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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, October 14,1996
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ON THE RECORD
A KU student's 7-by-1 glass window was broken between 9:30 and 9:40 p.m. Thursday at a house in the 500 block of Fireside, Lawrence police said. The window was valued at $50.
A KU student's four pairs of blue jeans were stolen between 9 p.m. Wednesday and 9 a.m. Thursday from a house in the 500 block of Colorado St. Lawrence police said. The pants were valued at $230.
A KU student's hubs caps were stolen between 10 p.m. Tuesday and 7:30 a.m. Friday from a car in the 1600 block of W. 15th Street, Lawrence police said. The hubs caps were valued at $160.
A KU student's book bag and a textbook were stolen between 4:15 and 4:30 p.m. Tuesday from room 3031 in the Dole Center. KU police said. The items were valued at $80.
A pane of glass was broken between 6 p.m. Wednesday and 3 a.m. Thursday in room 2009E in Learned Hall, KU police said. The glass was valued at $25.
Two books were stolen from a KU employee's office in Bailey Hall between 9.30 a.m. and 12 p.m. Oct. 7, KU police said. The books were valued at $104.
A KU student's parking permit was stolen between 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and 2 p.m. Thursday from a car in lot 57 of Allen Field House, KU.
police said. The permit was valued at $56.
■ A KU student's convertible top was damaged and a stereo was stolen between 6 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Saturday from a car in the 1700 block of 24th Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $700.
■ A KU student's mountain bike was stolen between 12 and 10 a.m. Tuesday from a house in the 1500 block of Tennessee St., Lawrence police said. The bike was valued at $500.
■ A KU student's stereo and CD's were stolen between 1 a.m. and 2 p.m. Wednesday from a car in the 1800 block of Naisnith Drive, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $408.
■ A KU student's cellular phone was stolen at 1:15 p.m. Oct. 6 somewhere in the 1000 block of Vermont Street, Lawrence police said. The phone was valued at $38.
■ A KU student's stereo and miscellaneous items were stolen between 12:30 and 8 a.m. from a house in the 1400 block of Eddingham Drive, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $405.
■ A KU student's amplifier and miscellaneous items were stolen between 7:30 p.m. Oct. 1 and 10:50 a.m. Oct. 5 from a car in the 1600 block of
police said. The permit was valued at $56.
A KU student's convertible top was damaged and a stereo was stolen between 6 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Saturday from a car in the 1700 block of 24th Street, Lawrenceville said. The items were valued at $700.
A KU student's mountain bike was stolen between 12 and 10 a.m. Tuesday from a house in the 1500 block of Tennessee St., Lawrence police said. The bike was valued at $500.
A KU student's stereo and miscellaneous items were stolen between 12:30 and 8 a.m. Friday from a house in the 1400 block of Eddingham Drive, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $405.
A KU student's cellular phone was stolen at 1:15 p.m. Oct. 6 somewhere in the 1000 block of Vermont Street, Lawrence police said. The phone was valued at $38.
A KU student's stereo and CD's were stolen between 1 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Wednesday from a car in the 1800 block of Naismith Drive, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $408.
A KU student's amplifier and miscellaneous items were stolen between 7:30 p.m. Oct. 1 and 10:50 a.m. Oct. 4. Oft from a car in the 1600 block of the University, they were found in the parking lot.
Being gay and greek 'not OK'
By Ashlee Roll
Kansan staff writer
Coming out of the closet to family and friends is tough. But being lesbian or gay in the Greek system presents its own unique set of problems.
On Friday, National Coming Out Day, about 20 people discussed coming out to the greek system in the Multicultural Resource Center.
"I definitely got the message it was not OK," said Nicole lightburn, Lawrence senior and former member of the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority. "There is strong heterosexuality that is encouraged with the way they function socially. It doesn't foster community comfort with coming out."
"They told me it was because of bad grades," Lightburn said. "But there were other women who were kept on who had bad grades also."
Lightburn said she kept her sexuality a secret for a year while in her sorority, but when she told sorority members that she was a lesbian, she was made to leave the chapter.
Bill Nelson, coordinator for greek programs, said that until fraternities and sororites made members comfortable about all differences, those differences would remain hidden.
"Chapters need to provide information on individual differences," he said. "Either ethnic, religious or sexual."
Samantha Korshin, Lawrence resident and former member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority, said she was forced out of the closet by rumors and then came out as an alumna.
"In 1909, I was the pledge honor initiate, which means I embodied everything the Deltas thought a woman should be," Korshin said. "When I was a junior, I came out to myself and started bringing my girlfriend around the house. Sometimes I'd pass women in the house and they'd say 'there's that dyke.'"
When she finally came out, Korshin said that the majority of her sorority sisters were supportive.
Bill Friend, a former member of Phi Kappa Tau at Kansas State University and member at the
workshop, said that he was closeted when he was in his fraternity.
"I think they caught on in the house," Friend said. "But they looked on me as a brother, and it wasn't a big deal for them."
Chapters need to be pro-active to educate greek community members. Nelson said.
"We do a variety of programs designed to educate," he said. "On an annual basis, we do programming on individual differences including Greek endeavor, which is leadership training."
Many panel members had their own ideas on how to change the heterosexual mentality that they feel permeates the greek system.
Lightburn said social activities such as date-dashes enforced heterosexuality in the greek system. She suggested that such activities should be changed.
Korshin agreed.
"The entire system is submerged in heterosexism," she said. "There are pinning ceremonies, date dashes and everything is based on a collegesoriority-job-marriage mental."
ON CAMPUS
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will celebrate Mass at 12:30 p.m. today at Danforth Chapel. For more information, call Rev. Ray May at 843-0367.
Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center will present "The Noon Network Stress Eliminators" from noon to 1 p.m. today at Abbey Hospital. For more information, call 864-3562.
- International Student Association will meet at 6 tonight at the International Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call David Cohan at 841-1010.
KU Meditation Club will meet at 6 o'clock at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union. For more information, call Pannir at 874-736.
KU Women's Rugby Football Club will play at 6 tonne at 23rd and Iowa streets. For more information, call Stacey fields at 749-3380.
**Feminist Collective Force will meet at 7 tonight at the Walnut Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Stephanie Harsin at 841-3164.**
KU Democrats will sponsor "Meet the Candidate," featuring U.S. Senate candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Student Legislative Awareness Board will sponsor a speech by U.S. Senate candidate Sally Thompson at 7:30 tonight at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Ashleigh de la Torre at 843-3710.
Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Ann Marchand at 841-8127.
Association for Anorexia Nervosa & Associated Disorders will have an Eating Disorders Support Group meeting from 8 to 9 tonight in 327 Fraser Hall. For more information, call Alicia Cabrera at 865-5757.
Students question Regents
By Lindsey Henry
Kansas staff writer
Jen Kimball, Ulysses junior., talks to Board of Regents chair Phyllis Nolan and Stephan Jordan, the Board's executive director, during lunch Friday.
During a dinner of pasta and popcorn shrimp at Ekdahl Dining Commons, seven members of the KU Honors Program discussed linear tuition and qualified admissions with two members of the Board of Regents.
Phyllis Nolan, chairwoman of the Regents, and Stephen Jordan, executive director of the Regents, visited campus Friday as a part of Nolan's tour of all six state universities.
During the luncheon, Patricia Hernandez, Bucaramanga, Colombia, junior. asked Nolan and Jordan to
explain the reasoning behind implementing linea tuition.
"The whole idea of higher education is to broaden interests," Hernandez said. "This whole concept sounds like socialism."
Jordan said the concept of linear tuition was to decrease class shopping and to add flexibility for the universities as to how money was spent.
"The whole premise is to pay for what you get and vice versa," Jordan said. "This prevents students from subsidizing other students."
Nolan said she wanted higher education to continue to have a high precedence in the state.
"It's not that any of the Regents don't want you to take more classes," Nolan said. "This is a balance of policies for the state. It is a question of balance of money for more prisons, social programs or higher education. Unfortunately higher education always gets talked about in terms of money, not ideas."
Jordan said there was also a push in the state to restrain students who take an excessive number of elective hours prior to graduation.
"When students take hundreds of hours, it exhausts
the state's resources." he said.
nemandez said she likely was selected to eat lunch with the Regents because the Honors Program wanted a diverse group of students represented.
Jordan agreed.
"I felt that they were receptive to some new ideas, even though they don't ever get a chance hear them," Hernandez said.
"Visits like this let us learn more of what's on people's minds," Jordan said. "When the Board is so far removed, we know the monolithic university. We need to put faces with it."
The seven faces the Regents met with were in favor of the policy for qualified admissions, beginning with the freshmen in 2001.
"It is not the legislature's job to motivate students," Hernandez said. "But they do need to stress the importance of the ability to teach in the classroom."
Nolan said the state's universities should not be viewed as four-year job-training sessions.
"Personally, I don't like to think the universities are training grounds for your first job," Nolan said. "They prepare you for life."
Band Day tradition makes bands wake up early for Lawrence trip
By Liz Musser Kansan staff writer
Sitting on a park bench prior to the parade, Bryan Schroeder worried more about the young cheerleaders prancing by than he did about his trumpet solo.
He and the 108 members of his high school marching band had left Arkansas City at 3 a.m. Saturday, with the destination of the Band Day parade in downtown Lawrence. Arriving about 8 a.m., the Arkansas City High School marching band found themselves in the company of 98 Kansas and Missouri high school bands.
Nonchalantly gazing at the sea of brightly dressed high schoolers toting instruments, batons and pompoms, Schroeder said that Band Day was an important event for his marching band.
what we usually do," he said. "Plus we set to watch a good game."
"It's a big deal. It's different than
The marching bands gathered in Lawrence for the 49th-annual Band Day. The bands participated in the 8:30 a.m. parade on Massachusetts Street, which was led by the KU marching band. All of the bands then performed in the KU/Texas Tech halftime show Saturday afternoon.
Randy Raines, Arkansas City band director, said that his band had been practicing for Band Day since school started. He said the hardest part about Band Day was the early morning trip.
"It's not real easy to convince a hundred kids to get up at three in the morning." he said.
Tonganoxie Junior High was one of two junior high school marching bands in the parade. Instead of elaborate marching band uniforms, members of the band wore simple red sweatshirts.
Brooke Ojala, who played the clarinet for the band, said she didn't care about uniforms.
"It matters if you play hard," she said. "I could walk out there buck naked and play well and somebody in fancy uniform could walk out there and suck."
Barbara Dirks came all the way from Larned to watch Band Day for the first time.
"I love bands," she said. "I always wanted my kids to play, but now I'll have to work on my grandkids."
Tracy Cambron, Elkhorn, Neb., sophomore and piccolo player for the KU marching band, said it was fun to be the role model band for the high school bands.
"It's pretty cool because everyone is watching you," she said. "The high schoolers come and they see us, and they may decide they want to be in the KU marching band someday."
All you can eat TACOS!
...Tuesday at Dos Hombres MARGARITA NIGHT
ALL HOUSE MARGARITAS
DINNER SPECIAL:
$5.25 HOMBRE BURRITO
NIPPON KENPO
Meetings:
Mondays and Wednesdays 6:30 to 8:00 pm Robinson Gym, Room 207 April Wheeler 749-5260
Learn sport kenpo and improve overall fitness in a friendly club atmosphere with award-winning instructor Hikaru Murata!
"Indian Mascots, Nicknames, and the Tomahawk Chop"A Multimedia Program
Wednesday Oct.16, 11:30 a.m.
A Multimedia Program At the Multicultural Resource Center
BOCO University of Kansas Board of Class Officers
BOCO University of Kansas Board of Class Officers
H.O.P.E. Award
Applications for outstanding, progressive educators are available in the O.A.C. office in the Kansas Union
Elections will be held on Wescoe Beach Oct. 30 & 31
Nominations are due October 18th in the O.A.C. office
BOCO University of Kansas Board of Class Officers
BOCO University of Kansas Board of Class Officers