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What's the weather, Jay?
- weather.com
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28. 2013
Friday
Mostly cloudy. 20 percent chance of precipitation. Winds N at 15 mph.
friday
HI: 34
LO: 21
At least there's no snowfall
Saturday
HI: 41
LO: 29
HI: 35
LO: 8
Cloudy. 10 percent chance of precipitation. Winds N at 9 mph.
Sunday
Mostly cloudy. 10 percent chance of precipitation. Winds S at 12 mph.
Good day for soup
Grab your sweaters
Thursday, Feb. 28
CALENDAR
WHAT: Central American Film Showcase:
"La Vuma."
**wWERE:** 100 Stauffer-Flint Hall
**WEN:** 7 to 3:00 p.m.
**ABOUT:** This film tells the story of Yuma,
a poor but determined girl who aspires to
be a boxer.
Friday, March 1
WHAT: SUA's Chili Recipe Contest
WHERE: Kansas Union lobby, level 4
WHEN: 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
ABOUT: See judges award contest winners on the best student-submitted chili recipes. The winner will receive a $100 prize.
WHAT: Cirque de Legume by Jamie Carswell
Carswell
WHERE: Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St.
WHEN: 7:30 to 9 p.m.
ABOUT: Enjoy this one-night show at the Lawrence Arts Center performed by University alum Jamie Carswell's Irish comedy troupe.
WHAT: Application for graduation deadline
WHERE: All University
WHEN: All day
ABOUT: Make sure to apply today if you plan to graduate this spring.
Saturday, March 2
..AT: Spring Opening at the Spencer Museum
WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m.
WHERE: Seencer Museum of Art
ABOUT: Check out the Spencer's newest exhibit, "An Errant Line; Ann Hamilton / Cynthia Schira," and mingle with the artists.
WHAT: Scholarship & BFA Audition Dance Department
WHEN: 1 to 4 p.m.
WHERE: Robinson Center, 251
ABOUT: Think you've got the right moves? Audition for scholarship consideration and admittance to the dance B.F.A. program.
Sunday, March 3
**WHAT:** Campus Movie Series: Skyfall
**WHERE:** Kansas Union, Woodruff Auditorium
**WHEN:** 2 to 4 p.m.
**ABOUT:** Catch the latest Bond flick starring Daniel Craig as the infamous 007 agent. Tickets are free with a Student Saver Card and $2 with a KU ID.
CULTURE
WHAT: SMA Art Cart. It's a Wrap
WHERE: Spencer Museum of Art
WHERE: 12 to 4 o.m.
ABOUT. Create an art project inspired by the Spencer's newest textile installation by Ann Hamilton and Cynthia Schira at this free event.
LGBT community modifies name to be more inclusive
EMILY DONOVAN
edonovan@kansan.com
The gay rights movement has added a few more letters onto its initialism: LGBTQIA, LGBTQIA stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual. The new initialism allows the sexuality and gender identity-based community to include individuals who may not conventionally identify themselves as a man or woman.
Liam Lair, a graduate student in women, gender and sexuality studies, identifies himself as a queer feminist. Lair teaches a course which covers gender non-conformity, inter-sex politics and politics and race.
"The expansion of the initialism is great because it gives people pause when they hear the acronym," Lair said. "It makes people think about what else needs to be included in the conversation. The problem is that the B and the T are sort of name-only."
"My story isn't the one about being trapped in the wrong body," Lair said. "I've worked really hard
As a trans-identified person, Lair has two coming out stories. As a 21-year-old undergraduate in Texas, he came out as a lesbian but never felt like a feminine woman. His acceptance of himself as a transsexual man came gradually as he took testosterone hormones after having top surgery and legally changing his name.
to be positive about my body. In the culture we live in, it's really hard for women to reconcile their bodies with how we're taught to understand them."
Lair said the discrimination transpeople face because of their sexual orientation or gender identity affects not just them but everyone.
"The expectations of what it is
to be a feminine woman, what are the expectations to be a masculine man — the issues of gender identity transcend just folks who are trans-identified," Lair said.
imbalances between groups of people.
"It is very
"Everyone should have guaranteed civil rights regardless of their gender," Halling said. "People who aren't cisgendered are facing a lot more difficulties than people who are in pursuing their civil rights. When we're having discussions about gay marriage, about same-sex parenting, we need to
"Looking at queer issues as only being male or female leaves out a lot of people."
EMMA HALLING Junior from Elkhart, Ind.
important that non-binary genders are starting to be recognized under the queer umbrella," said junior Emma Halling. "Looking at queer issues as only being male or female leaves out a lot of people and if those people are excluded from the queer umbrella, they're not going to find anywhere where they can fight for their rights."
Halling, an American Studies and women and gender sexuality studies double major from Elkhart, Ind., sees parallels between feminism and the plight of people who are not cisgendered. Cisgender means that you identify with the sex you are born with. Both, she said, address eliminating power
make sure that in those conversations, people who identify as trans are included and aren't left out in legislation like has been done before."
In 2002, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that
"It speaks to the level of misunderstanding and ignorance of our government," Lair said. "It's a discounting of the alternative families we've all created. I also think it speaks to the larger issues of how many relationships we don't acknowledge."
J'Noel Gardiner's, a transsexual woman, marriage was invalid and she therefore would not inherit her deceased husband's estate. Transsexuals have been barred from marriage in the past because judges were unable to classify them as either male or female.
In states that do permit legally changing sex on driver's licenses or birth certificates, requirements
range from a letter from a doctor stating that the individual is taking hormones, and should therefore be considered a man or a woman, to bottom surgery.
"Most states are just now catching on to the fact that we exist and that they might need to have some policies in place for changing a gender marker on a state ID," Lair said.
Issues brought up by gender identity expand from marriage to everyday solutions like nongendered bathrooms. Lawrence is the only city in Kansas where gender identity is covered in employees' anti-discrimination policies. On-campus, Queens and Allies and the LGBT Resource Center have made a concerted effort to make gender identity and gender non-conformity a part of their mission and outreach.
Exposure and education, however, is the first step to gaining awareness and learning how to navigate and address gender nonconformity. Heterosexual people should recognize their privilege as heterosexual and examine how gender expectation structure everyone, Lair said.
"If people recognized not only their friends and family who are queer or trans-identified, but how these oppressive systems affect all of us, there's a personal investment and people would get more involved," Lair said.
- Edited by Hayley Jozwiak
REACHING OUT
Queers and Allies
Thursdays, 7 p.m., Sabatini Multicultural Resource Center
Queens and Allies is the on-campus group for gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans-identified students who want to work as support, advocates and open members of the community.
Every semester, the group hosts a Trans* Talk Panel, an open-invitation event where a panel discusses how they have identified as transsexual.
LGBT Resource Center
Resource Center
Student Involvement and
Leadership Center 1301
Jayhawk Bldd. Room 400
Offers information on issues affecting the LGBT community and upcoming events as well as sensitivity training. Coordinates the Safe Zone program to reduce homophobia, transphobia and heterosexism on campus.
Liam Lair has created a packet to help transidentified people navigate legally changing names without going through a lawyer.
STATE
Kansas faces potential budget cuts in March
ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gov. Sam Brownback assured Kansas residents Wednesday that core government services would remain fully funded, even if automatic federal spending cuts take effect that could force spring furloughs for some 6,650 civilian employees at the state's military bases.
Brownback said agencies are assessing how much money may be at stake in $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts that could be authorized to occur Friday barring a deal. The cuts would not go into effect until March 27, when the current continuing resolution on federal spending expires.
"State agencies have begun examining the potential impact sequestration at the federal level will have on Kansas if it goes into effect," the governor said.
The White House issued a fact sheet on each state, estimating the cuts in federal spending in Kansas at more than $130 million, including grant payments for job training, public health, law enforcement, environmental protection and child care.
The biggest and most immediate impact would be on military operations in Kansas and the potential for furloughs of some 6,650 civilian employees starting in April. Military spending accounts for about 1 percent of the gross state product, or $7.5 billion annually, said John Armbrust, executive director of the Governor's Military Council.
The Army has said civilian employees would be told to take one day off a week for 22 weeks to absorb the budget cuts. Formal notifications are next expected for several weeks.
Salaries of military employees, both direct and indirect, total $5.5 billion, which includes soldiers and contractors, Armbrust said. Civilian employee furloughs would reduce that by $40 million through the remainder of the current federal fiscal year, including an estimated $14 million at Fort Riley, the largest Army post in Kansas.
"It's tough on the individual but it rolls through the community," he said.
Additional cuts in military operations also could mean curtailing some training and travel, Armbrust said, but how the cuts would be implemented hasn't been announced.
Brig. Gen. Donald MacWillie,
senior commander of Fort Riley,
"The remainder of this school year it will have very little effect."
DALE DENNIS
Deputy commissioner of education
said the post and the 1st Infantry Division were adjusting to the "new fiscal environment" that will result in adjustments in training, workforce and future contracts.
"We're going to slow some things down at the installation and ensure that everything we do supports our readiness and commitment to our soldiers and families first and foremost," MacWillie said.
He said Fort Riley continued to meet with community leaders to discuss how the funding
cuts will impact the region and its economy.
The reductions are separate from programmed military reductions that will shrink the Army from its present 570,000 soldiers to 490,000 soldiers over the next 10 years, part of more than $487 billion in defense cuts.
The loss of funds would mean
Some potential impacts on state government include cuts in education programs, such as the federal share of special education services and Title I programs for low-income students.
Dale Dennis, deputy commissioner of education, said the two cuts would total about $10.8 million, but wouldn't be felt until after July 1.
"The remainder of this school year it will have very little effect," Dennis said. "We hope they get dennes sorted out in Congress."
He said the cuts would be felt in all 286 school districts but would be more severe in districts with high concentrations of poverty. Districts would be able to set aside some funds from the current fiscal year to offset those cuts, Dennis said.
the reduction in the number of teachers, paraprofessionals, summer school days and extended learning time for certain students if a federal solution isn't reached, Dennis said.
"We try to stay a bit behind the curve in case something like this happens." Dennis said.
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