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VOL. 104, NO.9
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Critic won't buy degrading ads
Submitted photo
By Nathan Olson Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Four women are shown in tight sweaters and miniskirts. One lifts her skirt, another simulates masturbation.
A scene from a pornographic magazine? No. It is a clothing advertisement in last Sunday's New York Times.
such ads promote the degradation of women, said media critic Jean Kilbourne. She will talk about other similar ads at 8 tonight at the Lied Center. The event, "The Naked Truth: Advertis-
Kilbourne said the popularity of fashion model
ing's Image of Women," will combine Kilbourne's lecture with a slide presentation of outrageous ads. The lecture, which is free, is sponsored by Student Union Activities and Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center.
Advertising not only sells products but also values, Kibourne said. In the media, she said, this can translate into a lack of objectivity.
"It's difficult to get accurate health statistics from a media that depends on cigarettes and alcohol for money," she said.
Kate Moss was an example of advertising affecting values.
"It's interesting to note that the increased popularity of thinner models coincides with a rise in eating disorders among women," she said.
Kilbourne became interested in advertising while working for a medical journal. An ad for birth control pills that Kilbourne said she thought degraded women angered her enough to begin compiling other ads. Eventually she turned the ads into a slide presentation
Now Kilbourne's popularity nearly is unmatched. An informal poll this summer in The
New York Times Magazine showed that only Maya Angelou rated ahead of Kilbourne in popularity on the college lecture circuit.
Kilbourne also has won a number of awards, including the National Association of Campus Activities' Lecturer of the Year two years in a row.
Despite her popularity, Kilbourne's message may not be reaching everyone. In a survey published this spring in American Demographic, 44 percent of women 18 to 34 were not bothered by sex in advertising.
Prisoner on the move after escape
By Manny Lopez
Kansan staff writer
Chad Beers, who was arrested for robbing a Lawrence grocery store in October and who later escaped from authorities, is on the run again and could be headed to Lawrence.
Lawrence police said that Beers and another inmate broke out of the Sebastian Country Jail in Fort Smith, Ark. Lawrence police said they received an alert bulletin at 10:51 p.m. Tuesday from the Sebastian County Sheriff's Department.
"They used a 6- to 8-inch solid-bar tool that was somehow smuggled into the facility," said Sebastian County Sheriff Gary Grimes. "They broke some clips on a gate, climbed on the roof, then climbed down the front of the building."
Grimes said that Beers, 24, and Scott Scanlon, 31, were in the exercise yard of the jail about 6:50 p.m. Tuesday. But the two were missing at 8:25 p.m. when the other prisoners were brought back to the building.
"We found their jail uniforms on the roof of the building." Grimes said. "All they were wearing when they left the facility were their shorts and T-shirts."
Richardson is being held on $25,000 bond for aiding a criminal and could face federal charges, Grimes said.
Grimes said that the prisoners also had an accomplice. Beer's girlfriend, Phyllis Richardson, who lives in Fort Smith, was parked in front of the building waiting for the men, Grimes said. She then drove them to Choutane, Okla, which is about 30 miles east of Tula.
While in Oklahoma, Beers and Scanlon stole a 1987 tan GMC pickup, Grimes said. He said he did not know where the men were heading.
The last time Beers was in Lawrence was October 1993. He was being held for aggravated robbery, aggravated assault and resisting arrest for robbing Checkers Foods, 2300 Louisiana.
Last week, Beers was sentenced to 14 years in prison without parole for his part in the Arkansas kidnapping.
After his arrest in Lawrence, local authorities discovered that Beers was wanted in Arkansas for kidnapping. Beens escaped from a Douglas County Sheriff's deputy after a doctor's appointment and spent the next three weeks on the run. He later was captured in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Brian Vandervliet/KANSAN
Changing the monkey
Chris Berneking, volunteer at the Natural History Museum, opens the museum's donation box, which is decorated with a stuffed Capuchin monkey. He said the $255 he collected was the lowest amount of donations the museum had received in a long time.
IRA declares peace in Ireland
The Associated Press
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — The IRA declared a cease-fire yesterday, and Northern Ireland now waits to see if the long-sought truce will hold and bring talks to end a quarter-century of sectarian bloodshed.
The Irish Republican Army's supporters called the declaration a historic opportunity for peace in the British province. But it disappointed British officials and majority Protestants in Northern Ireland who wanted explicit assurances of a permanent truce.
There also are worries about whether Protestant gunmen will hold their fire. Many militant Protestants fear the British government has made secret concessions to the IRA, and the extremists could try to provoke renewed IRA violence by attacking the province's Roman Catholic minority.
Hours before the IRA's declaration, the outlawed Ulster Volunteer Force kidnapped a 37-year-old Catholic, shot him in the head and dumped his body on the roadside.
Any steps forward will be burdened by the accumulated bitterness of the past.
"I welcome this IRA cease-fire in the sense that for some months no one will be murdered by them — but don't expect me to be grateful," said Alan McBride, whose wife, Sharon, was among 10 people killed by an IRA bomb at a Belfast fish shop last October.
Despite the pain, some people held out hope, such as Michael English, a Catholic bartender in Londonderry who lost two sons
"I can't live in 1981 for my son Gary. I can't live in 1985 for my son Charles. I have to live in 1944 for my grandchildren who have replaced them," English said.
The governments of Britain and Ireland pledged last December that there would be no change in the status of Northern Ireland without the consent of a majority of its people. The IRA has sought for 25 years to end British rule and join the province with the Irish republic.
twelve in Londonbomb who lost two sons — one run over by a British armored car, the other blown up by his own bomb while with the IRA.
In launching the peace campaign late last year, Britain and Ireland said the organization Sinn Fein, the IRA's political party ally,
could join in negotiations once the IRA permanently ended its armed campaign.
Prime Minister Albert Reynolds of Ireland told his parliament the IRA met that condition and "there can be no going back."
"We need to be clear that this is indeed intended to be a permanent renunciation of violence, that is to say, for good," he said. "Let words now be reflected in deeds."
The IRA and Sinn Fein said the onus now was on Britain to make a gesture. They demanded withdrawal of troops from Catholic areas and an end to the ban on broadcasting the voices of IRA supporters and talks with Sinn Fein.
But British Prime Minister John Major was wary.
"This struggle is not over. This struggle is into a new phase," Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams told a happy throng of supporters outside the party's Belfast headquarters.
John Hume, a Catholic leader and longtime critic of the IRA who recently forged a
See IRA, Page 8A.
Faculty to review evaluation policy
By James Evans
Kansan staff writer
By the end of the semester, the University of Kansas will have a formalized faculty evaluation policy in place.
In the past, departments were responsible for creating their own forms, which students filled out at the end of the semester to analyze their professors.
Today faculty will voice their opinions on how the evaluation policy needs to be revised to Regent John Hiebert at the University Council meeting.
In May, the Board of Regents presented recommendations to Faculty Senate on what revisions needed to be made to the current policy. The Regents report asked that teachers be evaluated not only by students but by faculty and by how classes are prepared. Other major points included how data about faculty would be used to identify deficiencies in teaching.
T. P. Srinivasan, presiding officer of University Council, said the faculty is not completely pleased with the some of the recommendations the Regents made for the policy.
"We are in broad agreement with the basic arguments," Srivasan said, "But with all their recommendations."
Srinivasan said that most faculty members disagreed with a proposal that student senators meet with representatives from the Office of Academic Affairs to discuss the evaluations at the end of each semester. Faculty members also disagreed with a recommendation to implement a policy already used at Pittsburg State University in which students monitor and evaluate faculty throughout the semester.
"Students should not be involved in the merit salary evaluation," Srinivasan said in response to the first recommendation. "Student evaluations should be a conglomerate of different things."
He said faculty evaluations should be peer evaluations, exit interviews and a survey of past graduates.
The following is a listing of some of the recommendations that Regent John Hiebert made about the faculty evaluation policy and the faculties reaction.
Recommendations from Board of Regents:
Representatives of Student governance should meet with campus representatives and discuss aggregate data on student ratings.
Faculty Responses: unacceptable
Independent departments can decide whether they have comment sheets with their evaluation forms.
modify,
provide flexibility
Chair to establish an annual agreement specifying time faculty spends on different areas of work.
modify, let departments control specifics
Procedures to improve teaching, acceptable, with such as those initiated at part about Pittsburgh State University. PSU stricken out
Butchering reality
"Natural Born Killers" Imitates society's fixation with violence. But some KU students feel Oliver Stone is guilty of his own message.
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Chancellor keeps his students attentive
By David Wilson
Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Most KU students see the chancellor but once in their lives — when they graduate. Not Rott Sherry, McPherson senior
Nor Del Sherk, Every Monday and Wednesday at 8:30 a.m., Sherry and about 30 other students file into 6031 Haworth for Principles of Microbiology 101 with Del Shankel, interim chancellor.
"I don't even notice," she said, although she did say that Shankel told the class about his other job — interim chancellor — on the first day of class.
Is class with the chancellor intimidating? Not at all. Sherry said.
Shankel, a professor of microbiology and former executive vice chancellor, was appointed interim chancellor after then-Chancellor Gene Budig became president of baseball's American League Aug. 1.
Sherry said she was impressed that
Monday morning,
Shankel decided to put off taking roll because of the rain and because two elevators in Haworth Hall weren't working.
"He must like it," she said. "He doesn't have to teach the class."
Shankel even taught the class.
he wanted to give late students a chance to arrive.
Shankel's forgiveness wasn't lost on Sherry
"He's so nice," she said.
Dressed in a tie, gray slacks and black running shoes, Shankel began a straightforward discussion of amino acids and how they link together to form strings of protein.
But people who know Shankel said that wasn't at all unusual for him.
protein He pointed to images of peptide bond formations on the overhead screen with an old-fashioned wooden pointer. His voice rose in pitch when he wanted to emphasize an important term.
But for a chancellor to teach a 100-level class with no more than 40 students might strike some people as unusual.
Betsy Boyce, a research scientist who team-teaches the class with Shankel, said Shankel didn't want to lose his connection with students.
At one point in the lecture, he turned around to warn the class: "Please be careful when you enunciate 'fatty acids.' Someone might think you're saying something else."
For a chancellor to teach classes isn't entirely unusual. Chancellor Gene Budig taught a graduate level course in — what else? — administration in higher education.
"That's why I enjoy teaching introductory classes," he said. "It's a challenge to get students interested in something that I am interested in."
Shankel said he liked teaching an introductory course because he could stoke students' interest in one of his favorite subjects — microbiology.
"He enjoys direct contact with students," she said. "He's a very dedicated educator and always has been. He didn't want to lose that hands-on approach."
The microbiology class, he said, would be a welcome break from administrative duties.
"Part of my therapy this year will be to meet with students," he said.
And while teaching the class soothes Shankel's nerves, being a student in the class piques Sherry's interest.
"I haven’t fallen asleep yet," she said.