dismissed four counts of misdemeanor theft.
The burglaries were classified as aggrieved because the rooms and the residence were occupied.
Haken will be sentenced in district court Jan. 5.
Hispanics' needs changing, speaker says
By Mark Martin
Kansan staff writer
The Hispanic population in the United States has doubled every decade for the last 30 years. And Jose Gutierrez, a Mexican-American lawyer who spoke to 60 people last night in Wescowell, said the nation soon will be a different place because whites won't be the majority.
"In major cities across the country, we will be talking about equal numbers of Blacks, whites and Hispanics," Gutierrez said. "If the cities are to survive, we will have to find ways to work together."
Gutierrez, who founded La Raza Unida, a political party that lobbies for Hispanic issues and supports Hispanic political candidates, has been active in Hispanic civil rights movements across the country. He said problems remained for Hispanics in the United States because a large percentage could not vote.
"A big problem is the older white voter who vote through their pocketbook," he said. "They don't have kids in school. The Hispanic population is young, many too young to vote. And 35 percent can't vote anyway because they are not citizens."
Gutierrez said that a group of Hispanic leaders had met in Dallas yesterday to discuss reco-
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mendations they would make to President-elect Bill Clinton. He said the group would recommend that Clinton sign an executive order giving anyone who has lived in the U.S. for 10 years the right to vote in federal elections.
"In 1910, when the Mexican Revolution took place, almost two million Mexicans came to America," he said. "But they didn't settle in, or buy McDonald's franchises or even buy mortgages, because they, like immigrants from Cuba or Puerto Rico or other places, thought they would go home manana — tomorrow."
Gutierez said that by the time his generation was born, Hispanics were ready to call the United States home.
"My generation couldn't talk to grandma because we only spoke English," he said. "When people told us to go home, we said this is home." And we became Chicanos, which is a word that is a political posture."
Hispanic culture is a mixture of many heritages, and Hispanics should be proud of that, Gutierrez said.
"The year 1492, when Columbus came to the Americas, is the birthday of Hispanic culture," he said. "Through those early years, a new people was born — Mestizos, or mixed people. Because of that, Hispanics are pregnant with culture and heritage."
Jose Guilierze, noted Hispanic leader and activist, talks about the status of Hispanics in the United States.
Daron J. Bennett / KANSAN
HALO sponsors forum
Kansan staff writer
By Muneera Naseer
About 30 people attended a forum yesterday afternoon to discuss the University of Kansas treatment of Chicano, Latino and Hispanic students and faculty.
The forum, "Is the University Black and White?" was sponsored by the Hispanic American Leadership Organization and was mediated by Marty Ramirez, counseling psychologist at the mental health center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Ramirez told participants that the discussion was not meant to criticize African Americans, but to emphasize the exclusion of other minorities on campus as well as in the country.
He said that the current University administrative structure was responsible for sweeping the issues of the Hispanic community under the rug and questioned why there were not many Hispanic faculty members at KU.
"It is a myth that when you talk about minorities, you are talking about African Americans on the ground."
Suzanne Racine, president of HALO, said that there were about six Hispanic faculty and staff members at the University and that no Hispanics were in administrative positions.
Sherwolrd Thompson, director of the Office of Minority Affairs who was also at the forum, said he observed few minority applicants in job pools.
Roodel Harian, University Relations representative, said there were 546 students identified as Hispanic this semester, an increase of 42 students since last fall.
"We must push participation in every area," he said. "If you don't participate then you don't really have a complaint."
Angela Cervantes, events coordinator for HALO, said the organization wanted to prepare the University for the growing number of Hispanic students that were coming to the University.
"We just want to have an open dialogue," she said.
Daron J. Bennett / KANSAN
Unseasonably warm weather turned the steps of the Museum of Natural History into an ideal place to nap, read or just sit. Yesterday's temperatures reached the mid-60s, and clear skies made a perfect setting for students to enjoy warm weather before winter skies settle in the region.
Lunch break
Genital warts most common STD at KU
By Tiffany Lasha Hurt Kansan staff writer
Although AIDS is the most feared sexually transmitted disease nationwide, genital warts is the No.1 treated STD at Watkins Memorial Health Center, health officials say.
Genital or venereal warts are lesions caused by Human papilloma virus, or HPV. The warts are bumpy lesions found on or near the genital areas in men and women.
HPV, a family of more than 70 viruses of which a third are genital, also may cause precancerous cell changes in the cervix of women. As with all STDs, HPV is transmitted by sexual activity with an infected individual.
John Callkins, vice chairperson of the gynecological and obstetrics department at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said HPV affected college-age students more than other age groups because they tended to have multiple partners. About 5 percent of the estimated 900 students at the Med Center are infected with HPV.
"When you talk about the peak age of sexual activity it is usually in the early 20s," he said. "And most people settle more into a monogamous relationship when they tend to get a little older."
Henry Buck, head gynecologist at Watkins, said college-age students were not aware of their rate of risk for HPV. In the last 15 years, the incidence of infection for HPV has increased more than 500 per cent since 2000, why the spread of the disease has increased over other STDs.
According to a nationwide health survey, college-age students have a one in 10 chance of being affected with HPV, Buck said. About 8 percent of about 26,500 students at KU are infected with the disease. From February 1987 to July 1992,
of the 2,868 men and women who were diagnosed with HPV at KU, 2,151 returned for treatment.
Although HPV is treatable, it is not curable, Buck said. As with any virus, HPV remains in an individual's system after treatment and may recur. Treatment allows the immune system to fight off the visible growth of the warts. At Watkins, most patients are treated with a freezing method called cryotherapy, and a few patients are treated with laser surgery.
Buck said it was important for students to understand how to prevent HPV and other STDs. His prevention message is:
abstinence is the only 100 per cent guarantee from an infection
cent guarantee from an infection, n individuals should be aware of their partner's history concerning sexual activity.
since condoms do not cover all skin areas, use both a condom and vaginal spermicides during sexual activity.
long-term mutual monogamy reduces the risk of being infected with an STD, and
- refrain from combining alcohol and other drugs with sexual activity.
In addition to the spread of STDs, combining alcohol and sexual activity can lead to unwanted and unplanned pregnancy, Buck said. Also, studies indicate that 90 percent of acquaintance and date rape cases involve alcohol or drugs.
Buck said he believes awareness of STDs and their effects are important.
"We hope that through education people will protect themselves," he said. "We hope that education helps prevent future changes. That doesn't mean it will."
Calkins said awareness does help reduce the number of students affected.
"A lot of the publicity in general has had some impact on the risk of STDs," he said.
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