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Wednesday, January 24, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Group offers refuge for battered wives
By RHONDA HOLMAN
Mary's husband has been beating her for a long time.
She finally escaped after he hit her for not
baving a shirt ready on time.
Mary doesn't live in Kansas City or Topokan cities where she-wearing beats are popular.
She lives in Lawrence and is only one of many women in town who are finding help and shelter with Women's Transitional Care Services, Inc., a two-year-old group dedicated to saving Lawrence women from domestic alternatives to putting up with domestic violence.
"Some women get out after two or three times; for some it's been several years," said Judy Woolfe, one of the original volunteer advocates for the group and assistant director of foreign students at the University of Kansas.
"ITS USALLY when they can't take it
when they can't tell you it' is beginning to affect the future.
Woelfel said the group began in October 1976 with a training session for volunteer advocates. Before that, she said, a group of volunteers had been recruited to welfare students, surveyed the need and
banded together to help the battered women of Lawrence.
"A survey went out in 1974 and 1975," Woefel said. "It indicated that between 19 to 33 cases a month could be referred us." He added, "We get more, we get more, we move calls each month."
For the first two years, a woman could reach the advocates only through an internship or a service, or the KU Information Center. But last October the group opened a three-bedroom shelter house, with a phone of its own to provide care and policy and a carefully addressed address.
"INFORMATION ABOUT the shelter is not well-played up to protect the women who are in the center," according to Nancy Sullivan, a graduate student and one of the group's advocates.
Woelfel said the house mainly sheltered physically abused women and other women in need.
"The children are what we are very much concerned with," Woelfel said. "Often a woman without children can find a place to live in town, but a woman with children often can't."
Woolfe, who is one of about 50 active advocates working closely with each of the
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She said she had found that many factors, including alcohol and tensions at work, could contribute to wife-beating. But she said alcohol was often used as an excuse.
"A husband can put the blame for his violence on the alcohol instead of himself,"
Welfael said one woman, who hadn't been abused recently, came to the group because she could see her husband's drinking problem and看见她意思 and thought he might be violent.
"There's a heavy denial on both sides," she said. "The woman wants to believe he really loves her. She often feels very guilty, if he is beating her, that means that the marriage isn't working. If it isn't, then it's her fault.
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"THE MEN tend to be fairly insecure. An awful lot of men don't mean to do it—but
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women to find the best alternative open to the wife, said she agreed with experts who say that both the wife and her abuser tend to have low self-esteem.
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When women are abused, Woolfeel said, she and other advocates often think that separation or divorce is the best alternative for a specific woman. But she said they would help a client return home, if the were sure about her decision.
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"OUR JOB IS to advocate for the woman," Woolfel said. "If she wants to go back, we help her do it. We can't force her to do anything. Often we want to—we have an awful lot of anger—but we try to deal with it, and amou themselves and not in front of the women."
However, Hermick said she had found that going back home could often be the best option.
"A lot of times, things just come to a head and when they're given some time away to ventilate the problems, the woman can go on. "A lot of times they just need some space."
Woelfel said the group had helped women from 17 to 60, and they were usually women in their 50s.
"Women from low-income families don't have the options that more wealthy women have. The physical violence itself cuts through easily," said Lori Gosling, according to Woolelfel, the service's.
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two full-time workers were hired last month through funding from the Comprehensive
Laura Templet works as the house manager, taking care of physical needs, including food and work distribution among the women.
Diana Bankston is the staff supervisor, communicating with the advocates and the
women brought to rule main office at the house. The shelter itself can house 12 women and children. But Woolfe said there were not enough staff to cover all of funding until now had been dependent upon church donations and individual contributions.
women through the main office at the house.
According to Hermick, two Vista volunteers will begin a year-long program
in March. The program would educate the community about the service and create interest in long-range planning for better local transportation and better low-income housing in Lawrence. These are what the school will be two main concerns of Lawrence women.
"Women need to be educated to know that they can reach out," Hermek said.
Miltv's loses beer license
The Lawrence City Commission revoked the beer license of Uncle Mity's Cafe by a vote of 5-0 at last night's city commission meeting.
However, city officials said the tavern at 2246 Barker Ave. did not violate a city ordinance, as Haskell Indian Junior College officials had last week.
Buford Watson, city manager, said the
ordinance that forbids the sale of liquor within 400 feet of a school had been interpreted since 1533 to apply only to the sale of liquor and not to tavernals that sell 3.2 beer.
Commissioners said they revoked the license on the basis that Uncle Milty's was a nuisance. The revocation will go into effect in five days.
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There were two reported assaults and two reported burglaries at the tavern in each of the past two years, according to Lawrence police.
Marnie Argersinger, commissioner, said Milton Collins, owner of Uncle Milly's, could have a successful business selling sandwiches.
Haskell officials said they wanted to keep trouble that they said began at the tavern and not the restaurant.
Collins said, "I get blamed for anything that happens on that campus."
"Other tavern owners have turned in the
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A recent study showed that as much as 75 percent of the current rate would be used to subsidize four reservoirs that have been planned for other parts of the state. However, the study showed that those reservoirs might never be built.
Lawrence contracted to pay 6.2 cents per 1,000 gallons for water from Clinton. The study, conducted by Robert Smith, a KU professor of civil engineering, said that 4.9 cents of that figure had been built into the rate to help build the four reservoirs.
In other business, the commissioners decoded to support a Kansas house bill that would require a tax on meat.
Commissioners also voted to proclaim January 21-27, 1979, Jaycee Week in the City of Lawrence. The dates coincide with National Jaycee Week.
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