University Daily Kansan / Thursday, November 12, 1987
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Local Briefs Legislators to speak at waste forum
Two state legislators and an assistant attorney general will take part today in a forum called, "Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal: What is Best for Kansas?"
State Sen. Merrill Werts, R-Junction City, and state Rep. Kathleen Sebelius, D-Topeka, and State Assistant Attorney General John Campbell will speak at the forum at 12:30 p.m. in 104 Green House. In the Environmental Law Society and the Student Bar Association.
Panelists will discuss Kansas participation in the Central Interstate Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact. It was formed to find a disposal site for low-level radioactive waste from Kansas, Arkansas, Nebraska, Louisiana and Oklahoma.
University Council will convene today
University Council will meet at 3:30 p.m. today in 108 Blake Hall to discuss the results of a faculty survey on college admissions.
Also, the council will consider a recommendation to amend a section of the University Senate Code that deals with the University of Kansas Parking Board. If members of the board clarify the length of terms that members of the parking board serve.
Vigil for veterans planned for tonight
A candlelight vigil for missing U.S. veterans will take place at 7 p.m. today at the Vietnam Memorial, near West Campus Road and Jiayhawk Boulevard.
The KU chapter of Arnold Air Society, a national organization of Air Force ROTC cadets, is sponsoring the vigil as part of national POW/MIA week.
Actress to discuss fight with cancer
Actress and singer Ann Jillian will speak on her fight against breast cancer at 7 p.m. in the White Concert Hall at Washburn University in Topeka.
Jillian is filming a television movie, "The Ann Jillian Story", which recounts her struggle with the abuse she suffered after a double mastectomy.
The talk is sponsored by St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center and is free and open to the public.
Correction
Because of incomplete information supplied to the Kansan, a outline in the Friday issue was incorrect. KU's department of health, physical education and recreation and the Lawrence Parks and Recreation department are sponsoring a gymnastics program at Robinson Gymnasium.
Residence halls help United Way toward KU goal
From staff and wire reports.
By BEN JOHNSTON Staff writer
Staff writer
Through floor competitions and the lure of prizes such as frozen yogurt, doughnuts and free movies, KU residence halls have raised $904.73 for the United Way of Douglas County
In what was the first coordinated effort by residence halls to raise money for United Way, hall residents learned from a drive that lasted from Oct. 19 to 30.
Shirley Martin-Smith, campaign chairman for the United Way of Douglas County, said she was impressed with the amount of money the residence halls had raised. She
said the money would help the University of Kansas division of the United Way meet its goal of raising $100,000.
"It was wonderful. We need it badly," Martin-Smith said. "We'll be squeezing to reach our goal, and that $900 was a shot in the arm."
Martin-Smith said the KU division had raised about $72,000. The KU fund-raising drive will end this month, she said.
Fund-raising for United Way had in the past been the domain of KU's fraternities and sororites. Last February, the groups put on the Rock Chalk Revue, a variety show that
The residence hall drive was organized by the KU chapter of the National Residence Hall Honorary, an organization for hall leaders.
raised about $12,000 for United Way, she said.
Mark Gillem, Walnut Creek, Calif., senior and a member of the chapter, said the fund-raising drive in the halls was a competition between the floors of each hall. The three floors cost the most money won prizes, he said.
The sixth floor of McCollum Hall won the competition. The third floor of Oliver was second, and the eighth floor of McCollum was third.
Gillem said it was a unique contest The residents put pennies in a jar, and each penny contributed a point to the floor's total. Larger denominations subtracted points from a floor's total, so some residents stuffed quarters and dollar bills in their competitors' jars, he said.
The winning floor will receive yogurt, the second place floor residents will receive doughnuts from Joe's Bakery, and the third place floor will watch a free movie. The National Residence Hall Honorary will pay for the prizes. Gillem said
The drive triggered similar fundraising activities at fraternities and
sorrities. Those groups began their fund drive Nov. 2 and will end it Saturday Nov. 14.
Kurt Level, Topeka junior and philanthropy chairman for Delta Tau Delta, said his fraternity raised about $225 to $250 for the United Way when all 70 members voted to contribute an amount equal to 1 percent of their monthly house bills.
Beating the odds
Dan Grate, Overland Park freshman, begins scratching the first lottery plaus Grate's good fortune. Grate won $2 at the bookstore's event kicking ticket sold at the Jayhawk Bookstore while store manager Bill Muggy ap- off the lottery last night.
Committee looks at student concerns
Staff writer
By BRAD ADDINGTON
The Student Senate University Affairs Committee is stepping up efforts to make student concerns known to KU administrators and city officials.
Various subcommittees are looking into such things as extended hours at Watson Library, an extended add/drop period for next semester, and increased communication between the Lawrence City Commission and KU students.
Although the Lawrence City Commission on Tuesday rejected a subcommittee's proposal for a KU student commission seat, the commission will still hear the concerns of students, said John Cissell, student life subcommittee chairman.
Kira Gould, Lawrence sophomore, who had been designated by Senate to be a non-voting member of the commission, will attend the commission meetings and express students' concerns. Cissell said.
Cissell said the commission would start sending its agenda and other information to all members.
Cassell said that, in a campaign debate last semester sponsored by Senate, commissioners Bob Schumm, Dennis Constance and Mike Rundle expressed support for a KU student commission seat. But at Tuesday's commission meeting, they said they were opposed to the proposal.
Shaun Wiley, a junior at Lawrence High School, has a wont on the com-
commission as part of a students-in-government program.
Bundle said yesterday that, at the time of the debate, he did not realize that Wiley was on the commission as part of an educational program. For that reason, he saw no problem with having a KU student representative on the commission.
"Just looking at it on the surface, it looked entirely reasonable." Rumble said.
However, Rundle said he had changed his mind.
"By including a student in that role we would open ourselves up to other people claiming to have that right," Rundle said.
A University Affairs library subcommittee is looking into getting Watson Library hours extended during student finals.
The subcommittee will meet with Mary Hawkins, assistant dean of libraries, at 6 p.m. today in the Walnut Room of the Kansas Union, said Mark Flammagan, subcommittee chairman. All students are invited.
Stephanie Quincy, student body vice president, said yesterday that she was impressed with University Affairs' performance this semester.
Another University Affairs subcommittee, academic affairs, sponsored a resolution passed by the Senate last week that supports a three-week drop period and a three-week two-day add period next spring.
That is longer than the two-week add/drop period proposed by the office of academic affairs.
Amnesty rally set for today
Students asked to join protests
By a Kansan reporter
KU Amnesty International will sponsor awareness sessions about human rights violations in South Korea at 12:30 and at 2:30 p.m. today at Wesco Beach. At 7:30 p.m., two KU professors will speak on that subject at the Centennial Room in the Kansas Union.
This afternoon's demonstrations are designed to make people aware of human rights violations in South Korea. Included will be a listing of prisoners of conscience. Amnesty International says these prisoners are being held in violation of human rights.
A prisoner of conscience is a person held prisoner not because of any criminal action but because of their political or religious beliefs or ethnic background. Amnesty International does not argue against the incarceration of prisoners who have a history of using or advocating violence.
The organization seeks the release of prisoners of conscience through private sponsorship and organized letter-writing.
Janet Cinelli, Overland Park junior, said people were encouraged to bring signs of protest to the demonstration. Also, she said, people are encouraged to wear black to symbolize the violations of human rights and that many of the prisoners are held in cells where there is no light.
Tonight's speakers will be G. Cameron Hurst, director of the KU Center for East Asian Studies, and Jax Moox, professor of anthropology.
Frank Housh, president of KU Amnesty International, said that besides campaigning for the release of prisoners of conscience, the organization also supported abolishing the death penalty and the torture of political prisoners. It also supports fair and prompt trials for all political prisoners.
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