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VOL.101.NO.68
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
ANSAS STATE
STORICAL SOCIETY
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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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MONDAY DECEMBER 2,1991
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World unites to observe AIDS Day
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United States, Russia lead efforts to promote awareness of disease
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — World AIDS Day observances yesterday ranged from "A Day Without Art" to a "Night Without Light." Methods for marking the occasion were as far-flung as the places where it was commemorated.
In Russia, where homosexuality is a crime, members of the Russian Union of Gays and Lesbians outlive free, open, gay people. Their public outdoor outside the Moscow City Hall
"Most people said, 'Thank you. Give us more,' said Marina Devkina, 28.
At Tel Aviv University, condoms were handed out and a quilt bearing names of Israeli AIDS victims was displayed. Israeli radio stations featured the health officials and AIDS patients — the latter with their voices disguised.
Lisbon University pharmacy students distributed condoms at shopping centers in Portugal.
In Bangkok, young women wearing scout uniforms and whistles passed out condoms as thousands gathered to see a band and celebrities.
The American University in Cairo's AIDS Awareness day featured a videotape of Magic Johnson, the Los Angeles Lakers basketball star who retired when he learned that he carried the AIDS virus.
In Britain, Princess Diana was an honored guest at a benefit dance, and a chapel was dedicated as a sanctuary for prayers that concerned AIDS.
The French put candles in their windows. About 1,000 members of ACT UP marched in Paris, where a Christmas tree was hung with 800 ornaments signifying 800 children afflicted with AIDS.
In Belgium, an AIDS information group held a movie premiere for "The
Fisher King." Today, the fourth National Medical Conference on AIDS starts in Brussels.
Dr. Gottlieb Lobe Monkeosco, Africa director of the Geneva-based U.N. World Health Organization, which started the annual global event four years ago, said a public event in Brazzaville, The Congo, that the epidemic was due in part to illiteracy, malnutrition, poor living conditions and unemployment, as well as the lack of facilities for testing blood.
In the United States, art galleries and museums were focal points for WORK.
"We're hoping it will jar some people to go out and take some action to protect themselves or protect others."
At the Art Institute of Chicago, museum-goers saw a blank spot on the wall where Monet's "On the Seine at Bennecourt" would ornamentally hang.
said Jeff Abell, representative for Chicago's Day Without Art.
New York's Museum of Modern Art put up 13 framed, blank papers and canvases to represent all the works that would never get shown because of AIDS, said Robert Storr of the museum Projects Committee.
The names of people who died from complications of AIDS were read aloud at the museum for five hours. A bell toiled there and at the Studio Harlem every 10 minutes to mark and/or death from complications of AIDS.
Some 90 New York structures were included in the "Night Without Light" project.
At dusk yesterday, skylines in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami and Austin, Texas, were to dim for 15 in the "Night Without Light" project.
U.S. AIDS cases and deaths
Cumulative totals: 1991
figures through September;
SOURCE: Boston Globe, Centers for Disease Control.
Knight-Ridder Tribune News
AIDS Day at KU to be marked by stage reading, quilt
'Sharing the Challenge' is theme for event
By Kerrie Gottschalk
Kansan staff writer
Although yesterday officially was World AIDS Day, a guilt display and a theater performance will be on campus today to recognize the event.
But any day could be a World AIDS Day. he said.
Patrick Dilley, president of the AIDS Task Force at the University of Kansas, said that since yesterday was part of a holiday weekend, the task force decided to delay recognition of World AIDSNay.
"It is an interconnection of people who fight against the prejudice and the disease and for people who be arecome more responsible for that," Dilly said.
This year's theme for World AIDS Day is "Sharing the Challenge."
To highlight the theme, Spencer Museum of Art is exhibiting two panels of an AIDS quilt in the Central Court of the museum.
The quilt is constructed in rectangles and provides a tribute to about 14,000 people who have died from complications from AIDS.
In addition to the quilt display, a stage reading of "The Normal Heart" will be given tonight.
"The Normal Heart," written by Larry Kramer, is about a couple who meet and fall in love and one of them becomes the President of Paul Lim, who is directing the reading.
Lim said that "The Normal Heart" in some ways was a period piece. He was referring to the early 1980s, when AIDS first was detected.
"It is a very angry diatribe and a polemic against government inaction," Lim said.
Earlier this year, Dilley asked Lim whether he would direct a benefit performance for World AIDS Day because he had overseen a similar project last year.
Lim said that because he would be busy directing other plays, he could not produce a full production. Instead, the group will perform a stage reading.
Lim explained that a stage reading was a performance where actors read from scripts and there were stage props.
Lim will direct English Alternative Theater members and other actors
Two of the volunteers are KU professors. Lim said.
Hanson, professor on an-
pology professor, and Grant Goodman,
professor emeritus of history,
both have parts in the play.
Other actors include professional actors Gayle Green from New York and John Monroe from the Kansas City area.
Lim said the play would be performed in memory of Brad Davis, who was a lead actor in early productions of "The Normal Heart." Davis, an recently died from complications from AIDS.
The play will be at 8 p.m. at Downs Auditorium in Dyche Hall. Tickets will sell for $2 at the door.
All proceeds from the production will be given to the Douglas County AIDS Project for client services.
"This is a very worthwhile cause, and we're glad to help," Lim said.
See quest column. Page 4
Julie Jacobson/KANSAN
Four-year-old Amy Teresa Desailuiers reads a 16-item list of wishes to Santa Claus at the Lawrence River front Piazza. Said his most unusual request came from a 10-year-old girl who wanted a mall.
Wish list
Burglars target absent students
By Melissa Rodgers
Kansan staff writer
Some KU students returning from Thanksgiving break may be dismayed to find their residences have been burglarized over the holiday.
Carrie Siebs, Peoria, III., junior,
returned to her place in the 1300
block of Vermont Street on Saturday
and found that her and her neighbor's apartments had been broken into.
"I came back yesterday, and the neighbor's door was wide open. The TV and their VCR were gone," Siebs said.
She called the police because her neighbors, also KU students, had not returned from Thanksgiving break.
Siebs said her neighbor's apartment had been ransacked. Drawers and jewelry had been dumped in the upstairs bedroom.
Although the burglar also was in Siebs and her roommates' apartment, nothing apparently was taken, she said. Both apartments were entered from a bedroom window, but the burglar had left through the front door, police told Siebs.
Siebs said police told her the burglary probably occurred Thursdav.
Lawrence police Sgt. Mack Pryor said that many students' residences were burglarized during holidays such as Thanksgiving and winter break.
According to police records, eight residences and six cars were burglarized or broken into during the weekend.
Blake Weichbrodt, Norman,
Okla., sophomore, said he returned
to Lawrence Friday and discovered
that jewelry had been taken from his
fraternity room.
Amy Gottlieb, Prairie Village senior, said someone broke into her studio apartment Saturday by using a crowbar. A stereo, a VCR and thousands of dollars worth of compact discs were stolen. she said.
Gottlieb said that she was disappointed by the loss and that she had planned to buy renter's insurance this week.
Pryor said he expected more burglary reports this evening and tomorrow after students returned to their apartments from Thanksgiving break.
Pryor said students traditionally were hit harder than Lawrence residents by burglaries during the holidays.
Students often live in certain apartment complexes that are sometimes half empty during holidays. Students also are easy to identify.
Many students have an abundance of expensive stereo equipment that also attracts burglar, Pryor said.
LAWSCHOOL HARASSMENT CHARGES
Complainants displeased with University's recommendations
By Alexander Bloemhof Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Only one of the four complaints about sexual harassment at the law school remains to be resolved, but the complainants are dissatisfied with the University's decisions.
Ron Nelson, cooperating attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, who represents the complainants, said yesterday that a sanction had been recommended in one complaint and that two other complaints had been dismissed.
The fourth complaint was resolved by the office of affirmative action earlier this year.
"They were somewhat upset, primarily because they believed that all three complaints would be handled together and not separately." Nelson said.
He said the women had filed their complaints together to show how widespread sex abuse was.
"The women had originally gone with the idea of filing them as a pattern in practice."
Nelson said. "They were told it would be handled as a pattern in practice before they ever filed the complaints."
Del Shakel, interim executive vice chancellor, has said that he acted on one complaint Oct. 18 and that the action had been appealed. He said he could not comment on his action.
Two former and two current KU law students filed complaints about sexual harassment.
They contacted the ACLU in mid-October because they thought the University of Kansas did not act quickly enough on their complaints, according to the ACLU.
The Lawrence Journal-World, using anonymous sources, reported Wednesday that the University had ordered a one-year suspension with pay for one law professor but that the sanction had been stayed until the professor's appeal was resolved.
According to the article, the appeal was referred by a Faculty Senate committee to the University Commission.
"Ireally can't comment on what the recommended action was," Nelson said. "But we have not been satisfied with what has been recommended."
Shankel said yesterday that he could not deny or confirm the content of the article because University procedures prescribed confidentiality.
But he confirmed that two complaints were dismissed by the office of academic affairs a few months later.
"I would presume that the vice chancellor for academic affairs and his colleagues found that the allegations did not constitute a violation of the faculty code of conduct, Shankel said. "Or else, that there was not enough evidence."
The office of academic affairs investigated all complaints under the faculty code of conduct except the one that was resolved by the office of affirmative action. Shankel said.
Nelson said the University did not involve his clients in the professor's appeal.
"The University is not consulting them or keeping in close touch because of the process for their research."
"I would presume that the vice chancellor for academic affairs and his colleagues found that the allegations did not constitute a violation of the faculty code of conduct. Or else, that there was not enough evidence."
Del Shankel
Shankel agreed
"The law professor is appealing the University's decision," he said. "If this is appealed,
understand," he said. "But I don't think it'an adequate reason not to include them in the procedure."
she (the complainant would have to be involved as the person who filed the complaint."
Shankel said he did not know when the appeal would be resolved.
"I but know that we are anxious to see this all concluded," he said.
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