University Daily Kansan / Monday, December 9. 1991
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Sherwood Thompson, director of minority affairs, said he had not fielded one question this semester about any of the three stories.
Maybe the image that is everything at the University of Kansas is Jayhawk football and basketball.
Anoutsider's view
"The basketball games: That's what influences people to come to the University, said State College, John Selow. "I don't know if it should, but it may."
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, has been called the "KU senator." "IF KU has something at stake when he faces another candidate, is one of the first to take up the cause."
ne Darren Fulcher, James Turner and law school harassment stories can have both positive and negative effects on the University, he said.
How the stories affect KU's image with legislators and beyond depends on how the administration deals with the issues, Winter said.
"But the potential for negative effects is much greater, Winter said. "Particularly, the sexual harassment and exploitation to significantly hurt the University."
"If the University responds properly to all of these things, the negative effects may be minimized. Winter and spring are not a time when have been dealt with sufficitorily."
Solbach looked at what could be positive aspects of the semester's stories.
"If people believe that the University doesn't tolerate sexual harassment by students or faculty, it might influence someone to go to KU," he said.
KU administrators say they believe the University has handled the issues appropriately.
Discussing the issues publicly will increase awareness and sensitivity, he said.
"We are at least up front in dealing with these things." Brinkman said.
But Brinkman said that the three stories this semester were not part of a trend but evolved from misconduct by individuals.
"Are people who need it at racial issue," he said about the Fulcher controversy. "There are people who are trying to make it a political issue, and there are people who are trying to make it a personality issue.
"It's dangerous to ascribe too much influence to individual incidents. It can be used to mismanage and that these isolated incidents have therefore occurred."
Brinkman, who routinely attends national meetings of university administrators, said KU was not the first institution to rise up for racism, sexual harassment and crime.
Budig agreed that the same issues were being debated nationwide.
Most major universities are facing many of the same issues," he said. "We are not unique. We are typical of a academic institution of higher learning."
The inside story
Although the issues raised by the
semester's news reflect events on a nationallevel, theyalsohit homeatthe law classrooms of GreenHell, the offices of Student Senate and the Strong Hall office of affirmative action.
Linda Pointer, who was the student representative this semester to the law school's ad hoc committee on gender-related issues, said KU had reacted superficially to the concerns of women in the law school.
Sexual harassment might happen again in a few years, even though the environment for women may have improved momentarily, Pointer said.
Pointer said that it was still dangerous to speak out against a "clique" that exists within the male-dominated faculty.
"You do get this impression that no matter what you say, they hurt you if you mess with them," she said.
Pointer said some law students hesitated to come forward with a complaint because they feared it would endanger their grades and career.
Kim Dayton, associate professor of law, said she thought that the ad hoc committee had done its job to address concerns and plan awareness events.
"It is going to take a long time to solve these problems," she said. "It can't be done in a semester."
Robert Jerry, dean of law, said the allegations had not dampened interest in the school.
"Right now, it would appear that there's been no effect on students where they want to go to school," he said.
Jerry said the number of applications to the law school were about the same as last year.
"Without exception, they expressed support for the school, confidence in its integrity and confidence in the future." Jerry said.
Many alumni have written and
sexual harassment allegations,
be sure
However, Connie Burke, member of Students Against Violence Against Womyn, said KU's response to harassment charges and Fulcher's battery charge showed its lack of concern for women's issues.
"The University should take a more aggressive stance on telling people what to do, not only with sexual harassment, but all kinds of harassment," she said.
Fulcher, who has not said whether he would appeal the Judicial Board's decision to uphold Senate's motion to reinstate the senator, would diminish the reputation of Senate.
"Student Senate will be viewed as it was when I got here — a racist body," he said.
University campuses were not immune to the problems that were debated in homes, in Congress, on the streets, on the job and in the media. Here is a sample of issues dominated campuses nationwide:
University of Vermont
Art Satterfield, graduate senator, said some people might think the actions of Student Senate this fall were racist.
"But I think the majority of students agree with what happened," he said. "Race only entered into the conversations." Darren's supporters brought it up.
*university of California at Berkeley*
* sexual harassment charges led to the dismissal of a tenured professor during the summer. More than one female student had made allegations against the male professor.*
In a few short months, individual rights were brought to the forefront of the nation's attention.
Students and administrators who were questioned said that they were pleased with the quick response to the slurs made by Turner.
University of Missouri-Columbia A vice chancellor was disciplined for sexual harassment because of accusations that were made against him this summer by an employee at his office. Others in the office voiced similar concerns about harassment by the vice chancellor, and he released a statement offering apologies to the employees.
University of Adelaide
More than 1,000 students and faculty members protested the actions of members of a white sorority. The women performed a skit in blackface called "Who Rides the Bus" about poor African-American mothers.
University campuses reflect problems
University of Minnesota
Three people were injured in a clash between anti-racism protesters and proponents of a white student union.
The university president resigned amid student protest. The students claimed that he had not worked to attract and retain minority students.
University of Alabama
a male professor continued into its second year. The woman charged the professor touched her and made repeated sexual remarks. She won a $125,000 settlement and lawyers fees from the university. The professor was fired and is appealing the decision.
University of Washington A sexual harassment allegation brought by a female student against
From the Chronicle of Higher Education
Shankel said he thought that the dismissal of Turner would not affect perceptions of the University.
It also will not have much impact on the student body. he said.
"I think everybody realizes that we had a rather unique problem there," Shankel said. "I don't think it will have any long-term impact on students' willingness to go there with problems."
Student leaders said Turner's use of the words "fsat Indian chick" and "fagot" were unfortunate but that they could office could recover its credibility.
However, she placed the blame on Turner, not the University.
Jamie Howard, co-director of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, said she was flabbergasted by reports of the slurs.
1 trunk people would be more apt to go to affirmative action now because he is out. "Howard said.
Cavely Smith, president of the Native American Student Association, said the actions of the former director were unfortunate.
"The University is going to have a challenge to recover," he said. "It did set the affirmative action back."
"Now, it almost sheds a light on some of the concerns — like the use of language." Smith said.
But the incident can be used to raise awareness, he said.
In the past few years, the minority community at KU has seen the Ku Klux Klan come to campus, an incident in which an African-American woman was struck and racially insulted by a student from the University of American student body student.
Moving toward solutions
"I haven't had any flood of calls or letters addressed me indicating that KU has in any way fallen from grace," Thompson said.
Thompson said that he had received no indication of community concern about the Fulcher and Turner stories.
He said that people were most concerned with the state of minority
But Thompson said that several students had expressed their dissatisfaction with the University's treatment of minorities.
scholarships
Those students could carry the message to their hometowns that KU is not a comfortable place for minority students. Thompson said.
"Students currently enrolled are ambassadors for KU," Thompson said. "When they are asked about the college, I am not accustomed to honest appraisal of the University."
Darrin Johnson, a member of Black Panhellenic Council and a student senator, is one of those students.
Johnson said racism was the first high school students asked him about. KU does have a problem, he said.
It doesn't matter, Johnson said, whether Fulcher's removal or Turner's resignation were racially motivated.
"KU has an image problem," he said. "If I were in a recruiting capacity, I would not recommend KU to any Black student at this time."
James Baucom, off-campus senator, went further.
He said that regardless of what happened this fall, the University had not lived up to recruiting goals.
"The administration hasn't done their part to execute it." Baucom said. "The administration just hasn't put their monee where their mornes are."
Minority enrollment on the Lawrence campus increased 8.7 percent this fall, whereas overall campus enrollment increased only 1 percent.
Budig, though, said the University attracted a record number of minority students this semester.
But Fulcher, who has said that his removal had racial undertones, said his case sent a strong message to the university community that KU was a racist institution.
"I feel ashamed to have recruited so many Black students here under the current climate," he said.
If he were advising a high school student. Fulcher said he would tell them
not to attend KU.
"They will recruit them for athletics," Fulcher said. "I would say that that's where the university has put its attention when it went to recruit Black students."
Steve Smith, managing editor of the Wichita Eagle, said his readers seemed to care more about college students. Student Senate or administration news.
He said readers telephoned the paper when they perceived a bias toward either KU or Kansas State University in sports stories. Some readers even count the number of times the Jayhawk and Wildcat mascots appear in the newspaper, he said.
Bob Stinson, a 1966 graduate of KU and contributor to the Williams Fund, said alumni cared most about KU sports teams.
He said that of all the events in the past semester, alumni were most concerned about the recent burglary of a visiting basketball team's locker room in Allen Field House.
Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, said that the athletic programs did influence students' choices.
"I think the success of our athletic teams does make a difference," Shankel said. "But our priorities have not changed, and the quality of our academic programs.
The events of the past semester and recent years have prompted the University to reconsider those priorities. It has emphasized minority recruitment and retention and is re-evaluating its sexual harassment policy.
It has made a conscious effort to become more sensitive toward discrimination, and it has experienced growing pains along the way.
"Like other growing universities, we've had perhaps our unfortunate moments," Budig said. "But we've learned from them. We're a stronger University."
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