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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, November 12, 1993
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In Today's Forum
The University Daily Kansan wants to know what you think about the University's policy on faculty-student relationships. Some of the issues are:
What types of conduct outside the classroom between an instructor and his or her student should be considered acceptable or unacceptable?
Should conduct considered unacceptable be banned or merely discouraged? Why? Should there be any policy on consensual relationships at all? Why?
What would be the best way to publicize what is considered acceptable conduct so that everybody knows the ground rules?
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KU joins other schools in relationship debate
2) We will forward all Oread Forum phone messages and letters to the task force on consensual relationships, the faculty and student committee analyzing the policy.
By Christoph Fuhrmans
Kenyan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
When the University of Kansas announced its consensual relationships policy Aug. 20, the University joined a national trend of setting guidelines for student and professor Relationships.
The questions and issues about the policy KU now is facing were the same raised at other universities with relationships policies.
When KU formed the policy, it used the policies at the University of Minnesota and the University of Iowa as reference points, said Sandra Wick, assistant director of the honors program and head of last year's sexual harassment task force that recommended that KU have a policy.
At Minnesota, a consensual relationships policy was developed after a review of the university's temporary sexual harassment policy, said Anne Truax, assistant to the director of the office of equal opportunity and affirmative action at Minnesota.
Minnesota's consensual relationships policy, which was formed in 1984, considers a sexual relationship between a student and professor inappropriate but does not prohibit it.
Truax, who served on the sexual harassment task force that formed the temporary policy, said that during the re-examination period it became clear that a consensual relationships policy had to be added to the policy.
Before the policy review, Truax said the committee had held several open forums and received lots of input from faculty and students.
"The entire process of reviewing the consensual relationships policy took about one academic year," she said.
Punishment for violating the policy is different for every case. Truax said
"We have suspended and fined people and even forced the resignation of tenured faculty," she said.
Truax said she knew of at least two tenured faculty members who were forced to resign.
At Iowa, the university's consensual relationships and sexual harassment
policy were formed in 1986, said Ann Rhodes, vice president of university relations at Iowa.
KU follows Iowa's policy in that it prohibits any sexual or romantic relationship between a student and a professor when the student is in one of the professor's classes. Relationships where a student is not in the professor's class are discouraged but not prohibited.
Rhodes, who served on the sexual harassment task force that formed the policy, said the task force spent about two years collecting student and faculty responses before announcing the policy.
"The consensual relationships review was the most controversial part about the policy," she said.
Conference will unite Midwest student leaders
Punishment for violating the policy would be determined on a case by case basis. Rhodes said.
Rhodes said the task force did not worry about the policy ending relationships.
By Brian James Kansan staff writer
"If it's true love, it will wait until the end of the semester," she said.
More than 500 student leaders from Midwest colleges and universities will meet at the University of Kansas this weekend to discuss a host of issues facing today's campuses.
Leaders of KU's chapter of the Midwest Affiliation of College and University Residence Halls, or MACURH, are set to begin the conference tonight at the Lied Center.
Jamie Cutburth, Hillsboro, Ore, senior and co-director of the conference, said KU had not hosted the conference since 1988.
14 It is a positive way for all of the delegates to showcase their schools and share some of their ideas," Cuturbth said.
Campus and residence hall leaders from 36 universities in seven states were expected to attend the conference. Cutburth said.
About 20 members of MACURH and the KU Association of University Residence Halls and more than 50 KU student volunteers will help at the conference, titled "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
The student delegates will attend seminars on developing communication and leadership
skills, Cutburth said. Seminars will address personal issues such as stress, eating disorders, homophobia, sexual violence and harassment.
Advisers and university staff members will attend seminars on training student leaders and organizing activities on a limited budget.
Tonight's opening ceremony will include performances by the student vocal group Eight Men Out and the Haskell Indian Nations University Pow Wow Dancers and Singers.
The keynote speaker for the opening ceremony will be Blandina Cardenas-Ramirez, director of the Southwest Center on Values, Achievement and Community at Southwest Texas State University. Cardenas-Ramirez, who also serves on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, will present a speech titled, "Beyond Diversity: Building Community on Multicultural Campuses."
Cutubirth said Cardenas-Ramírez's topic was an important theme of the conference.
"I hope some of the things she has to say about diversity will foster even more leadership and will help the delegates apply some of the things back on their own campus," Cutburth said.
MACURH conference events are not open to the public, Cutburth said.
Rick Zikes, Overland Park graduate student and director of ceremonies for the conference, said the months of planning were paying off.
"It should be a busy weekend," Zikes said. "But we're looking forward to it."
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Crawly things
Amy Lathrop, Omaha graduate student, left, and Christine Dwyer, Vacaville, Calif., graduate student, examine local amphibians and reptiles at the Natural History Museum. The specimens were collected at Fort Riley at the request of the military.
Arab women live with discrimination
Kansan staff writer
By Carlos Telada
Leila Diab said she had been told she looked "too sophisticated" to be Muslim.
"Iam western," said Diab, indicating her blue suit. "People aren't going to listen to me if I have the hijab — or scarf — on."
Diab, a Palestinian and Muslim journalist, presented her study of Arab-American women at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union last night. About 50 people attended as Diab spoke on the portrayal of Muslim Arab-American women in the American media.
The lecture was part of Palestine Heritage Week.
Arab-American women, especially Muslim Arab-American women, find American culture hostile to their heritage, Diab said. She said her study of 30 Arab-American women between 15 and 50 years of age showed women embrace their Muslim culture to the point that they do not integrate with American society.
Therefore, the women become involved in community mosques and wear traditional Muslim dress — pointing themselves out as Muslims, Diab said.
"The Arab-American woman has chosen a different path," she said. "She has chosen to be visible."
The consequences are discrimination, even at a young age. Diab said.
"When I was in school, many of my teachers discriminated against me as an Arab," she said. "I couldn't understand it. I wasn't brought up to discriminate."
Diab, who grew up in Chicago but also attended school in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, is a member of the United Nations North American Coordinating Committee Representing the People of Palestine. She said she had seen the hate and conflict in the Middle East.
But such emotions were not restricted to the Middle East, Diab said. She said when she was a child the FBI would watch her Chicago neighborhood, an Arab-American community.
"That's what makes this country so unique," she said. "We're able to speak out. On the other hand, Big Brother is watching for the wrong reasons."
"We should be above that," Diab said. "We should be sensitized to other people's suffering as human beings."
Paul Kotz/KANSAN
Rolande Hodel, Potsdam, Germany, graduate student, said she approved of Diab's views. She said all women, not just Arab-American women, felt discrimination by the media.
Leila Diab, a journalist and United Nations official, spoke to about 50 people last night at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union about the portrayal of Arab-American women in the media.
"We're left out of the media for the most part," Hodel said. "It doesn't matter which country you're from."
CAMPUS BRIEFS
ATM robbery may be third by same suspect
AKU student told police a man with a knife robbed him after he made a withdrawal at an automated teller machine Tuesday night.
The victim was using the ATM at 10:22 p.m. Tuesday at Bank IV, 900 Ohio St., when the suspect approached him and demanded money, said Sgt. Rick Nickell of the Lawrence police. The victim said the man possibly was armed with a kitchen knife.
The victim gave the man the $30 he had withdrawn, the report said.
Police think this is related to two similar incidents that took place in the past seven days that began at Dillons, 1740 Massachusetts St. Nickell said.
Anyone with information about any of the cases should call Lawrence police at 841-7210.
The KU chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi celebrates its 75th anniversary this weekend.
KU sorority marks 75th birthday
attracts for current members and alumnae begin tomorrow with a dinner and reception in Overland Park, said Corryn Flahaven, Schaumburg, Ill., senior and chapter public relations chair.
The chapter will have a special ceremony Sunday conducted by KU and Alpha Omicron Pi alumna Mary Williams, who also is the international president of Alpha Omicron Pi.
The Alpha Omicron Pi chapter at KU was installed on May 4, 1918, and was the 21st Alpha Omicron Pi chapter
in the United States. Today, Alpha Omicron Pi is the largest international sorority with over 170 chapters in the United States and Canada, Flahaven said.
University responds to appeal
Twenty days after Emil Tonkovik, former professor of law, filed his appeal to the Board of Regents, the University General Counsel submitted its response yesterday to the Board. Tonkovik was dismissed in July.
Rose Marino, associate general counsel and University representative during the Tonkovich hearing, said she would not disclose the statement's contents.
Ted Ayers, Board general counsel, said the Board had no plans to release Tonkovik's 300-page appeal or the University's statement for dismissal until the Board resolved the matter.
Tonkovich has until Dec. 1 to submit a response to the University's statement, Ayers said.
Great Turkey fun run tomorrow
The KU chapter of Public Relations Student Society of America and Jayhawk Promotions will sponsor the Great Turkey 8Krace and one-mile fun run tomorrow to benefit the Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Douglas County.
Students can register for the race today by picking up an application at Organizations and Activities in the Kansas Union and leaving it in the PRSSA office. Registration, which costs $15 and includes a t-shirt, will be held tomorrow from 6 to 7:45 a.m. in the north parking lot of Shenk Complex, the playing fields at 23rd and Iowa streets. The race begins at 8 a.m. and turkeys will be awarded to winners.
Briefs compiled from Kansan staff reports.
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