THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.101.NO.69
NSAS STATE
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TUESDAY DECEMBER 3, 1991
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New CLAS program to encourage minorities
By Jennifer Bach Kansan staff writer
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will begin next semester a program that encourages KU minority students to enter graduate school.
The Dean's Scholar Program will pair about 15 sophomore and junior minority students with a faculty member in their fields of study. They will work with the student to prepare the students' undergraduate career to prepare the student for graduate school
Faculty members will work with students on research projects and advise them on their undergraduate schedules.
About 40 faculty members at KU have volunteered as mentors for the program, McCluskev-Fawcett said
"We need more minority graduate students to pursue graduate careers," said Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett, associate dean of the college. "Hopefully, these students will be out on the market sometime to be faculty."
by encouraging a close relationship between students and faculty members, college administrators hope that students will be inspired to become professors.
"On the national level, there are not enough minority professors," McCuskey-Fawcett said. "Our students to pursue these challenges these students to pursue their careers."
Although no minority students have applied for the program yet, McCluskey-Fawcett said she expected to have about 15 students in the program this spring and about 60 students in the previous year. Students have until February to apply.
However, a lack of resources at KU will prevent the program from accommodating more than 50 students, she said.
"I don't want any student who could benefit from the program not to get access to it," McCluskey-Fawcett said.
KU, Haskell plan staff exchange
To be admitted into the program, students must have at least a 2.5 grade point average and letters of recommendation and must submit a statement telling why they should be in the program. After the applications are reviewed, a committee will judge the applicants through interviews.
After a year of developing the project, McCluskey-Fawcett hired KU clinical psychology graduate student James Dunbar as the project coordinator.
Munoz-Dunbar said minority students would receive from the program elp that they might not obtain otherwise.
By William Ramsey Kansan staff writer
KU and Haskell Indian Junior College may begin a faculty and staff exchange next year to improve communication between the two schools and to steer Haskell students toward KU.
David Shulenburger, KU associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said both institutions needed the shared resources and information that would come from an exchange.
"That would be good for our faculty in terms of
diversity," Shulenburger said. "And I think it would be of benefit to the community."
The University of Kansas and Haskell have maintained an informal connection, and the plan for a staff and faculty exchange was spawned during a November task force meeting, he said.
Shulenburger, one of the leaders of the task force, said the group would meet again Friday.
The exchange will be on a voluntary basis and will involve little bureaucracy, he said. Interested staff and faculty will participate in seminars, teach courses and work in parallel departments.
KU also is working with the junior college to help it establish a four-year degree program in education and a bachelor's degree in tribal management. Shulen burger said.
He said the University wanted to introduce junior college studentsto IU while they were still a college.
Hannes Combes, a task force leader and Haskell administrator, agreed that students' learning needs were
"For our students who want to attend KU, we need to ease the transition," she said.
Combest said the task force also wanted to educate KU faculty and staff members.
"I think it would be very good for KU to come down and see how we operate," she said.
Cumbest said Haskell was in the process of asking the federal agency for permission.
Before an exchange can be arranged, Haskell will have to check with the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, she said.
At Friday's meeting, the task force will hear comments and ideas from several former members of the committee.
Julie Jacobson/KANSAN
Step on it
Joining a current exercise trend, Stephanie Schauer, St. Joseph, Mo., junior, and Pam Smith, Oakley sophomore, work up a sweat while lunging their way to better health in a step aerobics class in Robinson Center. Robinson offers a variety of aerobics classes each semester including high-impact, low-impact and step aerobics.
U.S. hostage freed, another may be released
Gaunt and weary, Cicippio regains freedom after five years' captivity
The Associated Press
FRANKFURT, Germany — U.S. citizen Joseph Clicpio, gaud and weary, was freed yesterday after five years of captivity in Lebanon, and the U.N. secretary-general said another U.S. hostage could be released in days.
Ciccippio, 61, could muster only a weak smile and brief remarks when he met with reporters at the Syrian Foreign Ministry. He told of being moved 20 times during his captivity, of undergoing emergency surgery, of undergoing newspaper, radio or television by his pro-Iranian kidnappers.
"I have to learn everything all over again," he said.
His family members in Pennsylvania said they were worried by his appearance.
He arrived at Rhein-Main air base outside Frankfurt last night, and was taken to an Air Force hospital in nearby Wiesbaden to undergo medical checks and a State Department briefing.
Hours after being freed in Beirut and driven to the Syrian capital, Ciccippio was reunited with his brother Ham. He then was flown to Germany.
The U.S. paid Iran $260 million in compensation yesterday but denies financial link to hostages.
Cicippio was the eighth Western hostage, including seven long-time captives, freed in Lebanon since August, when the kidnappers asked the United Nations to intervene. In the same period, Israel has released 91 of the roughly 300 Arabs from southern Lebanon that it holds, and the hostage-holders have spoken of a comprehensive solution to the holding of the Arabs and Western detainees.
Two U. S. citizens, journalist Terry Anderson and educator Alan Steen, and two Germans are still held. Their deaths are missing, but reports say he is dead.
At the United Nations, Secretary- General Javier Perez de Cuellar, who
has worked for a broad swap of detainees, said he believed another hostage would soon be set free.
"I hope that in the next few days I could have one more, it will be probably Mr. Steen, and I hope that Mr. Anderson is not too far away from being freed," the U.N. secretary-general said.
Concerning Cicippio's release,
Perez de Cuellar expressed thanks to
the government of Iran, the govern-
ment of Syria, and the government of Israel.
Cicpio told reporters in Damascus he had surgery for a stomach alliment in the past two months, adding, "I was very surprised that I may not have been this day."
The United States yesterday paid Iran $260 million to compensate for weaponry seized during the 1979-80 Tehran hostagecrisis. U.S. and Iranian officials have consistently denied any link between the financial arbitrations and hostages held in Lebanon.
In the United States, Thomas Cicippio said his brother had an intestinal blockage.
Cicippio's family in Norristown, Pa., watched his televised news conference and appeared shaken by what they saw.
Hostage Alann Steen to be freed within 48 hours, kidnappers say
The Associated Press
News about another release came hours after the freeing of fellow U.S. hostage Jesse Cicippio, 61. Cicippio, of Norristown, Pa., was the eight Western hostage freed since August.
BEIIRUT — Shiite Muslim captors said today that they would free U.S. educator Alann Steen within 48 hours, drawing the hostage saga in Lebanon nearer to a final resolution.
The announcement on Steen was made by the pro-Iranian organization of Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine in a statement delivered simultaneously to the president, Mahar and a Western news agency. It did not say where or how Steen would be released.
Besides Steen, U.S. journalist Terry Anderson and two Germans still are hostages. An Italian is missing, but reports say he is dead.
The typewritten communique was authenticated by an instant color photograph of Steen, a professor of journalism who was kidnapped from the campus of the U.S. affiliated Beirut University
College on Jan. 24,1987.
The picture was similar to one the captors released June 25. It showed the thin, auburn-haired educator sitting down, wearing a white sweatshirt and looking straight into the camera.
Steen, 52, is a native of Boston. He was an editor at the Arcata (Calif.) Union before becoming a journalism teacher, off and on, between 1970 and 1981 at Humboldt State University and at California State University at Chico from 1981 to 1983.
The communique, which was delivered at 1:15 a.m., said, "We shall release the American Steen within 48 hours."
"We hope the agreements will be honored and commitments will be fulfilled by the parties concerned," the statement said. "The atmosphere is very positive, and everyone is reassuring about the future."
It said the decision to free Steen was in line with the announcements made earlier by the Revolutionary Justice Organization, which freed some prisoners and guarantees reached through negotiations with the United Nations.
The communiqué stressed the efforts exerted to gain freedom for Arab prisoners in Israel and said essential agreements had been reached on the whole issue of the hostages and its offshoots.
The Islamic Jihad faction kidnapped four educators from the Beirut college on Jan. 24, 1987. Mithileshua Singh, an Indianborn U.S. resident alien, was freed Oct. 3, 1988. Robert Polhill, an American lecturer in accounting, and a professor of mathematics and computer science, was freed Oct. 21.
Ciccippio, an administrator at the American University of Beirut, was freed yesterday by a different man more than five years of captivity.
Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharraa and the Iranian media have predicted that Anderson, the Western hostage who has spent the longest amount of time in captivity, would be set free within a week. Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent of The Associated Press, was kidnapped from Beirut on March 16, 1985.