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University Daily Kansan/ Thursday, November 7, 1991
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Debbie Faber, Wichita freshman, opens her umbrella as she walks to class with Sonia Garcia, Wichita freshman. The two were trying to stay dry from the snowstorm which moved into Lawrence late yesterday afternoon.
Professor talks sex with Rivers
Dennis and Judy Dailey may appear again on national TV show
By Rochelle Olson
Kansan staff writer
Joan Rivers liked KU professor Dennis Dalley and his wife much that she invited them back to her home.
Dailey, who is known at the University of Kansas for his human sexuality course, appeared yesterday on the "Roan Jivers Show" with his wife, Judy. The Dailyes have been married for 30 years.
Judy Daley said that Rivers mentioned inviting her for another show because they still had a lot to talk about.
Two other couples also were on the show, which was taped Oct. 28, to talk about what it was like to be married to a sex therapist. Dailey, professor of health care, has a sex therapy practice in Lawrence.
Dailey said he was not nervous while they were taining the show.
"We were probably more nervous watching it afterwards in terms of how we would come off," he said.
Dailey said many of his friends and relatives had planned to videotape the show.
It's more newsy in Lawrence than it would be for someone from a big city, he said.
Dalley said he neglected that he did not mention the University of Kansas or talk about sex education.
might be useful to people having problems," he said. But Dailey the trip was a big adventure for
Joan Rivers was unbelievable, very bright and very talented, he said.
"If anybody else gets invited, make sure they go." Dailey said.
Judy Dailey said the show went so quickly they didn't have much time to talk.
She said Rivers was the same in person as she appears on her show.
"I don't feel like I really had a conversation with her because she was constantly moving the show"
Before the show, the producer told the Dailies to
look directly at Rivers, she said.
"I don’t think I ever had a sense of a camera being comfortable, which is kind of a trap."
But Judy Dailey said she did not have the opportunity to say many of the things she would have liked.
"She never introduced us as being from Kansas, and I was really disappointed in that," she said.
Before the show, the producer provided the Daieys with questions Rivers would ask. But Judy Daiye would not.
"I wish I would have had a real smart-alekey remark when she asked how many times a week we had sex," she said.
Jenna Messer, Deerfield III., sophomore, is currently in Dennis Dailey's human sexuality course.
She taped the show on VCR yesterday morning so she could watch it in the afternoon.
He expressed his feelings as openly as he does in class, Messer said.
"I though he did really well," she said. "He did a fine job portraying what a sex therapist does."
Stouffer residents seek reimbursements
Students urged to fill out claims forms for damage caused by rain leaks in roofs
Kansan staff writer
By Mauricio Rios
KU housing officials and about 10 residents from Stouffer Place apartments met last night to discuss reimbursing students for rain damage in their apartments.
Three apartment buildings at Stouffer Place, a university-operated apartment complex for students who are married or have children, had water leaks in their roofs last week.
Some apartments had as much as an inch of water on their floors. On Friday, a contractor began sealing the leaks. The repairs have not yet been completed, said John Eye, an architect for facilities planning.
Carol von Tersch, assistant director of the student housing department, asked the residents at the meeting to fill out claim forms estimating the damages.
Von Tersch said she would help residents calculate the damages, but she could not say when the possible reimbursements might come.
She said the claims would be filed against the contractor, Jim Plunkett Construction of Kansas City, Mo.
"I don't know how it will be handled," von Tersch said.
She said that she had received about 20 complaints on Oct. 23, which was the day it rained the most last week.
The three buildings affected have 36 apartments, Swain said.
"Residents understand we are trying to get response from the contractor," she said.
Ruth Swain, manager of the apartments, said facilities planning had not received a response from the contractor.
"The first time it rained, we thought it was pretty awful," she said.
The contractor was hired by the University of Kansas to do renovations on buildings two, five and six of Stouffer Place.
Eye has said that the leaks were caused by the contractor's mishandling of building renovations.
Von Tersch said that once all the claim forms were gathered, they would be given to facilities planning.
She said it was important to understand that the claim forms were not against the state of Kansas but against the contractor.
The state of Kansas will pay a claim only if a state employee or agency is negligent, von Tersch said.
"The state has not been negligent," she said.
Amelia Beard Grissom, Atchison senior and a Stouffer resident who was at the meeting, said the rain had ruined one of her carpets and the living room curtains in her apartment.
Political correctness threats to stifle free speech and debate on campuses, a University official said yesterday.
By Alexander Bloemhof
Kansan staff writer
Political correctness debate alive at KU
"I am not happy that I had to do this at all," she said. "Everything that got wet smells bad, too."
Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, spoke to about 50 people at noon yesterday at the Ecuadorian Christian Ministries, 1204 Oredave Ayls.
His speech, titled "The Political Correctness Debate: A Modest Proposal," was part of University Forum, a weekly luncheon forum at the ECM.
"The furor over political correctness is, in my opinion, an ideological battle being fought increasingly with the commoners rather than rappers." Brinkman said.
"Any joy in engaging in honest differences of opinion was the first fatality in a conflict characterized by malice and insensitivity on both sides."
Brinkman compared the political correctness debate with controversies between Marxism and Stalinism in the 1970s. He argued that defense research in the 69th and 70%
But the debate about political correctness has less substance, he said.
"I am saddened that we seem to have gone from debating issues of life and death, in some cases, to debating issues of race. I engage in dialogue in some debates at all," he said.
Political correctness is used as a smokescreen to decry quotas and affirmative action efforts, Brinkman said.
But the threats to free expression pertain more closely to campuses, he
said.
"I remain firmly convinced that open discussion is of paramount importance at a university and must be encouraged in the injured sensibilities," Brinkman said.
"It is perhaps in this area that I have most sympathy for those who claim that political correctness is stifling debate in academia."
He said labels like "raciest," "sexist" and "homophobe" were applied too quickly and could inhibit people from speaking.
Exchange of diverse opinions is what a university is all about.
Brinkmans said. To prevent expression of opinion, they correct harms campuses, he said.
"Fear of being so labeled is tangible in many of the conflicts we see around us," Brinkman said.
"To the extent that persons do not express what they may believe are constructive opinions or engage in dia-
graphy, they have to be informed, free expression has been stifled."
He criticized people who used politi-
cal correctness to gain public attentio-
n.
Tom Berger, acting director of the office of affirmative action, said he sympathized with Brinkman's views.
He said that liberal education should foster three qualities — humility, humanity and humor — and that the first and keenest loss in the debate about political correctness was any redeeming sense of humor.
"Everybody should keep in mind what he said, that civility, humility and rationality are very important factors of political correctness," Berger said.
'Real world' furnishes few jobs for graduates
By Jennifer Bach
Kansan staff writer
About 480 students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will brave the recession and a scarce job market when they graduate into the "real world" this December.
The number of graduates is slightly higher this year than last, but fewer jobs are available to graduating seniors, said James Henry, associate director of the University placement center.
But amid students' anxieties and frustrations about the grim job market, administrators in the placement center are having difficulties convincing graduating seniors to sign up for job interviews or recruiters who come to KU in search of possible employees, he said.
For example, only eight students interviewed recently with a leading retailer company with excel- career and salary opportunities.
"The company came and was disappointed because their schedule was not full," he said. "I wonder if students are becoming so selective that they are failing to investigate."
Interviews for this semester are almost finished and some of the companies that were here this fall did not return in the spring, Henry said.
"December graduates are going to have to get cranking right away if they're interested in finding employment," he said.
Jennifer Reynolds, Topeka
senior, is graduating in December with a journalism degree in advertising.
Reynolds has not interviewed for any jobs and plans to return home after graduation to plan her future, she said.
"I don't know what I'm doing yet," she said. "All I hear is that the job market is not great."
Graduates from last December and June were sent a survey from the placement center about their employment status, Henry said. Of those who responded, only 30 percent said they had found jobs.
Henry said he had heard that some students were considering graduate school simply to avoid searching for a job.
"It but it would be best for students to cover all bases. Look into graduate school and interview."
"Some students may not want to work, and that may be good because there are not many jobs to find," he said.
Reynolds said that graduate school had been in the back of her mind.
She said some seniors might take a light load of classes during their last semesters just so they would be prepared to view and prepare their resumes.
"Any time people graduate, they will be anxious and scared about going into the real world," she said.
Christ Hahs, Cape Girardeau,
Mo. senior, also is graduating with a degree in journalism. She said she had made a name for jobs in advertising were sparse.
"My plans?" she said. "Gosh, well...I wish I knew."
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