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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.102,NO.5
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27,1992
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Budig moves to dismiss law professor
Hearings begin this morning
By KC Trauer Kansan staff reporter
For the second time in KU's history, a University committee is conducting hearings on whether to fire a tenured professor.
Chancellor Gene Budig yesterday announced his intent to dismiss Emil Tonkovich, alaw professor.
The Faculty Senate Committee on Tenure and Related Problems starts bearing testimony today in the case of Tonkovich, who is charged by Budig with moral turpitude and behavior that violated professional ethics, which are violations of the University's faculty code of conduct.
The hearings begin at 8 a.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union and are open to the public.
They mark the first time that the committee is considering revoking a professor's tenure since Dorothy Willner, former anthropology professor, was dismissed from KU March 28, 1990. She was accused of willful failure to carry out her academic responsibilities and behavior that violated professional ethics.
Last August, law students alleging sexual harassment file complaints against
Tonkovich, who has taught at KU since 1981, and has been tenured since 1986. At least two of those complaints were dismissed or resolved.
In December Robert Jerry, dean of the School of Law, switched Tonkovich from teaching to research projects.
Budig's intent to fire Tonkovich was announced publicly for the first time yesterday. Budig first told Tonkovich of his decision March 11, said Tom Hutton, acting director of University Relations.
Budget's decision came after recommendations by Jerry, Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs; and Del Shankel, then executive vice chancellor for the Lawrence campus.
Following University regulations,
Tonkovich requested a hearing before the committee to appeal the chancellor's decision after mediation between Tonkovich and the University did not resolve the issue.
Tonkovich requested that the hearings be public, which is the option of the accused faculty member, according to the Handbook for Faculty and Other Unclassified Staff.
The committee will hear the chancellor's complaint, Tonkovich's response and witnesses' testimony.
The hearings are scheduled every Thursday until December, and the location will change occasionally. Wilner's dismissal hearings lasted more than five months.
The committee hearing the case comprises
E. P. Johnsen, professor of educational psychology and research;
*Nancy Dahl, associate professor of biological sciences;*
John Michel, professor of speech-language-hearing;
Delores Ringer, associate professor of theater and film;
Rud Turnbull, professor of special education and courtesy professor of law. Turnbull is committee chair.
After the hearings, the committee will vote to dismiss Tonkovich or dismiss the charges. Both sides can appeal the decision to the Board of Regents, according to the faculty handbook.
Doug Hesse/ KANSAN
Members of three area women's organizations march from Watson Park to South Park last night in support of equality for women. The KU Pro Choice Coalition, the Women's Student Union and the Lawrence chapter of the National Organization for Women sponsored the march and a rally. Eleven speakers, including political candidates Gloria O'Dell and Barbara Ballard, spoke during the rally.
Women call for equality during South Park rally
By Delin Cormeny Kansan staff writer
About 150 people braved unseasonably chilly weather last night to support Lawrence's first celebration of a nationally recognized Women's Equality Day in a rally at South Park.
It was sponsored by the KU Pro-Choice Coalition, the Women's Student Union and the Lawrence chapter of the National Organization for Women.
Twelve speakers addressed the issues of abortion, health, sexual harassment, rape and sexuality, among others, in front of a cheering and mostly female crowd.
The event shifted between informational and political, and three political-office seekers, including U.S. Senate candidate Gloria O'Dell, all made bids for support.
"Especially in light of the upcoming election, it's important to make sure candidates have a platform that includes women's issues and that the legislature is held accountable for these issues." said speaker Connie Burke, who works for Women's Transitional Care Services.
O'Dell sooked on the history of women's
"It makes me sick in my heart to think we are still fighting for things we were fighting for 20 years ago."
role in Kansas politics, using quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt and mentioning the lack of women in U.S. Congress.
Laura Templet, another speaker and a Lawrence senior studying social welfare, said, "It makes me sick in my heart to think
Laura Templet
Lawrence senior studying social welfare
we are still fighting for things we were fighting for 20 years ago. I think our self-esteem has been attacked over and over again because our rights have been attacked."
Spectator Joyce Chaney, Lawrence resident, commented, "I'm a human being just like everybody else. If people want to condemn them, then they the ones that need to open their minds and their hearts."
She explained that marching with the group and attending the rally was part of her own personal healing process.
"Everything I do — marches, going to speeches — helps me a lot," she said, explaining that she was an incest survivor and a lesbian. "I just wish more people would join us."
Ranging in age from two to 70, marcheers chanted "What do we want? Women's rights! When do we want them? Now!" and carried signs with messages such as "A woman's place is in the House and Senate." "We believed Anita Hill," "Stop Rape" and "Vote Clinton." There was also a lone sign which simply read "Pro Life."
About half of the evening's spectators participated in a march to the park immediately preceding the rally.
Senate race unfolds: 'Gloria vs. Goliath'
By Mark Martin Kansan staff writer
Democratic candidate faces incumbent Dole; to speak at KU tonight
Her bumper stickers read "Gloria vs. Goliath."
Gloria O'Dell, Democratic candidate for U.S.
Senate in Kansas, faces a giant in the political
O'Dell, who will speak at 8 tonight at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union, is running against Sen. Bob Dole.
Dole, a Republican, has been in the Senate since 1968 and has been the Senate's minority leader since 1986. He is considered unbeatable by most political experts.
Dole, who run unsuccessfully for president in 1980 and 1988, earned 70 percent of the electorate in the 1986 Senate race. His last real challenge for the Senate was in 1974, when he defeated Bill Roy of Topeka, by only 13,000 votes. This year he is running for his fifth consecutive term as senator.
But O'Dell, who received a master's degree in social welfare from the University of Kansas, threw his weight on the debate.
"I decided to run for the Senate because I believe I represent the people of Kansas," she said. "Bob Dole is out of touch. On the day of the primary last April, he voted absentee. He wasn't even in the state."
Although she has never held a public office, O'Dell has been a mainstay in the Democratic party in Kansas for many years. Most recently she was the general campaign manager for State Treasurer Sally Thompson and served as a special assistant to Thompson until entering the Senate race this year.
O'Dell, like many of the women running for Senate this year, plans to focus on domestic issues.
"One B-2 Bomber costs $865 to make," she said. "That is enough to pay the college tuition of 400,000 students for one year in this history. I think we need to change some priorities."
While hacking detailed plans on many issues, O'Dell lists creating jobs, trimming the federal debt and providing affordable health care as some of her main concerns.
"We have been a strong nation abroad, but we cannot continue to do this without being strong at home" she said. "Issues like health care and funding education and finding good paying and meaningful jobs are not new. But they are the important issues this year because we are crippled right now. We need a change."
While O'Dell is campaigning as a fresh face, most of her speeches have been more about
Kathy Peterson,political director for the Bob
Dole for Senate re-election campaign, said O'Dell remained an unknown candidate.
"All we know so far is that she is against Bob Dole," she said.
Dole, she said.
In a three-minute speech she gave to the Democratic National Convention, she introduced a memoir running against "Bob Dole the biggest, most powerful Reporter and Congress." The remainder of the speech focused on Dole, accusing him of crushing family leave, the Civil Rights Act, aid to Israel, and women's rights.
"I think it's natural for a challenger to bring up an incumbent's record. My point is that Bob Dole no longer represents Kansas. I am here, now, campaigning in Kansas. Do you see Bob Dole walking around on campus?"
O'Dell's campaign against Dole is similar to many other campaigns across the country. Women candidates, promising big changes in national government, are winning races they would not have won five years ago. In the Senate alone, seven women already have won their party's primaries and are expected to campaign in close races. Eight women are still campaigning for their state's primaries in September.
"The theme of change is very big this year," said Ken Collier, professor of political science. "People want a change in government, and because there aren't many women in Washington, women are perceived as a key to change."
Lucy Barusch, information services coordinator for the Center for the American Woman and Politics at Rutgers University, said that the department's success so far this year was due to several factors.
Collier said that while women candidates traditionally had used domestic issues as key voting factors in their campaigns, they were pointing to the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings to spark their candidacy.
"Along with a sagging economy, there's a lot of anti-incumbency feeling and a lot of people retiring this year," she said. "Any opening is an opportunity for an outsider or a woman."
"Whether or not people agreed with the outcome, throughout the hearings the Senate panel looked like an all-male club," he said. "That outraged a lot of people."
And a look at Congress does seem to portray a male-dominated institution.
Currently, two of the 100 Senators are women. And of 435 in the House of Representatives,29 are women.
Although there are more women in office at local and state positions, men still dominate that political arena. According to the 1992 book, Women in Power, by Dorothy Cantor and Toni Bernay, 17 percent of statewide, elected executive officers in the United States were women after the 1990 elections. At the state legislative level, 18 percent were women.
While most states rarely have had a woman
See DEMOCRATIC. Page 2.
Nightlife revisited
Over the summer several be eating and drinking establishments have opened in the Lawrence area.
The University Daily Kansas takes a closer look at five such establishments in the first installment of KU Life, a weekly entertainment guide new to the Kansas this semester.
Also included in this section is
an entertainment calendar, which lists activities taking place in Lawrence during the next week.
Florida needs clean up, relief in Andrew's wake
See stories, Page 7.
MIAMI — Three days after Hurricane Andrew cut its deep gash across southern Florida, an estimated 180,000 people were reported homeless, some cooking outdoors on wood fires, their food rotting and water scarce.
The Associated Press
"The shelters are too far away, and people don't want to leave whatever belongings they've got left." Florida City Mayor Eric Garcia said. "People are camping out without the tent."
Gov. Lawton Chiles visited hard-hit Homestead and Florida City by helicopter again yesterday. Florida City, where the 8,000 residents did not have much to start with, was virtually leveled.
Chiles said officials were having trouble getting food that was not spoiled to people in need and called for a better-organized storage and distribution effort.
"Right now, a truckload of food gets there, 200 people show up, 50 people get
food and 150 people are angry, "Chiles said. "We've got to find a way to solve that."
About 600,000 homes and businesses remained without electricity late yesterday, and officials warned that it could be hard for everyone gets water and power back.
Hurricane Andrew has killed at least 15 people in Florida, four in the Bahamas, and one in Louisiana, where the season's first storm passed. The group began to dissinate by midday yesterday.
A dusk-to-dawn curfew remained in effect, and 3,000 National Guard troops patrolled against looting. Metro-Dade police said 10 people were arrested for looting, along with 200 arrests for curfew violations and other infractions.
The death toll in Florida was expected to rise, as rescue workers made their way through miles of bedroom communities leveled on Monday morning, when Andrew hit Florida before veering across the Gulf of Mexico and into Louisiana.
President Bush said he was freeing $10 million in federal funds to create 5,000
Damage to the region was estimated at $15 billion to $20 billion, Kate Hale, Dade County emergency management director, said. If that stands, Andrew would be the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history.
short term jobs all are clearin Florida. Officials feared that food rotting in Florida's August heat, polluted water and sewage backups could lead to outbreaks of salmonella and hepatitis. The temperature in Miami hit 91 degrees yesterday.
Life after Hurricane Andrew was particularly difficult for those who have a rough time in the best of times.
"Hundreds of farm workers in shelters are being released, but we have nowhere for them to go," said Susan Reyna, deputy director of Centro Campesino, an assistance agency for migrant farm workers. "If you gave me money, I do not have anywhere to spend it. We need food and water."
Andrew waning
Hurricane Andrew came ashore in Louisiana's bayou and marsh region about 4 a.m. yesterday, then began its slow march through population areas before being downgraded to a tropical storm yesterday afternoon.
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