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KS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
VOL.104.NO.91
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
TOPEKA, KS 66612
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1995
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Diver Louganis among Awareness Week guests
By Ian Ritter
Kansan staff writer
Olympic gold medalist Greg Louganis will speak at the University of Kansas in April for LesBiGay Awareness Week.
Louganis, who is gay, won gold medals in the 1984 and 1988 Olympics for platform and springboard diving.
LesBiGay Awareness Week is April 2-8.
Besides Louganis, speakers for the week will include Pat Califa, lesbian author, Jason Stuart, gay comedian, Michelangelo Signorile, OUT magazine writer, Lani Kai 'Ahumanu, bisexual activist, Brenda and
Greg Louganis
wanda renson, organizers of Camp Sister Spirit in Mississippi.
"I'm very excited about the slate of performers and entertainers we have coming," said Eric Moore, president of LesBiGay Services of Kansas.
The Derivative Duo, a singing group, will perform "The Definitive Dye Divas Providing Opera For the Masses."
Moore said the Derivative Duo took parts of operas and added their own words.
"They're a lot of fun." he said.
Moore said the week's events would have two main objectives: to educate and to celebrate enjoyment of homosexuality and bisexuality.
"We want to educate both ourselves and the University about our lives and the issues we deal with," Moore said.
The Student Senate finance committee approved a bill to give LesBiGayS OK $5,267 for the event. The bill is awaiting Senate approval.
Members of LesBiGaySOK also will be raising money for the week's events
"The general public has been very supportive in raising this kind of money," said Alan Pierce, non-traditional senator. "This isn't just entertainment. This is education for the whole University."
No arrest made in case
Kansan staff report
An investigation of an alleged rape Monday in McCollum Hall continues after KU police spoke with the suspect Wednesday morning.
Sgt. Rose Rozmiraek of KU police said no arrest had been made and no charges had been filed in the case. Rozmiraek would not comment about why the suspect had not been arrested.
An 18-year-old female KU student reported Monday afternoon that she had been raped by a 21-year-old acquaintance.
The alleged perpetrator, who is a KU student, lives off campus and had been friends with the victim since the beginning of the semester, according to the police report.
Zromiarek said the victim was still in Lawrence. She would not comment as to whether the victim sought a physical examination.
Rozmirak said she could not disclose on which floor in McCollum the incident occurred or if there were witnesses. KU police have interviewed several people in reference to the case.
"At this point, we have talked with the suspect but are still investigating," she said.
Triple threat
Kansas will take on Iowa State and its senior trio of Loren Meyer, Fred Hoiberg and Julius Michalik tomorrow in Allen Field House.
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Sidewalk scribbles
Brian Vandervliet/ KANSAN
KU students walk past a brightly decorated sidewalk in front of Ellsworth Hall during a recent sunny afternoon. The chalk decorations were washed away the next day.
Security requests denied by cafeteria
Frequent thefts at the Ekdahl Dining Commons have students concerned about the safety of their belongings during time.
Frequent By Paul Todd thefts at the Kansas staff writer
It was crunch time — fall finals — and Alisa Lasater ducked into Ekdahl Dining Commons in Lewis Hall for a quick lunch before hitting the books.
But when she came out, Lasater, Albuquerque, N.M., freshman, had no books to hit. Nor did she have her two 10-page term papers. Somebody had stolen her book bag from the cubicles near the entrance to the cafeteria.
Lasater said many students did not have time to leave their coats and book bags in their rooms so they took them to the cafeteria.
mealtime.
Lasater is one of several students who have asked Student Senate to push for the installation of lockers near the cafeteria's entrance.
Julianne Leeland, Nunemaker senator, said she would look into the theft problem before bringing the matter before Senate.
"Something needs to be done," she said. "People are afraid to leave their coats and bags in the cubicles."
Peggy Smith, an associate director for student housing, said that backpacks were not allowed in the cafeteria because of the possibility of food theft.
"What we can do is make a resolution in Senate to recommend that they look into this problem and take care of it as soon as possible," she said.
Since last fall, Senate has had a third security camera installed in the cafeteria. It also has posted signs encouraging people not to bring valuables into the area.
Sgt. Rose Rozmiarek of the KU police said that although cameras could help locate a suspect, they rarely deterred theft.
Last semester, 18 thefts were reported at the cafeteria — 13 of which were reported during finals. Nobody has been arrested in connection with any of the thefts. Rozmiarek said.
Students can have unlimited servings at the cafeteria, "but that does not include all that they can stuff into their backpacks," she said.
In past years, Robinson Center and the Kansas Union found solutions for theft problems.
At Robinson, lockers were installed for students' belondings.
The KU bookstores in the Kansas and Burge unions have guarded bag cubicles that are optional during the semester but required during finals.
Smith said there was no plan on how to curb the thefts.
"We are certainly open to suggestions," she said. A McColum resident's plan to hire a security guard to watch the backpacks was voted down by Smith, Ken Stoner, director of student housing, and the association's food committee.
Students whose belongings are stolen should report the theft to the cafeteria manager, who will call the KU police and file a complaint.
Reeling and hurling: Not the flu, it's a hangover
By Robert Allen
Kansan staff writer
For his 21st birthday, Mark Eramo's friends wanted him to drink 21 shots.
"I got up at 10 a.m. and fell out of bed," said Eramo, Grafton, Mass., senior. "My head spun one way, then stopped abruptly and spun the other way. After I got sick, I felt a little better."
He passed out after 16 shots and woke up with the mother of all hangovers.
Eramo suffered from something all too familiar to many students. Although students know how to avoid hangovers, many are gluttonies for punishment.
Two factors determine the intensity of a hangover, said Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
Sometimes hangovers are just a small headache and a listless feeling, and other times they are a little slice of death.
Hangovers are most often felt in the head and the stomach, Yockey said. Since alcohol is a diuretic and robs the body of fluids, the brain becomes dehydrated. Blood vessels in the brain dilate, causing the throbbing headache.
"The degree of a hangover is due to how fast you metabolize alcohol and how much alcohol you've had," he said.
"You know you had too much to drink if you can feel your pulse in your head," Vockey said.
Alcohol also increases the amount of acid in the stomach while it decreases the stomach's tolerance to the acid, he said.
Hangovers are annoying but rarely life-threatening. Still, Yockey said, he has seen patients who retched so hard that they tore the lining of their esophagus.
"That's a medical emergency," he said. "They go to surgery immediately."
Although there are several explanations for a hangover that it is a mild form of alcohol withdrawal, that it is
that it is a mild form of alcohol withdrawal, that it caused by ethanol in the body or that it is caused by chemical by-products called congeners — Yockey said that the body's inability to metabolize huge quantities of alcohol was the real culprit.
Despite what people might say, there are no cures for hangovers. Home remedies are worthless, Yockey said.
"They are worth the price you pay for them, which is nothing." he said.
But there are some ways to alleviate hangovers. For the head, taking caffeine will constrict blood vessels in the brain that have been dilated by alcohol.
"Caffeine is the best antidote for a
headache from a hangover," Yockey said. "It doesn't reverse anhangove. Caffeine has a therapeutic effect."
For the stomach, Yockey recommends frequent, small doses of a liquid antacid.
Fluids and pain killers will alleviate dehydration and head or body aches.
Still, the best cure for a hangover is drinking in moderation. Yockey said.
"The only cure is to drink the next day," Eramo said.
Despite the hangover Eramo endured after his 21st birthday, he lived to drink another day. He said the best remedy for hangovers was the hair of the dog that bit you.
Illustration by Micah Laaker / KANSAN