University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 15, 1989
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Steve Traynor/KANSAN
During the blood drive sponsored by the American Red Cross, Scott Hillard, Pratt senior, gives blood in the Kansas Union. The Bloodmobile, which will be at KU today and tomorrow, visits 100 counties in Kansas twice a year.
Having a heart
Sorority looks to greeks for help
by Michele Logan Kansan staff writer
Alpha Phi sorority wrote to all KU fraternities and sororites last week, asking them to write letters to Alpha Phi in favor of charter restatement.
Alpha Phi's letter urged each house to express its thoughts and concerns with the board and to include any social or philanthropic events that the houses had participated in together.
The members said in the letter that "as a result of the anguish the board has placed upon us, and after seeing the lack of thought which went into the board's action, we feel that all greek chapters on the University of Kansas campus need to be aware of what has taken place."
They asked that all participating houses send a carbon copy of each letter to Alpha Phi. 1062 High Drive, so they could be included in the appeal to the board, which will be mailed tomorrow.
The house has 30 days to appeal the board's decision to initiate charter
withdrawal proceedings because of low membership. Proceedings began Jan. 21.
"We closed the house because of low membership," said Joyce Shumway, spokesman for the board, "but also because they had financial obligations that they couldn't meet, such as a mortgage on the house."
Dawn Tabinsky, Alpha Phi vice president, refused to comment on the letter or the appeal.
Karen Ohnemus, Panhellenic Council adviser, said that Alpha Phi officials were dealing with the situation internally, and that she did not know what was happening with the house.
Scott Andrews, president of Delta Upsilon, said his house would be writing a letter within the next week.
The letter has stirred up mixed emotions among the various fraternities and sororites on campus.
"We think that Alpha Phi is getting the short end of the stick." Andrees said. "Maybe they don't excel as much as those houses, but they are sold on campus."
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We closed the house because of low membership, but also because they had financial obligations that they couldn't meet, such as a mortgage on the house.
Joyce Shumway
Alpha Phi International Executive Board spokesman
Larry Washburn, president of Phi Kappa Tau, said that just because Alpha Phi did not have the kind of house its international chapter thought it should have, that was not a reason to revoice the charter.
Tom Hoshour, president of Beta Theta Pi, said, "We did write a letter, but I don't know how much of an effect it will have because the same people who revoked the charter will be reviewing the letters."
Kristyn Tidwell, president of Pi Beta Phi, said members of the house wrote a letter saying that they
thought the decision was unairt, and that they did not like the idea of evicting the girls and then recolonizing next year.
Marc Ginsburg, president of Alpha Epsilon Pi, said that his house did not know whether to write a letter or not.
Teresa Alas, president of Delta Gamma, said house members would be writing a letter, but she was not impressed. She reinstated the sorority's charter.
"I want to find out more about the situation before offering our support," Ginsburg said. "I don't want to stick my neck on the limb for something I don't know much about."
At the time of charter suspension, Alpha Phi had 103 members, and 75 were living in the house. This is the closest that the house has been to the campus. The house can hold 76 members, and the maximum membership is 140.
Freedom proves short-lived for escapee
According to the letter, seven women have communicated a desire to pledge the house even though the charter has been suspended.
by Angela Clark Kansan staff writer
Inmate is captured in stolen car
Kansan staff writer
Lee M. Cole had a taste of freedom for the second time in seven years.
But it only tasted for a few hours. Cole escaped from the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing on Monday. It was his second escape attempt in seven years, and for the second time he was caught, said Bill Lucas, administrative assistant to the director of the penitentiary.
At 2:50 p.m., Cole was working on the uppermost tier of the prison on a renovation project. He struck his supervisory officer with a pipe-like object on the left forearm, Lucas said.
After hitting the officer, Cole took the officer's portable radio and escaped through a third-floor window. The police had been cut before the escape.
Policy would restrict Regents construction
Cole then climbed the outside fence and was cut on concertia wire, also known as razor wire. He left the radio at the fence and fled south.
Lucas said that Cole later entered a local family's home and found the owner of the house asleep. Cole proceeded to tie the man up. When the owner's wife and daughter entered their home, Cole ties them
up also.
they said that Cole was extremely nice." Lucas said. "He didn't harm them except for tying them up."
Cole then stole the family's car, and all an-points-bulletin was sent out. The Kansas Highway Patrol caught him eight hours after he escaped.
Cole is serving a sentence of 75 years for several convictions: three counts of robbery, one count of bat-ten theft, one escape attempt and one kidnapping.
Cole is a compact inmate from Florida, Lucas said.
"We will choose to transfer an inmate from one prison to another because of a variety of reasons." Lucas said. "His life may be in danger because he may have given state's evidence, or he may have been threatened. The states will swip inmates."
A compact inmate is a term used when states' departments of corrections, through a cooperative effort, exchange inmates.
Cole has been taken to the maximum security section of the prison, Lucas said, and is awaiting sentencing from the state attorney general.
Kansan staff writer
by Alan Morgan
A Senate subcommittee met Monday with the Senate Ways and Means Committee to submit its recommendations to the Margin of Excellence program.
TOPEKA — Regents schools may be forced to halt future construction or major renovation projects it a state Senate subcommittee's policy
Racism a pernicious custom, expert says
The fund originally was established for construction of new buildings at Board of Regents schools. The financing comes from a state mandated one mill tax levy on all Kansas real estate property.
Among the subcommittee's recommendations was a proposed policy that would restrict use of the Education Building, in order to maintain maintenance of existing buildings.
A mill is $1 for every $1,000 of assessed property value.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-
Lawrence and member of the sub-
committee, said although the pro-
gram might place a road block for
future construction at Hegens
and the end result would be
beneficial.
With the new policy, the financing would be used to correct the current deficiencies in the Regents system estimated at more than $140 million.
"Margin of Excellence realizes that it is the human resources at a university that makes it a great school, not new buildings." Winter
said. "We have so many maintenance deficiencies in the Regents schools that we just can't ignore the problem anymore. We have to stop building and start preserving the buildings we've already made in the schools."
The Margin is the Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent or more. The Margin will bring faculty salaries to 100 percent.
Winter said the policy might encounter resistance from Wichita State University, Kansas State University, Pittsburgh State University and possibly KState. The policy would take financing away from Wichita State in lieu of classroom building and KState's proposed gram science building.
Jim Modig, campus director of facilities planning, said he had mixed emotions about the proposed policy.
"We need to upgrade our current facilities as well as expand. But in the same breath, they are looking to give us additional funds." Modig said. "It would be beneficial to the current investment protected."
"There's going to be the schools who will want to violate that rule. We're just going to have to say no." Winter said. "At least it will make the schools go ahead and present a compelling case to spend the money for new buildings."
Winter said the policy would not become a state law, only a policy guideline.
E. Joseph Zurga/KANSAN
Addressing the subject of multi-culturalism, Alvin Poussaint, associate professor of psychiatry and associate dean for student affairs at Harvard Medical School, speaks to a crowd as part of the Black History Month lecture series. Poussaint spoke last night at Woodruff auditorium.
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by Cynthia L. Smith Kansan staff writer
Many 3- and 4-year-olds think that American Indians are savages who scalp people.
That misconception is the result of institutionalized racism, said Alvin Pouissaint, associate professor of psychiatry and associate dean for student affairs at Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, Mass.
Children who pretend to be American Indians are introduced to the misconception by other children, Poussain said.
"We don't play Italian," he said. "We don't play Irish. And we don't play Negro anymore, either."
Poussaint spoke to about 100 people last night in Woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union. The speech was co-sponsored by the office of minority affairs and 12 other campus organizations to celebrate Black History Month and the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.
Poussaint asked the audience how much black blood a person needed to be considered black.
"One drop." answered a woman in front.
The color white is associated with purity, and black is considered tainted. Poussain said.
That racist stereotype reduces opportunities for light-skinned black actors, he said, and they often are white-capped and white characters nor black characters.
Many people have wondered whether the actress who plays the character Sondra Jones could be said. Poussan is a production consultant for the show.
"one drop (of black blood) puts you in a lower caste in this society," he said, elaborating on a racist joke. "The one drop makes you stupid."
Poussain said that institutionalized racism was dehumanizing and made lives seem less valuable.
Those attitudes led to the near- genocide of the American Indians and the European Jews, he said.
Racism also prompted both black and white U.S. soldiers to kill the entire population of villages during the Vietnam War, he said. The soldier, who was born in Hanoi, and the elderly by claiming that they contributed to the war effort.
But Poussaint said that when soldiers were asked to explain the killing of infants and children, they said. "A little gook grows up to be a teacher." That's why you kill them now before they grow up to be your enemy."
Poussain graduated from Columbia University in New York in 1966 and received his medical degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., in 1960. He received his master's degree from the University of Notre Dame and then worked where he did postgraduate work at the Neuropsychiatric Institute.
He joined Tufts University Medical School in Medford, Mass., as director of the psychiatric program in a low-income housing project in 1966.
Daveen Litwin, director of Hillel House, said. "Dr. Poussain's lecture was speaking very much to the whole community. There's not one of us who not affected by institutional racism."
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