UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, September 9, 1996
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Multicultural Resource Center notes first birthday
Geoff Krieger/
KANSAN
Gloria Flores, associate director of Minority Affairs, shows off the new portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr., painted by artist Denny Dent, in the Multicultural Resource Center. The center had its one year anniversary on Friday, and the unveiling of the painting was part of the festivities.
Chancellor says multicultural focus important to KU
By Nicholas C. Charalambous
Kansan staff writer
About 100 students, staff, faculty and administrators, including Chancellor Robert Hemenway, attended a party Friday to celebrate the first birthday of the KU Multicultural Resource Center and to discuss plans for the center.
In the keynote address, Hemenway reiterated the University's commitment to multicultural education as the true mark of a quality education
"It represents a University for all people in Kansas, for all people in the United States and for all people in the world," he said about the center.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for
student affairs, said the center was a student-led initiative designed to elicit a statement of the University's commitment to multicultural education. He also said the center's continued success could only be guaranteed if the ethic of multiculturalism reached every corner of campus life.
"If multiculturalism only happens here, we will be a miserable failure," he said. "Only when multiculturalism totally invades the curriculum can we expect that we will make a difference in truly making our world one that is open and inclusive."
Ambler expressed similar concerns about the center being used only by minority students in an interview last year with the University Daily Kansan. After Friday's speech, he said that he was pleased with the center's first year of operation, but that the center had to be committed to expanding it's training activities.
"The work is out there," he said, pointing toward campus. "Training programs will help us make that jump."
He pledged to find money to support the center's expanded role.
The center's celebration featured music from local rock group Safety Orange, a jazz combo, a Lacota Sioux drummer and singer and songs by Inspirational Gospel Voices members Jessica Keith and Jennifer Keith, Kansas City, Kan., seniors and Andrea Lockett, Lenexa senior. There also was a birthday cake.
The party agenda included the dedication of a painting of Martin Luther King Jr., by artist Denny Dent, whose visit to the University last fall was co-sponsored by Student Union Activities and the Multicultural Resource Center. The painting will hang in the center's auditorium.
Peter Thompson, dean of fine arts,
donated about $250 to frame the painting,
said Gloria Flores, associate director of the
Office of Minority Affairs.
Flores said the painting was an appropriate message of openness and inclusiveness for the University.
A temporary exhibit by KU faculty artists Carol Ann Carter, Norman Gee, Roger Shimomura and Maria Velasco also is on display at the center.
Committee approves experiments
Bv Megan Jordan
Kansan staff writer
More than 900 research projects have crossed the desk of David Hann during the past year.
Hann, the coordinator of the KU Advisory Committee for Human Experimentation (ACHE), approves all KU experiments involving research on people.
Students or faculty members collecting data through surveying or observing people must have clearance from this committee, Hann said. This includes experiments that use Psychology 104 students as participants.
Hann said that government required universities receiving federal funds to have a similar committee.
The committee reviews projects ranging from the business department discovering customers' preferences on product-packaging to music education majors exploring music as therapy, Hann said.
"At any one time there are 900 such projects going on," he said. "Any department you can name has at least one study going on."
The psychology department and the School of Education faculty and students perform most of the studies.
In order for the committee to approve a project, the applicant must fill out a four-page form, Hann said. If the project's respondents are anonymous, it can usually be approved by a single committee member within a week. If elements of the experiment are unclear or could have an adverse impact on participants, the process could take more than two weeks.
Hann said graduate students were often hesitant to approach the committee because they thought the application process took a long time or that they would be turned down.
"Very few projects are turned down for good," he said. "Usually, the committee just needs clarification."
Hann said he would not be surprised if there was research being conducted on campus that had not gone through the committee. This practice could result in charges of academic or scholarly misconduct.
Although Hann's job consists mainly of reviewing experiments, it is also important to him that project participants know that they have rights.
"If someone says to you, 'Hey, fill out this survey,' you have the right to say 'What is this about?'" Hann said.
experiment should be told who is doing the project, what is being researched and why, what time commitments are involved, who they can call with questions and who is the faculty supervisor, Hann said. If this information is not provided, students should ask for it.
What is this about? *Students who agree to participate in an*
He also said students should remember that they had the same rights regardless of who was questioning them.
"Someone being interviewed by a sophomore has as many rights as someone being interviewed by faculty," Hann said.
said.
He said he had never heard of a student feeling uncomfortable or being deceived by experimenters.
by children
Julienne Henry, Baxter Springs freshman, said she was a little nervous about being asked personal questions before she participated in her first experiment for Psychology 104.
However, the researcher did a good job explaining his purpose, which made her feel better, Henry said. She was also asked to sign a consent form.
"I'm sure I wouldn't go ahead with it if I didn't feel comfortable," Henry said. "To me, signing the consent form meant I wasn't going to back out; what they were doing was OK with我."
ON THE RECORD
A brick wall at the Jayhawk Bookstore, 1420 Crescent Road, was damaged between 6 p.m. Wednesday and 7:30 a.m. Thursday, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $450.
A KU student's wallet, cash and other miscellaneous items were stolen between 10 p.m. Aug. 31 and 12 noon Sept. 1 from a car in the 100 block of Florida Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $123.
A building at Campus Place Apartments, 1145 Louisiana, was damaged between 9 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. last Monday, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $100.
A KU employee's mountain bike and lock were stolen between 3:10 and 3:25 a.m. Sept. 1 from the KU power plant, Sunflower Road and Sunnyside Avenue, KU police said. The items were valued at $437.
A KU student's car stereo and
CD's were stolen and her car window was damaged between 11 p.m. Thursday and 9 a.m. Friday in the 2400 block of W. 25th Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $1.485.
A KU student's shirts, skirt and shorts were stolen from a home between 11 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Friday in the 1800 block of Louisiana Street, Lawrence police said. The clothes were valued at $290.
Two guides report that KU more than makes the grade
By Lindsey Henry Kansan staff writer
Pride in the crimson and the blue is on the rise. In less than two weeks, two national college guides have recognized the University of Kansas with top academic, social and economic rankings.
The 1997 Fiske Guide to Colleges placed the University first in academics and second in quality of life and social life. The University was also ranked 10th by the editors of U.S. News and World Report for the best value, based on tuition cost and quality of education.
"I was impressed with the overall beauty of the campus as well as the quality of the facilities and, of course, the general friendliness of the people I met," said Edward Fiske, author of the Fiske Guide and former New York Times education editor.
Written in a journalistic style, the Fiske Guide mails questionnaires annually to university administrations and students to profile 300 of the nation's best and most interesting four-year colleges.
students because it asks the same questions students were considering.
Fiske said he thought his guide was trustworthy for
"The questions relate to academic quality but also to other key factors that affect the selection of a college — the academic climate, student-faculty relationships, who the students are, the social life, extracurriculars and so forth," Fiske said. "We then write up what the students say. It's essentially journalistic enterprise."
The University's high ranking pleased Chancellor Robert Hemenway.
"This is a reaffirmation of the University's strong commitment to provide students with a balanced and quality experience, both academically and socially," he said.
socially. In The Fiske Guide, the University scored four out of a possible five stars to place first in academics, tying with the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Texas at Austin. The University of Kansas and the University of Texas also earned four stars in social life and quality of life, edged out of first place by Colorado.
For Nora Anckrum, Overland Park sophomore at the University of Texas,
the decision not to attend the University of Kansas was based only on her desire to get out of the state.
"I have always loved Lawrence, but I wanted to go out of state, and Texas had the best out of state tuition," Ankrum said. "Maybe if Lawrence had been a new thing for me, I would have gone to KU. At Texas I can still get the best of both worlds, socially and academically."
U. S. News and World Report ranked the University 10th among public institutions, and 11th among both public and private schools, for the best overall price. The report's best-value ranking of 50 national universities was devised to provide a measure of where students can get the best education for their money.
Other Big 12 Conference schools making U.S. News and World Report's list were Texas A&M in second place, the University of Texas at Austin in 16th place, Iowa State University at Ames in 25th and the University of Missouri in 35th place. Out-of-state tuition rates were used to assess the public universities.
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