Wednesday, October 29, 1997
The University Daily Kansan
Section A • Page 3
Development center provokes space race
Groups in search of elbow room
By Gwen Olson
golson@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Members of the Programs, Concepts and Building Use Committee told representatives of student organizations yesterday to find innovative ways to exploit the cramped office space they have.
The committee met with three members of student organizations to discuss proposals to redesign the space available in the Organization and Leadership Development Center in the Kansas Union.
Student organizations can apply for an office in the center or for work space in the area known as the bulpen, a room of 20 cubicles for groups.
Organizations without an office or cubicle also can apply for a locker in the center to store supplies.
Close to 400 registered student organizations compete for nine cubicles in the
bullpen and 10 offices.
The committee decided to allow the directors of the development center to determine the best way to reorganize the space.
Jim Kitchen, dean of student life and chairman of the committee, encouraged the directors to take ideas from students to determine the best way to accommodate the large number of student organizations.
Kitchen said he would like to make sure the space available to student organizations was being used in the best possible way.
Committee members discussed ideas to improve the space available, including removing the lockers and redesigning the bullpen. Both suggestions would lead to a work area with resources that all student organizations could use.
The committee allowed the development center to determine when and if either of these ideas may be enacted.
Matt Bachand, Lawrence senior, offered a different suggestion. He proposed that student organizations be given space in the parking garage to be built north of the Kansas Union, scheduled for completion in the year 2000.
"Having space allows groups to communicate with each other, and if new groups don't have space, they won't have a chance to develop."
Emily Heath Oskaloosa senior
Committee members said Bachand would have to discuss the suggestion with the parkinggarage planners.
Emily Heath, Oskaloosa senior and co-director of the Center for Community Outreach, said she thought an area of common space for organizations would be the best way to accommodate more groups.
"Some kind of change has to be made," she said. "There are almost 400 student organizations and only 20 spaces available for them. Having space allows groups to communicate with each other, and if new groups don't have space, they won't have a chance to develop."
Alpha Epsilon Pi allegedly injured former pledge during hazing
Fraternity faces lawsuit
By Corrie Moore
cmore@kanson.com
Kansas staff writer
A lawsuit has been filed against the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity by a former pledge based on a hazing incident that took place on October 1, 1995.
Adam Endick was a pledge at the fraternity and left the University of Kansas after allegedly being injured during hazing. Endick filed a complaint to the University in December 1995 and Alpha Epsilon Pi was put on probation for two years. The international chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi placed the KU chapter on probation for two semesters during that time.
The lawsuit, filed Sept. 30, 1997, in Douglas County District Court, alleges that during a pledge activity, Endick was injured after being forced to stand on a chair while active fraternity members smashed raw eggs in his pants. Endick claimed in the lawsuit that he fell off the chair and was injured. The lawsuit states that Endick has had medical treatment. The injury restricts his daily activities and later forced him to drop out of the University that semester, the lawsuit states.
Bonita Yoder, Endick's lawyer, said she could not give details of her client's injuries without contacting him first.
Attempts to contact Endick were not successful.
The lawsuit names the University, Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, and the five members. Mark Kreisman, Denver senior, Jeremy Freidman, KU alumnus, Josh Rinkow, Columbus, Ohio, senior, Jay Shamblott, Lawrence senior, and Adam Wolintez, Columbus, Ohio, senior, who allegedly participated in the incident. The lawsuit seeks more than $50,000 in damages — $10,000 for each of the five counts.
Bill Nelson, associate director and coordinator of greek programs for the Student Organizations and Leadership Development Center, said that he knew little about the lawsuit but that the fraternity was put on probation in April 1996 as a result of the hazing incident.
Attempts to reach Scott Cohen, director of programs for the national chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi, were not successful.
"The University has already taken action over the incident," Nelson said.
junior, said that of the five men who allegedly participated in the incident, Kreisman was still a paying member and Freidman had graduated. Rinkov, Shamblott and Wolinitez had not paid their dues and were no longer affiliated with the house. Brenner said.
Attempts to reach the defendants were unsuccessful.
Brenner said he believed the five men were aware of the lawsuit.
"The house, since the incident, has had two successful years," Brenner said.
Brenner said that since the fraternity has been put on probation by the University, it had fulfilled all of the requirements necessary which included anti-hazing education programs and three philanthropic projects.
Roll Litt, public relations officer for the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity and Minneapolis sophomore, said that because most of the fraternity members involved in the incident were no longer a part of the house, the issue did not pertain to the current members of the house.
Litt said the fraternity was aware of a possibility of a lawsuit filed against it. The statute of limitations did not end until the first week of October.
The fraternity is not focusing on the incident. Instead, it is letting its international chapter take care of the lawsuit, Brenner said.
Environmental lawver opens students' eyes about activism
"We're not letting it affect us," he said.
By Daniel E. Thompson
dthompson@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Kansas Union.
Attorney Robert Eye has been a household name in Lawrence ever since the South Lawrence Trafficway started stretching toward the wetlands.
Far fewer people will remember his independent bid for governor in 1993 or the gag order Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant forced on him for five years.
An activist, environmental attorney and adjunct professor in the department of environmental studies. Eye spoke last night to 22 prospective environmental professionals at the Pine Room in the
"There has been virtually no social progress without a considerable political struggle," Eye said. "So, too, with the environment."
Eye is the lead counsel for an alliance
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of environmental groups who are fighting to keep the South Lawrence Trafficway's final leg, which is planned to stretch through important spiritual and
environmental lands, under federal control.
A native of Goodland, Eye said his Kansas roots were influential in his chosen occupation.
"I grew up in northwest Kansas," he said. "I assumed the air and water that was relatively clean out there would remain so indefinitely."
But trips into the nearest big city, Denver, changed him, he said.
"Each time we went, it seemed like it got a little more smog," Eye said. "By the time I was in high school ... you could not see the Rocky Mountains. That struck me as intuitively wrong and bad."
When he was in law school in the late 1970s at Washburn University, environmental law seemed like a natural transition for his activism, he said.
Four years after graduating from Washburn, Eye was hired by a group of business owners to represent them in a rate dispute with Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant.
Through the course of the trial, a person Eye had never met confronted him with a box. Inside were documents that had been taken from the power plant that alleged intimidation of inspectors, construction and materials defects and needless cost overruns.
"I really didn't want to see a box
full of problems, knowing the consequences of a catastrophic nuclear-plant accident." Eve said.
When he introduced the documents as evidence, Eye said he was sued and a gag order was put on him. It was lifted almost five years later by the Kansas Supreme Court, he said.
But the window of opportunity to use the information passed.
"Some would say justice delayed is justice denied," Eye said. "Perhaps they would be right in this instance."
The Jayhawk Association of Environmental Professionals brought Eye to campus.
The association is a local chapter
of the National Association of Environmental Professionals, a national networking group, said Clark Langemeier, president of the KU chapter.
Langemeier said there were other student chapters around the country. The mission of the student chapters is to inform students about environmental issues and to give them the foundation for an environmental career.
"Environmental activism requires commitment," Eye said. "Change in our culture is an extremely difficult thing to bring about. We live in an inherently conservative culture."
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