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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, October 30, 1992
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Irene Lanier / KANSAN
Sandy Wilder, Montevallo, Ala., junior, helps Rachelle Moeding make a Halloween mask during a Halloween party at the Elizabeth Ballard Community Center for underprivileged children, 708 Elm St. The Alpha Xi Delta sorority helped put on the party for the children yesterday afternoon.
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Students can find internships at career fairs
Informational fairs come to campus for social welfare, graduate school
By Muneera Naseer
Kansan staff writer
KU students wanting information about social welfare internships and graduate school can attend two informational fairs.
About 65 social welfare agencies, including five from Lawrence, will visit campus for the Fourth Annual School of Social Welfare Career Fair 1:30 p.m. today at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Jan Jess, assistant director of field practicum at the school, said that students could find possible internships by visiting with agency representatives. An internship is required for students majoring in social welfare. Thirty-eight students from the School of Social Welfare currently are in internship programs.
Undergraduate students wanting an internship must be seniors, and graduate students must intern throughout their two-year program.
The Social and Rehabilitation Services office in Toneka
is one scheduled participant at the fair.
Karen Thornton, social services supervisor, said students could work two semesters at the SRS office in areas such as adult protective services. In this program students investigate possible cases of elderly abuse.
Thornton said two KU students currently were interns at SRS.
Another fair taking place on campus is the Graduate Professional School Information Fair from 10 p.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday in the upper level of the Burge Union.
Julie Cunningham, career services director for the School of Engineering and fair coordinator, said this was the first KU fair that included schools from KU and from all over the country. The schools want to recruit graduate students for their universities.
Representatives from the different schools will answer questions and offer information on admission tests, financial aid and student life.
Cunningham said it helped schools to bring in graduate students from other states who would bring new ideas and perspectives.
Some schools participating include the University of Missouri-Columbia, the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and the University of Oklahoma.
Daisy Hill to receive cable
By Christine Laue
Kansan staff writer
Students living in Daisy Hill residence halls next year will be able to watch cable television, a service not available in the halls now.
The Association of University Residence Halls earlier this week approved rate proposals that call for a $48-dollar-per-resident increase for cable.
The association was the last of the four student housing organizations to modify the initial rate proposals before sending them to University administration. After the administration reviews the proposed rates, the Board of Regents will make the final decision.
The decision to approve the rates initially proposed by Ken Stoner, director of student housing, means all students living in McCollum, Ellsworth, Templin, Lewis and Hashinger residence halls will pay more.
But individual residents' rates will depend on whether students choose the traditional 19-meal plan or the 15-meal plan, which also was approved Tuesday as part of the proposed rates. Students expressed interest in having a meal-plan option because they did not think they should have to pay for meals that they might not be eating with the current 19-meal plan.
Residents in those halls with cable would pay:
$ 3,200 for the 15-meal plan, a 3.9 percent increase from last year
$3,280 for the 19-meal plan, a 6.5 percent increase
Residents in halls without cable would see
$3,152 for the 15-meal plan, a 2.3 percent increase
$3,232 for the 19-meal plan, a 4.9-
percent increase
Jamie Cuturbill, president of the association, said that although not all residents in those halls with cable might have televisions, they could watch cable in floor lobbies.
"I think everyone would use this one way or another," Curb said.
Other student housing organizations modified the initial proposals Stoner submitted to a Residential Programs Advisory Board, made up of representatives from all on-campus housing groups.
Those rates being submitted to the KU administration are:
$2,312 a year for residents of all other scholarship halls, a 4.3-percent increase
784 a year for residents of Miller and Watkins scholarship halls, a 2.1 percent increase
$1,568 a year for residents of Jayhawker Towers, a 3.7-percent increase
Proposed rates for Stouffle Place Apartments are:
Students build memorial wall
- $203 a month for one-bedroom apartments, a 3-percent increase
$235 a month for two-bedroom apartments, a 3.5-percent increase
By Muneera Naseer
Kansan staff writer
While fans roared at the Kansas-Oklahoma game on a beautiful fall Saturday, four pairs of hands toiled to create a lasting memory behind Marvin Hall.
As cheers filled the air, four architecture students listened to the game on the radio but kept their minds on their work.
They were building a memorial wall for their friend, Brian Meilahn, an architecture student who died from chronic asthma on April 24, 1991, at the age of 22.
Shane Martin, Peters, Mo., architecture student who is helping build the wall, said the memorial was a testament to how Meliah's peers felt about him and his dedication and perseverance.
"We are fortunate to be able to do this," said Chris Spurgin, St. Louis senior. "We are doing this for Brian and not for anyone else."
The memorial, called "A Place To Sit," will be a 40-foot long and one-foot wide concrete wall. A flowering pear tree will be planted in the triangular patch of grass in front of the wall. It is expected to be completed by Thanksgiving, and a dedication ceremony will be held on commencement day next semester.
Facilities operations designated the site and dug a hole Oct. 22 to begin construction. Concrete was poured in between wooden forms yesterday morning. The forms will be pulled out next week, and the concrete wall will remain.
Two teams won the contest but decided to combine the designs because of the similarity of their ideas. Martin said the memorial design was simple and required little maintenance.
The design for the memorial came from a contest held in the architectural school last spring.
Meilahn's mother, Nancy Meilahn, said she thought it was terrific that Brian's friends thought enough of him to honor his memory.
Students said that the project was a good learning experience and that they did not know how much work would be necessary until they started building. For the past week and half, every day has been spent on the project. The students have skipped several classes to work on the memorial.
"The idea of a garden is super," she said. "It's just great." A plaque on the wall will bear Meilahn's name and a quote by Jack London that was found in his belongings after he died:
"Man's chief purpose is to live, not to exist."
Panelists address witchcraft
By Delin Cormeny Kansan staff writer
Self-proclaimed witches from the Lawrence and Topeka areas attempted to dispel common misconceptions about witches last night to more than 100 people jammed into the Lawrence Public Library.
rent events.
The three panelists said that practitioners of modern witchcraft, also called Wicca, worshiped Mother Earth and celebrated changing seasons, a practice that stemmed from beliefs by disciples in rural areas. They also worship several deities, and women generally have leadership roles.
They presented a video about the roots of witchcraft, the historic role of women in the religion and the connections between past and cur-
Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson were named several times as perpetrators of the same sort of discrimination that led to persecution, lynching and burning of women as witches during the Salem witch trials 300 years ago. They were compared with Cotton Mather, who was instrumental in persecuting witches in Salem, Mass.
"The attitudes Cotton Mather reflected and the goals of running a government accountable to God that he espoused are by no means dead and dust," said Richard Mote, Teo台帆演讲. "That was then and this is now, but there's not necessarily much of a difference."
Mote is the founder of the Pro-Choice Pagan Coalition in Topeka. The video, titled "The Burning
Times," traced the roots of the Salem witch hunt to Europe and said it was a social and religious response to feminism.
It explained that witches were nothing more than independent and powerful females who were perceived as threats to a male-dominated world and that the heretical and evil connotations were perpetrated by Christianity.
Sue Westwind, Lawrence panelist, said many feminists were attracted to witchcraft because of the prominent role of females.
Mote said, "It's an amazing and depressing comment on our society that the idea of a woman as sacred or a woman as God is perceived as being a radical idea or a feminist idea—or God forbid, a radical feminist idea."
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