A kick in the pants
All three KU place-kickers say their confidence is sagging and their confusion is growing because coaches have shuffled kickers in an attempt to establish a better kicking game.
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For members only
The KU-K-State football game this weekend also plays an important role in a membership-drive competition between the Manhattan and Lawrence chambers of commerce.
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Zippity do dah
My, oh my! What a wonderful day. Today's high temperature should be in the low 70s under mostly sunny skies with soothing southeasterly breezes.
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Vol. 97, No. 40 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Friday
October 17,1986
Schlafly and Weddington debate feminist concerns
By SHANE A. HILLS
Staff writer
Phyllis Schlafly and Sarah Weddington evogged groans, laughter, applause and hisses from a standing-room-only audience in the Kansas Union Ballroom last night.
Schlaffly, a staunch oracle of the conservative philosophy, and Weddington, a liberal leader of the feminist movement, debated and then answered questions from the audience.
The debate was sponsored by the University of Kansas Student Lecture Series.
Weddington, who in 1973 argued before the Supreme Court in Roe vs. Wade that women should have the right to choose whether to have an abortion, said she was concerned that someday women might lose that right if the Supreme
Court justices were replaced.
"The last abortion case kept the law intact with a 5 to 4 decision," she said.
"That's why I'm a strong supporter of mandatory life-support systems for the justices," she joked.
Schildfly, however, said, "It saddens me that the number one goal of your mother's liberation is to keep the right to kill your unborn baby."
Weddington said life began at birth, not conception.
During the debate, a woman, sitting with a baby on her lap, took the baby outside when the baby took to cry and annoy the listeners.
In a press conference before the debate, Schlaffy said the women's movement taught women to put their own self fulfillment above any other goal.
Neither Schlafly nor Weddington thought the women's movement had been the strongest cause of a divorce rate in the United States.
"I think the high divorce rate stems from a much more complicated set of circumstances than Weddington's movement." Weddington said.
Weddington said women had made significant strides toward equality in the last 20 years.
Schlafly said the chief cause of the high divorce rate was easy divorce laws.
"We can now vote, get credit in our name, go out for any sports, go to any graduate school, or choose a form of employment," she said.
Schlaffly opposed any law that would require the government to set wage standards.
Feminist attorney Sarah Weddington, right, makes her opening statement in a debate against Phyllis Schlafly, left, a leading opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment. Kris Kurtenbach, center, student body vice president, moderated the debate, which more than 800 people attended yesterday in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Group says concert is set for Nov.11
By SALLY STREFF
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A benefic
rock concert featuring John Fogerty.
Stephen Stills and George Thorgood
is scheduled for Nov 11 at Allen Field
House, members of a KU student
organization announced yesterday.
Members of Youth for Vietnam Vets said at a news conference at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Kansas City, Mo., that they had received financing for the concert from the Paralyzed Veterans of America. Tickets for the concert went on sale yesterday morning.
Proceeds from the concert will go to the Paralyzed Veterans of America, a national, non-profit organization.
"We want to show that young people can give something back," Krueger said at the news conference.
The money would create scholarships for the children of Vietnam veterans who were killed or disabled in action or are prisoners of war or missing in action, said Craig Krueger. Sioux City, Iowa, graduate student, and one of the concert's organizers.
look at how the new conference The three singers are performing without pay but may want their expenses paid. Krueger said.
Last month, Krueger and Reggie Estell, Overland Park law student, asked KU's Student Senate for a $45.301 non-interest loan to cover
preliminary costs, such as the bands' expenses and stage construction. The Senate refused the request
Mike Delaney, associate director for development of the Paralyzed Veterans of America at its national headquarters in Washington, D.C., said the organization had not decided
how much money to give to Youth for Vietnam Vets.
He said the organization's officials would decide after receiving letters of confirmation from everyone involved in the concert, including performers.
Delaney said the organization
didn't want to rely on verbal agreements and then face extra costs after the concert.
"Until we get something in writing, we can't make a formal financial decision," he said. "We anticipate those confirmations in three to four days."
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Reggie Estell, left, Overland Park law student, and Craig Krueger, Sioux City, Iowa, graduate student, announced yesterday that a benefit concert for the children of Vietnam veterans was scheduled for Nov. 11 at Allen Field House. The concert will feature John Fogerty, George Thorgood and Stephen Stills.
Dalaney said Krueger had been working to obtain written confirmations and send them to Washington. He praised the work of Krueger and Estell, who have been trying to organize a concert at KU for more than 14 months.
"We think it's very heartening to see young students interested in helping Vietnam vets," he said.
Tickets are on sale at all CATS outlets in Kansas City and Topeka. In Lawrence, tickets are on sale at Liberty Hall and Allen Field House ticket office. Tickets cost $17.50, plus a service charge.
Tim Griffith, a manager at Liberty Hall, said 100 tickets had been sold as of 3 p.m. yesterday Diana Wehmeyer, ticket manager at the field house, said 93 tickets for the concert had been sold there yesterday.
Gary Hunter, assistant athletic director, said a contract between the University and Youth for Vietnam Vets for the use of the field house on Nov. 11 had not been signed yet.
Officials say repeat of riot not expected
By COLLEEN SIEBES
Staff writer
Tomorrow's KU vs. K-State football game marks the second anniversary of a Manhattan riot involving students from the rival schools.
But Manhattan officials and tavern managers said yesterday that they didn't expect a similar incident.
The 1984 riot sent 20 students and six police officers to the hospital.
Alvin Johnson, director of the Riley County Police Department, said law enforcement officials did not anticipate any problems either. Additional police officers have not been assigned, he said.
Johnson said an appropriate number of patrolmen always was assigned to regulate post-game celebrating in Aggieville, an area of the city lined with taverns.
Manhattan Mayor Rick Mann said he was confident that what happened two years ago would not happen again. Mann recently invited several K-State students, tavern owners, merchants and police department officials from Manhattan to a luncheon to discuss ways to prevent another outbreak.
Mann reiterated a few recommendations made by a task force that he
appointed after the riot two years ago.
The group, composed of Kate students, Manhattan residents and law enforcement officials, met four times.
The task force urged that tavern employees carefully watch the ages and number of people entering the bars and prevent people from taking alcohol from the premises. They also recommended that taverns with outside beer gardens replace glassware with plastic.
Two years ago, people threw glass pitchers and mugs at one another. One patrolman's face was cut by a beer can that was thrown at him.
The group also requested that merchants in areas that draw large crowds prevent excessive trash accumulation that could cause a fire. One police department employee said overcrowding at the game two years ago would have prevented a fire truck from reaching a fire.
Geoff Gobble, manager of Brothers, 1120 Moro Rd., said he did not foresee any problems but had scheduled an extra doorman and an extra employee to regulate the crowds inside the bar.
Experts say abused often resist aid
By RHONDA LINDQUIST
Special to the Kansan
Editor's note: this is the second story in a two-day series on domestic violence.
Law enforcement officials who respond to domestic disturbance calls may find themselves facing a wall of resistance, and may need to effectively deal with a barrier to effectively dealing with abuse.
Both the victim and abuser may attack officers who intervene. One of every five police officers who dies on duty is killed while responding to a domestic disturbance, according to FBI statistics.
Ron Lolin, assistant Lawrence police chief,
said, "Most people with whom we deal in domestic situations are trying to work out the
issues. We are seen as an unwelcome third party."
"Sometimes you'll get two of them on
Johnsons, said Douglas County Sheriff Rex
Johnson.
Lawrence police and the Douglas County Sheriff often deal with the same couples repeatedly Officers know that an arrest often does not deter an abuser from further violence.
Officers know the abuser usually will be released within 24 hours, enraged because of the arrest, confident that he will not be punished, and will be within striking distance of his victim.
Victims often refuse to press charges, and even if an abuser is prosecuted, he rarely will be put in jail.
Lawrence police respond to about 40 reports of domestic violence each month, records indicate.
Neighbors, not victims, usually report domestic disturbances. Olin said. Most
domestic disturbances involve adults, but all potentially violent and violent acts between children or adult family members or people are considered domestic disturbances, he said.
A 1983 study of domestic violence conducted by the Lawrence Police Department indicated that Lawrence police officers made eight arrests for every 100 reports of domestic violence they responded to. Officers reported that they saw evidence of physical violence in 26 percent of the 560 cases reported in 1983.
When that study was conducted, a police officer could not arrest an abuser unless the police officer witnessed the abuse or the abuse was enough to be considered a felony. Oln said.
To be a felonious incident, an attacker has to make a threat with a deadly weapon, inflict abuse with a deadly weapon, or the attacker causes and cause permanent injury or displacement.
A law enforcement official now may arrest an abuser if the officer thinks that the person is committing or has committed assault or battery and thinks that the person may cause injury to himself or to others, or damage to property.
"Before the law change, police couldn't arrest him even if the victim was laying on the floor and he was standing above her with a bloody hand," said Barb Smith, former community facilitator of Women's Transitional Care Services and now executive director of the Lawrence United Fund.
The 1984 law has changed the way Lawrence police handle domestic violence
But a 1984 law change allows officers to arrest an abuser for misdemeanor assault or battery
cases in some limited circumstances. Olin said.
Olin said, "There is a great deal of police discretion involved.
The sheeriff's department responds to one or two domestic disturbances a month. Johnson said, and an abuser is not always arrested.
"Some people are perfectly willing to live in a violent situation and there is nothing we can do."
One case of abuse has been reported to KU police since the beginning of the school year. That report resulted in arrest, said KU police spokeswoman Lt. Jeanne Longaker.
If visible signs of abuse are apparent or if the abuse was intentional and the victim wants the abuser arrested, KU police will make an arrest, she said.
Except in cases of extreme or frequent abuse, the policy of area law enforcement officials is to let the victim decide whether her abuser should be arrested.
Some women really do not want their abusers arrested, said Joyce Grover, WTCS staff member. Many others do not request the arrest because they fear their abuser will spend little time in jail and may seek revenge when released.
Abused women at the shelter occasionally tell Grover of instances where police do not make an arrest even when the woman requests it, she said.
"The law is only as good as the individual officer," she said. "Some, but certainly not all police officers, have biases that affect how they handle domestic disturbances."
A study conducted from early 1881 to mid-1982 by the Police Foundation, a non-
See RESPONSE, p. 5, col. 1
Abused woman shares tale of escape from fear
Special to the Kansan
By RHONDA LINDQUIST
The following story, the last of two parts,
was compiled from three separate
compilers.
Mary is a fulltime KU student. After 13 years of abuse, she and her husband
Some details of Mary's testimony have been omitted to protect her identity. For the same reason, her real name is not used.
Sometimes it was just a slap, but he had no right. One time, he came up to me, cooked his finger like a gun and pointed it at me and knocked the police. I gonna blow your head off.
The police intervened about 10 times during our marriage. For every time the police were called, there were about 25 times that they weren't.
During the last year before I left, the abuse was every day. If it wasn't physical, it was verbal.
I was losing it. There were times I would just collase from exhaustion. After a really bad fight, I'd black out and sleep for two days straight. I thought about it. I thought about killing him. That's when I knew I had to leave.
I took the kids and went to the shelter. It was really hard. No matter how horrible it was, you still grieve that loss. It's like I've
These men convince you that you are unattractive, undesirable, stupid — that no one else would want anything to do with you; is their way of keeping you attached to them.
lost one life and gained another.
He would have done anything to get me to stay. After I left, he cried a lot. He actually got down on his hands and knees and grabbed me around the knees and begged.
The kids live with my husband. I got custody originally. But he kept fighting it. So I said, 'OK.' I will do anything to avoid that man.
One thing I can say about him is that he is an excellent father. He never abused the kids. He has the money and the support system to care for them. I don't have that.
I see the kids when I can. Sometimes he won't let me see them. The kids amuse me as the child goes.
Just last December, I went to pick up the kids. He chased me down the road with a knife and cut my heater炉. When I arrived in town (anonymy) sheriff. be acted like it was no big deal.
Within the past year, he kept calling me and saying, 'If you don't come talk to me, I'm going to get you.' I called the (Lawrence) police. The officer told me, 'I think it's best you just pick up and start over again somewhere else, because he's never going to leave you alone.'
He said he couldn't do anything about the phone calls because my ex-husband was calling from outside the city limits.
See MARY, p. 5, col. 5