University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 4, 1987
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Local Briefs
Former student given sentence for drug charge
A former KU student was sentenced Friday in Douglas County District Court after pleading guilty to failure of attempt to sell cocaine
Jonathan Flicker, a Lawrence resident who enrolled as a KU senior in the fall 1986 semester, was sentenced to one five years in jail by District Court Judge Ralph King Jr.
Flicker was arraigned July 25 on one count of selling cocaine but agreed in January to plead guilty to the lesser charge.
Fraternity gets national award
The KU chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity has been named the outstanding active undergraduate chapter of 1987, the third consecutive year the fraternity has received the award.
Kappa Alpha Psi, which was chartered at the University of Kansas in 1920, was one of the first better organizations at the University.
The fraternity's service activities include the Helping Hand program, which helps elderly people with household tasks, a tutorial program for elementary and junior high students, and the distribution of special-help packets to minority freshmen, students.
Hall will stay open over spring break
The office of residential programs has announced that it will keep open McCollim Hall for resi-
dence training. The department is in Lawrence during spring break.
Students who wish to stay in McCollium during break may sign up at 123 Strong Hall. The cost of a room for spring break is $40. The hall will not provide food service during that time, but vending services will continue.
Professor receives architecture honor
Victor Papanek, J.L. Constant distinguished professor of architecture and urban design at the University of Kansas, is the recipient of the 1987 Augustus Saint-Gaudens Award for Architecture.
- The award is given by the Alumna Association of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York. Papken will walk at Cooper University's annual founders' day celebration in New York.
Papanek's work has focused on humanizing industrial design to help the needy, handicapped and developing nations.
He has co-authored eight books and worked or taught in 14 countries.
Clarification
Brian Cross' student status was reported incorrectly in a story in the Feb. 12 Kansan. Cross was enrolled in a correspondence course last semester and has been granted an extension of that course until June 1.
Campus and Area
From staff and wire reports.
Students to face stricter probation rule
Minimum GPA to be based on hours attempted rather than hours passed
Students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will have to meet a slightly stricter standard beginning this fall to avoid academic probation or dismissal.
Staff writer
By PAUL SCHRAG
The College Assembly passed a motion yesterday that makes the number of hours that students have attempted, rather than the number of hours they have passed, the basis for must maintain the minimum grade point average students must maintain to be in good academic standing.
But the assembly defeated 19-16 an amendment to the motion, which would have raised the current minimum GPA requirements for a student to remain in good standing.
The assembly unanimously passed a motion from the floor that charged the college's committee on undergraduate studies and recommended the maximum GPA issue by the end of the semester.
Much of the discussion at the meeting focused on whether the assembly should raise the college's minimum GPA requirement.
astronomy, proposed the failed amendment, which would have set the minimum GPA at 1.0 for students who had attempted fewer than 15 hours at the University, and at 2.0 for students who had attempted 30 hours or more.
John Davidson, chairman of physics and
Now, students who have passed fewer than 15 hours have no required GPA to remain in good standing. The minimum for 15 to 29 hours pass is 1.4; for 30 to 44, 1.6; for 45 to 59, 1.8; and for 60 or more, 2.0
Students must have a 2.0 GPA to graduate from the college.
Davidson said he proposed the amendment because it wasn't fair for the college to spend its limited financial resources on students with low GPAs while other students were being turned away from classes.
"It's not fair that some of them should be denied while others take up more of the resources than is their right," he said.
"If we talk about limiting enrollment, we should require those who get in to maintain throughout their careers a minimum graduating GPA."
Director reflects on minority gains
Rv TIM HAMILTON
Staff writer
In 1983, Robbi Ferron came to KU's office of affirmative action to try to bring more minority and female faculty members and administrators to the University of Kansas.
After three years, Ferron has announced her resignation, effective June 30, to return to Seattle and live closer to relatives.
When she came to the University, it had too few minority and female unclassified employees to complete the department of labor requirements.
In three years, the University has complied with the requirements, created an Affirmative Action handbook and had numerous educational meetings on the objectives of equal opportunity employment and affirmative action.
In addition, the University now has a policy protecting employees, even beyond federal guidelines, from discrimination on the basis of sexual preference, marital or parental status.
"This speaks very well for the University," Ferron said. "In that respect, the University is a real flagshin."
The University also has been meeting the goals and timetables for hiring minorities and women set by the office.
"With women, we make steady and significant progress every year." Ferron said.
Barbara Ballard, director of the Emily Taylor Ballard's Resource Center, said that Ferron had made her experience more visible in her three years.
"The University definitely has a better handle on goals and timetables," Ballard said.
Robb Ferron, director of the office of affirmative action, will leave KU on June 30 for Seattle. Wash. Ferron has been the director since 1983.
The office helps the schools fill their goals by developing programs to recruit minority applicants.
Those goals and timetables are determined by the number of each school's female and minority employees compared with the percentage of qualified women and minorities in the nation.
"All you have to do is attract applicants and you will find qualified minorities and women," said
Ferron.
Ferron said that low salaries, geographic location and relatively small populations of minorities at law made it hard to attract applicants.
plicants didn't want to sacrifice their culture and heritage. She said that her interaction with Lawrence's Native American community definitely influenced her ability to stay at the University.
"It's not the easiest to attach minorities to the Midwest," said Vernell Spearman, director of minority affairs.
She said the office's educational programs were intended to raise awareness and educate people on objectives of affirmative action.
Ferron, a Rosebud Sioux Indian, said that many minority ap-
KU advisory board seeks improvements in health insurance
By JENNIFER WYRICK
Staff writer
The Student Health Advisory Board met with KU's official student insurance policy carrier in January to change the 1986-87 group health insurance policy to better fit students' specific needs.
The policy carrier, G-M Underwriters, is an agent for Colonial Penn Life Insurance Company, which was chosen by the board with the approvidence of Senate. G-M Underwriters has been the policy carrier since August.
The first change dealt with determining how much the insurance company paid and how much the student paid, said Matt McPherron, chairman of the Student Health Advisory Board.
As the policy reads, everything covered by the policy is subject to a $100 deductible for each insured student per policy year, except at Watkins Memorial Hospital, which has no deductible.
After the student has paid the $100 deductible, then the company pays 80 percent of the expenses, and the student pays 20 percent. The total maximum coverage of the policy is $250,000.
But the board considered it important to protect a student from paying major hospital bills in the event of a catastrophe, McPherron said, so the new policy was designed to assume 100 percent of the expenses in case of such an event.
McPherron said the board was deciding at what amount the company would be responsible for assum-
ment percent of the student's expenses
The second change sought to increase the limited number of outpatient visits allowed after an accident, McPherron said. The board is tracking follow-up visits to decide on an appropriate number.
The addition of a family deductible was the third change. As the policy now reads, an insured family has a $100 deductible per person. But if the insured person was a member of a large family, the policy could
become expensive, McPherron said.
McPherron said the family deductible would provide some kind of discount for a student family with the policy.
G-M Underwriters replaced Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Kansas Inc in August because they provided the intensive health policy, Mr. McPherson said.
Blue Cross/Blue Shield had informed the board early on that it would increase by 45 percent its premium, or insurance in the form of an initiation fee. McPherron said student policy holders were most upset about the premium hike, although there were other problems.
For instance, Blue Cross/Blue Shield lost a number of payments and failed to make other payments on time, McPherron said. The new company proved to be accurate and punctual when making payments.
In addition, G-M Underwriters placed a student representative at Watkins to serve as an extension of the company and to perform any services for student policy holders.
Michelle Zemites, the on-campus health insurance representative, said she was able to date, stamp and receive payments, so in effect, paying her was like directly paying G-M Underwriters.
G-M Underwriters has been providing monthly utilization reports and updated lists of current policy holders to be distributed to Zemites, the director of Watkins and the Student Health Advisory Board.
McPherron said Blue Cross/Blue Shield was not efficient in the past in sending out similar reports.
McPherron said students who enrolled during the fall and/or spring semester on the Lawrence campus as undergraduates carrying seven or more hours were eligible for the insurance. Also eligible are graduate students carrying three or more hours a semester and working on a master's degree, a doctorate or post-doctoral studies, even if they do not earn credit.
History of Kansas women comes home in lecture
Staff writer
Bv KIERSTI MOEN
Kansas women deserve attention for their pioneering contributions to the state's history and for opening politics to women, Ann Gardner, the author of "Kansas Women," said last night at the Kansas Union.
"A lot of these women you never find in the history books," she said.
Gardner, Sunday editor of the Lawrence Journal-World, showed slides of influential women in U.S. and Kansas history. One showed Carrie Nation of Medicine Lodge swinging an ax in a 1900 barroom-smashing crusade.
its celebration of the national Women's History Month. The center provided money to publish Gardner's book in April 1986.
The Emilie Taylor Women's Research Center winter presentation, which kicked off
Nation was an advocate of prohibition, which cast many women into
public attention, Gardner said.
Six Kansas women caught national attention in 1888 when they were elected to the Oksalaosa City Council. As the first all-female council in the United States, they were a curiosity, but the press centered only on their looks, bodies, dress and families, she said.
Mabel Chase of Kiowa County, probably the first U.S. woman sheriff, was taken more seriously. Gardner said. So was Susana Madora
Salter of Argonia, who in 1887 became the first U.S. woman mavor.
In her book, Gardner also included modern Kansas women, such as Nancy Kassebaum, who in 1978 became the first woman U.S. senator who was not the widow of a congressman.
Barbara Ballard, resource center director, said. "This book has pulled together a lot of information about what hasn't been accessible before.
"We didn't hope to get rich on it. It was more like a contribution to Kansas to show how women contributed to its history."
Elizabeth Hatchett, an art teacher in the Perry-LeCompton school district, said that the presentation had increased interest in the history of Kansas women.
"It's like a support to your own self-esteem when you see what's been done."
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