Thursday, September 3, 1998
The Univer sity Daily K ansan
Section A·Page 7
Grant benefits rape-prevention programs
By Jason Pearce
Kansan staff writer
Leaders for the Douglas County Rape Victim and Survivor Service will meet tomorrow to decide the most effective way to use $35,000 from a rape prevention and education grant.
The grant, which totals $233,248,
was distributed to 10 Kansas
services that deal with sexual-assault
issues.
Attorney General Carla Stovall and Kansas Department of Health and Environment Secretary Gary Mitchell announced the grant Aug. 28.
"The purpose of the grant is to enhance or develop prevention activities that decrease sexual assault against women," according to Stovall's press release.
Sarah Jane Russell, director of the Rape Victim and Survivor Service, said the grant would be used to enhance educational programs in the county that are aimed at preventing sexual assaults.
"We already work in the schools, and this will help us to expand our programs," Russell said.
She said that specific program enhancements or other uses of the money would not be known until after tomorrow's meeting.
The Rape Victim and Survivor Service, funded by Student Senate and the United Way of Douglas County, uses volunteers to educate and train people on how to prevent sexual assaults and to council victims of sexual crimes, Russell said.
During the last three years, the KU Public Safety Office reported that 14 rapes had occurred on campus, with seven of those occurring in 1997. The office also reported 11 other sexual assaults in the last three years.
But these figures do not show the whole picture, said Kathy Rose-Mockry, program director for the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center.
National figures showed that
rapes were very under-reported each year, she said.
rose-Mockry said that many studi les have found that while 25 percent of women may be raped before graduating from college, only 10 percent of those would report the incident.
"Many women are ashamed, embarrassed or afraid that people will not believe them," she said.
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Douglas County Rape Victim Survivor Service
Pearls clinic compelling and workshops for women and men,
Bougatts County Jape viders and workshops
Rape crisis counseling and workshops for women and men
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Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center Offers workshops on sexual harassment and other women's issues. Administers the Sexual Assault Prevention and Education Program, call 864-3552
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Award finances faculty exchanges with Ukraine
By Carolyn Mollett
University of Kansas faculty who are interested in Eastern European studies will have the chance to teach and do research in the Ukraine during the next three years.
Kansan staff writer
A $169,965 grant from the United States Information Agency will forge a formal partnership for faculty exchanges between the University of Kansas and Levi University in Leviv, Ukraine.
and Devil University," "This is all part of the chancellor's plan to make KU an international University," said Maria Carlson, director of the Russian and Eastern European Studies program (REES) and the writer of the University's grant proposal.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway will travel to Levich to meet the rekter — who holds an office similar to a
chancellor — of that university at the end of the three-year grant.
The University has had a connection with Leviv since 1992, Carlson said. The mayor of Leviv and the rektor of Leviv University both have visited the University of Kansas, and more than 20 faculty members already have participated in an exchange program.
gran. "We're going to try to institutionalize those relationships," said Todd Fogleson, adjunct assistant professor of REES.
Foglesong is one of two KU professors who will travel to the Ukraine this semester.
travel to the UK for his November trip: to settle administrative business between the universities, to select faculty from Leivit to come here and to begin research on the availability of legal services in Leivit.
Kurt Thurmaier, associate professor of public administration and REES, will travel to Leviv in December. He said he would discuss projects with the Leviv University faculty and would do research about the local government's budgeting and finance.
Some of the universities and faculties
The first Ukrainian professor will arrive in November. REES will serve as host to the visiting professors.
Most of the professors from the Ukraine who will come to the University are sociologists.
The Ukrainians will teach or participate in classes, will plan publications and conferences with their KU colleges and will do research and travel to conferences.
enles. Carlson said that more than 90 groups applied for the USIA College and University Partnership Program grants. Carlson learned of the University's selection in August.
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