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University Daily Kansan / Monday, November 4, 1991
Big Brothers to accept applications
Local program aims to match single-parent kids with volunteer companions
By Rochelle Olson
Kansan staff writer
Months of planning by members of the Lawrence community will culminate this week as Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Douglas County begins accepting applications.
The program matches children in single-parent homes with volunteer companions who will spend a few hours with them each week.
Mark Matese, president of the board of directors, said that more than 2,000 children in Douglas County lived in single-parent homes.
National statistics indicate that at least half of the residents live below $10,000 per year. Based on
started for the past year.
Members of the KU community have been helping the organization get
The Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity adopted the Big Brothers as their philanthropy project.
Basketball coach Roy Williams-designated $12,500 raised at the Crosby Pro-Am celebrity golf tournament this summer to the program.
Matese said the program would provide positive role models for children and might help preserve families.
"Programs like Big Brothers and Big Sisters are preventive in nature and can keep kids out of the criminal justice system," he said.
Matese knows what can happen to children who lack positive role models. He has worked in the Kansas criminal justice system since 1980, first as a police officer and now as the director of the Douglas County Community Corrections.
The national program has high standards to which the local chapter, 952 Massachusetts St., will need to adhere, Matee said. Staff members will screen applications to provide the best matches for children.
He said he hoped the local organization could match children more quickly than other chapters.
"We would like to be a role model in that regard and not have them wait six months to a year," Matese said.
He said that he would like the fundraising committee to raise $80,000 so the organization could concentrate on making safe matches.
Tim McHenry was hired Sept. 23 as the executive director for the program.
Matese said McHenry had a lifetime dedication to children and could reach out to people in all cultural groups.
"We're just real excited to have Tim on board," Matese said.
McHenry said he had received 20 inquiries during the past four weeks from people who wanted to volunteer for the program. He also has met with about 20 parents who are interested.
Bob Wilfong, Omaha, Neb., senior, and a member of Pi Kappa Alpha, said that his fraternity planned to help with fund raising and publicity for the program.
"We were looking for a good cause to help out," Wilfong said. "Because we have all these guys, we would be a really good outlet for Big Brothers."
Senate attitude: from cocky to contrite
ANALYSIS
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — What's happening to the U.S. Senate? Apologies! Conition! Remorse!
It's not the courtly, nose-held-high Senate of old. Or is it?
Senators appear apologetic and are expressing regret about their ugly, partisan fights and personal missteps, all magnified by the Clarence Thomas nomination battle.
Massachusetts democrat Edward Kennedy admitted he had "personal shortcomings" which he must confront. Wyoming Republican Alan Simpson said had been "a little too cocky arrogant."
Virginia Thomas calls Hill's charges political
Sen. John Danforth, R-Mo., even apologized to his colleagues last week for being a "pest."
Ser. Orrn Hatch, R-Rutah, who had apologized earlier for remarks he made about Kennedy said, "Since we are all baring our souls, I know I have gotten on a lot of nerves for the last month or so, and I have not wanted to or meant to."
The Associated Press
NEW YORK - Virginia Thomas said God and Christian music helped her and her husband, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, through the stormy end of his Senate confirmation hearings.
It's almost a "mea culpa" chorus. But what may be sincere second-thinking also has a sound political basis.
Virginia Thomas also said Anita Hill, whose claim of sexual harassment jeopardized Clarence Thomas' nomination, made her allegations because she was in love with her husband and "and never got what she wanted."
"It was spiritual warfare," Virginia Thomas said in the Nov. 11 issue of People magazine. "Good vs.
"It became conventional wisdom
evil. ... We shut the kitchen blinds and turned on Christian praise music to survive the worst days."
Virginia Thomas said Hill's charges were especially unbelievable because of her husband's reaction when she told him she herself had experienced sexual harassment on the job.
"To Clarence it was so disgusting,
something that always bothered him when I told him," she said,
adding that her husband encouraged her to report the man to his superiors.
Hill claimed Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her when she worked for him at two government agencies in the early 1980s. Her allegations surfaced during the justice's Senate confirmation hearings last month.
Virginia Thomas said she believed Hill's charges were "obviously political" because of the timing.
"In my heart, I always believed she was probably someone in love with her husband and never got what she wanted, 'Virginia Thomas said.
"We never, never imagined what lay ahead," she said. "If we had, we never would have gone through it."
that if he (President Nixon) had been contrite and leveled with people" instead of trying to "tough it out," he would have finished his second term. "You don't stonewall anymore," DeBolt said.
A senior Senate Democratic aide, who asked her name not be used because of her job, said she was "not one who believes that these guys don't occasionally regret the way they've acted." But she said the pattern fit too neatly into a political face-saving strategy.
After confession, apology and making overwrought promises never to do something again, *then you get the shot with the wife and kids to finish it off*, she said.
The breadth of the Senate phenomenon matches the "widespread public contempt and very focused anger toward these institutions," she said. "They're trying to show they are not part of the institution by apologizing."
For the most part, the expressions have been brief.
And while it may be "common wisdom" that apologies are good politics, not everyone under the heat has felt the need.
Sen. Charles S. Robb, D-Va., hasn't followed the lead of Kennedy, who decided to deal with far more serious allegations of sexual improprieties by admitting he was human.
Robb denies claims by a former
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., has responded with puzzlement toward those offended by his grilling of Thomas accuser Anita Hill.
beauty queen that they had an affair in 1984 while he was governor and Kennedy, most recently, was present at the family home in West Palm Beach, Fla. when his nephew allegedly raped a 30-year-old woman who had joined them earlier in a drinking party at a local bar.
"I did not understand I was coming across that way," said Specter, who accused Hill of perjury. "I was very careful to be very polite and very professional," he told the Washington Post.
JustinKnupp/KANSAN
A long walk home
Trying to stay warm, Jonos James walks home along Iowa Street. James had pulled the sleeves down on his coat to keep his hands warm yesterday afternoon.
Guam prepares to challenge landmark U.S. abortion case
The Associated Press
HONOLULU — Guam's anti-abortion law, which was ruled unconstitutional soon after it went into effect 18 months ago, will move a step closer this week as a contender in reversing the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 decision that legalized abortion.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will begin hearings today on the Pacific island's law, which would virtually ban abortions on Guam. But regard of that law the court would have for the nation's highest court, lawyers on both sides said.
blocked it on March 23, 1990, made it a felony to perform virtually all abortions, except those which would preserve a mother's health or life.
The law also made it a misdemeanor
have an abortion or to ask or advise a
wife of someone else.
That would keep the case on the fast track with similar laws in Pennsylvania and Louisiana toward an expected landmark the landmark Roe vs. Wademring.
The Guam law, which was in effect for four days before an injunction
Guam Gov. Joseph Ada dropped all but the felony part in his appeal of an August 1990 ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Alex R. Munson that the law violated constitutional rights to privacy and free speech.
The race to challenge Roe v. Wade before the Supreme Court accelerated last month after the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals uphold all but one of the challenged arms of Pennsylvania's abortion law. The court struck down the requirement that a woman needed to notify her husband before having an abortion.
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