FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1996
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS 864-4810
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
SECTION A VOL.102.NO.137
ADVERTISING 864-4358
(USPS 650-640)
SPORTS
Still a Jayhawk
CAMPUS
Kansas assistant basketball coach Matt Doherty turned down an offer from Long Beach State. Page1B
Playboy on campus
Photographers will be on campus Monday and Tuesday for the Women of the Big 12 issue. Page 3A
NATION
U.N. shelter bombed
Israeli officials say the attack on a Lebanese peacekeeping base was a mistake but will continue the bombing. Page 5A
WORLD
Anniversary of bombing today
Mourners will observe 168 seconds of silence for Oklahoma City's victims. Page 6A
High 80° Low 53°
Weather: Page 2A
INDEX
Opinion . . . . . . . . . 4A
Nation/World . . . . . . . 5A
Features . . . . . . . . . 8A
Sports . . . . . . . . . 1B
Scoreboard . . . . . . . 2B
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A woman's Place
Daughters have more opportunities in the job market than their mothers had. But balancing a family and a career is as difficult as ever.
Story by Amy McVey Photos by Richard Devinki
W with a daughter at each side, Barbra Luna, 42, sits surrounded by plush pillows and family photographs in her suburban
Olathe home. The spaghetti is long since washed from dinner dishes; the dishes are neatly put away. Tori, Barbra's first-born, is home from college for the night. Barbra's other daughter, Adrienne Luna-Hake, 18, sits cross-legged, folding her husband's clothes.
"We're a dying breed," Barba says, smiling and looking at Adrienne. "Adrienne has always wanted my life, just like I always wanted my mother's life."
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Adrienne married a year out of high school and is expecting a boy in August.
Tori Luna, left; her mother, Barbra; and her sister, Adrienne Luna-Haake, see themselves in different roles as modern women. Adrienne wants to raise a family as her mother did. Tori wants a career first and then maybe a family.
Tori, Olathe sophomore, laughs and says that she doesn't even have a boyfriend, let alone a husband and a family.
After she graduates, Tori wants to teach. But somehow within a life educating other peoples' children, Tori hopes to find the time to have children of her own.
It has been done. Mothers before Tori and others like her have made it work. They chiseled their way to the top of the career mountain and kept
still have to choose between the baby and the briefcase, and they feel like they've lost either way.
maternity wards buzzing with proud fathers. But as women in their 20s ponder their future, they find there will be little support to help them balance their jobs and their families when they reach the top. They fear that they will
Story continued on Page 8A.
Safety on campus is a concern for Stovall
Attorney General wants to reduce college crimes
By Amy McVey Kansan staff writer
On a statewide mission to reduce campus crime, Kansas Attorney General Carla Stovall announced Wednesday her plans to form a task force to review ways of making campus communities safer.
The task force, Campus Awareness Makes for Protection and Ultimate Safety (CAMPUS), was an idea spawned from a recent Pittsburg State University student's murder, allegedly by another student, Stovall said.
"Recently the death of a Kansas college student has caused many Kansans, including myself, to question
now the circumstances were allowed to exist that led to the killing," she said. "We must make our college students feel safe, and we must determine what needs to occur to facilitate that."
The task force will be formed within the next month, and the first meeting will be planned before June 1. It will be made up of the six presidents of the Regents' institutions, presidents of the 19 state community colleges and 17 vocational schools, police officers as well as students and parents from across Kansas, Stovall said.
Secretary of Corrections Chuck Simmons and KBI Director Larry Welch also will be invited to serve,
"Wemust
We must make our college students feel safe,and we must determine what needs to occur to facilitate that. "
Carla Stovall Kansas attorney general
along with a prosecutor, public defender and victim advocate.
"I'll be asking for the student governments at the various schools to nominate persons from those categories to help in its critical mission," she said.
"I expect the discussion to cover the range from criminal history background of students to more lighting in the parking lots," she said.
Ward Cook, Student Senate representative on the campus lighting advisory board, said he was excited that the state was concerned about campus safety.
"I really hope that this is not a fad by the government," he said. "I hope not only the state of Kansas, but the University of Kansas takes a real concern with it. For a long time it has been political rhetoric — not a real concern."
Cook said he hoped the task force would generate more funds for campus lighting and blue emergency phones.
KU police Sgt. Chris Keary said that although KU police had been releasing crime statistics on campus for more than 20 years, the task force may give police a better idea how to educate students about campus crime.
"We are willing to accept any ideas they come up with, and if we can use them we will," he said.
Textbook sellers, buyers gain new Friends
By R. Adam Ward Kansan staff writer
Organization hopes to resolve problem of high book prices
Some KU students have decided they can do a better job buying and selling books than local book stores can.
Ali Raza Agha, Karachi, Pakistan, junior, has created a nonprofit student organization called Friends to match students who want to buy
Majid Mahmood, Bahawalpur,
Pakistan, sophomore, another
member of the organization, said it
it didn't make sense to keep giving
money to the bookstores.
books with those who want to sell books. He said he created the organization because textbooks were too expensive.
"The bookstores seem to be ripping us off," he said.
Mahmood said he thought bookstores bought books from students and then sold them for double the amount they had paid.
The Friends organization allows students to recoup all the money they paid for used books.
Book network
- Friends has been formed to match used book buyers and sellers. For more information, call: 864-6353 or e-mail: FRIENDS@ukub.cc.ukans.edu
The organization held an informal meeting at 1 p.m. yesterday at their table on the fifth floor of the Kansas Union, said Yameen Farooqi, New Delhi, India, junior, another member of Friends. About fifteen people attended.
Farooqui said the meeting had
been successful, although only one book buyer and seller had been matched up by the organization.
He said he didn't know how successful these organizations were. Usually they transformed from a casual nonprofit organization into a business to make a profit, he said.
A clearing house for books was even created by the Student Senate to create a database of buyers and sellers of textbooks, Getz said.
Bill Getz, the textbook buyer for the Kansas Union Bookstore, said he had seen this kind of buying and selling network many times before. It has been tried both locally and in the region.
But Getz said anyone who talked about book recycling had the same goals as the Kansas Union Bookstore.
These goals were convenience, a low price and high book availability for the customers.
"We support anything that increases traffic in used books," Getz said.
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But Bill Muggy, general manager of the Jayhawk Bookstore, 1420 Crescent Road, saw the situation another way.
Muggy said the organizations such as Friends ended up creating grief for the customers who thought they would get something for nothing.
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