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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 25, 1990
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Michelle Stetting of Lawrence speaks to an audience in Alderson, Auditorium about the origins and misconceptions of Radiation
Environment concerns pagans
By Christine Reinolds
Kansan staff writer
Paganism is a religion without a dogma that gives its members the freedo1 to worship as they like, a speaker said at last night's pagan forum.
The forum, at Alderson Auditorium in the kansas Union, was sponsored by the Campus Park Trust.
Amy Jung, president of CPN, said the forum was presented as a clearinghouse for people who were interested but did not want to make a commitment to Paganism.
A disclaimer was read at the beginning of the speech that stated that the views expressed by the forum were not necessarily the views of all Pagans.
Michelle Stelting of Lawrence described the origins of Paganism accompanied by a slide show depicting the worship of the Earth and Earth goddesses throughout history.
"Paganism believes in the sacredness of the body and the equality of the sexes." Stelting
said.
Stelting explained that the five-pointed star, an image frequently used in Paganism, represented the five senses, human beings with arms and a knitted and the connection to the Earth by stars.
The environment is a major concern of Paganism, Junge said.
"All environmental action becomes a sacred act," she said. "When I collect beer cans, it is a
Junge said Paganism respected all forms of religion as long as they did not harm anyone.
"Our philosophy is harm no one; do as you will," jungse said. "Some would say that eating meat is harrowing the animals. It depends on your interpretation."
Stelting said some people represented them as military organs and used that affiliation to portray military
"You can recognize a fraud if they do not adhere to the harm-none rule." Stetling said.
Stelting and Stephen Figgins, rejected the myth that black magic is practiced and evil spells are cast.
"There is a three-fold rule that says what you do will come back to you three times, whether it is good or bad." Sitting said.
The three speakers at the forum, Junge.
The speakers said they preferred to call magic positive or negative, because black, or white.
Figgins, Lawrence· junior, he was sur-
presed no protesters were at last night's forum.
last time we came on the heels of Maratha-
ism (ministries) and there were protesters." Figgins
Some of the people at the forum declined to give their names. Figgins said some people wanted to keep quiet because they didn't want crosses burning in their yards. He also said they lost their jobs because they were witchs or pagans. Witches are a sub-section of Paganism.
"If you go against the mainstream, they don't like you," he said.
SCAD wants sensitivity program at KU
Training fosters awareness of biases and inadvertent insensitivities, student says
Kansan staff writer
by Jonathan Plummer
A member of Students Concerned About Discrimination and an administrator will meet next week to discuss establishing a University sensitivity training program next semester.
Andrea Katzman, facilitator for SCAD, will meet with Jonathan Long, assistant director of the Organization at centers the center. Katzman said yesterday.
The meeting was planned during meetings that SCAD and Black Men of Today had with administrators last week. Katzman said.
Last week, a member of SCAD said that the group had been in contact with the Center for Democratic Renewal in an effort to acquire the
services of C.T. Vivian, a nationally known conductor of sensitivity training sessions, to train administrators, faculty members and student leaders.
Katzman said sensitivity training was a way of telling people how they could offend members of a minority group, even inadvertently. The training also teaches people to be aware of their own biases.
"It is an effort to make people aware that you do not have to mean to be insensitive to be insensitive," Katzman said. "It is a way to show people how to coexist in a multicultural society."
She said that the group requested Vivian's lecture instead of other programs because "it has received the best recommendations and it is
all encompassing." The program seeks to show attendees their discriminations based not only on race but on religion and sexual orientation.
Although Mark McCormick, member of Black Men of Today, said that he also wanted the University to begin such training, he said that it should not be the University's most important priority.
"It is definitely a good plan, and it's long overdue," mMcCormick said. "rather than work from the bottom or rather go the bottom from the toe and so down."
Black Men of Today has asked for the administration to hire a Black administrator.
The administration is a large part of the problem of insensitivity
"I'm sure the sessions would do some good but not as much as if you changed the administration and changed the structure," he said.
because there are no Blacks in the administration to speak for the needs of Black students, McCormick said.
Katzman said that although the administration could change, there also should be a change on the students' part.
"Two things can occur at once," Katman said. "We can deal with both at one. While we talk about the administration, we also have to talk about how it is going to come in contact with students and the students themselves."
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KU creates hotline to handle concerns about harassment
By Carol B. Shiney Kansan staff writer
Beginning this week, the Ombundman's Office and the University Information Center are working together to provide a 24-hour hotline for reporting incidents of harassment or discrimination.
Robert Shelton, University ambushman, said several people had suggested the hotline because of recent events. He said that after a discussion with Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, they decided to propose the hotline to the information center.
Although the Ombudsman's Office has always taken calls of that nature, Shelton said they were encouraging people through advertising to call in and report incidents. After business hours, people can call his office and leave a message, or they can call the information center 24 hours a day.
Shelton said many other offices in the University were responsible for addressing concerns.
"Recent events are simply symbols of a lot of other things people have been experiencing, so we feel that there is a real opportunity to let us know." he said.
"We want to enhance their capacity to respond," he said.
Kehde said the center was established 20 years ago for rumor control after the Kansas Union burned. She said if people heard something, such as classes were canceled, they should call the center to see if it was true.
Shelton said all personal information given to the ombudsman was confidential.
She said additional training would begin this week for employees. The training will heighten their skills in using computer information and dealing with confidential
Pat Kekhe, coordinator of the information center, said information center employees would keep a record of calls on an intake sheet so that the center and the Ombursa Office could have a clear record.
The center always has done crisis counseling and intervention.
The number for the Ombudsman's Office is 864-4665. The number for the information center is 864-3506.
"The hotline is pretty much in line with what our purpose was when we started." Kebbe said.
Campaign Kansas has 92 percent of its goal
The campaign is two years into its five-year schedule.
Kansan staff writer
By Chris Stroh
Campaign Kansas, the largest fund-raising effort in KU's history, has received gifts and pledges for $163.3 million of its $177 million goal.
Jordan Haines, national campaign chairman, said Monday that for such a large campaign to reach 92 percent of voters, the half over was a masaor achievement.
"We've seen what amounts to a great accomplishment," he said. "I
"It has made the long-standing ties of those who attended KU in the past obvious," he said.
Haines said the campaign should reach its $777 million bill in 1991 at the lilypond.
pleased. To say we were overwhelmed by the statement." understatement."
Haines said that he expected total campaign contributions to pay $200 million before its five-year life span ended in May 1993. All contributions to the University are being counted during the campaign during the five years.
Budig said the University of Kansas had a tradition of alumni and community support on which to depend.
"I'm kind of stating we will not do that," he said. "There are absolutely no plans to. In fact, I'm saying we will not adjust the goal."
"I'm sure things will slow down once we reach the goal," Hainas said. "People need quantifiable, well-defined objectives to keep them on
The University of Kansas Medical Center still has not reached its goals for a biomedical research building and the Sutherland Institute for Facial Rehabilitation.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said the campaign's progress and imminent success were signs of the University of Kansas' ties to alumni.
At the campaign's kickoff, campaign officials announced a target of $150 million in gifts and pledges. The goal was raised to $177 million in September after donors were more generous than Kansas University Endowment Association representatives had anticipated.
"In the end we determined that we had underestimated the broad support base," Haines said. "We re-evaluate our goals and decided to include more areas so we could touch all facets of the University."
Despite the narrowing gap between the campaign's goals and its collections, the target will not be raised again, Haines said.
course. But people are not going to forget KU. The contributions will keep coming in."
"We tried to break that down to a manageable level," he said. "The campaign goal is actually a bare-bones figure. Areas of need were laid out into clear segments, and reasonable goals for each were established."
Haines said that before the campaign began, $400 million in needs were identified.
John Scarffe, director of public relations for the Endowment Association, said that several areas of need still had not been fulfilled but that contributions across the board were coming in steadily.
He said areas of umet needs included refurbishment of the Memorial Campanile, expansion of athletic facilities, and renovation of scholarship halls.
The University of Kansas Medical Center still has not reached its goals for a biomedical research building that is being built Institute for Facial Rehabilitation.
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