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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1994
Only 11 years after she graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in personnel administration, Betsy Stephenson is scoring points with the big boys. She has worked her way to the top of a male-dominated field. She began as a secretary at the NCAA, and now she is the highest-ranking female in the KU Athletic Department and Bot Frederick's right-hand woman.
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Betsy Stephenson, an associate athletic director for the KU Athletic Department, checks her schedule book at her office in Parrott Athletic Center.
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Stephenson is stomping and screaming and sweating it out for the volleyball team she played for 15 years ago because of their skills.
"Come on, Hawkins! You can do it!" she screamed. When KU spikes one over the net against Oklahoma, the university's top woman in the front offices of Parrott Athletic Center pounds her feet on the floor.
Betsy
"This is huge," she says to her 14-year-old niece beside her.
Sports are Betsy Stephenson's job — and her life. As supervisor for KU's 16 nonrevenue sports, she is an associate athletic director and the highest-ranking female in the KU Athletic Department.
She is also a workaholic, a fanatic follower of University teams and a woman who has merged family and friends into an endless procession of home and away games.
And she loves it.
"I love my job," she said. "My work is everybody else's hobby. My friends and family had to learn how to separate my work from their fun. At sporting events, I look at different things like officiating. But that doesn't mean I don't have fun."
Stephenson sits down at her desk and pushes the little black button on her phone.
"Your messages are 80 percent full," drones the too-
See NOTJUST ONE OF THE BOYS. Page 8A.
Lecture to go 'Beyond the Culture Wars'
By David Wilson Kansan staff writer
The American philosopher John Dewey said that democracy began with conversation.
Sheldon Hackney, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, believes that America's conversation has gotten a little shrill lately and that democracy is suffering for it.
Hackney will speak at 7:30 tonight in the Spencer Museum of Art auditorium. The free lecture, "Beyond the Culture Wars," is a part of the University of Kansas' Hall Center for the
Humanities lecture series.
After becoming chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities in August 1993, Hackney proposed a program to foster discussion of the issues he
says are tearing America apart: cultural diversity, societal cohesion and uncertainty about American identity.
Sheldon Hackney
But James Muyskens, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said such criticisms were premature.
An article in the Nation, a liberal political journal, called the values issue overrated. "What is it we will learn from one another by sharing our ignorance in library basements?" the article's author asked.
"The problem is a surplus, not a shortage," he wrote in an essay about Hackney's idea.
But if Hackney's plan is to move the national dialogue "beyond the culture wars," the effort may be in vain, say critics on both the right and the left.
The program, National Conversation, would provide funding and discussion questions to civic, church and local groups who wanted to sponsor such discussions.
"I heard Sheldon Hackney speak about his National Conference last spring in Boston, and I am very excited about it," he said.
Conservative columnist George Will said the last thing America needed was another discussion on diversity.
See HACKNEY, Page 6A.
Sergeant major steps closer to Miss USA crown
KU ROTC officer will represent state in pageant
By Shannon Newton Kansan staff writer
Deborah Daulton added another title to her name on Saturday when she was crowned Miss Kansas USA.
Daulton, Salina junior, who was named Miss Lawrence USA in August, won the Miss Kansas USA pageant Saturday in Wichita.
Daulton said that when the announcer named the first runner-up, Dalton was confused and was not aware that she had won.
"There was a lot of noise coming from the audience, and the runner-up stepped forward," she said. "I was confused and stepped backward thinking she had won."
Daulton said the announcer saw the confusion on her face and repeated Daulton's name.
"I burst out into tears," she said.
"And I thanked God."
Daulton said she always wondered why women cried after they were named pageant winners, but after she heard her name, she could not keep from crying.
"I cried for all the hard work," she said. "I cried because the stress was over, and I cried because the pageant was over."
she remembered most about the pageant.
Dana Stowell, Leavenworth senior, has worked with Daulton in the ROTC and saw her win.
"I was ecstatic when I heard her name," he said. "I knew she could do it. Though I am biased, she is an incredible worker, and she deserves it."
He said Daulton's ROTC training helped her win the title.
"I was surrounded by my family and friends," she said. "If I didn't win, I knew I would always be thankful for all of my support."
Photo illustration by Paul Kotz / KANSAN
Daulton is a
"They sent me flowers to wish me luck on Friday," she said.
Deborah Daulton, Salina junior, leads two lives, one as an ROTC student at the University of Kansas, and the other as Miss Kansas.
Dalton Is a Cadet Command Sergeant Major in KU's ROTC program. She said she had received a lot of support from members of her battalion.
Daulton said the most stressful part of the pageant was the impromptu individual interviews with five different judges.
"It was funny when one judge asked me how I felt about women fighting in the military," she said.
Michelle Daulton, Salina sophomore, was in Wichita to see her sister win the title.
"It was a dream come true," she said. "Her dream turned into reality."
"That is what impresses me about her," Stowell said. "When she puts her mind to something, she does everything she can to accomplish it."
Deborah Daulton will compete in the Miss USA pageant in February in Padre Island, Texas.
Daulton said the win was not what
Representative from 47th district seeks fourth term
Editor's note: This is the second of two stories profiling the candidates for the 47th District of the Kansas House of Representatives. The Kansan will be profiling all the candidates and issues on the Nov. 8 ballot.
By Manny Lopez
Kansan staff writer
Standing on the south steps of the Lawrence Public Library Sunday, Joann Flower smiled and took a minute out of her day to talk to a constituent.
Flower, 59, is seeking her fourth term as the 47th District representative. She said she did not usually campaign on Sunday because it was a day reserved for her husband and grandchildren. But she said she always tried to acknowledge people from her district, no matter what time or day.
"Joann gives very close attention to her constituents'
needs," said Ralph Tanner, Republican representative from the 10th District. "She is quick to respond to letters, phone calls or complaints."
"I would say there are many more positives than negatives since I've been in the Legislature," Flower said. "There are such things as a work horse and a show horse. Let's just say I am not a show horse."
Flower said she was proud of her 100 percent attendance record in the Legislature and hoped she would be able to continue that service.
"There is always unfinished business," she said. "There is some real value in people who have been before."
At the same time, she said that she was not a career politician and that she favored term limits.
Flower, who uses the state flower, the sunflower, as her logo, said she thought the people of the 47th District were primarily conservative but that they were more likely to vote for a person rather than a party. Flower considers herself a perpetual public servant and that she would continue to volunteer and work in the community after she left office.
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Joann Flower is the Republican candidate for the 47th District in the Kansas House of Representatives.