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VOL.101.NO.63
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1991
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Prohibition to hit the Hill
University to change its policy regarding cereal malt beverages
By Alexander Bloemhof
Kansan staff writer
Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, and David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said yesterday that the University of Kansas would change its policy on alcoholic and cereal malt beverages.
The new policy will prohibit consumption of cereal malt beverages on campus except in licensed spaces at the Kansas and Burge unions.
According to state law and city ordinances, people who are 21 or older are
allowed to drink cereal malt beverages that contain 3.2 percent alcohol, said Lt. Mullens of KU police.
A University policy in effect since 1982 prohibits the use of those birth certificates by organizations.
That is going to change Saturday when Kansas plays Missouri, the first football game after the policy is to go into effect.
"As long as it's $3.2 beer and as long as
they are adults, there's nothing you Gayly
can do."
"Over the past few football games, a relatively small minority of individuals have been creating problems for us and causing problems on the hillside," Shankel said.
He said complaints about drunken
fans had come mainly from Lawrence residents who attended the games.
"It is clear that most of the people on the Hill are our students," Shankel said. "Some are families from other states who are not familiar with the behavior of some of our students."
Ambler said police might be more hesitant to arrest people for violating a University policy rather than state law.
He said complaints had ranged from interference with the rights of others and from misbehavior.
"With the University policy, they can report violations of that policy to student affairs," he said.
There is no specified penalty for violating University policy, Amber said. But retributions under the rules of student conduct range from warning
and probation to suspension and dismissal.
"Quite frankly, I'm looking for voluntary compliance. He said
Roger Ross, Iola seni, said he thought students would oppose the new rule.
He said he would inform leaders of student organizations about the new policy and have it printed in the bulletin. He also told them to make students aware of the change.
"Personally, I feel that if people are of legal drinking age and if they are doing it responsibly, they should be able to do it," he said. "It's part of the tradition and it's part of the enjoyment."
Chris Garrett, Overland Park senior. agreed.
"If you have people on the Hill, naturally you're going to have some people drinking excessively," he said. "But the Hill is for the students, just like this University and the football team."
'Tis the season ... almost
Lawrence Parks and Forestry employees Paul Bauchman, left, and Rick Schroeder decorate the trees that line Massachusetts Street with Christmas lights in preparation for the approaching holidays. The men decorated the trees from 7 a.m. until about 3:30 p.m. yesterday and said they should be finished with the job today.
U.S. House fails to override veto of abortion bill
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The House yesterday sustained President Bush's veto earlier in the day of a bill that would have lifted his ban of federally financed abortion counseling. Democrats had thought they had the muscle to override Bush for the first time but fell a dozen votes short.
The outcome left Bush with a perfect 24-0 record for making his vetoes stick and was a blow to House Speaker Thomas Foley, D-Wash, who convened the override debate immediately after the president's action with a prediction that he had the votes on the hotly disputed abortion issue.
But Foley didn't; the 276-156 tally was a dozen short of the two-thirds necessary.
At stake was an overall, $205 billion spending bill for education, labor and health programs. But the fight was centered on a provision that would block the Bush administration's rule banning abortion counseling and federally supported family planning clinics for one year.
That provision has been attacked as a gag rule by critics who have said that it shackles doctors and prevents pregnant women from obtaining information pertinent to their right of choice.
Supporters did not have the two-
thirds over i d e strength in the last House vote on the measure, either
— when it
w a s
approved
272-156.
Thomas Foley
The bill
had cleared the Senate 72-25 earni
this month, more than the two
hirds yeto-proof majority.
In vetoing the bill, Bush contended he was not trying to restrict counseling for pregnant women.
Bush's ban on abortion counseling had the strong backing of anti-abortion leaders. Though lacking majority support in both the House and Senate, they had relied on Bush's veto and his perfect record of sustaining those vetoes.
The issue triggered an emotional debate. Advocates of the rule said that abortion itself was at issue, while opponents said Bush's policy made the government a doctor-patient relationship and threatened freedom of speech.
"Make no mistake about it: the failure to override will not be forgotten by the women of this country," said Rep. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine. "No male patient is affected by this gag rule. You are creating a situation for women only."
INSIDE
Lawrence Mayor Bob Walters says he has learned to accept his anonymity.
"People have a respect for the position," he said. "It really has nothing to do with the person."
See story, Page 8
Bob Walters
Forum addresses racism concerns
Kansan staff writer
By Rochelle Olson
Kansan staff writer
Six KU students discuss the University's role in combatting racism.
"I would like to know the same thing," said Addleman, Wichita junior, last night refricer to racism and prejudice at the University of Oklahoma.
When people learn that Mark Addleman is Jewish, they often ask him why he is not rich.
About 10 students attended a forum that was part of the current issues of the day forum series sponsored by the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center, 1631 Crescent Road.
Addleman is a member of Hillel, al
Jewish student organization. He spoke
with representatives of other campus groups and Norma Norman, associate director of the office of minority affairs.
Addleman said that incidents of prejudice he had experienced were due to people's ignorance about Judaism.
"I don't think we can take a look at prejudice as one big problem," he said. "I think you need to take a look at it as a lot of little problems."
He said it was necessary for people to deal with each other individually to combat the problems of racism and prejudice.
Aminu Gusua, Sokoto, Nigeria, junior, said he had not experienced racism in the semester he had been at the University.
But he said the University Daily Kansan should take a leadership role in addressing the issue.
"Media have a vital role to play, "
"We have to work together," he said. "Only the students can change the system."
Lori-Lin Robinson, a member of the Asian-American Student Association, said she often was mistaken for a foreign student.
The Kansan could have a daily column about its racism to inform students of its dangers. Gusua said.
he said.
Robinson, Leawood senior, said Asian Americans often were pushed aside at the University because they were stereotyped as passive.
The Asian-American Student Association was formed about one month ago to try to dispel stereotypes she said.
Susanne Racine, vice president of Hispanic American Leadership Organization, said the administration should do more to fight racism.
"The first step would be a multicultural center," she said. "That's one thing that would give people of different backgrounds the opportunities to interact together."
Norman said the issue of racism threatened national security because people had to work together economically in the global market.
She said it also would show minority students that the University cared.
"If we don't take action, it will continue to cripple us," she said. "Our destruction will come from within."
But people who attend forums on racism are not the ones who lack sensitivity, and it is very difficult to use them. We used the information, Norman said.
Memory of galvanizing speech spurs interest in today's message
By Blaine Kimrey Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
She beseeched the women of KU in 1972 to rebel against female oppression.
Two days later, a group of about 100 women took over the KU Center for East Asian Studies and demanded that the University heed their concerns.
"Robin Morgan's speech empowered women to take action," Kristin Lange. off-campus senator, said.
This February is the 20th anniversary of her speech.
Lange and Art Satterfield, graduate senator, think the time is right for Morgan, author of *Sisterhood* is Powerful and *Sisterhood* is Global and editor-in-chief for Ms. Magazine, to speak at the University of Kansas again.
The two senators are sponsoring a bill requesting Student Senate financing for Morgan to speak at 8 p.m. feb. 28 at the Ballroom in the Kansas Building to address the Big Eight tonight at its meeting at the Big Eight Room in the Union.
Senate needs to allocate $2,745 for Morgan's $3,000 honorarium.
February Sisters' demands
"I think she can educate the campus
at the way women's issues involve
themselves," he said.
On Feb. 2, 1972, Morgan spoke to about 400 people. She said that women's accomplishments and demands historically had been ignored. Morganurged "sisters" to take action. They did.
These are the demands that the February Sisters made in 1972 and the current status of those demands.
1. An affirmative action program at KU.
* The office of affirmative action was established April 28, 1972.
2. A day care center fully financed by the University for KU students.
*There is no such facility. However, Hilltop Child Development Center,
the first campus daycare center, was established in August 1972.
At 6 p.m. on Feb.4,1972,the newly
3. A woman to fill the vacant position of executive vice chancellor.
* Frances Horowitz was named as vice chancellor.*
4. And on to the disparities between men's and women's wages at KU.
*Pat Harney, Lawrence graduate student and member of Women's
Society*.
5. An autonomous women's studies department.
* There is no department, but a program was created in 1972.
6. A women's health program at Watkins Memorial Health Center
*In 1983, a women's health clinic was established at Watkins.
Source: University Archives and Pat Harney
After 18 hours of negotiation with the University Senate Executive Committee and Chancellor E. Laurence JR, the women vacated the building.
formed February Sisters, a group of KU women students, entered the Center for East Asian Studies, 1332 McGill Barricaded the doors and windows
The six demands the February Sisters made of the University that night and the next morning were the catalyst for progressive changes for women at KU, Langesaid.
Almee Brainard/KANSAN
Pat Harney, Lawrence graduate student and member of Women's Student Union, said that Morgan believed in the power of student activism.
"She's a symbol of the impact students can have to affect change," she said. "At this university, we are still far from where we need to be as far as rape and sexual assault are concerned."