THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2006
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Group unifies African women
BY BEN SMITH
Vanessa Pearson/KANSAN
Alineh Edoro, Benin City, Nigeria, graduate student, is the president of the newly formed African Women Student Organization. A group of friends founded the group to provide opportunities for women to develop leadership skills and EDoro said, "to have a place to talk about our issues."
A new group on campus has formed with the goal of enlightening others to what they feel are neglected issues concerning women in Africa.
The African Women's Student Association held its first official meeting Wednesday at the Curry Room in the Kansas Union.
Ainehi Edoro, president of the organization and Benin City, Nigeria, senior, said the group was created as a sister organization to the African Student Association by some of that group's members.
The association, which began with six members, discussed its initiatives to promote leadership, empowerment and advocacy by and for African women at Wednesday's meeting.
"Back home, the case is that women's movements have given a great deal of power to women in government and culture," Edoro said. "Our organization intends to prepare women for leadership roles in their countries."
One thing the group will focus on is fostering a sense of community among faculty and students that they feel is lacking in other African student groups, Edoro said. The group's members plan to collaborate with more campus groups, attend movies and conferences, hold discussion panels and work to bring more cultural events on campus.
"We wish to serve as an avenue for cultural exchange," Edoro said. "We see this group as a way to create that."
Kunbi Sijuwade, Lagous, Nigeria, senior, and treasurer of the association, said the organization's events would help to make the presence of African women more visible. By doing this, the group hopes to get more people interested in its forum about the serious issues in Africa, Sijuwade said.
"One of the greatest problems in Africa is domestic violence," Sijuwade said. "Also, in political senses, women are treated as second-level citizens in many countries."
The association wants to let people know that African women exist by having fashion shows, cultural events and discussions, she said.
"We want to show them who we are and what we are about," Sijuwade said.
Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka, professor of women's studies and faculty adviser for the association said she hoped the group would help students be more aware of the situation in Africa.
"There isn't much African presence on campus," Ajayi-Soyinka said. "There is also a lot of misunderstanding about African women. There is more of a tendency for the media to focus on men."
Ajayi-Soyinka said it would be
beneficial for African women to have a group wherein they could interact with one another to avoid getting lost in the mix.
"It will be good for KU students as a part of education outside the classroom to hear different voices," she said.
Edoro said the group was open to all KU students.
Visit the African Women's Student Association's profile through www.ku.edu/organizations for more information.
Kansan staff writer Ben Smith can be contacted at bsmith@kansan. com.
Edited by Dianne Smith
Rec Center plans delayed
》 CONSTRUCTION
BY DANNY LUPPINO
University waits for study to determine correct humidity
Despite a delay to ensure consistent levels of humidity, the University of Kansas expects an addition to its Student Recreation and Fitness Center to be ready for student use at the beginning of the Fall 2008 semester.
The project, which will add four basketball courts, additional racquetball courts and an extended indoor track, is not expected to begin construction until March 2007.
Design and Construction Management is still in the planning stages of the project.
"We hope to be bidding the project some time in January with completion some time late Spring 2008," said Bob Rombach, special project manager for Design & Construction Management.
Rombach said the original schedule, devised in September of 2004, called for completion of construction about three months earlier than the current goal, but the plan was always to have the
addition open for 2008. He said it usually took 12 to 14 months to complete a construction project of the addition's size. The addition is planned to be approximately 45,000 square feet.
"It takes way longer than you would ever imagine," Rombach said.
He said a delay was caused by an energy-use study. Because the University wanted to use the original heating and cooling system in the addition a study was required to make sure a consistent level of humidity could then be maintained in both sections. This measure was intended to guarantee optimum comfort for students using the facility.
"We wanted to go the extra mile," Rombach said. "I would have liked to get it done faster, but engineers like to take their time."
Keith Pinkelman, program manager for the center and Lawrence senior, said he thought the extra measures were necessary because the weather could affect people working out when
extreme conditions were present outside.
Pinkelman said he looked forward to the expansion as an opportunity to enable more people to use the center's facilities.
"We get pretty big crowds on weeknights," Pinkelman said. "We definitely just want to make the rec center a bigger and better place for students to come."
Tyler Horken, Lawrence senior, agreed that crowds at the Rec Center could be a problem.
Horken said when the center first opened, he expected it to be bigger. He said he was happy an addition was forthcoming.
"Everyone's constantly waiting in line and fighting over equipment," Horken said.
Pinkelman said he did not expect any part of the Rec Center to close during the construction.
Kansan staff writer Danny Lupino can be contacted at dluppino@kansan.com.
Salad recalled after spinach deaths
- Edited by Nicole Kelley
HEALTH
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - A Seattle company is recalling some salad products distributed in the Northwest because they may contain fresh spinach contaminated with E. coli, the Food and Drug Administration said Monday.
The recall, by Triple B Corp., involves products with spinach that may have been supplied by Natural Selections Foods, a California grower. Many of the 175 people sickened in the nation's E. coli outbreak reported eating spinach supplied by National Selections.
So far, 93 people have been hospitalized, including a Wisconsin woman who died, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.
Two other deaths have been reported in suspected cases — a child in Idaho and an elderly woman in Maryland — but those cases are still being investigated.
in California's Salinas Valley. The FDA has recommended people not eat fresh, raw spinach, though on Friday it said that spinach grown anywhere outside that area is safe to eat.
State and federal investigators since have traced the contaminated spinach back to three counties
Triple B, also known as S.T. Produce, is recalling salad products distributed to retail stores and delis in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, the FDA said. They were sold in a hard plastic container with a "use by" date of Aug. 22 through Sept. 20 on the bottom of the container.
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