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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102.NO.135
MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1993
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Marchers call for rights
Joe Hoots, Kansas City, Mo., senior, and Troy Aldafer, Colby graduate student, waved the peace sign to marchers at Saturday's parade as members of Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church demonstrated on the corner. The Human Rights Parade down Massachusetts Street was one of the last events of Gay and Lesbian Awareness Week.
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Groups demand equal treatment for homosexuals
By Frank McCleary Kansan staff writer
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About 260 marchers parading down Massachusetts Street on Saturday issued the cry for human rights in a demonstration organized by Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas.
"What do we want? Human rights.
When do we want them? Now!"
The march also included other groups such as Hillel, National Organization of Women, the Douglas County AIDS Project, Women's Student Union and groups from the University of Missouri and Kansas State University.
The march, which proceeded from City Hall to South Park, was peaceful, despite protests from Topeka anti-immigrant groups. The Rev. Fred Phelps and his family.
"The important thing was to get a lot of people here," he said. "We're all fighting for the same thing — equal treatment and equal justice under the law."
Liz Harvey was one of seven students from K-State in the march.
"Everyone should have equal rights," she said. "Everyone just wants to be treated equally."
The Human Rights March ended at South Park, where Troy Allidaffer, Gay and Lesbian Awareness Week coordinator, thanked the crowd of about 260 for participating.
Laurie Patton, St. Louis junior, and two of her friends were onlookers who supported the march. She stood at the intersection of Massachusetts and 11th streets holding a sign that said, "Slove Human Rights."
"We are supporters of human rights, supporters of being able to do what you want to do," she said.
Patton though most people did not equate gay rights with human rights.
"They have separated homosexuals into another category," she said.
Nathan Olson, Chicago graduate student, said he agreed most people did not see human rights and gay rights as the same concept.
"I wish I could say why, but I can't.
"I wish it is really frustrating. I think
About a dozen people protested the march, including Phelps. The protesters, who were on the corner of
Massachusetts and 11th streets, sang and held signs with anti-homosexual messages. Supporters of the march yelled at the protesters to go home, which they did after the march.
Jolene Andersen, city commissioner-elect, was not able to attend the march but met with some of the participants at South Park. Andersen said Lawrence residents should realize that human rights were important to everybody.
People realize that a city ordinance to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation is important, she said.
"We're all in danger of being discriminated against," she said.
Andersen said she supported the basic protection of basic rights, not
"I support civil rights for all people, regardless of sexual orientation," she
Task force to study ideas for child care reform
By Dan England
Kansan staff writer
The task force, which had its first meeting March 30, will address a number of topics concerning KU and Lawrence, but the focus of its study will be on the growing number of students who need child care, said Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor.
a task force made up of Lawrence residents and KU faculty and students has been appointed to study long-term child care needs at KU, the University announced Friday.
Meyen said that the number of non-traditional students attending the University was increasing and that many of those students had children.
"We have more students with children at the University than ever before," Meyen said.
The task force's findings will contribute to a study of long-range planning at the University. The University announced last month the beginning of a two-year study that will provide a development plan for KU for the next 10 to 15 years.
"We will need to take into consideration the community and its schools, as well as other issues like traffic flow at KU, in order to address child care needs," Meyen said.
Student Senate recently passed a restricted fee for students to raise money for the expansion of the Hilltop Child Development Center. The fee has not yet been approved by the administration.
"What we are doing is going to be a very important component of what the University is planning for the future," Eversole said. "I think this is an excellent opportunity for the University to develop a
Ann Eversole, who heads the task force, said that Senate's initiative was a short-term solution and that the goal of the task force was to develop longer-term solutions.
thorough child-care plan."
He said that as treasurer of OAKS — Non-Traditional Student Organization, he had a lot of non-traditional students who had problems with child care at KU.
Gerri Vernon, Colby senior, is a non-traditional student who is serving on the task force. He has two daughters, who are 7 and 8.
He said that he wanted to work for the expansion and coordination of current child-care services on campus instead of creating new ones.
"Child care is one of the main concerns of a nontraditional student," Vernon said. "I know it's much easier for the student once they can get into Hilltop, but there is a great demand for Hilltop."
Meyen said that the task force would report back to him periodically as they made progress but that there was no deadline for completion.
Sexual coercion focus of study
Researcher looks at reasons students have unwanted sex
By Kathleen Stolle Kansan staff writer
Art Satterfield wants to know why some KU students have sex when they'd rather not.
Since Fall 1991, Satterfield, a Lawrence graduate student, has been formulating a survey designed to explore experiences of unwanted sexual activity among college students, considered the most at-risk group for sexual coercion.
Specifically, Satterfield is interested in students' definitions of sexual coercion and how those definitions affect their sexual experiences. Coercion occurs when an individual feels forced or threatened to do something out of fear. In the case of sexual coercion, that something is usually intercourse.
"They don't feel like they have a choice in the matter," Satterfield said. "It doesn't have to be an overt threat, but the threat can be implied."
He said society currently had a limited interpretation of sexual coercion. In the eyes of society, physical force or threat of bodily harm are the only means by which intercourse without consent — or rape — can occur. Satterfield said.
"Society influences how we interpret our experiences," he said. "The greater the discrepancy, the more confusion a person's going to have and the harder it is to come to terms with it."
When he submits his survey to KU students next fall, Satterfield said, he anticipates many may not think they qualify because of their own narrow definitions.
On the survey, participants are asked whether they have ever experienced sexual activity they did not want. They then identify the form of sexual coercion they experienced as either verbal pressure, physical detainment or unwanted contact.
The survey presents the participants with a variety of possible motives for not wanting to partake in the given sexual activity but participating in the activity anyway.
"because my partner might tell people I was gay" are examples of statements participants may identify as the compelling or coercive element in their given experiences.
Satterfield chose those statements from a pilot study he conducted in which the subjects, also KU students, shared their own personal motives from previous experiences of being sexually coerced.
The survey also urges the participants to examine their experience in terms of their emotional reaction—how they felt about it—and their cognitive reaction—what they thought about it.
Although both men and women will be surveyed, Satterfield is particularly interested in men's responses because of the relatively few clinical studies focusing on men. He attributed this lack of research to the myth that men were not coerced and the concern that such a focus detracts from the study of women's experiences. Satterfield said that he understood the concern but that the issue was not limited to any single group.
"My belief is that if we don't study each group's experiences, then we cannot really understand the tonic," he said.
When evaluating the survey results, Satterfield will study how men's interpretations and experiences differ from those of women.
He said that in one study, men were found to be more likely to interpret their experiences in a cognitive manner rather than an emotional one. According to the study, both men and women later had trouble with relationships and trusting others.
Men have an added element to combat when trying to understand their experiences. Satterfield said.
"Not only do men have the societal myth, but there's the masculine stereotype," he said. "You're asking women to want sex. You're a sexual being."
Satterfield said that although he did not think his study would single-handedly alter the legal or societal definitions of rape, he hoped his study would generate discussion on the parameters of sexual coercion.
"That makes it more complicated and more difficult for the person to realize coercion is going on."
David Gottlieb, KU law professor, said threats of a nonphysical nature did not constitute rape under the traditional definition in Kansas.
"A threat to break off a relationship or even a threat to minone economically would not traditionally constitute the kind of coercion that would make up the crime of rape." Gottlieb said.
Although Satterfield's study is concerned primarily with sexual coercion within personal relationships, coercion also may occur in professional or academic relationships.
Gottlieb cited sexual harassment litigation as a forum through which the issue of nonphysical sexual coercion is being addressed. But he added that he was not aware of any litigation involving nonphysical sexual coercion within a personal relationship.
Gottlieb said he believed nonphysical sexual coercion in personal relationships might become a legal issue in the future.
"The whole notion of consent, how consent in sexual relationships should be dealt with and how threats and various promises should be dealt with, is something that's being argued about in our society at large, so I would expect it will be argued about legally as well." Gottlieb said.
The Blue Bird brings small-diner atmosphere to Lawrence
The Kansas football team held its first major intrasquad scrimmage Saturday.
The Jayhawks have seven practices remaining before the spring football game on April 24.
See story. Page 7.
By Jake Arnold
Special to the Kansan
A step into the Blue Bird Diner is a step into the past. High-backed booths, counter seating, gleaming chrome and a checkered floor are reminiscent of the friendly cafes of the 1940s and '50s.
"There is nothing like it in Lawrence," said Mike O'Donnell, director of the Small Business Development Center. "Lawrence had no real diner until now."
The Blue Bird, scheduled to open at 7 a.m. today, is the shared dream of P. J. Karlin and Sharon Robertson. The restaurant, at S14 Masterson, will be a dinner, deli, coffeehouse and bakery.
"Somewhere along the way we both had this diner dream," Robertson said.
Robertson had worked with Karlin at the Paradise Cafe, which Karlin had started with his now ex-wife Lucia in May 1985. Karlin sold his interest in the Paradise Cafe in May 1989.
"I got burned out," said Karlin, who has worked in restaurants for the last 20 years. "It was too big, too many people. I wanted something smaller and simpler."
The Blue Bird's seating capacity is 50.
Robertson has been in the restaurant business for six years, but said she also wanted her own place.
"especially wanted a bakery," she said.
"I especially wanted a bakery, she沙.
Robertson will make the Blue Bird's breads,
muffins, pies, cinnamon rolls and other bakery
products from scratch every day.
"I want this to be a bakery outlet eventually," she said.
karlin said he would like to get a liquor license someday.
"I don't want a bar but would like to be able to serve fine beers and mixed drinks," he said. "A Bloody Mary on a Saturday morning would be nice."
The Blue Bird's menu will emphasize a healthy diet.
The Blue Bird has its own coffee roaster and also will serve espressos and cappuccino. Packaged coffee also will be sold.
"We have no fried foods," Robertson said. "We will serve hot and cold sandwiches, soups, grilled foods and old-fashioned dishes such as pot pies, meat loaf and biscuits and gravy."
The Blue Bird will offer vegetarian plates as well as meat plates and a no-smoking atmosphere.
Daron J. Bennett / KANSAN
The Blue Bird Diner, 814 Massachusetts St., gets the final touches as Richard Ramos, a diner employee, finishes painting the front of the building. The diner, which has 1950s decor, will open for business today.