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September 10, 1997
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Vol. 104 - No. 14
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Chancellor turns eyes to University's future
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By Matthew Friedrichs
Kansan staff writer
Chancellor Robert Hemenway stepped into room 120 Budig Hall and asked his "class" of 450 faculty and staff members to look to the future.
Hemenway used the technology of the new 500-seat auditorium to outline three major planning initiatives yesterday afternoon at the 1997 Faculty and Staff Convocation.
"I don't know what the learning community of 2030 on the Lawrence campus will look like, but I do know we must begin now to plan for the future around that question." Hemenway said.
First, individuals and departments must begin to act as one University, utilizing all the resources available on the Lawrence, Kansas City, Regents Center and Wichita campuses to advance the University as a national research university. Hemenway said.
He stressed the importance of a strong University presence in Kansas City.
Second, Hemenway said, the University must work to serve Kansans through research, scholarship and a role in the economic development of the state.
"KU should be the institution of first choice in greater Kansas City." Hemenway said. "It should be the research university that provides the underpinning for economic development in this metropolitan area. Kansas City can't achieve its aspirations as a city without KU contributing the research environment and graduate and professional education to its future."
"The University cannot, in my opinion, ignore the deteriorating institutions of our society." Hemenway said.
Finally, Hemenway said the University must build a premier learning community that will continue to remain attractive to students in an age of online classes and technological
advances.
By outlining his proposals for the University's future, Hemenway followed a pattern established in his two previous convocation appearances.
At his first faculty and staff convocation in 1995, Hemenway announced initiatives that streamlined the central administration of the University.
In 1996 Hemenway announced major physical improvements to the campus as part of the Crumbling Classrooms bill
Additional plans for the University's physical makeup — changes to landscaping, buildings and signs — will be announced in the next two weeks. It will be the first comprehensive campus renewal and development plan since 1973.
Hemenw shared with the audience a list of current and future projects.
an undergraduate science teaching building
an addition to Learned Hall an Allergy Field House
razing the Lindley Hall annex and the Blake Hall annex
removations to wessex Hall
Provost David Shulenburger opened the convocation by introducing previously announced winners of the Kemper and Budig teaching awards. He also announced the recipients of the prestigious 1997 Higuchi/Endowment Research Achievement Awards:
Gunda Georg, professor of medicinal chemistry.
Opendra "Bill" Narayan, Marion Merrell Dow Foundation distinguished professor in the department of microbiology, molecular genetics and immunology, at the KU Medical Center.
Norman E. Saul, professor of history and of Russian and East European studies.
Bikram S. Gill, university distinguished professor of plant pathology Kansas State University.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway speaks at the 1997 Faculty and Staff Convocation at Budig Hall . Yesterday, Hemenway shared with the audience his plans to help the university into the 21 century. Photo by Eric B. Howell/KANSAN
Student Senate to start tonight with orientation
Tim Harrington tharrington @kansan.com Konsan staff writer
The first meeting of this year's Student Senate begins at 6 p.m. today with committee orientation in Woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
With 39 Unite coalition seats and 22 Delta Force coalition seats, the Senate's main order of business will be nominating and electing committee chairs for the five major committees that work with the Senate.
Nominees for the committees will give speeches in several rooms throughout the Union beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Those committees are the finance committee in the
Big 12 room; graduate affairs committee in the International Auditorium; multicultural affairs committee in the Governors Room; student rights committee in the Centennial Room; and University affairs committee in Alderson Auditorium.
All students are welcome at the meetings and any student can be appointed to one of the five committees provided they fill out a committee application that will be reviewed by Student Body President Scott Sullivan for appointment.
Sullivan and vice president, Mike Walden paid roughly $1,200 in fines because of campaign-violations and
Sullivan: To review Senate's committee applications.
completed an elections resource notebook for future student senators, said Audrey Nogle, elections commission chairwoman.
"There's no more paperwork to be done," Nogle said. "They are officially certified."
As one of his first responsibilities, Sullivan will go through all 370 committee applications, which were due Fridav.
Students still interested in joining a committee or any of the 25 Senate and University boards can turn in applications through next Wednesday. Those applicants, however, will not be able to vote for committee chairs tonight. Only members already appointed can vote for chairs and co-chairs.
"We figure we'll have about 350 people there," said Kelly Huffman, StudEx chairman and Bellevue, Neb., senior.
The Student Senate office has received 370 applications but expects some no-shows.
Alcohol equals AIDS danger
T. J. Sullivan speaks at the Lied Center to about 2,000 people. Sullivan spoke last night along with his friend Joel Goldman in a presentation called, "Friendship in the Age of AIDS." The KU Panhellenic Association and Interfraternity Council sponsored the event. Photo by Lynn Kalender/KANSAN
Loss of judgment leads to risky sex
By Sarah McWilliams
smcwilliams@kansan.com
Kanson staff writer
The day of the call, Sullivan was getting ready to go out on a Friday afternoon for a beer with his friends, but after the phone call, he blew off his friends and told Joel he would call him back during the weekend. He went home and did not answer the phone at all.
T. J. Sullivan remembers the day he got the phone call from his friend, Joel Goldman, who said he had HIV. Sullivan and Goldman had not kept in close contact since they attended Indiana University together in the mid-1980s.
After the initial shock, the two friends started working to educate people around the country about the dangers of mixing sex and alcohol — the combination that gave Joel the HIV virus.
Sullivan and Goldman spoke at the Lied Center yesterday to an audience of nearly 2,000 students. Their presentation was sponsored by the KU Panhellenic Association and the Interfraternity Council as part of Greek
"The reason we're giving this program is that we want you to be better prepared for your phone call than I was for mine," Sullivan said.
Week, a week of activities for greek organizations.
Despite the serious nature of their presentation, the two managed to keep the audience roaring with laughter and clapping, mostly through Sullivan's explanations of the four stages of drinking that lead to poor judgment when it comes to safe sex.
Stage one, Sullivan said, is the inhibited stage, when people at a party are not loosened up yet. Stage two comes after a few drinks, "When people will go up to people they normally find frightening," he said.
Stage three is the reaction stage, when the blood is using most of the body's oxygen to process the alcohol and not enough is getting to the brain.
"This is when the have to try really hard to act like they're not drunk," he said.
Elisa Juster, Minneapolis,
Minn., junior, said the humor
was the best part of the presentation.
"They were very open
about sex, very explicit."
Stage four is when motor control is lost and sober friends end up carrying their drunk friends up a flight of stairs.
The pair emphasized the importance of frendship and understanding in the age of AIDS. At the end of the presentation, Goldman took a sip from his water bottle and handed it to Sullivan.
"I'm HIV negative now," Sumuvan said, and then took a drink from the same bottle. "And I'm still HIV negative."
Shots between two cars may point to area gangs
Police officers investigating gunfire report
Kansan staff report
The Lawrence police department is investigating gun shots fired Monday night at the intersection of 19th Street and Nalsmith Drive.
A KU police officer was parked in the Oliver Hall parking lot when he heard what sounded like gunfire or fire works about 11 d.m. KU police said.
Lawrence police officers arrived at the scene and found gun-shell castings at the intersection. Thirty minutes later, the department received a call from a man who said his car had been shot. The man was not injured.
The shots resulted from a confrontation between people in two separate cars that had stopped at the intersection, Lawrence Police Chief Ron Olin said. One vehicle had pulled up next to the other vehicle and words were exchanged between the people in the two cars.
Some of the people involved in the incident have been identified by the Lawrence police department. Olin said the people police had identified were probably gang members from Lawrence and surrounding towns.
Police are looking at evidence from the victim's vehicle, Olin said.
Olin said there might be a gang connection to the shooting, but that the confrontation resulted from a random meeting, not an inter-gang rivalry.
18-year-old arrested for disorderly conduct
A KU police officer was assaulted Monday night by an 18-year-old KU student who had been arrested for driving while intoxicated.
Kansan staff report
The officer pulled the student over shortly before 8 p.m. because his car had expired tags, KU police said.
Policeman assaulted by intoxicated KU student
When the officer approached the vehicle to speak with the student, he smelled alcohol. The student failed a sobriety test, police said.
When the officer notified the student that he was under arrest for DWI, the student reportedly began to curse, threaten and call him names.
The student was arrested for assault, disorderly conduct and driving while intoxicated.