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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, April 8, 1994
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Holocaust is remembered today
Survivor will discuss experiences Sunday
By Denise Nell Kansan staff writer
Those who died in the Holocaust will be remembered today.
But Beth Ackerman, Dallas freshman and member of Hillel, said those people should be remembered every day, not just today, which is observed as Holocaust Remembrance Day around the world.
"We should never forget the Holocaust," she said. "It was the darkest chapter of human history."
Ackerman co-coordinated a Holocaust memorial service, which will take place 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Lawrence Jewish Community Center, 917 Highland. The service will take place Monday instead of today in
honor of the Jewish Sabbath, which is observed on Fridays and Saturdays.
Ackerman said the service would include reading of poetry written by Holocaust survivors, Yiddish music and selections from the "Schindler's List" soundtrack. A choir will perform and a candle-lighting ceremony will take place.
"It's something that happened in recent history," she said. "I think people identify with it. The reason why we have the service is because the key to remembering is to keep talking about it, and that's the key to it not happening again."
Amy Lefko, Sioux City, Iowa sophomore and co-coordinator of the service, said the Holocaust was something that was still fresh in people' minds.
Carl Strikwerda, associate professor of history, is teaching HIST 341, Hitler and Nazi Germany. Strikwerda said his students were just beginning to study the Holocaust.
Strinkerda recommended an event that will take place at 1 p.m. Sunday in Overland Park. Arnold Lustig, a Holocaust survivor, will discuss his experiences during a speech at the Jewish Community Center, 5801 115th Street.
Striwerda said the lessons learned from the Holocaust were valuable not only to his students but to everyone.
Later this month, Deborah Lipstadt, an expert on who deny that the Holocaust took place, will speak in Kansas City, Mo. The speech will take place at 7:30 p.m. April 28 at the Beth Shalom Synagogue, 9400 Wornal.
"I think the Holocaust is always important to remember, because it shows the ultimate consequence of prejudice and discrimination and hate," he said. "If we want to pay any kind of respect to all the victims of this immense tragedy, it would be to continue to remember them by combating prejudice."
Valerie Bontrager / KANSAN
GTA's baby 'enhances' education
Mary Rose-Shaffer, graduate teaching assistant, breast feeds her baby Hanna while showing a movie to her Western Civilization class. Rose-Shaffer brought her baby to class yesterday, as she does everyday.
Breast feeding, crying does not bother class
By Chris Doyle Special to the Kansan
When Mary Rose-Shaffer, graduate teaching assistant, breast feeds her 7-week-old daughter in front of students in her Western Civilization classes, she is enhancing her students' education, not distracting from it, she says.
"I wouldn't do it if it wasn't good for myself, my daughter and my students," she said. "They still get me, the teacher, and they get a view of the world that academia often ignores. Being a teacher is who I am, and being a mother is who I am — at" that time they dovetail."
The University does not have a policy on children in the classroom or breast feeding in class. Robert Shelton, University umbudsman, said those situations were for the students and the instructors to work out.
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"There might be very different views on how appropriate that is, but the only way that it would become an issue is if it was disruptive to someone or someone claimed it was unprofessional behavior." Shelton said.
Rose-Shaffer told her students during the first week of classes that once her baby was born, she would bring her to class. She said that she gave students an opportunity to voice any concerns or to change sections.
Now that Rose-Shaffer has returned to class, with her newborn in her arms, she has not received a single complaint from her students.
Ulvye Emirzade, Nikosia, Cyprus, senior, said the baby was quiet and slept most of the time.
"It hasn't been a distraction to this point," said Blake Reeves, Galena senior and a student in Rose-Shaffer's class. "I've been kind of surprised, but it hasn't taken away from the lecture."
"It doesnt bother me," she said. "It's fine as long as there are no distractions."
The baby fusses only when her diaper needs changing or is hungry, Rose-Shaffer said. When hunger calls during one of her classes, Rose-Shaffer pauses to begin breast feeding her daughter and then quickly continues on with the Western Civilization discussion.
"Students are aware of it, obviously, but no one has said anything," she said. "I've had some heads turn away, and that's fine."
Although she has academic power over her
students, Rose-Shaffer, in her third year of teaching at KU, said she hoped that her students were not intimidated and would speak out if they were distracted by a teacher's conduct in class.
"It's easy to work things out most of the time," she said. "I would try to find out what part of the process they're uncomfortable with, be sensitive to where they come from and educate them on what I was doing and why."
For Will Lewis, Topeka senior, the prospect of a baby in the classroom was reason enough for him to change sections. Lewis was in Rose-Shaffer's class the first day of the semester when she said she would bring her daughter to class once she was born.
"She should keep her professional life at KU and her home life at home," he said. "I think the baby would be better off if she or her husband staved at home with it."
"I don't care if she warns her students or not, I think it's wrong," Lewis said. "If you pay $900 a semester for tuition, you shouldn't have to worry about a kid crying in class."
Class member Shawna Hilleary, Overland Park senior, said she respected the fact that Rose-Shaffer played both the role of a mother and a teacher.
Rose-Shaffer, who also has a 2-year-old son who attends a day care service, said that her daughter was too young to be separated
from her and, because she breast fed, had to eat on demand.
"It puts women behind men in some ways, because they have to leave work to have kids," she said. "Women do need that opportunity to do both."
Hilleary said reactions to the situation would be different in a more traditional business office instead of the college environment, which she said was more liberal.
"You got to a law office and you have people wearing suits and ties and that's the atmosphere you have," she said. "They're going to expect you to be more conservative."
"The University is more flexible in most situations and with students as well," said class member Tracey Norris, Olathe junior. "We allowed to express ourselves more freely. The workplace seems to be more tight with things."
Rose-Shaffer said she was not depriving her students of any learning. "If I feel like I'm giving my students any less, I wouldn't be doing it," she said. "My teaching is too important to me."
Rape by friend or stranger results in same devastation
By Frank McCleary Kansan staff writer
Kansan staffwriter
A friendship can be shattered by a violent act.
An unwanted, unprovoked advance by a friend suddenly becomes more physical. The victim says no, but the attacker continues. The law is broken. A rape has been committed.
Acquaintance rape still is rape. But unlike stranger rape, the victim knows the attacker.
giving the victim knows the attacker. Susan Hickman, graduate assistant in the Emily Taylor's Women Resource Center, estimated that eighty to ninety percent of all rapes were acquaintance rapes.
Hickman also said many college students were in the highest risk group, women aged 18-24.
"There are a combination of factors that put the student at risk," she said.
Those factors include increased drinking and being sexually active.
Sarah Jane Russell, executive director of Rape Victim Survivor Services, said society had preconceived ideas about acquaintance rape.
"The perception is that it will not be as believable that it occurred by someone the victim knew," she said. "People might say, 'How could the victim let it happen?'
"Rape has nothing to do with how long you have known someone."
"The mythology that surrounds acquaintance rape is that you control what happens if you know someone.
Victims of acquaintance rape may suffer even more emotionally than victims of stranger rape. Russell said.
"My experience tells me that women who
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are raped by someone they know experience more intense feelings of self-blame, guilt and shame." she said.
Hickman said fear could be a devastating effect for victims.
"People who are raped by strangers become afraid of people they don't know," she said. "People who are raped by someone they know become afraid of people they know and people they don't know.
"The difference with acquaintance rape is that someone the victim knows has violated that implicit trust in a friendship."
Victims may not be more likely to report an acquaintance rape than a stranger rape, Russell said.
"I think there is a reluctance to report rapes, period." she said.
Arthur Thomas, associate director of Counseling and Psychological Services, said there were many reasons why rapes were not reported.
"Part of the reason is the victim's own feelings of responsibility," he said.
Rape victims regain control with police, support services
By Angelina Lopez
Kansan staff writer
During a rape, one of the worst aspects of the assault for rape victims is the loss of their sense of control.
During the reporting of the rape, however, Lawrence and KU police and local rapa support services focus on handing that sense of control back.
From the instant victims dial for help to the time when they decide if they will press charges, Lawrence officials leave the decisions in the hands of the victims.
"The help that police and rage support services provides does not obligate them to anything," said Susan Hickman, graduate assistant at the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center. "Instead, it gives them options."
KU police Sgt. Rose Rozmiazek said that KU police's primary concern was the safety of the rape victim. During the initial calls of any sexual assault, police give victims the options to speak to an officer of their sex, to come to the police station or be picked up, to go to the hospital and to be assisted by an advocate of the Douglas County Rape Victim Support Service.
Rape Victim Support Service provides information and support during the hospital, police and court processes that reported rape victims go through, said Sarah Jane Russell, executive director. The organization — which is sponsored by the United Way of Douglas County, Student Senate and private
"We work really not to say 'should' and 'ought to'." Russell said.
contributions — focuses on making sure that victims are not put in a position where they feel they have to do something, she said.
One area where the Rape Victim Support Service advocates are especially valuable, Russell said, is during the medical exams.
In order to gather evidence, a rape victim is examined by a nurse on duty. A kit called the Sexual Assault Evidence Collecting Kit is used, and the physical examination takes about two-and-a-half hours, Russell said.
After the physical exam, Russel said, the police usually ask more questions. She said she thought that KU police officers did their best to be sensitive.
Hair, saliva and blood samples are taken and vaginal and rectal examinations are done. Also, she said, extensive questions about the rape — such as if a condom was worn and whether the mouth, vagina or rectum were penetrated — are asked.
"But what the questions feel like, to the rape victim being asked, is that no one believes them," she said.
This doubt can lead to rape victims not wanting to press charges, Russel said.
Orzmiarek said the victims were not entitled to press charges, but she said she encouraged them to file a report.
"That way we are aware of the circumstances," she said. "If they decide to press charges later, after counseling, we've already got the report."
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