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Kansas gives more University of Kansas groups collected $1,057.03, defeating University of Missouri groups in the United Way's Challenge for Change competition.The money will be used to support local service programs. PAGE 3A
NPR nationally publicized The widow of the founder of McDonald's has given National Public Radio more than $200 million, the largest monetary gift ever received by a cultural institution. PAGE 10A
Kansas falls to Nebraska The Jayhawks lost to the Cornhuskers 24-3 in Saturday's game at Memorial Stadium. PAGE 12A
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Kansas ready for season The women's basketball team marks the beginning of its season with an exhibition game against Sparta Praha at 7 tonight. PAGE6A
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Vol.114 Issue No.56
KANSAN
Monday, November 10, 2003
The Student Newspaper of the University of Kansas
Watergate reporter speaks at University
By Meghan Brune
mbrune@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Presidential historian and author Roger Wilkins has covered Watergate, studied and advised presidents and fought racism. Last night he was at the Lied Center to share his experiences.
Wilkins spoke about three presidents he had either studied or worked with: George Washington, John F. Kennedy
and Lyndon B. Johnson.
Ariel Tilson/Kansan
Presidents, Wilkins said, needed to consider three points to have a successful presidency: focus on only two or three goals, appoint quality people to the government and listen to and read everything.
"President Johnson really talked more than he listened," Wilkins said.
Roger Wilkins, a professor at George Mason University and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, spoke yesterday at the Lied Center as part of the Presidential Lecture Series. His speech focused on his experiences with politics and presidents.
Wilkins started in Washington, D.C., during Kennedy's term and served as assistant attorney general to Johnson. He is also the publisher of the National Association for the Advancement of
Pulitzer Prize in journalism for his editorials in The Washington Post covering Watergate. He was the first African American on the editorial board for The New York Times.
SEE REPORTER ON PAGE 6A
Campus colors
Courtney Kuhlen/Kansan
A student dashed from the entrance of the Spencer Museum of Art under a blanket of fall colors Thursday. Recent decreasing temperatures indicate that winter is slowly approaching.The season officially begins Dec. 22.
Emergency contraception
Options exist when pre-planning fails
By Johanna M. Maska
jmaska@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
She said no.
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Waking from one nightmare of a Friday night date, Beck faced another nightmare. She wanted emergency contraception, and she didn't know where to go. Beck was raped by a friend two and a half years ago. Now Beck, a Kansas City, Mo., graduate student in social work and law school, is working with the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center to educate women that a man who rapes is no friend, and that when a woman learns this the hard way, she has options.
She brought her date home, but she didn't ask for this. Beck's date was raping her.
She said no. "He was hurting me. He said, 'Well, I'l go slower." Corrina Beck said.
The morning after Beck became a victim, she didn't know where to find these options.
options.
"It was Saturday and I was like, he didn't use a condom." Beck said. "I wasn't on birth control. I had only had one other partner. We had used condoms." Beck was too scared to go to the hospital.
in Lawrence, 2006 w. 2.14 Planned Parenthood didn't call back until Sunday, Beck said. Although Planned Parenthood is closed on weekends and Wednesdays, a recording provides for emergencies. Karla Wilmont, director of quality management for Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, said the Lawrence Planned Parenthood had an on-call after-hours nurse practitioner that would call back, but if he or she hadn't seen the woman as a patient, he or she could do nothing for her until the office was open.
Beck's mother arrived Saturday morning to visit. Beck said she was still too scared to tell her mother that she had been raped the night before, so she waited until her mother left before she sought help. By this time, Beck said Watkins Memorial Health Center was closed. She called Planned Parenthood in Lawrence, 2108 W.27th St.
"I was terrified," Beck said. "He was a lawyer. He had gone to my law school. He was friends with all of my friends. I was just terrified. I didn't want to press charges."
net until the officer was up to it. "It's against the law to do otherwise," Wilmont said.
In Kansas and 44 other states, emergency contraception is provided by prescription only. Doctors can only write prescriptions for someone who is their patient. Beck would have had to see a nurse-practitioner at the clinic before receiving emergency contraception, Wilmont said. She would have to wait until Monday.
Emergency contraception doesn't have to come in the form of Plan B or Preven, the two products designated as the "deay-after pill." If taken within 72 hours, high doses of birth control can be 69 percent effective.
Pill brand First dose (Start as soon as possible within 72 hours)
Alesse 5 pink pills 5 pink pills
Levien 4 light orange pills 4 light orange pills
Levilite 5 pink pills 5 pink pills
Levora 4 white pills 4 white pills
Lo/Oval 4 white pills 4 white pils
Nordette 4 light orange pills 4 light orange pills
Oval 2 white pills 2 white pils
Ovrette 20 yellow pills 20 yellow pills
Tri-Levien 4 yellow pills 4 yellow pills
Tri-Phasil 4 yellow pills 4 yellow pils
Trivora 5 pink pills 5 pink pills
For more information, visit these Web sites www.greenbill.com www.planbill.com www.planbill.comwww.planbill.com
Kerri Henderson/Kansas
Law school classes and work started early Monday, and by the time she could
SEE CONTRACEPTION ON PAGE GA
New fund will keep mascots suited up
By Maggie Newcomer
mnewcomer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The opportunity to enjoy a beer with Baby Jay was given only to the University of Kansas students of 1971.
One night, Amy Hurst Rachman donned her Jayhawk suit and headed for Massachusetts Street with friends for a little rest and relaxation. The evening was stress-free until Rachman who stands under five-feet tall, let her five-foot seven-inch friend try Baby Jay on for size, only to become lodged inside the costume.
Baby Jay eventually released the intruder and all was well until the next day when the University of Kansas Alumni Association called Rachman and ended Baby Jay's freewheeling party days.
Rachman, an Asheville, N.C., resident, said the costumes are replaced every few years because of wear and tear at a cost of nearly $5,000 each.
"My heart goes out to how hard they work," Rachman said.
Baby Jay has been a University icon since 1971 and Rachman, the original Baby Jay, said she wanted to make sure that didn't change. That's why Rachman gave $5,000 to the Kansas University Endowment Association to create the Original Baby Jay Mascot Fund. The fund will help curb costs of purchasing and maintaining Bie Jay and Baby Jay's mascot costumes.
The fund is open-ended, meaning anyone can donate. Rachman's mother, Marti Daniels Hurst of Boca Raton, Fla.. has committed $57,000 for the fund through her estate plans.
Rachman was the mastermind behind Baby Jay and wore the costume to football and men's basketball games until she graduated in 1974. Rachman had a vision of Baby Jay her freshman year, all because of a bumper sticker depicting Big Jay with little Jays running after it.
Rachman met with alumni who agreed to pay for the Baby Jay costume.
Rachman fell in love with the idea and pestered her boss, who happened to be Big Jay, to introduce her to the Alumni Association so she could make her pitch.
"I bugged the heck out of him," Rachman said. "By the end of the year, he either had to fire me or introduce me."
Rachman's parents spent the summer of 1971 fashioning a Baby Jay costume mostly out of fiberglass. The costume weighed about 30 pounds, ten more than today's costumes, and wasn't nearly as flexible as the mascots are now.
That next fall, Rachman hatched on the 50-yard-line at Memorial stadium and revealed Baby Jay to a full stadium of fans.
"I still remember the sound of 55,000 people inhaling in surprise," Rachman said.
The mascot's body bounced on Rachman's shoulders and thighs bruising her but never enticing her to retire as Baby Jay.
Rachman said she had no idea what an icon Baby Jay would become.
"She's a little star," Rachman said.
"She's a little star," Rachman said. Rachman's original Baby Jay costume is on display on Level 1 of the Kansas Union.
Rachman said she hoped Baby Jay would be around for years to come and might get another opportunity to strut her stuff down on Massachusetts Street.
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