University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 28, 1988
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AIDS actions labeled weak
Senate task force wants education and condoms
By Jeff Moberg
Kansan staff writer
The Student Senate AIDS Task Force says the executive vice chancellor's recommendations on combatting the disease at the University of Kansas are inadequate.
In its response released last week, the task force said Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, was not taking appropriate measures to educate students and faculty about AIDS. Although the task force commended her for appointing a committee which would concentrate on AIDS research and education, Ramaley's efforts would be "too little, too late," the report said.
Michael Foubert, director of the task force, said the AIDS problem would become worse in the community before Ramaley's advisory committee could accomplish anything beneficial.
"You can applaud any effort at creating educational awareness," Foubert said, "but the University has responded by setting up a committee, a committee that may not report anything until next fall to give the university an unreachable itself and affect more people in the community."
Ramaley said the amount of AIDS publicity lately had heightened the entire community's awareness of the disease and that the committee was making sure that proper measures would be taken, such as increasing AIDS education on campus.
In December, a 22-member University task force on AIDS recommended placing condom machines on campus, but Ramaley rejected the request, saying that the University would be condoning sexual activity. The Senate task force also supported installing condom machines on campus.
"We don't believe having a condom machine suggests that the University supports sexual activity anymore than having sexually explicit materials in the library or bookstore does." Senate task force member Kathryn Anderson said.
Foubert said the University probably did not endorse smoking just because students could buy cigarettes on campus.
Ramaley said, "You can choose any metaphrase you like, but I disagree. Students already have access to condoms through many places."
Ramaley said in January that handling out safer-sex kits was "countered."
"I have evidence. I have read all the letters." Ramaley said, who reaffirmed her opinions about the kits Saturday. "It's a fact that many people were upset. There are strong opinions out there."
The Senate task force said it recognized that the University had many things to consider and that controversy was difficult to deal with, but felt in this instance the controversy was productive.
The University has received about 150 letters concerning the safer-sex kits passed out during spring fee payment.
"There is a great deal of educational value with the kits," Anderson said. "Controversy is not always a negative thing and through that people would learn and make their own decisions. We felt it would turn into something useful."
Ramaley and the Senate task force also disagreed on whether KU should have entered the nationwide study of the prevalence of AIDS on college campuses. The task force recommended to Senate on Wednesday not to participate in the study, but Ramaley said she thought KU should enter the study. She said she was disappointed that the matter potentially could be decided by referendum.
"It may preclude us from participating." she said.
About 150 students who took out low interest loans through the KU financial aid office and the Kansas University Endowment Association to buy Apple Macintosh computers should be able to pick them up at the end of this week.
Students take advantage of loans for computers
Kansan staff writer
By Ioel Zeff
In a few days, Mark Bogner will receive his first computer, thanks to some help from the KU financial aid office.
"There would be no way in the world that I would be able to buy this computer without the Endowment Association's loan." Bogner said.
Bogner, Penalaos sophomore, was one of about 150 students who took advantage of a low interest loan provided by the Kansas University Endowment Association and the financial aid office during a computer sale at the Kansas Union Booksstore.
The loan was offered in conjunction with an Apple Macintosh computer sale at the Union. Prices for the computers and accessories ranged from $1,200 to $2,399, not including sales tax.
Bonger said he expected his computer to arrive this week
William Shunk. Endowment Association loan officer, said that the loans would help students buy computers that they were able to purchase otherwise.
Shunk said that the loan from the Endowment Association was the most popular of the three types of loans that were available to students.
"The endowment loan was popular because it had the best interest and the easiest paperwork," Shunk said. "The loans weren't specifically for the Macintoshes, but it was intended partially with that idea."
Besides the endowment loan, a supplemental loan and a PLUS loan were offered to students interested in buying a computer, Jeff Weinberg, assistant director of the KU financial aid office, said. PLUS loans are available to parents of undergraduate students.
Weinberg said that about six students applied for the supplemental and PLUS loans, while 150 applied for the endowment loan. The supplemental and PLUS loans had a 10.27 percent interest rate; the endowment loan was at 6 percent.
"There's no question that the offer created additional student traffic and calls, but we felt it was something that we needed to do for students," Weinberg said. "If the students are pleased, then it was successful."
Wes Williams, dean of educational services, said that representatives of Apple Computers had approached his office and expressed interest in running a sale in conjunction with a student loan program.
Other institutions had done the same thing, and we looked at the computers like books and other educational supplies." Williams said.
Williams said that two part-time graduate teaching assistants coincidentally were added to the staff financial aid office before the sale.
3 from KU receive Mellon fellowships
"We were thankful we had the extra help, but it really hasn't been a burden," Williams said.
By a Kansan reporter
Three KU students recently received national Mellon Fellowships for entering graduate school in 1988.
Michael Siewert, Oakton, Va.; senior; Stephen Miller, Salina senior; and Donald Dinwiddie, a recent KU graduate from Sand Springs, Okla., received fellowships, which include a $10,250 stipend and
money for tuition and fees for one year at the university or college of their choice.
Neither Miller, who is majoring in music history and philosophy, nor Dinwiddie, an art history graduate, know where they will attend graduate school.
Siewert, also an art history major,
plans to attend the University of Virginia.
study architectural history.
The three were among 127 college seniors and recent graduates chosen for the fellowship from more than 1,300 candidates nominated by faculty at their colleges, according to the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in Princeton, N.J., which announced the winners.
This is the second consecutive year that three KU students received the fellowship.
program. "It's a very prestigious award."
"This is great for KU," said Sharon Brehm, director of the honors
Only four other universities in the nation had three or more winners this year.
Art finds home after decades in storage
The Mellon Fellowships in the Humanities were created by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Special to the Kansan
By Cory Powell
Eighteen years ago, Elizabeth Banks became curator of an art collection she wasn't allowed to see. The collection of Greek and Roman antiquities was stored in a leaky tin shed on KU's West Campus. No one was allowed in the shed.
And so the Wilcox collection sat and collected dust. But Banks, an associate professor of classics, was determined to find a home where it could be displayed.
In the fall, 100 years after the Wilcox collection was first displayed in old Fraser Hall, it will finally have a permanent home in Lippincott Hall.
"Every time a space would open up, we hoped it would be given to us," said Banks, who eventually used the collection in the late 1970s.
A two-room gallery in Lippincott is being built for the collection. It will be named for Mary Amelia Grant, a former curator of the collection.
There were several unsuccessful attempts to find a home for the Wilcox collection. But in the fall, 100 years after the collection was first displayed in old Fraser Hall, it will finally have a permanent home in Lionincott Hall.
Banks said the collection would give students a feel for the art of the ancient world.
The collection includes plaster casts of many Greek and Roman statues including the "Venus de Milo" and Myron's "Discus Thrower." The collection also contains several busts of Roman emperors, an ancient coin collection and numerous other antiquities.
"It's not going to be a crowd-pleasing museum," Banks said. "It will enhance the teaching capabilities of the department."
Problems with housing the collection began in 1965 when old Fraser Hall was demolished to build the present building. The collection was supposed to be housed in a new humanities building, but the original plans for that building were thrown out because of a lack of funds. When Wescoe
Hall was built instead, there wasn't enough space for the collection.
The collection remained in storage while Banks tried to find it a home. Finally, in 1982, 103 Lippincott was designated as the new home for the collection. In 1985, $2,000 was allocated by the University of Kansas, and $5,000 was donated from a fund set up by Grant for the renovation of the room and the restoration of the collection.
The collection was scheduled to be opened during commencement, but Stanley Lombardi, associate professor of classics and chairman of the classics department, said yesterday that the opening would be delayed.
He said that the hand-built display cases for the collection were taking longer to complete than expected, and that the collection
would be open by fall.
Oliver C. Phillips, professor of classics, did his undergraduate work at KU. He remembers the old museum.
"It had the fine old texture of old Fraser," he said. "I was a fairly quiet place. I remember spending time there alone and tutoring other students."
Phillips, who joined the KU faculty in 1964, one year before old Fraser was torn down, gave most of the credit for the completion to Banks. Phillips said that Banks never quit reminding the University of its commitment to the Wilcox collection.
As the project nears completion, Banks is quick to point out that she did not do it alone.
Banks said that she had her doubts that the Wilcox collection would ever be displayed again. But now she is more optimistic.
"It's really been a team effort over the years," she said.
"It really seems like it's going to happen,"she said.
Leaders discuss funds on city, national level
Kansan staff writer
Bv Christine Martin
Four members of the Lawrence City Commission and two city staff members discussed funding for local programs with congressional leaders and city leaders from across the nation last week at a conference in Washington, D.C.
The conference, held by the National League of Cities, gave local leaders a chance to discuss funding for local programs with national legislators, such as the proposed south Lawrence trafficway and the proposed downtown mall.
"It's primary function was to establish dialogue between local government and national leaders," city commissioner Dennis Constance 814
During the four-day convention,
Mayor Mike Amyx, city commissioners Dennis Constance, Sandra Praeger and Bob Schumm, City Manager Buford Watson, and assistant City Manager Mike Wilden met with different committees from 3,000 students, teachers and discussed different programs.
The programs included transportation, budget, community development, housing rehabilitation and social agencies.
Constance said the committees then met with the Kansas congressional delegation.
"I enjoyed and got the most value from hearing congressional people speak," Constance said.
The commissioners met with U.S. Rep Jim Slattery, D-Kan., administrative aides to Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole and heard democratic presidential candidate Jesse Moore speak on the convention. House speaker Jim Wright, D-Texas, also gave a speech on the budget process.
U. S. Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan., U.S. Rep. Jane Meyers, R-Kan., U.S. Rep. Danielle Ross, R-Augusta, and Pat Roberts, Dodge City, also attended the convention.
Praeger said commissioners met with Congressional leaders to discuss funding of federal mandates on enforcement drug testing and drug abuse in cities.
"There were no solutions, but it's always good to touch base personally with these people," Praeger said.
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