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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.103,NO.94
KANSAS STATE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA KS 66612
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2,1994
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Community stressed at celebration's open
Unity is key leaders say
Networking and reinvesting in the community is what will empower African-American organizations, a panel of three leaders said at the opening ceremonies of Black History Month last night.
By Denise Nell Kansan staff writer
Sherwood Thompson, director of the Office of Minority Affairs, introduces Ruby McDavis, the moderator of the event. From the left, panelists included John Butcher, founder of First Fridays; Sam Adams, associate professor of journalism; and Lisa Blair, coordinator for the Lawrence Alliance.
John Butcher, the founder of First Fridays in Kansas City, Kan.; Lisa Blair, coordinator for the Lawrence Alliance; and Sam Adams, associate professor of journalism, spoke to a crowd of about 30 people on the theme "Empowering Afro-American Organizations: Present and Future."
Butcher, who started First Fridays — a network for African-American business leaders to help each other — said he thought that the power in an organization came from successful people helping others get where they were.
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Blair, who heads the Lawrence Alliance — an anti-racism organization — said that the African-American community needed to reinvest in African-American organizations.
"You need to look at what you have — what you've done for yourself, what you have done to progress and when you do get there, what you can do to reach back and pull somebody else up," he said.
"It was our blood, our sweat and our tears that made this nation, but we're the only group that doesn't have a foothold in the U.S. today," Blair said. "You can't forget your history. Your history is what put you where you are
today, and it's going to put you where you'll be tomorrow.
"A lot of what they said was true," he said. "We need to stop isolating ourselves and come together."
But Jeff Johnson, senior vice president for external affairs and membership development for the University of Kansas Alumni Association, said he didn't necessarily agree that empowering African-American organizations would solve problems of disunity.
"I don't believe you're doing something wrong if you go do your own thing," he said when the panel took questions at the meeting's end. "We have so many black organizations, we don't know what we stand for. When you're talking about empowerment, mainstreaming is not a bad idea." Brandon Sanders, Los Angeles senior, said he agreed with Butcher and Blair.
Lobbyist to address U.S. role in African crisis
Kansan staff report
As part of a national speaking tour for Black History Month, Green will speak on the current crisis in the democratization process in Zaire and
Deborah Green, a Washington lobbyist for African Democracy, will speak on "Building a U.S. Constituency for Africa" at 4 p.m. today at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
on the role of U.S. citizens in lobbying for pro-democratic U.S. foreign policy.
Zaire has been governed by a dictatorship under Mobutu Sese Seko for the last 20 years. In 1992, opposition leaders voted Etienne Tshisekedi prime minister to head a transitional government until the first free democratic elections in 26 years are held. Mobutu has refused to recognize Tshisekedi by appointing his own prime minister.
Upcoming events
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**Lecture:** "Building a U.S. Constituency for Africa." 4:5-30 p.m. Adelson Auditorium, Kansas Union. Deborah Green, lobbyist for human rights in Africa, will discuss U.S. policy toward Africa.
**Lecture:** "Women of Color: Self Image." 7-9 tonight, Pine Room, Kansas Union. The Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center will lead a discussion on self-esteem.
**Film:** "Menen II Society." 7 onight.
Kansas Union. $2.50 with KUIF. Kilm will be presented through Thursday.
*Thursday*
Forum: "The Black Church Today" 7 p.m., Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
**Dialogue:** "Multiculturalism and Diversity; Bridging the Differences." 7 p.m., Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union.
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Women instructed in self-defense
■ Film: "Poetic Justice." 7 p.m., Kansas Union. $2.50 with KUID.
Leigh Livingston-Kashiwaya, Lawrence resident, throws Chris Jones, Lawrence junior, to the mat at the combative sports center in Rounson Center. Livingston-Kashiwaya is a black belt in KAIkido and is teaching a women's self-defense course.
By Denise Neil
Kansan staff writer
At least 2.5 million women are victims of violent crimes each year, a Justice Department study released Sunday said.
Of those women, 23 percent who resisted a rape, a robbery or an assault by fighting back said that self-protective behavior had not helped their situation.
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Leigh Livingston-Kashiwaya, Lawrence resident, said that statistics such as these had inspired her to put her six years of training in the martial art Ki Akido into teaching a seven-week self-defense class, called Safe Women.
"Sometimes women in college seem to come from small towns, and since they are involved with college, they have other things on their minds," Livingston-Kashiwaya said. "They seem not to take safety or the possibility of assault as a high priority."
Livingston-Kashiwaya, who has a black belt in Ki Akikido, said her original plan had been to start teaching women the art of Ki Akikido as part of the Ki Society at the University. She approached Barbara Ballard, director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, with the idea, and the two discussed the need for a women's self-defense course on campus.
Ballard said there had not been a course in women's self-defense offered at the University this year. She suggested to Livingston-Kashiwaya that she alter her program to teach women self-defense.
"Some people believe in defense," Ballard said. "Some don't. Some believe education is the key."
Livingston-Kashiwaya said she researched problems faced by women on college campuses. Acquaintance rape, she said, is one of the biggest problems faced by college-age women.
Cindy Alliss, the community education and media officer for the KU police, said that no rapes had been reported at the University in 1983 and that only one had been reported in 1992. But these low numbers
are not necessarily representative of what is happening, she said. Many rapes, especially those by acquaintances, go unreported.
The Justice Department study estimated an annual total of 133,000 rapes in the United States. It found that women attacked by someone they knew were injured 59 percent of the time. However, women attacked by strangers were injured 27 percent of the time.
The data in the report came from 400,000 individual interviews from 1987 to 1991 with a nationally representative sample of women in the Bureau of Justice Statistics' National Crime Victimization Survey.
Livingston-Kashiwaya said her course would focus on ways women could get themselves out of situations in which acquaintance rape may be a danger. She will demonstrate voice-control methods as well as some simple wrist locks and arm bars.
ingston-Kashiwaya said. "This starts early on when women are deciding 'Is this the type of person I want to be alone with or go out with?'
"I want to help women understand the nature of acquaintance rape so they know what they can do to help prevent that." Liv-
Livingston-Kashiwaya said that KI Aikido focused on gaining a spiritual and mental edge. The women in the course will be taught about what is going on around them, she said.
"Times are changing," she said. "Women want to know how they can be more in control of their own space."
Fighting back
What: Safe Women, a self-defense class for University women.
When: Sundays from 1 to 3 p.m. in the lobby of Olive Hall, starting sunday.
Where: Registration forms are at Oliver Hall.
How much: $30
Women enrolled in the course will be permitted to use the practice facilities of the Ki Akii club in Robinson Center.
The Associated Press contributed Information to this story.
KANSAN
Tough Blow
Punches are thrown at Robert Revere's place, but nobody calls the police. Young people go to the White Eagle Boxing Club to find self-discipline. Page 5.
Watkins bill delayed for consideration
Kansan staff report
The Watkins Memorial Health Center expansion bill probably will not be considered by the full Student Senate until its Feb. 16 meeting, said its sponsor.
Tonya Cole, Liberal Arts and Sciences senator and head of the Student Health Advisory Board, said she intended to make a motion to table the bill if it was placed on the agenda at tonight's meeting. The motion would have to be approved by a majority vote in the Senate.
The delay would allow Senate to consider a proposal to raise student fees to finance women's and non-revenue athletics, Cole said.
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Phil's forecast
This meteorologist can predict six more weeks of winter or signs of a warm sun merely by looking at what he casts on the ground. The trouble is, he only makes his prediction once a year.
Fortunately for us, today is the day. Groundhog Day. Phil, a Punx-sutawney. Pa., groundhog, will pop his head out of his hole. If he
sees his shadow, legend has it that six more weeks of winter are ahead.
If today's forecast for Punx-sutawney holds up, a warmer sun surely will start to shine. It calls for cloudy weather most of the day, with a high of 10 degrees, according to the Punxsutawney Spirit.
State senators tell Regents to trim budgets
Legislators question requests for increases in faculty salaries
By Stephen Martino
Kansan staff writer
There might be a little fat in the Board of Regents system, and some state senators seemed to be reaching for their carving knives to take it out.
Higher-education leaders met before the Senate Ways and Means subcommittee on System-Wide Issues on Monday to discuss the Regents budget proposal for fiscal year 1995.
The Regents requested a total of $1.1 billion, but the governor's recommendation was $11.8 million less for the institutions. This still represents a 6.2 percent increase from last year's budget.
A key component of that budget is the Partnership for Excellence, a Regents-supported plan to increase faculty salaries to 100 percent of peer-school levels. The plan would increase tuition rates and increase state support from the general fund.
Chancellor Gene Budig and Jon Wefald, president of Kansas State University, were both present to advocate the partnership. They both said that Regents faculty worked harder for less and that the state ran the risk of missing outstanding faculty members if it did not increase its wages.
However, some senators pressed the Regents about its long-term mission and what had been done in the past to save money at the universities.
State Sen. August Bogina, R-Shawnee and head of the Ways and Means Committee, questioned Budig about what had happened to savings made through program review and why those savings were not transferred to increase faculty salaries.
Budig said that legislative leaders had asked Regents universities to be innovative and that program review worked toward that goal. He said that from 17 to 20 faculty positions would be transferred to other areas within the University.
Bogina asked why those positions were not eliminated and the savings given to increase faculty salaries.
Budig said that there were certain areas within the University that needed attention immediately — hence the transfers.
State Sen. Dave Kerr, R-Hutchinson, next in the line of questioning, asked if emphasis on higher education was really needed for future jobs. He cited a study from Charles Krider, University professor of business, that said only 28 to 30 percent of the future work force would need a college degree.
"Well, I certainly did not understand the program review process," Bogina said.
"I feel like we've done what you asked us to," Budig said.
Kerr said he wondered whether money spent on higher education would serve the state's best purpose.
"We are allocating more money to higher education when studies show only 20 percent of the future work force will need a college degree," he said.
State Sen. Robert Vancrum, R-Overland Park, said that the Regents might be more efficient with fewer members.
"Part of the problem is we have too many institutions in Kansas," Vancrum said. "If the Regents aren't going to take on the problem of too many universities, who is?"
Regent John Montgomery said that was a political question that the Legislature would have to address if it so decided.
Vancrum said that a task force might be needed to suggest changes to the Regents system.