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Center's opening delayed
Although renovation of the office space for a Minority Student Center has been completed, the center probably won't open until sometime next semester.
"It's just a matter of time before we get things organized." Dennis said.
Rodney Dennis, chairman of the Student Senate minority affairs subcommittee, said yesterday that the center wouldn't be opened until January or February. He said that the subcommittee, which is in charge of student affairs, must make sure that the center was well organized.
He said that the center, on the third floor of the Kansas Union, would be the first coordinated effort between three major minority groups at the University of Kansas: chicano, native American and black student organizations.
The subcommittee, Dennis said, is working with members of the various minority student groups and is trying to define the function of the Minority Student Center. The reason the center isn't already open, as was hoped earlier this year, is that the department cannot be able to fund the different ideas contented in the center's function, he said.
"DIFFERENT PEOPLE bring in different ideas late in the game," Demis said, "and the subcommittee has to consider them equally.
"The main thrust of our energies has been in getting a solid input from the various minority groups, and until we correlate the data with our collective concept is still ill-defined." Dennis said.
The minority affairs subcommittee was
formed last year with the center's formation as one of its goals.
Tedde Tasheff, student body president,
said that the subcommittee was still in an
"embryonic stage," and that the center would provide the subcommittee with a base of operation. The center also will enable the subcommittee to see what the needs of minority students on campus are,
Tasheff said.
THE REASON for the delay in the center's opening, Tasheff said, was difficulty in getting minority students to participate on the subcommittee. Even though this had caused a delay, she said, she thought it was good because it had allowed the subcommittee to get broader support from the various minor groups.
A need for a place where minority students could meet was one reason for the creation of Minority Student Center, Dennis said. He also that the center's location in the Union was important because it would be easily accessible for most students.
"The center would also establish a liaison between other student groups." Dennis says.
"WE HOPE THAT all students will come in and that they can learn something here."
in, and that they can learn something here." Although a budget for the center won't be prepared yet, they have been determined, Dennis said, the subcommittee is getting closer to committee approval.
1. think we're fairly close. In fact, in the next few meetings, we should have
    no worries about it.
Classes, Dykes to bring Yule spirit to KU Friday
Two promotional writing classes and Chancellor Archie Dykes will try to bring the Christmas spirit to KU Friday with an event called Campus Christmas.
Shortly after noon Friday, Dykes will turn on the lights on a Christmas tree in the Strong Hall lobby before an audience that includes 300 faculty and staff members and students.
Campus Christmas is "mainly an exercise in promotion", Diana Frey, Hutchinson senior, said yesterday. Frey is enrolled in a course offered by the School of Journalism.
"Also, we want to start the Christmas spirit while everybody is still here," she
The Downtown Lawrence Association will sponsor the event with a $400 grant for publicity and other expenses, Justin Annine Cox and the association's executive secretary, said.
Class members have mailed press releases to area newspapers and radio and television stations and have begun a publicity campaign on campus that includes
"Bingle Jells" posters and flyers to be distributed by Santa Claus today.
Organizers said they hoped to attract people to Campus Christmas with coupon books from Lawrence merchants, free douhuts and mistletoe.
Anderson said the member merchants of the Downtown Lawrence Association supplied the expense money as "a goodwill gesture."
One of the organizers, Mlith Smith, Wichita sophomore, said the merchants would benefit from Campus Christmas because they can promote early Christmas business for them."
Smith said that class members hoped Campa Christmas would become an annual event.
Holiday Affair
Arts & Crafts Sale
The KU-Y is partially funded by the Student Activity Fee.
Dec. 2nd—4th United Ministries Building 1204 Oread (one block north of the Kansas Union) sponsored by the KU-Y
HE'LL SAVE A FREE *JO-NUT* AND *A COUPON BOOK FOR YOU IF YOU'RE THERE FRIDAY FOR THE FIRST EVERY CAMPUS CHRISTMAS RALLY AT STONG... HUNDREDS OF KU WORKERS, TRAINERS AND STUDENTS WILL TURN OUT FOR THIS PRE-FINALS TRAINDAYS - BE SO WITH A FRIEND. RS. DON'T BE SO LATE that YOU MISS OUT ON THE EATR. ALSO, DON'T STEP ON THE MEDIA PEOPLE AND
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The subcommittee meets every Thursday. Sometimes after Christmas break the subcommittee will decide when the center will open.
According to Steve McMurry, chairman of the Senate Rights, Responsibilities and Privileges Committee, of which minority affairs is a subcommittee, a budget for the Senate should include such affairs subcommittee and be approved by the Senate before the center can open.
HE SAID THAT because there were only two Senate meetings before the new student government administration took over the program, the governor, if its budget wasn't approved by then.
"The problem has been contacting students and getting their input. Now that we can get some concrete ideas, there are no problems," he said.
The center's funds probably will come out of the Senate's budget, he added.
Dennis expressed confidence that the opening would be soon.
Four University of Kansas students who were injured in a car-train collision Nov. 22 north of Ottawa have been released from the hospital.
Four students out of hospital after collision
The collision killed two other KU students who were riding in the car, Delari Simmons, 20, Kansas City, M., sophomore, and Audrey Henderson, 21. St. Louis sonhore.
A spokesman at Ransom Memorial Hospital in Ottawa, where the four were taken after the accident, said last night that the four were taken to the Iowa freshman; Vomie Crain, 20, Kanaan sophomore; Sharon Thompson, 18, Greenville, Miss., sophomore; and Margaret Love, 18, SL Louis freshman, had been injured during a treatment for injuries sustained in the accident.
Crain and Thompson were released shortly after the accident, and the other two were not.
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