University Daily Kansan, February 18, 1983
Speaker advises on relationships
By ANNE FITZGERALD Staff Reporter
People involved in either gay or heterosexual relationships should strive for a healthy mixture of independence and dependence, a sex life that is free from coercion, and Lesbian Services last night in the Kansas Union's International Room.
Dennis Dailey, professor of social welfare, told the gathering of about 30 people that he usually considered the quality of a relationship before he dealt with whether it was homosexual or heterosexual.
but he also said that understanding differences between the two types of relationships was crucial.
DAILEY SAID that no research on those differences existed 20 years ago, when he worked as the senior case worker at Family Services of St. Paul.
In the intervening years he has conducted his own research and developed three categories for relationships, he said.
The first involves two people bonded by their dependency on each other. Dalley said society exerted tremendous pressure on people to relate in that way, and that as a result, a large majority of heterosexual relationships, perhaps as much as 80 percent, fell into that category.
Because the notion of dependency was less characteristic of gay and
lesbian relationships, Dailey said, a smaller percentage fit into that category.
The second category involved two individuals whose relationship hinged on their autonomy, which Dailey attributed to cultural homophobia, or fear of homosexuals. Dailey said that more gays and lesbians than heterosexuals were driven to relate in a way that caused emotional distance.
"IN THIS CATEGORY, sameness is not tolerated and differences or disagreement are encouraged," Dailey said.
the third type of relationship, which Dalley considered the most open and positive, involved two people who retained their individual characteristics but could compromise when necessary.
Dailey said that only in the last five to seven years had good research into gay and lesbian relationships been done. As recently as 15 years ago, they were primarily viewed as mentally ill, he said.
Asked whether the increase in good research would diminish society's homophobia, Dallery said, "Hell no."
He drew an analogy to civil rights and how difficult it had been for black students. "In our country, the
Dailey said that time, careful research and the efforts of concerned individuals might improve life for homosexuals, but he said that it would require more time than his own lifetime.
East Lawrence zoning change contested by 53 landowners
Some property owners in East Lawrence have filed suit in Douglas County District Court in an effort to force county zoning change in their neighborhood.
The Lawrence City Commission last month rezoned the area, between Ninth and 15th streets and the alley behind Connecticut Street and the Santa Fe railroad tracks, from multi-family, two- and industrial use, to single family.
The 53 property owners want to see the area, which numbers more than 500 rooms.
downzoning because you're bound to
downsomebody," he said.
Richard Kershenbaum, a member of the East Lawrence Improvement Association, said that he was not surprised about the lawsuit but that he did not think the commission's decision would be overturned.
"I DON'T BELIEVE in massive
City Commissioner Don Binns, who along with Barkley Clark voted against the change, said yesterday that he thought the landowners would win their
The association requested the change last summer because the area was predominately single family and was not zoned properly, Kershenbaum said.
He said that before the rezoning, the area was being hurt because some single family houses in the area were converted into apartment houses.
The Lawrence-Douglas County planning staff voted against recommending the zone change twice last fall.
A young couple takes a leisurely stroll on top of the levee that runs along the Kansas River in North Lawrence.
Tampons not only cause of TSS, specialist says
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - 15 percent of the toxic shock syndrome cases now being reported occur in males and females of all ages and have nothing to do with women's use of tampons, a federal health specialist said yesterday.
Arthur L. Reingold of the national Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta said it is now known the disease, primarily linked to menstruation and tampon use two years ago, can occur in a natural sitting and even show up in babies.
He reported in the Feb. 18 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association that cases had been assocel
ated with surgical wound infections, deep and superficial abscesses, infected burns, abrasions, insect bites, shingles and a number of other conditions.
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IN ADDITION, Reingold said approximately 30 cases of toxic shock syndrome — called TSS — had been reported in women who had just delivered babies, either vaginally or by caesarean section. He said the cases were associated with vaginal infections or breast inflammation.
or breeds mild. Reingold, discussing the disease in an editorial accompanying a report of a case in a man, said there also was evidence suggesting the Staphylococcus aureus bacteria that cause
jacobson said: chills, fever, low blood pressure, muscle aches, a rash followed by peeling on his hands and feet, and abnormal functioning of his heart, kidneys and liver.
the syndrome could infect newborn babies and result in "neonatal TSS."
Reingold said all physicians should be aware of the signs and symptoms of toxic shock syndrome and be aware "that it can occur in any clinical setting in patients of any age, race and sex."
"Approximately 15 percent of the TSS cases being reported to the Centers for Disease Control are unrelated to menstruation and tampon use." he
Jay A. Jacobson, a physician in Salt Lake City, reported the case of toxic shock syndrome in a 30-year-old man hospitalized in November 1981.
Staphylococcus aureus bacteria were obtained from shingles sores on his back The patient was treated with antibiotics and caused from the hospital in six days.
THE MAN SUFFERED all of the effects characteristic of the disease.
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Jacobson said it generally was believed that toxic shock syndrome was caused by a toxin from the bacteria. The how the toxin works is unclear, but he said this case suggested the “remarkable potency” of the toxin because the back wounds could not have contained a large number of bacteria.
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THE SOCILOGY DEPARTMENT will have a lecture, "Order in the Public School District," at 3:30 p.m. in 796 Fraser Hall.
THE BIOLOGY CLUB will meet at 4 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the Kansas Union
TODAY
THE ARMAMBEE will have a Bible study at 7 p.m. in the Lewis Hall fireplace room.
THE BLACK STUDENT UNION needs responses to its student poll brought to the candy counter in the Union.
KU to propose cutbacks in conservation budget
Low bids and a federal grant have allowed the University of Kansas to cut by more than half its budget requests for energy conservation projects, Allen Wiechert, University director of facilities planning, said yesterday.
At KU, scholarship recipients must pass 12 hours with a 1.0 average their first semester to keep receiving financial aid. The minimum grade average increases for each successive semester.
SUNDAY
The Board of Regents today will decide on a proposal, recommended by Chancellor Gene A. Budig, to cut KU's fiscal year 1984 budget request for energy conservation projects from $1,130,000 to $454,000.
SUNDAY
THE SUNDAY SUPPER at 5:30
GERALD BERGEN, Board of Regents financial aid director, said the cut was necessary because federal money, which financed most of the program, had been reduced by $18,510 this year to $64,438 for the next school year.
I previously, state scholars were required to meet the minimum academic standards that each school had set. We also had recipients to keep their scholarships.
pam, at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center will be followed by Pat Bickford speaking about "A Geologist's View of Genesis 1."
THE KU THEATRE DEPARTMENT will have auditions for Anton Cheokin's "The Sea Gull" and the spring "Pot Pourier Productions" at 7 p.m. in the University Theatre. Students wishing to audition should sign up from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Murphy Hall lobby.
PARENTING FOR PEACE and Justice Seminar will discuss "Helping Children Deal with Violence in Our World" at 7 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center.
MONDAY
Wiechert said bids for installing insulation in steam pipes at the KU power plant were lower than expected, but they could cut back on its original request.
Larson said the weather did not cause extensive shortages but did deplete reserves. If an emergency caused an unusually high demand for blood, the
A $100,000 Department of Energy grant, which supplemented the this year's state allocation of nearly 25 percent under the lower request possible, he said.
However, Bergen said, if the Legislature decides to make up the federal government grant, reducing the scholarships would not be necessary.
IN ADDITION, the University decided it did not need all of the cost-reduction measures mentioned in the Vitron study, a report on KU energy use completed in October 1981, Wiechert said. The study had recommended insulating steam pipes in the University power plant.
During their meeting, the Regents voted to reduce the maximum stipend awarded in the state scholar program.
Beginning next year, state scholars will receive no more than $300 a year, down from the current $500. To retain students, the state has to have to pay an a.2, a.4 shade point average.
"This is the first time in years that snow has stopped deliveries to some of our hospitals." she said.
State scholarships are awarded to Kansas high school seniors on academic merit and financial need. Currently, 2,373 students at Kansas public and private colleges receive the scholarships.
Roger Bond, supervisor of the Lawrence Memorial Hospital blood bank, said the weather had not affected the hospital.
Despite advancements in blood preservation, the weather has caused shortages in some Kansas hospitals, a spokesman for the American Red Cross said yesterday.
Kaylen Larson, a spokesman for the Red Cross in Wichita, which delivers blood to Douglas County hospitals, said that in western Kansas, bloodmobiles could not get through the snow, so he airlifted blood to the hospitals.
Snow causes shortages in hospital blood stock
Cook said distribution firms exchanged blood at hospitals every two weeks and took the old blood to busier places, where it would be used more quickly.
The Med Center uses about 900 units a year and keeps about 150 units in stock, she said. A unit holds a little more than a pint.
shortages could have been serious, she said.
The supervisor of the Med Center's blood bank said demand for blood had been about normal, but such blood types were not available. The common ones were hard to keep in stock.
Adenine extends the shelf life of whole blood from 21 to 35 days, she said.
HOWEVER, SHE said that hospitals could go longer without new blood than they did a few years ago because of the addition of adenine to an anticoagulant.
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