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Student group advocates smart sex
BY BETH BEAVERS bbeavers@kansan.com
A student run group that promotes healthy sexuality and relationships is just trying to keep it real.
POLARIZING PROTESTS
The Sexuality Education Committee is presenting its annual "Real Person's Guide to Human Sexuality" at 7 p.m. on Mondays at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
"We just wanted to get open, tolerant information out there." Mary Klayder, University Honors lecturer and advisor to the SEC. said.
Reanna Putnam, Salina junior and SEC co-president, said the six members of the SEC began planning in May to expand the event from previous years. This year it features 10 topics, which is four more than in years past.
"We picked topics we thought were interesting," Lauren Tullis, Carl Junction, Mo., senior and SEC co-president, said. "But there is a lot of information out there that isn't accurate or healthy, so we wanted to get information from educated individuals."
Every year, the discussion topics change. Already this year the Guide has featured lecturers speaking about transsexuality, domestic violence and pornography. Still to come are lecturers presenting on intimacy, communication, jealousy, monogamy, dyadic relationships, family influence on sexuality and homophobia.
"We try and get a variety of people from the community to come and speak," Putnam said.
Putnam said Dr. Dennis Dailey, retired professor of human
Putnam said lecturers included professors from the University, an advocate from Women's Transitional Care Services and a therapist who specializes in sexual and marital therapy.
Confrontational tactics can lead to heated debates between opposing sides of a protest. Jay Childers, assistant professor of communications studies, said that a willingness to accept other viewpoints can lead to better discussion.
Photo illustration by Chance Dibben/KANSAN
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Rhetoric remains under debate
Emotions,reason difficult to balance in protest tactics
BY ZACH WHITE white@kansan.com
On a balmy September afternoon, Tammy Cooke stood outside Strong Hall, telling passersby about Justice For All, an anti-abortion group for which she is a spokeswoman. Standing beneath an 18-foot wall of graphic images of fetuses, she stressed the
organization's value of an "even handed exploration of ideas."
"Our goal here today is to get people to come and talk to us about this issue," Cooke said. "We are interested in having respectful and constructive dialogue."
But not everyone cooperated. Justice For All surrounded the display with "free speech boards," which were white boards for people to write their reactions. The boards showed a range of reactions to the scene, from "Get the fuck off our campus" to concerns about overpopulation and Pokemon references.
Behind Cooke,a student leaned
his elbow against the exhibit's barricade as if he were a bar patron waiting for a beer. He scoffed at the exhibit and talked
about its reflection on modern debate to two girls who had also walked over to the exhibit. It was sad, he explained to them, how no one could just
debate issues any
assistant professor of political science who specializes in reproductive policy, such approaches to this subject are nothing new.
"We are interested in having respectful and constructive dialogue."
debate issues anymore. Everything has to be a show, he said.
According to Alesha Doan,
TAMMY COOKE Justice For All spokeswoman
Doan said protesters have carried on in this vein for about a decade. This is also as long as Justice For All has been operating on college campuses across the country.
Doan said she was skeptical of the
group's approach.
"What they're doing is having a heated moral debate," Doan
said. "That's not engendering any larger debate about reproductive policy or why women would be needing abortions, and why that should or should not be an option in society"
Jay Childers, assistant professor of communications studies who specializes in political rhetoric, said he thought debates such as these originated long before abortion became an issue.
"The argument that gets made a lot right now is that there is a lot of arguing at one another rather than with one another, which is often tied to the increases in
SEE DEBATE ON PAGE 3A
CAMPUS
Fitness center offers new, fee-based locker rental system
Sixty lockers will still be available for free
BY JESSE BROWN
jbrown@kansan.com
The Amber Student Recreation Fitness Center is now offering 40 optional locker rentals to weary
of carrying their exercise equipment around. The rental fee is $40 per year, or $20 for each of the two time periods — from September to
gym-goers tired
February and from March to August. The service, which began this year, has been a priority for
"It's not right to charge students for a locker."
JARELL SCHROEDER
Inman senior
"When we opened the building way back in 2003, that was one of the first things that everyone started asking us about," Mary Chappell, director of Recreation
the recreation center for years.
would be beneficial to come back to the recreational center with his basketball shoes already there.
Chappell said the old fitness center in Robinson Hall and had thousands of lockers.
Grant Waters,
Overland Park graduate student, said
he could see how it
Services, said.
BY THE NUMBERS
- 15 students
- 3 staff members
- 2 faculty members
In the men's locker room, 20 lockers are rented out and are used by the following groups:
But the new initiative has made some students angry because the recreation center already receives funding from student activity fees, and some students think the additional rental charge is unfair.
"I feel it's ridiculous," KK Liu, Platte City, Mo., sophomore, said. "To be honest, you shouldn't have to pay for it."
In the women's locker room,
a total of 11 are rented out
and the lockers are divided by:
- 8 students
- 2 staff member
- 1 former student
- 9 still available
Jarell Schroeder, Inman senior, said he worked out four to five times a week and that charging for lockers was unnecessary.
"it's not right to charge students for a locker." Schroeder said.
Beatrice Black, Wichita freshman, said she didn't use a locker.
SEE LOCKERS ON PAGE 3A
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Forty total lockers in both the men's and women's locker rooms at The Student Recreation Center are available for rent for $40 a piece for the year. Although locks are not usually supplied, the reserved lockers offer the peace of mind that your belongings are safe.
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