2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2005
BY ERIN WILEY
editor@kansan.com
KANANS CORRESPONDENT
Santos Núñez Director of the Multicultural Resource Center
Why is it important to have a Multicultural Resource Center?
I teach a multicultural class for the Thematic Learning Communities.
supervise the day-to-day activities of the Multicultural Resource Center. We have students who come in here for different resources. They use this as a place to study. Students come in for tutoring and to use our resources on diversity (books and videos). I usually have several students who come in and want to speak with me about different issues dealing with their college life, whether it is academics, social issues or even personal issues. I also advise the First Nations Student Association, and
college experience. I would say challenge yourself, if you have grown up in an environment where everyone looked like you and spoke the same language as you and had the same values as you. I would challenge you and make it a point in your college career to go to events where you are the only one of that culture. It will make you a stronger person and more aware of who you are as a person.
Evolution concerns continue
BY TRAVIS ROBINETT
trobinett@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
BELIEFS
Chancellor worries board's stance will affect University
Edited by Becca Evanhoe
The State Board of Education's stance on evolution could hurt recruitment of students and faculty to the University of Kansas, Chancellor Robert Hemenway said.
In a Sept. 8 speech to faculty and staff, Hemenway said Kansas' state school board has challenged the scientific principles that are essential to the University's teaching. He said the state of Kansas was the butt of jokes for the rest of the country.
Steve Abrams, a member of the Kansas State Board of Education, said he didn't think the chancellor's opinion had any relevance to the debate at hand. He said the board wanted evolution taught fully, with different scientific views made known to the students. He said some scientists had different views regarding evolution.
"Six politicians on the board claim that evolution is just a theory. Evolution is a theory in the same way that gravity is a theory. It has been proven by years of scientific observation and experimentation," Hemenway said.
"I cannot possibly see how it could hurt KU," Abrams said.
Craig Martin, chairman of the department of ecology and evolutionary biology, was nervous about how these issues might affect faculty recruitment, even though he said he hadn't seen direct evidence that the University had lost someone because of it.
Martin said his department was recruiting four new faculty members, but that he did not know whether the best applicants would apply. He said they may not want to come to a state with an inappropriate understanding of what constitutes science education.
"Six politicians on the board claim that evolution is just a theory. Evolution is a theory in the same way that gravity is a theory. It has been proven by years of scientific observation and experimentation."
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Robert Hemenway Chancellor
Kenneth Willard, a member of the board, said the actions of the board should not cause problems. He said students should be able to critically analyze controversial areas of evolution and develop their own conclusions.
Willard said that he understood Hemenway's concern and that it his concern as well.
"But what the board is doing is not being truthfully reported." Willard said. "People think we are trying to put religion in schools, and that simply isn't true."
Bill Wagon, a member of the board, said he suspected it was a problem, and mentioned how Kansas has developed a negative reputation nationally, in reference to the proposed science curriculum changes. He said he thought evolution was a theory that has been well-proven.
Ryan Shepard, South Paris Maine, graduate student, said the impression of Kansas in Maine was weak because of Kansas' stance on evolution.
"My friends always wondered why I would come to a school in — and these are their words
— 'a backwards state,'" Shepard said. "But the communications program was too overwhelmingly good to pass up."
Edited by Alison Peterson
GREEK LIFE
Sororities still openly recruiting
BY LOUIS MORA
lmora@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Formal recruitment is finished for sororities, but several are still welcoming members with open arms.
Open recruitment allows sororities to continue to grow and reach the average chapter membership of 140, which was estimated by Colleen Grosch, vice president of recruitment.
Those interested in open recruitment provide a name and contact information, which is passed to the house they are interested in.
Differences between formal recruitment and open recruitment include women not being kept in large groups and not being confined to a week full of activities.
Levita Bui, Garden City junior and member of Alpha Delta Phi, went through open recruitment last year and said it helped her because it was less stressful and time consuming, than formal recruitment.
"It was more easy going," she said.
Grosch, St. Charles, Mo. senior, said four or five sororites will take part this year. She said involvement in the process may be perceived as a problem, but some sororites enjoy their small size.
Alpha Delta Pi, 1600 Oxford Road, is one of the sororities taking part in open recruitment.
Jodi Lifit, Topeka senior and president of Alpha Delta Pi, said the negative image may exist, but having the opportunity to add more members to the house benefits the chapter's future.
"If you're not at total, you risk losing more women and support from your national organization," she said.
Sigma Delta Tau, 1625 Edgehill Road, has been involved in the process for several years, as it is one of the smaller chapters.
Marisa Vrona, Minneapolis, Minn., junior and president of Sigma Delta Tau, said members enjoy the size of their chapter and are not as concerned with numbers.
Open recruitment may not receive the same numbers as the 750 involved in formal recruitment, but the process provides a more comfortable setting for prospective members. Grosch said.
She said the open recruitment process has provided an outlet for past members to join.
"If there wouldn't have been an open recruitment process, they might not have joined the KU greek community," Grosch said.
PEOPLE
Actor in clear with good behavior
- Edited by Kellis Robinett
NEWYORK — Groping charges against Christian Slater will be dropped if the actor stays out of trouble for the next six months, under a plea agreement reached with prosecutors.
"The case is dismissed, and we are very pleased with the outcome," his lawyer, Eric Franz, said Monday outside Manhattan Criminal Court.
In July, the actor had rejected a plea bargain that would have required him to perform three days of community service in exchange for pleading guilty to second-degree harassment.
Slater, 36, was arrested May 31 and charged with forcible touching for allegedly groping a woman during a late night run-in on the Upper East Side. He faced up to a year in jail if convicted.
Slater, whose credits include "Heathers;" "Broken Arrow" and "True Romance," was appearing in "The Glass Menagerie" on Broadway at the time of his arrest.
It was not his first run-in with the law. The actor was sentenced to 90 days in jail for an August 1997 incident where he reportedly bit one man in the stomach and threw a police officer against a wall during a rowdy Los Angeles party.
Model out of work after drug use
STOCKHOLM, Sweden Swedish clothing chain Hennes & Mauritz will drop a planned advertising campaign with model Kate Moss after she admitted to recently using cocaine.
H&M, Europe's largest fashion retailer, had planned to use Moss to help launch a new collection designed by Stella McCartney that will hit stores in 22 countries in November.
The decision to drop the campaign came after Moss acknowledged last week that British tabloid reports of her recent cocaine use were true.
H&M initially said it would proceed with the campaign, but company spokeswoman Liv Asarnoj said Tuesday that "after evaluating the situation, we have decided that a campaign with Kate Moss is not consistent with H&M's clear disassociation from drugs."
The company will call in another model for the campaign, Asarno said.
H&M said Saturday that Moss, 31, had apologized for her drug use and promised in writing to abide by a company policy that models be "healthy, wholesome and sound."
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