Homosexual students cruise for rendezvous
Bv TOM RAMSTACK
Staff Writer
The KU campus is a good place for homosexuals to socialize, according to members of the gay community, and the parking lot on Memorial Drive north of the Cammanite is a favorite place on campus.
"I've probably got polka dots (places where he has ejaculated during a homosexual contact) all over me," she says. "And I think it might be
"All you need to do is go down by Potter, and who the hell's going to rain over you in the bushes?"
Doug said that he went to Memorial Drive about six times a month to meet other homosexuals and that he had an affair with a
He said the Jayhawk statue in front of Strong Hall also was a good place to get picked up.
"ITS YERY STRANGE," Doug said. "Since I came up here I had not had a homosexual experience since I was 8 years old camping in the back yard, although I had always had a desire to. Then when I
was a sophomore I came to Memorial Drive to watch a lunar eclipse and got picked up."
"We're never hassled by cops, although they know it goes on," he said.
Doug said that about half the guys that congregate at Memorial Drive were KU students.
Doug said he felt pressures to keep his homosexual activities secret.
"There was a time when I wouldn't have sat here under this light," he said. "I still feel pressures of rain."
Doug said the presence of a reporter asking questions made homosexuals uncomfortable.
When one man in his mid-40s learned that a Kansan reporter was present, he walked to his late model car
"He's nervous because he may be somebody recognizable." Doug said, "and any comments he made on my phone are in the public."
"Society isn't more receptive, because too many
people listen to Anita Bryant and since most people profess to being Christian they 're against it.
Doug said he usually was able to recognize a hormonal without being told.
"MY PARENTS know, but they feel so strongly repulsed that they won't confront me with it."
"It's amazing you learn," he said. "I don't want to give any trade secrets away. If some it is very obvious. The way they walk, the way they talk, the air about them."
As he talked, a silver Trans Am made one of its several slow passes along Memorial Drive.
Doug looked at the driver and said "Oh, he's cute!" The driver turned him in a back driveway to $150 and pushed his car.
The driver walked up and identified himself as Bob. Bob said he was extravagantly homosexual.
He comes to Memorial Drive about once a week and gets picked up about once a month, he said.
"I KNOW all the people here," Bob said. "A lot of people sit around in groups and don't do much."
On a good night, be said, to 30 to 40 homosexuals would be gathered along Memorial Drive.
"Some get picked up along Jayhawk Boulevard,
unless night, although the Union is very 'cruisy'
through."
Bob described the usual procedure of a "pickup."
"If you're in a car driving around they'll follow you or 'if you put up beside you,' he said. "When people are sitting around in a group you go up and talk to them, they can be quiet, or or to get high or whatever and take it from there."
"There are a lot of parties," he said.
Bob said that homosexuality was becoming more widely accepted and that he had no fear of rejection.
Bob said the campus area was used primarily by male homosexuals for pickups, whereas lesbians usually made contact with one another at bars or parties.
widely accepted and that he had no fear of rejection.
"I wasn't afraid any more from anyone."
"I HAVEN'T noticed any pressure from anyone,"
be said. "I'm sure the police know that gays meet here.
"Everybody I work with knows it. If they don't like it, then they're not worth being my friend. You got to be honest with them or you can't be honest with yourself."
One other man, who was in his mid-30s and who said he was a KU graduate, denied that he was a member of the gay community. However, he added, "I had been picked up by other men on campus about once a month."
The reason he does not consider himself gay, he said, was that there is no real distinction between the two.
Everyone, he said, has homosexual tendencies. However, some people satisfy their homosexual needs by engaging in sexual activity.
"Would you say he's gay?" he said.
What would you think if one of your roommates got drunk, had a homosexual affair and told you about it?
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 88, No.155
Board blames gas company for explosion
The Kansas Public Service Co. of Lawrence has received the blame for a Dec. 15 explosion and fire that killed two persons and destroyed a downtown building in a report approved Thursday by the National Transportation Safety Board.
The building, at 747 Massachusetts St.,
bounded the Pier 1 store on the first floor and
the second floor.
The report cited the gas company for four years and installed a test, inspect and anchor the installation of foot plastic gas main that had been connected to a steel main with a compression pipe.
The safety board determined that the plastic pipe had contracted $3\%$ inches because of cold temperatures and had pulled away from the coupling.
Monday June 26,1978
"WE'LL TRY to come up with a manageable number of people we'd like to see, and fly them in as soon as possible," Zither said.
Although the committee has not set a deadline for arriving at three final nominations to submit to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, Zuther said he hoped the committee could finish the process before the summer session ended.
The resulting leak allowed gas to collect under the three-story brick building, which apparently was ignited by a flame from a firewall. The adjacent building, investigators said.
OFFICIALS FROM both the city and the gas company have declined to comment on the safety board's findings until a copy of the board's report arrives in Lawrence.
The ensuing blast and fire destroyed the building and caused the deaths of Michael and his wife, who lived in the apartments on the second and third floors. Total property loss to the building and the one adjacent, at 745 Massachusetts St., was estimated at $1 million.
The safety board also noted similarities between the December tragedy and a 1976 hotel explosion that killed 20 people in Fremont, Neb.
"We'D LIKE to have an athletic director to start the fall semester, and it will be hard to meet during the semester break when people aren't around," he said.
"Until July 1, we'll be sorting through the applications and other materials." Gerhard Zuther, one of the two faculty members on the search committee, said.
In approving the report, the board made several recommendations to the gas company and the manufacturer of the suspect coupling, including a suggestion that the gas company complete a review of its plastic pipe installations before next winter.
The new athletic director will replace Clyde Walker, who has month announced his retirement.
Doug Messer, assistant athletic director,
will be the acting director until a new one is
created.
After July 1, he said, the committee will
meet frequently and review
everything.
Committee plans to speed search for athletic head
The search for a new KU director of athletics will begin to heat up this week, Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday.
Shankel, chairman of the search committee, said he had received 30 or 40 applications for the position by yesterday's deadline.
This week the search committee will be meeting, and the letters of recommendation from Snaker will be sent.
"We'll be finding out where the files of the individual applicants are and when we can
It said the Sadat proposal was a precondition for peace.
based on the return of the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Naur said Sadat was asking Israel to give up the occupied territories, considered militarily strategic zones to the Begin. In 2014, Israeli Prime Minister effective arrangements for Israel's a security
Innocent adversary
Demonstrators of all ages gathered yesterday near Burlington to protest the construction of the Wolf Creek nuclear generation station. Clarissa Hoover, 7, of Topeka holds a placard that expresses one of the arguments against the station's construction.
See story page four.
"SIAEL REJECTS without reservation the President Sadat," the Cabinet statement said.
Israel keeps self-rule plan rejects Egyptian overtures
JERUSALEM (AP)—Israel rejected yesterday an Egyptian proposal calling for Israel to turn over the occupied West Bank to Jordan and the Gaza Strip to Egypt as a preliminary move toward a Middle East peace.
Begin last month dismissed the Sadat proposal after it was first mentioned in the news media. He said then that such a plan would require Israel to give up territories without negotiations and without a peace treaty.
Arieh Alear, an Israeli spokesman, said after a meeting of Prime Minister Menachem Begin's Cabinet that Israel was sticking with its proposal for limited Palestinian self-rule, with continued Israeli control over the Gaza Strip for a five-year period, after which the status of the occupied territories would be open for negotiation.
Narai said the Egyptian proposal was discussed after reports reaching Jerusalem from Cairo said Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was formulating a new peace plan
By SANDY HERD Staff Writer
KU's Title IX compliance not scheduled for review
Changes made at the University of Kansas to comply with Title IX will not be subjected to a compliance review by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, a spokesperson for the department said yesterday.
J. L. Thomas, regional chief of higher education of the office of civil rights of HEW, said that because of HEW's limited staff, few institutions would be thoroughly examined to see whether their policies and practices had eliminated sex discrimination.
Part of the backlog includes the required compliance reviews of all institutions that are being awarded federal financial assistance for the first time, he said.
UK had been on a tentative list for compliance review. But that list was abandoned after a directive from Joseph Califano, secretary of HEW, required a closure on most reviews until a backlog of pending cases was reduced. Thomas said.
Institutions that already are receiving federal money will not, in most instances, have their Title 1X policies investigated until October 1979 at the earliest, he said.
"WE HAVE so many mandated cases that we don't have the luxury of discretionary action."
After the backlog of cases is reduced, the regional office of HEW will concentrate
their compliance review investigations on institutions with enrollments of 20,000 or more
"We want to get the biggest bang for the buck, so to speak, and will do compliance reviews of the big institutions," Thomas said.
He said he would need a staff of 183 persons to do complete compliance reviews of 75, or 30 percent, of the 250 institutions that are in the four-state region of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa. But the staff now has eight persons, Thomas said.
Instead of a compliance review, Thomas said that HEW would rely on self-evaluations of institutions and assurances from the institutions that they were in.
However, a compliance review could be done at any time if complaints that were made to the organization were received.
All of KU's applications for federal financial assistance for any educational program or activity must be accompanied by a copy of the certificates compliance before it is approved.
CLASS ACTION complains, those that involve many aspects of an institution such as unequal salaries of men and women, also could prompt a compliance review.
He said complaints made after July 21 by individuals or groups would be investigated as soon as possible after the complaint had been filed.
'We can get on a complaint right away after allowing a 10-day waiting period for notification of the complainant and the respondent,' he said.
Thomas said that KU had made voluntary changes but that some changes had been made.
One such complaint, alleging discrepancies in men's and women's athletic training facilities, was met with a proposal submitted to HEW. The proposal outlined changes that KU was taking to improve the women's training program.
"THEY ARE complying voluntarily with all of the things named in the complaint," Thomas said. "They were doing that anyway as part of the changes in their self-identity."
The proposed changes were submitted in February 1978 to HEW's national bureau for approval.
Postsecondary schools were given three postsyears to make changes in physical education programs and athletics. The three-year period was given, Thomas said, because elimination of sports often will require new facilities and major budget changes.
"I suspect that he will be approved," he said, "KU is not in jeopardy of losing any money."
That periods ends July 21. Changes made before that date are considered voluntary.
Staff Writer
Fees to fund student legal service
By TAMMY TIERNEY
Beginning in January 1979, KU students will receive legal service the same way they receive health service. Mike Harper, student
Harper said January was the date by which a prepaid legal services program at KU would be implemented.
Under the program, routine legal services and counsel will be available to all KU students.
Harrer said that the idea of a prepaid legal service had originated when Steve Leben, during his campaign for student body president, polled 1,149 students in February 1977 and found 609 had an interest in such a program.
Harpier, then chairman of StudEx, polled 785 students again in October 1977 with similar results and made the program part of his
HARPER SAID the Student Senate last year allocated $27,000 to create the program and fund it for one semester.
Harper said a legal services board, under his direction, was investigating the best means of establishing the program.
"The board's duties are first to create the program," Harper said. "Then they'll serve as a watchdog over it. They'll be responsible for deciding what cases are heard and for making sure that everything runs smoothly.
"The board has been working for the past three months reviewing local services programs at other schools.
From time to time, they are finished, they'll begin taking applications from attorneys probably in late November and will hire one on
Harner defended the need for a legal services program at KU.
Harper defended the need for a legal "STUDENTS AT KU have a lot of landlord-tenant problems." Harper said, "I call them a customer affairs handles about 300 calls a month. Since most students cannot afford a private住宅, it would be much easier and beneficial for a student to be able to go to a legal service and get counsel from a prepaid lawyer."
An initial report issued June 16 to Harper by Jeffery Arnold, administrative assistant to the legal services program, described
the premise of the program as being financially supported by all students.
"If landlords in town know that students have legal recourse, if they know that they have easily accessible legal aid, they will be much less likely to pursue unfair business practices." Harper said.
invivuous participation in the program are assessed a regular fee indifferent to their needs; the subscriber is then eligible to receive the services that exist under the program, the report said. Harper said the program would discourage unfair business practices.
He said the service probably would not handle domestic cases.
traffic violations, consumer problems and insurance cases. Hire the service you should not handle domestic cases.
"We can't handle cases that are student versus student because it would be questionable for us to use student fees for one student to attend."
TO AVOID an unreasonable financial burden for students, Harper said the service may charge for court costs.
"We may have to charge for litigation because we cannot afford to tie up our entire budget in very expensive drawout suits," he said.
Harper said the service would hire one attorney and several paralegal assistants for the office.
Additions to the staff would depend on the case load, he said.
Additions to the staff would depend on the close touch, we said. Harper said the legal services office would be in new Green Hal
or in the satellite union, which is being built on west Campus. He said there should be no additional cost to students to fund the university.
Funding after the first semester should be covered by the student
admit fee, he said.
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The board members are: Craig Helser, Wichita sophomore; Robert Bierman, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore; Mark Beam-Ward, Lawrence law student; and Professor Laurance Rose of the KU School of Law.
SECRET OPERATOR
Working on the board is Mary Beth Craig, Student Senate Services Committee chairman, and Jody Kroge, administrative director of the Consumer Affairs Association, will serve as an ex-officio member.
S. Yemen denies assassination tie
ADEN, South Yemen (AP)—South Yemen denied yesterday any connection with the assassination of Ahmed al Ghashmi, president of North Yemen, and called the killing an attempt to ruin hopes of unifying the two feuding Arab neighbors.
Ghassimi, 39, was killed Saturday in the North Yemeni camp of San'a when a bomb in the briefcase of a diplomat from South Yemen struck. The South Yemeni envoy also was killed.
North Yemen immediately Lamed South Yemen's Marxist government for the killing
Premier Ali Nasser Mohammed of South
and severed diplomatic relations with its southern neighbor, Ghazamh was the second North Yemeni president assassinated in eight months.
It said "subversive" elements working against the hopes, liberty, unity and progress of the Yemen people were responsible for the killing.
SOUTH YEMEN issued a statement saying the assassination was intended to push the Yemeni people into war planned by the "imperialists."
Yemen sent a cable of condolence to his North Yemeneni counterpart, Adul Azal Abdul Ghani, expressing sorrow over the killing.
But Ghani said, "The crime was perpetrated by hands known for their perfidy and blasphemy," and he denounced the Soviet-backed South Yemen government for "embracing the ideology that offends moral values and denies the existence of Allah."
North and South Yemen are strategically located on the western tip of the Saudi Arabian Peninsula.