KANSAN
The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, September 8, 1981 Vol. 92, No. 12 USPS 650-640
Specifics hamper harassment policy
By SHARON APPELBAUM Staff Renorter
The latest draft of a sexual harassment policy governing faculty and students would protect students from nothing short of rape, according to some University faculty members.
In the past, Napier has helped students who have been sexually harassed and has since been vocal on the policy.
"There are lots of situations intimidating to young women that could be defined as sexual harassment without going the full distance," said Rita Napier, associate professor of history.
*"Is it acceptable to be fondled?" is acceptable when a student is asked to go out? Where is it acceptable?
The policy draft is designed to protect students from professors who may exchange some form
of sex for good grades or other forms of advancement.
BETTY BANKS, associate professor of classics, said, "We should give our students the most protection they can be given. Students are here to learn with all the pressure there is for grades these days."
Shirley Harkess, a member of the University Senate executive committee, said after Friday's meeting that sexual harassment should include verbal abuse and innuendoes.
SeEx is now looking over two policy drafts, one for employers and employees and the other for fattier people.
While SenEx members had few complaints about the employee policy, they said the student was treated well.
THE STUDENT-FACULTY policy defines See HARASMENT page 5
KU writers find market in Oread Book Shop
By DIANE MAKOVSKY Staff Reporter
Many KU students have professors who are the authors of books, usually textbooks.
And if the books aren't required texts and can't be found in the Kansas Union Bookstore textbook department, the chances are they're on the racks of Oread Book Shop, on the Union's third level.
The Oreed tries to have at least one copy of all the books it buys, writes books, said Bill Gatz. Oread book Shop manages
HE AND HIS STAFF have begun a section devoted to KU publications in an effort to keep the growing collection organized.
The biggest problem, Gets said, is finding an the publications written by employees. He said they had a system to support
"We follow the Oread (University Relations newsletter). We follow trade publication journals. We also follow general book review journals," he said.
Other titles are acquired when students ask about a professor's work, or when publishers tell them what they think.
**GETZ ORDERS** at least one copy of every book published by the Regents Park of Kansas. bookhalf are annual Regents books half are workbooks. In the six Kansas Regents universities, said Yvonne
Willingham, acting director of the Regents Press.
The Regents Press publishes about 12 new books every year, Willingham said.
"We hope to expand to about 20 books in the next two years," she said.
INCLUDED IN The Regents Press Catalog of New Books 1881-1882 are "Economics and the Truman Administration," by Francis Heller, Roy A. Roberts Distinguished Professor of law and political science; and "Soviet Believers: The Religious Sector of the Population," by William Fletcher, professor of Soviet and East European studies.
Most books by KU professors are not mass-trade books, which are aimed at a popular audience. Because of the subject material, such as political theories, some books that sell three books are considered good sellers. The price of a book helps decide if it will be a big seller, Getz said.
Some books sell well both at the Oread and nationally.
Last year, one of the most popular books at the Oread is "Words on Words: A Dictionary for Writers and Others Who Care About Words," by John Bremner, Osc. S. Carst. Distinguished Professor of journalism. Getz said Bremner's book also sold well in New York.
OTHER POPULAR books include: "Ecological Psychology" by Roger Barker, professor See BOOKS page 5
EARL RICHARDSON/Kansan Staff
Co-captains Greg Smith and David Lawrence and Head Coach Dan Fambrough appear to be in a trance before taking the field against Tulsa Saturday evening. See story page 10.
Team support
Insurance cancellations anger students
Bv MIKE ROBINSON
Staff Reporter
A Lone Star insurance subscriber who misses a payment may find his policy cancelled without notice.
Several letters have reached the KU Student Senate complaining that no reminders were received that payments were late or had been missed.
In one instance,policyholders who had their policy canceled in March did not know it until August.
Denny Calvert, resident insurance agent for Lone Star in Lawrence, said that on quarterly and monthly payment plans, students were given cash incentives and money not billed or sent any reminders.
'We send them a packet, and they're responsible to send in their payments,' he said.
In a letter to Student Senate, Linda Ellis said that she and her husband, Edwin, had taken out a policy in August 1980 on the quarterly payment plan.
The Ellies made their last payment in December, when they ran out of payment slips, according to the letter. Their insurance should have been effective until March 1881.
This August, the Ellies received a form letter inviting them to renew their insurance policy with Lone Star. It was then that they learned that their policy had been canceled in March.
"We feel that it is customary and reasonable to expect an insurance company to notify the party of cancellation of their insurance," the letter says, "especially when the billings are not sent out."
Calvert, however, said, "It's just up to the student to remember to send it in."
He said that most students used the semi-annual or annual payment plan. With the semi-annual plan, the student would pay 12 months.
Of the 105 colleges that Lone Star Insurance serves, the monthly payment plan is available at any of the following locations:
He said that he had not heard of any major problems with the plan but that the company was trying to get away from it because it was easy for students to forget their payments.
The easiest way for the students is to get them off the monthly plan," Calvert said.
But that will not help the Eliases, who are in their month and are hoping their insurance will cover them.
"It was most alarming to discover that if a major medical expense had occurred during the lapsed period, it most probably would have bankrupted our family." Iinda Ellis wrote.
Brenn Abbott, student body vice president, said that the matter would probably be turned over to Hirsch.
Abbott said he knew of only four or five similar complaints since Lone Star began offering insurance in August 1980.
Fancy pants bring wearers woes
KU safe from jeans rash—for now
Whether or not they are tight, jeans are a favorite attire for KU students.
**BOB GREENSPANK human Safety**
By JOLYNNE WALZ
Staff Reporter
Jeans folliculitis—a rash caused by overly tight jeans—hasn't been rubbing KU students the strong way, but the alment has been made so.
"I have recently seen six cases of what must be called jeans folliculitis of the buttocks, groin and thighs—caused by ultra-tight jeans," Bruck Heckman, a New York physician, wrote in a letter in the New England Journal of Medicine.
"Patients work in jeans, dance in them, and most recently, jog in them," he said.
LAWRENCE DERMATOLOGIST Lee Bittenbender said he treated a couple of cases of follicularis a month.
"I've certainly seen cases of folliculitis occurring predominately on the肩, or sometimes on the buttocks area," he said. "I don't know if it was a case of folliculitis."
HOWEVER, JAMES KALIVAS, a dermatologist at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said none of his patients had complained of skin irritation.
Folliculitis. Bittenbender said, is a low-grade infection of hair follicles that usually breaks out on a patient's scalp or face.
Oil clogging hair follicles causes some folliculitis, he said, but often there is no apparent cause.
no is a staff dermatologist at Watkins Memorial Hospital. Steve Miller, general manager of King of Jeans in Lawrence, speculated that KU students weren't getting the rash because they usually didn't wear tight jeans.
MILLER SAID THAT wearing tight jeans was more fashionable on the East Coast and in Europe than it was here.
This is meat-and-potatoes country," he said. WILLIAMS
"I saw the letter, but I don't know much about it." Kalyas said. There is no staff dermatologist at Watling, Merkala Hospital.
"On the coast that's kind of the style," he said. "Sometimes weu have some of the foreign students in here, especially from Europe, who jumpes too tight. I'll give them some jeans that I think are the right size, but maybe that's maybe a quarter of an inch at the waist and for a small gap."
"I'm sure you have some people who like the designer jeans. Most of them don't have their skin-tight."
KU STUDENTS MOST often buy straight-legged, five-pocket, wetsuit cut-out jeans, Miller said, but he said painter's pants and cords are better.
Bonnie Stewart, McPherson senior, said she had once developed an reaction to the dye in a pair of new jeans, but had not suffered.
Kim Pierceall, Overland Park junior, said that she had never had a rash like jeans folliculitis.
Joke turned into a business for gopher delivery service
By LISA MASSOTH Staff Reporter
What started out as a joke has turned into a business venture for Sam Roberts, who admits to being "one of the few."
Roberts, 34, started the Lawrence Gopher Delivery Service last week because she thought Roberts was too smart.
"There are a lot of people in Lawrence who can't get out and around. I thought it was the warmth of these people."
THE IDEA WAS BORN this summer when Roberts decided she wanted to do something on her own and still be home with her children, she said.
"My husband asked me what I liked to do, and I said, Well, I like to run around," she said.
What exactly does Roberts gopher?
"I will buy and deliver groceries, pick up things in town and mail packages," Roberts告
She would also like to make deliveries for downtown businesses, she said, if they were interested.
THE BASE RATE for a round trip was $3.
Roberts said, but it was subject to change in
Roberts.
Her husband, Jim, manages Rusty's Food Center at 23rd and Louisiana streets, and if someone calls in a grocery order, he has offered
Will she do laundry?
to gather the groceries with Sandi delivering them for $3. If she has to gather the order herself, she will charge a little more, she said.
*Will it take a day?*
She has placed a few restrictions on her service.
"No. I won't do laundry " she said
"I won't carry passengers or pets, or deliver any parcels over 50 pounds." Roberts said.
BECAUSE THE GOPHER business is stun its fledgling stage, Roberts hasn't had any wild delivery requests yet, but she is preparing for the worst.
"My husband said someone will probably call wanting a six-pack or a bottle of whiskey," she said.
See GOPHER page 5
Weather
The National Weather Service in Topkena forecast clear skies with a high near 80 today and a low dipping to 50. Wednesday the high should be in the mid to upper 80s with a low in the mid-50s. The extended outlook for this week is clear skies and temperatures staying in the 80s.