THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.101.NO.135
THE STUDENT NEWSPAFER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1992
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Take Back the Night march attracts 400
By Shelly Solon
Kansan staff writer
About 400 women stood in silence last night holding candles and honoring survivors of rape, sexual abuse and domestic violence.
As part of the WomynTake Back the Night march, they gathered in a circle Watson Park, Sixth and Tennessee to create a safe place for women.
Survivors hugged and exchanged words. From the circle, other women fought back tears. Some cried aloud. Others, the woman sang songs of support.
Led by a Lawrence police car, the marchers walked down Massachusetts Street. Students Against Womyn against Womyn sponsored the march.
Survivors were asked to walk to the middle of the circle and receive ribbons to honor them. Half of the 400 women proclaimed themselves survivors of violence.
While the women marched to demonstrate against violence, a group of about 50 men gathered in South Carolina to march through campus streets, to show their support.
Christy Morris, Englewood, Colo., sophomore, said issues of violence against women had to be raised.
She said the University had to make women feel safe by taking measures to prevent sexual harassment.
"I iters me that I can't walk alone at night and feel safe." Morris said.
The women held signs saying "No Means No" and "We are saying no to violence" and chanted "What do we want? Safe Streets! When do we want 'em? Now!" as they marched from South Park to Watson Park.
women shared their stories.
Jeanette, one woman who came forward, said the mood of the march helped her to tell her story. She described how at age 13 she nearly was raped by a 14-year-old male friend.
Throughout the demonstration.
"Being out there let me know that there are other women who want to support me." Jeanette said. "I know I cant tell the truth and be believed."
“This year has been emotionally draining for a lot of us,” Scanlin said. “There have been a lot of blows to women's work.”
Christine Scanlin, Alexandria, Va. senior, said the march was especially emotional this year.
"In our own way, we have all sur-
mise to ourselves the need all need
to bring (and grape) into it."
D.D. Peitchinsky, San Angelo,
Texas, senior, said the event was not
just about helping survivors of violence.
"Rape, violence and battery are men's issues because men are usually the perpetrators," he said. "Rape is a weapon that we should do something about it."
At the Womyn Take Back the Night march, women hold candles to honor victims of rape, sexual abuse and domestic violence.
At the end of the evening, members of the steering committee that led the march read a list of demands, including the end of the acceptance of sexual harassment and rape and the end of victim blaming.
Jim Danoff-Burg, Lawrence graduate student, led the men's rally in Park. This is the second year that men have held a Take Back the Night rally.
"I wanted to honor these women and hear their stories," Andes said. "I want to learn how to be a more peaceful creature."
Kansan staff photo
Aaron Andes, Independence, Mo.
Ka'bear, graduate said he had come to
and befriend Andes.
New policy displeases hall workers
Kansan staff writer
By Greg Farmer
Off-campus students will no longer work as security monitors or desk assistants in University of Kansas residence halls, if officials in the department of student housing have their way.
Jonathan Long, assistant director for staffing and residence life, said yesterday that the department had decided to give preference for residence-hall positions to on-campus housing residents.
"It isn't a new policy, but it is something we think is important to our residence halls," Long said. "Until the early 1980s, it was very rare to have people from outside a given hall work in that hall. But too few residence-hall residents applied for the positions, and we started to hire off-campus help."
But Long said the department wanted to return control of the residence halls to the residents.
"It's not that we don't appreciate the job our off-campus workers have done, but we feel we have drifted off course and should get back to hiring our residents." he said.
Long said the policy was important to recruit and retain residence-hall residents
"Money was not what drove this decision," he said. "But it will benefit recruitment and retention. And, honestly, that's what it's all about. We recognized that we could attract students into our system with employment opportunities."
Scott Wilson, Overland Park junior, has been a desk assistant at Oliver Hall for two years while living off campus. He said he understood the departing student but not the way it was presented to current employees.
"What bothers me most is that we received a memo in October that said the department was going to give priority to residents of the housing system, but the memo did not indicate that they had decided not to hire any off-campus students," Wilson said.
"It itbothers me a great deal that with more than two years of experience and having lived in a residence hall before, I won't be considered until the end of the day," said Ruston. "We will only be considered as a last resort."
Long said the purpose of the October memo was to let current employees know about the department's intent to give residence-hall residents preference in hiring decisions.
He said that he thought the policy would be implemented over a period of several years and that those off-campus students already employed could be rehired.
"We put that memo out so that current employees could consider the possibility of moving back into oncampus housing," he said. "If they decided they didn't want to move back onto campus, our intention was to let them know about the department's intention."
Taylor McCammon, Baldwin City junior, also has worked as a desk assistant at Oliver Hall for two years.
"What the housing department has done is not discriminatory in the legal sense, but it is discrimination in the moral and ethical sense," McCammon said. "The department changed the rules of the game while some of the old players still were playing."
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Kelly Souders, Kansas City, Mo., senior, left, and Chris Robinson, Overland Park junior, paint a homemade billboard to promote the drive-in movies that SUA will sponsor.
SUA revives drive-ins for movies on the Hill
By Michelle Betts Kansan staff writer
Committee will sponsor double feature tonight
This is the first time SUA has sponsored a drive in movie, but the idea has been kicked around by SUA members for about 10 years, said Alex Elllett, spectrum films coordinator for SUA.
Before tonight, KU students had to leave town to see a drive-in movie.
Student Union Activities' spectrum films committee will sponsor a double feature drive-in movieat8:30tonightinparkinglot91,the parking lot north of the Kansas Union tunnel and southeast of Memorial Stadium.
However, tonight the drive-in movie is coming to KU.
The sound for the drive-in movies will come from the drivers' car radios on 89.1 FM, which is not used by a radio station in Lawrence, Topeka or Kansas City, he said.
The sound for the movies also will be transmitted over loudspeakers connected to the film projector and an audio board.
Ellett said the committee was using a low-level radio transmitter to broadcast the sound of the films onto an FM radio frequency.
"The problem was there were no boxes for sound, like at a real drive-in, so that's when we came up with the idea of radio sound." Ellett said.
Elett encouraged people to bring their own transistor radios to the movies to prevent car batteries from wearing down during the two films.
Tred Trost, spectrum films committee member, said the 16-by-20 movie screen would hang in front of the entrance to the Kansas Union tunnel at the south end of the parking lot.
Trost said the event would not be expensive for
SUA to sponsor because the screen and projectors already belonged to SUA and were used for Movies on the Hill, an event SUA also sponsors in the spring.
He said 20 SUA staff members would direct moviegoers to their parking spaces, and four security guards would help enforce the new alcohol ordinance.
Ellett said admission would be $5 per carload.
But people who want to walk in with their own personal radios would not have to pay.
"We just want to make sure it is a safe event for everybody." Ellett said.
Judy Sweets, registrar and exhibit coordinator for the Watkins Community Museum, 1047 Massachusetts St., said Lawrence had not had a drive-in movie theater since 1982, when the Sunset Theater closed its gates.
Tonight's movies will be "Raising Arizona" and "Wild at Heart." SUA will show "Beetlejuice" and "The Shining" during another drive-in on May 1.
The theater, which was on Sixth Street, was replaced by Gateway Apartments and a Sonic Drive-In Restaurant.
Lawrence Drive In Theater, 23rd and Alabama streets, went out of business in the early 1960s and was replaced by a Ford dealership, Sweets said.
"They've become obsolete because of real estate considerations since the land was valuable and because of VCRs and the comforts of home," Jansen said.
Steve Jansen, director of the museum, said the theaters might have become obsolete in Lawrence for reasons beyond the theaters' control.
Regents approve KU promotions
But report shows fewer positions
By Jenny Martin
Kansan staff writer
The bad news is that KU has lost 94 tenured positions in the past four years, more than any other Regents institution.
The good news is that the Board of Regents yesterday approved all KU faculty promotion and tenure recommendations made by the University.
The University of Kansas Medical Center lost 25 positions in the same period. Kansas State University lost nine, and Wichita State University lost five. Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University and Pittsburg State University all gained tenured positions.
These figures were part of the annual review by the Regents of the institutions' faculty recommendations on promotion and tenure.
The review reported that the declines in tenured positions at the University were evidence that it was hiring fewer tenure track faculty because of financial difficulties.
To handle the University's growing enrollment, more graduate teaching assistants and temporary faculty were being hired, the review said.
Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, said the University had been forced to hire fewer full-time faculty and more GTAs to accommodate the growing number of students and the lack of enrollment adjustment funds.
*Hopefully, soon we can make the shift back to full-time faculty.* Shankel
The Regents meeting was at the Bruckmiller Room in the Adams Alumni Center.
In other business, the Regents approved a task force report and recommendations on faculty evaluations.
The goal of the task force was to develop flexible guidelines that Regents institutions could follow in developing their systems of evaluation.
Rick Harman, Regents member, said that every Regents university would be expected to follow the guidelines now that they have been voted on by the Regents and chief office of staff and the Council of Chief Academic Officers.
The task force's recommendations were presented for comment to the governance groups of all Regents schools in March
The Regents also passed a proposal by the Students' Advisory Committee requesting a change in policy concerning campus privilege fees and residence hall charges at all Regents campuses.
KU's Faculty Council recognized but did not endorse the recommendations.
The policy now requires that any proposed fee changes be reviewed by a student committee before going to the Regents for approval. Student input now will be submitted with any such proposal to the Regents.
A proposed campus-lighting fee of $2 for each full-time student at KU to improve safety conditions on campus was submitted and will be approved by the Regents at the May meeting. The fee, which was student-initiated and approved by the Student Senate, will be assessed for five years. It will generate approximately $100,000 annually and be matched by University funds.
FDA restricts use of breast implants
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—Many women will not beable to enlarge their breasts with silicone gel implants, under government restrictions announced yesterday that will allow only breast-cancer victims to use the implants.
The Food and Drug Administration's new policy will allow use of the implants only through controlled clinical studies designed to answer safety questions, including the health effects of imfluent leakage and rupture.
"The central aim of FDA's decision is to significantly limit the use of silicone gel breast implants while vigorously pursuing the necessary research
about their safety. "FDA Commissioner David Kessler said."
Kessler said he was well aware that some women who have lost a breast to cancer or traumatic injury or who experience breast deformity need implants.
"This policy is meant to be compassionate toward these patients," he said.
Kessler's announcement lifts a moratorium on use of the implants that has been in effect since Jan. 6. The new policy follows the recommendations of a panel of experts that concluded in February that the implants should remain on the market but be placed under a number of restrictions.