UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, September 27, 1996
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Chris Hamilton/KANSAN
Steven Quoetone, Carnegie, Okla. resident, dances at the Indian Arts Festival at Haskell Indian Nations University. This week, Haskell will hold a powwow.
Day celebrates culture
By Bradley Brooks Kansan staff writer
A celebration of Native American culture begins today with two days of traditional dancing, singing and informative presentations at Haskell Indian Nations University.
"It is a time for students to feel they have an avenue to show appreciation for their culture," said Freda Tapedo, Haskell's students' rights officer. "It gives the opportunity to share our culture and to educate not only the public, but ourselves."
The two-day event coincides with American Indian Day, which is observed today.
Tapedo said that American Indian Day was officially adopted by the Society of American Indians in 1915.
"Indians needed a day for the glory of their fathers and their achievements," he said.
Avis Little Eagle, managing editor of Indian Country Today, a newspaper in Rapid City,
$ \mathrm{SD}_{2} $ said that American Indian Day was also intended to increase the contact with and education of people of other races.
"The day is supposed to bring about healing and create understanding between the races." Little Eagle said.
Travis Rhodes, a freshman representative in the Haskell student senate, said that he encouraged all people to come to the pow-wow.
"If you're trying to enrich your education of Indian culture, then this is the place to do it," Rhodes said.
Michael Yellow Bird, professor of social welfare, said that he hoped the educational benefits of the powwow and other activities would have impacts on a larger-than-local scale.
"I think what really is going to happen is some deconstructing of American myths." Yellow Bird said. "It will be a look at how indigenous people got to where they are today."
Group keeps students aware
By Neal Shulenburger
Kansan staff writer
KU students voicing their opinions and politicians actually listening to what they say may sound unlikely to some, but the Student Legislative Awareness Board doesn't think so.
The board created a calling tree that would put students in touch with their local politicians.
The system is called the Jayhawk Network. Ashleigh de la Torre, Topeka senior and legislative director for the board, said the idea was simple.
"The basic premise behind the network is that elected officials are more willing to listen to constituents than people who are not," she said. "If we get students to call their congressmen from their own districts they are more likely to listen to them than those who just come on campus."
Abby Kepka, Ellsworth sophomore and coordinator of the network, said that the network
"Right now most politicians think that voters ages 18-23 are an apathetic group," she said. "We want to show them that not only KU students but students from all across the state know what is going on and care about politics."
was about to shake some common political myths about college students.
De la Torre plans to go to Topeka and find issues and legislation that could affect college students. She will then contact Kepa who will
have a committee call students in the network and inform them about the issues. The students will then be able to contact their representatives and voice their opinions.
The network will be adding members at a board meeting at 8:30 p.m. Monday in the Pine room at the Kansas Union They will also have sign up tables at a voter registration drive that will be held Oct. 14-18 on campus.
However, students should not expect the
network to be in operation this semester.
"It's going to take a semester to get all of the members onto the network," de la Torre said. "Next semester we should be up and running."
JAYHAWK NETWORK
Attend the Student Legislative Awareness Board meeting at 8:30 p.m. monday in the Pine Room at the Kansas Union
Sign up at the voter registration tables on campus during the Oct. 14-18 voter registration drive.
How to become a member of the Jayhawk Network.
Council revises financial aid goals
By Lindsey Henry Kansan staff writer
After scrutiny from the University Scholarship Center and the offices of Admissions and Financial Aid, the University Council revised goals for the Financial Aid to Students Committee yesterday afternoon.
Lloyd Sponholtz, president of the Senate Executive Committee said the original, lengthy goals, or charges, established by University Governance apparently offended everyone involved.
"We decided to collapse the charges," Sponholtz said. "We did not intend for Governance to be a body to be accountable to. We didn't want to add a burden to the offices of Financial Aid, Admissions and the Scholarship Center."
Financial Aid to Students Committee was a monitoring committee that evaluated the financial aid available to students.
Laurence Draper, president of the University Council, said the
The original 15 charges called for the committee to report on the University's progress in attraction and retention of National Merit Scholars and Mount Oread Scholars, as well as to examine the mechanisms the University used to determine the amount of aid distributed to students.
"We fear another office or committee coming in to dictate." Ruel said. "It takes a great deal of time to work with committees like these. We end up spending more time with administrative reports than with the students. We have to decide what is our first prior-
Such information is already processed by the University Scholarship Center, said Marti Ruel, director of the center.
itv."
After listening to complaints that some of the charges were intrusive, SenEx voted to shorten its list to six charges, Sponholtz said.
A charge that was not altered was one that included a plan for a brochure to be sent to Kansas high school sophomores. The brochure encourages the students to begin financial planning for their college education. The idea was proposed by Connie Powell, chairwoman of the committee.
"It is essential for students to plan ahead for their expenses," Powell said. "This questionnaire would be sent to students by the tenth-grade level so that they could enter the University with some confidence to finish."
Addressing the need to inform future students of education costs, University Gov-
emance also included a charge to receive estimates and publicize the student loan debt burden at the University.
"There is too much student debt," Powell said. "Students take loans with a naive concept of what the payback will be." In other University Council
In other University Council business:
Responding to a request from the Board of Regents, a committee will start to finetune and revise the current instructor-evaluation forms which students complete each semester. Draper said the Regents intent was to establish a uniform, system-wide student evaluation form.
The administration has approved financing for additional emergency blue phones to be installed around campus, specifically in the interior of campus buildings.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's stereo, radar detector and CD's were stolen between 8:30 p.m. Friday and 2:30 p.m. Saturday from a car in the 1500 block of Tennessee Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $1900.
ON CAMPUS
A KU student's camera, CD's and miscellaneous items were stolen between 8 a.m. Sept. 15 and 7:30 p.m. Sept. 16 from a home in the 700 block of Illinois Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $424.
A KU student's car was damaged and CDs were stolen between 9 p.m. sept. 19 and 3 a.m. sept. 21 from a car in Lot 111 west of Corbin Hall, KU police said. The items were valued at $275.
Recreation Services will have KU Juggling at 12:30 p.m. today in front of Strong Hall. For more information, call Mark Ellner at 841-4203.
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will celebrate Mass at 12:30 p.m. today in the Danforth Chapel. For more information, call Father Ray May at 842-0357.
Tae Kwon Do Club will meet from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. today and 9:30 to 10:30 p.m. Sunday in 207 Robinson. For more information, call Adam at 842-9112.
KU KI Aikido Club will meet from 10 a.m. to noon tomorrow in 207 Robinson. For more information, call Jill Woodworth at 864-1798.
KU Ballroom Dancing Club will have lessons from 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday in the Kansas Union Ballroom. For more information, call Shane Haas at 864-6597.
Campus Christian will have Sunday celebration at 7 p.m. at 1320 Ohio St. For more information, call Jim Musser at 842-6592.
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