Tuesday, September 22, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A • Page 5
Date rape speech begins Greek Week
Other events include raffle local service
By Sarah Hale
Kansan staff writer
A speaker on date rape will kick off the 1998 Greek Week events tonight.
Katie Koestner, an expert on and counselor about rape, will talk about her own experience with date rape at 8 p.m. at the Lied Center to raise awareness about the subject.
Koestner was a victim of date rape while she was in college. One evening while Koestner was out with her friends, a male friend raped her after he had been drinking.
Koestner has been to more than 500 schools since 1991 telling students about awareness and prevention.
Counselors will be available at the Lied Center after the speech to talk with students, said Wes Simons, assistant director of greek programs.
During the rest of the week, many fraternities and sororites will participate in various events to promote student unity and to raise money for charity.
"There aren't a lot of events that bring together the entire greek community," Simons said. "This is one way to unify them."
Tomorrow, all greek members can participate in a dinner exchange at various chapter houses beginning at 5:30 p.m. Benton Kelly, co-chair of Greek Week, said the exchange was one way the members could get to know each other better.
GREEK WEEK
Today: Date Rape speaker at the Lied Center. 8 p.m.
Tomorrow: Dinner exchange at various chapter houses, 5:30 p.m.
- Thursday: Canned food drive and rattle ticket soles around campus, at the Kansas Union and at Wescoe Hall, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
- Friday: Greek Olympics on the Allen Field House front lawn 3-6 p.m.
Saturday: Greek garage sole at the Kappa Kappa Gamma house, 8 a.m.
The community service aspect of the week will begin Thursday. From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., students can donate canned foods or they can purchase raffle tickets at the Kansas Union and at Wescoe Hall.
The raffle ticket profits will be used later to help build a house in Lawrence. The project, "The House that 'Hawks/Greeks Built,' is in connection with the Oprah Winfrey Habitat for Humanity houses.
Greek members' attendance at the week's events also will be included in the competition.
The Greek Olympics, an annual event, will crown one greek team as the best in non-competitive sports.
From 3 to 6 p.m. Friday,
dozens of men and women will
be throwing water balloons
and playing beach volleyball on the
Allen Field House front lawn.
Greek Week will wrap-up Saturday with a garage sale at 8 a.m. at the Kappa Kappa Gamma house. The merchandise was donated by Greek chapters, and the proceeds will go toward the construction project.
Law, Business schools get connected
New computers to help students with coursework
By Chris Borniger Special to the Kansan
Classes in the Schools of Law and Business will be able to get on the information superhighway once renovations to Green and Summerfield Halls are completed.
Following a computerization trend in universities across the country, both schools will make it easier for KU students to use a laptop computer to take notes and access information for class work through ethernet connection, which allows quicker information access than regular connections.
"Today, especially in business but also in all other areas, you have to be comfortable with computers," said Gordon Fitch, professor of business and director of technology for the School of Business. "It's needed as a job skill."
Three rooms in Green Hall and two in Summerfield are still
undergoing renovation, though Summerfield already has two computer classrooms in use.
The cost of each classroom is approximately $100,000, a portion of which is paid for by the Crumbling Classrooms project, a state-funded program to renovate and improve existing buildings. Private contributors have financed the remaining costs.
The ethernet connection allows students to download data through a network at speeds up to 10 megabits per second. Standard dial-up internet connections are limited to about 56 kilobits per second.
Fitch, however, said there was great potential for the updated classrooms to help instructors and students.
"We'll have instantaneous communication," he said. "Faculty can assign more work over the network or the Internet. For the students, now there are a lot of research opportunities that weren't available before. I'm really excited about it."
Additionally, one of the new rooms in Summerfield will operate as a video classroom, which business classes will use for video
conferences.
"We'll have the potential to communicate with the rest of the world." Fitch said.
The renovation also will result in some curriculum changes. For example, officials are planning to make BUS 368, Statistics, a computer-based class.
Fitch, who leads a discussion class on the Internet, said technology already had an effect on his classes.
"It's much easier to be able to show something to students than trying to just describe things," he said. "It really expands the discussion more, and makes it more engaging. And it saves me time, so I can teach a better course."
As instructors assign an increasing amount of homework that requires access to a computer or the Internet, two large universities — the University of Florida and Virginia Tech—now require undergraduate and graduate students to own computers. Wake Forest University distributes laptops to all incoming students, though they pay $3,000 more in tuition each year.
Neither the School of Business nor the School of Law will mandate
"It's much easier to be able to show something to students than trying to just describe things."
Gordon Fitch
Business school director of technology
that students buy computers yet.
"We don't require our students to buy them, but we strongly encourage them to do so," said Rick Whitmore, technology coordinator for the School of Law. "Our philosophy is that the practice of law doesn't happen in just one place anymore. We're trying to train students to be connected and use those resources available to them."
Chris Merritt, Overland Park first-year law student, said he planned to take his laptop to the renovated rooms, but did not know what to expect.
"I can't see myself surfing the net while class is going on," he said. "I probably won't use it that much during class except to access Lexis-Nexus."
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