VOL.101.NO.5
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL
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THURSDAY,AUGUST29,1991
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Main detour
another three weeks before the sidewalk and sodding are replaced. The new main will provide an increase in water pressure for sections of the KU campus.
Outside around the water main installation behind Wescoe Hall is no obstacle for Overland Park freshman Shane McClain, as he travels from one class to another. McClain, who came across the construction yesterday morning, and other students will have to wait
Woman asks Fulcher to resign
Group facilitators upset; call KU student body president a batterer
By Blaine Kimrey
Kansan staff writer
Darren Fulcher was asked to resign as KU's student body president Tuesday by a facilitator from Women's Student Union.
Kristin Lange, facilitator for Women's Student Union, sent a letter to Fulcher in response to his battery charge. She said the letter reflected her personal feelings and not the offence of the Women's Student Union.
Fulcher was charged with a Class B misdemeanor battery on Feb. 15. Fulcher allegedly grabbed his ex-girlfriend by the throat and hit her in the face on Feb. 11, according to police and court reports.
Lange, an off-campus senator, said
she found out about the charge last summer.
She said Monday that she and Connie Burk, facilitator for Students Against Violence Against Women, Puffer in July at the Kansas Union.
Lange said she and Burk discussed the battery charge with Pulcher at the museum.
Burk, a Lawrence graduate student, said they told Fulcher they wanted him to make the issue public and put the alleged battering of his ex-girlfriend within the context of domestic violence.
Burk said she and Lange presented Fulcher with three points they wanted him to address in retribution for his actions.
They first asked him to work toward
making the KU administration responsible for dealing with off-campus crimes by KU students, particularly violent crimes against women, she
The University of Kansas currently does not have jurisdiction over off-campus student crimes.
Second, they wanted Fulcher to make the student grievance procedure better-known and accessible to KU students. Burk said.
They also wanted Fulcher to work to create a University rehabilitation program for batterers and aquaintance rapists, she said.
Burk said Fulcher had not spoken to her or to Lange since the meeting.
"I don't think it's the appropriate
Fulcher did not want to comment on the meeting.
time to respond," he said.
Women's Student Union and Students Against Violence Against Women are meeting at 5 p.m. tomorow at the Walnut Room in the Kansas Union.
Lange said perpetrators of violence against women were not welcome at her university.
Students Against Violence Against Women is also a non-hierarchical
The mission is to discuss and speak about women's issues. Lange said,
Women's Student Union is a non-
 hierarchical organization composed of men and women.
Burk said the organization dealt with the cases and results of violence against women.
dent Union and Students Against Violence Against Women would probably form an official position about Fulcher's presidency tomorrow.
"A lot of people are outraged by being governed by a batterer," Burk said.
Burk and Lange said Women's Stu-
EDITOR'S NOTE: The headline on the Fulcher story on Page 3 of yesterday's Kansan was misleading. Alan Lowden, student body vice president and Fulcher's running mate in the spring Student Senate elections, said he and the Student Senate office were neutral and could not take a position on the charges against Fulcher.
Crack vial discovered in subway wreckage
The Associated Press
NEW YORK - An empty crack cocaine vial was found in the subway operator's compartment of a train that jumped its tracks and crashed into a pillar early Wednesday, killing an officer and injuring 172, authorities said.
The motorman disappeared for several hours after the underground crash. Investigators found him near his home.
The accident occurred at 12:10 a.m. as the Brooklyn-bound 4. No train was crossing from express tracks to local roads. Transit Authority representative.
The first five cars derselled, and the lead car slammed into a steel pillar. The first and third cars were cut in half.
About 202 passengers were aboard the 10-car, Lexington Avenue train when it crashed about 100 feet short of the Union Square-14th Street station, a major transfer point, said Bobi Previati's Transit Authority representative.
Thomas Prendergast, Transit Authority vice president, said it was unclear how fast the train was going, but he did not rule out speed as a factor.
Normal speed during a track change would be about 15 or 20 mph, he said. But if the train were going straight, it could be about 30 mph.
The cause of the derailment was under investigation.
Before the derailment, the train apparently had partially overshot two stations, said Alan Kiepper, Transit Authority president.
The wreck closed the subway line that connects Grand Central Terminal to the Wall Street area and shut off subway service north of Grand Central, directly affecting 425,000 commuters.
Police Commissioner Lee P. Brown said a vial found in the motorman's side was likely a stolen gun.
The motorman, Robert Ray, 38, was questioned and later underwent a blood test, as is routine after transit accidents. No decision had been made until he said Colleen Roche, a representative for the Manhattan district attorney.
After the crash, police asked Ray if he was injured. When they determined he was not, they left him to help injured passengers.
Then Ray disappeared until he was found returning to his home in the Bronx about 6 1/2 hours after the derailment.
It is against Transit Authority rules for the motorman to leave the scene of the accident, Kiepper said.
Former KU basketball forward Mark Randall scores in the dunk tank at the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus-Center's Welcome Back Fiesta. Last night's Fiesta was sponsored by the Center so students can meet each other and find out about future events at the center. Randall, who expects to sign with the Chicago Bulls, will be in Lawrence for about a month before he moves to Chicago.
Slam Dunk
Gays and lesbians harassed often, annual report states
By Rochelle Olson
Kansan staff writer
Robert Shelton, KU ombudsman,
said that a hot line was established in April 1990 so that anyone who wanted to report an incident could do so.
The KU ombudsman received more calls about gay and lesbian harassment in the last fiscal year than all other types of harassment combined, according to the University ombudsman's annual report.
"People were saying they were unaware there was a place they could go to tell people about incidents of harassment." Shelton said.
According to the report, the ambudsman received calls about the following types of harassment: 1, arrest; 2, racial; 2, antisemitic and 1, ethnic.
The report covers the time from July 1, 1990, to June 31, 1991.
A method of categorizing harass-
calls was created for the first time
long time ago.
He said the ombudsman's office encouraged people to call by distributing the hot line number to students for payment and posting filers on campus.
One reason he thought there were more calls about gay and lesbian harassment was because no specific definition for gay or lesbian affairs existed.
"They wanted to be sure that there was some place in the University where information was being collected, so could do something about it." he said.
Shelton said that people who reported homosexual harassment often called the ombudman in addition to other campus offices or police.
Jamie Howard, co-director of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, said she was not surprised by the number of harassment complaints by gays and lesbians. She said it had been happening for years.
People who report sexual and racial harassment often call the offices of affirmative action and minority affairs, he said.
Mike Sullivan, former GLSOK codirector and current member, agreed
"The University should make it very clear what students can do when they are harassed."
"But now we understand that you have to document it," Howard said. She said she thought it was important that people were reporting the harassment and using the services KU provided.
*The ratio of harassment reports received compared to other forms of harassment is a pretty good representation of the reality at KU." hesaid.
"There is a non-discrimination policy on this campus, and it should be followed."
"It seems like it's still OK to haras疼 les and bishes, whereas it is no longer politically correct to haras疼 people on the basis of race or gender."
He said that attitude could be countered by providing sensitivity training.
Tom Emerson, graduate assistant for gay and lesbian concerns, said he was not surprised by the high percent- cals calls in the gay and lesbian category.
However, a publicity campaign within the gay and lesbian community may have been responsible for the high number of complaints, he said.
"We never had done a good job of
working out out what to do if
someone had harmed us."