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University Daily Kansan / Friday, November 2, 1990
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Deanne Weninger, Colwich sophomore, gets a face full of leaves while babysitting 5-year-old Lauren Higble. The two enjoyed yesterday's mild weather, with temperatures in the upper 70s. The weather is predicted to turn cooler this weekend, with rain coming into the forecast.
Fall fun
KU plans harassment booklet
Council discusses hostility directed at gays and lesbians
Bv Yvonne Guzman
Kansan staff writer
A pamphlet will be published by the University defining harassment of gay men and lesbians and outlining steps for counteracting such harassment, University Council decided yesterday.
Elizabeth Banks, associate professor of classics, proclaimed that a brochure be drafted by March 1. The passed pass with one dissenting vote.
Banks said she originally was told that harassment based on sexual orientation was covered by KU's sexual harassment pamphlet.
"I've looked pretty carefully at
that brochure, and it doesn't say anything about sexual preference," Banks said.
Recent hostility toward gay men and lesbians at KU have made it necessary to publicize the University's anti-discrimination policy regarding sexual orientation, she said.
Donald Marquis, former Council member, said he wrote a letter last semester to the Senate Executive Committee requesting that a pamphlet dealing with harassment of gay men and lesbians be produced.
Marquis wrote the letter after SenEx failed to send a pamphlet dealing with racial and ethnic discrimination to the Council for discussion.
He said he would have tried to include a section on harassment of gay men and lesbians if the pamphlet had been published. Information had been discussed in Council.
But a separate brochure will be just as beneficial, he said.
M. Clay Belecher, assistant professor of architectural engineering, said he voted against the proposal because there were no brochures on a variety of minority groups on cam for it, probably had experienced harassment.
But Liz Tolbert, a member of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, said the brochure would help gay and lesbian students feel safer
"I feel there's no reason to call attention to gays in particular," he said.
"Students can protest and then students and administrators can sit down and talk about ways to be more sensitive. But it's action and statement of our goals . . . that I think really do make a difference."
"It can do nothing but good," she said. "University Council has done some good things.
Minority office prospect visits campus, gives talk
By Holly M. Neuman Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
The first of five candidates for the job of director of the Office of Minority Affairs said yesterday that the office must serve minority students better to keep pace with the growing number of minority college students.
The candidate, Lonnie Williams, assistant dean of students and the coordinator of the minority affairs office at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, told members of a search-and-screening committee and about 20 students that students needed to realize that the office should have a budget and that money for programs could be limited.
Rosita Dorsey resigned in June 1989.
"Sometimes you have to bring out the budget book to show students what you have to work with," he said. If Williams were appointed he would be the chair of the office who became interim director of the Office of Minority Affairs after
Williams said there needed to be more diversity in University faculty.
more diversity in university faculty. "We all know there's a clear need
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You've got problems.
Students recognize those problems and they want results.
Lonnie Williams
Lonnie Williams candidate for director of the Office of Minority Affairs
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for minority representation on faculty," he said.
After Williams' speech, administration and faculty members were asked to leave to allow students to talk with the candidate alone.
Mike Sullivan, a member of Gay
and Lesbian Services of Kansas, asked Williams whether he thought gay and lesbian students should be a part of the Office of Minority Affairs served.
"I don't think they should be part of the Office of Minority Affairs." Williams said. "As an administrator, I am always there to give advice and talk with students, but I think the office is for people of color."
The Office of Minority Affairs should serve students first, Williams said.
Williams said the underrepresentation of minorities at KU was similar to the situation he faced in Arkansas.
"You've got problems," he said.
"Students recognize those problems and they want results. You don't give up. You have to persist. If you can't go through the door, you need to go around it."
The next candidate will visit camp
tuition Tuesday. The search and-screening
committee will choose the new
director by Jan. 1.
Terrorism class dropped
Lack of financing causes popular course's discontinuation
By Tatsuva Shimizu
Kansan staff writer
A class on terrorism that has been popular for several years will not be offered next semester because of a lack of funding.
The departments of anthropology and psychology will no longer offer the class titled Violence. Aggression and aggression are studied in this course.
Floix Moos, professor of anthropology, he said decided to discontinue teaching the class because he could not get enough feedback.
"It's just too difficult to continue without any help," he said.
More than 200 students are enrolled in the class this semester. In addition to Moos, Ron Oln, Lawrence Police Chief, and Maynard Shelly, professor of psychology, teach the class.
David Frayer, chairperson of the anthropology department, said that terrorism was an important subject but little has been done to address it.
The department has limited resources available to satisfy students' demands, he said.
"We are doing as much as we can." he said.
Frayer said the department had to offer certain courses each semester, such as principale courses, which are taught by a professor.
Moa said that this semester the anthropology department paid for a part-time graduate teaching assistant in the class. However, the psychology department did not allot money for an assistant, although many psychology
Edwin Martin, chairperson of the psychology department, said the department did not allot any money because the class was taught primarily by an anthropology professor. Shelly only teaches a small part of the class.
The class is not necessarily important for psychology majors, and there are more important classes in the field.
Olin has been teaching the class voluntarily for about seven years. But it has become too time-consuming for him to teach.
"It started to interfere with my responsibilities as the police chief," he said.
class if he did not think it was a relevant current subject
Grew Woodward. Lawrence senior who is taking the
Olin said he would not have volunteered his time for the class if he did not think it was a relevant current subject.
Greg Woodward, Lawrence senior who is taking the class said learning about terrorism was very important.
"Terrorism is on the rise in the '60s," he said. "It's going to affect Americans."
Barbara Tsatsoulis, a graduate teaching assistant in the class, said. "A class like this would be necessary to understand the modern world because terrorism is something that can basically threaten everybody."
If enough students express interest in the class to the department and to the administration, the class may be offered.
Electronic monitoring system allows prisoners to stay at home
"Neither the University, the college, nor the department of anthropology or psychology want this class to be taught."
Moso said the class not only lacked financial support but also lacked the University's support because the subject was controversial. Some people in the University did not think terrorism was an academic subject.
Bv Elicia Hill
Dowdy, who has been on the system four nights, said that it sometimes felt like “Big Brother” was watching him but that the inconvenience was worth it to be home with his family.
Kansan staff writer
The white electronic monitor sat on the kitchen counter among the coffee, cereal and flour. Because of its presence, Dennis Dowdy, who has been convicted of attempted burglary, spent much of his time in family instead of doing time in jail.
The electronic monitoring system is an alternative to imprisonment that alleviates overcrowding at the Douglas County jail. Eligible offenders, who on a work-release program joke up to jail at night, now can stay home for a week or more and telephone calls and appear on a video camera for positive identification.
Although a computer selects the time for the telephone calls, there is a human connection between the offender and the company. Telemonitoring Systems of Kansas in La Crosse which actually calls the offender
"It was annoying the first night because I wasn't used to them calling me at all hours," he said. "And I couldn't hook up the breath analyzer right the first night. The lady at the other end took about 15 pictures of me because I think she thought I was up to something."
Dowdy said that his monitoring was required to have a breath analyzer because the same rules applied to an offender under house arrest, the home monitoring system, and the police to offenders who were incarcerated.
The system is made up of a video transmitter containing a camera lens and a 3-by-2 inch display screen. When the telemonitoring company calls, the offender presses a button to get onto the visual system. The camera freezes the frame and sends a still picture over the telephone to
the monitoring agency.
The video and the conversation, which are recorded on video tape, take less than two minutes to perform. For some offenders, a breath analyzer is connected to the system to monitor alcohol levels.
Rhonda Stubbs, community services coordinator at Douglas County Corrections, said that offenders had been offered treatment and programs to participate in the program.
Although the equipment is free to the county, the offender must bear an $8 daily fee. Stubbs said that the government pay for any damage to the system.
"This is a pilot program, and it is only used on those offenders who are not a threat to the community and who have demonstrated they are responsible," she said. "Dennis has done such a good job at community service work that he was an excellent choice."
The system has been applied to two
other lawrence offenders within the past three weeks, Stubbs said. It cannot be used by indictment clients or those who cannot afford a telephone.
"The Adult Subcommittee and the Jail Committee are working to solve the problem with people who can't pay so that it will be equitably available to everyone," she said. "One possible solution would be to have someone pay for the time on the system by doing extra community-service work, but they do need to have a home."
The cost to Douglas County to house a work-release prisoner is $35 nightly.
Dowdy has four more nights of living with the monitoring system before he will appear in court to request a modified sentence. He may be sentenced for his good record and be placed under the supervision of a parole officer.
Thirty-three states are using some form of monitoring system for house arrest offenders.
Richard Quins/KANSAN
Dennis Dowdy hooks a breath analyzer to a video unit. Dowdy is in a house arrest program in which his activities are monitored.
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