CAMPUS/AREA: The heads of the 1994-95 University Council were elected yesterday. Page 6.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.101,NO.145
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South Africa's first open election ends today
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Most of South Africa stumbled to the finish of its history-making election yesterday after a titanic effort to move ballots to millions of people voting to end three centuries of white rule.
Air force planes rushed hastily printed ballots to trouble spots in the hinterlands, and helicopters equipped with loudspeakers circled rural areas announcing where to vote.
But time ran out in some remote areas that were bedeviled by shortages of bal-
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lots, indelible ink and stickers, and the Independent Electoral Commission authorized some rural regions to continue voting today.
Election officials said the counting would start at 6 a.m. tomorrow, and they plan to issue hourly results as the counting progresses.
The crush of people seen at polling stations on Wednesday was not as evident Thursday, as people turned out to elect the country's first government representing blacks, who make up three-fourths of the population.
For one thing, it appeared the vast majority of first-time black voters in their enthusiasm had stormed the polls Wednesday, the first day of general voting.
Despite dire predictions in the months
All signs pointed a massive turnout among the country's 23 million voters, but there were no immediate figures from election officials. The odds-on favorite to be president was African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela.
"Happy, happy. I nearly,jumped out of my skin and stood next to my body," said Eddy Mile, a vegetable vendor who was one of the last voters in Soweto, outside Johannesburg.
leading up to the election, and a spate of bombings early in the week blamed on white extremists, most of the three days of balloting took place in a calm atmosphere.
Police moved to avert any further trouble from far-right whites by declaring unrest areas in 15 towns that are strongholds of pro-apartheid whites. That gives police expanded powers to detain people and break up public gatherings.
In many areas, the mood was jubilant. It amounted to "a magnificent tribute to our national peace structures and the South African electorate," said relieved peace monitor Rupert Lorimer.
BLACK VISION TURNED BLACK AND WHITE
BLACK VISION Integration didn't faze African-American teacher
The first African-American teacher in Lawrence's integrated school system, Jesse Milan, will serve as a panelist in tomorrow's Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education. Milan was a witness to major changes in the school system, including the integration of African-American children into the system from which they had been separated.
By Angelina Lopez Kansan staff writer
Jesse Milan's mother always called him her professor.
"You're gonna be a professor," she would tell him as he slipped on his backpack for school. She, with a third-grade education, and her husband, with a fourth-grade education, instilled the dream of being a teacher into their son.
When Milan envisioned himself walking into a classroom as a teacher, he imagined African-American students looking up at him. In a make-believe lunchroom, he ate and talked with African-American colleagues. Other colors were impossible for Milan to imagine. As a student in the 1930s and 1940s, Milan was a product of the Kansas City, Kan., segregated school system. BROWN:
But when Milan finally walked into a classroom as the teacher, white and African-American students were there to see his face. Milan was one of the first to reap the rewards of the Brown vs. Tonge Board of Educaof Black teachers in the school room, the students lost Black leadership."
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The landmark case is remembered on its 40th anniversary.
Brown vs. Topper decision. In 1954, the same year that he graduated from the University of Kansas with a master's degree in education, Milan became the first African-American teacher to teach white students in the integrated Lawrence school system.
"People were shocked, but I didn't care what they thought of me," said Milan, who is now a professor at Baker University. "Students would hook up with my intelligence. If you perceive yourself as the Negro teacher, you're doomed to die."
Milan served as a social studies teacher in the high school, a social studies teacher and counselor in the junior high and a physical education teacher in the elementary schools. Outside of school, he ran the teen center and acted as director of the summer recreation program for several years.
Milan said he never planned to stay in Lawrence after graduating from KU. But when the résumés he sent to schools in California were returned because the schools said they had already filled their "Negro quota," the head of the Lawrence Board of Education suggested he stay here and apply for a teaching position.
I had to be better than they expected me to be," he said. "My interest was the student. How do you get in and help them? I never missed an opportunity, because I wanted to impact as many students as possible."
The children of Lawrence were divided, Milan said. Before the Brown decision, African-American students attended the same schools as white students, but they were not allowed to participate in extracurricular activities.
"They could sit in the rooms together, but the kids knew they weren't a part of school life." he said.
An African-American former student once approached him to tell him, "You'll never know how happy you made me."
When she was a girl, the students in class would never hold her hand when they were told to form a circle.
While other teachers had ignored it, Milan called attention to their unfriendliness. Finally, her hand was a part of the circle.
"If a teacher isn't aware, a child with great potential could lay dormant for a long time," Milan said. "My goal was to not let children's color restrict their education. If they didn't get what they needed in the classroom, they would find it on the streets or in prison."
In the integrated school system, qualified African-American teachers who had taught African-American students in the segregated system were losing their jobs, Milan said.
Milan said that although he tried to help his students adjust to integrated schools,he was dissatisfied with the system.
"Black teachers were now be looked upon as not having the credentials to teach," he said. "With the loss
Another component of integration that he disliked, Milan said, was the loss of a teacher's concern for a student—a concern that was a part of his segregated education.
"I grew up in a system where the teacher cared for you," he said. "There was a great deal of community. I began to see where this didn't occur anymore."
A symbol of Milan's achievements sits in his Kansas City, Kan., home, where he returned to live in 1971. It is a plaque with the words "1958 Young Man of the Year" emblazoned in gold at the top. It was given to him by the Kansas chapter of the Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Milan chuckles when he says that in 1958, African Americans weren't allowed to be members of the organization.
Preliminary hearing held for Shanks
District judge proposes three separate trial dates
By David Wilson Kansan staff writer
Three women, one of whom is a KU student, testified during a preliminary hearing in Douglas County District
The first woman to testify said that she was an acquaintance of Shanks.
Court yesterday that they had been raped by Jeffery E. Shanks, graduate assistant football coach.
She said that she was taking a study break around 9:00 p.m. on Feb. 3 when she and Shanks went out for yogurt.
Jeffery E. Shanks
They then returned to his apartment at Jayhawk Towers, where Shanks offered to massage the woman, and she agreed. At one point
during the massage, Shanks overpowered her and raped her, she said.
Shanks sat between his lawyer and the lawyer's assistant and furiously scribbled in a notebook while the woman was testifying.
The second woman to testify said that she was a registered nurse and that part of her job was to collect evidence for rapes.
She said that she and Shanks had danced at Sidewinders Saloon, 729 New Hampshire St., on Feb. 25. The two left at about 2:00 a.m. on Feb. 26, and Shanks asked the woman for a ride to his truck. The woman said she and Shanks had planned to eat breakfast at an all-night restaurant.
After dropping him off at his truck, she followed him in her car to his apartment. She and Shanks went up to his apartment, where the woman asked to use the bathroom.
She said that when she came out of the bathroom, the lights had been turned off and Shanks was wearing nothing but shorts.
The woman told Shanks she was going to leave, but he said, "not yet." She said he told her, "Relax, baby, sometimes things just happen."
She said that he pulled her to the bed and raped her.
She also said that Shanks had forced her left leg back so hard that it popped and that she required pain medication the next day.
The third woman to testify said that she had met Shanks before the date of the attack at Kelly's a bar in the Westport area of Kansas City, Mo.
On the date of the attack, she and Shanks had gone rollerblading in the parking lot of the Lied Center. After rollerblading, she said, the two returned to Shanks' apartment, where he said he needed to take a shower before going out again.
At the apartment, the woman met Shanks' roommate, who was studying in the front room.
Shanks then applied a chokehold to the woman and proceeded to rape her, she said.
Shanks began to rub the woman's shoulders in his bedroom. The woman said, "please stop, I don't even know you." Shanks' reply was, "I'm doing this for you."
"The whole time, I was screaming,'please stop this," she said.
She said that Shanks' roommate was in the apartment during the rape but that he did not come into Shanks' bedroom.
The woman said that Shanks had also tried to rape her in the parking lot of Carlos O'Kelly's before dropping her off after the first rape, but she was able to run to her car.
After determining there was enough evidence for a trial, District Judge Ralph M. King set three separate trial dates: July 11, July 25 and Aug. 22.
On a different path
A year and a half after being hit by a car and injuring his leg, former Kansas runner Jeremy McClain has overcome the accident and returned to a normal life. He plays keyboards for the band Lou's Revenge.
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Listen up: Loud music can be harmful to ears
Bv Ashlev Schultz
Kansanstaffwriter
When Brian Gee watches the bands at KJHK's Farmer's Ball finals tonight, he will be wearing ear plugs.
The Lawrence resident said that with the ear plugs in, he can not hear his own words when he sings and plays guitar. Without ear plugs, though, the sound itself is deafening.
"If I'm watching a band, you can just tell if your ears hurt while it's playing." Gee said. "You really can't tell when you're on stage. It's so weird up there. You can't hear yourself. You can't hear anything. You just hear noise."
But he'll be pulling the plugs when he plays the competition's second set with the Bubble Boyz.
Gee said that he used to experience a condition called tinnitus after almost every show he played and every concert he attended.
Tinnitus is a condition characterized by phantom noise within the ears. It can be the sound of rushing air, a ringing, buzzing, roaring or hissing sound.
"It sucked." Gee said. "It's just like your
"I had been going to shows for a long time and just messing my ears up. I know I have been, and I just didn't care," he said. "But I went to Fishbone a couple months ago, and it was really killing my ears. Every show after that, I've worn ear plugs."
ear was ringing afterwards, and everything sounded pretty muffled.
Gee said that he picked up ear plugs at the Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., for $1. The Bubble Boyz will be competing there in the final four of the Farmer's Ball for a slot at the Day on the Hill concert tomorrow.
John Ferraro, professor and chair of the hearing and speech department at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said an open air concert, such as Day on the Hill, was not as likely to damage the ears as an indoor show.
"You know, you go into a small nightclub or whatever, and you see these big amps that go from the floor to the ceiling, and you just wonder why in the world it needs to be that loud," he said.
may not have sustained permanent damage, but you may have."
Sometimes tinnitus, a symptom of inner ear damage, is fleeting, but sometimes it is chronic, he said.
Pressure in the ear and dizziness are associated with the condition, Ferraro said.
"I've had students who have come in and said, I went to a concert, and I couldn't hear for about a half hour afterwards. Is that bad? I say, 'Of course that is bad.' You
Hearing loss depends on loudness and length of exposure to noise, Ferraro said. The higher frequencies and pitches are usually the first to go.
If the ears start to tickle or if the noise is painful, people should get away from the noise, he said. As a rule of thumb, he said that if it was so loud that people have to shout to be heard, it was too loud.
"Sound is created when an object in a medium, such as air, is sent into vibration," Ferraro said. "And then those vibrations are transferred through that medium as sound waves."
The performers
Saturday's performance schedule:
Those sound waves travel through the outer and middle ear to get to the inner ear. Tiny nerve cells in the inner ear change the sound wave into a neural impulse, which is basically an electrical message, Ferraro said. The cells transmit this neural impulse
Five bands will perform at Day on the Hill tomorrow on Campanile Hill. The Center for Community Outreach will sponsor a canned food drive on the Hill, the KJKH Farm's Ball contest will be tonight at The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St.
Saturday's performance schedule:
Noon        KJHK contest winner
1:24.5 p.m.   Vitreous Humor
1:30 p.m.    El Magnifico
2:45 p.m.    Pegby
4:15 p.m.    Urge Overkill
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to the hearing nerve and the brain decodes that message.
"The brain is really the organ of hearing," he said. "The ear prepares sound waves so that it can be interpreted by the brain."
Ferraro said that doctors do not know what part of the hearing system generates the noises associated with tinnitus.
It could be caused by damage to the nerve cells, the hearing nerve, or different parts of hearing pathways in the brain, he said.
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