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Wednesday, October 7, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
WSU gay group's funds cut
By BRAD ADDINGTON
Wichita State University's student body president last week weked a bill allocating money to a gay and lesbian service organization, creating a controversy much like the one that three years ago surrounded KU Student Senate financing of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas.
George Ritchie, Wichita State's Student Government Association president, said he veted a $293 allocation to Students for Education on Liberal Concerns because the group was the Gay/Lesbian Resource Association under a different name.
"We cannot, according to our statutes, finance groups that are primarily social, military, religious or political in nature." Ritchie said.
Ritchie said the Wichita University, Supreme Court ruled two years ago that GLRA was primarily a social organization. Because Ritchie viewed Students for Education on Liberal Concerns as serving the same purpose as GLRA, he vetoed last week's bill.
"If you look at their constitution, the only subcommittee it lists is the GLRA." Ritchie said.
Susan de Wit, president of SELC and former president of GLRA, said SELC members would lobby to override Ritchie's veto at the next student government meeting. But she said she should be able to secure enough votes.
De Wit said GLRA was not primarily a social group.
"The closest thing to social that we've had is serving snacks while working on surveys and things," de Wit said.
As for the University Supreme Court's decision two years ago, she said, "It was kind of a kangaroo court. We have to go as an organization back to the court to change that."
She said that GLRA had brought people from California, Oklahoma and Missouri to the campus to speak about AIDS issues and that GLRA had received financing from the Kansas State Department of Health and Environment.
"It's kind of a paradox that we can
get accustomed to the agency and not
from another, de Wit."
In spring of 1984, financing of KU's GLSOK became a point of controversy.
The controversy began when the
Senate Finance Committee voted to deny $688 in financing for the organization. A KU student, Steve Imber, then started a petition supporting the committee's recommendation, but the Senate went ahead and tentatively approved financing GLSOK. Imber then decided to push to force the issue to a referendum vote by KU students.
In the fall of 1984, the Senate Elections Committee ruled that Imber's petition for a referendum was invalid.
The Senate allocated $505 to GLSOK in the spring of 1984 and has allocated money to the organization every year since then. Last spring, Senate allocated $355 to GLSOK for telephone and advertising costs.
Jason Krakow, KU student body president, said GLSOK probably would not receive Senate financing if it were solely a social organization that did not provide services to KU students.
Liz Tolbert, KU campus director of GLSOK, said the organization's activities included the publication of a weekly newsletter, a peer counseling network and the Speaker's Bureau, which sends speakers to KU classes.
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Pete Rowland, associate professor of political science, speculated that Bork would withdraw himself, and that Reagan would nominate ex-University of Chicago law pro- fessor Robert C. Sawyer said that Poonner was as conservative as Bork, but "less given to hyperbolic excess."
Rowland predicted that Posner, a Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals judge, would be confirmed, although not easily.
Cigler also said that the next nominee would be confirmed.
"One big advantage is that he doesn't have to rent everything he's said," Rowland said.
"There will be tremendous pressure for the Democrats to go along with the next choice, otherwise they'll look like whiners and crybabies who won't take anyone," he said.
Pam Skarda, president of the KU Chapter of the National Organization for Women, said that she was happy about the decision. She said that letter-writing campaigns could help the KU and Lawrence NOW chapters two weeks ago, had to have helped.
Both Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, D-W.V., and Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., voted to recomment the rejection.
"I think in the case of the Senate Judicary Committee, letter writing campaigns are extremely effective. Especially to those who are undecided. We sent a lot of them, and Specter, who were undecided."
"I think it definitely a positive step in preserving women's and civil rights," said Skarda, an Omaha, Bnb, junior.
Brian Kresin, Topeka junior and chairman of the College Republicans, said, "I knew it was going to difficult for him from the beginning. The Democrats made it that way, and justifiably so because this is a pivot-point for the Court. No matter who Reagan nominated, (he) would have been under pretty intense pressure."
Jill Jordan, a Lawrence special student who helped with NOW's letter writing campaign, said that she was pleased that the Committee recommended the rejection. But she said that she would worry about it until the full Senate also rejected Bork.
"And if Bork is defeated, who will Reagan nominate next? I think our chances of keeping a court out of the Court will get harder."
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"Any person on earth can contend the likelihood of nuclear war isn't zero, and until it is zero, a very grave thing can happen."
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two-hour class, he doesn't let his opinion get in the way, Crawford said. "He lets you decide if you're for it or against it."
O'Brien said that he wanted to make people "nuclear literate."
much better students; they can correct the misconceptions of friends and family." O'Brien said.
"In the long run, those students will be much better informed and be
"The course may frighten one, learning the intimate details of nuclear warfare; only because if you get attacked, they could be killed."
On Campus
Red Cross blood drive is scheduled at 9:30 a.m. today at the Ballroom in the Kansas Union.
"The Philippines at the Turning Point," a University Forum by Jim Rush, Universities Field Staff International, is scheduled at 11:40 a.m.
- Retirees Club coffee is scheduled at 1 a.m. today at the Adam Lounge
today at Ecumenical Christian Mini stries.1204 Oread Ave.
Wescoe Hall.
■ German American Day: "German Immigration to Kansas" is scheduled at 4:30 p.m. today at 4047
■ Alex Krieger, assistant professor of architecture at Harvard Graduate School, is scheduled to speak at 1:30 p.m. at 315 Art and Design building.
- Student Senate is scheduled at 7 p.m. today at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union.
Campus Christians meeting is scheduled at 6:30 p.m. today at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union.
KU Democrats meet is scheduled at 7 p.m. today at the West Gallery in the Kansas Union.
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