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The Inside Front
Friday February 16,2001
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CORRECTIONS
A photo caption in yesterday's Kansas misspelled Trinidad and Tobago. Ninety military officers representing 79 countries attended a meeting Wednesday at the Kansas Union. The officers were learning how to improve media relations in their countries.
A photo caption in yesterday's Kansan misidentified Anima Mundi, a local astrologer and tarot card reader, and Sheila Weathers, St. Louis junior.
A headline in yesterday's Kansan misrepresented actions taken by Student Senate at its Wednesday meeting. Senate suspended one clause that would prohibit funding religious organizations.
CAMPUS
World-renowned artist to speak with students
Coco Fusco, a New York interdisciplinary artist, is on campus today for an informal discussion with students at 4 p.m. at the reception room in the Spencer Museum of Art. She will present a lecture "Out of Line: Writing on the Situation of Postcolonial Culture," at 7 p.m. will be at the Spencer Auditorium. Her involvement in the art world
Her involvement in the art world ranges from editing to media projects.
"We wanted to bring her here because she appeals to people in many different areas," said Susan Earle, curator of European and American art. "She appeals to historian, artists, Latin American studies, theater and film." Earle said.
In addition to writing, editing and lecturing, Fusco is a performance artist whose most recent was Votos, which Fusco describes in her Web site as a "performance that sprung from her exploration of the corporeal language of Latin Catholicism."
Fusco is the author of English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas and a new collection of her essays and performance texts called The Bodies that Were Not Ours and Other Writings, will be published in 2001.
In 2000, Fusco was appointed associate professor in the department of painting, drawing and sculpture in the Tyler School of Art at Temple University.
Her current curatorial project is Only Skin Deep, which concentrates on race in American photography, will open in 2002.
— Melissa Bronnenbera
Two education dean candidates announced
The School of Education
The School of Education announced two more candidates for
the position of dean.
Eileen Iscoff Oliver, professor and associate dean for the California State University college of education will visit the campus and interview Sunday, March 25, through Tuesday, March 27.
Larry H. Ebbers, professor and associate dean at the Iowa State University college of education, will visit campus and interview Tuesday, Feb. 27, through Thursday, March 1, according to a statement from the school.
Fred Rodriguez, director for the Center for Teaching Excellence and member of the search committee, said the more experience candidates had in different areas, the more qualified they were.
Oliver and Ebbers are the fourth and fifth candidates to be announced.
- Andrew Davies
They join Dianne Ashby, director of the center for the study of educational policy at Illinois State University; Jerry Bailey, interim dean of the School of Education; and Angela Lumpkin, professor of physical education at the State University of West Georgia, who have interviewed and toured the campus.
Multicultural Affairs names new director
The Office of Multicultural Affairs has named Robert N. Page Jr. its new director. Page had served as the office's interim director since last July.
"I'm excited about the appointment." Page said.
Page said he hoped to make the office inclusive enough that students would feel more comfortable when they needed the office's services.
Before joining the Office of Multicultural Affairs, Page worked in the Office of Admissions and Scholarships at the University.
Prior to coming to the University of Kansas, he worked in student housing positions at Arizona State University, Western Illinois University and Illinois State University.
Page replaces Alton Scales, who left the University last June.
Cássio Furtado
weekly radio show, which focuses on presenting facts about prescription and over-the-counter drugs to the public in a entertaining and informative way.
Medicine Chest, a University of Kansas radio program on KANU-FM, has received two gold medals for radio script writing and multimedia production in the District TV awards competition of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
KANU radio program receives national award
The show is a joint production of the Office of University Relations, the Higuchi Bioscience Center, the KU Center for Research Inc. and the Drug Information Center at the KU Medical Center.
Medicine Chest is a 90-second
"What's the most satisfying is getting a lot of campus units together for one goal," said Frank Barthell, electronic media coordinator for the Office of University Relations.
The narrator of the program is Christy Russel, of Lee's Summit, Mo.
Cynthia Malakasis
The program is broadcast in Lawrence on KLWN-AM and KANU-FM, in Great Bend on KVGB-AM, in Goodland on KLOE-AM, in Hays on KAYS-AM and KHAZ-FM, in iola on KIKS-FM, in McPherson on KNGL-AM, and in Phillipsburg on KKAN-AM and KOMA-FM.
Students receive award for academics,service
Two University of Kansas students made the 2001 All-USA College Academic Team today.
Christine Garton, Olathe senior,
and Mark David Bradshaw, Walnut
senior, were chosen because of
their academic record and devotion
to community service. Garton will
receive a $2,500 cash award and
Bradshaw will receive a certificate.
Garton and Bradshaw were nominated along with nearly 700 students from throughout the nation as candidates for the team's 60 slots. The team is divided into three tiers of 20 students each. KU was the only Big 12 school represented in the first tier. Garton made the first tier and Bradshaw made the third.
Garton established the Music Mentors Society, a program that gives high school students with musical aspirations the opportunity to receive free tutoring from KU student-musicians. Garton wrote a letter to president Bill Clinton about the program, and some young musicians were invited to perform at the White House.
Bradshaw established a program in which KU student volunteers interested in environmental issues are matched with children in GROW, a community gardening project. Bradshaw's program has won a national grant and recognition.
"It's a neat thing," said Bradshaw.
Bradshaw said he has not been notified as to when he will receive his certificate.
Cynthia Malakasis
Constituency bill faces committees
vy Brooke Hesler
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Last week, the Student Senate constituency bill, which would require senators to meet with their constituency groups at least three times per semester, was approved by committees. However, because of extensive changes between the time it was approved by committees and the time of the full Senate meeting on Wednesday, it had to be sent back to committees.
Marlon Marshall, student body vice president, told senators at Wednesday night's Senate meeting that the new bill was very different than the one that was approved by committees.
Justin Mills, holdover student senator and co-sponsor of the bill, said the changes were made as a result of feedback the co-sponsors had received. The main changes were to the Outreach Board, which will take on responsibility for overseeing senate outreach assignments if the bill passes.
"My goal was not to restructure the Outreach Board, but that's what we had to do," Mills said.
He said many committee members still questioned how the bill would be enforced. The second draft of the bill stated that the Outreach Board would be responsible for making sure that the senators complete their outreach assignments. Mills said that some senators still felt the wording was too vague.
"The intent of the bill is still the same," Mills said.
Mills said the additions clarified how the board would oversee the outreach assignments.
"I think it will give the Outreach Board even more of a purpose," he said. "I'm sure there are people on the board who will be against the change though."
If the bill passes Senate committees and full Senate, Ben Walker, student body president, could still veto it. However, Walker said he hadn't made any decisions yet.
"I think we will wait and see," he said. "Obviously, if it passes by an overwhelming majority, I wouldn't veto it because they would just override it."
Mills said the problem was that not many students knew who represented them.
"Senators are elected to do their jobs," Walker said. "It's up to the constituency to decide if they're doing them properly."
Senate needs a two-thirds majority to override the president's veto. Walker said that although he hadn't considered vetoring the bill, he didn't agree with the idea behind it.
"I'd like to walk into the Union and say, 'Hey, do you know who your student senators are?' " Mills said. "Most of them wouldn't know."
Mills said if Senate failed the bill, he would redraft it and submit it again.
"If student senators know who their constituents are, it makes for better representation," he said.
- Edited by Brandy Straw
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's parked car was damaged at 2:32 p.m. Wednesday in the Hashinger Hall parking lot, the KU Public Safety Office said. A witness said she saw and heard a black sport utility vehicle hit the parked car as it was back.
ing out of a parking stall. She reported the vehicle speeding away from the lot. The parked car had damage around the right rear wheel. The cost of the damages were not reported.
ON CAMPUS
Ki-Aikido Club will meet from 10 a.m. to noon tomorrow at 207 Robinson Center.
The HorrorZontals men's ultimate Frisbee club team will practice at 1 p.m. tomorrow at the field near Robinson Center and Watkins Memorial Health Center. Call B.P. at 312-1066 or check out www.Zontals.com
KU Water Polo will practice at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Robinson Center pool.
KU Traditional Karate Club will meet from 1 to 3
sunday at 207 Robinson Center
The Undergraduate Research Forum will be from 9:15 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. tomorrow at the Big 12 and Jayhawk rooms in the Kansas Union. Oral presentations will be from 9:15 to 11:15 and 1:15 to 3:45. The poster session will be from
■ Haskell Indian Nations University will present the Haskell Health Relationships Project from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow at Haskell. Cecilia Fire Thunder and Martin Mousseau will give the free seminar, "Keeping our voices: Speaking out about Abuse," Cell Bob Buey at 842-8404
11:15 to 1:15. Call Sarah Hill at 312-1763.
Larry Weinberg, local Jewish educator, will present "Judaism and Social Activism" as a part of the Hillel Spring Speaker Series from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Sunday at 940 Mississippi St. To register, call Diane Whiten-Vile at 749-5397.
The department of art and design will sponsor the graduate school exhibition from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday and from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday at The Art and Design Building. The exhibit runs Sunday to Friday. Call 864-4401
The February Sisters Association will present The Vagina Monologues at 7 tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave., and at 7 tomorrow night at Hashinger Hall. E-mail Sharon Sullivan at febsisters.yahoo.com.
- Applications for Mentors in the Lives of Kids are available in the Center for Community Outreach 426 Kansas University. Call Bill McKenney or Chris MacArthur at 864-4073.
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