University Daily Kansan / Monday, December 10, 1990
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Holiday Melodies
Jeana Jackson, Nicole Burchinal and Marki Caffee warm up for the 66th annual Vespers.
KU libraries feel crunch of less money, inflation
Like many other areas of the KU campus, the library system is feeling the crunch of difficult financial times.
By Karen Park
Kansan staff writer
William Crow, dean of libraries, said the library system was operating with less money because of a lack of funding this year from the Legislature.
But if the state does not give more money to the University of Kansas next year, the libraries will be in trouble, he said.
The library system comprises three areas: staff members, buildings and collections
were not built every year and the financing for construction involved
The staff and collection problems concern Crowe.
"We're in some trouble now, but we'll be in much more trouble next year," he said. "I don't know how it's going to go."
Crowe said librarian salaries at KU were low compared to other universities in the United States.
Librarian salaries, like faculty salaries, need to be competitive to ensure that good people are recruited into the librarians and faculty members, he said.
The University is asking for more money to increase faculty and librarian salaries in its request for the third year of the Margin of Excellence
"Right now, we're holding on," Crowe said.
"As far as student assistants are concerned, we're in serious trouble," Crowe said.
He said the main problem facing the library system was a shortage of funding. Because of lack of financing from the institutional student hours have been decreased.
He said students operated the libraries behind the scenes. They are responsible for shelving, labeling and checking books in and out.
About 240 students are employed in the library system, Crowe said. At peak times, 350 students are employed.
IFC says goals are achieved
See GREEKS, p. 12
Last semester's tension results in beneficial education, change
■ Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series about cultural diversity in the Greek system.
By Holly M. Neuman
Kansan staff writer
Two Interfraternity Council officers said they had succeeded in achieving goals set last semester to educate fraternity members about cultural sensitivity and ethnic differences.
Derek Bridges, IFC president, said, "I definitely believe things are getting better. Good things have improved in my semester, and that's great for us."
Last semester, a Greek student struck and uttered a racial slur to another KU student who was deliverer of the speech. The fraternity, 130 West Campus Road,
Bridges said, "If we hadn't been concerned about it, if we hadn't done anything about it, we would have had it. That would have made it a lot worse."
In Spring 1990, KU fraternities
required all pledges to participate in minority sensitivity training, Bridges said.
"We've had a lot of executive presidential meetings on the subject. "Bridges said, "The houses of the city, be it culturally or geographically,
Bridges said it was sometimes difficult to recruit minorities into the greek system because of rush files which list prospective members, kept by each house. Members of the fraternies add names to the list, and sometimes few minorities are included. Bridges said.
James Jenkins, president of Black PanHellenic Council, said he thought that the traditionally White greeks should put more effort into recruiting Black students and that they also needed to realize there were cultural differences between White and Black students.
He said more effort could be made to recruit minorities.
Jenkins also said that Black students should not have to give up their
cultural tastes in areas such as music when they joined a traditionally White fraternity.
Burns said he would like fraternity representatives to visit high schools to explain the greek system and to urge minority students to look into the system. Bridges said the system provided leadership opportunities.
Kirk Burns, IFC vice president on membership, said one of his main goals was to recruit minority students attending Kansas City area schools.
"Ideally I'd love to be able to go into the inner-city schools." Burns said. "A lot of minorities aren't familiar with the greek system."
Bridges said he would like to recruit students from high schools that did not have large student representation at the University of Kansas.
"People have a stereotype about greeks at KU," Bridges said. "But we are definitely working on things. I will still continue to get a lot better."
Past presidents trace 81-year Student Senate history
Senate activities helped develop school history through 20th century
Kansan staff writer
It all began on April 27, 1909, when Chancellor Frank Strong appointed a student elections committee to elect the Men's Student Council. One year later, KU women followed with their own governing body, the Women's Self-Governing Association. The two councils met annually to create the All Student Council. The present form of Student Senate was adopted in 1968
Student Senate's active involvement in student affairs has helped determine the course of KU history. But whatever happened to the many student leaders who lobbed for change on behalf of student affairs, they have been open and women listed below share their experiences as student body presidents as they look back on their undergraduate days.
'We all knew each other'
During the years when a separate female governing body addressed women's concerns at KU, Rose McColloch Dressler was the Women's Student Governing Association president from 1927 to 1928. After she graduated from the University of Kansas with a bachelor's degree in Spanish, she married Earl B. Dressler and had twins, a boy and a
girl. Her grandchildren, who now attend KU, are fourth-generation Javahawks.
"We all knew each other" she said. "KU is now so large no one knows each other."
Dressler said 5,000 students were enrolled at KU when she was WSGA president.
not the whole and did not know each other"
The WBC does this every week to plan its activities. she said
"It was completely a feminist organization," Dressler said. "We had our own organization, and the men had theirs. The WSGA planned plenty of social activities, such as weekly dances. We were interested in this." When the campus was a lot different than it is now.
Dressler said she had remained busy after graduation raising her two children, traveling with her husband and volunteering for the American Institute in Kansas City, Mo., where she now resides.
The first non-fraternity president
Harold Denton served as Men's Student Council president from 1932 to 1933. After he graduated from KU with a bachelor's degree in economics, he attended Yale law school. He took a leave of absence from Yale but never returned after he began work for the Tennessee Valley Authority. There he met his future wife, Mary Laura.
In 1936, Denton moved to Washington, D.C., where he worked in several governmental agencies, including the Department of National Housing as chief industrial economist.
Denton joined the private sector in 1947 and
worked in consulting jobs in sales and in housing, until 1960.
He returned to Washington in 1960 and worked as executive commissioner of the POW/MIA Act.
Denton retired in 1965 and now lives in Arlington Va.
He said he enjoyed his four years at college and work on the Men's Student Council.
"I was the first non-fraternity member to win the presidency," he said. "I was part of Pach, a political party. Back in those days, the Depression was on, and a lot of students were out there trying to be a secretive fraternal society that has been influential in student government at KU."
He said he initiated the student activity fee because so many student organizations were on the verge of collapse during the Depression.
After graduation, Sheldon decided to attend law school at the University of Michigan.
"I spent all of my time in the Council office, which was in the lower part of the Union building, trying to figure out things for Council activities," Denton said. "The Union Council has done it; it is now. Our Council got it started on its way with a steady increase in their finances."
Joseph Stalin's death and McCarthyism dominated the world stage for 1953, when Richard Sheldon served as All Student Council president.
The greek, independents conflict
"But by the time I reached school an audience what lawyers do, I realized that I didn't want to be a lawyer," he said. "I liked them so I stayed at Ann Arbor and got my Ph.D."
Sheldon now resides at Hanover, N.H., with his wife and children. He teaches Russian Language Literature at Dartmouth College. Sheldon is also a Leningrad in the spring with his students.
He said he had fond memories of KU and his experience as student body president.
"KU was a lot smaller when I attended," he said. "It was a totally different place."
"Nothing really stands out in my memory of my year in office. But one of the really big things was the conflict between the Greeks and the independents. I started a new party, but it was not for me, where you live, that what you believe. It was the first group that was not Pach-controlled.
"It seemed at the time that the greeks controlled everything. There was a dichotomy between the two. It seemed greeks had to be more guarded and those who weren't in the Greek system.
"It's hard to believe now, but it was an
enormous and all kinds of people
were involved."
A jail-acquainted president
The following brief appeared on the back page of the April 23, 1970, University DailyKite.
See PRESIDENTS, p. 16
Black students involved in arts receive awards
An organization that was formed to recognize Black students in the performing arts presented 11 awards Friday to KU students who have helped Blacks in performing arts.
JAM Arts Council, which stands for Joyous Achieving Magnificence, was created by LeWan Alexander, a professional actor in the department of theater and film.
"It is necessary to publicly acknowledge those who have taken time away from academic pursuits to allow us the opportunity to touch with our humanity," Alexander said.
Kansan staff report
Awards were given to Karin Lawson, Denver sophomore, for dance; Byron Myrick, Chicago sophomore, for comedy; the Inspirational Gospel Voices for vocal music; Pamela Cook, Green senior; for drama; Corey Carter, Overland Park junior; for poetry; the Black Poets' Society for poetry; Marquael Jordan, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, for instrumental music; and Mboya Ward for instrumental music.
The council also presented two distinguished achievement awards to Black Men of Today and Marsha Paludan, an instructor in the department of theater and film. The lifetime achievement award went to Robert and Dale Weary of Junction City.
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