University Daily Kansan, February 20, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA News briefs from staff and wire reports Justice O'Connor to deliver Vickers lecture on March 5
The first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, Sandra Day O'Connor will speak at 8 p.m. March 5 in Hoch Auditorium at the University of Kansas.
President Reagan nominated O'Connor to the nation's highest court in 1981 while she was a judge with the Arizona Court of Appeals.
O'Connor was elected judge for the Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Ariz., in 1975 and served until 1979. She was Arizona's assistant attorney general from 1965 until her appointment as state senator in 1969. Voters elected her to two more two-year terms. She was chosen as majority leader of the Arizona Senate in 1972.
O'Connor's speech is part of the J.A. Vickers Sr. Memorial Lecture Series, established in 1970 by the Vickers family of Wichita in honor of the founder of Vickers Petroleum Co.
The topic of O'Connor's speech has not been announced
Ad director to speak at symposium
Don Troussell, creative director for the McDonald & Little Advertising Agency of Atlanta, will speak at p. 6 in. 3140 Wesco Hall.
Trousdell has received more than 500 regional and national awards, including three gold medals from the New York Art Directors' Show.
including three gold medals he received. He is the third speaker in his Hallmark Symposium Series, presented by the department of design.
A question and answer session will follow the free presentation. Posters designed by Trousdell will be available.
KU astronomy series begins tonight
The first part of a three/part astronomy lecture and film series begins at 7:30 tenure in the Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
The film "The Starry Messenger" will be followed by a lecture by Bruce Twarog, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, titled "Eric von Daniken: Charlatan of the Gods."
The second film, to be shown at 7:30 p.m. March 21, is the "Music of the Spheres." Stanley Lombardo, associate professor of classics, will give a lecture titled "Sing Heavenly Muse."
The last film, "The Invisible Universe," will be shown at 7:30 p.m. April 9. "Stars that Boom in the Night," a lecture by Summer Starfield, professor of astronomy at Arizona State University, will follow.
Admission to the first two parts of the series is $1. The third is free.
ON THE RECORD
THREE LAWRENCE STORES, Arbuthnot's Hallmark Card and Gift Shop, the American Telephone and Telegraph Phone Center and Barrand Retail Liquor, all in the Southwest Plaza Shopping Center at 23rd and Iowa streets, were burglarized early Friday morning or late Thursday night, Lawrence police said. The stores are connected and entrance was gained through the ventilation shaft for Arbuthnot's Hallmark Card and Gift Shop, police said. The manager of the card shop reported no theft, but Barrard Retail Liquor reported theft of cash and merchandise worth $1,565. The manager of the AT&T Phone Center reported that $84 in cash was taken from the store along with $869 worth of merchandise, police said. Police have no suspects.
THE HAWK'S CROSSING, 618 W. 12th St., reported that a $300 neon clock was stolen early Friday morning from its hanging place on the front of the tavern, Lawrence police said. Police have no suspects.
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City to delay debating St. Lawrence plan
By SHARON BODIN Staff Reporter
Mayor David Longhurst said yesterday that the Lawrence City Commission would postpone for a week consideration of a St. Lawrence Catholic Center request with a church center to his student center at Crescent and Enuel roads.
But the two groups negotiating the issue — the Crescent-Engel Neighborhood Association and the Catholic Center — still have work to do before the commission discusses the site plan, Longhurst said.
The issue had been scheduled for consideration at tomorrow's commission meeting at City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
"THEY HAD to get it on the agenda in the event they could work something out," he said. "I think it was a mutual decision, but I think the neighbors felt more strongly about waiting another week."
Since November, the two groups have been at odds about the Catholic Center's proposal for building a church complex in the Crescent-Engel neighborhood. Opponents of the plan have argued that the church would be too large for a residential area, a complaint that Catholic Center officials disputed.
The Rev. Bill Porter, who works at the center, said, "The neighbors aren't ready for it to be discussed, and I don't think we really are either.
Representatives of the center and the neighborhood association met Friday to solve any differences, Longhurst said, but they did not make enough progress to be prepared for discussions tomorrow.
"I THINK EVERYONE would really like to see this thing be resolved. It would be nice if it could be sooner, but I don't think it's impossible to get it ready before Feb. 28."
In other action, the commission will:
· review and consider a document that asks for proposals from private firms for improving the terminal at the Lawrence Municipal Airport. Last week commissioners asked City Manager Buford Watson to prepare the report.
The center's revised site plan provides for a church with about 400 seat. The church is located at 516 Broadway.
THE COMMISSION discussed the site plan Feb. 7 and deferred it three weeks, but officials with the Catholic Center wanted the plan placed on an easement that would protect natives for the center will be out of town for the Feb. 28 commission meeting.
chapel, the Rev. Vincent Krische, a director of the center, said last week
In other action, the commission will:
*consider a resolution for improvements along 15th Street, between Haskell Avenue and Cadet Street. Last week the commission approved financing for part of the project, between Haskell Avenue and Brook Street.
At tomorrow's meeting, which begins at 7 p.m., the City Commission will discuss a plan for the J.C. Penney Co. Inc. store in the former Montgomery Ward & Co. building at 23rd and Ousdahl streets.
*consider agreements with the Douglas County Commission to improve 31st street between Iowa Street and Kasold Drive and to maintain bridges over the Kansas River on Massachusetts and Vermont streets.
Longhurst said he thought the commission would approve the site plan with changes recommended by the city's planning staff.
The planning staff recommended additional landscaping along 23rd Street and more bicycle parking. City planners suggested that ramps for handcapped customers be provided on sidewalks and also decided to install in the resulting lot should be screened so that it will not glare onto adjacent streets.
*consider increasing the merchant police license fee from $25 to $50. Merchant police are licensed security guards who work for private security firms and are local businesses. The item was deferred from last week's commission meeting.
By MARY SEXTON Staff Reporter
GLSOK fighting for classification as minority
Although homosexuals do not constitute a majority of the KU student population, they should not be considered a minority, two members of the Student Senate Minority Affairs Committee said yesterday.
Staff Reporter
But Ruth Lichtwardt, president of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, disagreed, and said yesterday that homosexuals should be entitled to services that the committee provided for other minorities.
The controversy comes in the aftermath of a month-long dispute over whether homosexuals should be included in the dictionary's definition of "humority" students.
THE COMMITTEE intends to decide the matter at its Feb. 29 meeting.
Kevin Harrison, co-chairman of the committee, and Janine Woods, a student senator and a member of the committee, said that homosexuals
should take their complaints to the Student Rights Committee because all the issues addressed in the GLOSK are handled with individual rights, not group rights.
Woods said, "No one is against their rights being secured, and indeed they are discriminated against, but they are still protected as regards to the proper committee," she said.
However, Jeff Polack, chairman of the Student Rights Committee, said the issue should not be handled by his committee.
"AS FAR AS the battle for classification of minority, that belongs in the Minority Affairs Committee," he said. "But if they can prove that they have some kind of interest in the Minority Affairs Committee, then as a group, we can do something for them."
Lichtward maintains that homosexuals are discriminated against as a group, however, and should be represented by the committee.
"If we had a big problem," she said,
"Minority Affairs Committee could go
to bat for us. If we were in there, we could educate people about what it means to be a gay or a lesbian."
Woods said that she didn't think students should be able to complain to the Minority Affairs Committee based on sexual preferences.
"IT DOESN'T MATTER what color you are if it's your desire to talk to the Minority Affairs Committee on a basis of sexual preference," she said. "We should not be able to hear their complaints."
The purpose of the committee, she said, was to help people who did not have a choice about their race, sex or physical capabilities.
"These people choose their sexual preference. Minorities don't choose to be a minority, but these people do," she said.
For example, she said, a black person can't stop being black, and a handicapped person does not choose to be handicapped, she said.
However, Lichtwardt said that homosexuals did not choose their way of life
SEXUAL ORIENTATION is something that is decided possibly by the age of 16 months, probably by the age of 20 and definitely by the age of six, she said.
"There are no studies that prove that once an adult, gays choose to be gay," she said. "The disadvantages of being gay are: — who would choose the lifestyle?"
Russ Ptacek, also a co-chairman of the committee, said that the definition would probably be broadened to include pressures of pressure that not be expanded because of pressures.
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"The committee is uniting to come up with a general definition and focus which will unite all minorities. Regardless of anyone's methods or anties, we are going to decide a definition for 'minority' fairly and justly."
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