UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, August 28, 1996
7A
Feminist group tries to survive
By Nicholas C. Charalambous
Kansan staff writer
For the Feminist Collective Force, there isn't a moment to lose in the fight for equality. But recently the focus has turned to a different fight — the group's survival.
On Monday the fight began when Doris Cordero, Lawrence senior, and Stephanie Harsin, Lawrence junior, wrote to more than 30 people on the group's mailing list asking if they wanted to be involved this semester. Harsin said she had received four responses.
Toward the end of the spring semester, only five core members were attending general meetings, some committees had been abandoned and personal problems had surfaced between members, said Regan Cowan, Topeka, junior, who has dropped out of the group.
"We all got so burned out,"Cowan
said. "By the end, we had a negative understanding of collective work."
The organization was established last fall as a collective, which meant that no member led the group and that decisions were reached by a consensus.
It took from 20 minutes to an hour to agree on a single issue, and as many as eight issues were presented at each general meeting, Cordero said.
Each week, members attended a general meeting for at least two hours and spent one or two hours more at committee meetings where plans were hammered out for the group's activities.
As the first women's activist group on campus in several years, members tried to do too much, she said.
That didn't include hanging fliers, making ribbons and organizing events, said Amy Turnbull, Fairway senior, who was also a student senator, a volunteer at the Center for Community Outreach and a volunteer at Jubilee Cafe.
"It was hellacious," she said, referring to her own commitments. "A real marathon every day."
Members said the challenge of reaching a consensus created personal differences not based on political disagreements.
The group has not registered with the Organizations and Activities Center.
Cordero said she thought the group could work as a collective and it had an excellent chance of surviving if the group's ambitions were scaled down. The group may have to do fewer things with more passion, she said.
"I don't know if I could deal with not having it around," she said. "Maybe a weekly meeting where we share ideas and our own personal work. Not organizing or fighting for other people, but for ourselves."
The Feminist Collective Force's process of reaching a consensus has several steps:
Making a consensus
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A member or a representative of a standing committee presents a proposal to the group for discussion.
A facilitator solicits questions about the proposal and encourages members to voice their opinions.
The facilitator offers the modified proposal to the group for discussion until the proposal is ready to be agreed upon by all members.
If members aren't happy with the proposal, a compromise is sought.
If a member dissents, the proposal is sent back to the committee and the process begins again.
Waking up is hard to do, students find
By Megan Jordan Kansan staff writer
By Megan Jordan
Beeeepeep. You awake to the sound of your alarm clock. Summer is truly over, the fifth day of school is starting and your body
Linda Keeler, psychiatrist at Counseling and Psychological Services, said being a night person or a morning person was not just
school is starting and your body cannot muster the strength to get out of bed. I'm not a morning person, you groan.
something in a person's head
No matter if you are a morning or a night person, plenty of sleep is important, Keeler said. Serotonin, which helps you rest, is produced during sleep.
"There are definitely some people who function better at different parts of the day," she said.
Scientists do not understand all the reasons for this, Keeler said, but they believe that serotonin, a chemical in the brain, plays a large role. Each person has a biological clock that functions differently, based partly on this chemical.
This explains why it is sometimes difficult for someone to sleep if his or her body is overtired. Too little sleep causes the serotonin level to drop, which makes it hard to sleep. Too much sleep can make you drowsy because the brain has more serotonin than normal.
Jim Carothers, associate dean for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said there were few
empty classrooms at those times. Even when students are eager to take a particular class, they often are reluctant to take it at 7:30 a.m.
Ryan Paget, Scott City sophomore, said he was jealous of morning people. Like many students, mornings are a struggle for Paget.
"I set my alarm and turn the volume up all the way," he said.
Paget said he placed his alarm clock across the room so he had to get up to turn it off.
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