UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, October 11, 1996
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Students learn self-defense
Injuring the assailant can be as important as escaping the danger
By Andrea Albright Kansan staff writer
A small group of KU students got personal training in self-defense strategies at a workshop last night.
Only three students showed for the workshop presented by KU police officer Gayle Reece and Lawrence police detective Catherine Kelley.
Reece said common sense and drinking in moderation could help students avoid situations where they might be in danger.
"The best thing to do is to minimize the possibilities that violence can happen to you," Reece said. "Alcohol has a tendency to cause students to make bad choices."
Reece and Kelley demonstrated several self-defense techniques. Reece said the circumstances of the attack determined which technique was best.
"You have to judge the assailant and the environment before choosing your actions," Reece said. "Some assailants like their victim to be submissive, others
One in 10 men has been raped before he leaves college.
- One in four women has been raped before she leaves college.
Rape Statistics
Alcohol is involved in 90 percent of all reported campus rapes.
Between 80 and 90 percent of campus rapes are date or acquaintance rapes.
Ninety-five percent of violent campus crime is alcohol related.
Source: Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, University of Kansas Police Department
like resistance."
Kelley showed how to use keys, interlocked between fingers or a pen as weapons. She recommended these weapons because attackers would not likely used them against the victim. If used properly, Kelley said, an attacker could be rendered helpless.
"You can take out an eye with a set of keys," Kelley said. "You can't hurt what you can't see."
Reece said that in some instances, a victim could vomit, urinate or defecate to fend off an attacker. Other defense methods included striking the attacker in the groin, neck or nose.
Reece and Kelley said it was as important to get away as it was to injure an attacker in a struggle.
"If you decide to be a fighter, you have to fight until it's over." Kelley said.
Kelley said it was crucial to fight if an attacker wanted to move the victim to a different location. She said police records showed that most people who were moved to a second crime scene did not survive.
"Never let anybody take you from the original spot," Kelley said. "If they take you to another place, you're not coming back."
Reece said instincts can be the best self-defense.
"If someone doesn't look right or smell right, there's a real good chance they're not right," Reece said. "Heed your feelings."
Winnie Cheung, Hong Kong senior, said she learned new options for self-defense at the workshon.
"I learned about the key thing in the movies but I never took it as real protection." Cheung said.
Geoff Krieger/KANSAN
Det. Catherine Kelley, Lawrence Police Department, and officer Gayle Reece, KU police department, talk to students yesterday in the Big 12 room of the Kansas Union about various ways to defend themselves. The talk was part of Stop the Violence week, and a preview to today's simulated mugging in front of Strong Hall at 11:00 am.
Gay writers, activists to meet for first Midwest conference
By Nicholas C. Charalambous
Kansan staff writer
Some members of the gay, lesbian and bisexual community affectionately refer to Lawrence as the San Francisco of the plains or the queer Mecca of the Midwest.
That image will move one step further toward reality this week.
end, as a bumper crop of writers and activists gather in Lawrence to participate in Subterfuge: Queer Writers and Activists in the Bible Belt, the Midwest's first gay writers and activists conference. The conference will be at the Ecumenical
people in the Midwest lived out their queerness.
"We're here, but we're not incredibly visible," Casey said. "So much time is spent on protecting ourselves and being safe that we don't have the time or energy as far as activism goes. A lot of our energy is spent fighting causes rather than celebrating who we
"It's not always the heterosexual community that needs education on the issues."
Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
Kristi Parker editor of Liberty Press
There will be a book display, and speakers will lead discussions on issues such as censorship, erotica and writing through trauma. Tickets cost $25.
"Queer writers move to one of the coasts because that's where the centers of support are for their work," said Lightburn, Lawrence senior. "I'm hoping to change that some."
Organizers Shannon Casey and Nicole Lightburn had attended conferences of this type on the East and West coasts. A conference in the Midwest would provide a forum for writers and activists to share ideas and experiences and network with others, they said.
Casey, Lawrence junior, said that she chose Subterfuge as the title of the conference because that's how
are.
Diane Silver, a Lawrence writer, will lead a discussion on writing through traum a tomorrow and read from a memoir in progress on Sunday about the death of her lifelong partner.
"A anytime you together
as a group of queers and talk more openly about your life, it enables you to feel more powerful, more positive and gives you more energy to do what you need to do," she said.
But Silver said that being queer today was the best of times and the worst of times. It is easier to be who we are in our personal life, she said, but we never have had so much organized, well-financed opposition from the Christian Right.
Calendar of events
Kristi Parker, editor of the Liberty Press, a statewide lesbian and gay news magazine, said she hoped to give people at the conference information and inspiration.
Subterfuge: Queer Writers/Activists in the Bible Belt
"It usually grows and gets other things going," Parker said. "It's not always the heterosexual community that needs education on the issues."
Sessions to be held at Ecumenical Christian Ministries. 1204 Oread Ave., take place on stated
TODAY
7 p.m. Keynote address by Diane Silver & Karl Woolz, Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union.
TOMORROW
9 to 10 a.m. Registration
Session 1
10:30 to 11:30 a.m.
What Is Out?
Domestic Violence
Censorship in the Midwest
Session 2
1 to 2:30 p.m.
Writing Through Trauma
The Defense of Marriage
Act and Beyond
Gender Issues
2:45 to 3:45 p.m.
Caucuses
4 to 6 p.m.
Poetry Slam
Mallett Room, Kansas
Union
SUNDAY
Regents to vote on requirements
1 to 3 p.m.
Queers of Color
Activism in the Bible Belt
Erotica
3:00 p.m.
Readings and closing
remarks followed by thank-
you party
High school students may need new classes to meet college guides
By Lindsey Henry
Kansan staff writer
The Board of Regents will vote Thursday on whether to approve a list of required courses for Kansas high school students. The list of courses was created in response to the legislature's mandate to establish admission standards for each of the Regents six state institutions by 2001.
The proposed list includes four units of English, three units of mathematics, three units of social sciences, one unit of computer technology and three units of natural science, according to the Regent's qualified admissions-pre college curriculum.
"In the past, these were recommendations," said Tim Peterson, associate director of academic affairs for the Regents. "What this really does is change the recommendations to requirements."
The proposed requirements differ from past recommendations. One difference is that high school students would be required to take either physics or chemistry to fulfill science unit requirements.
The most noticeable change is the absence of required foreign language courses for high school students, which has caused concern for members of the KU faculty.
"It's a double-edged sword," said William Keel, associate professor of Germanic languages and literatures. "It would be great if every student coming into the University had a background in foreign language. I'd appreciate such a requirement, but it is not feasible."
It is not possible for every student to have experience in foreign languages because certain areas of the state cannot afford to hire teachers for supplemental subjects, said Provost David Shulenburger.
A study by the Regents showed 18 percent of the high schools in Kansas would have great difficulty implementing the recommended curriculum, even without required foreign languages.
"Ideally, every college bound
student should take a foreign language," Shulenburger said. "But I don't know that we can operate in the ideal world."
Peterson said the curriculum was created to ensure high school students and their parents knew exactly how to prepare for the state's qualified admissions. He encouraged high school students to continue taking language classes.
"This is certainly not to be interpreted that foreign languages are not important," Peterson said. "I think students will find as time goes on in global economy, knowledge of a foreign language will be vital."
Though foreign language was not included in the proposed curriculum, he said, students applying for state scholarships would be required to take two years of foreign languages.
Keel said he understood the reality that smaller districts could not afford to offer foreign languages.
"Usually students that major in foreign languages are the ones with experience in high school, not ones that start from scratch at the University," Keel said.
Pharmacy lab to get facelift with $50,000 gift
Renovation to include computers, counseling
By Bradley Brooks Kansan staff writer
Ed McMahon may not have shown up on the doorstep, but the School of Pharmacy felt as if it had won the Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes when it was presented with a $50,000 gift on Wednesday.
"It is a tremendous gift that is
Chancellor Robert Hemenway, on behalf of the American Drug Stores Inc., in Oakbrook, Ill., presented the school with the gift to help pay for renovations in student laboratories in Malott Hall.
going to directly benefit the students," said Jack Fincham, dean of the school. "We're changing the configuration of the room to mirror what students will experience in patient-care situations."
Renovations will include purchasing more computers and will include a patient counseling center that Fincham said will offer students mock interactions with patients.
An educational resource area with updated computers and textbooks also will be included, making student learning more effective. Fincham said.
The total cost of renovating the lab will be $250,000, and all of the money will come from private donations.
Karen Ramos, representative for American Drug Stores, said that
she thought the $50,000 donation was an investment in not only her company but also in the pharmaceutical industry as a whole.
"We did this because we want to support schools that do research in the market we serve," Ramos said. "We need trained pharmacists, and we want to support schools that train them. KU is an outstanding institution, and we want to support their efforts to strengthen the pharmacy school."
Fincham said that there were plans for updating other labs and that the school would continue to seek donations from pharmaceutical companies and private individuals.
"We need to engage in these partnerships to meet the needs of our students," Fincham said.
Symbol of Peace and Solidarity Second Annual
Thursday Oct 10 Friday Oct 11,1996 9 to 3 pm
Presented by G.R.E.E.C.S. and Office of Minority Affairs In assoc. with Multicultural Resource Center, Asian American Student Union Black Men of Today, IFC, Panhellenic, HALO, Student Senate-Multicultural Committee, Black Student Union, Study Abroad Club, and Black PanHellenic
NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY Information Fair and Speak Out
Friday, October 11 Noon to 1:30 pm Wescoe Beach
OCTOBER II
Sponsored by KU Queers and Allies:Les Bi Gay Trans Services of Kansas