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The University Daily Kansan
Friday, November 21, 1997
Students go hungry for a good cause
By Gwen Olson
By Gwen Olsen
golson@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
As each Hunger Banquet participant walked into Ecumenical Christian Ministries last night, they were given a new identity, most taking on the persona of someone who is homeless.
About 60 students and Lawrence residents attended the fourth annual Hunger Banquet. The event was part of Hunger and Homelessness Awareness month.
Erika Nutt, Eagan, Minn., junior and co-coordinator for CAAS, said the banquet was organized to represent the distribution of food throughout the world.
Only one table was provided at the banquet, and fifteen percent of the participants were allowed to sit there. The seven guests chosen were served a meal with a salad, a main course, dessert and coffee.
Thirty percent of the participants sat on crates and ate beans, rice and tortilla chips. The remaining 55 percent sat on the floor and ate plain white rice.
"This is our main event for Hunger and Homelessness month," Nutt said to the participants before the
food was served. "Hopefully it will inspire you to get involved in some of the causes we talk about tonight."
Kate Turnbull, Lawrence sophomore and co-coordinator for CAAS, said that the idea for Hunger Banquets all over the country was initiated by Oxfam America, a national organization that fights poverty and hunger.
Food was donated for the banquet by Hy-Vee Food and Drug, Bagel and Bagel, Bambino's, The Glass Onion, The Paradise Cafe, Dos Hombres and The Community Mercantile.
Thad Holcombe, director of Ecumenical Christian Ministries, spoke to the crowd to express the severity of hunger throughout the world.
"One child dies every 2.5 seconds of hunger or hunger-related causes and usually dies in the arms of its mother or father," he said. "In the best tradition of higher education, you and I are asked to take these statistics and transform the numbers into compassion and concern. I hope you all can leave here tonight a little bit wiser."
Members from the Lawrence Coalition for Homeless Concerns were also present to share information about service organizations in the community.
Jeff O'Neal, Lawrence sophomore, eats his rice on the floor while Michelle Black, Lawrence sophomore, eats beans and rice on a crate while participating in the Hunger Banquet. Participants in last night's banquet at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries were fed and seated based on percentages that represented how the world's population eats. Photo by Geoff Krieger/KANSAN
Nursing school training program in the spotlight of magazine
Kansan staff report
Yesterday, Chancellor Robert Hemenway told the Board of Regents about a national story featuring University of Kansas medical training in Western Kansas.
Hemenway handed the Regents a copy of "The Wired Prairie," by Christine Gorman.
The story appeared in the "Heroes of Medicine" special issue of "Time Magazine" that is on newsstands through December 29.
Gorman wrote about the delivery of nurse practitioner course work to Garden City by compressed video.
According to the story, the program was the brainchild of Helen Connors, associate dean at the University of Kansas School of Nursing. The program was created in 1995.
The article delivered praise for the nursing program.
Hemenway told the Regents that the article was an example of the national recognition all the Regents schools were receiving for their innovative delivery of health care.
"Indeed, the Kansas program has proved so successful that it is fast becoming a model for delivering basic health care in rural areas across the U.S." Gorman wrote.
University eyes building buys
Regents approve two expansion opportunities
By Matthew Friedrichs
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — The Board of Regents yesterday paved the way for the University of Kansas to purchase two buildings for educational use.
The University now may purchase a new building for the division of Continuing Education. The University may also assume ownership of Smith Hall, currently used by the department of religious studies, but not owned by the University.
The University received approval from the Regents to purchase a building for Continuing Education.
The building the University is considering is located at 15th and Kasold and is occupied by Maupintour Travel Services. According to Regents documents, the University and the building's owner, the University has negotiated a purchase price of $3.2 million. Global Leisure Inc. of Seattle, Wash., owns the building.
"Continuing Education is in an extremely inadequate building," Chancellor Robert Hemenway said. "We need to find a place to relocate Continuing Education."
Robert Senecal, dean of Continuing Education, said the program currently uses a total of about 28.000 square feet in the old Pi Beta Phi sorority house north of the Kansas Union, an old post office building at Seventh and New Hampshire, and the Varsity House at 11th and Indiana.
If the University purchases the Maupintour building,Continuing Education offices will be consolidated. Senecal said the program would have 33,000 feet to use and could add some classroom space.
The purchase of the building could be funded by a combination of the sale of the old post office, a monetary gift to the University by a donor and funds reserved for a new building, Senecal said. The University would use bonds held by the state to fund the difference between the purchase price and the money raised.
While the University is closely looking at the Maupintour building, the purchase is not final, Senecal said.
"We're still open to looking at other options." Senecal said.
Legislative approval is also necessary before Continuing Education can move into the building, Senecal said.
The University could acquire Smith Hall as early as this spring.
The Kansas Bible Chair, an agency of the the Christian Church in Kansas (Discines of
Christ) owns Smith Hall. The University has subleased the building since 1986, but will now ask the Legislature for approval to buy the building. The building was constructed in 1967.
If the sale proceeds as proposed, the University will purchase the property for $55,000 a year for 20 years beginning in 1999.
"The Bible Chair has contacted the University and said we really ought to formalize this agreement." Hemenway said.
Robert Langston, a minister with the Christian Church, said the Kansas Bible Chair preferred not to comment until the sale was approved by the Legislature sometime this spring.
In other business, the Regents heard the first reading of a proposed increase in the law school fee from $40 to $70 next fall. The fee could rise to $100 in three years. Only law students pay the fee.
The increase is necessary because the University lags behind its competition in all areas of funding, said Michael Hoeflich, dean of the law school.
The increase will be used to fund financial aid, the law library, student services and faculty salaries. Hoelfich said.
"We pressed to have it brought before you as soon as possible so we can alert all of our candidates that this is in the works so they can plan for it," Hoeflich said.
Watson evacuated in false fire alarm
More than 100 people lined the stairs in front of Watson Library about 10 a.m. yesterday after a false fire alarm forced them to evacuate the building.
"It was a false alarm," said Doxie Larsen, circulation desk supervisor. "They are doing some construction. Something with that construction caused the fire alarm to go off."
People were able to return to the library about 15 minutes after the alarm sounded.
"People get upset when we ask them to leave." Larsen said.
Larsen said some students had to be asked to leave the library during the alarm because they had ignored the alarm.
She said that besides a few moans and groans about leaving, everyone cooperated.
Sheida Bates, Lawrence graduate student, was studying at the library when the alarm went off. "It's kind of annoying." Bates said. "I was in the middle of research."
-Kansan staff report
Corrections
Because of a reporter's error, the "Kansan" incorrectly stated yesterday that Beta Theta Pi fraternity had been placed on interim suspension by the Interfraternity Council last week.
The fraternity has not been placed on interim suspension, said Bill Nelson, associate director of the Student Organizations and Leadership Development Center.
The "Kansan" also incorrectly reported Wednesday that the University, not the Interfraternity Council, placed the sanctions on the fraternity.
The Interfraternity Council investigated the fraternity after a parent informed them of an alleged hazing violation. The council then filed charges against the fraternity and placed sanctions on them last week.
A story in Wednesday's "Kansan" incorrectly stated that the University of Kansas is a land grant institution. It is not. The story also said that Kansas Senator Pat Roberts had introduced legislation that would make Haskell Indian Nations University a state run institution. This was untrue.
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