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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 13, 1988
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13 RA positions still unfilled
Housing officials review policy of hiring upperclassmen only
By Kim Lightle
Kansan staff writer
University housing officials might consider abandoning a policy that requires resident assistants to have junior standing because of a shortage of qualified applicants.
Jean Morrow, assistant director of residential programs, said that all the RA positions for men were filled for fall but that she was still looking for 13 women to fill RA positions. The halls that lack RAs are Lewis, Hashinger, McColum and Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Corbin.
There are 76 RA positions,44 for women and 32 for men
Morrow said that she didn't know why a lack of women applicants existed but that the year-old policy requiring RAs to have junior standing could be one of the reasons for the shortage.
"Of course, I'm very concerned about the shortage," she said. "I don't think it would be fair to the students to be without an RA."
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said that he was responsible for the policy and that his intent was to get candidates that were academical$^{a}$
Jean Morrow
If we have to open the halls without those positions filled because we don't have enough quality applicants, then that is what we will do.'
Title, assistant director of residential programs
more stable.
more stable.
"The intent was to increase the applicants' class standing." Stoner said. "Under the policy, they would have one more year of academic success."
Stoner said he and his staff were discussing the shortage caused by the policy and whether the policy should be maintained. However, he said, he still thinks the policy is a good idea.
"I am still of the same opinion, but we obviously need to take a look at this," he said.
Fred McElhenie, director of residential programs, said he and his staff members might have to actively recruit the needed applicants.
"It might mean approaching someone this
summer who is attending school and doing a good job at something and asking them if they would be interested in applying," he said.
Quality was a big concern when the applicants were considered, Morrow said. Although there were enough women candidates to fill the positions some just weren't ready for the job, she said.
Morrow said she wasn't going to panic or hire people less qualified to fill the positions.
Both McElhene and Morrow, who is in charge of accepting applications for the positions, said they were confident that the positions would be filled before fail.
"If we have to open the halls without those positions filled because we don't have enough quality applicants, then that is what we will do," she said.
"In the worst case scenario, we might take people from areas that might not need RAS as badly as others." McElhene said. "We also could assign someone to take on some extra areas of work."
McElhenie said he did not know which halls RAs might be pulled from to make up for shortages.
Petition against Senate paying for forum fails
By Jeff Moberg
Kansan staff writer
KU police can expect payment in the next few weeks for the security it provided at the free speech forum a month ago.
Despite receiving more than 700 signatures petitioning the Student Senate not to pay the $3,208.06 security bill, Jason Krakow, student body president, signed the bill yesterday.
The petition was submitted by Students and Community Against Oppression and Racism, a group opposed to having student money pay for the security expenses. The group wants students to side the forum because members of the Ku Klux Klan had been invited on campus to speak.
Krakow apologized to any students who did not agree with Senate paying the security bill, but
he said that not every decision Senate made was popular. The forum's sponsor, Slightly Older Americans for Freedom, had originally agreed to pay security costs of $450 an hour.
Krakow, however, also said he thought that SCAOR did not present a fair petition. Different copies of the petition had different purpose statements ranging from, "Student Senate voted to use your money for security at the KKK rally" to "We oppose bill 081."
Beth Miller, a SCAOR member, said that she agreed with Krakow's point of view, but she said it was also the one seen a petition presented fairly.
"We told the facts as we saw them," Miller said, referring to the petition, "because $3,000 of student money is going to pay for the Klan coming to speak."
New program helps students with anorexia
By James Buckman
Kansan staff writer
Students with eating disorders can find support from peers experiencing similar problems through a new program at Watkins Hospital.
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins, said the hospital had established a chapter of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, which is a national support group for people suffering from eating disorders.
He said that ANAD was not a treatment or evaluation unit, but a group designed to support people who have finished specialized treatment or who currently are in treatment for eating disorders.
"We want this to be a real support group," Yockey said. "We don't want it to be a group where people just compare stories about their eating disorders."
Janine Demo, chief of the health education department at Watkins, said that the program, which meets on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, should not be seen as a substitute for therapy.
"People with eating disorders who have decided they have a problem should seek therapy one on one," she said. "A lot of girls develop the problem before they come to college, so they have already had the one-on-one therapy."
"They are making a transition to a different environment, and they seek friendship, support and help through a support group."
Demo said that the group was similar to Alcoholics Anonymous in its style and that there was no membership fee. The group is led by graduate students in counseling and psychology, she said.
Lori Irving, a Thousand Oakes, Calif., third-year graduate student who advises the other graduate students leading the groups, said that about 10 students used the program each week. She said the success of the program depended on the participants.
"They get out of it what they are willing to put into it," she said.
Yockey said that Watkins was in the process of establishing an eating disorders evaluation clinic, which he hoped would be operational by next fall. The clinic would be able to help people with eating disorders in all stages of their disease, he said.
Forrest MacDonald/KANSAN
Sun art
Cindy Althouse, Olathe sophomore, takes advantage of the warm weather to do some outside drawing work. Althouse was sketching landscapes near Potter Lake yesterday for her drawing class.
City Commission kills first of mall proposals County will consider remaining plans
By Christine Martin
Kansan staff writer
After several months of public hearings and debate, one of the three Lawrence suburban mall proposals is dead.
The Lawrence City Commission last night voted unanimously against the Jacobs, Vissonsi and Jacobs request for rezoning land in south Lawrence to accommodate a mall.
The 61-acre proposed site is at Iowa Street and Armstrong Road in south Lawrence.
The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission recommended last month that the City Commission deny JVJ's proposal. It based its conclusion on a report with testimony from several public hearings.
The two other suburban mall proposals will go before the Douglas County Commission for
In February, the planning commission recommended denial of the Collister proposal, a 54-acre site at Highway 40 and Wakarua Drive in west Lawrence. The commission will make its recommendation on the Warmack proposal, a 10-acre site at Clinton Parkway and Wakarua Drive in southwest Lawrence tonight.
Commissioner Sandra Praeger said growth south of the city would undermine the careful planning the city had done so far.
"We as a city have a right to determine how we are to grow," she said.
Commissioner Mike Amyx said the effect of every major project in Lawrence on the downtown business district should be studied carefully. Projects such as the proposed mall
'We as a city have a right to determine how we are to grow.' — Sandra Praeger city commissioner
and the proposed south Lawrence trafficway would affect downtown, he said.
Before the commissioners began discussion of the JVJ proposal, Neil Shortlidge, an attorney representing JVJ, requested that the commissioners ask whether they should disqualify themselves from voting on the proposal because of conflicts of interest.
Shortlidge said Commissioner Dennis Constance could have prejudged the proposal because he served on the Downtown Improvement Committee, which was against a suburban bank.
shortlidge said a suburban mall would not significantly affect downtown businesses in Lawrence.
"We did not agree with the findings the planning commission arrived at," Shortlidge said.
He also questioned whether Constance could be impartial because Constance had suggested that the city hire legal counsel to defend itself from a suburban mall.
Mayor Bob Schumm asked the commissioners if they thought they should abstain from voting on the proposal because of conflicts of interest, but none of the commissioners chose to abstain.
Canadian diplomat praises free-trade agreement
By Brenda Finnell
Branion's speech was sponsored by the Center for International Programs, the School of Business
Kansan staff writer
The free-trade agreement signed in January by President Ronald Reagan and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Muloney can bring only positive results, the Canadian consul general for the Southwestern United States said yesterday.
"I would be the first to admit that it is not perfect," said Douglas H.M. Branion, Canada's senior diplomatic official in a six-state region that includes Kansas. "But considering the alternative of increasing protectionism on both sides of the border, I would say this accord is the best thing to happen in a long, long time."
Branion spoke about issues in U.S.-Canada trade and answered questions from an audience of about 20 people in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
and the Hall Center for the Humanities.
As consul general, Branion handles issues such as trade, tourism, immigration and politics between Canada and the six states, including Canadas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and TXA.
The trade accord now must be approved by Congress and the Canadian parliament. Branion said he expected the parliament to approve it soon but was not so certain about Congress.
Congress now is concerned about other issues, such as elections, Branion said. In Canada, the election process lasts only six weeks.
Also, some special interest groups oppose the agreement. These groups benefit from protectionism, and society pays the cost, Branion said.
For Canada, the trade agreement would mean greater access to the world's largest single market; for the United States, it would mean greater access to the seventh largest industrial
During his speech, Branion discussed the potential results of the trade agreement, such as the elimination of all tariffs between the two countries during the next 10 years.
economy.
This measure would open up new trade as well as liberalize existing trade agreements, Branion said.
"There is not a single point that could be cast as a gain for one side and a loss for the other," he said.
Other important results from a free trade agreement would include a sizable expansion of trade between the two countries and the securing of a trade relationship based on equality and friendship, Branion said.
Branion encouraged audience members to contact congressmen to show support for the trade accord.
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