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Wednesday, September 30, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
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Beverly Finger, Rozel senior, and Joe Babka, St. Louis senior, write letters to Governor Mike Hayden requesting that he support the Margin of Excellence proposal. The Higher Education Rescue Operation is organizing the letter-writing campaign.
An organizational meeting for the Higher Education Rescue Operation will be at 7 tonight at the Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
H.E.R.O. meeting set for tonight
By a Kansan reporter
Martie Aaron, KU campus director of the Associated Students of Kansas, said she would discuss different ways in which people can get involved with H.E.R.O. a grassroots student lobbying campaign to build support for the Board of Regents Margin of
Margin of Excellence is a proposal by the Regents to raise state financing of Regents institutions to about the level of KU's five peer universities, which are universities similar to KU in size and mission.
Excellence program.
cy, student body vice president. They will discuss such issues as faculty salaries, overcrowded classes, dwi-
nings, and acquisition s急sances and cancelled courses.
Also speaking at the meeting will be Mark Tallman, ASK legislative director; Jason Krakow, student body president and Stephanie Quin-
Students involved with H.E.R.O. will be on Wescoe Beach today from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. to encourage students to participate in the campaign. Baby must be present as the recruiters distribute pamphlets, buttons and balloons.
Film shows women are idealized in ads
By a Kansan reporter
Women are idealized in advertisements and portrayed as sexual objects to attract attention to products, Barbara Ballard, director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, said yesterday at a workshop in the Kansas Union.
About 45 people attended the workshop, "Portrayal of Women in the Media," which was sponsored by the Taylor Women's Resource Center.
The workshop featured a film called "Still Killing Her Softly" followed by a discussion session.
The film, narrated by Jean Kilbourne, a media analyst, lecturer and writer, addressed the exposure and idealization of women in ads. Women are portrayed with regard to looks and image only, thus creating an alternative to a de-humanized ideal that no women can relate to, she said in the film.
of journalism, talked about the coverage of women in the print media. Patricia Schroeder, the Democrat who recently backed off as candidate for president, was portrayed recently as emotional, she said.
Susanne Shaw, associate professor
Although women in politics have received greater news coverage, it still focuses on their families and still doesn't take into account the case of Schroeder, Shaw said.
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