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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, November 12, 1992
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Club focuses on film
Students hope to strengthen KU's program
By Matt Gowen Special to the Kansan
KU film students have formed a new organization they hope will focus interest on bringing campus film activity together.
In the first meeting of the Film Organization of KU Students Nov. 4, FOKUS founders and self-appointed officers outlined the group's immediate and long-term goals, which include increased assistance in student film production and eventually a stronger film program.
Tracy Johnson, Topeka senior and president of FOROK, said that the University's film program could use improvement.
"The film program is somewhat disorganized," she said. "There is no definite outline for a major right now. It's not necessarily the department's fault, we just felt that the University needed this."
Jeff Maynard, Overland Park senior and vice-president in charge of production, said that curriculum changes were long-term goals, but that the primary goal was to organize the University's film production capabilities.
"What we really need to do is to get together and help students produce films," he said. "Ultimately we hope to produce a professional $6,000 or $7,000 film. It would take about six months to do, but it's a good possibility that we could get it done."
In fact, a student film of that caliber was shown last month at Liberty Hall, Seventh and Massachusetts streets. "Eyes Upon Us," which was produced and directed by Darren Lyle, a film student, with the help of some other students, proved that the program does have the potential to produce feature films.
Joseph Anderson, a visiting film professor from the University of Iowa, has agreed to be the faculty adviser to the new film group. Anderson teaches film and video production. He thinks that the program's potential will soon be realized.
"There are some very talented students who not only worked on Darden's film but have now formed this important organization," he said. "They are very ambitious, and I hope that I can help them."
Anderson, who has worked in the film industry in Los Angeles and Austin, Texas, as well as being a producer/director for Time-Life Inc., said that another goal of FOKUS would be to create a working relationship with the Kansas Film Commission.
"We want to become a better liaison with the film commission," he said. "We also want to provide information about film productions and films that are coming to the University."
FOKUS will not only deal with the production of films, Johnson said, but will also help students deal with more practical matters, such as finding the right graduate schools, internships and eventually jobs.
"There are always film productions going on," Johnson said. "The film commission can turn us on to these projects, give us internship possibilities and can help us gather and catalog information on film activity in general."
"There are a lot of students here who are interested in film," she said. "We just need to pool our resources and work together so we can get the attention of this campus."
Johnson said she hoped that interest in FOKUS would grow rapidly.
Amy Robinson, vice-president in charge of practical matters, said that a University-wide effort would be necessary for FOKUS to be effective.
"Any student interested in film should come to these meetings," she said. "Everyone has got to participate in order for this to work."
FOKU will meet at 7 p.m. Nov. 18 at 235 Murphy Hall. For more information, contact either Johnson, Maynard, or Robinson.
Students teach health to peers
By Tiffany Lasha Hurt Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Professors are not the only people at the University of Kansas that are teaching students about health care.
KU students learn how to educate their peers about health care in a class sponsored by the Health, Physical Education and Recreation department.
Janine Demo, coordinator of health education at Watkins Memorial Health Center, and instructor of the course, "Peer Health Advisor Training," created the course five years ago in the fall of 1987.
"The ultimate goal is for them to be able to pass on this information to their peers," Demo said.
"Most peers seek the advice of a friend before seeking out the advice of a health adviser," she said. "Peers are not given many issues, not just health care issues.
As a test of how well the students have met that goal, the three-credit-
class presentation and an out-of-class presentation to a peer group or organization.
The students are divided into groups of five or six and develop a 15 to 20 minute presentation based on these health-care issues:
- AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases,
communicating in a relationship, data
date rape.
responsible drinking
safe sex, and
cuicide
Demo said that the class worked best with students that were affiliated with a peer group organization such as a club, fraternity or sorority or a residence hall.
Angie Reeder, Chesterfield, Mo., senior, is a resident assistant at Oliver Hall and a member of a sorority. She took the course in the spring and fall of 1991 for the purpose of educating her peers.
"It's fun," she said. "I enjoyed it so much that I took it again. The information is very important. It was great
that my residents could use me as a resource."
The course originally began in the fall of 1985 as an organization that educated students about health-care issues, Demo said. Student Health Officer Organization, or SHOO, became a class two years later because the work its members did made it more than an organization.
To ensure that peer education continues the health education department at Watkins is developing a Center for Sexual Health as part of a volunteer peer education program, Demo said. This will give students that take the peer advisory class an opportunity to use their skills after taking the class.
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"College-age students are more likely to believe college-age students when it comes to health issues," Demo said. "If they see that a college student is concerned with these types of issues, they are more likely to be pro-active when it comes to taking care of their own health."
Jim Nasser, Haiti transfer student, sends his ball down the lane during his bowling class at Jaybowl in the Kansas Union.
Strike?
Daron J. Bennett / KANSAN
Lawrence firefighter Byron Miller washes away a petroleum spill from the parking lot of Campus Place apartments, 1145 Louisiana St. What was suspected to be gasoline had been dumped between two cars in the lot and had to be drained away, according to Lawrence fire officials.
Washed awav
KU senate approves veto proposal
By Stacy Morford Kansan staff writer
Here is how Senate could override a veto now:
Student Senate's right rights committee yesterday approved a proposal that would increase the student body president's seldom-used veto power by requiring more votes in Senate to override a veto.
veted and then you pass it again with two-thirds, you're not doing anything," said John Schwartz, Topeka senior.
If 60 senators attend a meeting, 40 must vote to pass a bill that would allocate money to a group. If the president vetoes the bill and 60 senators attend the next meeting, then at least again must vote to override that bill.
"If you pass with two-thirds, it's
Schwartz, who represents students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, sponsored the bill to increase the veto and defended it at the new meeting.
Here is how Senate could override a veto if Schwartz's bill is passed by Senate next week;
If the president vetoed a bill to finance a group and sixty senators were present, it would take 54 senators voting favorably, two-thirds present and one-third of that number to override the veto.
Wright was also in favor of increasing the percentage of favorable votes that were received.
Student body Vice President Lance
"This secures that there is power behind the veto," he said.
But Travis Harrod, Topek junior,
said that he was concerned about the
consequences that an increase in veto
power would have.
"What if you have almost three-fourths of the body vehemently opposed to the veto but it's not enough to override it?" Travis Harrod asked. "I don't want 25 percent of the body dictating policy and it seems like that's what this is setting us up to do."
The bill passed 13 to 3 and will go on Senate's agenda next week.
Student Senators suggest election changes
By Stacy Morford
Kansan staff writer
Student body vice president Lance Wright also suggested changing the
- Three Student Senate members met with the Student Senate Elections Commission yesterday and recommended several ways to improve the annual Senate elections.
Less paper work, fewer viable complaints, more campaign posters and more polling places topped their list of mistakes. Like the elections run more smoothly.
"I want to see graduate students represented fully, but we haven't been able to fill those seats," he said. "We can't give people lollipops to come sit in Senate."
number of Senate seats reserved for graduate senators because the 13 graduate seats have been difficult to fill and have not yet been filled this year.
But commission member Kelli Zuel said taking away graduate students'
way," she said. "If we let another group take it over, those people get to vote and make decisions that could hurt the graduate students."
Zuel suggested putting more pressure on the graduate students council.
The senators also suggested that the elections commission sponsor a debate among the coalitions and work to get more students involved in the elections, both by getting more students to run for office and getting more students to vote.
"They're not represented fully that
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