November 15, 1984 Page 3
CAMPUS AND AREA
The University Daily KANSAN
Applications due today for two Kansan positions
The Kansan is accepting applications for edit and business manager for spring session.
Application forms are available in the Student Senate office, B105 Kansas Union; the Student Organizations and Activities Office, B116 University Union; and 119 and 290 Stauffer-Flint Hall.
Applications must be turned in to 200 Stauffer-Flint Hall by 5 p.m. today.
Group seeks to help hungry
The local chapter of Oxford America, a nonprofit group that seeks answers to world hunger problems, will sponsor a rice and water dinner at 7 p.m. today at 2515 Alabama St. to raise money for the hungry.
Hilda Enoch, local organizer of the group, said the dinner was part of a grassroots effort to meet the emergency needs of the hungry in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The fast, called "Fast for a World Harvest," is traditionally held the Thursday before Thanksgiving.
Teachers to meet in Lawrence
Music teachers from across the state will gather tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday in Lawrence for the 73rd convention in the Kansas Music Teachers Association.
Richard Reber, professor of piano and second vice president of the organization, said more than 200 teachers would participate in the convention. Activities include a piano recital by Nelita True, distinguished professor of music at the University of Maryland, at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Swartwout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
True also will conduct master classes for winners of the association's high school and collegiate auditions and give a lecture on classical style. Registration for the convention begins at 1 p.m. tomorrow in the lobby of Murphy Hall.
KU debaters take high honors
Six KU debaters took high honors last weekend at tournaments at Emory University in Atlanta, the University of South Dakota in Vermilion, S.D., and Central Oklahoma State University in Edmond, Okla.
Jerry Gaines, Houston senior, and John Culver, Overland Park sophomore, placed
Eddie Watson, Arkansas City sophomore, and Gavin Fritton, Topkick prima, placed fourth at South Dakota.
Andrea Richard, Laramie, Wyo,
freshman and Dan Lingel, Freeport III,
freshman, placed third at Central Oklahoma State.
KU debaters this weekend will attend tournals at Wichita State University and Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy, windy and cooler. The high will be in the mid 50s. Winds will be from the northwest at 15 to 25 mph and gusty. Tonight will be mostly clear. The low will be in the mid 20s. The high will be partly cloudy and the high will be in the mid- to mid 50s.
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For other questions, comments or complaints, ask for Don Knox, editor, or manager.
The number of the Kansan business office, which handles all advertising, is 664 4358.
Camped from Kannan staff and United Press International reports.
More sexually harassed find help
By HOLLIE B. MARKLAND Staff Reporter
The number of people seeking advice about how to deal with sexual harassment has increased almost three times in two years, the director of the office of affirmative action said yesterday.
"I'd say we've had at least 20 people come in this center for consultations," said Patricia Chin, director of
In April 1982 the University of Kansas adopted a policy to protect students and University employees from sexual harassment.
In spring 1983, when Ferron became director of the office of affirmative action, nearly a dozen people came to the office for harassment complaints against a sexual harassment complaint, she said.
LAST FALL THE number of people doubled, Ferron said, because of a greater awareness of the sexual harassment policy. People who people sought advice about sexual harassment
"It's really too early to tell about this semester," she said, "but if things continue at the same rate, by the end of the semester, there should be about 30 people in."
Typically, Ferron said, men harass women, the older harass the younger and the
"We've had complaints of same-sex harassment, of someone in a power position complaining about harassment from someones position, and of women harassing men.
more powerful harass the less powerful. But that is not always the case, she said.
GRADUATE STUDENTS ARE particularly susceptible to sexual harassment because of the close relationship many of them have with professors, she said.
But Ferron said the most common type of sexual harassment was from male professor
"Many graduate students are more like colleagues than students because the professors are mentoring them," Ferron said. "The situation can lead to sexual harassment."
Undergraduates more often experience
sexist jokes or comments about women's
well-being.
"These may seem less inocuous, but they are no less frightening." she said.
Since 1982, the general reception of KU's policy has been good based on feedback from students and University employees. Ferron said.
"We don't find that many people are
resisting the policy,” she said. “Many people are relieved that there is something that can be done about the problem and that there is someone they can talk to about it confidently.
"MANY PEOPLE COME in because they just want us to know. They don't want to rock the boat because they are afraid they will suffer."
The KU sexual harassment policy defines sexual harassment as occurring when students or University employees are asked to submit to implicit or explicit unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal, nonverbal or physical contact of a sexual nature to receive an education or employment.
Sexual harassment also occurs when submission to such sexual advances determines academic or employment decisions about an individual.
An individual who believes he is being sexually harassed can talk to the staff of the office of affirmative action. After discussing the issue, he can choose to have the situation investigated.
THE INDIVIDUAL CAN file an informal complaint, which would be mediated. If the situation cannot be resolved through mediation, the individual can file a formal complaint that would be processed by the Discrimination Hearing Board.
'Looking for assets'at Gammons
By JOHN EGAN
Staff Reporter
A bit of "lights, camera, action" came to Lawrence last night. Jittery would be celebrities paced back and forth, awaiting their chance for stardom.
But they probably won't see their names on movie marquees or appear on network TV.
At Gammon m., a nightclub at 1601 W. 23rd St., about 20 students took turns in front of a microphone as a television camera zoomed in on them. All of the performers tried out for the job, and it was discovered that low-power television station scheduled to go on the air in Lawrence later this month.
IN FRONT OF an audience of about 150 drinking, carousing bar patrons, the future stars introduced videos shown on the large television screens throughout Gammon's.
John Katch, general manager of TV 30,
said, "We're looking for candor, presence,
style and artification I'm looking for talent
that we can be in being in here. We're
looking for aspiration."
Katich said those who possessed those traits would be asked to do screen tests.
"I can't complain at all," he said about the team. "A lot of interesting stuff I've seen at the team."
Low Power Technology, the Austin, Texas, company that owns TV 30, conducted a similar talent search for its station in Anchorage, Alaska.
"We found some very good actors, actresses, singers, musicians, dancers." Katch said. "Some crowds are pretty shy. Others are wild, open."
Chris Magerl/KANSAN
THE HOPEFULS STOOD before the microphone — which emitted ear-piercing feedback — and in about 30 seconds introduced videos from such artists as Prince, Sheekhan Easton and Michael Jackson. Some used anecdotes or comedy, some used anecdotes or comedy.
David Sneed, Tulsa, Okaa., junior, offers his own brand of humor before introducing a music video during a talent search for TV 30, a low power station scheduled to go on the air in Lawrence later this month. Sneed was one of about 20 contestants auditioning last night at Gammon's, 1601 W. 23rd St.
"My mind and body have been taken over by Martha Quinn," said Laurie Freeman, Lenexa senior, a radio-television film major, referring to a "video jacket" on MTV
After taking her turn in the glaring spotlight, Freeman said, "That was difficult You can't see the TV. You can't see the camera. And you don't know where to look It's like, 'Uh oh, I lost!' I can't believe I just did that. It is silly.
O. D. Welch, Overland Park senior and a RTVF major, said, "I have been interested in radio and television since I was a junior in high school and am now a licensed commercials. This is right up my alley."
"YOU DON'T GET NERVOUS until you can't see the camera."
One potential "video jockey," Tom D. Mahoney, Kansas City, Kan., senior, did a stand-up comedy act. He said he wrote all of the jokes he told. His repertoire included jokes about Twisted Sister, a heavy metal rock band, and about cocaine use.
Mahoney, who said his life revolved around
show business, has performed stand-up comedy at clubs in Topeka and Kansas City. Mo.
Laura Cheshire, Olathe senior and a RYTF major, said she entered the talent search "just to be a spaz. Who carees? I thought it would be a great experience. I thought it would be spontaneous."
Hardships resulted in radicalism
By DAVID LASSITER Staff Reporter
Natural and economic hardships forced early Kansas settlers to adopt socialistic attitudes, a sociology professor told the Lawrence Public Library last night at the Lawrence Public Library.
"In the words of William Allen White," McNall said, "if something was going to happen, it would happen in Kansas."
The speech was sponsored by the Kansas Area Affected Council and Columbia University.
Scott McNall, the professor, described the various forms of radicalism that the people of Kansas demonstrated toward Native religion in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
SETTLERS WERE DRAWN to Kansas by the Homestead Act of 1862, the coming of the railroad and better crop prices. McNall said. But overproduction, drought and the grasshopper invasion caused farmers to fall deeply into debt.
In 1899 the farmers of Kansas formed the Farmers Alliance to voice their dissatisfaction.
"Soon this group hatched the Populist or People's party," he said.
The Populist and Democratic parties came together to support William Jennings Bryan in the election of 1892. McNail was crushed when Bryan lost the election.
"It IS IMPORTANT to remember that the leaders in these movements were farmers, McNall said. "The farmers in an advance to find alternatives to capitalism."
One of the largest socialist newspapers of the time originated in a Kansas town in
Julius Wayland of Girard started the Appeal to Reason, which at one time had a weekly distribution of 750,000 copies. The paper was a medium for Wayland to present his form of American socialism to a large audience, he said.
"The paper did so well in fact that it sold lifetime subscriptions." McNall said. "Not subscriptions to the paper, but to the life of capitalism."
Another form of radicalism was a vegetarian movement that swept the state (1915).
The Vegetarian Emigration Company started a colony near Fort Scott where vegetarians from across the nation could live without influence from beet gaters
ANOTHER GROUP WHICH didn't last long was the Kansas Spiritualists, McNall said. They believed that God's hand was visible in all things.
They also believed that evil did not exist in the world and that, if indeed it did, it was because of ignorance, he said. The same argument speakers that featured mediums and speakers
This was the beginning of the temper- movement, which came to a full swing under the direction of Moses in 1837. But he believed in "free everything," he said.
"Harman denounced government, marriage and religion. "Me M皿 said." He was
He wanted to totally separate the state from the natural spiritualization of things.
Soon women took visible actions in the state to change things in their favor
KANASSA WAS ONE of the first states to allow women to vote in elections, McNail said. Women won their campaign for suffrage in 1912 because they were better organized than they had been during earlier attempts.
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The University of Kansas Theatre and the Department of Music Present
A Constitution of American History, Music and Lyrics by Sherri Edwards, book by Peter Stone 8:00 pm.
November 10, 1915 16:46 & 17, 1914  Cradle Prayer Theatre Murphy Hall. Tickets on sale at the Murphy Hall
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This production is partially funded by the KU Student Activity Fee.
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