The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
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Thursday, November 5, 1981 Vol. 92, No. 54 USPS 650-640
Sexual harassment: finding a cure not easy
By SHARON APPELBAUM Staff Reporter
Mary was well on her way to earning a master's degree at the University of Kansas.
She was in the middle of writing her thesis, and she was getting all the help and encouragement she could ask for from her mentor.
"He encouraged me. He could help me a job. He was a member of the good organization."
That encouragement was soon to change, however
The professor invited her into his study. His children were unnairs.
"He closed the door. I thought, well, maybe he'll say something he doesn't want anybody to hear. I was so naive.
"I was in the middle of telling him about the thesis and he said, 'Take your clothes off.'
Mary said she and her professor had always agreed that sexual harassment at the university was illegal.
But this time, he changed his tune, saying,
"No, no, take your clothes off."
I, said, 'No, I can't. I won't.' To this day, there is no way I can put into words how I felt.
"I said, 'You're kidding.' "
"It at moment, all my fears were contrain-
ced. All my fears. All my worth as a human being that last went lost."
there is no way I can put into words how I felt.
'He always complimented my work, but my husband always said, 'He wants something from you.'
"I asked him why. He said he was in love with me and it wasn't an act of force.
"I said, 'If you love me you'll work with me and let me have a career.'
He then moved in on me. The reality was on and I started crying, I said, 'Can't we say that?'
"He said, 'I don't want to just own your mind. I want to own your body.'
"I felt like a whore. I never feel so low in my life. He started to put his hands up my dress, trying to see我 underwear. I took his arms and tried to push him away.
I couldn't move him. He was stronger than me.
"He said; 'I have to have you. You have to let me do this.' He kept repeating it, 'You have to let me do this.'
"He was saying words he'd never said before. It made me feel filthy, I thought, I'm a desperable person to bring these things out." "
She then started looking for any excuse to keep him away.
No luck.
"I said, 'What about my husband and your wife?'
"I said, 'Please not rape me; I don't take the pill. Then I said, "If you don't let me go, I'll scream and (your daughter) will hear me."
The professor threw up his hands and stopped.
Safety violations found in many KU buildings
"I want to believe he was mentally disturbed. I was hysterical. But he just calmly picked up my books and walked me to the car. I don't even remember driving home.
"It wouldn't have mattered if penetration had occurred. He was trying to take it out."
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By JANICE GUNN and STEVE ROBRAHN Staff Renporters
Staff Reporters
The other two halls cited for fire escape violations had metal ladders spanning the gap between the escape and the ground, but the ladderes were judged inadequate.
State fire inspectors found violations of safety standards in many buildings at the University of Kansas during their annual inspection, including inadequate fire escapes at three scholarship
The state fire marshal's report, which KU officials released last week, revealed that fire escapes at Grace Pearson, Miller and Watkins schoolshin halls were faulty.
None of the scholarship halls had extinguishing systems over kitchen grills, the
"I don't think we agree with some of it," J. J. Wilson, director of housing, said. "But repairing the fire escapes in the scholarship halls is our first priority."
Perhaps the worst fire escape problem was at Grace Pearson Hall, where the escape ended six
THE INSPECTIONS began in late September and are required each year, said Paul Markley, state fire prevention division chief. Other KU academic departments in halls were involved in violation of state codes.
Wilson said the housing office planned to improve the fire escapes and would then install them.
In addition to violations in the residence halls,
"We're in the process of putting hoods (on stoves) in the schoolhouse in Milton said. "I'll just put it in the residence hall."
the state inspectors said a warehouse near the University was in fire streets that the University rented was a fire haze.
STATE APPROPRIATIONS would be needed to comply with state standards in some of the boroughs.
Tom Anderson, director of facilities operations, said the University was moving out of its building.
About 18 academic buildings need large expenditure in code, codes which have been used since the building's establishment.
Anderson said that as the older buildings were renovated, large deficiencies that the fire department was addressing
Alarm systems and additional exits for buildings would require funding from the state.
One of those old buildings is Strong Hall, Anderson said. Although it met fire standards when it was built, the inspectors recommended that a fire alarm system be installed.
"When it comes down to a fire alarm system, or something like that," Markley said, "the only way to correct the problem is with money from the Board of Regents."
HOCH AUDITORIUM needed an automatic sprinkler system in addition to fire alarms, the report said. Debris in tunnels below the building and lack of "no smoking" signs inside also were cited.
Anderson said the silver砂犏 area in broadcasting Hall would have to be completely demolished.
because gas torches are used to forge metals in the area, gypsum board, new doors and a manual fire alarm system must be installed, the report said.
The inspectors noted that small children are on The INSPECTION AREA.
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No fire alarms or exit signs pose safety hazard at Strong
By LISA MASSOTH Staff Reporter
The state fire marshal is worried that if a fire breaks out in Strong Hall, administrators won't
The chancellor's complex, an area of administrative offices on the second floor of Strong Hall, is missing an exit sign, which should be above the east door of the complex.
Alen Wiechert, director of facilities planning said yesterday that the door had to be an easily identified exit so people could find it quickly in case of a fire.
The state fire marshal's annual inspection of buildings on campus in September and October uncovered many potential fire hazards and violations of the state fire code.
"There need to be two ways out of every area," Wiechert said.
Areas with only one exit or a dead end corridor, can be only 20 feet long, he said.
A new sign won't guide the University leaders to their east door for a while, though, Wiechert said. He'll wait until other such problems on his desk are identified and decide which are the most serious.
Whecht said he didn't know how much an exit sign would cost because it depended on how close
The state is going to foot the bill for the new exit sign, Wiechtar said. KU officials will probably ask the Kansas Board of Regents for help with the building and finance funds allocated by the Kansas Legislature.
The missing exit sign is not the only violation of the fire code in Strong Hall, Wieckert said. There are no enclosed stairways to prevent fires from spreading and there are no fire alarms.
the sign would be to the electricity and if it had to be channelled into the wall.
The administrators may even hang their sign from the ceiling, he said.
If the Legislature funds a planned Strong Halt renovation, the money will also be used for these projects.
The fire marshal's report also showed that fire extinguishers at the chancelor's house needed
Weather
Today's high will be 60. Tonight's low will be 30, and tomorrow's high will be 40.
Winds will be northwesterly at 5 to 15 mph.
Today and tomorrow will be partly cloudy to clear, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Foul weather
A student carrying an umbrella seemed to become part of a stairway at Wescoe Hall as he moved between classes yesterday.
Instructors warned of exam theft
By MARK ZIEMAN
Staff Reporter
Two break-ins at Summerfield Hall this semester have prompted officials from the School of Business to advise teachers to keep an eye on or store them in a secure place in the school.
According to Charles Krider, associate dean of the School of Business, the latest incident involved a break-in into the office of David Smith, assistant professor of business, during the week before he gave his Oct. 20 business 240 exam. Financial Accounting I.
Krider said this week that he thought the crime was committed by students wanting to obtain the exam.
At least one copy of the exam was missing
from the office, and the school has notified KU police, he said.
"We haven’t caught anyone yet," he said. "DAVID SMITH, the professor who composed the test, said yesterday that there were no signs of forced entry into his office.
"The rumor is that they have a key to my door and that they have a key to my file cabinet."
After he discovered the exam was missing, Smith said, it was a matter of "simply changing the problems" on the exam to make the test valid for use in class.
"I was very happy to see that our team did the right thing, changed the exams on a very good note," he wrote.
Smith said that the changed test was not more difficult than the original but was only altered so that anyone not studying for the exam "would flunk or get a D."
He said, "That's what makes this situation so difficult, because you realize that in your class you have a large number of students who want to get an education. Why penalize them?
"A lot of people had the exam, or what they thought was the exam. A lot of my students got it."
RIDER SAID that the school was conducting its own investigation into the matter. Smith said that he did have some suspects in the case.
The incident was the second break-in to occur at the school this semester, Krider said. Another faculty member*; his work was broken in by a student who had been drinking and the students were clearly looking for exams."
However, he said, the instructor had not
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NASA officials not surprised by flight delay
By United Press International
HOUSTON—Officials at the Johnson Space Center were disappointed but not surprised that the second orbital test flight of the space shuttle Columbia was delayed yesterday.
"This is in the whole history of manned space flight that this happens repeatedly." John Lockhart, a former astronaut.
unmark 70 percent of the time we put a crew in a camp and begin to count it down and have to scrub for some anomaly of some sort. There're so many little things that need to go properly.
Flight director Neil Hutchinson said the problem that finally stopped the launch was probably fuel or water contamination that thickened a hydraulic power unit lubricant called Mobil Jet II, which sells for $5 or $6 a quart.
boxes in two of three chemically driven power units that provide the hydraulic pressure needed Columbia
Hutchinson said the oil lubricated key gear-
If the gearboxes failed, control of the shuttle on ascent or re-entry would be threatened.
Hutchinson said controllers probably would not have noticed the problem had a computer not forced them into hold a half-minute before launch.
The hold was called at first because of a minor low-pressure problem in a liquid oxygen tank that served fuel cells providing electricity and oxygen for the crew.
Controllers decided to launch anyway and were trying to bypass the automatic hold at 31 seconds by telling the computer to ignore the low pressures.
"When we got to examining the condition while we were holding at minus 31, we talked some more about auxiliary power units and finally I told them that to do was to KY another day," Hutchinson said.
Astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly, both awaiting their first trip into orbit, spent more than five hours in the shuttle's cockpit, lying flat on the floor. "They were so smiling when they came out of the shuttle,"
weather at the cape was borderline for the launch all week. The decision to try launching yesterday wasn't made until John Young, commander of Columbia's first voyage in April, flew around the area shortly after dawn and said he thought conditions were all right.
Within a couple hours after George Page, launch director, decided at 8:40 a.m. CST to postpone the flight, torential rains hit the cape.
Getting the shuttle ready to fly after the postponement of yesterday's launch means at least 48 hours of draining fuel, building work platforms and then tearing them down again.
NASA spokeman Mark Hess said the necessary work almost guaranteed a second launch attempt would not be made until the weekend.