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Segregated Greek organizations seek better understanding
"There is no pressure, it seems to me, by minority students to integrate the fraternity system," Amber said.
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Integration question
Three separate national and campus organizations oversee the KU greek system.
Traditionally white fraternities and sororites are governed by the Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic, respectively. Black Panhellenic governs the traditionally African-American fraternities and sororites.
Cal Jones, Kansas City, Mo., junior,
president of Black Panhellenic, said
that integration of the greek system
was not on his agenda.
"I won't say I am striving for integration, but I am striving for understanding and respect." Jones said. "Integration is too big to think about."
He said it was important for the fraternities from different groups to work together and get to know each other.
The executive board members of the three governing bodies convened at a weekend retreat earlier in the semester. Members who attended the retreat will step toward fostering communication. Integration was not the focus.
Jones said he thought they had come a long way toward building under the stakes.
But he said that he did not think total integration would ever occur.
"I think integration will come with time as society changes, but for now we can't run before we walk," Jones said.
Some members of the traditionally African-American fraternities and sororites say they joined the houses for a sense of community that they had trouble finding in a predominantly white university.
Darrin Johnson, president of Phi Beta Sigma, said he joined a traditionally Black fraternity for the brotherhood of the men in the house.
He never considered joining a house in the traditionally white system, he
"It just didn't meet with my needs, my personal beliefs of what a fraternity should be." Johnson said.
Being in a Black fraternity meets his needs as an African-American man on the KU campus. Johnson said.
"You hear so many bad things about Black men," he said. "It's nice to be around some that are doing positive things."
He said he did not see why the two systems should be more integrated.
"As long as we get that mutual agreement, we don't need to integrate." Johnson
He said better understanding could
not be achieved in activities,
not workshops or forums.
"I think the cultural sensitivity
with hoops are so surface-oriented,
he said.
Kimberly Crowder, president of
Delta Sigma Theta, a traditionally Black sorority, said she joined the house because of its community service.
"I never thought they were really that open," she said. "It's not like they go out and recruit African-Americans to be in their houses."
She said she never considered joining a sorority in the traditionally white Panhellenic system.
"I say everybody should do their own thing as long as they respect the other on them."
Crowder said she did not think the system needed to be more integrated.
She said women in Panhellenic
institutions have been treated
in Black Panhellenic sororities.
Search for diversitv
"I don't think they really want to
kiss me," she said. "They just
want to say they tried."
Sarah Gard, president of Panhellenic, said, "In order for the greek community to keep up with the times, we have to become more culturally diverse."
But she said individual chapters could not promise bids to minorities or anyone else because that would be considered "dirty rushing."
Leaders in the Panhellenic organization say they are interested in having more minority women in their houses.
"We just want to make sure that minority women feel comfortable going through rush," she said.
Jennifer Zucco, vice president for public relations for Panhellenic, has tried to make the rush literature more inviting to ministers.
No minority women appeared in the rush book that was distributed to women interested in Panhellenic this book would include minority women
She said it was Pannhelenic's duty to recruit all women into the system.
"One of our goals is to really show cultural diversity," she said.
"Ideally the University would be a
problem of society and Panhellenic
would be a problem."
Zucco said Panhellenic would like the sororities to be representative of so many.
Breaking barriers
Scott Rutherford, vice president for fraternity affairs for IFC in 1990-1991, said IFC was not striving for integration.
Rutherford said fraternities did not want to establish quotas for minority members because that led to tokenism.
"Right now we are working on interaction, not integration," Rutherford said.
"Quotas and integration are not answers," he said. "Whenever there is integration, the minority loses power."
He said that his fraternity was doing
"I'd like to see more communication between IFC and Black Panhellenic." Rutherford said. "They need to know each her们的missions and agenda."
Rock Chalk Revue with Alpha Phi Alpha, a fraternity governed by Black
John Gaffney, graduate assistant and adviser to IFC, said IFC was always in search of more diversity within the fraternities.
But he said he didn't expect the system to change much.
But he said he did not see the Black fraternities become a part of IFC.
"Saying that Black fraternities should be members of IFC would not be doing them justice," Gaffney said. "I don't think any of us have social issues that are common to us."
He said that minority members were welcome in IPC but that they had to undergo an evaluation process.
More interaction on social issues that all fraternities are interested in is a goal for IFC. Gaffney said. There is a great emphasis on the by three Greek governing bodies.
Dannie Thompson, Kansas City, Kan., senior, broke one of those barriers when he pledged Sigma Phi Epsilon his freshman year.
"Integration is not the ultimate goal," the KU adviser said. "There are so many things that we can do."
Thompson is African-American
He said he joined the house party because his sister's friend was a member.
He said it could have been difficult to join the white system if he had not grown up with white people and known someone in the fraternity.
When he played rap music the day he moved into the house, Thompson said a pledge brother told him to, "Turn that nigger shut off."
At first he was not comfortable, Thompson said.
Members told the pledge that his behavior was not acceptable. He and his wife were caught.
The house has come a long way since that incident, Thompson said. And another African-American man has to pledge the fraternity in the spring.
"A few times when there were incidents I didn't like. I let them run." Thompson said. "A lot of people have things that we use when things like that happened."
He said that he had been able to dispel stereotypes by his presence in the studio.
"To get respect in this house you have to be twice as good as them," he said. "You have to be twice as smart as they are if you want to succeed."
Thompson contends that being a member of a white fraternity has not been the only reason he was drawn to the university.
"I think I'm getting the best of both worlds," Thompson said. "I'm exposed to what more of a realworld threat Yet, I still have a close group of Black friends."
He has introduced his white fraternity brothers to African-American culture by taking them to parties and cultural events.
But Thompson said there were people in his house who would never come. One man tells racial jokes although he is asked by many people to ston, he said.
"There are always going to be people like that," Thompson said.
Meeting cultural needs
Margaret Miller, associate director for the organizations and activities center and adviser to Greek programs, said the numbers of minorities in the greek system belied the level of interest in multiculturalism.
"I am encouraged by efforts made in the Greek system and individual chapters."
She said she had seen more people at Greek events that represented differ-
The individual chapters also have planned a variety of cultural sensitivity programs for the houses, she said.
But she added that the greeks had not made as much progress as she would.
"There is a need to provide some sense of culture and those organization skills."
Miller said that the needs of people in Black Panther巷 were different from those in other areas.
If a Greek house cannot support an individual's sense of culture then it is more likely to be a museum.
Miller said that with so many people in the white Greek system, it was difficult to meet everyone's needs and that there was no one answer for educating people and providing diversity within the system.
Mary Myers, assistant director of the organizations and activities center and the adviser to Black Panhellenic, led the group in the Black Greek houses were founded.
"I don't expect it to turn around overnight," she said.
"They were designed to foster brotherhood and sisterhood." she said.
The focus in Black Panhellenic is on the Black community. Myrs said.
But because the world is becoming more multicultural, the Greek system hast to take a hard look at its objectives, Myers said.
"I think there is a sincere effort being made by all three governing bodies to incorporate each other," she said.
But she said it was difficult for students to dispel long-standing attitudes
"I really truly think it is for lack of understanding that we fail." Myers said. "Attitudes and beliefs are hard to change."
She said the white system was perpetuated by the attitudes of former students.
Minorities in traditionally white houses
All members of traditionally African-American houses are African-American. The numbers below are a breakdown of traditionally white fraternities and sororites.
Sororities:
Minority actives (28)
Minority pledges (16)
Fraternities:
Minority actives (60)
Minority pledges (15)
*other includes an American Indian, Egyptian, Greek, Indian, Italian
Source: Kansan poll Jeff Meesey/KANSAN
"The focus is there," Myers said. "It's just a matter of time before we start to get at the real issues that keep us apart."
She said the important thing to remember was that integration took time.
"You're trying to change attitudes that have been there for years," Myers said.
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"If you are a homeless person in L.A., it's almost guaranteed you are not going to freeze to death if you are on the street," said Natalie Knox, director of community relations for Catholic Social Services. "In Alaska, it's almost guaranteed that you will."
They start lining up at the door of the Brother
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An hour later, the elderly and disabled are the first to enter the barnlike building, pick up a towel, stake out a mate on the floor and begin to warm up. Younger men and women follow.
By dinner time, 300 or more homeless people will be inside the shelter, which once served as a storage shed for snow-removal equipment. It also provides airbanks and Kodak house about 100 homeless.
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The shelter means more than hot meals, a bed and a shower. Inextreme temps, it offers a lifeline for those in need.
Temperatures often dip below zero and lows of minus 50 degrees are not uncommon.
"I knew it was cold, but I never thought it was this cold," said Leonard Baker, 42, who hitchiked up the l1,500-mile Alaska Highway last year from Southern California.
It took him a month to get here, and he slept in
Dozens of the residents are mentally ill and have no other place to go, Eaton said. Many are still undergoing treatment.
But many have been in the shelter on and off for a decade.
"Some people make this their lifestyle — to most it's just temporary," said Marvin McNiel, 32, an alcoholic who has lived on the streets of Alaska and California since 1977.
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