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Kansan
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September 22, 1998
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Vol. 109 • No. 23
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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Abortion display stimulates protests
(USPS 650-640)
Anti-abortion advocates use graphic photographs to get their point across
By Chad Bottos
Kansan staff writer
Students take notice
Cool weather and intermittent rain showers did not dampen the intensity of the abortion debate on campus yesterday as a large anti-abortion display was set up on the front lawn of Strong Hall.
A group of about 25 students who are abortion-rights advocates vocally protested the display from an area a few feet away. They held small signs and velled abortion-rights slogans.
The large photographic display is called the Genocide Awareness Project and is being sponsored by the KU Christian Legal Society and Javhawker Campus Ministry.
David White, KU law student and president of the Christian Legal Society, said his group wanted to stimulate discussion on the abortion subject.
"Our members are behind this and feel strongly about this," White said. "We want to get people talking about whether you can justify the taking of a human life."
KU Pro-Choice Coalition President Sarah Page, Prairie Village senior, said, "Their display is a loud statement. Our signs aren't as big, so we wanted to make a loud statement with our voices."
The anti-abortion display graphically depicted Jews killed in the Holocaust, slaves lynched in America and aborted fetuses. The project drew a comparison between the three groups as victims of genocide.
Sally Puleo, St. Charles, Ill., Junior and vice president of the KU Pro-Choice Coalition, called the display propaganda.
"Abortion is about my body, not anything
See ADVOCATES on page 3A
Katherine Lydden, Liberal senior, holds up a protest sign in reaction to the "Genocide Awareness Project" in front of Strong Hall. Abortion-rights protesters joined the anti-abortion protesters yesterday. Both sides of the abortion protest will be at Watson Library tomorrow. Photo by Daniela Sutor/KANSAN
Jaybowl full as Clinton video airs
Students gather to watch testimony in TV lounge
By Melody Ard
Kansan staff writer
The Jaybowl TV room was a popular place yesterday morning, as major networks aired the four-hour video of President Bill Clinton's testimony to special prosecutors.
Jaybowl employee Chris Gelwix,
Lansing senator, said he had seen a
lot of stu-
of students coming and going from the lounge in the Kansas Uni on. through the morning.
“Most of them have c o m b e tween classes," he said. "Some of them stayed an"
Clinton: Video of grand jury testimony released yesterday.
watched quite a while."
Gelwix viewed about an hour of the testimony while he worked and said it confirmed the opinions he already had.
"I think this is completely bogus and that he is trying to evade questions and that he is lying," he said. "I think his ratings will drop a little, but not to the point that he will resim."
Allan Cigler, professor of political science, said he doubted the video would have much impact.
"I think the impact depends on
what media, and particularly television, shows on the nightly news," Cigler said.
Cigler said most people's opinions had already been influenced by Kenneth Starr's report
"Of the people who watched the tape and already had opinions, I don't think that it altered them any," Cigler said. "I think that people could be either very sympathetic to Clinton being badgered by the attorney, or they could focus on his struggle with the definition of words."
Tiesha Kelly, Topeka junior, said she thought it could make an impact.
"It's one thing to hear the reports, but it is another to see the person and the body language," Kelley said. "I don't think it's all that appropriate to show the whole thing on television, but I think that it should be available to the public."
Other students said stations airing the video should take an all-or-nothing approach.
"My opinion is to not show the video because we aren't the ones making the decision on impeaching him," Bill Nix, Los Angeles senior, said. "The only reason they are showing it is to get ratings and invade his private life. But if they are going to show it, they should show it in its entirety."
More information
For more about the White
House scandal, See page 8B
Correction
In an article on page 1 of a yearend's Kansan, the organizer for the Center for BioEthical Reform should have been identified as Gregg Cunningham. Also in that article, the event was sponsored by the KU Christian Legal Society, not the KU Legal Society.
Gay-pride flag burned; victim angry but not scared
By Keith Burner Kansan staff writer
A 3' by-5' flag was burned at about 1 a.m. at Lovegrove's home in the 500 block of Eldridge Street, Lawrence police said. The incident is being investigated as an arson with possible hate motivation, police said.
Michael Lovegrove, a gay Lawrence man, tacked up a new rainbow flag on the side of his home Sunday in a statement of defiance against those who persecute gays.
"It was a very anti-gay statement being made," Lovegrove, 28, said.
The original flag, a symbol of gay pride, was burned early Sunday morning.
Lovegrave said he was out,
and his four roommates
were asleep, when the flag
was burned.
"When I got home, I could see it from the street." Lovegrove said. "I smelled that it had burned, and it freaked
me out because it was on the outside of our house. I ran inside, but it hadn't burned anything."
"I immediately put up a new one, and if they burn that one, we'll put up another one," Lovegrove said. "We'll keep putting them up until we catch the one who did this.
Lovegrove said when the police arrived to investigate the incident, he stressed that everyone who lived in the house was gay, that they had been harassed in the past and that they had every intention of nutting up a new flag.
Marvin Decker, treasurer for Queers and Allies, said harassment against gays was not very common in Lawrence.
flag was adopted by the gay community in the late-1970s as symbol for gay pride.
"We're not going to let people think we'll take this kind of harassment."
"Lawrence is a pretty open and tolerant community," he said.
"It's main meaning is diversity." he said.
"A lot of people can see the flag, and a lot of people know what it means," he said. "A lot of people also don't like gavs."
Decker said, "The rainbow flag is kind of a symbol for the queer community, and it gives a sense of family between queer individuals."
Lovegrove said the flag on his house was very visible and could be seen from a distance.
Lovegrove said the rainbow
Lovegrove said the person who burned the flag might have been trying to scare him and his roommates.
"I wasn't scared by it, I was just pissed," he said. "It was very anti-gay, and I just want to catch those who did it."
Police said the fire consumed about half of the flag before going out. There are no suspects in the incident.
Thieves strike campus lots twice
Pawnshops recruited to help search for thieves
By Kelli Rayborn
Kansan staff writer
A string of thefts from automobiles and vandalism that began Thursday continued Sunday night.
Ten cars were the targets of theft or vandalism Thursday night in the two lots west of Lewis and Hashinger halls.
Several more were reported Sunday night in the same area, said Sgt. Troy Malen of the KU Public Safety Office. Malen said at least three reports of thefts from autos in those lots already had been filed yesterday morning.
Of the 10 reported Thursday, six cars were burglarized and nine were damaged. In Thursdays incidents, $1,810 worth of property was stolen and about $600 in damages was caused.
Totals for Sunday's incidents were not available.
Mailen said the office was working with the Lawrence police, who investigated a series of auto break-ins near campus last week.
"We're looking at some similarities,"
The office is continuing its own investigation.
he said.
In both cases, thieves pulled back window trim or weather strips to gain access to the vehicles, Mailen said.
"Motor vehicles were processed for latent fingerprints and any possible evidence left behind by the perpetrators." Malen said.
Investigators also will keep an eye out for attempts by the thief or thieves to sell stolen goods to local merchants
"The pawnshops work with us hand in hand," Mailen said. "They keep very good logs."
Mailen said the police also kept a log of items bought and sold in local pawnshops. He said stolen property had been recovered through this cooperation in the past.
"Less than one-tenth of one percent of things show up stolen down here," he said.
"Every item that we take in, for loan
Ohse attributed that to the store's strict requirements for people selling the items.
Fred Ohse, clerk at Lawrence Pawn and Shooters Supply, 944 E. 23rd St., said the store purchased few stolen items.
Parking lot thefts
At least 1.3 cars suffered theft or damage between Thursday night and Sunday. In Thursday's incidents, the stolen property has been estimated at $1,810 and the damage has been estimated at $800.
Kristi Elliott / KANSAN
or purchase, we need a state picture ID. he said.
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He said all pawnshops were required by law to report to the police. The store keeps a description of the person pawning the item as well as model and serial numbers. The information is given to police, he said.
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