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"Living in McCollum, the people are great, but the dorm sucks." Walberg said.
Rachel Burchfield, Topeka freshman, finished 22nd in the voting. She said that although she was disappointed she wasn't elected, she was glad she had ran. She said the process of gathering signatures to get her name on the ballot gave her the opportunity to meet new people. She was so busy in her sorority that she didn't have enough time to campaign to win a spot, Burchfield said
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"Everything works out for a reason," Burchfield said. "I gained more than I lost even though I lost the election."
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Ward said he also thought the recent incidents took the idea of a prank too far.
Shorten said that while pranks do occur, vandalism at Tau Kappa Epsilon, 1111 W. 11th St., was an instance of pranks getting out of hand. A sign outside of the house, bearing the fraternity's Greek letters.
was destroyed in June and damaged again in August.
derstand fraternities, they became targets," Shorten said.
"Their vandalism was probably vengeance on the part of the past residents," Shorten said, referring to former members of Phi Kappa Theta who were forced to vacate their former residence at 1111 W. 11th St. after the University of Kansas suspended the chapter for having an illegal party.
arity. "Maybe when people misun-
The members of Delta Chi have not been the only victims of vandalism:
At Delta Upsilon, 1025 Emery Road, $500 in damage was reported after a person entered the house, removed a $100 fire extinguisher from the wall and sprayed it in the basement on Aug. 21.
eidents at Tau Kappa Epsilon, ceiling tiles and light fixtures were damaged in May.
In addition to the sign in-
At the former Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house, 1510 Sigma Nu Place, a $200 window was damaged in April.
- The annex of Sigma Phi Epsilon, 407 W. 17th St., was damaged after four break-ins last semester.
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must complete before entering a professional school or choosing a major. He said he would likely form a task force to improve the general education of students at the University.
"We want to ask, 'Are we accomplishing all the goals we want to accomplish in general education?' Hemenway said.
Hemenway also said he'd like to do a better job of preparing students for a global economy, noting that other countries are catching up with the United States technologically.
Hemenway's third goal is to improve the funding for biosciences and life sciences. Though research funding overall has increased from $94 million in 1995 to $274 million last year, he said he'd like to have more money for those subjects.
When Hemenway arrived at the University, one of his goals was to increase minority enrollment. When he arrived, 9.4 percent of students were minorities. That number rose slightly to 11.6 percent last year.
"I'm pleased we've made some strides. We've added some faculty of color, but I think we can do much better. We have the highest
efit minorities, Pierotti said.
enrollment of students of color that we've ever had," said Hemenway, who is an African-American literature scholar and wrote a biography on black writer Zora Neale Hurston in 1978. Even though Hemenway has helped increase minority enrollment, Ray Pierotti, associate professor of indigenous studies and ecology and evolutionary biology, said Hemenway has not always succeeded in treating minorities fairly.
"I think his heart is in the right place," said Pierotti, who came to the University in 1992.
Pierotti, a Native American who lost a discrimination lawsuit against the University in 2000, said that Hemenway's administration has been less receptive to grievances than he would like. Pierotti filed the lawsuit with his wife, Cynthia Annett, because they believed that Annett was denied tenure and Pierotti was removed from his position as chairman of the department of ecology and evolutionary biology's minority affairs committee partially based on gender and race discrimination.
Andy Peterson, who has worked at the University as a landscaper for
the last four years, said Hemenway was responsive to his less-controversial grips.
"If you've got a complaint, he listens," said Peterson. "All you've got to do is e-mail him. He's good about complimenting us when campus looks good."
For many students, Hemenway is an invisible force at the University, a man they see speaking at an occasional event but don't feel a close connection to. But this is an inevitable problem at a university with an enrollment close to 30,000 people.
"What I'd like to see is more activities at his house, like coming to
eat with him, to get to know him a little more," Clayton Holmes, Wichita sophomore, said. "I've seen him before, I shook his hand, but I don't know who the chancellor is."
Hemenway, 64, says that he has no plans to retire in the next few years. But when he turns 70, he says he might step down as chancellor but continue to teach English.
"The regents have asked me my plans, and I said my plan was to go till I am 70," Hemenway said. "As long as I'm in good health, I don't see why that wouldn't be a proper goal."
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