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Thursday, October 17, 1996
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Up the street without a river
Tyler Wirken / KANSAN
As part of a class assignment, Brian Brazil, Lawrence junior, interprets his route to class as a winding river while Richard Cook, KU graduate,
Tyler Wirken | KANSAN photographs him along Emery Rd. Brazil was working on the assignment yesterday for his Visual Concepts class.
Sports' influence fosters racism with Native-American mascots
Instructor says logos like Braves and Indians should be banned
By Nicholas C. Charalambous
Kansas staff writer
Cornel Pewwardy, instructor in the School of Education, was a football and basketball coach. He knows what moves American culture — sports.
And sports teams like the Washington Redskins, the Atlanta Braves and the Cleveland Indians that use Native-American mascots only perpetuate racism, he said.
"People in America are very used to making fun of Indians. It's as American as apple pie and baseball." Peweward told about 50 students yesterday at the Multicultural Resource Center. "We want to entertain ourselves, but let's leave out the ugliness."
Pewewaddy gave a multimedia presentation, Indian Mascots, Nicknames and the Tomahawk Chopin which he displayed a poster with three fake sports pennants: the Pittsburgh Negroes, the Kansas City Jews and the San Diego Caucasians. The last was the actual Cleveland Indians pennant that read, "Now you know how American Indians feel."
Pewewardy called on sports teams to refuse to play other teams with Native-American mascots.
"Many times people are so oblivious to the issues that people won't sit down and listen until you hit them in the pocket book," he said.
He applauded the Minneapolis Star Tri-
"People in America
are very used to making
fun of Indians.
It's as American as
apple pie and
baseball."
CornelPewewardy school of education instructor
bune, which had banned the use of offensive Native-American nicknames, logos and symbols in photographs and reports. He contrasted the tribune with The Kansas City Star, which last week featured a front-page picture of a Kansas City Chiefs fan wearing a fake headdress.
Miriam Pepper, readers' representative for The Kansas City Star, said she had received one complaint about the photograph, but had advised the photo editor to avoid repeated photographs of this type. The newspaper has no policy on the use of nicknames or mascots, she said.
Amanda Traughber, editor of the University Daily Kansan, said that the newspaper would not use the offensive logos.
"We are working on getting a logo of the Chiefs that does not have an arrowhead on it."
said Traughber, Overland Park senior.
I reewardy recalled taking his children to a Kansas City Chiefs game at which fans wore fake headresses and did the tomahawk chop. When he pointed out that this was offensive to Native-Americans, he said people threw rocks, spilled beer and spat at his children.
The incident convinced Pewwardy that multicultural education of tomorrow's youth was the way to end racism. Most Native-Americans are educated in public schools, which still teach that Native-Americans got in the way of American progress, he said
"If you came here open minded, you were going to find out why I, as an American Indian, am offended," she said. "You won't completely understand why, but you'll get some knowledge from it."
Hilda SozaWarSoldier, Davis, Calif., junior said education was key.
Inspectors find 470 fire code violations in 36 greek houses
By Ashlee Roll
Kansan staff writer
Lawrence fire inspectors found 470 fire code violations in 36 University of Kansas fraternities and sororities.
Maj. Richard Barr, Lawrence fire marshal, said most of the infractions stemmed from extension cord violations and faulty sprinkler systems, fire alarms and fire extinguishers.
"In the past five years, statistics show that congregated residences in Lawrence are a hazard," Barr said. "They are a high life and high property hazard, and that's why we inspect them more than once a year."
Of the 470 violations, 135 were extension cord infractions.
Barr said only one type of extension cord, a power strip, was allowed in Lawrence.
Barr also said that another common violation was the overload of electrical cords. The fire department found students had plugged a power strip into the wall and then plugged another power strip into the original.
Barr said that attention was drawn to fire hazards in 1987, when the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house had a fire.
Sigma Phi Epsilon had 44 violations this year, making it the highest violator.
Matt Meusey, Omaha, Neb., senior
and president of Sigma Phi Epsilon, said that the violations were mainly inappropriate extension cords, batteries missing from smoke detectors and cover plates missing from wall switches.
"We are taking every step necessary to correct the problems and bring them up to fire code standards." Meusley said.
Inspections are made twice a year, at the beginning of each semester. In the fall, the fire marshal conducts the inspections. In the spring, the prevention division reinspects the properties.
Inoperative emergency lights and exit signs, inoperative or absent fire detectors, blocked exits or pathways and inappropriate storage were other common infractions.
Barr said that in 1993, when he began to tighten fire code regulations, one of four congregated residences had had a fire within the past 10 years.
The Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity had 38 violations, making it the second-highest offender.
"We were unprepared for the inspection," said Todd Guerrieri, Lake Forest, Ill., senior and chapter president. He said that all violations had been corrected.
Of the 37 houses, Pi Beta Phi sorority had no violations and the Alpha Delta Pi sorority had one.
University graduate will speak to students tonight
The houses have at least 30 days to correct the violations.
By Stephanie Fite Kansan staff writer
He's been on Wall Street, graced the cover of Fortune magazine in 1986 and is what most KU business students aspire to be.
KU School of Business graduate David C. Wittig, known as Wall Street's most successful young executive at age 40, will lecture tomorrow at 7 p.m. at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. The free event is open to all students.
Several business students said they were excited about the speech.
"I am always looking for advice from people who are successful at what they are doing," said Charles Laboy, Brooklyn, N.Y., senior and vice president of professional activities for Delta Sigma Pi fraternity in the business school. "He is living proof that it is possible that it can be done."
The Graduate Business Counsel and Delta Sigma Pi are sponsoring the lecture. The speech will focus on Wittig's success on Wall Street and a $1.7 billion hostile takeover that Wittig is leading.
Wittig, a Prairie Village-native, is the president of Western Resources in Toneka.
Western Resources is attempting a
takeover of Kansas City Power & Light. This will break up the Kansas City, Mo-based utility's union and the Kansas City-based UtiliCorp United Inc., said Josh Meyer, Omaha, Neb, senior and president of Delta Sigma Pi.
After 18 years on Wall Street and the completion of 150 mergers, including 23 hostile bids in the securities industry, Wittig returned home to head Western Resources and to the Kansas and Missouri war, Laboy said.
"He is a successful graduate of the business school and the lecture will provide an opportunity for students to seek advice from him," he said.
Meyer said Wittig's success on Wall Street was encouraging.
"He is a dynamic person, and I am interested to see what is behind his drive and motivation," he said.
Brian Stark, Prairie Village graduate student and president of the Graduate Business Counsel, said Wittig's lecture would enhance the education of students who wished to pursue a career in business.
"It's always good to learn from experience," he said. "A professor can tell you academic theories all day long. A speaker helps to apply these theories to the real world."
Jyarland Jones, Junction City senior and executive vice president of Delta Sigma Pi. agreed.
"This is a wonderful opportunity for the business school and for the University to sponsor a KU graduate who has had such an impact on our society," Jones said.
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