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University Daily Kansan/ Thursday, October 3, 1991
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AIDS Task Force bill cut
Senate Finance Committee trims request for ad money
By Blaine Kimrey Kansan staff writer
The Student Senate Finance Committee wrangled for more than four hours last night about six bills requesting the allocation of approximately $6,000 from the Student Senate Unallocated Account.
Financed by student fees, the Unallocated Account is used by Senate to finance campus organizations and projects.
Most of the debate last night centered on a bill requesting financing for the AIDS Task Force, which was passed over some changes to its initial wording.
The bill, co-sponsored by Patrick Diley, off-campus senator, had asked for $222.50 for additional advertising for the task force.
The committee cut the task force's request to $300
Alan Lowden, student body vice president, said he had voted to reduce the request because the task force already
had received $700 for this year's advertising during last year's budget hearings.
"I think giving over $1,000 for advertising is exuberant," Lowden said.
Dilley said the task force could not accomplish its goals this year without the $622.50 that was cut from its request.
Dilley removed a $3,000 request from the task bill force bill that was to pay for a speech at KU by Jeanne White, the mother of AIDS victim Ryan White.
Dilley said he removed the request because the task force still could get the team to go.
"The legislation I introduced was the absolute minimum to fulfill our charges," he said. "I just hope Senate will reimburse the money."
Later in the meeting, staff members of the Kansas Undergraduate Review, an undergraduate academic publication, waited nervously as the commitment was contoured in debate about the validity of the publication's financial request.
The members of the review are required to finance the printing of its publication.
Senate rules and regulations state that Senate cannot finance academic
Doug Fishback, editor of the review, questioned the ambiguity of the rule. He said anything published could be considered academic.
The Finance Committee solved the problem by eliminating the words 'scholarship' and 'research' from the bill and then approved it.
"It's ironic that they had to remove all vestiges of scholarship before they would approve the bill," Fishback said to the meeting. "What isn't scholarship?"
The Finance Committee also passed:
A bill to allocate $1,079 to finance the Commission on the Status of Women.
A bill to allocate $479 to finance the Contemporary Learners Society for the Learning Disabled.
Communications professor stresses gender differences in speaking roles
By Rochelle Olson
Kansan staff writer
Many myths exist about the differences between male-female communication roles,a KU professor said last night.
But if people are aware of the myths, they can begin to communicate more effectively with one another, said Dr. Mihalova, assistant professor of communication studies.
Prentice said it was not a biological difference that caused people to come together.
Grammar is an area where men's and women's styles differ. Prence said.
"It's conditioning, it's expectations and it's stereotyping." she said.
She said that men use active verbs, direct language and non-standard grammar. Women tend to use more passive standard grammar and complex sentences.
*Profanity* tends to be used equally. *Prentice* said, "But the difference is when
women use profanity, it's not perceived to be as strong."
Women also correct people and use more adverbs and adjectives in conversions.
One myth of cross-gender communication is that women talk more, Prentice said. But research has indicated that men tend to dominate the conversation.
She said that men and women both interrupt conversations, but they do it for different reasons. Women do it as a turnover or because of communication skills when they run for office.
The first thing she does is rid them of four feminine conversation traits that weaken a speaker's skills, she said.
One of those traits is the use of qualifiers such as "probably," "maybe," "could."
She said that women used qualifiers because they were socialized to be polite.
Prentice encourages candidates to not use disclaimers such as, "I may not really know your name."
Compound requests such as, "If you
She also helps the candidates rid themselves of the habit of using tag questions such as, "It was really a fall day. Wasn't it?"
don't mind, would you open the window?"
also make women appear weaker.
Women tend to have a negative self-concept about how powerful a speaker or persuader they can be because they usually have no role models. Prentice said.
Women are more successful when they draw from both genders and develop an
O'Brien said she was a victim of the corporate glass ceiling that prevented women from advancing to the upper levels of management.
She said she hoped learning new communication skills would help.
Tye Murphy, Gardner senior, identified more with the male aspects of the scene.
He said he differed with some things Prentice said.
"I really do believe that women tend to talk more," he said.
Catching heat
Brian Moore, Overland Park freshman and president of the KU Juggling Club, prepares to juggle flaming torches during practice. The club practices Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays by Strong Hall.
Police preparing for gang activity
By Melissa Rodgers Kansan staff writer
Lawrence police plan to be ready if gang activity ever moves into the community.
Lawrence Police Chief Ron Olin said the department was in the process of forming a gang unit during the next two months.
Two officers from the department's investigation division will be selected to work part-time on gang intelligence gathering, he said.
Olin said that although Lawrence did not have a gang problem, he wanted to be prepared because there had been periodic gang activity in Lawrence in the past.
He said that gang activity was increasing in the state, especially in Wichita and that he wanted a program in place that would prevent gang development in Lawrence.
"Lawrencians should not think they are immune from gang activity," he said.
Gang intelligence gathering would include monitoring people in the community.
watching for graffiti, which sometimes is used by gangs to mark territory.
A training program for the two officers still is under review. The officers may attend seminars about gangs or visit police departments that see gang activity, Olin said.
Capt. Norman Williams of the Wichita police with Wichita's gang unit was established in 1958.
The unit began with four officers but it now has 18. It is part of the Special Commu-
Gangs from around the country began moving to Wichita in winter 1989, he said.
Williams said gangs came to Wichita partly because it was a crossroad between the East and West coasts and because it had a lucrative drug economy.
Many of the gangs make most of their profits from drug sales, namely the sale of
He estimated that 600 gang members were involved that an additional 400 were acquitted.
Williams said he did not know the exact number of gangs in Wilichta because he was unaware of where they were.
Until a dominant gang gains control of a market, usually a drug market, sporadic violence occurs. Williams said.
Maj. Frank Davis of the Topek police department said three to four gags had been used.
However, the gangs' names frequently change. The gangs basically are aligned into two main gangs, he said. One gang owns red clothing and the other wears blue.
Although about 12 West Coast gang members are in Topeka, many gang members are gang wannabes. Davis said They mimic gangs that have received press coverage and are filming movies He said the increase in shootings in Topeka could be attributed to gang activity.
Davis said the Topeka police's streetcrime unit monitored gang activity with increased patrolling and tracking of influential gang members.
K-Tran offers research opportunities for KU, K-State engineering students
By Mauricio Rios
Kansan staff writer
Since K-Tran was started last October, research in the School of Engineering has been fruitful.
K-Tran, which stands for Kansas Transportation Research and New Development, is an agreement among the Kansas Department of Transportation, University of Kansas and Kansas State University to work on engineering research projects, Lee said.
The research projects range from analyzing computer software to testing construction mate-
Lee, professor of civil engineering, said the umbrella agreement allowed KU and K-State to receive money from the transportation department.
The program is a long-term agreement that will last indefinitely. Leesaid.
he said that faculty members from the two universities would suggest research ideas to the K-Tran council, which would decide which projects should be explored.
This year, KU proposed 20 ideas of which four
"Anybody in Kansas can submit ideas," he said.
One research project is the study of the multiple applications of the Geographical Information
were chosen. Lee said.
The Geographical Information System is a method of linking data base information to graphics, said Carl Kurt, professor of civil engineering who is in charge of the research.
*Anybody who has a lot of data and wants to display it graphically will benefit, "Kurt said."*
People such as engineers, architects, plan-
mers, managers and police officers could work
with them to develop a new product.
For instance, a person would be able to find information ranging from different types of soils to geological formations.
Kurt said the Geographical Information System, or GIS, would help determine trends.
"You get to see the trends graphically," he said Kurt said he thought the K-Tran program was working positively.
He said he would work with the project for two more years.
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