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University Daily Kansan, October 8, 1981
Official outlines risks of no policy
By SHARON APPELBAUM Staff Reporter
Universities without sexual harassment policies run the risk of being sued, an administrator from Kansas City at Kansas City said yesterday.
"A student who is harassed will file suit not only against the faculty member but against the institution," Joan Sherwood, assistant vice president of student affairs at UMKC, told 30 people at the University Forum.
"It has to do with the deep pocket theory," she said. "The University has more money than the faculty."
Sherwood, who last year was the KU assistant vice chancellor for student affairs, recently attended a workshop in Denver that dealt with sexual harassment policies governing students and faculty.
A proper procedure would allow students to use University channels
to complain of harassment instead of using the courts, she said.
In addition, she said, such a policy would show faculty and students how to behave.
A subcommittee for the University Senate executive committee has been working on drafts for two KU policies, one for employers and employees, and one for faculty and students.
Shirley Harkess, SenEx member and chairman of the committee, said the draft had been submitted to the department chairman, and some student organizations.
Sherwood spoke of what she considered a model policy from the University of Missouri at Columbia.
She said she preferred a single policy instead of the separate drafts the University was circulating.
The MU policy defined sexual harassment as the use of authority to make someone submit to a sexual act or to cause that person to fear
punishment if the proposition were refused. Those acts include overt sexual acts and sexual behavior.
After the speech, administrators from the office of minority affairs and the Emily Taylor Women's Resource and Career Center said they were because students had come to them to complain of harassment.
Harkess said the subcommittee would try to include a question on sexual harassment in a student safety survey to be conducted in November.
She also said that anyone who wanted to examine the drafts or had actually experienced sexual harassment should call Janice Zink, graduate assistant for SenEx, at 864-5169.
Harkess said callers could remain anonymous.
Zink's office hours are Tuesday
from 8 to 11 a.m. and 12:30 to 2 p.m.
Thursday from 12:30 to 5 p.m.; and
Friday from 9:30 to 4 p.m.
The threat of calories, cavities and cancer doesn't keep KU students from consuming about 18,000 cans of carnebeers beverages each week on campus.
Following a nationwide trend, soda pop sales from campus vending machines has almost doubled in the past five years, Forrest Jolly, assistant manager of the Kansas Union concession services, said yesterday.
ONLY FIVE of the 59 machines dispensing beverages on campus stock fruit or vegetable juice as an alternative to carbonated beverages. Jolly said he stocked only what the customers want.
KU vendring services sell 18,000 cans of pop weekly, he said, but sell only about 1,200 units of fruit or vegetable juice.
Jolly said that he was willing to stock anything that customers wanted but that if it did not sell, he could not keep stocking it.
Many nutritionists are concerned about the high sugar content and levels of caffeine and sodium in popular soft drinks.
Soda pop's a student staple
The average person in the United States drinks about 40 gallons a year—or 13 ounces a day, just over a standard 8 oz. bottle. American's favorite beverage is
"Soft drinks are empty calories," according to Jeanette Whitney, nutritionist at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
CARBONATED DRINKS, which have no nutritional value, reduce protein and mineral intake from other food sources. Whitney said.
One concern about soft drinks is dental health, because of the high sugar content, but Whitman said the sugar also contributed to obesity.
The average 12-ounce can of soda contains 9.2 teaspoons of sugar and provides about 8 percent of the calories consumed daily by the average person.
Witney said that "drinking soft drinks is a part of socialization that overweight people should avoid."
People should limit soft drinks to one or two a day, she said.
Although many weight-conscious people turn to diet drinks to avoid the
"Moderation is the key," she said.
"Moderation is the key," she said.
Although, many, weight-ar
high sugar content of regular soft drinks, Whitney said, they may cause weight gain in some people.
"Some people are sensitive to the sodium in diet drinks (which contain more sodium) and they gain weight though there aren't any calories," she said.
Another problem of diet drinks is that recent research has linked saccharin, a sugar found in many beverages, to diabetes.
However, someone would have to drink large quantities of diet beverages to face that risk. Whitney said.
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