Shady characters
The KU Volleyball team defeated Missouri in three games last night as about 600 fans were treated to free sunglasses and a rousing time at Allen Field House.
The first face-off
Story, page 11
The two sets of candidates running for student body president and vice president met last night to debate the issues facing Student Senate in what will be a shorter-than-usual term.
Twice as nice
Story, page 7
Today should be mostly sunny with a high temperature around 70. The low will drop to the mid 40s tonight, but it should be calm and clear again tomorrow.
Details, page 3
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 48 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Wednesday
October 29,1986
KJHK disc jockey files complaint
Bv KIRK KAHLER
Staff writer
The disc jockey of a women's radio program has accused student-operated radio station KJHK-FM of sexual discrimination and has filed a complaint with the KU office of affirmative action.
Kiera Harris, the disc jockey of the program "Womonsong," said this week that she filed the complaint this month after her show because she felt that to what she called a less-desirable time slot.
The show had aired from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday but was moved to the 3 to 5:30 p.m.
David Hale, program director for KJHK,
said the station moved the show because
the nature of the show was inconsistent with
the original agreement between the station and
Hale called the format "lesbian-oriented." and said he considered it too narrow and too extreme.
Harris said, "I hope to reveal and resolve any existing sexual discrimination at KJHK
According to Carla Anderson, manager of
the affirmative action office, complaints filled in her office are not public information. She did say, however, that her office reviews information given by complainants and meets with both parties to resolve any existing conflicts.
Harris said that in her letter of proposal for the program, she said she would present a show featuring women's music because such music was generally disregarded.
She said that this was her original intent and that she didn't think she had violated her agreement with the station. Harris has been working at the station since May and has been disc jockey of "Womonsong" since June.
He cited the program's opening song, which contains the lyrics, "Here come the lesbians/Here come the leaping lesbians. 'We're going to get you if we can.'"
"The primary purpose of the program is to promote and provide women's music to the community," she said. "It provides a place for expression concerns and anger through music."
Hale said the show originally was to be a program of women's music. However, he said, Harris changed the format.
The song was too extreme for the station Hale said. He also said the "lesbian oriented" format was too narrow and didn'
draw enough insteners.
Harris said the show had a following.
"Dave obviously hasn't listened to enough of the show," she said.
She said she didn't consider the music on "Womonson" primarily lesbian because she didn't put music into such categories. She doesn't emphasize sex, but women's strength.
In addition, Harris said KJIHK management had never told her what songs were
"It (the music) doesn't break down to me because I don't discriminate that way," she said. "Sure, some of the music deals with lesbianism."
Hale also said the time slot was desirable because it was during prime time on a
Hale said KU football games did cut into Harris' show, but not frequently. He said he could remember only two incidents of football games pre-empting the show.
Harris said she was not disappointed with the actual time slot, but she was upset that some KU home football games pre-empted about 90 minutes of her show's time.
Political workers say apathy reigns
"You just have to go out and find them," he said.
By KAREN SAMELSON
In just six days, voters will elect a new governor and decide whether they want liquor by the drink, pari-mutuel wagering and a state-run lottery
That's the reaction many students give, local political workers and a KU political science professor say.
Apathy has been a problem during this year's campaign, said Tom Magee, Kansas City. Mo, senior and vice president of College Republicans.
"This year I think it seems to be worse." Magee said.
Getting students to help with political campaigns has been difficult among those who are voters.
Todd Cohen, Alta Vista junior and acting president of the Kansas Young Democrats, agreed that students were more interested in
However, he said, there are students who are willing to help.
"It's just not a high priority anymore," he said, noting that many students were more concerned about finishing school and finding jobs.
their careers. Cohen said none of the issues seemed to be of significant consequence to students.
"There's nothing that's going to affect you
See today's Decision '86 section
A Kansan guide to the election
take up" he said.
tomorrow when you wake up, 'he said.
Cobee. It was too early. It was bad,
because it came soon after midterms.
Others think it isn't worthwhile to campaign for a candidate if the opponent has a bad reputation.
Students also may be more interested in the politics of their home districts, Cohen said.
Voter registration and housing records indicate that about 27 percent of the students in the Allen Field House precinct, which includes the Daisy Hill residence halls, Jayhawker Towers and Stouffer Place, are registered in Douglas County.
Allan Cigler, associate professor of political science, said it was difficult to evaluate that percentage because no one knew how many of the students registered at
In the 1984 election, about 60 percent of eligible voters in Kansas registered, Cigler said. He also said that, in general, the
number of students who vote is typically 5 or 6 percent lower than the number of voters in the overall population.
Although Cigler and others agreed that students were apathetic, they said that the general population also had shown little interest in politics, especially this year.
Deborah Burns, vice chairman of the Douglas County Democratic Committee, said, "I think everybody's apathetic, not just students."
The only significant race that's competitive now is the gubernatorial race. Cigler said, and even those candidates. Democrat Ted Cruz has taken a lot of people's attention; haven't captured many people's attention.
Burns also said students weren't as involved now as they were when she was president of KU Young Democrats in 1972.
The issues that are under discussion, such as economic development, aren't as salient to the focus of this chapter.
Times have changed since the era of the Vietnam War and Watergate, Cigler said, and the 1986 election doesn't have any national themes.
"I don't think I've ever seen an election this late and this close where there has been less interest on campus and throughout the state," he said.
Stabilizers
James Ciaffin, Provo, Utah, graduate student, looks on as Neil Labute. New York graduate student, stabilizes part of the set for the musical, "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas." The two worked in Crafton-Preyer Theatre yesterday.
Docking criticizes Hayden
United Press International
Hayden of violating the public trust by mailing a brochure to registered voters that
SALINA — In the final debate before the Nov. 4 election, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Docking and Republican candidate Mike Hayden last night shifted their campaigns into overdrive and attacked each other with a vengeance.
See related story p. 3.
During the debate sponsored by the League of Women Voters and affiliated stations of the Kansas State Network, Docking accused
misrepresents Docking's stand on the death penalty.
The brochure includes information based on incorrect state crime statistics and says that had a death penalty been in effect,
See DEBATE, p. 5, col. 1
Preliminary plans for a proposed downtown mall show the building's boun-
daries to be Sixth and Seventh streets on the north and south and by New
Jacobs, a Cleveland developer, yesterday presented preliminary plans.
City receives plans for downtown mall
Tom Schmitz, director of engineering for Jacobs, Visconsi and Jacobs, the mail developer, said the mall would include a Dillard's store and two other major department stores, and an additional 142,000 square feet of leasable space on two retail sales levels.
By JOHN BENNER
Schmitz presented the plans to the Urban Renewal Authority at the base
A Cleveland development company yesterday unveiled its preliminary plan for a proposed mail in downtown Lawrence, marking the first time a complete plan that includes three large retail stores had been formally presented.
Don Jones, a spokesman for the developer, said officials from the two stores had agreed verbally to set up their businesses in the mall. However, Jones said, store officials would not allow the names to be used until they signed lease agreements — a process he said could take more than four months.
In the plan, the proposed mall would be between Sixth and Seventh streets, bordered on the east by New Hampshire and on the west by Kirkwood Street.
Jones said that by incorporating three large stores in the proposed downtown mall, the city could virtually guarantee that a suburban mall would not be built.
For more than 10 years, city officials have discussed various proposals for malls. Officials have worried that a "cornfield mall," on the outskirts of town, would drain the life out of the city's downtown area.
He said a six-story parking garage at the northwest corner of the project would also be included in the proposed plan, but because the site slopes toward the northwest, the garage would actually have a rooftop slightly lower than the westernmost department store.
Schmitz said that this parking, plus a proposed two-level garage underneath the department store farthest to the east, would provide about 1,445 total parking spaces.
Schmitz said the total area of the proposed mall would be about 361,000 square feet and allow space for an area of 24,000 sq ft. It outlines establishments.
Jones said the shopping area of the mall would be as close as possible to Massachusetts Street businesses to create a unified downtown shopping center.
Some downtown Lawrence merchants said they thought that putting parking at the northwest corner of the mall site would isolate shoppers at the mall and would not promote pedestrian traffic between the mall and the rest of the downtown district.
Susan Cairns, owner of the Yarn Barn, 918 Massachusetts St., said she would prefer mall parking to be accessible from Massachusetts Street so customers would be more likely to walk in, mail and at other downtown stores.
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Jones' firm designed a downtown mall project for Wassau, Wis., which some Lawrence residents visited
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See MALL. p. 5, col. 6