Thursday, November 2. 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A • Page 3
Residence hall women receive harassing calls
By Rob Pazell
By Rob Pazell
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Jacqueline Pelzel's phone rang at 3:30 a.m. almost every morning for two weeks.
When she or her roommate would answer, the same thing would blare out of the receiver; heavy breathing and loud music.
Whe Pelzel or her roommate said "hello," the caller would hang up.
"It happened for two weeks constantly," said Pelzel, Ellsworth freshman. "We'd get two or three a night, and it was always at 3:30 in the morning."
Pelzel is one of nine female KU students in five residence halls who, according to KU Public Safety Office reports, was harassed by telephone in October. Calls ranged from simple hangups to heavy breathing and threats of physical harm.
Sgt. Troy Malen said that some harassing calls were just routine
pranks but that others could be threatening.
"It gets more serious when there's heavy breathing or threats to do bodily harm," Malen said. "The crime goes from harassment to criminal threat."
He also said some of the harassments might have come inadvertently from telemarketers.
"The computer dialing network is used while the actual telemarketer might be tied up on another call." Mailen said, adding that automatic dialers sometimes called the same number many times and that there often was a delay before the telemarketer spoke.
Leah Fogelberg, Minneapolis, Minn., freshman, said the keys to her room in McCollum Hall were stolen, and she received a threatening call that night — probably from the thief.
"He asked if I wanted my keys back." Fogelberg said. "Then he said, You shouldn't get your keys stolen because that's how girls get
Fogelberg said she wasn't as scared as she was annoyed.
raned."
"It pissed me off because it was really late at night," she said. "And I was the only one in there."
If pleased me on because it was really late at night," she said. "And I was the only one in there." Mailen said students could report phone harassment to the KU Public Safety Office and Network and Telecommunications Services, which is considering implementing a caller ID system for residence hall phones.
Jacqueline Pelzel said the University of Kansas should install caller ID so students could find out who was harassing them.
Fogelberg said she and her roommate were called only once, but they reported the crime and got a phone trace because of the nature of the conversation.
"We weren't sure who took the keys," Fogelberg said. "But we a got a trace on our phone because he talked about rape, and that was kind of a red flag."
Edited by Warisa Chulindra
Gratefully wed and dead
A skeletal bride and groom are part of the Museum of Anthropology's exhibit honoring Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, a time of celebration and remembrance of deceased friends and family, commemorated throughout the Americas. Photo by Jamie Rorer/KANSAN
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Goddesses, witches create course curiosity
'Girl version' of Western Civ interests many
By Jennifer Valadez
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Students interested in women's history also can learn a thing or two about goddesses and witches.
But they may have to wait until next fall.
Women's Studies 320. From Goddesses to Witches, will be offered in the spring, but it already has a waiting list.
"I already have a list full of closed-class openers," said Jasonne Grabher O'Brien, women's studies lecturer. "We've never had this many; it shows that this many students want this sort of class."
Grabher O'Brien said the course dealt with the evolution of the female image from goddesses to witches. Coverage will begin with women recognized in religious systems as goddesses or deities, then transitioned to the end of the Middle Ages and modern period, which deals with witches.
Grabher O'Brien said the class was a survey course that covered women's history from the antiquity period — Fifth Century B.C.— to 1500.
"The reason we're looking at this period of time is that it provides a sense of women's history over periods, and we'll be able to track differences and similarities," she said.
Lisa Bitel, director of women's studies, stressed that the class focused on history.
"It's simply a history of women in premodern Europe.
but with attention to culture, religion and spirituality as well as normal history such as society and politics," she said. "I gave it the name wanting to draw people, and they expected it to be about modern witches and goddesses and those who practice wicca. But it's not; it's a history class."
Bitel said finding the larger themes of women's spirituality became a major issue in the course, which includes topics of goddess worshiping to the religious wars.
"The students will study ways in which women took place in religion, how they observed it and how they used it as a political tool," she said. "It's a girl version of Western Civ."
Bitel said she designed the course in response to Western Civilization courses, which she said left women out of the timelines. She said she hoped
students would benefit from the unique approach to history the course provided — a feminist approach that refers to both men and women, which is not usually taught.
Although the class has a waiting list, Grabber O'Brien said she wanted to keep the number of students lower than 40 because the class would be discussion-based.
"I'm hesitant to go that high," she said. "If it's much beyond 30, because of the discussion element, we'll lose that sense of community, which is important."
Grabher O'Brien said she was enthusiastic about the interest the students had about the course.
"It's an engaging subject, and the students I've talked to seem really excited about it," she said. "I'm looking forward to next semester."
- Edited by Warisa Chulindra
Move could alienate patients, hurt students
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near future. A professor at the Med Center, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing his job, said he had been notified of the move.
"The University and hospital authorities have never been so clear about the place of primary care in their priorities: Do it somewhere else," he said in an e-mail message.
He also said the move had the potential to destroy the ability of both the medical school and the hospital to recruit and train resident physicians and students because they would be away from the Med Center.
Resident physicians are medical school graduates who are training in specific areas before becoming specialists. Primary care physicians provide general health care to patients.
The Med Center administration asked staff members last Wednesday for their opinions on the move, but the administration didn't tell the staff the move could be to Johnson County, Bachman said.
"The way they handled this is just ludicrous," he said. Bachman said moving the family medicine and obstetrics, and gynecology clinics would be acceptable if officials decided to keep the clinics on campus and if the new site was set up efficiently.
He said that although a cardiac transplant team would draw attention and money to the Med Center, he thought the move might not benefit staff, resident physicians, medical students and thousands of patients from Wyandotte County who make up the majority of the Med Center's patients.
"We see thousands of
patients who seek their health care through our clinic that rely on public transportation to get to the Med Center," he said. "If we move, we lose patients, and that is a slap in the face to the community that is already underserved."
Bachman said he feared the move would damage the ability of the University to interest future physicians in primary care medicine.
He said a move to Johnson County, which might happen after the first of the year, would first have to be approved by the Residency Review Committee. The committee accredits residency training programs, which certify students to be specialists. This could cause problems for students applying to resident training programs because the committee will not meet again until March.
and students could enter a program that had not been accredited.
"If we lose our accreditation, the family medical residency at the Med Center could close," he said.
Only a handful of faculty know about the possible move, Bachman said, and resident physicians aren't aware of the proposal. Bachman said that resident physicians had been kept in the dark because hospital officials started interviewing residents yesterday for programs at the school and didn't want to scare resident physicians applying to the program.
Bachman said hospital authorities were forgetting a significant function of the Med Center, which was to teach resident physicians and medical students.
Low membership doesn't bother minority Greeks
Bv J.D. McKee
By J.D. McKee
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
- Edited by Erin Adamson
Members of historically African-American and Hispanic-American fraternities and sororities say low membership and a lack of houses don't pose problems for their organizations.
National Panhellenic Council chapters, which include historically African-American and Hispanic-American fraternities and sororites, choose to have lower membership than the historically white fraternities and sororities because it promotes closer friendship, members say.
"It allows for closer rapport with each other," said Alberta Wright, assistant director of multicultural affairs.
African-American and Hispanic American fraternities and sororites average about seven to eight people per chapter. Many historically white fraternities and sororites have more than 100 active members.
About 3,800 students are involved in the 36 historically white greek organizations, while about 70 members are involved in the 10 historically African-American and Hispanic-American fraternities and sororities on campus. However, only 680 out of the 25,920 students on campus are African-American. There are nearly 600 Hispanic Americans on campus.
Belinda Hinojos, president of Sigma Lambda Gamma, a historically Hispanic-American sorority with eight active members, said it was a positive aspect for her sorority to have so few members.
"It helps because we are close-knit," said Hinojos, Kansas City, Kan., senior. "We know everything about every girl in Sigma Lambda Gamma."
"A lot of people don't even know there's a Latina sorority on campus," she said.
Russell Hayes, public relations chairman for the NPHC and Kansas City, Kan., senior, said another reason
Hinojos said one problem her sorority had was that it didn't go through rush, therefore, it didn't get a lot of exposure.
MINORITY FRATERNITIES
Historically African-American fraternities
2. iota Phi Theta
1. Alpha Phi Alpha
4. Phi Beta Sigma
Historically Hispanic-American fraternity:
1. Sigma Lambda Beta
Historically African-American sororities:
2. Delta Sigma Theta
3. Sigma Gamma Rho
4. Zeta Phi Theta
4. Zeta Phi Theta
Historically Hispanic-American sorority:
1. Sigma Lambda Gamma
membership was low was because some people didn't have the money or the time to join.
"We try to help with the cost, but other than that, most of the hardship goes on the student." Hayes said.
The low membership doesn't make it economically feasible for the chapters to have houses, but Hinojos said she didn't care.
"It's not a priority for us," she said. Wright, a founding member of the University's chapter of the historically African-American Sigma Gamma Rho sorority in 1976, said her sorority went to dinner with a historically white sorority that year and was amazed that many of the women didn't know each other.
Wright said low membership brought the members closer together.
"When you have those numbers, it's more like a family." Wright said.
more like a family". Wright said.
Robert Page, director of multicultural
"You wouldn't have 100 people in your family," he said.
Page said members usually stayed involved even after they graduated.
"There are just as many graduate chapters as undergraduate chapters," he said. "At white chapters, there's not a heavy emphasis on being a part of it after you leave."
Edited by Shawn Hutchinson
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