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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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FRIDAY, APRIL 18. 1997
SECTION A VOL.103, NO.138
A group of KU fraternity members dressed as Vikings allegedly yelled insults and spat on a 23-year-old KU student yesterday who was walking by The Crossing, 618 W. 12th St., Lawrence police said.
Lawrence police Sgt. Susan Hadl said the student was walking on the southwest corner of 12th Street and Oread Avenue when he passed a group of college students who were wearing Viking helmets and acting as if they were intoxicated. He said they were singing songs and yelling insults at passers-by.
Men dressed as Vikings accused of harassment
The victim said that at least a couple of them yelled insults at him when he walked by. He then noticed that one of the men had spat on his leg, but he said he did not know who had done it.
Police said they heard reports of a fraternity on campus that was sponsoring parties with a Viking theme, but they would not specify which fraternity. Police said they had made contact with the president of the fraternity, who admitted that they were at the bar in costume, but the members said they did not maliciously hurl insults at people passing by. Police are still investigating.
Police are still investigating
-Kansan staff report
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Loan from Dole to pay Gingrich's ethics fine
WASHINGTON — In a startling bid to close the books on his ethics case, Speaker Newt Gingrich announced yesterday that he would borrow $300,000 from retired Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole to pay a saction imposed for violation of House rules.
Gingrich told a rapt audience in the House chamber that he had a moral obligation to make the pav
ment from personal funds. Anything else, including establishment of a legal defense fund, he said, "would simply be seen as one more politician shirking his duty and one more example of failing to do the right thing."
With his wife, Marianne, looking down from her seat in the visitors' gallery, Gingrich took responsibility for his case and said, "To the degree I have made mistakes, they have been errors of implementation but never of intent."
AIDS rate numbers show variance among cities
ATLANTA — The AIDS rate doubled last year in Baton Rouge, La., fell by a third in Dallas and held steady in New York at the highest level in the nation, the government said yesterday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it could not immediately explain the ups and downs. But the group said the increases did not necessarily mean the disease is on the rise.
The numbers reflect all cases of AIDS that existed in those cities in 1996, not just the number of new cases diagnosed that year. New cases are a better indicator of whether the disease is on the rise.
Behind New York City were Miami and Jersey City, N.J., which also were among the highest in 1995. San Francisco, which had the second-highest rate in 1995, fell to fourth.
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"This reinforces the consistent picture we are seeing — that AIDS rates continue to be the highest in the Northeast, Southeast and the West Coast," said Patricia Fleming, CDC chief of HIV-AIDS reporting and analysis.
Jocilyn Oyler, Lawrence freshman, studies for her classes while rocking her sister Laura,2, to sleep. Oyler is accustomed to unique studying habits because she was educated at home throughout her high school-age years. Adjusting to the University of Kansas has been an interesting and enlightening experience for her.
An increasing number of students are attending universities without a high school diploma,but they weren't learning at
HOME ALONE
By Mark McMaster
When she started classes at the University last fall, she hadn't attended school full time outside her home since sixth grade.
lawrence freshman Melissa Brooks never went to high school full time. Instead, she learned at home with the guidance of her parents.
"It took me a while to settle in," she said. "But once I did, I've really liked it."
Brooks' experience is similar to an increasing number of former homeschoolers who are adjusting to college life. Each year, more homeschooled applicants apply to KU and other colleges across the nation.
In the past, these schools were reluctant to admit students like Brooks. Homeschool graduates were stereotyped as isolated or socially inept, and college admissions officers feared that they would be unable to handle the transition into college life.
In recent years, however, the growing number of homeschooled applicants forced colleges to confront the homeschool issue.
students as well as a traditional school — and maybe better.
Now, schools are discovering that homeschoolers prove the stereotypes wrong and that an education at home can prepare
The rising popularity of homeschooling
In 1970, the U.S. Department of Education reported only 10,000 to 15,000 homeschoolers. Even just a decade ago, homeschooling was considered a radical gesture reserved for especially religious families seeking to insulate their children from the values taught in public schools.
While most of today's homeschooling parents appreciate
"We became aware of homeschooling in the early '80s," said Kenneth Demarest, a KU professor of electrical engineering and computer science who home-schooled his two teenage children. Kenneth first considered homeschooling while living in Pennsylvania, where he was worried about the quality of the schools.
their influence on the values their children learn, many say they made the decision to homeschool for academic, rather than religious, reasons.
See HOME,Page 6A
Once again,the man's not in
Chancellor out during GTA rally
By Paul Eakins
Kansan staff writer
Nearly 100 shouting students demanded benefits at Chancellor Robert Hemenway's office door and blocked traffic on Jayhawk Boulevard for more than a half an hour yesterday afternoon.
What started as a rally to support student activism and the Graduate Teaching Assistants Coalition in its demands for pay increases and health insurance turned into a march to Strong Hall.
Kansan staff writer
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Representatives from 13 student organizations such as KU Environs, KU Queers and Allies and Amnesty International told supporters and onlookers about their organizations and endorsed the GTAC when the rally began at 1 p.m. in front of the Kansas Union.
Kevin Armitage, Lawrence graduate student and GTAC member
"Adous Huxley said that civil liberties are never given, they are taken. We need to take back our civil liberties." Armitage said.
At Strong Hall, the group shouted for Hemenway to come out to talk to them. But it was Jeff Weinberg, assistant to the Chancellor, who emerged and told the crowd that Hemenway was at the Board of Regents meeting in Toneka.
Traffic was halted for more than half an hour yesterday at the intersection of Jayhawk Boulevard and Sunflower Road as rallying GTAs marched through the intersection and down Jayhawk Boulevard through campus.
After the rally in front of the Kansas Union, the incensed group slowed traffic as it marched down the middle of Jayhawk Boulevard, through the fourth floor of Wesco Hall and then into Strong Hall.
addressed the crowd with several literary references.
But the group continued with shouts of "No health care; no peace!" and "We want Bob!"
After the protest, the group again marched in the street, blocking traffic and forcing police to close Javhawk Boulevard.
Tom Hutton, director of University Relations, said that the march was unfortunate and that he thought progress had been made in negotiations.
"Both KU and the GTAs are anxious to reach agreement. Both want some form of health insurance." Hutton said.
Hutton said he did not think the negotiations would be affected
positively or negatively by the march.
But Dan Murtaugh, Lawrence graduate student and GTAC member, disagreed.
See RALLY, Page 6A
Amendment would appeal to election violators
Student board would check commission fines
By Dave Morantz
Kansan staff writer
In a move sure to produce even more controversy, Unite coalition members Scott Sullivan and Mike Walden, win-ers of last week's
Scott Sullivan
kers of last week's Student Senate elections, said they might appeal the decision of the elections commission hearing board to punish the two for violations committed during the Unite coalition's election campaign.
Upset at Sullivan and Walden's announcement that they might appeal the decision, Chad Perlov, Englewood, Colo., senior and elections commissioner, said a Unitefriendly board could be appointed to hear Sullivan and Walden's appeal.
Mike Walden
"They would be on some very shaky ground ethically," Perlov said. "I think it would be a shame to drag this out any further and to manipulate the elections process in a way where Student Senate can directly affect an elections process."
Under the elections code, Sullivan and Walden, Leawood juniors, had until last night to submit an appeal. But a new amendment to Student Senate rules and regulations could expand that deadline by one year. Such an amendment would take precedence over the elections code, which requires an appeal to be submitted within 48 hours of the hearing board's decision.
The board determined Tuesday that the newly elected president and vice president had committed seven violations in their campaign by not reporting the help of former KU student Travis Harrod and that they had deliberately misled the elections commission.
They must each pay a $230 fine and pay for a full-page advertisement in the University Daily Kansan, in which the commission would explain Sullivan and Walden's offenses to the student body. The advertisement would cost them more than $600.
The new amendment, passed at last week's Senate meeting, would create a student judicial board before which elections commission hearing board decisions could be appealed. The hearing board's decisions now must be appealed to the University Judiciary.
Grey Montgomery, student body president, has not yet signed the bill. But he said he had long supported a board that would create a student group to decide appeals.
Montgomery said he intended to sign the bill in the next couple of days. Unlike most Senate bills that take effect the following semester, this bill would take effect immediately after Montgomery signed it because it would amend Senate rules and regulations.
See SENATE, Page 6A
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