University Daily Kansan / Thursday, November 8, 1990
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Hayden wins more of Douglas County vote
By Carol Krekeler
Kansan staff writer
If Tuesday's gubernatorial election had been based on votes in Douglas County, Republican Mike Hayden have remained the governor of Kansas.
Democrat Joan Finney ousted Hayden on Tuesday in general elections, but Douglas County voters were not as comfortable as voters who ran for governor, the ballot for Finney, allian Alcifer, professor of political science.
"I think Joan Finney came across as a social conservative, especially on issues like abortion." Gcier said. "She was not popular with the students and professionals in this area. We are sort of culturally liberal."
According to a breakdown of the 51 voter precincts in Douglas County, Hayden won 51 percent of the vote, or 12,571 votes. Finney received 37 per cent, remaining 12 percent, or 3,063 votes, went to independent candidate
Christina Campbell-Cline.
"There were not a lot of what I would call 'Hayden supporters' here," Cigler said. "It wasn't that they love Republicans or Hayden so much as they found Joan Finney offensive."
Douglas County voters turned out for the gubernatorial election this year at about the same rate they did for the 1986 gubernatorial election, said Patty Jaimes, Douglas County clerk.
In 1986, about 38,000 people were
registered to vote in Douglas County,
and 23,500 people voted. Tuesday,
about 40,600 were registered, and
25,900 voted.
The number of people voting in Douglas County increased by 3 percent, from 61 percent in 1986 to 64 percent this year. Jaimes said.
Burdett Loomis, chairperson of the political science department, said local proposals such as the South Lawrence Trafficway and a second Lawrence high school brought voters in Douglas County to vote booths
Tuesday.
Voters approved financing for the trafficway, but the bond for the second high school failed.
"I think 16 or 64 percent isn't that bad," he said, referring to 1986 turnout in comparison to turnout this year. "There were a lot of emotional issues that brought a high number of local voters out to vote."
KU students repeated their low turnout from the 1986 election.
In the 2nd precinct-1st district, which includes many KU student
housing units, 228 voted out of 1,188 registered. In 1986, 322 of the 1,419 registered voters cast ballots at the polling place. Allen Field House.
Loomis said that low student voter turnout was a national trend.
"The stakes aren't so high," he said. "They're not paying for a house. Their kids aren't going to school. Just doesn't affect them directly."
Laurie Carlson, Lawrence graduate student, explains study abroad in England to Suzanne Weeks, Edina, Minn., sophomore; Nicola Heskett, Oxhey sophomore; and Julie Kinks, Leawood sophomore.
Students learn about study abroad options
Bv Tatsuva Shimizu
Kansan staff writer
Students learned about KU's study abroad program yesterday by talking to former participants and watching videotapes and meet the Study Abroad Fair at the Kansas Union
The Office of Study Abroad sponsored the fair to make students more aware of the program, said Barbara Gearth, assistant director for finances in the office. About 220 students participated in KU study abroad programs in 43 countries during Summer 1990.
The office is accepting applications for the programs next summer and for the fall 1991
"It's really the time to start planning for next year," Gearhart said.
She said students who studied abroad for a semester or a year did not have to spend more money.
Students who join the programs make arrangements with departments to transfer their credits before they go abroad. Geharbart 15 credits and 15 credits a semester, while studying abroad.
She said more students were joining the programs because more were seeking a position.
Mark McMeley, program adviser in the office, said the number of students who joined the popular study. abroad program in Rica had increased in the past few years.
program there four or five years ago, but the office received 80 applications this semester. It had to turn away 30 students because only 50 snacks were available.
Fifteen students joined the semester-long
Students join the study abroad programs because they can experience a different culture while earning academic credit, he said.
One of the reasons students study in Costa Fica is the low cost of the program, McMeyle午休
"It's cheaper for a non-Kansas resident to go to Costa Rica for a semester than to come
This semester, a student in the Costa Rica program pays $275 for tuition, fees and room and board. An out-of-state student who lives in a double occupancy residence hall room this semester pays $3,423 for tuition, fees and room and board.
Gayla Gibson, Independence, Mo. senior,
who studied in Eutin, West Germany, last summer, was providing information to students interested in the study abrogran program
Prejudice concerns examined
Gibson, a fine arts major, said she joined the program to brush up on her German because she planned to study design from German designers.
Officials discuss Watkins' questioning of gay and lesbian students
Alison Grabau, Boone, Iowa, sophomore, she was interested in studying in English. She then thought she could learn more by studying in foreign countries than by attending KU.
Five of the students in her Spring 1990 German class joined the program in Eutin.
By Courtney Eblen
Kansan staff writer
"If a person has a problem that might relate to their sexual activity.
Concerns that gay and lesbian students may have received prejudiced treatment at Watkins Memorial Hospital, a local daycare yesterday with Watkins officials
Christopher Craig, peer counselor for Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, the meeting with Wattkins officials was positive. As a peer counselor, he said he often received phone calls from students concerned about rape and assault; questioning would be questioned at Wattkins during treatment or examinations.
Craig said it was difficult for gay and lesbian students to reveal their sexual orientation.
"They may be confronted for the first time in admitting to someone that they're gay or lesbian," Craig said. "It's important to realize that this is a great hurdle the person has to overcome, just answering the question, yes."
But Watkins physicians often find themselves needing to ask those tough questions, according to James Kowsins physician attending the meeting.
you sometimes have to ask pertinent questions, even if you tread on somebody's toes," Reed said.
Craig requested that physicians inquire about what types of sexual activity their patients engaged in, and asked about their sexual orientation.
Many gay or lesbian students have not told many people their sexual orientation, Craig said. Consequently, discussing their sexual orientation with a doctor they have never met before is difficult, especially when aliments or injuries have little to do with sexual orientation.
If a patient taking birth control pill does not tell her physician, the physician might unknowingly prescribe medication that could react to the pill and render it ineffective. In such cases, patients could use their physicians for misdiagnosis
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins, said physicians needed to know what medications a patient was taking because they could counteract with a newly prescribed medication. Also could have legal implications.
Patsy Deming, Watkins gynecologist and internist, said many patients took birth control medication not to prevent pregnancy but to regulate menstrual cycles. The care of her patients taking pills for this reason are lesbians, she said.
Sexual orientation also has a great deal to do with diagnoses such as pregnancy, Denning said. Often physicians ask patients whether they are sexually active or when they last had sex. Most doctors admit they had, and even fewer would admit it had been with a partner of the same sex.
This can be dangerous and misleading to physicians, Denning said. If a woman who exhibits symptoms of possible pregnancy affirmatively responds to the question, "Are you sexually active?" without clarifying that she is a lesbian, a physician might prescribe a medication designed for pregnancy when actually something else may be wrong.
Linda Keeler, Watkins psychiatrist, said that college was an experimental phase for students and that at least half of them had a different sexual orientation.
Parking board answers complaints with suggestions for problem areas
By Mike Brassfield
Kansan staff writer
The KU parking board yesterday made recommendations aimed at relieving parking problems at Watkins Memorial Health Center, Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Corbin Hall and other local locations on campus.
In response to complaints that patients at Watkins had difficulty parking near the building, the board voted to recommend that 24 metered spaces be installed on Missouri Street next to the Robinson Center parking lot. The new spaces will be reserved for outpatients and will replace 12 metered outpatient spaces in the lot.
The board's recommendations will be presented by Dec. 6 to the University Senate Executive Committee. The recommendations are assigned to the SenEx, the University Council, the Governor, and the Board of Regems.
At GSP-Corbin Hall, residents have had trouble finding parking and were unable to secure their safety at night, said Christina Gooding, St. Louis freshman, who
represented GSP-Corbin residents at the board meeting.
Instead of making a recommendation, the board voted to write a letter to Del Shankle, interim director of the University's building that the University install a blue police security phone near the hall. The board also recommended that GSP-Corbin residents make a contribution to making it at 11th and Indiana streets.
Other recommendations and board members' reasons for them include:
Extending the restrictions on
Jayhawk Boulevard from 8 a.m.
- 4 p.m. to 7:45 a.m. - 4:45 p.m. This
would reduce traffic on campus
during the break in classes at 4:20
p.m. Traffic booths would
beanned earlier to provide assistance
to morning visitors.
- Reducing restrictions on yellow permit zones from 7 a.m. — 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. — 4 p.m. Don Kearns, director of parking, that opening the lots at 4 p.m. would make it easier for parents to pick up their children at Robinson Center in the afternoons.
- Dropping the age-plus service requirement for red parking permits. Currently, KU faculty and staff must have a combined age and years of service to the University of 25 years. Dropping this requirement would enable young employees to buy red permits.
- Eliminating Saturday restrictions on parking lots. Currently all blue permit zones are restricted on Sundays from 8 a.m. to noon. Very few tickets are issued and visitors have no way of getting a visitor pass because the booths and 'he parking office are closed.
- Creating a new medical permit for people who need special parking because of a medical condition.
The cost would be $10 a month, $5 for two weeks and $2.50 a week.
The permit would be issued upon completion of a signed, notarized medical form.
- Asking those using handicap placards in their cars to register their vehicle information and place it in the office. This would be voluntary and would give the department a better idea of the needs of disabled people