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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, October 23, 1992
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Students achieve EX.C.E.L.lence at KU
Russell: Women's Week organizer focuses on community services
Jill Russell is always doing something for someone else, and today she will be awarded for it.
By Kristi Fogler
Kansan staff writer
Russell, Gladstone, Mo., senior, is the recipient of the second annual Excellence in Community, Education, and Leadership (EX.C.E.L.) award, given to one male and one female KU student on the basis of leadership, community involvement and academic scholarship. The award and a $500 cash scholarship is awarded by Student Union Activities and the Board of Class Officers
The award is more than just an honor. Recipients must organize a leadership conference for some group on campus. Russell said she hoped to plan a program for freshman and sophomores interested in becoming leaders.
"I was very excited," Russell said.
"It's a prestigious award. A lot of outstanding people were nominated. I wasn't expecting it at all."
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Jill Russell
"Usually when you get an award you get awarded for things you've done in the past," she said. "This award is unique because it means you're awarded for things you've done in the past and you get to do things for the University."
Russell said that of the awards she has won, this one was her favorite.
"This one definitely means the most," she said, "because of what it means — excellence in community, education and leadership. They are the three most important things at school."
Russell is vice president of Panhellenic Association, the governing body for the 15 KU sororities, a member of Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority, University Singers, Students Against Hunger, and both the Biology and Pre-Med programs at Stanford University of academic awards and honors including Golden Key and Murdoch医院.
Russell said the main interest and focus of many of her activities was community service.
"About 75 percent of the stuff I do with Panhellenic has to do with community service," she said.
Russell organized the first annual Women's Week, "Week Dedicated to the Enhancement of Women," last year.
The week focused on women's accomplishments and roles during the last 20 years. The week included speakers, a women's fair, a trip to a women's basketball game and the participation of a room at a women's shelter.
Russell said she hoped the week would be sponsored and continued each year by the greek community.
Daryl Evans, associate professor of
sociology, said it was Russell's community involvement that impressed him the most. Evans worked with Russell in 1911 when Russell was a peer advisor for the pre-med program that Evans heads.
"I was so impressed with the kind of community service she did," Evans said. "In the case of Jill, practically everything on her resume is something she's done for someone else. Students get a bad rap about not caring very much. Jill defies that."
By J.R. Clairborne Kansan staff writer
With a schedule that balances community service, academics and campus involvement, Dustin Daugherty never lets his leadership impede on his friendship.
Daugherty, Russell senior, is one of two recipients of the second annual EX.C.E.L. Award, which is sponsored by Student Union Activities and the University. Its name is an acronym for Excellence Community, Education and Leadership.
Daugherty: Alumni Center intern says friendships are key to success
Recipients of the award, one male and one female, are chosen on the basis of their capacity for leadership, effective communications skills, involvement in the University community, academic scholarship and their ability to work with a variety of students and student organizations.
"One of the more amazing things about Dustin is that he's got so many things going on, but he always has time to be with his friends," said Wendie Cline, Evergreen, Colo., senior one of Daugherty's closest friends.
But Daughtery has his friends have been the rocks that have enabled him
Another friend, Abbie Vincent, Tulsa, Okla., senior, said, "He is a direct and straightforward person, but he has always been a wonderful friend and counselor."
to be successful. He says that they were his key to balancing academics and social activities.
Daugherty's many leadership roles include being the senior adviser for the Student Alumni Association as part of his internship with the KU Alumni Association, charperson of the Series Fundraising Commission and member of Presidents Incorporated and President's Roundtable.
In addition to his leadership positions, Daugherty is involved with volunteer work at the Salvation Army Homeless Shelter and at Colonial Manor.
Although being named the recipient of the award is an honor, Daugherty said, it is also carries a responsibility. He said that winners would serve in leadership roles with other students and must implement some type of program to further develop young leaders on campus.
Daugherty said he would develop a cooperative leadership program with Jill Russell, the other EX.C.E.L. winner. He said the program would center around the ideas of networking, communication skills and issues management.
As for his future, Daugherty said he was eeing countries overseas.
Daugherty's main goal is to do his graduate work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Daron J. Bennett / KANSAN
Daron J. Bennett / KANSAN
Dustin Daugherty
either KU's Graduate Direct Exchange Grant or the Rotary Scholarship.
Through the award and the many experiences he has had, Daugherty said he felt indebted to the University and planned to join the alumni chapter wherever he lives.
"An award and opportunity such as this only serves to enhance the love of the University that will be returned," he said. "I know I will always be active with KU when I leave."
Top gun
Daron J. Bennett / KANSAN
The members of the Jayhawk Battalion ROTC participate in the presentation of a 75-mm field artillery cannon that was a gift from Col. John Parrish and the former Third Region ROTC at Fort Riley. Because of government cutbacks, the headquarters was disbanded two weeks ago and relocated to Fort Lewis, Wash. The cannon, which was used in World War II and was fired at yesterday's dedication ceremony outside the Military Science Building, will likely be on display near the Military Science building and used at KU football games.
SenEx: Class bulletin boards are not for commercialization
By KC Trauer
Kansan staff writer
Senate Executive Committee yesterday voted 5-2 to defeat a resolution stating that student organizations should have the right to use bulletin boards within campus classrooms.
Although the committee defeated the resolution, SenEx members agreed that the University should consider putting up more student-use bulletin boards in building hallways, particularly in Wescoe Hall.
Robert Thompson, student repre-
sensitive on SenEx, said he submitted the resolution in response to a policy passed Feb. 12 by a University committee that restricted use of the bulletin boards to instructional materials in order to keep commercial materials out of the classroom.
"Each individual faculty member had a right to decide what was instructional material and could take off anything that wasn't," he said. "In doing so, some have torn off fiers put up by student organizations."
act as a censor by taking down those fliers.
Lynn Nelson, professor of medieval history, said that free speech was not the issue but that instructors should have control over the classroom, including being able to remove materials that compete for students' attention.
He said faculty members should not
To demonstrate, Nelson scattered on the meeting table about 20 commercial and student organization fliers that he removed from one of his classrooms.
Bulletin boards in all classrooms should be removed, sad Sandra Zimbars-Swartz, associate professor of religious studies.
"They're colorful. They're distracting. They're messy," he said.
"I'm pretty much of the opinion that the bulletin boards should come out of the classroom and into the hallways, where they are designed for specific uses," she said. "I agree with my colleagues that within the classroom we have enough to compete in terms of instruction."
BSU must find additional funds
Support needed so group can hold spring conference
By Stacy Morford Kansan staff writer
Senate's refusal to fully finance the Big Eight Conference on Black Student Government at KU in February has left the Black Student Union scrambling for support.
Student Senate approved $6,000 of the $12,000 the group requested at Wednesday's Senate meeting.
James Baucom, BSU president, said it would cost between 68,000 and $71,000 to play host to the 16th annual conference this February. Participants pick up most of the conference's tab when they pay registration fees.
Baucom estimated that about 1,000 students from all Big Eight schools would be on campus to attend workshops, cultural exhibits and entertainment including a step-show, film festival and gospel extravaganza.
"We're determined to have this conference," he said. "But you don't set up contracts like that until you get your money established."
Baucom said BSU was searching for other sources of funds such as corporate sponsors. He said BSU leaders would also meet with University administrators to discuss monetary support from the University.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said the university did not have a specific policy concerning the financing of student groups. He said the university had not agreed to contribute to the conference, but financial support was not out of the
"We're determined to have this conference."
James Baucom
President of the Black Student Union
question.
"The university does not have large pockets of money sitting around for this purpose," Ambler said. "Our money is primarily reserved for instructional purposes."
Ambler said student affairs officials planned to work with the Office of Minority Affairs to ensure that the conference would be a success.
Baucom said the conference would teach black students to be leaders in their universities and in their communities. He said the three Black Student Government Leadership Conferences he attended helped him to create student networks he now consults about creating programs and solving problems.
"You find out you're not alone on your campus trying to improve your school," he said. "We're so use to 27,000 students here and 25,000 are white, that we're excited to see that many of us in one place."
Lance Wright, student body vice president, said finances for the conference were not cut by Senate on the basis of the bill's merit.
"It came down to a financial decision," Wright said. "It was a decision of 'Hey, this is $12,000 and we don't have a lot of money."
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