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CAMPUS/AREA: Growth at Haskell brings up new issues for the school's Board of Regents. Page 3.
THE UNIVERSITY DAIL KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
KANSAS STATE
HISTORICAL, SOCIETY
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VOL.103.NO.85
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MONDAY JANUARY 24,1994
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Wendy Gustafson, Austin Tex., sophomore, Trac Dalrymple, Overland Park junior, and Greg Windholz, Lawrence resident, gesture in frustration at the City Chiefs' performance in their defeat to the Buffalo Bills. The Yacht Club, 530 Wisconsin, was host to many Chiefs fans Sunday.
Chiefs fans hurt by Bills' stampede
Thrill of Super Bowl is gone without Kansas City in game
By Cheryl Cadue Kansan staff writer
The Kansas City Chiefs' 30-13 defeat to the Buffalo Bills left many fans who watched the game at local bars crying in their beer.
"They should fire Marty Schottenheimer," Jason Stafford, Overland Park senior, said. "He will never take us to the Super Bowl. I was not at all happy. The defense did not show up.
For many fans, the Chiefs' defense was to blame for the loss.
"I was very disappointed after a long, hard season, but in lieu of it all, I was pleased with the overall season," he said.
"Defense is what wins football games," Tucker Trotter, Overland Park junior, said. "The momentum wasn't there for the Chiefs and neither was the defense."
Chad Stafford, Overland Park junior, said that the Chiefs' defense had been inconsistent all year and that it was off for Sunday's game.
Bryan Butell, Baldwin City senior, said he only had been a Kansas City fan for about three weeks but was still upset about the defeat.
"I had a lot of fun watching the Chiefs, but to lose the last game of the year is a sign of a bad team," Butell said.
Burt Hailu, Racine, Wis., senior, said he was not upset at the Chief's defeat because he had never been a fan of the team.
"I'm not a Chiefs fan, but all my friends are," Haigh said. "I feel bad for my friends, but there are more important things to be upset about."
Joe Montana, despite playing in four Super Bills, was no match for the Buffalo Bills' defense. Page 6.
While many people spent yesterday afternoon in front of the television, some Lawrence residents were unaffected by Chief's mania. Page 7.
Many fans that crowded bars and restaurants said it was the success of the home team that caused them to watch the game. Page 7.
Game coverage Page 7.
Mike Hansen, Lenexa junior, said he was not looking forward to another Super Bowl that involved the Buffalo Bills.
"The Bills are going to get destroyed in the Super Bowl. It's too bad the Chiefs lost, but it's also too bad the Bills are going to be denied for the fourth straight year," Hansen said.
"I remember the bad years," Slade Dillon, Baldwin City senior, said. "This has been the best year for the Chiefs in my lifetime. This is excellent compared to how it used to be."
Some fans said they enjoyed the season even though the Chiefs did not reach the Super Bowl.
Count Wallace, Lawrence resident, said he would not watch the Super Bowl because the Chiefs would not be playing.
Bobbitt's insanity makes sense to some
KU students react differently to jury's verdict of not guilty By Jamie Munn Kansan staff writer
KU students and faculty reacted with mixed opinions to a jury's accretion of Lorena Robbitts.
Bobbitt was charged with malicious wounding after she cut off her husband's penis. She was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
Barbara Ballard, director of the Emily Taylor Resource Center and associate dean of student life, said she was not surprised by the decision because the defense worked so hard to show that Bobbitt was temporarily insane.
However, Ballard said she thought the acquaintance was not exactly a victory for Bobbitt. "She's not free," Ballard said, citing Bobbitt's immediate committal to Central State Hospital in Petersburg, Va.
"She'd have to be under an emotional trauma to perform that act." Ballard said.
Ballard said she was upset that this trial, with its
sensational coverage and endless supply for comic material, had eclipsed the basic issue of women who live in abusive situations.
"Because of continued abuse or violence, people can be driven to this point," she said.
Ballard said she thought this case would not prompt a significant increase in trials that use the battered women's defense. At the least, she said, this trial would help awaken society to the kinds of conditions under which abused women, and sometimes men, live.
"It is unfortunate for society that it takes this kind of case to bring this out." Ballard said.
KU students, even those who had not followed the two-week trial closely, were divided about the case's outcome.
Brian Christian, Detroit senior, said he disagreed with the verdict because he thought Bobbitt should have left her husband. John Bobbitt
"Two wrongs don't make a right," Christian said. "In ruling in favor of her, it lets the public know that just because you have an excuse, you can break the law."
Catlin O'Keefe, Chicago freshman, said she thought that John Bobbitt was innocent and that his
wife's actions should have been punished.
"You can't take that away from anybody," O'Keefe said of John Bobbitt's injury. "That's worse than killing them."
Other students were surprised by the verdict for different reasons.
Robert Dipaling, Topeka senior, said he had thought Bobbitt would be found guilty because John Bobbitt had been acquitted of rape charges. Bobbitt claimed her husband had raped her on the evening she attacked him.
"I was impressed with her defense," Dipaling said.
"It had looked pretty grim for her."
Dipaling said Bobbitt's attack could have been seen as an overreaction since the rape charges had been dropped.
Jury's still out on the effect of Bobbitt verdicts
Rebecca Hughey, Wichita sophomore, said she was not especially surroused by the verdict.
"In a marriage like that, any kind of counseling would have been needed," she said. Hughey said she thought Bobbitt had been repressed and that counseling would help her.
"If it's going to help her deal with it, it's a good thing." she said.
By Anne Gearan
The Associated Press
MANASSAS, Va. — Eleven days of testimony. More than 40 witnesses. Hundreds of reporters. Two trials. Two juries. Two acquittals.
So what was accomplished in the cases of John and Lorena Bobbitt?
"The Bobbitts broke the pen barrier," said Paul Rothstein, a law professor at Georgetown University and a close observer of the Bobbitt trials.
"In many ways it has brought the
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penis out in the open to be talked about, and maybe that's good that sexual taboos are broken down," he said, but warned, "There is the threat this may be considered license to evade personal responsibility."
To many, though, the crimes and punishments in the Bobbitt bedroom constituted a sort of rough justice. Prosecutor Paul Ebert acknowledged as much in closing arguments Thursday, while cautioning against it. "The
easy thing to do in this case is to say these people deserve each other," he said. "He rapes her, she cuts him."
John Bobbitt may have committed the litany of batterings and cruelties Lorena Bobbitt detailed, but he couldn't be charged with them, Ebert said. Bobbitt was charged with assaulting her in the early hours of June 23, the night she cut off his penis.
In Lorena Bobbitt's case, she admitted her crime but said the years of sexual and physical abuse drove her to it. She pleaded not guilty. Most of her
trial focused not on the crime but on the details of a bad marriage.
The cases were strange enough to draw massive public attention, but legal experts disagree on whether they broke new ground or simply provided an excuse for voyeurism.
"I don't think that this is going to be a major precedent-setting case," said Virginia Hench, law professor at the University of Hawaii. "I think the two respective juries thought this was a case where both parties had suffered a lot of abuse."
Marching, marking the anniversary
Francie Costello, of Lawrence, holds the hand of her son, Jacob, who is carried by his father Tom. Lawrence Kansan For Life organized a march Saturday down Massachusetts Street to voice their opposition to the Roe v. Wade verdict. Saturday marked the verdict's 21st anniversary. See story Page 3.
No.1 in the Big Eight
The No.8 Kansas women's basketball team defeated Oklahoma State 79-68 yesterday in Allen Field House. The Jayhawks are first in the Big Eight Conference.
County AIDS Project to get student money
By Heather Moore Kansan staff writer
Student Senate votes to support organization
Until the Douglas County AIDS Project was started six years ago, people infected with HIV often were left in financial and emotional turmoil without any help.
Money, however, is a problem for the organization. It received $10,000 from the United Way of Douglas County this year, which was less than needed. United Way did not meet its own funding goal this fall, so it was unable to appropriate the amount the Douglas County AIDS Project requested.
The Student Senate came to the rescue for the organization and allocated $3,260 from its coffers for the project.
The money will be used for the production of anewletter for educational presentations.
The Douglas County AIDS Project hasn't received state funding because Kansas has little money, and most of that goes to the larger communities. Federal funding is not available because to receive it, an organization must release the names of the people who are infected with HIV.
Rose Rousseau, director of the organization, said half of the group's mission statement was to provide educational programs.
"We provide slides, lectures and speakers who offer personal perspectives." she said.
Some conflict surrounded the bill, however. A few senators said they felt the Douglas County AIDS Project duplicated the work of Center for Sexual Health at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
Rousseau said that Watkins and Douglas County AIDS project each had different areas of concentration.
Shanda Vangas, holdover senator, a representative to the university council, said she thought the Douglas County AIDS Project did not imitate the services of the Center for Sexual Health.
"Our area is understanding and compassion," she said. "We try to analyze why people fear being around people with AIDS."
"The main focus of Douglas County AIDS Project is to help those that are HIV positive, and to do this you have to end discrimination," she said.
Michael Moyer, off-campus senator, said he was concerned because the Douglas
Vangas, who sponsored the bill, said the Center for Sexual Health and Douglas County AIDS project complemented each other.
"The Center for Sexual Health is primarily for education and prevention," she said. "They do not assist those with HIV. Douglas County AIDS Project provides life-sustaining services and education to KU students."
County AIDS Project did not qualify as a student organization.
"In order to be a student organization, all of your officers have to be students, and 75 percent of your members have to be students or university-related," he said. "They can receive money from Student Senate, but not this way."
Patrick Eagleman, All-Scholarship Hall Council senator, said senators should remember whose money would be spent. Eagleman said giving money to Douglas County AIDS Project would affect 50,000 other people in the Lawrence area, not students.
"The issue is not whether Douglas County AIDS Project is a worthy project," he said. "The issue is whether this is in the scope of Student Senate. I would like to remind you that it's not our money personally. It's for all the 28,000 students who contribute to KU, and we need to keep that into perspective and keep in mind what they would wish us to do with this."