CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, October 24,1995
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Project honors victims of domestic violence
Women design shirts to help healing process
By Lindsey Henry Kansan Correspondent
The shirts hanging on the clothesline outside Stauffer-Flint Hall are not someone's laundry. They are a part of Lawrence's Clothesline Project, a visual display of specially designed shirts that represent the women who are battered every 15 seconds in America.
Sponsored by the Feminist Collective Force, the Clothesline Project will be displayed on campus today and tomorrow and at Lawrence City Hall until Friday. Each shirt is decorated to represent one woman's experience, either by the survivor herself or a loved one.
"We decided to bring the project to KU because
The Clothesline Project originated in Hyannis, Mass, in 1990. In the past five years, communities across the country have started local projects to aid in the healing process of victims of domestic abuse.
domestic violence is happening all over in fraternities, sororites and on campus," said Valerie Kelly, Leavenworth senior and member of the Clothesline Project. "This campus should know what is happening."
The colors of the shirts describe the type of violence. White shirts represent women who have died, yellow and beige shirts represent battered women and purple shirts represent women who have been attacked because of their sexual orientation. Red, pink and orange shirts represent women who have been raped or sexually assaulted, and blue and green shirts represent survivors of child sexual abuse or incest.
"The main goal here is to make the community aware that this is happening," Kelly said. "People from all walks of life are dealing with these issues, not just famous people. This does not discriminate."
Laura Gonzalez, Larned freshman and member of the force, said that she was scared and apprehensive about the clothesline's powerful impact.
To create a higher level of emotional cleansing, survivors may name their perpetrator on their shirt by first name or initials. Last names only can be used if the accused has been guilty.
During the presentation, members of the Feminist Collective Force will answer any questions from observers.
Because of the sensitivity of the display, survivors and friends may not design shirts on sight. The opportunity to create a shirt will be offered from 7 to 9 p.m. tonight in Alcove A of the Kansas Union. The event is open to any survivor or friend of a victim. Participants should bring their own shirts.
Rachel Lee, Lawrence graduate student and coordinator for the Emily Taylor Women's Center's sexual assault and prevention program, said the low numbers of rape and battery filed with KU police were not indicative of the reality of violence. KU police report that there were four rapes on campus last year.
"I think violence is a huge problem at KU," Gonzalez said. "Hopefully, this will make both men and women aware, and give them the strength to come to come to terms with what is really going on."
The Lawrence Clothesline Project continually accepts shirts and plans to represent the area nationally during a march in Washington, D.C. Because of the rise in teenage abuse, future plans include a visit to Lawrence High School, Kelly said. The organization wants all ages of victims to be able to speak out.
"A lot of the incidents go unreported because of women's self-blame and shame," Lee said. "I think the Clothesline Project will be striking. Sometimes it is easy to forget violence, and when you see a visual display, it brings it home again."
"Domestic violence fits so many things," Kelly said. "One person can read the shirts, and it will make them realize that this is happening to them. That is a success."
McWilliams: breaking depression
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history teacher at Johnson County Community College, and took on a full-time position at the station.
McWillains said that being a lawyer meant acting out a part that involved being somewhat less than honest.
"Teaching and deejaying is performing, but you don't try to screw anybody," he said.
--stuck to the side, McWilliams pulls his music for the first hour of the midnight show.
The floor squeaks under his weight as McWilliams walks through the halls of KANU. He looks at the clock. It is 11:50 p.m. He puts his meal of leftovers in the refrigerator and crouches on the station's orange carpet. Peering into an old locker with a jazz bumper sticker
Soft jazz fills the building as McWilliams begins his shift and the early DJ packs up to go home.
"Please excuse the grungy look, I've been working hard all day," he said.
McWilliams hosts the midnight to 5 a.m. jazz show Monday through Thursday, as well as the Sunday afternoon Trail Mix show and the Sunday evening show with Dick Powers, another DJ at the station. He also is assistant producer of the Good Time Radio Revue, a live broadcast with bands and comedy held five times a year.
"He's a real treasure to us," said Rachel Hunter, music director at KANU. She said that McWilliams came up with great ideas all the time, including the idea for the Trail
Despite his unstoppable appearance, McWilliams often feels worn out.
He suffers from clinical depression and has tendencies toward bipolar personality, which used to be called manic depressive.
Freisen said that she and McWilliams' older sister, and possibly their grandfather, also had the disorder.
"One thing about radio," he said, "you have a sense of the clock."
"You can't imagine how paralyzed and how dark you feel." McWilliams said.
in hard show. She said that he was good about keeping in touch with performers.
"It's like having bricks on your shoulders and not being able to lift them." she said.
Every so often, something he calls "the darkness" creeps in, and McWilliams feels himself being sucked into a black hole.
The disorder surfaced when McWilliams was a lawyer, but there were signs of it as far back as high school, he said.
"I try to spend as much time as possible goofing off," he adds.
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McWilliams' high-energy personality comes with a downside.
It is now 1:30 a.m., and McWilliams is getting antsy. He walks out of the booth, the music stops, and at just the right moment he jumps back into headphones and speaks to his listeners.
McWilliams sleeps, if he sleeps, from about 6 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., and then begins his long day of preparing for the evening show, talking to artists and music lovers about house concerts, doing laundry and housework, and writing the KANU newsletter.
"I keep pretty busy." he admits.
He glances quickly at the clock.
McWilliams also drives her crazy, and he knows it. "He's just a bundle of energy." Hunter said. "He's unstoppable."
McWilliams sits at the desk in front of the microphone. A calm descends over him. He puts on the headphones, announces the names of the artists, and reads the iazz calendar off of a hand-written sheet of paper.
During his four years practicing law, McWilliams was always depressed. At times, he said, he could not even get out of bed
But there is a light at the end of McWilliams' dark tunnel. He learned that what he had was a disease and that it was controllable.
"It's no more shameful than having tuberculosis," he said.
McWilliams said he still had bouts with depression, but antidepressants kept him functioning and held off what he called the "demons."
The disease, McWilliams said, has enhanced, rather than inhibited, his life.
"I'm more willing to seek out pleasure and beauty in life than I was because I'm more in touch with
gritfulness and darkness, 'mcwiliams sat.'
He said that teaching becomes rewarding when he can recognize students who show signs of depression and can help them by sharing his own stories with them.
--a strong supporter of the University and of KU engineering.
McWilliams' father died two years ago, but not without seeing his son living his own dream.
"When he saw me teach, he understood why I had quit law," McWilliams said.
His days now are filled with music, family and an appreciation for a life he chose, not a life he was led into.
He is finishing off another week on the radio, and as the show winds down, he looks up at the clock. He grabs the David Grisman Rounder CD, the same one that he uses at the end of every Sunday evening. He slips the CD in, and with a slight smile, signs off with one of the songs.
McWilliams sits in the control booth at KANU. Beside him, as always, is a cup of Coca-Cola for stimulation (he hates coffee) and a cup of water to ease his voice before he goes on the air.
"You know, I was lucky to stumble into doing things I enjoy doin', he said. "I love music, but I'm not really a musician. I just learned to follow my heart and do what I love to do."
"So-o-o long every-y-bod od-deeee, its ti-me to go-o-o. We'll see-ee you next ti-ime on your-out ster-er-er-eeo-o."
Steve Puppe/Kansan
Bad hair day
Wind gusts exceeding 35 mph took several KU students by surprise on their way to class on Monday. The temperature dropped from upper 60s to the low 40s late Monday afternoon. Today, less wind is expected.
Learned, KU supporter, dead at 92
By Tara Trenary
Kansan staff writer
A loyal Jayhawk and one of the University of Kansas' major financial contributors is dead at 92.
A loyal Jaynawk and one of the University of Kansas' major financial contributors is dead at 92. Stanley Learned, former president of the KU Alumni Association and president and CEO of Phillips Petroleum, died Saturday in Charlotte, N.C.
"He was a very honest, dedicated, hard-working, loyal and generous person," said Richard Wintermote, retired executive director of the KU Alumni Association and a close friend of Learned's.
"His family, his company and his university were his life." Wintermote said.
Wintermote said that Learned was the national chairman of the first KU fund-raising campaign, "Program for Progress," which began in 1966.
The goal of the campaign was $17 million, and the campaign raised more than $20 million, he said.
Learned also raised and contributed money for the Adams Alumni Center, including the Learned Club, a private dining club at the alumni center.
Carl Locke Jr., dean of engineering administration, said that Learned Hall, the engineering building, was dedicated to Learned in the '60s because he had been
"I feel fortunate having been able to meet him," Locke said. "I'm very proud our building is named after him."
Learned, born Nov. 5, 1902, graduated from Lawrence High School in 1920 and earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from KU in 1924 and a master's degree from KU in 1936. He was named vice president of Phillips Petroleum in 1949, executive vice president in 1955 and president and chief executive officer in 1962.
Learned became the first life member of the KU School of Engineering's advisory board in 1988. He also received the Fred Ellsworth Medallion for service to KU, the Distinguished Service Citation and the Board of Regents distinguished service to higher education award.
Learned is survived by a daughter, Ann Fitch, Asheville, N.C., four grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Bartlesville, Okla., Presbyterian Church. Friends may contact the Arnold Moore Funeral Home in Bartlesville tomorrow and Thursday.
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