August 30, 1984 Page 3
CAMPUS AND AREA
The University Daily
KANSAN
Local Democrats to gather at headquarter's opening
The grand opening of the Douglas County Democratic Headquarters, 1903 Massachusetts St., will be at 7:30 p.m. mornin-Rev. Martin Bell will be Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Topema.
David Berkowitz, chairman of the Douglas County Democratic Central Committee, said all local Democratic candidates for the Legislature and Douglas County Courthouse positions would attend the opening. The general public is invited.
Unions' begin fall schedule
The Kansas Union and the Frank R. Burge Union now are open on a fall schedule and they will be following those hours throughout the semester.
The Union is open from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Monday through Saturday and from 10:45 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Sunday. Burge Union is open
from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through
Friday and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday, but it is closed Sunday.
Banking services are available at the Union from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Burge Union banking hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Studv skills workshops slated
The Student Assistance Center is offering a Foreign Language Study Skills Workshop at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union. A Research Paper Writing Workshop is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Sept. 12 in Downs Auditorium in Dyche Hall. These programs require no registration and no fee.
Reading for Comprehension and Speed is a three-class program that requires a materials fee of $15 and registration in the Student Assistance Center, 121 Strong Hall. The first class will begin at will continue and continue for the next two Thursdays. The second set of classes will begin at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 10 and continue for the next two Mondays.
Pianist to perform Sept. 12
Claude Frank, an American classical pianist, will perform a benefit concert at 8 p.m. September 12 in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall. Frank is the 1984-85 KU pianist-in-residence, a member of the Yale music faculty and the head of the piano faculty at the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado each summer.
State court rules law illeoo
In a sharply split decision, the Kansas Supreme Court in Topeka Wednesday ruled as unconstitutional a law giving the Legislature absolute power to reject or change regulations adopted by state agencies to carry out laws.
The ruling means that 11 resolutions passed by the 1984 Legislature to revoke or modify administrative rules and regulations are invalid and cannot be enforced, the court said in a 4-3 decision declaring the law illegal because it robs the executive branch of its authority.
Weather
Today will be sunny and continued hot.
The high will be in the upper 90s with northeast winds from 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low of 68.
Tomorrow will be sunny and hot, in the mid- to upper 90s.
Where to call
Do you have an idea for a story or a photograph?
If so, call the Kansan at 864-4810. If your idea or press release deals with campus or area news, ask for Doug Cunningham, campus editor. For entertainment and On Campus items, visit the campus editor. For sports news, ask for Greg Daman, sports editor.
Photo suggestions should go to Dave Hornback photo editor.
northeast photo.
For other questions or complaints, ask for Don Knox, editor, or Paul Sevart, managing editor.
The number of the Kansan business office, which handles all advertising, is 864-4358.
Students' trip may affect beer boycott
By JOHN HANNA Staff Reporter
Two KU students will leave today on a trip that could determine whether a boycotet of the Adolph Coors Co. will be expanded at the University of Kansas.
LaDale George, Richmond Heights, Mo., junior and David Epstein, Prairie Village sophomore, will spend a day in Golden, Colo., at the Coors Plant. Coors will pay for the trip.
THE ASSOCIATION OF University Residence Halls, the hall governments of five residence halls and the KU Panhellenic Association have boycotted Coors since December. Their remarks made in Paperback by William K. Coors, chairman of the board of the company.
The Student Senate and the Interfraternity Council also considered boycots in April, but both groups tabled proposals until further investigation of the matter.
George, a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, said yesterday that he had been working for a boycott since he learned of Coors' remarks in March. Epstein is a member of the Student Senate Minority Affairs Committee and said he was going along as an impartial observer.
"The boycot will be affected, but to what degree is undetermined," George said.
DURING A SPEECH IN February, it was reported that Coors had said that African blacks were "intellectually inferior" to American blacks. Coors has apologized for the remarks and has said they were taken out of context when published in the Rocky Mountain News.
In April, Coors filed a $150 million libel suit against the Rocky Mountain News because of the treatment of the comments. The case has not been settled.
John Seese, Coors manager of community affairs in Golden, said the company had suggested the trip in April. Seese could not say how much the trip would cost the company but said Coors would pay for at least air fare and hotel accommodations.
"We don't want any organization boy-cotting or down-talking Coors," he said. "All we ask is that they do it on a factual basis."
GEORGE SAID HE AND Epstein would try to determine whether Coors' remarks reflected the company's general attitude. If they do, he said, he will push for an expanded list of candidates.
boycote at RCU.
During the trip, Epstein and George will meet with members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
the National Organization of Women, a Colorado state representative and Peter Coors, the president of the company.
George said they would meet with NAACP and NOW to learn how the groups had dealt with complaints against Coors in the past.
They also will take a tour of the Coors brewery and will be able to talk to employees, said Nancy Williams, national program manager for community relations for the company. Williams arranged the trip.
GEORGE AND EPSTEIN will return to Lawrence on Friday night.
After that, George said, they will write a report on their findings and present it to the Student Senate at its first meeting Sept 12. They also will present their report to the Kansas Union Memorial Board Corporation and the Interfraternity Council.
In April, the Student Senate tabled a petition to the Kansas Union Memorial Board Corporation until after the trip.
The petition asked the board not to purchase Coors beer or related products, not to enter into a contract with Coors and not to have a "joint gathering" that was sponsored by Coors or where Coors products were served.
The Interfraternity Council also in April tabled a proposal for a boycott with similar provisions.
BUT EARLIER THAT month, the AURH and the hall governments of Gertrude Sellards Pearson, Corbin, Hashinger, Lewis, Oliver and Templin hells approved boycotts.
The Panhellenic Association also voted unanimously to support a boycott.
Tom Shellen, Shawne Mission junior and a Coors Campus representative, could not say whether the boycott had cost Coors much money over the summer. But, he said, the company might have lost some valuable exposure on campus.
he also could not say how much a campus boycott would affect Coors because the company did not expect one, he said.
"We don't feel it's justified to happen," he said.
Epstein said the boycott might have lost some of its impact because of the absence of action on it during the summer. The issue, he said, is less immediate now than it was in the spring.
"The momentum hasn't stopped," he said. "Racial problems never go on vacation."
But George disagreed.
Joe Wilkins III/KANSAN
Joe Winters in CAA
A fire broke out last night near a sidewalk south of Learned Hall (left) and destroyed 10 evergreen bushes and two small trees. The fire began shortly after 9 p.m. and was put out minutes later by firefighters from the Lawrence Fire Department (above). Acting Captain Bob Burton said the fire did about $600 damage to the bushes, which were in a 18 by 25 foot area. He said he did not immediately know the cause of the fire. Three sidewalk lights near the fire were out, possibly because of an electrical short. KU police said.
Sex abuse of children said to be rising
Staff Reporter
BY SUZANNE BROWN Staff Reporter
Sexual abuse of children is a crime whose proportions are only beginning to be realized, a psychologist from a local mental health center said yesterday.
center said Jacob Waugh. "If sexual abuse were a childhood disease, it would be a national epidemic," said Joyce Everhart, a psychologist from the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center and an instructor at the University of Kansas.
Everhart spoke yesterday at the third annual Kansas Head Start Training Conference at the Lawrence Holidome Convention Center. Head Start is a federally-financed program that offers pre-school and day care for children from low-income families.
"These are conservative figures," she said.
EVERHART TOLD THE group of mostly pre-school teachers that recent statistics showed as many as one in four girls and one in ten boys in the United States were sexually abused before they were 18.
The numbers are based upon surveys of adults, asking them to detail their childhood sexual experiences. The actual number of cases of sexual abuse confirmed by state agencies is much lower.
Sexual abuse of children can range from inappropriate touching to incest. Everhart said, but the less serious forms of abuse have rarely been reported in the past. This is now changing. More people today are becoming alert to possible sexual abuses, she said.
THE NUMBER OF SEXUAL abuse cases reported in Lawrence to the Social and Rehabilitation Services has increased in the last two years. Donna Flory, a representative at SRS, said that the agency received 27 reports of possible sexual abuse in 1982. In 1983, the number grew to 59.
Susan Eakins, a representative from SRS who spoke at the Head Start Convention, said that it wasn't the sexual abuse that was on the rise, but the reporting of it.
'I think it's always been pretty common,' she said.
sue said:
The child abuse center at SRS now receives more than 50 reports a month from Lawrence of possible child abuse or neglect. Of these, Flory said that 15 percent to 20 percent led to actual confirmation of abuse.
I worry said that only a few investigations ever led to criminal prosecution because the state agency usually intervened before the child was in grave danger from beating or neglect
SEXUAL ABUSE RECEIVED national attention last spring when seven teachers in a private pre-school in southern California were charged with hundreds of crimes of torture and sexual abuse of their students over a ten-year period.
over a ten-year period. Some of the torture methods alleged during the court hearing included drugging the children, forcing them to pose for pornographic photographs and making ominous threats to ensure the children's silence.
The horrors detailed in the California case brought child abuse to the forefront of public discussion. But Everhart said that child abuse needn't be severe before it became a crime.
crime.
"Often the parents who are sexually abusing children are hose who have a very close relationship with them." Everhart said. Such abuse might be excessive fondling or touching, she said.
MARY WILEY. A SPOKESWOMAN from a handicapped children's unit at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said that the handicapped child was abused because parents' frustration or ignorance about the child's condition sometimes turned to violence.
The parents of handicapped children might need assistance from state or private programs to prevent such outbursts, Wiley said.
said.
"We're looking at stopping it before it ever starts," she said.
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