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University Daily Kansan / Monday, September 30, 1991
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HALO asks for boycott
Group shuns grapes to protest conditions of migrant farm workers
By Ranjit Arab Special to the Kansan
Special to the Kansan
For many environmentally conscious students, every grape served in residence cupboard is made from 100% recyclable
The Hispanic American Leadership Organization has organized a boycott of grapes to coincide with a visit this week by United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO.
Chavez has publically boycotted California Table grapes for more than 20 years. He has protested that migrant farm workers, who are among the standard conditions and are nailed low wages.
The boycott is just one of the many events scheduled for HALO's agenda for Hispanic Heritage Month, which began Sept. 15, said Louie Longez. HALO president.
Chavez, the keynote speaker of HALO's
30 p.m. Friday at the Kansas City Railway
In addition to the economic issues surrounding the boycott, the grapes contain several pesticides which have been proven to cause both cancer and birth defects in humans, Lopez said. This makes it an environmental and human rights issue, he said.
"Our main concern is to increase awareness," he said. "The decision is to the individual."
Lopez said that HALO had sent letters to the residence and scholarship hall cafeteria.
This explaining are of gainzah hall Asoycth.
Although the scholarship halls agreed to observe the boycott for the entire month, the residence halls did not, he said.
The boycott was rejected Sept. 3 at the All
University Residence Hall Galleria.
However, Lopez said that AURH had been cooperative and planned to include information about the boycott in its upcoming newsletter.
Peggy Smith, associate director of student housing food service, said that the student housing department, not the cafeterias, accepted bids for the food. HALO eventually sent her a letter as well included background information about the boycott.
But Smith told HALO that because the assembly rejected the boycott, residence hall cafeterias would continue to serve grapes.
"It was my understanding that there were enough students on campus who didn't want to give up the option of having grapes," Smith said.
However, California Tablegrapes, which are bovetted by Chavez, are not always
served in residence hall cafeterias because of their cost and availability, Smith said.
Residence halls also get their grapes from South America, Smith said.
She did not know what kind of grapes the residence halls would have this week.
But Lopez said that even though the grapes might come from South America, the same issues existed and that those grapes also should be boycotted.
Enviros also offered his help with fund raising and publicity for the boycott, McEl-
Pam McEwlee, group coordinator of Environs, a campus environmental group, said that the organization joined the HALO boycott by announcing it at their meetings.
McElwee said that Environs encouraged its members to continue the boycott after this week.
The boycott is a continuing issue for the environmental group, she said.
"It's a way for us to put a new bent on everything," she said. "We don't want to be known as just 'tree huggers'. We're a big changer group, and this is a serious issue."
Lopez said that the organization's boycott would not extend to local grocers because it was primarily a campus event.
ASK calls for new insurance policy
By Blaine Kimrey
Associated Students of Kansas, a student lobbying group, conducted an assembly this weekend in Emporia to establish general policies for the 1992 legislative session.
Kansan staff writer
Changing the state's policy of self-insurance will be one of ASK's larger concerns this year, said Tim Nimz, executive director of ASK.
"The state needs to look at a better policy than self-insurance. Nirmzist westerday"
The Legislature allocates money for
emergency repairs on a case-by-case basis.
effective equipment in a case by case basis. Therefore, there is no guaranteed insurance for most buildings at Board of Regents universities.
After a June 15 fire that gutted Hoch Auditorium, the State Finance Council voted not to allocate emergency money for the building's clean-up.
The nine member council, led by Gov. Joan Finney, makes budget changes when the Legislature is not in session.
"We feel that the Legislature should form a task force to come up with alternative plans to the self-insurance policy," said Joe
Cinalli, ASK co-director for state issues.
During the ASK assembly, representatives from the six Regents universities broke into four subcommittees to debate policy guidelines for this year.
Among the largest concerns of the representatives were curtailing tuition increases, increasing the role of community service in student life and nurturing diversity at the Regents universities.
we want to reaffirm ASK's position that diversity is of vital importance at all the universities," Nimz said.
One more...
Nearing the end of a two-minute time limit, Scott McInlott, Wichita junior, forces a few extra push-ups to come one short of reaching the goal of 82 during a physical fitness contest.
Walk raises money to fight hunger
Kansan staff writer
By Heather Anderson
The 4-year-old climbed out of his carriage and declared that he was ready to walk, even though he was hot.
After riding in his stroller for about three miles yesterday, Randy Sexton was getting tired of being confined.
"My socks are sweaty," he said. Randy did not realize it yesterday, but he and his mother were walking to help feed the hungry.
The walk, which is sponsored by Church World Service, is one of about 2,000 walks that take place
The Sextons were about among 350 other adults, children and dogs who participated in the Lawrence Crop Walk yesterday.
each year nationwide to help feed hungry people, especially children, and educate the public about world hunger.
Church World Service, based in Indiana, is a hunger awareness group that is part of the Church of Christ.
The walkers began at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1011 Vermont St., and walked to 19th Street and Haskell Avenue. The group walked back to the church after walking through campus.
Before the event, the walkers asked people to sponsor them for the 6.2-mile walk.
Rick Clock, county coordinator for the crop walk, said he hoped the walk would raise $1,000 this year. He said more than $9,000 last year, he said.
Clock said 25 percent of the money would be donated to two local organizations — the Lawrence Interdenomination Nutrition Kitchen and the Emergency Services Council.
The remaining proceeds will go to international organizations that distribute the money to help hungry people. Clock said.
Nancy Van Lerberg, Shawnee junior, said she and about 15 other women from her sorority, Gamma Phi Beta, participated in the walk to get exercise and earn volunteer hours for the sorority.
Jocelyn Young, Overland Park junior, said she got to see a lot during her walk
"I've seen more of Lawrence than I have in the last three years," Young said
City legislators ask for hearings on laws guiding police actions
By William Ramsey Kansan staff writer
Two local legislators agree that state laws concerning the investigation of police shootings and brutality need to be reviewed.
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, and State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, proposed to the Legislative Coordinating Council that hearings be held about laws guiding the investigation of police shootings and brutality.
Solbach, chairperson of the Judiciary Committee, said the committee could address the question in November if the proposed hearings were approved by the council in its Oct. 7 meeting.
Winter, the vice chairperson of the Legislative Coordinating Council's Special Committee on Judiciary, said, "There just seems to be more and
more instances where police are involved in confrontations, and often (those instances) turn violent."
Winter asked Solbach to see whether the committee could fit hearings about the state laws into its schedule.
Winter said the shooting death of Gregg Sevier on April 21 by Lawrence police was one incident he considered in asking for the review of state law.
Sevier, who was armed with a knife, was shot in his home after his relatives called police because Sevier was distraught about personal problems. The jury at the coroner's inquest ruled that the shooting was justified.
The committee hopes to review the way police shootings or brutalities are investigated and the way officers are trained, Winter said.
He said preventing situations such as the Sevier incident and others that had occurred was a large concern.
Solbach said the Judiciary Committee might have a day and a half to hear testimony if it gets approval from the council.
Solbach agreed with Winter that officer training might need to be reviewed.
He said that little might need to be changed but that he wanted to confirm that police departments in the state had specific policies that effectively cover the use of force.
"When you're dealing with life and death situations, some individuals can analyze it and can act without any kind of pre-programmed response," Solbach said. "But most people can't."
He said that in reviewing state laws, the committee would want to hear testimony from a variety of people, including police chiefs, relatives of victims and officials from statewide law-enforcement groups.
17th century nun's intelligence and beauty won her respect as writer and feminist
By Mauricio Rios Kansan staff writer
Foolish men, who accuse
woman without any reason,
not realizing you are the cause
That was the poetic voice of a beautiful 17th century woman, Sister Juan Inés de la Cruz.
She has been called one of the most outstanding writers of the Baroque movement in Latin America.
Born in 1618 in San Miguel de Nepantana, Mexico, de la Cruz was considered a genius.
She learned to read and write when she was 3
and learned Latin in only a few lessons.
When she was 7, she wanted to dress in boys clothing so she could attend a university.
De la Crauz lived in a period when women were limited to two options: marriage or the convent.
In 1689, de la Cruz entered the San Jeronimo Convent where she was allowed to read and write as much as she wanted. She was thirsty for knowledge.
Her work was well known in other parts of Latin America as well as in Spain.
At the convent, de la Cruz became her own professor, teaching herself from books.
of religious works.
Latin Artists as well as in Spain.
She wrote prose, poetry, theater and a variety
"Primo suelo," which means "First I dam." "a collection of 95 verses and one of de la dam."
"Respuesto a sor Filoate de la Cruz" or "Answer to Sister Filoat de la Cruz" is a renowned document in which de la Cruz defends women's rights to education.
Her intelligence and beauty won her the
heritage of a distinguished matriarchs of the king
and other influential persons.
Michael Doudorf, KU professor of Spanish
american literature, saiddela Cruz was aninter-
preter.
He said that there were speculations about the
reasons why a beautiful woman such as de la Cruz would enter the convent.
Doudoreff said some scholars thought de la Cruz was in love with someone she could never marry. Others thought she was so intellectually superior that no man would have interested her.
But no matter what the truth was, all agreed that her style, genius and quality of work made her the greatest poet and feminist of the colonial period.
"She believed that a woman had to have the freedom to study, to write, to express herself and her ideas," she said.
De la Cruz died in 1695 while taking care of other nuns during an epidemic in Mexico.
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