University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Monday, December 1, 1980 Vol.91, No.67 USPS 650-640
The crosses at the Calvary Temple at 29th Street Terrace and Louisiana Street served as an unusual perch for these birds yesterday afternoon.
Kansan positions now available
Applications for business and editorial staff positions on the spring 1891 Kansan now are available in 105 Flint Hall, at the Student Senate office in 1058 of the Kansas Union, and at the office of student affairs in 220 Strong Hall.
Completed applications are due by noon tomorrow in 105 Flint.
A LITTLE COOLER
It will be cloudy today, with a high near 50, according to the KU Weather Service. It will become sharply colder by noon, and the temperature will fall 40 by midnight. A storm of rain today. Winds will be gusty and from the north at 20-30 mph.
Vandals fewer in halls
and from the north at 20:30 pm.
The low tonight will be near 20, and there is a 30 percent chance of light snow.
By ROSE SIMMONS Staff Reporter
snow. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy and unseasonably cold, with a high of 31.
After three consecutive years of increased vandalism in KU residence halls, hall directors predict a decrease for the 1980-81 year.
Legislature to pick'81 leaders
In Templin Hall, vandalism on fire extinguishers this semester has surpassed that of the two previous years, according to Glenn Allen, resident director. But overall, Templin vandalism costs are running about even with costs from the same period last year, Allen said.
Vandalism in Ellsworth Hall should be well below the grade for his last year, but Turtle, resident director.
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problems.
Scott Miller, resident director of Oliver Hall,
said that vandalism costs in Oliver were running
one-third below the costs for the same period last
year. But anxieties about finals could push
vandalism costs in Oliver up sharply, he said.
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saw them." Vandalism damage has included a lot of little things like cigarette burns in the carpet, torn furniture and broken chairs," she said.
CHRIS SCHNEIDER, contracts committee chairman for the residence hall government, said peer pressure was responsible for the reduced vandalism in Ellsworth.
MILLER SAID about $1,200 had been spent this semester to replace broken windows, to make major repairs to a hall elevator and to recharge water in washers that were damaged without cause.
reduces an imbalance in when someone sees another person breaking a table or chair, they let them know that it's not all right," he said.
The predicted decrease in vandalism has made hall directors and student hall governments optimistic that the funds used to repair damage can be used for hall improvements.
"We get the most damage during the big pressure periods around final time," he said.
Newly elected members of the 1981 Kansas House and Senate were to convene at 10 this morning in their chambers, then were to break into political party caucuses to choose their leaders for the next two years in the House and the next four years in the Senate
assignments.
Republicans gained momentum in the Nov. 4 elections, adding GOP seats in both houses, but they still must contend with a Democratic
BY KATHY BRUSSELL
brigade without cause.
Jim Chipman, resident director of Joseph R.
Oliver had the greatest vandalism damage of all the residence halls last year. Vandals cost the
TOPEKA (UP1) —The names or those who call the shots in 1981's Legislature will be picked today in the climax of a heated fray, which threatens to snatch power from some familiar
the next four years.
Opportunity importance will be the
Rebublicans' nonnaires for House speaker,
House majority leader, Senate president and
Senate majority leader.
McCollum Hall also has had less vandalism this year, according to Mike Johnston, resident
United States. Recent studies have produced varying estimates of the number of such victims-2 million, 5 million, 15 million.
Quake's aftershock jolts Italy
In the Senate, President Ross Doyen, Concordia, has already aligned his troops, not only ensuring that he will keep his job, but will be working with hand-picked associates.
Collectively and individually, these leaders can control legislation through committee assignments.
Several authorities, including the National League of Cities and the U.S. Conference of
Tuttle said that there were only a few residents who vandalized residence halls.
Mayors, have suggested that half of all American wives will experience some form of violent abuse during their marriage, regardless of their race or socio-economic status.
Pearson Hall, said vandalism in the hall had decreased
from $100,000 last year to $6,000 last year,
the hall more than $6,000 last year.
Arbuthnott served for the past two years as speaker pro tem, a position that entitled him to a special office in the statehouse and a secretary, but kept him out of the legislative limelight.
Arbuthnot, a rancher, said last February that he intended to challenge Lady, a Johnson County engineer, because of an "uneasiness" he detected in the House.
Rita chain-smokes now when she talks about those days, and her eyes well with tears when she remembers the worst of times—the times he nearly killed her.
out. Statistically, Rita Nelson, 42, is only one of an unknown number of battered women in the United States.
A badly contested position in the new Legislature will be that of House speaker. One-tier speaker Wendell Lady, R-Overland Park, began rallying his supporters before the election to prepare for the long-announced opposition to the veteran repent Person. Bob Arbathan R-Haddam
She wears a silver ring on her left hand where her wedding band used to be, and she twists it restlessly as she recalls the night in Fort Knox, Ky., nearly eight years ago.
Ralph had been her husband, the man who was supposed to love her. But somewhere along the way, love had ceased to be enough. For 18 years, she had lived in fear of the next beating and with the horrifying knowledge that she had no way out.
But Rita is more than a statistic.
Panicked residents ran out into the streets and countryside, but many of the 200,000 people left homeless after last week's quake refused to leave their villages.
Battered wives face fear, insecurity and isolation
By United Press International
The strong shock measured 4.3 on the opened Richer scale, far below the 6.8 reading of the initial quake, which damaged or destroyed much of the island, mainly in the central mountains east of Naples.
But kita is more than she's a woman who's now living in Lawrence, continuing her education and working her way back to reality after a long, bad dream of torture and helplessness.
governor. Republicans outnumber Democrats 72 to 53 in the House and 24 to 16 in the Senate.
"Ralph and I had been to a reception, and as usual he had been drinking all night," she said. "On the way home in the car, he started yelling at me and accusing me of being incompetent and an unfit mother. I was scared spitless, but I figured I better not say anything to feed it.
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NAPLES, Italy-A Strong aftershock jolt earthquake-ravaged southern Italy yesterday, exactly one week after last Sunday's temblor devastated the region.
RESCUE HEADQUARTERS in Napoles issued the latest toll from the quake. It put the number of bodies recovered at 2,915, with another 1,547 dead and 849 injured. The estimated number injured was 7,069.
"The minute the car stopped, I got out and ran like crazy into the house. When I opened the door, I accidentally hit our youngest daughter, who was standing behind me. I yelled, "Hey, what is that thing I knew, he came up from behind and grabbed me and started banging my head against the door jam."
mountains east of Naples.
In Naples and Avellino, people who had risked
There were no other reports of casualties, and many of those that were damaged in last week's quake collapsed.
banging my neck well, "For the next hour and a half, I was throw all over the room. I can't begin to tell you what all over me. I remember being thrown over the ironing board and it breaking. At one point, he had me on the floor and the punches were going back and forth. My head hurt so bad I hardly knew where I was, and I was semi-conscious most of the time."
SHE SHUTS her eyes against the memory, and a shudder runs through her body.
returning to undamaged homes rushed out into the streets, many of them screaming in terror when the aftersch泼 hit at 1:42 a.m. CST (8:42 a.m. Italian time.)
Police said Giuseppe Forino, 62, collapsed and died from a heart attack after fleeing from his house with two grandchildren in the village of Madonna dell'Arco.
HER STORY, she stresses, is not one of physical abuse only, but of being victimized by society as she found herself fighting police, court systems, unsympathetic doctors and ever stereotypes as well as her husband.
for instance, after the attack in Fort Knox, when Ralph was in active military duty, Rita went to the base hospital at 3 a.m.
The verbal abuse came first. Ralph accused Rita of being a poor housekeeper, a worse cook and an unfit mother, despite the fact that he gambled away most of his earnings and gave her only $40 a week.
"In spite of bleeding, multiple bruises and complaints of severe head pain, the doctor dismissed me without even attempting to examine or treat me," she said.
"It was two years before I could begin to comprehend what was actually happening. He got me to the point where I was almost convinced I was crazy. If I didn't take a diary and written
"When I insisted on medical assistance, he answered, 'Lady, I see so damn many bitter bites each weekend, you're no exception. You go home and either take your lumps or make
The incident in Fort Knox was not by any means the first one Rita had experienced. The first cycle of abuse had begun shortly after the incident when she and Hala were living in western Kansas.
"After the first two attacks, I was in shock for a long time," it said, running a hand through her short, graying hair.
RITA WAS physically run down and pregnant for the second time when her husband first beat her. He had been drinking and she had made the decision to go back to ways to pick up a prescription for their young son.
things down, I think he would have convinced me of it."
verbal and physical abuse.
"I tried to help find," Rita said. "There were no social services in town at that time. Twice I tried to file assault charges with the police, but they would just look at me and say, 'Lady, what do you want me to do about it?'"
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The next four years were a series of reruns of verbal and physical abuse.
do you with the camera?
She cocked her head and gave one of her what-do-you-think-of-that? looks, then dashed out the butt of her cigarette.
"If it was on the weekend, they'd tell me I had to wait until Monday because I had to have a lawyer file the charges for me," she said. "Of course, that was baloney. Borrowed data didn't know any differently. I had to take their name." That's called diversionary tactics, by the way.
the way.
She smiled, revealing the loss of several side teeth—a casualty of years of malnutrition and beatings, she said.
Like Rita, victims and researchers of wife abuse are almost universal in their criticism of police response to domestic violence calls.
MANY POLICE departments take a hands-off attitude, giving domestic disturbance calls low priority or following a policy of non-arrest in dealing with such cases.
Whether the police will make an arrest in responding to a disturbance call depends on the nature of the crime committed against a woman, according to Ron Olin, Lawrence assistant chief
or point to it. The case of a misdemeanor, which would include simple assault and battery, we either must witness the crime or have one of three other conditions present in order to make an arrest," he said. "These conditions are that the victim is in immediate danger and therefore the crime will be destroyed or that the suspect will leave our jurisdiction immediately."
mentor a felony has been committed, a police officer can investigate and make an arrest on probable cause, Olin said. Aggrieved assault, an attack with a weapon, qualifies as a felony.
"Arrests frequently are not the way to handle domestic disturbances," Olin said. "Even if a
guy is arrested, he can post bond and be back in four to 12 hours, madder than ever. The woman knows that."
A POLICE officer's willingness to make an arrest also depends on whether a woman will take any subsequent action, he said.
"We have a great deal of experience with women who want action taken this minute, and then come down and bail out the same man that night, or drop charges the next day," he said. "The rate against pressing charges is four to one at least, maybe nine to one."
at leeds, Hayley nile mille ofa, Judy Woolfe, a former volunteer for Women's Transitional Care Services, which runs the Lawrence shelter house for battered women, called the reluctance to arrest "totally unjustified."
"Even if nine women don't file charges after an arrest, it's worth the trouble or the work for one." she said.
EXPERTS AGREE that the double standard for the arrest of husbands as opposed to third-party assaultants stems largely from the old notion that a man granted a man the right to "chastise" his wife.
"Otherwise, women end up with nothing at all, no protection. If you're walking down the street and you are assaulted, the man will be arrested and you will have to be told you don't have that protection in your own home."
According to Rita and others like her, this attitude still prevails today, despite the fact that common-law statutes have been obsolete for more than 100 years.
In addition, police officers are hesitant to involve themselves in domestic disturbances because they are potentially dangerous situations for the officers, Olin said.
Nationwide studies have estimated that 20 to 25 percent of police deaths occur during intervention in domestic quarrels between husbands and wives.
In 1978, when a special study was done, Lawrence police made 131 arrests in cases of domestic violence, Olm said.
doubled your walk.
"Of course, that doesn't include the times we just turned around and walked out the door," he said.
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