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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
KS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
VOL.104,NO.1
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
TOPEKA, KS 66612
ADVERTISING 5644354
MONDAY AUGUST 22 1994
（USPS650-640）
Daron Bennett / KANSAN
NEWS 864-4810
School year ushered in at Lied Center
After Chancellor Del Shankel's convoction address, student body president Sherman Reeves applauds.
Convocation encourages intellectual curiosity campus involvement
This year, the ceremony began with a video collage of the University's past and present, including testimonials from students and alumni about the grandeur of the University.
About 1,000 students, parents and faculty filled the lower section of the center for the ceremony, which takes place every year before fall semester classes begin.
A procession of deans and vice chancellors dressed in full-length academic robes filed onto the stage of the Lied Center yesterday afternoon, beginning the 129th Convocation of the University of Kansas.
By David Wilson
Kansan staff writer
Chancellor Del Shankel gave the Convocation address, in which he told new students to be careful with their new-found freedom and to develop an intellectual curiosity during their years on Mount Oread.
Shankel also told the audience that the University supports diversity.
Sherman Reeves, student body president, also spoke at the ceremony. He told the audience about opportunities that existed in Lawrence and at KU.
"It is up to you to learn, to question, to challenge," he said.
"If you leave Mount Oread with only a narrow understanding of a limited field of knowledge, then no matter how deep that understanding, you will have failed."
"In doing so, we act not out of what has been called political correctness. Rather, we act from a deep collective conviction. We share a strong belief that we have an obligation to lead our society by demonstrating that there can exist a meritocracy: a society in which each individual is judged by what she or he is and what she or he has achieved."
Nirmal Sanganee, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, sophomore, took the short jog across Iowa Street from Templin Hall to the center to satisfy his curiosity about the ceremony.
"Just to see," he said.
Sanganee said he had never been to a Convocation.
Crystal Collier, Kansas City, Mo., Junior, and an orientation staff member, handed out Convocation programs before the ceremony. Collier said she expected mostly new students to show up for the ceremony.
"They're trying hard to adjust," she said. "They'll go for anything new and exciting just to say, 'Yeah, I went to Convocation."
But not all new students went to Convocation. Josh Detar, Joplin, Mo., freshman, and two of his fraternity brothers from the Phi Kappa Psi house spent yesterday afternoon walking around campus with their class schedules to locate the buildings their classes were in.
Detar and his friends said they had a good reason for missing Convocation: Nobody told them about it.
NAACP tries to recover post-Chavis
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The NAACP began looking Sunday for a new leader and tried to measure how much damage Benjamin Chavis' painful ouster had caused its reputation in the world of civil rights.
The NAACP turned to its interim administrator, Earl Shinhoster, 42, who had competed against Chavis for the executive director post. Shinhoster, NAACP national field secretary, met Sunday with a board-appointed committee to come up with a short-term plan for handling day-to-day operations until a new executive director is hired.
Meanwhile, a worn but defiant Chavis picked up the remnants of a black leadership summit that was to start Sunday in Baltimore but was postponed by the NAACP. He pledged not "to let the lynching that took place here stop us."
Chavis, 46, was fired Saturday for conduct that the board of directors said was hostile to the survival of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The group's board of directors hopes to find a successor within 30 to 90 days.
While Chavis' dismissal was triggered by his decision to settle a former employee's sex discrimination claims for $332,400, board Chairman William Gibson said Chavis was removed because of "an accumulation of things" that occurred during his combative 16-month tenure.
Greatest among them was Chavis' alliance with controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, which many NAACP officials took as a sign that Chavis was moving the NAACP into a separatist posture.
Saturday night, Gibson said he intended to return the group's focus to the mainstream, moderate agenda it has had throughout its 85-year history. He deflected questions on whether the NAACP would continue its relationship with the Nation of Islam.
Kirk Vanderslic, Tulsa, OKa., freshmen and Sigma Nu pledge, prepares the coals for a barbeque at the Sigma Nu house. The barbeque was one of the last activities for County Club Week.
Informal Black 'rush' begins
Interviews, meetings decide membership selection for chapters
By Ashley Miller Kansan staff writer
Although formal rush for most fraternities and sororites is over, Black fraternities and sororites at the University of Kansas are just beginning.
He said fraternities held informational meetings at the beginning of the semester for men interested in the organization. At the meetings, the houses give the criteria needed to join, including grade point average and college credit hours. Jacobs said the meetings would be informal
"It's not really a rush," said Marc D. Jacobs, Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity historian and Black Panhellenic Council president. "It's a membership intake process."
Stefanie Caruthers, Zeta Phi Beta sorority president, said sororites also held informational meetings for women interested in joining. Zeta Phi Beta will have an informational meeting on Sept. 7. Fliers providing details about the meeting will be posted after classes start, Caruthers said.
After the informational meeting, Caruthers said interested men and women participated in an interview process.
The interview session for both fraternities and sororities is a formal one, she said.
Both Jacobs and Caruthers said that black fraternities and sororites did not have quotas for people pledging the house.
Caruthers said that pledgeship began after the meeting and the interview.
There are eight fraternities and sororities in the Black Panhellenic Council.
Greeks finish rush process
Fraternities and sororities add 641 new members to their rolls
By Ashley Miller Kansan staff writer
Making small talk is nothing new to Angela Hirt.
The Shawnee freshman participated in formal rush August 13-18, where making small talk is a big part of success.
"I'm glad it's over, but I'm really glad I did it," Hirt said.
Hirt said she enjoyed meeting new people, but trying to look happy in the heat was tough.
"The heat and the walking and the waiting were hard." Hirt said.
Hirt pledged Alpha Chi Omega sorority.
Mike Stanley, vice president for membership of the Interfraternity Council, said this year's rush was a success.
"I thought rush went very well all around," Stanley said. "We had a lot of quality men going through."
Formal rush for men was Aug. 12-16.
Bill Nelson, coordinator for Greek programs and assistant director of the Organizations and Activites Center, said of the 763 women registered for rush, 585 received bids from sororities. Of the 78 men registered for rush week this year, Nelson said 56 pledged a house.
Although the gap in the numbers looks large, Nelson said it really wasn't, because men and women often signed open bids and ended up in a Greek organization that way.
Nelson said that because men can pledge a fraternity throughout the summer, six of the 23 houses at the University of Kansas were full before formal rush week started. This was a major cause for the
A rush decline
Rushees registered women
1992 123 844
1998 111 877
1994 78 763
Matched bids
men women
1992 105 734
1993 80 656
1994 56 585
Rushes registered is the number of men and women that decided to participate in the rush process
Matched bids is the number of men and women that pledged a house.
decrease in people participating in men's rush, he said.
The overall number of students participating in rush was lower this year than it had been in past years, Nelson said.
He said the decrease in people rushing was due in part to people who dropped out when they didn't receive invitations to the more popular chapters.
"What women and men fail to understand is that their experiences will be so similar, regardless of the chapter," Nelson said.
Nelson said that Panhellenic also worked hard this year to reduce the number of women released from the rush process. Women that have been released are not invited back to the next round of parties. Only two women were released during this year's rush week, down from 14 in 1993. No men were released from the rush process, Nelson said.
After eight seasons under the guidance of Kansas coach Frankie Albitz, the volleyball team looks for new direction under its new coach. Karen Schonewise.
Changing of the guard
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Contract puts Fox back on cable
Though "Beverly Hills 90120" fans will not be seeing Brenda this season, fans can look forward to seeing Dylan and Kelly again on Sunflower Cablevision in Lawrence.
Sunflower Cablevision WDAF contract ensures Lawrence distribution
Last Thursday, Sunflower announced that because of a pre-existing contract with WDAF-TV, channel four in Lawrence, the cable service would begin carrying the Fox network in September, pending approval by the Federal Communications Commission.
By Shannon Newton Kansan staff writer
Because of a recent merger between the owners of WDAF and the Fox network, WDAF and KSHB swapped
That contract, which Sunflower has with all its channels, was a three-year agreement to carry WDAF as channel four on Sunflower free of charge. After WDAF became a Fox affiliate, the service decided that the contract was still valid.
affiliations. KSHB, which had been the Fox affiliate in Kansas City, will now carry NBC. The WDAF-Fox network will be carried by Sunflower Cablevision because of a contract that the cable company and WDAF made in October.
Fox has not been seen on Sunflower since October, when KSHB refused to sign a similar contract with Sunflower. At that time, Fox had demanded that all stations carrying it would have to add another Fox channel, called the FX Network. Sunflower was unwilling to carry the additional channel, and Fox was dropped.
If the FCC approves the transformation Sept. 9th, Lawrence cable viewers will be able to watch Fox programs on channel four starting Sept. 12th.
Should there be a problem, the approval would have to be sent through again. If that happens, Sunflower would not show the network until January so as not to interrupt the fall season said Dan Simons, new ventures manager of World Co., parent company for Sunflower Cablevision.
Ann Lucy of the FCC said that switches such as the one at Sunflower were usually granted unless a problem arises.
When Lawrence cable viewers do see Fox again, they will notice a few changes. Many of the children's programming and the classic reruns will be replaced by syndicated talk shows and local news casts. But the Fox prime time that KU students are used to will be seen again, only on WDAF instead of KSHB.
Tom Eblen, general manager and news adviser for the Kansan, said printing the Kansan in color was one of several changes the newspaper would undergo this semester.
The formerly black and white pages of the University Daily Kansan now will feature a spectrum of colors.
"In addition to the most obvious change to color, we're changing our printing location, we're implementing earlier deadlines, and we will deliver the newspaper earlier each morning." Eblen said.
Kansan features colorful changes
Kansan staff report
Stephen Martino, Kansan editor, said the Kansan would feature color on the front page of each section every day and often would feature color on the backpage of each section.
The result of earlier deadlines is that the Kansan will be delivered by 8 a.m. each morning, Martino said.
"In the end, it's going to be worth it, especially for our readers, but initially the changes will put a stress on the staff," Martino said.