University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, April 16, 1991
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Finney creates project to find solutions
By Joe Gose
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — A new partnership was introduced at the Statehouse yesterday.
Gov. Joan Finney and Stanley Koplik, executive director of the Board of Regents, will work together on a project called "Creating Tomorrow."
The $50,000 to $75,000 project will be financed exclusively through private industry and will focus on developing solutions to social, educational
and economic problems in Kansas.
The solutions would then be integ- nated into state policy by the Legis- lature
"We can rely on the reservoir of talent at Regents institutions, as well as other colleges and community institutions." Mr. Finney cited bated debate," Finney said. "These faculties will draw upon the state's vast individual and group expertise
Koplik will appoint six task forces to address as many problem areas, which he outlined. These areas are education, health care, social issues, economic development, telecommunications and quality of life.
Finney said that by increasing the high school graduation rate from 82.5 percent to 90 percent, the state could achieve a higher economic growth of more than $109 million.
said. "This project will only be successful if we are able to tap into the network of talent in Kansas that resides throughout the state."
"The essence of our collaboration will be formed around a nucleus of Regents-faculty participation," he
Kopik added that although the task forces mainly would be made up of university faculty and organizational leaders from throughout the state, anyone who wished to share ideas with a task force would be free to do so.
Finney, who originally was going to wait until the end of the session in line 4, has been asked to
from across the state for the project persuaded her to implement it immediately.
She also promised that the plan would produce results and not be a repeat of similar, unsuccessful projects enacted by past governors.
"It will not be a duplication of past efforts," she said. "But we will use the resources of the past. They will not be wasted. I want to see progress from the task forces in seven weeks."
Joan Finney
Universities' health educators assemble
College health advisers exchange ideas;
College health advisers exchange ideas; next year's conference will be here
By Army French
By Amy Francis Kansan staff writer
Health educators from five Big Eight schools came together last week to share ideas about how to improve their programs.
The first Big Eight Health Education Conference was Thursday and Friday in Manhattan. It now will be an annual event.
The conference was organized by Janine Demo, coordinator of the health education department at Watkins Memorial Health Center, and director of the health education department at Kansas State University.
Demo said she and Burke had exchanged ideas about health education before and then began to wonder if universities in the region were doing
Health education directors from the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University and Iowa State University also attended. Letters were sent to all Big Eight schools, she said.
"We got together and talked about health education on college campuses," Demo said. "I found out we have a pretty good system. Our peer adviser program is very strong compared to other Big Eight schools."
Jim Strobi, director of Watkins,
said that he was pleased with the
results of the conference but that because of cost not all of Watkins' departments would be able to attend such conferences.
"I'm very delighted. It looks like we're right on track," he said. "Education is a different concept that needs to feed on others' ideas."
To help each other with ideas, the participants of the conference brought information packets about their own departments. Demo said.
"We all learned from each other by sharing suggestions," she said. "We're all in the same boat together, with somebody needy what we do?"
One thing Demo said all the participants wanted to do was get students more involved with health education
"Student involvement is very important in health education." Demo said. "You've got to keep in touch with the students."
"I think it's really great they're offering an alternative" she said.
A non-alcohol bar in K-State's student union also caught Demo's attention. She said she hoped that the same thing could be done at KU because it allowed students to have a drink in their dorm room, or regular bar but without the alcohol.
next year's conference is planned
for April and will be at KU, Demi
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William Vivian, Lawrence senior, does push-ups for the Marine Corps team in the KROT quadathalon. Teams from the Navy,
Army, Air Force and Marines did push-ups, sit-ups, pun-ups,
standing broad jumps and a three-mile run yesterday.
KU ROTC branches battle in quadathalon
By Nedra Beth Randolph
Kansan staff writer
The best of the best.
In the Armed Forces, the best is determined by pitting muscle against muscle.
The first KU ROTC quadathalon championship was conducted yesterday and determined who was the best of the best.
The most physically fit cadets from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine branches of KU ROTC competed at Allen Field House.
Capt. Jeff Wolf, professor of military science who organized the event, said the winning team would receive a traveling trophy that stated "The Best of the Best."
"It'll give whomever wins bragging rights for a year," he said.
Marines get the bragging rights this year The Marine cadets proved to be the best of the best.
Maj. Steve Johnson, professor of military science, said Army ROTC organized most of the event
tion " he said
Johnson said the most stringent exercise from each service was chosen for the competition. Navy st-ups, Army push-ups, Marine pull-ups. Air Force standing broad knees were used to determine cadet fitness.
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Six cadets and one alternate from each branch of the service competed in the quadathalon.
because we're doing exercises from other branches that I'm not used to," he said.
Mike Schlotterback, Mankato junior, competed for Air Force ROTC.
Capt. Shannon Butler, Naval professor, and Col. Jim Phillips. Air Force professor, competed against the Army as a graduate for the title of best of the professors.
"I can think of 3,001 things I would rather be doing right now." McGhaa said jokingly before the competition.
"This is harder than I expected
Butler, who said she just wanted to survive the competition, won the professorial quadathalon.
Students Against Hunger sponsors awareness week
Kansan staff writer
By Jonathan Plummer
The war that begins today will not cause death. It will try to stop it.
Tomorrow and Thursday, there will be a multi-media display outside
S six events will mark War On Hunger Week, sponsored by Students Against Hunger. The events will begin today with a table in front of Boise Hall, where the group will hand out information about world hunger.
Jay Cooper, president of Students Against Hunger, said the exhibit included oil paintings, charcoal oil paintings and wax sculptures at the Lawrence and Kansas City areas.
"There is a series of three or four pictures taken of Lawrence shack dwellings on the East side," he said. "I think he's like Appalachia, but it right here."
Although hunger was a topic of world concern in a few years ago, criticism and public displeasure
had largely forgotten the 40,000 people who starved daily.
"There are always a preponderance of people who are almost defensive when you try to inform them," he said, "which is really annoying.
"I don't think you can change people who are selfish in nature in one week, but if there are people who are not selfish at the venue to give, maybe we can help."
The week's other events will include:
A petition-signing and selling of T-shirts and daisies in front of Wescue Hall all week. The petition calls for the United States to use its power in the United Nations to gain univer-
sity influence of the conventions on the rights of children. The U.N. bills calls for all nations to respect the rights of children.
- The Hunger Olympics will take place at 2 p.m. Thursday in front of Fraser Hall. Living groups and campus organizations will sponsor participants, and proceeds will go to local
charities.
A 24 team softball tournament will take place Saturday and Sunday at the Recreational Services softball field. Both boys and individuals are still available.
- There will be a five- and 10-kilometer run Sunday, with T-shirts and other prizes for winners.
The week will conclude with a dinner at the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center on Sunday. When participants pay $2, they will be placed randomly in a First, Second or Third World group.
The percentage of people chosen to be in each world and the food they are served is meant to represent the plight of people of that economic position.
For example, the 70 percent in the Third World will eat rice and water, while the 10 percent in the First will have a large meat and vegetable plate. The 20 percent in the Second World will eat meat soup.
Gays and lesbians could dispel myths by coming out of closet, speaker says
By Patricia Rojas Kansan staff writer
When people question Lynn Shepddd about the ring she wears, she does not give them the roundabout
"I am gay, and the woman I live with and I exchanged rings," she once told a passenger during an airplane flight.
"The color goes off their face," she said in describing the reactions her honest response often triggers, or helps to consciousness and they are fine."
Sheppold, a resident of Los Angeles and executive director of National Coming Out Day, told an audience of about 70 people last night at the Kansas Union that gays and lesbians could improve their community's acceptance of them by telling the truth about who they were.
Her speech was part of a program Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas is sponsoring for Gay and Lesbian Week, which began Sunday night.
Oct. 11 is National Coming Out Day in Washington DC. It march in Washington DC. C/o William H. Perry, Inc.
600,000 people gathered to demand equal rights for gays and lesbians.
Shepodd said the myth attributed to gay people frightened heterosexuals. She said many people viewed homosexuals as oversexual and irresponsible.
"We are irresponsible," she said, satirizing the view that some heterosexuals have about homosexuals. "We chose to be this way. I mean, who in the right way of mind would choose to be a pervert?"
Shepold also said that people were afraid that homosexuals would flaunt their sexual orientation.
To get rid of these myths, it is important for gays and lesbians to come out of the closet, she said. Heterosexuals often have these views because they think they do not know any homosexuals.
Shepodd said 25 million gays and lesbians lived in the United States.
als to communicate with their local politicians, Shepold said.
"It is mathematically impossible for someone not to know a gay or lesbian person," she said.
"We encourage elected officials to forget about us when we forget to come to them," she said. "They think we live everywhere else but in their own places." And the people who believe all the myths about gay and lesbian people.
It is also important for homosexu-
She said homosexuals had the ability to make a significant difference in society because they were part of social, cultural and ethnic groups.
Mike Sullivan, co-director of GLSOK, said that about 2,500 people at the University of Kansas were gay or lesbian. Of those, about 20 percent had come out of the closet.
Sullivan said it was important for the gays and lesbians on campus to build relationships and let others know their identity.
"We would be much more powerful if we could end some of the myths," he said. "If people could see that we're just like anyone else."
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