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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
One woman tells her story about rape
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Katie Koestner, a nationally known speaker, talks to students at the Lied Center about date rape. Koestner, a rape victim herself in 1991, has spoken at more than 500 universities, military bases and high schools in 46 states. She has appeared on The Tonight Show, CNBC Live and on the cover of TIME magazine. She has an HBO special due out later this year.
Photo by Dan Elavsky / KANSAN
Speaker shares experience for Greek Week
By Sarah Hale Kansan staff writer
She looked like any other college student with her petite frame, long, blond pony tail and simple, black pant suit.
However, instead of sitting in the audience at the Lied Center with about 900 people last night, she spoke from the podium and told about the night she was raped.
Katie Koestner, who was a victim of date rape in 1991, was the featured speaker for Greek Week's kick-off event.
Greek Week, a series of events organized to help unite the University of Kansas' greek community, always includes an educational program. Greek Week ends Saturday.
She began last night by telling jokes and making the audience laugh, but as she continued with her story, people stopped laughing.
"I have never seen a group of so many students sit so still for more than an hour and a half in all my life," said Danner Evans, Wichita junior.
Koestner met Peter, the man convicted of raping her, during her first weekend at William and Mary College in Virginia.
She told the audience about how they met, the movie they watched and about her feelings toward him.
One night while at a formal French restaurant, and after only 10 days of knowing Peter, he invited her to spend the summer with him in Greece and told her she would have to have sex with him whenever he wanted.
As a naive 18-year-old, Koestner said she laughed it off.
"I had a small knot in my stomach," she said. "I ignored that small knot that night."
After dinner, she invited him back to her room.
After the lengthy details about him pinning her down while she said no at least 12 times, Koestner told the audience why she has continued to share her story.
"The men who needed to be here tonight didn't fit it into their schedule," she said. "In fact, the men who are here are brave. I could probably give my speech to 1,000 people, and if one of those brave men said to me 'I hate rape,' it would all be worth it."
She told the audience that she wasn't a man-hater, but she directed a lot of her speech toward the men.
"I felt completely powerless, that's a sensation that most men don't encounter," she said.
She reminded the men in the audience that the one in four women who are raped also are their mothers, sisters, girlfriends and daughters.
She urged them to come forward and tell someone.
Koestner said that she was the first reported rape at her college in 300 years. She wants women to be aware that 84 percent of rapes occur between people who know each other.
"I felt completely powerless; that's a sensation that most men don't encounter."
Katie Koestner Date-rape speaker
DATE RAPE
Date-rape speake
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Koestner has traveled to more than 500 high schools and colleges telling about the night when she was pinned to her residence hall bed.
He said that Koestner appeared on the cover of Time magazine June 3, 1991, and had an HBO after-school special created about her story, *No Visible Bruises: The Katie Koestner Story*.
Koestner has pioneered the term date rape and has appeared on television programs such as The Oprah Winfrey Show, Geraldo and Entertainment Tonight, said Wes Simons, assistant director of greek programs.
Students may need own home computers
By Jason Pearce
Kansan staff writer
Some University of Kansas officials believe that computer ownership is becoming just as important for students as buying textbooks.
Faculty members, acting on a recommendation from Provost David Shulenburger, are discussing the implications of requesting that all students own or have access to a computer in their residence by fall 1999, said Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett, associate provost.
"There has been some active discussion, but no definite goals have been set," McCluskey-Fawcett said.
Jerry Niebaum, assistant vice chancellor for information services, said that the University would stop short of using a computer police staff that would ensure the students had computers.
"It is like textbooks — students are not required to have a textbook for a class," he said. "Nobody checks to see if you have bought or obtained them."
Niebaum said that 75 to 80 percent of incoming freshman already came to the University owning a computer so the University was aiming at a small group.
Niebaum said that parents and students understood the importance of electronic processing and networking in today's university world.
"This was a radical idea for 1990, but it is not at
See KU OFFICIALS on page 2A
Campus organizations rebuke abortion display
Supporters say exhibit meant to stimulate rational discussion
By Chad Bettes
Kansan staff writer
Five campus organizations came together last night for a press conference in the Kansas Union to denounce the photographs and other tactics being used by an anti-abortion group on campus this week.
Representatives for each of the groups — KU Hildel, KU Pro-Choice Coalition, Black Student Union, Ecumenical Christian Ministries and Delta Force — said they recognized the right to free speech but thought that the anti-abortion display went too far.
Seth Weisblatt, president of Hillel, said he had a problem with the means being used to express the views, in particular the comparison of abortion to the Holocaust.
The photographs and tactics in question are those being used by the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform as part of its Genocide Awareness Project. The group's display shows victims of the Holocaust and racial lynchings alongside pictures of aborted fetuses. The center considers abortion to be a genocide.
He said the display used by the group was offensive and insensitive to the University of Kansas community.
Pro-Choice Coalition president Sarah Page, Prairie Village senior, said she was outraged by the display.
The groups at the press conference made claims of racism, religious disrespect and disrespect for women.
ment of women was a constant struggle.
Jonathan Macklin, executive board member of the Black Student Union, said the center should not draw the comparison to slave lynchings because it was too historically sensitive to African Americans.
"This message is not welcome at the University, nor will it be tolerated," Page said.
"We don't want to relive it." Macklin said.
David White,
KU law student
and president of
the Christian
She said the validation and empower-
PROTEST
The KU Hillel, KU ProChoice Coalition, Black Student Union, Ecumenical Christian Ministries and Delta Force have planned several events this week opposing the photographic display by the Genocide Awareness Project:
Open microphone:
10:30 to noon Friday,
in front of Wescon Hall.
The groups also will continue on-site protests all week.
12:30 p.m. Thursday, Jayhawk Boulevard.
On-campus march:
Legal Society, said his group stood by its decision to co-sponsor the display with Javhawker Christian Ministry.
David Lee, director of operations for the center, agreed that the photographs were offensive but said that the subject was an offensive one. Lee said the photographs being used to depict the victimized groups commonly were found in history books across the country.
He compared the intent of the photographs to the Steven Spielberg movie Schindler's List, which graphically showed the horrors of the Holocaust.
"Spielberg was asked about children crying at the movie," Lee said. "He said if they did cry over the movie, it would be worth it if they worked to see that this never happened again."
"I feel strongly that this is an important issue that is largely ignored because it has become invisible in our society," he said.
White said the pictures were intended to stimulate rational dialogue.
A group of students gather to watch Jed Smok deliver a sermon outside Wescoe Hall. The preacher received mixed reactions from the
Causing a commotion
crowd yesterday. Smack preached about alcohol, women's roles and other biblical issues. Photo by Joseph Griffin/KANSAN.
Preacher stirs emotions in front of Wescoe Hall
Bv Chris Fickott
Kansan staff writer
About 150 students — some listening, some shouting back — gathered in front of Wescoe Hall yesterday to watch and question the preachings of brother Jed Smock.
Smock stood on chairs, shouted at students' retorts and preached about what roles women should fill, premarital sex, alcohol consumption and other biblical issues.
"We're here to reveal the character of God to his critics," he said.
Smock was accompanied by deacon Curtis Schell of the Glad Tidings Assembly of God Church in Lincoln, Neb.
Holly Sampson, Bartlesville, Okla., freshman, said her Methodist beliefs differed from Smock's preaching.
Schell said their mission was to turn the hearts of people back to God.
"He's here to condemn people for the way they lead their lives," she
said. "My God — the God I know — is loving." she said.
Sampson said Smock had a right to be on campus but that he should respect other people's beliefs.
Smock has been a campus evangelist for 25 years, preaching on more than 600 college campuses.
Schell said he had preached Monday at Kansas State University and that he would return to Manhattan tomorrow before returning to Lincoln.