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VOL.104,NO.83
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Orgasm: get off on defining it
By Robert Allen
Kansan staff writer
Orgasm, The Big O.
Organize the Word. Just saying the word is difficult for some, and defining it is even harder for others.
"They're indescribable," said Melissa Garland, Lawrence junior. "For each person it's different."
"It's the best damn thing in the world," said Girish Ballolla, Bangalore, India, senior.
Mike Evans, Wichita senior, tried a more clinical approach.
"For males, it means to ejaculate," he said. "For females, it's a means of providing some kind of pleasure to her, so she will be willing to have sex."
Aminat Feinberg, Metuchen, N.J.,
innuated. linked orgasms with feelings.
"it's like a release of energy, like a final climax," Feinberg said. "Afterwards it's euphoric, kind of light-hearted. happy, mellow."
But one thing people agree on regarding orgasms is that there is no simple explanation for them.
Orgasms include many different aspects, such as physical, biological, emotional and sexual. Condensing all of that down to one dictionary entry is practically impossible.
Candye Wailley, a nurse health educator at Watkins Memorial Health Center, understands why most people have trouble explaining orgasms.
Attitudes have changed recently, she said.
"Our society really didn't talk about sex at all until recently," she said. "You didn't talk about it with your parents. When you look at society that way, it's no wonder you didn't talk about orgasms."
"People are talking and feeling more comfortable now. It's a natural part of human nature." Waitley said.
Dennis Dalley, professor of social welfare, is a certified sexologist and teaches a popular human-sexuality class.
"Orgasms are a set of rhythmic muscle contractions that are triggered by high levels of sexual arousal," he said. "These muscle contractions have been universally described as physically positive. The name we give them is orgasm, or coming, or blowing your wad."
Despite the obvious biological differences between men and women, Waltley said their orgasms were very much alike.
"From their descriptions, men and women feel very similar feelings," she said.
Dailey had another explanation
Organs in men tend to be more similar over time, he said. Women experience more variability in intensity, frequency and duration.
Although the orgasm is closely tied to the sex act, Dailey said, it is not necessary to have an orgasm every time a person, especially a woman, engages in the act.
Feinberg also believes that orgasm is not always necessary.
"If you determine sex by orgasms, then it pigeonholes the definition of sex," she said.
Let the trial and the games begin
Opening arguments delayed as attorneys battle about last-minute disclosures
The crime scenes
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — O.J. Simpson asked yesterday to speak to his jurors for one minute and show them scars on his body, a stunning twist in a day dominated by attorneys scrapping fiercely about last-minute evidence dumped on prosecutors by the defense.
The fight about evidence pushed the long-awaited opening statements back until noon CST today. Superior Court Judge Lance Ito brought the sequestered jurors into the courtroom only at day's end for half an hour of instructions.
Defense attorneys surprised the prosecution with a list of 34 new witnesses and a videotape of police walking through blood at the murder scene. They also offered evidence of an alibit for the first time—a witness who says she saw Simpson's white Ford Bronco outside Simpson's home at a time when the
prosecution alleges he was two miles away killing his ex-wife and her friend.
**DNA:** A KU expert talks about its importance to the Simpson trial. *Page 3A*
Simpson's attorneys also suggested in court papers that police may have moved the Bronco as well as the bloody glove that
LAWYERS:
Students and
faculty at KU's
law school
discuss the
Simpson trial.
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matched one found near the bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman last June.
Her colleague, William Hodgman, asked for a week's continuance to study the new evidence and the witness list, which included actress Tawny Kitaen, local TV reporter Tracie Savage, Los Angeles Police Chief Willie Williams and author Lawrence Schiller, who is writing Simpson's book.
Deputy District Attorney Marcia Clark called the new evidence trial by ambush and said she was absolutely shocked by the last-minute disclosure. "This is a willful desire to deprive the people of a fair trial," she said.
"The truth, or part of the truth, has been hidden from us by the defense." Hodeman said.
Defense attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. responded with equal indignation.
"I am absolutely appalled that the prosecution comes here and says they are unprepared," he said. "They see a few charts from us and become frightened and want to run away and hide for a week."
Ito was tense during the exchange, interrupting attorneys at times to say, "You're wasting my time," and "Do you expect me to believe that?"
Shucking the Huskers
Bill could expand classified employees rights
The Kansas Jayhawks sent the Nebraska Cornhuskers home last night after defeating them 84-67 at Allen Field House.
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By Matt Hood
Kansan staff writer
A new bill before the Legislature could change the rights of classified employees at KU and across the state.
Classified employees are state civil servants such as clerical workers, lab technicians or jantors. They are prohibited by law from running for office without first resigning from their jobs.
Of the nearly 44,000 state employees, approximately 29,000 are classified. Other state employees, called unclassified, are allowed to run for office without first quitting their jobs. At KU, unclassified employees include professors, administrators and most management positions.
If voted into law, a bill introduced by State Rep. Tom Sloan, R-Lawrence, would reverse the law.
Sloan said that forcing a classified employee to resign before running for office was unfair.
employees who account for more than 28 percent of the faculty and staff.
"Whether they win or lose, they have nothing to come back to," Sloan said. "It's not fair for classified employees to be treated differently."
KU has more than 4,000 classified
Sloan said that his inspiration for changing the law came from KU.
In 1992, classified employee Neva Entrikin quit her job at KU to run for the Legislature. She had served in various clerical jobs at KU for more than 16 years. Entrikin wasn't elected in 1992, and her position at KU was filled.
Two other KU faculty members also ran for office in 1992. Barbara Ballard, associate dean of student life, and Forrest Swall, assistant professor of social welfare, were both elected to the Legislature. And because both are unclassified state employees, they were able to retain their jobs while running for office and after being elected.
Entrikin said that she had no ill feelings toward either Ballard or Swall but that the law must be changed.
"It itsems so unfair." Entrikin said. "This is really an important issue, not just for me but for all classified employees."
Similar bills have been introduced in the Legislature in the past. None
When Entrikin wasn't elected and couldn't return to KU, she contacted the American Civil Liberties Union to see if she could sue the state to change the law. The ACLU wasn't interested in the case. Now Entrikin is retired, but she is looking forward to lobbying for Sloan's bill.
See PROPOSAL, Page 3A.
Valerie Crow / KANSAN
Neva Entrikin, Lawrence resident, quit her job at the University of Kansas in 1992 to run for the Kansas House of Representatives. There is a proposal before the Legislature to allow classified employees to run for office.