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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL. 102.NO.11
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1992
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Second witness testifies in hearing
1991 law school graduate says Tonkovich used grades to pressure her into oral sex
By Lynne McAdoo and KC Trauner
Kansan staff writers
A 1991 KU School of Law graduate yesterday testified that law professor Emil Tonkovich used comments to pressure her into performing gretles.
In the second day of dismissal hearings for Tonkovich, Tamnee McVey said that after a party in the summer of 1988, Tonkovich intimidated her into performing oral sex at a campus parking lot and two months later made two harassing phone calls.
Lisa Ford, Tonkovich's attorney, denied McVey performed oral sex for the law professor.
MeVey testified that she waited to voice her complaint to Robert Jerry.
dean of the law school, until the day after she graduated because she feared retaliation from Tonkovich.
She first supplied a written statement about the alleged harassment to Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, on Aug. 22, 1991.
McVey testified that in July 1988, her first year in law school, she was invited to a classmate's party, where Tonkovich was also a guest. At the party, McVey talked at length with Tonkovich outside and later inside the apartment, she said.
Tonkovick conducted McVey's cross-examination and used that time to attempt to rebut McVey's testimony. Questioning her account of the party, he referred to two affidavits from students at the party that stated
McVey flirted with Tonkovich throughout the evening. She denied the students' allegations.
McVey said that when she left the party to go home, Tonkovik walked her to her car and asked whether grades were important to her.
"I made me feel uncomfortable that he was talking about grades with me," she said.
"Walking down the steps, he put his arm around me," she said. "I felt uncomfortable, but I didn't say anything, I didn't want to make any waves I did not want to offend him.
During their walk, Tonkovich talked about grades at two separate occasions and also kissed her, McVey said.
McVey said that after they got back in the car, Tonkovich unzipped his pants, pulled out his penis and said, 'Why don't you do something for
MeVeyten said, "I didn't think I had any choice. We had talked about grades and then it all just kind of clicked in my head. In the few seconds we were talking. I felt that I was backed into a corner and I didn't have any choice."
She also testified that while she was performing fellatio, Tonkovich put his hand down her pants.
Tonkovich said that there were discrepancies between McVey's testimony yesterday, her written statement submitted to Brinkman and an April 23 Kansan article that featured her allegation.
Tonkovich, who last week accuse McVey of having an "ever-changing" story, said that McVey's written statement did not include some details of her testimony, including her accusation that he put his hand down her pants. Through questioning, Tonkovich established that McVey also did not write anything about a walk to and from Potter Lake.
McVey said her written statement had merely summarized her allegation. She said she did not give all the details because she thought it was not necessary and because she was humiliated and embarrassed about what had happened.
The Kansan article also did not include the part of her allegation detailing the walk to Potter Lake and pouch putting his hand down her pants.
Tonkovic alleged through questioning that McVey had made additions to her original statement to bolster an otherwise implausible story.
McVey testified that one night in
September 1988. Tonkovich tele-
vice director at her home. She said she
He called ten minutes later and again asked to come over, this time suggesting they go for a drive, she said. She again refused, and he hung
After Tonkovich completed his cross-examination, two members of the Tenure and Related Problems Committee asked McVey questions.
McVey told E.P. Johnsen, professor of educational psychology and research, that she had not received in her training a course from the Office of Affirmative Action.
John Michel, professor of speech- language-hearing, asked McVey why she told her story to the Kansan and the Kansas City Star.
"I went out of frustration with the administrative process," she said. "It seemed the University was trying to sweep the whole issue of sexual harassment under the rug."
Fear no more lightning bolts Library roofs lined with protective copper rods
By Christine Laue Kansan staff writer
New crowns of copper spikes and cables are perched atop Watson Library and Spencer Research Library. They line the roofs, serve to protect the buildings from damage, and are also used as a fire that destroyed Hach Auditorium in June 1981.
That fire led the University to install lightning protection systems at the two libraries. The three-week installation was completed yesterday.
The University contacted John Godwin, owner of Godwin Lighting Inc., to install the rods. Godwin previously had done work at the KU campus, as well as the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans and Disney World and Epcot Center in Orlando, Fla., the town where the business is based.
Having such a repertoire and being the third generation in the family business, Godwin knows lightning.
"He loves to talk to you about lightning," said Bill Mitchell, associate special collections librarian at
"Godwin knows everything from statistics on lightning to its physics," Mitchell said.
Godwin said, "You have one kind of electricity in the sky and one kind of electricity in the ground. Lightning is the neutralization of two fields of electricity of different potentials."
He compared electricity in the sky and on the ground to the negative and positive charges on a car battery. If cables connected to each terminal on the battery are positioned near each other, an arc of electricity is produced between the two cables, he said. Lightning is the similar arc that connects the electricity in the sky with that on the ground.
Robert Curry, lab director in the department of physics and astronomy, said the terminals attracted electrical charges from the earth because copper was a better conductor than a tree, for example. The terminals then diffuse the charges rather than allow them to dissipate. Thus this device reduces the probability that lightning will strike.
But if lightning were to strike, the electrical charge would pass down the cables to the ground rod.
"There has never been enough lightning to blow out a lightning protection system." Godwin said.
Allen Wiechert, University director, said more lightning rods would be installed in the future.
Atop the roof of Spencer Research Library, John Godwin, owner of Godwin Lightning Inc., checks one of the lightning rods he and his crew have been installing. Mitchell, associate special collections librarian, watches. Godwin estimated there were 45, 12-inch rods on the Spencer roof.
Daron J. Bennett / KANSAN
Cross country athlete struck injured by car
By Tiffany Lasha Hurt and David Dorsey
Kansan staff writers
A KU cross country athlete was in serious condition yesterday evening at the University of Kansas Medical Center from an injury accident that occurred Wednesday afternoon at 23rd and Louisiana streets.
Nineteen-year-old Jeremy McClain, Overland Park sophomore, was taken by helicopter to the Med Center after being treated at Lawrence Memorial Hospital for multiple fractures to his left leg.
Gary Schwartz, KU cross country coach, said McClain had surrey Wednesday night.
"He was in surgery until really late," Schwartz said. "There was some concern that the swelling would cause a loss of circulation in his left leg, which is why he is at the Med Center. At this point, his doctors said his left leg seems to be stable and circulation seems to be good.
"His doctors said it's going to be a long and painful recovery, but the important thing now is that things are looking
Schwartz said McClain would probably remain hospitalized through next weekend.
According to police reports, McClain was in the crosswalk of 23rd and Louisiana streets when a vehicle crossing the intersection heading west struck McClain, throwing him into another vehicle that was waiting to turn left onto Louisiana Street.
Christian Watson, 28, was driving the vehicle that struck McClain.
"I saw that the light was yellow, and I decided to enter the intersection," he told police. "I sped up. I know you're not suppose to enter the intersection on a yellow light, but I thought I could make it. I didn't see what color the light was when I entered the intersection. It might have been red."
Watson also told police he did not see McClain until he entered the crosswalk.
As I entered the intersection, I saw the runner so I slammed on the breaks," he told police. "I know I was skidding when I hit him. He was in the crosswalk."
Watson told police he took McClain to Lawrence Memorial Hospital immediately after the accident.
"The runner hit the silver Mustang, and as he was standing. I walked up to him and he said, 'Take me to the hospital.' So I put him into my car and took him to the hospital." Watson told police. "I know you're not suppose to leave.
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KU not listed in magazine's best-buy survey
AFL-CIO endorses Clinton
Bill Clinton, once scorned by some unions as a right-to-work governor from a low-wage state, declared himself as a protector of U.S. workers yesterday as he picked up the endorsement of the AFL-CIO.
See story. Page 8.
Surprise and skepticism were some of the campus reactions to the University of Kansas' absence from *Money magazine*'s survey of the nation's top 100 best college buys.
By J.R. Clairborne Kansan staff writer
"It is very shocking to hear that you're not going to one of the top 100 schools in the nation," said Cal Jones, Kansas City. M., senior. "It surprises me because it seems like KU has a lot of prestige. We have a number of fields that are ranked among the top in the nation."
The survey is included in Money's third- annual college guide to be on newsstands Sept. 7.
Jones, an architecture major, said he came to KU because of the architecture program's
strong reputation.
Masud, a business major, said that a March *Newweek* issue had ranked KU's electrical engineering program No. 8 in the nation; aerospace engineer business was ranked in the top 50.
Saud Masud, Pakistan senior; shared Jones' astonishment.
The survey, which placed Rice University in Houston in the top spot for the second consecutive year, also included Northeast Missouri State College, the University of Missouri at Columbia and University of Missouri at Rolla.
"It's amazing! I don't believe it." he said.
Missouri Rolla's presence in the top 100 surprised Tarq Chowdhury, Bangladesh junior.
Chowdhury, who is an electrical engineering major, said he
had the choice of attending either KU or Missouri-Rolla.
As shocked as some students were, administrators saw no threat posed by the survey.
He said some of the factors in that survey included faculty-to-student ratio, room-and-board costs and tuition.
Tom Hutton, associate director of news and public issues at University Relations, said although he had not seen the published version of the survey, he knew last year's survey as a formula based on quantitative analysis to rank institutions.
By number crunching, or assigning values to the various factors and plugging the values into a formula, *Money* uses the data collected to get its results. Hutton said. Because of KU's in-state admissions policy, KU always scores poorly in
the selective admissions category, he said.
David Amber, vice chancellor of student affairs, recounts how the magazine's recent after last year's survey was published.
Ambler said by using only value-based criteria, Money left out the aspects that many institutions considered their best assets, especially KU.
"We don't fit into their formula as they have it now," Hutton said. "But we know we are a good institution and what Money magazine says is not going to change things."
"There is no way you can quantify our wholesome atmosphere or the conducive environment for learning that exists on Mount Oread for students without visiting the campus," he said. "You have to come visit KU."
Tuition best buys
Money magazine has rated the 100 best buys for a college education in its third annual college guide.
1 Rice University
2 New College of the University of South Florida
3 University of Washington
4 Hanover College
5 California Institute of Technology
7 Georgia Institute of Technology
8 Buttgers College
9 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
16 Northeast Missouri State College
75 West Virginia State College
16 Notreat Missouri State College
57 University of Missouri at Columbia
79 Drayton College
79 Drury College
24 Washington Avenue, Dalla
University of Missouri in St. Louis
Source: Magazine Michael D. Ries / KANSAN