Tuesday, September 16, 1997
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 7
K-State student aids sorority to recolonize
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So far, Yeager has not contacted anyone at the University who is interested in joining the sorority, but she said she had a strong desire to see Sigma Gamma Rho re-established on campus because of what she gained from it at K-State.
"It really helped in my leadership skills and in helping me do more for the community," she said.
Yeager said students interested in joining the sorority must maintain a 2.5 minimum grade point average and have accumulated at least 12 hours of college credits. They must also have a strong commitment to community service and academic achievement. This is part of what drew Yeager to the sorority, she said.
"I saw they were a unique organization that focused on community service and sisterhood," Yeager said. "They always had a proud heritage."
The sorority was founded at the predominantly white Butler University in Indianapolis in 1922, according to Robert Page, assistant director of admissions and adviser to the eight active historically black fraternities and sororities at the University.
Bill Nelson, greek advisor at the University, said he had not spoken yet with Yeager but she and others interested in the sorority should contact the Black Pan-Hellenic office at the University and keep in touch with various advisers and the sorority's regional and national executive boards as it prepares to rejoin the University.
Nelson said that historically black fraternities and sororities contributed to the lives of KU students in many ways.
"They provide a very important support group for each other," Nelson said. "It's the establishment of a smaller community within the University."
The main priority for the sorority this year will be to gain membership and participate in community service activities, Nelson said.
Concession workers lose benefits
In the package, eligible ex-workers would also receive three months of health insurance coverage and 20 percent of the total sick leave time they had accumulated while employed by KU Concessions.
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Jim Long, director of the Kansas and Burge Unions, said the Union was in the process of considering which former employees were eligible for the separation package.
"We are trying to determine that as quickly as possible," he said.
Campbell said his biggest complaint was that even though the Union was not legally required to compensate the former workers after 30 days, the benefits offered should have been unconditional.
"In most businesses, workers are compensated," he said.
He said that no unemployment firms were hired, and no new training opportunities were offered.
Johnson said she thought that the separation package had too many regulations.
"They basically took people's jobs away, and they owed them something," she said.
Johnson said she felt bad for long-time employees such as Lash.
"No one picked up the phone on the last day of work to say 'goodbye' and 'thank you.'" she said.
Johnson worked for KU Concessions for
six years and now works for Sponsor Program Accounting in Carruth-O'Leary Hall. With the job change, she lost retirement benefits and the sick leave she had accumulated.
Johnson said that when the announcement was made, she was bitter about losing her job. But now that the University helped her find new employment, she feels better.
Anne Munsterman, former assistant manager of KU Concussions, said that she had been officially notified that she would receive the separation package.
Munsterman worked for KU Concessions for 15 years and now works as a program assistant for the University's purchasing office in Carruth-O'Leary Hall. Her pay has not changed, but her position is not permanent, she said.
Munsterman said the University found her the six-month job to give her a better chance to find a permanent position within the University.
"The whole idea behind this was to teach me about the University system," she said.
Munsterman said that communications between the Union management and concession workers could have been better but that she did not know what else could have done.
Johnson said that KU Concessions employees were close, and Campbell agreed.
"I sincerely hope everyone found employment," Campbell said. "It was a good crew."
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