UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, October 31, 1996
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Forum to address violence
Speakers will tell how they fought domestic abuse
By Dave Breltenstein Kansan staff writer
Combating domestic violence will be the topic of a forum, "Domestic Violence and the Law" at 12:30 p.m. today in 203 Green Hall.
The campus group Women in Law is sponsoring the forum.
Five speakers representing police,
court and victim services will discuss their roles in combating domestic violence.
"The purpose of the forum is to provide information to people," said Audrey Nogle, Abilene second-year law student and Women in Law member. "We've asked the speakers to explain their roles in domestic violence. In the past, everyone has recited statistics, but people have had questions about what each person does."
The speakers will have five minutes each to explain what they have done. A 30-minute question-and-answer session will follow.
Sgt. J.R. Miller of the Lawrence Police will represent the police
"We're going to talk about our specific roles in domestic abuse," he said "I'll talk about our roles and responses and our actions in combating domestic violence."
department.
Sarah Jane Russell, executive director of the Rape Victim-Survivor Service of Douglas County, will speak about what victims should do after an assault, both medically and legally.
"We want to use every opportunity that we have to talk about RVSS," she said. "Td be very surprised if there were not a few victims in the audience. The people attending the forum will have an interest in the subject, whether it be business reasons or personal reasons."
Violence Forum
When: 12:30 p.m. today
Where: 203 Green Hall
Speakers:
Judge Jean F. Shepherd, Douglas County District Court
Delores Moseley, victim/witness coordinator, Douglas County District Attorney's Office
Loretta Pyles, director of community outreach and fund-raising. Women's Transitional Care Services
Sarah Jane Russell, executive director, Rape Victim-Survivor Service
Sgt. J.R. Miller, Lawrence Police Department
Court to hear friends argue
By Stephanie Fite Kansan staff writer
Two KU law professors who happen to be friends will go to the U.S. Supreme Court in December to work against each other.
The Supreme Court on Dec. 10 will consider a 1994 Kansas law that confines sexual predators after their prison terms end.
Steve McAllister, associate professor of law, will help Kansas Attorney General Carla Stovall prepare arguments for the state, which is defending the law. David Gottlieb, professor of law, will help Tom Weilert, a Wichita lawyer, attempt to show that the law is unconstitutional.
A sexual predator is someone who is considered predisposed to abnormal behavior and is not fit to be in society, McAllister said.
"Doctors have been unwilling to agree with what is abnormal and what isn't," he said. "That is why this case raises so many constitutional questions."
The defense brought the case before the Supreme Court when a Kansas district court committed Leroy Hendricks to the Larned Correctional Mental Health Facility without proof he was mentally ill.
Hendricks' attorneys said the law extended his prison sentence, violating his constitutional right to protection against ex post facto laws. Hendricks committed the crime before the Kansas law was established.
Hendricks was classified as a sexually violent predator when he said he was not fit to return to society at his commitment hearing in 1994
unconstitutional to apply the law retroactively."
David Gottlieb professor of law
"It is unconstitutional to apply the law retroactively," Gottlieb said. "The state sees it as an extension of criminal penalty. We see it as a violation because it assigns penalty after the fact."
Other groups and politicians also are involved.
"The number of briefs petitioning for both sides is evenly divided," Gottlieb said. "I think we have a substantial case, but I wouldn't venture to guess what the Supreme Court is going to do."
McAllister said that although he thought he was on the right side of the issue, the case's controversy had not interfered with his friendship with Gottlieb.
"We talk a lot about it through e-mail," he said. "I want to see something happen and to help Kansas make its best case. But I wouldn't bet money on the outcome. I just don't know."
Early intimacy can cause regret
By Megan Jordan Kansan staff writer
What college students say and what they do often are two different things.
some KU students say they think students should be in a committed relationship before having sex. But according to the latest issue of Men's Health magazine, the average man feels ready for sex after four dates, while the average woman feels sex is appropriate after 11 dates.
Karen Donaldson, Shawnee sophomore, said she thought many college couples became sexually intimate within the first two weeks of a relationship. This is too soon, she said, because sex is accompanied by myriad emotions.
"I don't think you can really trust someone with your feelings and emotions in one week," she said. "There's so much more to find out about someone even after two months."
Joyce Davidson, Counseling and Psychological Services psychologist, said the decision to be physically intimate should not be an issue of time. As long as partners have the same goals for a relationship, it does not matter when they have sex, she said. But if one person thinks the act is a symbol of love and the other is just out for a good time, one partner could end up feeling abandoned or used
Unfulfilled expectations can be devastating. Davidson said.
Despite the risk of being hurt, Davidson said students continued to become intimate early.
"People are always looking for proof that they are lovable and they think, 'Oh my goodness, this proves that he or she finds me attractive,'" she said.
Davidson also said students sometimes think sex cements commitment in a relationship or is a good way to show their interest. Once again, this could result in emotional heartache if partners are not on the same wavelength.
Janine Gracy, health educator for Student Health Services, said students can be mislead by the media's image of relationships.
one said couples should be close intellectually, emotionally and spiritually, as well as physically. This takes time. The best relationships, she said, often start as friendships. She said a 1994 study revealed that 55 percent of married couples knew each other more than a year before having sex.
Donaldson gave another reason not to have sex with a partner you don't know well: "You don't know who that person has been with before you."
Gracy said health concerns, when added to feelings of abandonment or other emotional issues, should make students think twice about sex.
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