WEDNESDAY, OCT.24, 2001
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 5A
Policy: Revisions being considered
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Danilee Dempsey-Swopes, interim director of the office of equal opportunity, said information about whether anyone had been disciplined under the policy was not readily available yesterday.
"We've investigated some cases, but I don't know if they've resulted in discipline," she said.
Rose Marino, associate general counsel, said the University's policy was undergoing revision.
"The University's racial and ethnic harassment policy was initially written before these cases came out," she said. The University's policy was written in 1990, two years before the R.A.V. case.
"Certainly, First Amendment concerns have been noted," she said.
Dempsey-Swopes said the harassment policy was being brought in line with current constitutional rulings. The new policy should pass constitutional scrutiny in light of the R.A.V. case because it would have a revised
definition of harassment, she said.
"The University can still control speech if it interferes with the ability to work or learn," she said. "As always, you can regulate the time, place and manner of speech."
Other revisions to the policy will change the procedure for handling complaints and allow the administration to investigate, negotiate and mediate before holding a hearing, Dempsey-Swopes said.
She said revision of the policy began about three years ago, and she said she hoped the new policy would be in place sometime during the next school year.
Justin Mills, student body president, said he and other student senators worked in 1999 to broaden the University's policy. He said the senators wanted to expand the policy to make speech to which someone took offense a violation, even if that was not the intent of the speaker.
"It's important that students feel comfortable at the University," he
"The University can still control speech if it interferes with the ability to work or learn."
or learn."
Danilee Dempsey-Swopes interim director of the office of equal opportunity
said. "When you have incidents of hate crimes and hate speech, it makes people feel uncomfortable."
He pointed to harassment directed at Arab students on campus after the Sept. 11 attacks as an example of speech that should be regulated.
"Students were feeling uncomfortable and there was nothing they could do," he said.
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Fast: Speeches, movie scheduled for event
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their response to the events of Sept. 11. The women initially expressed sympathy for the United States, she said, and asked America not to respond with strikes and invasions.
invasions.
Instead, America did respond in that manner, and Bayard de Volo said military strikes wouldn't necessarily lessen global attacks but would increase support within Afghanistan for the Taliban.
Haskinson said the KU Greens decided to organize the fast and teach-in after already organizing peace rallies and marches. She said students at Northwestern University in Chicago and Humboldt State University in California were also fasting yesterday and today.
"We don't think the bombing is appropriate in the current situation where millions are facing death," she said about the
situation of the citizens of Afghanistan. "The situation was bad before Sept. 11. The situation is worse now, and our concern is with them."
The first professor on today's schedule is David Gottlieb, professor of law, who will speak from 10 to 11 a.m. about the obligation of peacemakers to honor victims and the truth of violence. Maia Kipp, lecturer for Slavic languages and literatures, will speak from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. about Islamic Folk Wisdom and Soviet Russia.
Students will watch and discuss the Iranian film Color of Paradise at 3 p.m. and will observe a half-hour of silence during the last 30 minutes of the fast.
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