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Tuesday, October 6, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
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Marchers protest violence
By JULIE McMAHON
Staff writer
Participants in the "Take Back the Night" march walk down Massachusetts Street. Last night's march was to protest violence against women.
The peaceful fall sky last night contrasted with the violence and terror in the lives of women who came forward to tell stories about domestic violence.
Last night about 50 people, mostly women, gathered at South Park gazeebo and marched up Massaebe and took the "Take Back the Night" protest.
"The protest is to bring attention to the fact that the night isn't safe for anyone, especially women and children," said Melissa Crowley, a doctor at Women's Transitional Care Services, which sponsored the protest.
The organization provides shelter for women who have been victims of domestic violence or have no other place to go.
The protest also commemorated National Domestic Violence Awareness Month and the day of unity for the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Crowley said that there had been three similar marches in past years but that there wasn't one last year.
The protesters marched in Massachusetts Street, slowing traffic. They carried signs that said "End Violence in the Home," "Sisters Unite" and "Lesbianbringy about Lesbian Battering." They chanted against violence, not sex" and "Women unite, take back the night."
Before the march, mothers were
trying to keep track of their small children as they listened to rape victims and survivors of domestic violence.
Society allows the mistreatment of women, she said.
The first speaker was Katherine Bolton, director of Rape Victims Support Service. She said that her agency was started 15 years ago because of a need for rape victim support. That need is still here today, she said.
"I have to enlighten my sons because what society says on one hand is not necessarily what mama saws."
Kiesa Shoshana Lenae, a Lawrence resident, talked about being raped by men and women.
She said that she once thought women couldn't be violent enough
"I thought that a lesbian-only relationship would be safe," she said. "But my worst rape was at the hands of a woman."
to rape.
Cyndy Hurst, Lawrence resident, spoke about being a survivor of domestic violence. She said that she had been married for five years before her husband beat her.
She said that she married again and that her second husband started beating her, too. She began to think that something was wrong with her until she left her home and entered the Women's Transitional Care Services shelter.
"The first time he beat me up. I
couldn't believe it," she said. "We got a divorce — he didn't have a second chance."
K-State plans Vietnam War memorial
KU blood drive goal 800 pints
By a Kansan reporter
The organizers of the KU fall blood drive hope to narrow the gap between the number of pints Kansas State University usually collects and the number the University of Kansas usually collects.
The blood drive begins at 9:30 a.m. today and continues through 3:30 p.m. at the Ballroom in the Kansas Union. The blood drive also will take place tomorrow and Thursday.
Sara Dennehy, vice president for campus affairs for the Panhellenic Association, said Panhellenic's goal for the three-day blood drive was 300 pints. Eight hundred pints also was in danger last fall, but only 685 were donated.
Dennehy said that K-State's goal usually was 1,500 pints. K-State has met its goal for several years.
Boyd McPherson, vice president for public relations for the Interfraternity Council, said he did not know why KU had fewer blood donors. He said KU advertised the same amount as K-State.
McPherson said he did not know how many people had signed up to donate blood but estimated that it was about the same as last fall. Most people donate blood on a walk-in basiss without signing up, he said.
It is important that people donate blood because the American Red Cross depends on the KU blood drive to help supply blood to people throughout Kansas and in parts of Oklahoma, Dennehy said.
McPherson emphasized that although the blood drive was sponsored by Panhellenic and the IFC, it was an all-campus event.
By JENNIFER ROWLAND Staff writer
Kansas State University has begun a drive to raise money for a campus memorial to honor about 38 K-State Vietnam veterans, said Bill Arck, adviser to the Kansas State University Vietnam Memorial Committee.
MANHATTAN — More than a decade after the end of the Vietnam War, memorials similar to the one at the west end of the University of Kansas campus are being built by students in honor those killed in the line of duty.
A fund-raising committee was
organized in December for the project, which Arck said would cost about $20,000.
The committee kicked off its fundraising campaign Sept. 19 at the K-State-Army football game, raising $1,900.
Ark said he wanted to build a Vietnam veterans memorial at K-State because veterans from other wars had memorials on the Manhattan campus, but Vietnam veterans had only a plaque in the K-State Union.
"It just didn't seem suitable as compared to the other memorials."
he said. "It just wasn't enough.
"I guess the real push that got me over the hump was Memorial Day day."
"They placed wreaths at the memorials . . . and then they placed a wreath to the plaque in the union, so that totally inappropriate in size and scope."
Tom Berger, chairman of the KU Vietnam Memorial Committee and program assistant for the executive vice cancellor, said KU's Vietnam memorial, dedicated in May 1986, still had landscaping to be added.
additional lights and shrubbery, Berger said.
The KU memorial will receive
More names also will be added to the stone walls.
"We're hoping to do that as soon as we can find the money." Berger said. He said those names had been added to the national registry of names at the national Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. since the KU memorial was finished. The veterans committee would seek financing for the memorial from its student senate.
Carlin to leave WSU teaching post in spring
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Former Gov. John Carlin said yesterday that his teaching position with Wichita State University would end after the spring 1988 semester and he would pursue other endeavors as a consultant.
Carlin was named visiting professor in the Hugo Wall Center for Urban Studies at Wichita State last January when he left office.
Under the agreement, Carlin taught public administration and economic development, with his 1967 calendar year 1967 privately financed.
Michael Russell raised the money for Carlin's special professorship. Russell was an appointee of Carlin to the University of Kentucky's Retirement System board.
Carlin said that under the arrangement he and Wichita State officials had the option of renewing the visitationorship at the end of December.
By mutual agreement, Carlin added the arrangement will be extended to will teach half time the spring semester, then leave the Wichita post.
Kansas City-area businessman
"I needed a gradual transition for the things I want to do." the former
governor said, explaining why he would teach one semester beyond what the original agreement called for.
It was announced last week that Carlin would begin a $50-a-month consulting job with the University of Kansas, advising on international economic development and local government affairs in KU's Center for International Affairs and Public Policy Institute.
Carlin, a Democrat who served two four-year terms as governor from 1979-87, also said he was working on "a variety of things" in the consulting field, some of them in partnership
Landon is in satisfactory condition
Schwartz now heads a consulting company in Topeka called Schwartz and Associates. It has offices in the Jayhawk Towers about a block from the Capitol. Carlin has an office with Schwartz.
with Charles "Jamie" Schwartz, who was secretary of the Department of Economic Development while Carlin was governor.
be released for several more days.
Landon, the 1936 Republican presidential nominee, has also been complaining of pain from a gall stone and arthritis. On Monday he left his hospital room for his daily exercise session with the hospital's therapists.
Dr. John E. Crary, who has been Landon's doctor for many years, said Landon was alert and his chest was clearing from a mild case of bronchitis, which was diagnosed Sept. 28.
The Associated Press
Court refuses reversal
Ruling focuses on segregation in Kansas City
TOPEKA — Former Gov. Alf M. Landon remained in satisfactory condition at Stormont-Vail Regional Medical Center yesterday, but his physician said the 100-year-old would not
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court today refused to order consolidation or realignment of suburban Kansas City, Mo., school districts to ease racial segregation in Kansas City schools.
The court, without comment, let stand rulings that the suburbs could not be forced to take part in any plan for rebuilding their racial balance in the city's schools.
U. S. District Judge Russell G. Clark in 1984 ruled that segregation remained in Kansas City schools. But he said the suburban school districts delitated the Constitution and declined to order them to take part in any remedy.
The judge did find the state to be responsible for the segregation and ordered it to spend $67 million, together with $20 million in city funds, to improve Kansas City public schools.
Kansas City officials and the parents of black schoolchildren in 1977 sued Missouri officials and school districts surrounding the city to eliminate what they said were the cruages of a dual racial school system.
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court substantially upheld Clark's ruling but ordered the state and city to share equally the cost of improvements.
The pattern has not changed drastically since. By 1895, 25 Kansas City schools had enrollments that were more than 90 percent black, and the surrounding districts averaged about 5 percent black enrollment.
The dual system, officially banned by the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 ruling, had been edorsed by state law since 1874.
The old law permitted adjoining districts with specified numbers of black students to combine to offer joint schools for blacks. The law also authorized the transfer of black students to other districts that had been for them and required Kansas City to accept blacks from other districts.
The black population in Kansas City more than tripled between 1900 and 1950, and in the three counties the black population dropped nearly by half.
The appeals court said it found insufficient evidence that the suburbs individually discriminated black students in the creation of school district lines.
Opponents said that under the old system, schools for blacks in suburban and rural areas were so poor that children from Kapsa City schools their children to Kapsa City schools.
Nearly 98 percent of all black schoolchildren in the Kansas City metropolitan area attended schools in Kansas City by 1954, but the suburban school districts became almost all white.
On the Record
A 12-speed bicycle valued at $235 was taken between 6 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday from a residence in Louisiana Street, KU police reported
A sunroof valued at $150 on a Datsun car was taken between 10:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. Saturday from the parking lot in front of Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall, KU police reported.
A 10 speed bicycle valued at $150 was taken between Sep. 20 and Oct. 1
■ An AM-FM cassette player valued at $250 was taken between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. Sunday from a car parked in the 900 block of Vermont, Lawrence police reported.
A flute valued at $250 was taken in May from a car parked on Lowell Drive, Lawrence police reported.
--from the porch of a residence at Lilac Lane, KU police reported.
ATTENTION ALL STUDENTS
The Senate Election Committee will be accepting applications to fill vacant senate seats
September 30 - October 6
The applications will be available in the Student Senate Office, 105 Burge Union. The deadline for applications will be 5 p.m.October 6. There is one architecture seat open, one education seat open, one engineering seat open and there are two nunemaker seats open.