CAMPUS/AREA
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, February 5, 1993
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Man sentenced for taking indecent liberties with child
A man convicted of aggravated indecent liberties with a child was sentenced yesterday to five to 20 years in prison.
Robert E. Bornemeier, 39, an unemployed truck driver from Nebraska, pleaded guilty in Douglas County District Court on Dec. 21 to the Class C felony. The state dropped charges of sexual battery and enticement of a child in exchange for the plea.
Bornemeier previously had been convicted of two felonies, both in Nebraska. He last served time in prison in 1983.
Bornemei fondled a 10-year-old girl in September in the parking lot of Checkers, 2300 Louisiana St. The girl was not physically injured in the incident.
"I regret what I've done, and I apologize to the family." Bornemeier said at the sentencing. "I’m sorry for
the loss of my daughter."
A recent traffic ticket had cost him his job as a truck driver, and Bornemeier said that he was depressed at the time of the offense. Three psychiatric evaluations of Bornemeier were presented to Judge Micheal Malone prior to sentencing.
Malone denied Bornemeier's request to be sent an out-of-state institution that offered certain treatment programs suggested in the evaluations that could help him.
Auditions offer dance students opportunity for scholarships
The department of music and dance is holding auditions at 1 p.m. tomorrow in 242 Robinson Center for scholarship awards
KU students and incoming freshman can win both partial- and full-tuition scholarships for the 1983-94 school year. The auditions take place once a year.
Auditioners must perform a one-to-three minute solo in the dance style of their choice. 1904
For additional information, call 864-4264.
KU Phi Kappa Phi honor society to initiate 205 students Sunday
The Phi Kappa Phi honor society is honoring new KU initiates with a ceremony and a reception at 2 p.m. Sunday at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. The ceremony is for Phi Kappa Phi members, 1993 initiates and their families.
The keynote address — "Come one, Come all: Open admissions at KU" — will be delivered by N. Ray Hiner, Chancellor Club teacher of history and education.
The honor society will initiate 205 students this year, said Kathy Porsch, program assistant for the event. Last year, 202 students were initiated.
The society, which was founded in 1897, is open to the top 5 percent of the senior class and top 10 percent of all graduate students.
Briefs compiled by Kansan staff writer Mark Kiefer.
Faculty aids Kuwaiti renewal
KU healing envoys attend conference in war-torn country
By Terrilyn McCormick
Kansas staff writer
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Many people's mental picture of the Persian Gulf War two years ago is the CNN nighttime footage of rocket flares and falling bombs, an image that resembles a video game more than real life.
Robert Harrington, associate professor of educational psychology and research, has seen more than the television footage. During a recent trip to Kuwait, he saw the shockingly real images of a war-orn country.
He toured Kuwait City's war memorials, which were houses left in ruins by the invasion. One house featured hole-filled walls covered with blood and human hair plastered to the ceiling.
Harrington's job in Kuwait was to start the healing process for a people scarred by the Iraqi invasion.
Harrington and John Poggio, associate dean of educational psychology and research, returned Sunday from Kuwait, where they participated in a three-day conference aimed at identifying social problems created by the Iraq invasion and forming a recovery plan.
"It is encouraging that a variety of countries were represented," Barrington said. "It shows that they're not taking an insular position but are setting viewpoints from the outside."
The conference brought together 25 psychologists, social welfare experts and physicians from around the world.
Harrington and Poggio were the only people from the United States at the conference. Two other professors from Michigan and Minnesota backed out because of last month's air strikes.
Harrington spoke at the conference on belief systems, values and traditions and how they affect recovery from post-trauma shock.
Harrington said that the Kuwaiti people's Islamic beliefs erected barriers to healing in certain situations. Women recovering from the systematic rape by Iraqi soldiers have become victims again because of Kuwait tradition, he said.
"This is a society that values virginity, so in this case the women are shunned after they've been raped," he said.
The invasion had effects not only on individuals but also on the society, notably Kuwait's national identity, which suffered wounds from the Iraqi invasion, Harrison said.
Above, Robert Harrington, associate professor of educational psychology and research, points out the burning oil fields that devastated Kuwait and its people during the Persian Gulf War. At right, Harrington holds up a memento given to him in Kuwait City. The pendant shows Kuwait's national colors and bears the Arabic message, "Our martyrs will be our first defense," *Photos by Andrew Arnone.*
He said the people thought Saddam Hussein tried to steal their national identity because Kuwait had wealth and Iraq did not.
"During the war at the checkpoints that the Iraqi set up, if a Kuwaita was stopped, they would ask their identity," he said. "When they said they were Kuwaita, that guard said Kuwait does not exist."
Cecily Pasquini, left, Lee's Summit, Mo., sophomore, and Teresa DeSelm, Topeka junior, saddle a horse for their beginning horsemanship course at the Triple J Arabians Stable near Baldwin.
Brinkman supports accuser in tenure-dismissal hearing
Cinch it up
By Brady Prauser Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, yesterday debated with Emil Tonkovich the credibility of the law student who alleged that Tonkovich pressured her to perform oral sex.
During the 18th week of dismissal hearings for the tenured professor, Tonkovich challenged the credibility of Tammy McVey, who brought the allegations to Brinkman. Most of the testimony was spent rehashing questions Tonkovich earlier had asked other University administrators.
Brinkman said, "She was very credible and was revealing something that had affected her a great deal and was part of her life. I believed it was true, and I will always believe it was true."
Tonkovich be dismissed. Tonkovich asked for a public hearing before the faculty committee on tenure and related problems after he received a one-year suspension with pay in fall 1991.
Tonkovich asked how Brinkman could recommend to dismiss him when Brinkman only had talked to McVey a few times and had no way of determining her credibility.
McVey gave Brinkman a written statement in August 1991 detailing the allegations, and last April, Chancellor Gene Budig recommended
Brinkman returned to the witness stand from Washington, D.C., where he has been on sabbatical.
Tonkovich and Brinkman also debated allegations against Tonkovich that were made subsequent to McVey's constituted moral turpitude. Those allegations emerged after an Oct. 31, 1991, letter authored by six law professors circulated in the law school urging students to come forward if they had experienced any form of sexual harassment. Several students responded.
Those allegations were groundless, Tonkovich said. He repeatedly asked Brinkman to cite any individual allegation that was a violation of the faculty code or was moral turpitude.
"It can't be dealt with as an isolated incident," Brinkman said. "That's part of the problem with the whole matter. All of them, in a varying degree, add to an overall pattern of behavior."
The hearings will resume Feb.18.
University may head state study Praeger leads push to analyze Kansas' health-care funding
By Ben Grove Kansan staff writer
Praeger, head of the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee, said the Regents group would be responsible for examining such things as hospital procedures and regional trends.
Ray Davis, health services department head, said Praeger and other Republican leaders were attracted to the idea of having an organization outside the Legislature gather the data.
A group of state legislators led by State Sen. Sandy Praeger, R-Lawrence, introduced a bill last week that would make KU's department of health services administration responsible for heading the project. KU would lead a group of Regents universities in analyzing where the state's health-care dollars are spent.
TOPEKA — The University of Kansas could be directing a study of the state's health-care system if an $8 million grant is approved.
He said legislators had to pool information from a number of sources such as hospitals and insurance companies.
"What we propose to do is get all those groups on the table," Davis said. "What is lacking in this state and what the Legislature is frustrated by is that there is no method by which complex matters of health care can be treated in a coherent way."
Praeger's bill would make the Regents group's job easier by requiring state agencies to provide researchers with any information they requested.
"The idea would be to promote some efficiency and perhaps identify some unnecessary expenses," Praeger said.
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KU's health services department has applied for the $8 million grant from the Kansas Health Foundation, a nongovernmental, Wichita-based organization. Davis said he would know sometime between April and July whether the grant was approved.
If the grant was approved, preliminary data would be available as soon as next year. The bill requires that the Regents group report their findings to the Legislature every Feb. 1. The $8 million grant would support a 12- to 14-member professional staff for a six-year study, Davis said.
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