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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, October 2, 1992
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Haskell students to run for awareness
By Mark Martin
Kansan staff writer
In 1986, runners carried a torch through 54 countries on five continents as part of the United Nations "First Earth Run." Although the torch came from the United Nations building in New York City, it was not carried across the United States.
Beginning at 7 a.m. Monday at Haskell Indian Junior College, the torch will finally move through this country as hundreds of runners from across the country depart from Lawrence.
Teams of runners will carry the torn from Haskell to the eastern, western, northern and southern borders of the United States. The Flame Spirit Run is a symbolic effort to look to the future for American Indians and the rest of the country and to leave 500 years of discrimination behind, said Melicent Boysen, president of the run.
"The run will cover 7,000 miles and go through 600 towns," Boysen said. "We hope the run will draw all the American people together—to run together, to work together and to be together."
Al Gipp, coach of Haskell's cross country
team, said the run would help heighten awareness of American Indians. Gip, along with his team, will carry the torch 824 miles to Columbus, Ohio. The team is scheduled to arrive in Columbus on Columbus Day, Oct. 12.
"This run is important in so far as it will make people more aware of Native Americans," he said. "Not only can we make people aware of customs, traditions and values, but we can also show that all of these students are going to school and want to do something with their lives."
Gipp said 18 runners would represent
Haskell. He said 14 were students, and two were alumni. Gipp and Haskell basketball coach Jesse Mendoza also will run. Gipp said the runners would take turns carrying the torch.
Mendoza said the run emphasized the future.
"If we can raise a little awareness of Native American issues, great," he said. "But it's for the future. We need more programs to help Native Americans, especially through education, like Haskell does."
ed Nations building in New York; in Vancouver, British Columbia and some point along the Texas/Mexico border.
She added that more than 70 corporations had been asked to provide funding or equipment to help with the run, and all had declined.
"A reporter asked me earlier this week if I thought it was because this was an Indian event, and I had to say yes," she said. "As it stands now, the runners will have to sleep in churches, using their own sleeping bags, and various people will have to drive their own cars along the way. I hope we can make it."
Haskell comes full circle with earth artistry
Kansan staff report
More than 1,200 years before Christopher Columbus set foot on the Americas, native Indians constructed large circles of stones, called medicine wheels, in which they conducted spiritual ceremonies. The circles stood for unity and continuity and were recognized by all tribes.
In a field south of Haskell Indian Junior College, artist Stan Herd and Haskell art instructor Leslie Evans have recreated a four-acre replica of a medicine wheel. The design is carved into the grass and only can be viewed in its entirety by air. The Flame Spirit Run will start Sunday from the center of the wheel.
"This is a gift from the Haskell community to everyone." Evans said. "The medicine wheel was often used for healing purposes in the past, and this year, the year of the quincentennial, we hope a great deal of healing will be going on."
Evans said the project began two months ago when Dan Wildcat, chairperson of the department of natural sciences at Haskell, put Evans and Herd together to plan something that could be shared by the Lawrence community. Evans and his art students came up with the final design. He said the wheel was not completed and would evolve through the years into whatever use was needed.
"A circle has no beginning or ending; they are the same thing," Evans said. "It's just like life. These students here are descendants of the ancient Indians. They are here for an education and to change the future. So this wheel is a way to tie it all together and to go forward."
Stan Herd, Lawrence resident and earthworks artist, stands in the middle of the medicine wheel, a grass sculpture south of Haskell Indian Junior College. Herd is working with Leslie Evans, Haskell art teacher, to create the four-acre earthwork.
Paul Kotz / Special to the KANSAN
Former dean, law graduate testify at Tonkovich hearing
Kansan staff writer
By Lynne McAdoo
Martin Dickinson, professor of law and former dean of the law school, described the competitive environment of the school and how the atmosphere affected the relationships between students and teachers.
In the sixth day of the dismissal hearings for law professor Emil Tonkovik yesterday, another KU law professor said that the politics of the law school made students vulnerable to the advances of someone in a power position.
"The best way to describe it is, opportunities depend on rankings," he said.
Most students realize the importance of grades within the first few weeks of entering the law school, but they do not realize the importance of connections and professor recommendations until probably their second year, he said.
"The recommendation of a law professor can significantly enhance or seriously damage the prosperity of a student in law school," he said.
The ignorance of first-year law students makes them particularly vulnerable if a professor propositions them, he said.
"He or she is going to think twice before saying no," he said
Dickinson said he believed having a romantic relationship with a student violated the faculty code of conduct even though the code did not specifically state that dating a student was prohibited.
During cross-examination, Tonkovich questioned Dickinson about whether his interpretation of the faculty code was too broad.
"I believe it to be a general interpretation," Dickinson said.
Dickinson said that the atmosphere at the law school was tense during the fall of 1991 and that rumors flying around the law school about sexual harassment pressured Robert Jerry, dean of law, to write a code prohibiting dating between faculty and students. Dickinson's statement included the opinions of a law school accreditation association.
Susan Mauch, a 1991 law school graduate, also testified about an alleged sexual advance that occurred in July 1989 during a party that Tonkovich had for his students at The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St.
During his cross-examination of Mauch, Tonkovich said that the comment was in reference to a previous comment he had made about his girlfriend. He also pointed out that Mauch and her boyfriend ate pizza with him and his girlfriend at his house later that evening.
Mauch said that she had just defeated Tonkovich at a game of pool when he said, "The only women I make love to are the ones that beat me at pool."
Ignoring injustice is sin, bishop says
By Joe Harder Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Attempts to remedy the world's injustices must include more than simply donating money to needy people, said Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, the keynote speaker for the "Peace with Justice" weekend, last night.
"It isn't just changing our life-
istics, although that's important," he said. "It isn't just a matter of giving up our excess, although that's important. We have to change the structure."
About 90 people attended Gumbelton's speech, "Faith that Does Justice," in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Gumbleton is the pastor of a Detroit parish and the founder of Pax Christus USA and Bread for the World, organizations that seek to alleviate world poverty.
One billion of the world's people are barely surviving, and 250,000 children per week die of hunger or hunger-related causes, he said.
we grow more than enough food to feed 6 billion people," he said. "And yet the billions of people do not have access to that food."
The problem is ingrained in the economic and political structures of the world, he said.
"As you look at the global economic structure, you can see that it is organized for the detriment of the majority of the people on earth," he said.
Loans from rich countries to poor ones are partly to blame. While their floating interest rates were originally low, they have quadrupled in two decades, he said.
A second problem is that the "poor South," as Gumbleton referred to poverty-ridden nations in the Southern Hemisphere, has no control over the price of the raw materials it sells to the rich North.
Both problems contribute to a flow of wealth from the poor nations to rich nations, he said.
"This happens in a world where
"We live in a world where the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer," he said.
Gumbleton said that the first step in solving the world's injustice was to recognize that ignoring it was sinful and against the wishes of God.
"Search for justice," he said, quoting from the Biblical prophet Isaiah. "Lift up the oppressed. Be just to the orphan. Plead for the widow.'
"I reflect on that passage quite often," he said. "In some ways I find it very frightening."
Gumbleton's speech was the first event of the "Peace with Justice" weekend sponsored by Lawrence-area religious and human rights organizations.
"We believe that peace and justice aren't really talked about all that much," said Russ Testa, Topeka senior and assistant outreach minister at the St. Lawrence Catholic Center. Testa is one of the organizers of the weekend's activities.
"We're not coming at it from a negative standpoint, but a positive one," he said. "We want to say, 'Look at how much better the world could be.'"
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