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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, October 22, 1991
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Members of GLSOK address psychology class
Program focuses on educating students about experiences of gays and lesbians
By Rochelle Olson
Kansan staff writer
Students from Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas spoke yesterday to a psychology class about their lives and experiences.
Two gay men and two lesbian women spoke to a Psychology 104 class of about 200 students as part of GLOSK's Speakers Bureau, a program that teaches students about the gay and lesbian experience.
Scott Manning, a graduate teaching assistant in French and Italian who spoke to the class, said Speakers Bureau often was the introduction for many students to gay and less-
bian people.
The organization speaks to between 20 and 30 classes a semester, but this was one of the largest classes it ever had addressed.
Manning told students in the class that they could ask questions about any subject but relied on their own knowledge.
He said that discussions about religion often degenerated into dogmatic battles and that AIDS was a disease that affected everyone, not just homosexuals.
The first question students asked was whether the speakers thought gays and lesbians were real.
Jamie Howard, co-director of GLSOK. said
the belief that gay and lesbian people could not be good parents was a myth.
People often think that because the parents are homosexual, their children also will be, she
"My parents are very heterosexual," Howard said. "And I'm not."
She said homosexual couples had to think a lot about having children, and as a result, they might be better parents.
Homosexuals also are more accepting of differences in other people. Howard said.
The gay and lesbian students said the University of Kansas provided an atmosphere that was accepting of homosexuals. But that is not the case everwhere.
One of the speakers, Jennifer Ansley,
Lawrence O'Reilly, had lost his job because she was a lesbian.
"We hardly ever go out in public in her home-town." she said.
Ansley said she had been harassed and threatened.
"It gives me determination to do something about it," she said.
When a student asked the group who its role models were, Manning said that very few famous gay and lesbian people were open about their sexual orientation.
I took to people who a y id and induce tolerance into a culture, "he said.
Wilson cited Martin Luther King Jr. and Ghadi as examples
Jim White, Wichita junior, a member of the psychology class, said he had respect for the students.
"I think it is remarkable that they could speak out in front of such a big group. White sat on the desk."
Advertising class will meet Finney
By Mauricio Rios Kansan staff writer
A KU journalism class working on an advertising campaign that promotes Kansas tourism will meet today with Joan Finney, including Gvo. Joan Finney, in Topeka.
The students will have a question-and-answer session with Greg Giltrap, director of the travel and tourism development division of the Kansas Department of Commerce, said Tim Bengston, associate professor of journalism.
"Students need to get some direction as we have their questions answered," he said.
The students are scheduled to meet at 3:45 p.m. with Finney, who wants more information about Kansas tourism, Benntson said.
"She became exceedingly interested and would like to visit with the students," he said.
Bengtson said the project was an opportunity to show student work promoting Kansas tourism to state officials.
"The governor is interested in KU, and KK is interested in the state of Kansas," Benson said.
He said that the campaign was just a class project. But if state officials like some of the promotional ideas, they may use them, he said.
Thirty-four advertising students have been collecting data for two weeks, Bengtson said. Students are looking at better advertise Kansas tourism.
The students, who are working in groups of six, will be the advertising team.
Bengtson said most Kansans were not aware of the many attractions the state offered. He said the students were gain-ful in understanding the location of Kansas because of the project.
Holly Hirschbach, Norfolk, Neb.
senior, said she thought meeting with the governor would be a good experience.
"She is interested in the whole idea and wants to be informed," Hirschbach said. "I think it's great she is interested."
Disputed guidelines may result in recall election for freshmen
The discrepancies between the two sets of rules has prompted some class
Kansan staff writer
By Blaine Kimrey
The election for the freshman board of class officers Oct. 10 and 11 could be ruled invalid because of problems with a new set of campaign guidelines.
This semester, freshmen coilations were subjected not only to the traditional University campaign guide supplement to those guidelines.
Bahr said sophomore class president Rob Swindle had been in charge of the class.
officers to call for a hearing about the election's fairness and validity.
If the election is ruled invalid by the election review board, another election may have to be conducted, said Jill Bahr, senior class president.
The hearing is scheduled tentatively for 7:30 tonight at Parlor A in the Kansas Union. If the entire panel cannot attend, the hearing will be can-
Before the election, Swindle drafted a supplement to the campaign guidelines used for the last few years, she said
However, the supplemental guidelines are unrealistic. Bahr said.
One new rule disallows friends of coalition members from helping with the campaign, and another puts a limit on the number of fliers the coalitions
"They were rules that could not be enforced," she said. "There's no way to keep people within the bounds of these new rules."
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Ann Eversole, a faculty adviser to the board of class officers, said she did not understand why the supplement was drafted.
"I think some very odd election rules were generated." she said.
Eversole said the original set of guidelines had been used for the last 15 years.
Bahr said she and Swindle had decided to conduct a hearing on the election results because the new rules were questionable.
The hearing panel could decide to have another election based on the old set of rules, she said.
Although Bahr would not reveal the winner of the original election, Weston Hyter, Thumbs up coalition presidential candidate, said Swindle had informed him Oct. 11 that his coalition had won the election.
Hyter said his coalition should not be subjected to another election.
"I'm totally opposed to another election," Hyter said. "It's hard enough to get people to vote once, let alone
twice."
Hyter said his coalition should not be penalized because of the inadequacies of the campaign rules.
Although the freshman board of class officers has no formal duties and is not a branch of Student Senate, it does serve as a representative of its class during various University events. Eversola said.
She said all the coalitions had complained about the supplemental rules.
College changes format of enrollment forms
"It's a mess, and they need to get it straightened out," Eversole said.
By Jennifer Bach
Kansan staff writer
Students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences may notice this semester that they were mailed only one enrollment envelope and that it was heavier than usual.
Administrators from the college and the registrar's office saved about $3,400 when they mailed spring advising forms and art forms in one enveloppe, delivered by location, director of the college undergraduate center.
The center's printer, which can print on both sides, and its computer program, ARTS, enable the college to mail the arts and advising forms together.
"The system we have allows for a lot of other applications." Houston said.
The college is the only school that uses this mailing system, but other schools may try to adopt it.
"It brings everything together so we can easily mail out forms to 13,500 students within a shorter period of time."
The money saved from this system would allow the college to maintain services instead of having to pay for it.
"Our budget didn’t increase this year," Houston said. "Minimum wage and postage went up, so this is the best we can do."
Four years ago, the college began mailing arts forms instead of making students pick up the materials.
Houston said that although she had received some phone calls from students who had problems understanding the new system and enrollment times, she thought the system was effective and was something the college would keep using.
"We change our system all the time to improve it. We find something that has been thought about for a while."
"I can't imagine why we wouldn't continue to use it," she said.
Richard Morrell, University registrar, said students did not receive their enrollment forms as early as in previous semesters because the process, which used to take three or four days to complete, now took five or six.
He said that if the new system worked well, the registrar's office would work with other professional schools so they could adopt the system.
"We can all save in this," he said.
Morrell said he was hesitant to call the new procedure a success right away.
When students go through enrollment from the end of October through November, staff members from the registrar's office will listen to reactions to the new system.
"In the end, if it works for the students, then we'll call it a success," he said.
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During a field trip to the Museum of Anthropology, sixth-grader Abby Beard and her classmates examine an Indian art exhibit at Spoon Hall. He and his classmates studied the ancient stone carving.
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