UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, October 10, 1996
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Minority recruitment ideas given to Senate
By Spencer Duncan
Kansan staff writer
The Student Senate examined a proposal last night recommending ways the University of Kansas could improve minority recruitment and retention.
The recommendations were made by a multicultural affairs subcommittee.
Ron Chen, multicultural affairs chairman, said that the proposal was a rough draft but that it was an important document.
"This is an issue that has been examined by a lot of people," Chen said. "It is something being examined by the Board of Regents."
Among the ideas were granting students who receive minority scholarships automatic admission to the Honors Program, instituting sensitivity training for faculty and increasing advertising.
The subcommittee will release a final report by Nov. 1. Chen said.
Grey Montgomery, student body president, said he was pleased to see the recommendations. He said the recommendations would go beyond the University.
"This is something that will go to the Regents," Montgomery said. "They are interested in this and so it is very important."
In other business, the Senate
passed a bill that will provide $200 for a speaker who will discuss career development with graduate students.
Some senators questioned whether the money should come from Senate or the graduate student association, which received money from Student Senate through block allocations.
Jason Angilan, graduate senator, said there was little money left from the $83,000 the graduate students received.
"This is only a small amount of money that we are asking for," Angilansaid.
The Senate passed the bill.
KU graduate student David-Michael Allen directs Eric Leonard, Flossmoor, Ill., senior, and Jessica Tebow, Courtland, Kan., senior. Leonard will play the character of Lloyd Stiller, and Tebow will play Bernadette in The Camp Follower. The play is produced by the English Alternative Theater and will open tonight at the Lawrence Arts Center.
New play in Lawrence weaves tale of issues
By Eric Weslander Kansan staff writer
Picketers, radical politicians and the media will clash in Lawrence this weekend. Fortunately, they will be on stage instead of in the streets.
The Camp Follower, an original play by KU graduate Scott Pinkston, opens tonight at the Lawrence Arts Center, 200 W. Ninth St. The play is produced by English Alternative Theatre. The performance will be the first for the play, which examines modern political and social issues ranging from homosexuality to media ethics.
The plot follows Lloyd Stiller, a free-lance television reporter, on a series of news stories in which he encounters a robbery-folling drag queen, an ultra-conservative gubernatorial candidate and a gay-bashing preacher. Along the way, the stories become intertwined and make Stiller question his own values and beliefs.
Thematically, I wanted The
Camp Follower to shine a spotlight on the effects of the symbiotic cycle of prostitution in which politics, religion, corporate America and the media have become trapped." Pinkston said in a thematic synopsis.
For female impersonator Rhapsody in Red, who impersonates Liza Minelli during the performance, the subject matter is nothing new. The Overland Park senior, who did not give his off-stage name, said being gay in the Midwest had acquainted him with the type of conflicts about homosexuality that occur in the play.
Director David Michael Allen, who calls himself David-Michael, said the play presented all of its characters as human beings. That would let audience members see
"It's something that I've seen, and something that I've had to struggle with," he said. "The play presents a story that, to my knowledge, has never been presented on stage before."
both sides of each issue,he said.
The cast and crew did not shrink from the play's sensitive topics, said Allen, a Lawrence graduate student.
"As controversial as it is in places, we've never backed off from that controversv." he said.
English Alternative Theatre, which is in its seventh year, was created by Paul Lim, associate professor of English, as an opportunity to showcase his students' plays. The Camp Follower will be entered in the annual American College Theater Festival competition.
Lim said English Alternative Theatre's performances benefited the community as well as the playwrights, crews and casts.
"We tend to do plays that are not part of the mainstream," he said. "In an academic town like Lawrence, there's a very definite place for the sort of things we do."
Performances are at 8 p.m. today, Friday and Saturday, and at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are $5.
Prescription for improvement
Pam Dishman/KANSAN
Chancellor Robert Hemenway presents a $25,000 check to Jack E. Fincham, dean of the School of Pharmacy, in Malott Hall. The money, which was presented yesterday, was committed to the University of Kansas by the American Drug
Stores Inc. The University will receive $50,000 to support renovation plans for student laboratories in Malott. The renovations will include the purchase of new computers and medical equipment for the laboratories.
ON CAMPUS
KU Meditation Club will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union. For more information, call Pannir at 864-7736.
KU Champions will have a meeting and gaming from 6:30 to 10:30 tonight at the parliars in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Erik Lindsley at 841-4585.
Biology Club will meet at 6 p.m. today at 1005 Haworth Hall. For more information, call Jose Miranda at 838-4529.
Psi Chi will meet at 6:30 p.m. today at 547 Fraser Hall. For more information, call Matt Mieel at 824-7394.
sponsor Peace in the Middle East at 7 tonight at Alceve B in the Kansas Nation. For more information, call Trace Schmetz at 843-6049.
Christian Science Organization will
Intervarsity Graduate Christian Fellowship will have Bible study at 7 tonight at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Becky at 864-8039.
Icthus will meet at 7:30 tonight in the Burge Union. For more information, call Scott Nissens at 838-9719.
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship will meet at 7:30 tonight at Adelson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Jason Brown at 749-2480.
A KU student's window was damaged and a radar detector was stolen between 11 p.m. Saturday and 10:30 a.m. Sunday from a car in lot 109, west of Johannesburg Towers, KU police said. The items were valued at $315.
A A Mid-America Concessions flatbed trailer was stolen between 3:30 p.m. May 30 and 9:30 a.m. Aug. 15, KU police said. The trailer was valued at $1,150.
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