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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.103.NO.144
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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Professors spurn rooms with a view
Tiered seating put students lower halves at eye level
By Gennifer Trail
Kansan staff writer
OVERLAND PARK—Up until last month, when Regents Center professors who taught in lecture rooms with tiered levels looked at their students, they often saw more than they wanted.
Dennis Karney, professor of business, and other professors said that before panels were installed on the front of desks, they stood eye-level with the lower halves of students' bodies, often creating an uncomfortable situation for the professors.
"During the middle of my first lecture at the Regents Center, I saw a garter belt hitting stockings, and it was hard to concentrate," Karney said.
In the spring of 1993, Karney began a battle with the University to have paneling installed on the front of the desks to cover students' lower body areas. With one exception, the entire business school faculty supported this effort. However, until this became an issue with the faculty, no students had expressed concern.
Just last month the University finished installing the modesty shields at the center, 12600 Quivira Road.
Jan Francis, Mission Hills graduate student in business, said that she thought that the modesty shields were a wise purchase by the University.
Karney said that the University spent eight to ten thousand dollars to install the modesty shields.
"Once the situation was brought up in class by Professor Karney; the awareness caused discomfort," she said. "But now we can all relax. All the women I've talked to agreed. We're really happy with the addition."
Douglas Houston, professor of business, said that he had never experienced a problem with the tiered seating in the lecture rooms.
"I believe this is the new prudency at work, but I bow to others on this issue," he said. "My main concern is the quality of how I teach and if I have the right teaching equipment in the classroom."
Kenneth Cogger, professor of business, said that the modesty shields were a necessity.
"The consensus of those of us who taught at the Regents Center was that it was an unprofessional situation in a professional setting," he said.
"It bothered me that women could go to work dressed professionally but then not be dressed appropriately for class," he said. "The lecture rooms were designed in such a way that you couldn't help but look up ladies' dresses, even if they were knee-length."
"I'm glad the panels were put in, but it should never have been an issue," he said. "The University should have made strong statements saying, 'We're sorry.' It was a little egg on our face that it took until last month to get them in."
Bowlus School Supply received the bid for the work at the end of the summer of 1993. Rodney Baldridge, purchasing agent at the company, said that he could not comment on why it took so long. Lindvall said that Bowlus School Supply had had trouble getting the panels from its supplier.
Karney said that when he explained the need for the modesty shields to his class, he tried to use more discreet language.
"You don't set up conditions in the classroom to have physical intercourse with people who you're trying to have mental intercourse with," he said.
Shared experiences
Lawrence men and women gather as witnesses and victims tell stories of violence and survival during last night's Womyn Take Back the Night March and Rally.
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By Roberta Johnson Kansan staff writer
Kansan staffwriter
Bosnia-Herzegovina historically has been a place of tolerance yet suppression, said a panel of three KU professors.
Last night the panel — sponsored by local groups, including Annesty International and the St. Lawrence Catholic Center — spoke to a group of 75 in Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont St.
Norman Saul, professor of history, said that the country had been occupied at times by the Ottoman Empire, the Turks,
Croatia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. "They were suppressed and repressed," Saul said.
Despite the suppression, Bosnians have historically been very tolerant people, said Marc Greenburg, an assistant professor of Slavic languages and literatures who had lived in the former Yugoslavia.
"Bosnia is an ethno-linguistic melting pot," he said.
Sakir Hadzinezilc of Sarejevo, who is trapped in the United States while his country is at war, did not agree with Piekaldiewicz.
Greenburg said 27 languages existed in the former Yugoslavia.
embargo could result in an expansion of the war. The Russians, Muslims and Iranians could become involved.
Different words and dialects can say much about a person culturally, he said.
"The best way to handle this is to enforce the embargo on the Serbs," he said.
Jaroslaw Piekalkiewicz, professor of political science, said two ways for the United States to handle the war existed: air strikes and the embargo.
"The information conveyed in the hypothetical speech act by the utterance is not at all, 'Mister, give me some bread,' but, 'I am a virile, backward, Turk-loving Moslem, and I threaten the existence of the Serbs in Kosovo, the cradle of Serbian civilization," he said.
Despite the differences, no official language exists, he said.
Piekalkiewicz said lifting the trade
"One man is killed every minute, and we watch," he said. "People are fighting with empty hands against tanks. In 10 years we will see classical genocide in Bosnia in the sense of Hitler."
Brian Vandervliet / KANSAN
Memory of death inspires march
Pipe dreams
Martha Robinson, Tucson, Ariz., graduate student, practiced her bagpipes by the Campanile yesterday for an upcoming competition in Arkansas.
Native Americans walk to honor Sevier
By Susan White Kansan staff writer
Acaravan of Native-American voices and banners made its way yesterday from Haskell Indian Nations University to Lawrence City Hall to honor the memory of a Lawrence Native American killed by police three years ago.
Orene Sevier, the mother of slain Gregg Sevier, said that the marchers — which included Haskell students, Lawrence Native Americans and members of the activist American Indian Movement — wanted to bring Native Americans and all people together so that events such as the one that led to her son's death did not continue to happen.
"We just want there to be a sense of respect for all people," she said. "There needs to be a better understanding from everyone."
Gregg Sevier died April 21, 1991, when Orene Sevier called 911 to send someone to talk to her son, who was in his bedroom with a butcher knife. The two police officers dispatched shot and killed Gregg Sevier, who they said lunged at them with the knife. However, Orene Sevier said her son never lunged at them and only posed a
threat to himself.
After the march, the group gathered in front of City Hall for a brief rally led by Don Bread, a Haskell professor whose son, Christopher, was killed in a hit-and-run incident in 1990.
Bread said the group had come together to celebrate life and death.
"We want to let people know that there is a greasy spot that is on the fabric of our great nation," he said. "The only way to remove that greasy spot seems to be by the shedding of blood. Blood seems to cleanse all things. It has taken the blood of Gregg Sevier to cleanse a city."
At the end of the rally, Bread commended all the people who had marched for Sevier.
"It took a lot of courage to walk these streets of Lawrence," he said. "It is hard to walk and be ridiculed by your fellow man. You are not aliens in a country that was ours to begin with. We have a right to be here, more so than everyone else."
Orene Sevier said that she thought the march had a good turnout but that her fight was not over.
Bread said the group also needed to band together as Native Americans to show Sevier's family that they cared about what happened to Sevier and for the future.
"I think my job is cut out for me," she said. "We hope to make the community better for our children and grandchildren, who face a lot of problems today."
Nixon slips into 'deep' coma; chances of recovery slim
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Richard Nixon fell into a deep coma yesterday, two days after suffering a major stroke, and doctors said the former president's condition appeared to be life-threatening.
Nixon's family was at his side as his condition deteriorated, according to a statement from New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, where he was brought after suffering the stroke Monday night.
The hospital gave no other details and Nixon's doctors and aides declined to discuss his treatment or condition in detail. But other doctors said the coma sharply
reduced Nixon's chances of survival and virtually guaranteed he would never recover his formidable powers of expression.
Nixon, 81, was partly paralyzed on the right side and unable to speak even before he slipped into the coma.
"The fact he's in a coma suggests his chances of dying are much greater, and his chance of surviving without a major deficit
Richard Nixon
(in speech and movement) is very, very small," said Gregory Albers, director of the Stanford Stroke Center at Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, Calif.
"This (coma) suggests the man suffered a devastating stroke," said Paul Katz, a stroke specialist at the Montefiore Medical Center in New York. "It sounds like this could be his terminal event."
After he was stricken, Nixon had been taking a common anticoagulant drug to reduce the risk of stroke, and doctors at the hospital have added another anticoagulant.
Doctors sometimes try to reduce brain
swelling after a stroke by using a respirator to speed up breathing. But Nixon was not put on a respirator, in deference to his explicit wishes, the New York Times reported yesterday.
Nixon's stroke apparently was the result of a blood clot that formed in his heart and moved to the brain's middle cerebral artery. The blockage deprived this crucial cranial region of oxygen, damaging some brain tissue and causing considerable swelling.
A hospital representative late last night said that no update would be given unless Nixon's condition changed.
Photo courtesy of Ed Zurga/Lawrence Journal-World
Anguish envelopes Kansas senior forward Richard Scott's face as he clutches his injured left shoulder. A Nebraska player bumped him Jan. 24, reaggressing an injury.
The drive. The addiction. The calling. Top athletes often overlook injuries to remain in the lineup. Then, they are...
PLAYING WITH PAIN
Story by Brady Prauser Graphics by Micah Laaker
Kansas diver Tim Davidson stood poised on the three-meter board. It was two years ago during the Big Eight Swimming and Diving Championship preliminaries.
Ready to soar through the toughest dive in his repertoire, a reverse two and one-half somersault, Davidson steadied himself in concentration.
He and the crowd had no idea that disaster lay ahead.
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In a harrowing flash, Davidson hammered both arms on the end of the board and splashed helplessly into the pool.
Dazed and pain-wracked, he had to be pulled from the water.
"I caught the board from almost the elbow down on both arms," says Davidson, a senior. "There was quiet a lot of swelling, discoloration
and quite a bit of pain. I was in mild shock."
Nevertheless, Davidson didn't think twice about hopping back on the board after he had regained his composure and got the OK from team trainers.
After all, his team needed the points.
Davidson's story illustrates a fact inherent in all sports: Sometimes, to
Davidson — with a little tape on his wrists and a lot of drive in his heart — had to perform 14 more dives, including the one that caused him to hit the board.
"That was one of the most courageous things I've ever seen," Kansas swimming and diving coach Gary Kemp says.
"My mom had to hide behind a curtain," he says. "She couldn't watch." Davidson nailed the dives, finished third overall and the Jayhawks nearly won the team title before finishing second.
Pain has snatched a number of stellar Kansas athletes recently, stealing them away from the sports they love.
borrow a phrase from author Dan Jenkins, you gotta play hurt.
You gotta gut it out when the body begs for rest but competition won't allow it. Never mind the pain. Never mind the uncertainty. Never mind the fear.
But who decides whether an athlete can or can't participate? And what are the consequences?
Kansas athletes who have played through injuries say they'll play with as much pain as they can tolerate because of an internal drive to compete and a fear of being left on the sidelines. Team physicians and trainers say they'll let them, but only after careful examination reveals there is no chance of further injury. It all adds up to this: Playing with pain is part of the game.
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