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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, April 7, 1997
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Society honors top students
Phi Kappa Phi awards scholars' work, character
By Harumi Kogarimal
Kansan staff writer
The top 5 percent of KU students were initiated into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi yesterday afternoon in the Kansas Union.
Sue Nishikawa, president of Phi Kappa Phi, said the society, which is open to students with good academic standing, had initiated 75 KU seniors and graduate students. Dents of each school nominated the students as candidates based on high grade point averages and good character.
A maximum of 5 percent of senior students and 10 percent of graduate students are elected to the society every year.
Steve Pupee / KANSAN
Gina Jennings, Colby senior in the School of Allied Health, said it was a great honor to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi.
"It's nice to be recognized for hard work," Jennings said.
Each new member received a certificate of permanent membership and Phi Kappa Phi emblems.
Aside from the 75 students, the KU Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi awarded Cari Clark, Newkirk, Okla., and KU graduate, a James Blackiston Fellowship Award of $1,000.
Clark was unable to come to the ceremony because she was at Boston University, attending an international health program. Instead, her father, Chris Clark, received the certificate on her behalf.
"Cari has been a very successful student, a very successful daughter," Clark said. "I am very proud of her."
The society was founded in 1897 with the motto "Let the love of learning rule mankind." There are more than 270 chapters across the country.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway said, referring to David Thoreau's Walden, that students should live up to their potential and continue learning as they pursue their dreams.
"Today what we have learned would be to continue to dream your dream, to continue to build a castle in the air," Hemenway said. "Now you put the foundation underneath."
Seventy-five students were initiated into the Phi Kappa Phi honor society yesterday. Those initiated represent the top 5 percent of KU students. Phi Kappa Phi is open to seniors and graduating seniors nominated by the deans of their schools.
Small items stolen from GSP-Corbin
By Kevin Bates
Kansan staff writer
Five burglaries and the thefts occurred at Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall around spring break. Small, expensive items like calculators and pieces of jewelry were taken from four rooms on two floors between March 17 and March 31, KU police said.
KU police officer Gayle Reece said she did not think that the burglaries occurred while the students were away on vacation.
She said the burglaries probably occurred right before break, as students were leaving their residence halls or right after as students were moving back in.
"People don't always notice right away when something is missing." Reece said.
"After students come back on Sunday night, they might not notice that something is gone until Monday morning, so it's hard to tell when it happened."
Reece warned that thefts could occur in a matter of seconds.
"It doesn't take that long to enter a room and take something." Reece said. "Especially if it's right there out in the open."
Reece said the easiest way for students to protect their possessions was to lock their door.
"Quite often, students don't close and lock their doors when they leave," Reece said. "Most students treat their room like their room at home and leave it unlocked. We encourage students to think of their hallway as a street and their door as the front door to their home."
"Most students treat their room like their room at home and leave it unlocked."
Gayle Reece KU police officer
GSP-Corbin Hall resident Susan Buck, Rogers, Ark., freshman, said, "People do leave their doors unlocked quite a bit.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, agreed with Reece that locking doors was the best defense against theft.
Usually that's when they know their roommate doesn't have a room key with them."
"Even if they're going to be gone for only a few minutes, or just down the hall at a friend's room, students need to pay attention to locking their doors," Stoner said. "A few minutes can easily turn into an hour. Students just need to be diligent about taking simple precautions."
Reece also advised students to put their valuables away.
"Don't let your money, your calculator, your jewelry sit out on your desk where anyone and everyone can see them," Reece said. "A thief wants to get in and get out, so he's not going to want to take time to dig around and find anything."
Legislation may stop abortions at Med Center
By Ann Marchand Kansan staff writer
Abortions may no longer be performed at the University of Kansas Medical Center, if a bill passes in the Kansas House.
The administrative change was supported by both the Regents and the University of Kansas, but neither had anticipated the amendment offered by Rep. Mike Farmer, R-Wichita, during committee discussions.
The potential ban comes as the result of a vote in the Kansas House appropriations committee last week which created a hospital authority for the Med Center hospital. The new authority will control the hospital's administrative functions.
Farmer's amendment banned training in and performance of abortions at the hospital. The amendment passed, and the bill now will be considered by the entire House.
"It's a problem at medical schools because only about 10 percent of ob/gyns require abortion training," she said. "A lot of med schools don't even require abortion training. KU is one of the few that does, and now they won't be able to any more, which is unfortunate because there are a lot of women out there who need those services."
Chris Zerger, Moundridge medical student, said that students at the medical school had not reacted to the decision one way or the other. He speculated that few even knew of the Legislature's actions.
Zerger said he did not think abortion training was a required part of the Med Center curriculum.
But he also said that anti-abortion activism recently had started to increase and that he had received an email message soliciting members for a new group on the Med Center campus opposed to abortion.
The Med Center issued a statement following the action which said that the change in hospital governance to a public authority was essential to continue as the state's only university teaching and research hospital.
But the statement also opposed the linking of the abortion issue with the administrative change.
"The issue of abortion is an important public policy issue that should be considered independently of this proposed legislation," the statement read.
The Senate has passed the bill to create the new hospital authority but did not amend it to restrict abortion procedures.
Should the legislation pass the House as amended, it would be referred to a joint House-Senate conference committee to resolve the abortion issue.
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