CAMPUS/AREA
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, January 27, 1993
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CAMPUS BRIEFS
Student files battery complaint with police against KU fan
Tucked among a throng of KU fans behind the Long Beach State bench Monday night, Christi Landera, a 49ers fan, only wanted to cheer her alma mater on to victory. The man sitting behind her did not appreciate her cheers.
Landers left her seat behind the bench and found a KU police officer. The initial police report listed the case as a battery. As of yesterday, no charges had been filed against the man.
Landers, a first-year law student at KU, said the man knocked her hand down two more times before she took action.
"I'm a law student," she said, "so I'm going to proceed and report it."
"I stood up and cheered when Laucous Harris hit a three-pointer." Landers said. "This guy grabbed my shoulders and pushed me down."
Landers said she reported the incident because she did not feel the behavior was appropriate for KU fans.
"It shows poor sportsmanship," she said. "It's bad for the fans to react like that to the opposing team. It doesn't do them any good."
University registrar sets deadline for applying to receive diplomas
Seniors wanting to pick up their diplomas immediately after commencement must apply at their schools' records offices before Monday.
Failure to apply before the deadline will result in students receiving their diplomas six to eight weeks after commencement, said Linda Faust, registrar recorder and coordinator.
Students have until April 23 to apply to be recognized as Spring 1982 graduates. Any student who applies after April 23 will be considered a summer graduate.
The deadline also alerts the school that the senior plans to graduate and allows it to check enrollment records, said Diana Fox, coordinator of under grade records at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
CLAS students must apply at 108 Strong Hall, business students at 206 Summerfield Hall, journalism students at 201 Stauffer Flint Hall, engineering student at 4010 Learned Hall, education students at 102 Bailey Hall, social welfare students at 215 Twente Hall, fine arts students at 300 Art and Design Building, architecture and design students at 206 Marvin Hall, and pharmacy students at 206 Malott Hall.
Two students, one staff member file for Lawrence City Commission
Thirteen people, including two KU students and a staff member, filed to run for Lawrence City Commission.
Chander Jayaraman, Prairie Village junior, and Scott Daltan, Pratt institute, file to run in the March 2 primary election. Dalton said he is taking a semester break from school and is not enrolled this semester.
Milton Scott, assistant director of student housing at the University, also filed for the commission on
The top six vote-getters in the primary will run for three available seats in a general election April 6. City commissioners are elected on a city-wide basis. Other members for city commission are
Bob Schum, owner of Massachusetts Street Deli and a current commissioner, Frederick Markham, songwriter; Richard Payton, on the board of directors for Woodcreek Townhouses; Doug Compton, owner of Compton Rentals; Bo Moyo, president of North Lawrence Improvement Co.; Sam Shepley, owner of Shepley Insurance Agency; Ken Wilson, owner of the now-closed XXX Video; Roger Browning, an electrician for the Kansas Turnpike Association; Dolly Gasser, general manager for Teller's Restaurant; and Jolene Anderson, an office manager for Ron Turner's American Family Insurance Co.
Students to travel to Costa Rica to study as part of exchange
Winter will come to a sally halt later this week for 13 KU students leaving for Central America as part of one of the oldest inter-university exchange programs in the Western Hemisphere.
in all, 50 students will form El Grupo de Kansas, a group of American exchange students sponsored by the KU Office of Study Abroad, in conjunction with the University of Costa Rica in San Pedro. The group, including schools such as KU, the University of Minnesota, Colorado State University and New Mexico State University, is scheduled to arrive in the capital city of San Jose on Friday and Saturday. An orientation session will run through February, with university classes beginning in early March.
The 35-year-old exchange program is the University's most popular because it allows the students to immerse themselves completely in the Latin American culture, said Ellen Strubert, a study abroad adviser.
Those KU students in the group are: David Conne,
Madison, Wis., senior; Kourtney Flynn, Leawood
junior; John Hall, Albqu querque senior; Kierlie Innes,
Tulsa, Oka.; junior; Brenda Kaye, Lawrence sophomore;
Patrick McGrath, Oklahoma City senior; Sonda
Morrissie, Lawrence senior; Deborah Myers,
Atchison senior; Elizabeth Pendergast, Chicago
juniur; Dorothy Roseberry, Lawrence senior;
Stephanie Umphenure, Blue Springs, Mo., junior;
Kessa Zagar, Topeka graduate student; and Trina
Zagar, Topeka junior.
Compiled by Kansan staff writers Mark Klefer, Terriyn McCormick and Todd Selfert. Kansan stringer Kathleen Stole also contributed.
Legislators debate rape law
KU NOW opposes statute's phrasing
Bv Ben Grove
Kansan staff writer
If a woman has a few beers and then later has sex without her consent, rape may not have occurred by Kansas law.
But if some Kansas legislators and the National Organization for Women get their way, that will change in this session of the Legislature.
The current law says that a woman is raped if she is incapable of consenting to sex because of the effect of alcohol or other drugs "unless the victim voluntarily consumes or allows the administration of substance with knowledge of its nature."
So last summer, State Rep. Gwen Welshimer, D-Wichita, and two other Wichita legislators drafted a bill that strikes those words and all mention of voluntary drinking from the law.
"It's a crime, and alcohol should have no place in this," said Welshmer. "If it's in this statement, it should apply to all criminals who have been arrested for murders or murders if the victim had a drink."
Welshimer drafted the bill and it was presented to the House Judiciary Committee on Friday. But the chairman of that committee, State Rep. Mike O'Neal, R-Hutchinson, said there was no need for the bill and said he had no plans to schedule a committee hearing to approve it.
"Let's put this in a student's perspective," O'Neal said. "Let's say a couple has been going together for a long time and they go down to the Wheel and she is obviously drunk. Then they go back home and have sex—she was raped. You've got to create a situation where you don't get a conviction in that hypothesis."
O'Neal said alcohol consumption was sometimes relevant in cases when rapa
However, O'Neal said he did believe the current law's definition of rape should be
changed.
That is why last year he approved a Senate bill that instead of striking a phrase from the current law, added one that read, "Consent of a victim shall not be presumed based solely on the victim's voluntary intoxication."
"We fix it by signing this provision into law," he said.
O'Neal's addition to the law officially goes into effect on July 1.
Welshman said she would continue to fight to get her bill pasted before then.
Meanwhile, State Sen. Lilian Paup, R-Great Bend, said she was drafting a bill that was almost identical to the one Welsher was trying to introduce in the House. She said the bill had a better chance of passing
the Senate.
"I told him I would be running my bill no matter what he did," she said of a conversation she had with O'Neal recently. "O'Neal doesn't want to run it, so be it."
She said a number of Senators had expressed interest in reexamining the
One of those is Jerry Moran, also a member of the Senate's judiciary committee. Moran was one of the six-member committee that approved O'Neal's provision last year.
"I have encouraged Sen. Papa to get the bill created and get it to us so we can take a walk."
Julie Cline, Park Ridge, III, senior and vice-president of KU NOW, said she would be watching the bills closely because they were particularly relevant to college students.
KU sets high standards for cafeterias
"If a woman goes out to a bar and passes out and someone raps her, then when it goes to court there will be a question of her consent because of her voluntary use of alcohol," she said.
Food-service sanitation at University exceeds state requirements
By Will Lewis
Kansan staff writer
Although Kansas does not require sanitation training in its food service establishments, KU cafeterias have raised their standards above the state's requirements.
Peggy Smith, director of food service,
said that the cafeterias emphasize
employee training and offer training
twice a semester.
The Student Housing Department issues handbooks that include sanitation requirements to its employees.
To conform to University standards, Ed Suber, Olivar Hall cafeteria employee, wears gloves and a hat while preparing items for the salad bar. All campus cafeteria employees are required to wear gloves and either a hat or hair net while handling or preparing food.
Daron J. Bennett / KANSAN
"Every food service employee is obligated to maintain high standards of personal cleanliness as well as sanitary work habits," according to the manual.
Student Housing belongs to the National Association of College and University Food Services, an organization that helps enhance quality food services in college and university dining by providing standards, training and support for its members.
Certified diettians with college degrees run every residence hall cafeteria. Smith
"Overall, I would say that typically state institutions that are run by certified, college-educated people are going to have higher sanitation than the truck stop down the corner," she said.
But the concern does not stop at residence ball cafeterias.
"I've worked at a lot of food service businesses, and Wescoe Terrace is one of the cleanest I've ever worked," said
Denise Swagel, Wescoe Terrace cafeteria supervisor.
Svaglic said the rules set at the establishment were not hard to follow.
"They're common sense, but they're clearly marked in the job description we have in each station," she said.
Employees are told to never handle
food with their hands, to wear plastic gloves while handling food, and to keep their hands away from their hair, mouth and face.
Svaglic said Kansas should require sanitation training
"It would be great for every restaurant to have those regulations and provide
that training," she said.
Jerry Vornholt, a restaurant inspector for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, said it would be beneficial but difficult to establish mandatory sanitation training in the state.
"We don't have the resources to actually nut that into effect," he said.
KU Zen club exalts meditation
By Angela Sclara
Kansan staff writer
Meditation, an exercise used by many to find peace in a sometimes hectic world, is a popular practice of the new KU Zen organization. The group started last semester, and through a series of workshops, they are able to public, it is spreading knowledge of its activities to the campus community.
Since it was founded, the Zen club's mailing list has grown to more than 100 members, said Aaron Binderup, Overland Park junior and club president.
The KU Zen members meet daily to meditate with members of the Kansas Zen Center, 1423% New York St.
The KU club also sponsors guest speakers on a variety of topics such as Buddhist teachings and the art of Zen archery. Members also attend retreats at the Kansas Zen Center.
According to a pamphlet by the Kansas Zeen Center, "The tradition of 'Zen points to the clinging aspects of the mind, which cause delusion in our lives. The practice of Zen enables its participants to let go of this conditioning — of ideas, of emotions — to perceive more clearly the moment at hand."
Zen is an approach to religion, arising from Buddhism, that seeks religious enlightenment by meditation, during which there is no consciousness of self.
Zen originated in India and was established in Japan by the 12th century. Believers of Zen say its aim of enlightenment, or realization of one's inner self, is achieved primarily by meditation.
The results of this meditation are the abilities
With the bow in his left hand and the arrow in his right, Bob Wright, associate professor of art, prepares to give a demonstration of Zen archery.
to better concentrate on daily tasks, such as homework, and to think with a clear and compassionate mind. Binderup said.
Chris Raymond, Kearney, Neb., junior, said he was interested in the history of the Buddhist phi-
"One can explain why we are here," Raymond said. "But Zen teaches you how to live productively with content and a deeper philosophical understanding."
Binderup has connected his practice of Zen meditation to environmental science.
"It is important to scientifically understand the interconnection we have with the environment," he said. "But to intellectually understand it, you need to feel it."
Zen meditation enables participants to feel that oneself with nature. Binderson said.
"Zen starts where thinking leaves off," he said.
Repair work begins on campus potholes
Kansan staff writer
By Jess DeHaven Kansan staff writer
Warmer weather might be a welcome change from the recent cold, but the melting ice and snow has exposed an already existing problem — no holes.
Stephen Helsel, associate director of facilities operations, said that work began Friday on the hundreds of potholes throughout campus.
"The they range in size from a softball to a car," Helsel said of the holes. "We're trying to keep up, but there' anywhere from 100 to 300 notholes on campus."
Helsel said that facilities operations was using about three tons of filling material a day on the potholes. The cost in filling mix alone already has totaled over $600, and Helsel said the final cost for the potholes, including labor, could be as much as $7,000.
The potholes should be filled within two weeks, if weather permi. Helsel said.
"If it rains or snows we will have to redo some of them," Helsel said.
Tom Orzulak, maintenance manager for the Lawrence Public Works department, said the city also were plagued by pot holes.
"I don't care to even speculate about how many there are out there," Orzulak said. "There are several hundred."
Orzukai了 the city had three crews a day and one crew on Saturday working to fill the pot holes. He worked for two to three weeks, he said.
"The problem certainly is a lot worse than it has been in the past five years," Orzulak said. "This has been the worst weather we've had for the last several years."
Both Helsi and Orzakal said that the work being done now on pot-holes was only temporary, and that work would begin on permanently fixing the holes when the weather warms up in late spring.
Hesel said a major renovation on the streets was planned for this summer, and most of the permanent work on the potholes will be done then.
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