Lawrence weather changed continually yesterday, which began with warm temperatures
Changing weather
and sunshine. By the end of the day, rain and cold temperatures brought out jackets and umbrellas.
By CAROL BEIER
Staff Reporter
Senate requests increase in bus fee; action disputed
The Student Senate survived two calls for a quorum at last night's meeting and passed a controversial petition to raise the student privilege fee by $2.50 a semester. The increase will be used for the KU on Wheels bus program.
The petition also recommended a $2 increase in the amount charged for a car insurance claim.
Sarn Zweifel, ex officio senator,
repeatedly questioned the responsibility of
the Senate's actions in considering the
petition.
"We are voting on a petition that would recommend that the Board of Regents tax each student at the University of Kansas an additional $2.50 a semester," Zweil said. We don't need just a majority of the Senate to approve the majority of the Student Senators elected."
"I object to paying a large amount of money for something I'm not going to use."
The $2.50 increase would raise the total transportation fee to $6, according to Steve McMurry, director of the KU on Wheels program.
Mc Murry said the money was needed because of increased costs and improvements that have been made in the service.
The hourly cost was $15 this year for each bus used by the program. Next year the cost will be $16. McMurry attributed the dollar increase to inflation.
The petition also includes funds for a new bus route to serve Lewis and Tennant hills in northern Pennsylvania. The Board of Regents, the bus service also will be extended to include more night hours and extended hours of service.
During the meeting, Keith Mahl, Senate treasurer, clarified statements he had reportedly made about funding for KU on Wheels during the past year.
Maib said his earlier statements regarding the deficit were meant to impress him.
However, because of an error in subtraction, Maib did not realize until after 15 minutes of debate last night on a supplemental allocation bill for Friends of Headquarters that the Senate's unallocated funds save the funds necessary to meet the request.
At the beginning of last night's meeting,
$5,165 remained in the Senate's unallocated
account. After allocations to three student
organizations, the amount left in that account was $1,043. Friends of Headquarters requested $1,765.
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When Maib realized the mistake, the Senate voted that the Headquarters allocation did not require release of reserve money in the account.
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Mai said the five organizations that come before the Senate next week for funds to address climate change.
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"It's really not fair to them," he said.
Faculty, student raises approved
From Staff and Wire Reports
The Kansas Legislature approved a budget of $455 million yesterday for the seven Regents institutions for the 1979-80 school year. The University of Kansas received $341 million in funding.
The Legislature, in the second day of its three-day wrap-up session, approved a 6.5 percent wage increase for faculty, . 6 percent increase in operating expenses and a 9.2 percent wage increase for student fees. The increase would be to the federal minimum rate of $2.90 an hour.
State Rep. Mike Glover, D-Lawrence, said he thought the faculty pay increase was not great.
The budget also included $113.9 million for the University of Kansas Medical Center. Of this money, $14.6 million will be spent on the MED Center, the Hospital, the Med Center's Wushua branch.
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence,
also said he thought faculty were not paid
"I think the truth of the matter is the Legislature doesn't understand faculty salaries," he said. "It doesn't understand my work they do or the sacrifices they make."
However, Solbach said, the 6.5 percent increase was large considering the attitude
"We don't reward college professors as well as we do people in other walks of life," he said. "I think, considering the cost of college, that we have declined more than almost any others."
"I think that's good coming out of this Legislature," he said, "I think at first there was a move to raise the salaries by only 4 percent; then we decided the faculty did really well in that respect."
Sobach said that other than the faculty salaries, he was satisfied with the budget.
"I think KU did all right. I think that's $16 to $16 million more than they got last year. Most of that is due to the efforts of the KU team and their good relations with the Legislature."
Glee Smith Jr., a member of the Kansas Board of Regents, said of the final budget, "They they restore some of the money. They were paid good for the houses. I am particularly pleased they approved the general operating funds, the faculty wages and the student wage, just as we did."
In budget appropriations earlier this year, the House approved a 6 per cent salary increase for faculty, while the Senate approved a 7 per cent increase. A joint conference committee recommended the 6.5 per cent increase in yesterday's budget.
In other business, House committees wrote a new tax relief program, even though a similar program had been approved earlier this year.
This program, along with the bill removing utility sales tax passed earlier in the year, would reduce taxes in Kansas by 50%. Mr. Lilly, a spokesman Wendel J. Welch, H-Overland Park, park.
The new House tax program would increase the individual state income tax to $58.7 billion by 2014 and homeestead property taxes for low-income disabled or elderly persons or persons with minor children and remove the property tax that helps pay for university and hospital costs.
Lady said he thought the Senate, which has not voted on the first tax relief program, said it was a mistake.
program. The first program included a £20 tax rebate in place of the increased interest rate.
Glover said he was certain the House and Senate would approve the tax relief package.
The House approved by a single vote yesterday a bill that would remove state controls on wholesale liquor prices. The bill previously had been passed by the Senate.
Under the bill, a franchise system would be established under which each wholesaler would sell only one brand of liquor. Competition among the different brands would set the prices on the liquor. The minimum price per bottle of wines on wholesale liquor would be eliminated.
Glover said the system would eliminate duplication of services and possibly lower costs.
State Sen. Frank Gaines, D-Augusta, has
said the system could lower liquor prices by as much as 5 percent.
The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee recommended that an interim committee study two bills that could help control litter.
One bill would place a deposit on all beverage containers to encourage people to return them to the retailers for recycling. The money raised by retailers and manufacturers. The money raised, estimated at $1 million each year, would be used to buy trash cans for public use.
The House defeated a motion to appropriate $1.1 million to pay for a presidential primary in Kansas, scheduled for 1800. The House earlier had voted to repeal the law establishing the primary, but the state has refused to go along with that move.
Kansan editors,managers selected for summer,fall
The selection of editor and business manager for the fall and summer University.
Mary Hoenek was chosen as editor and
synthia Ray was chosen as business
man.
Heenk, Iowa City, Iowa, senior, now is the campus editor of the Kansan, Ray. Overland Park junior, is a Kansan sales representative.
For the summer 1979 Kansan, Caroline
Trowbridge was chosen as editor and
Duncan Butts was chosen as business manager.
The selections were made by the Kansan Board, which is an advisory board to the management.
Trowbridge, Russell senior, now is a Kansan wire editor. Butts, Clovis, N.M., senior, is the assistant classified manager of the Kansan.
Applications for news-edited and business staff positions on the summer and fall courses.
French follies
Members of the Comédie Française, a French acting troupe, presented scenes from a play yesterday in the Spencer Art Museum. The group was sponsored by the department of drama at the University of Texas at Austin.
Burden of rape includes fright, guilt, anger
By CAROL BEIER
Staff Reporter
Editor's note: Names of the victims in this story are fictitious.
Am had been a graduate student at The University of Kansas for six weeks when a man wearing nothing but a white T-shirt ran up behind her as she was home from the library one night in early October.
"By that time he could have done anything he wanted." she said. "When he realized he couldn't
"We wrested for a long time," Ann said. "It seemed like forever."
Because no penetration occurred, the Lawrence police classified Ann's complaint as attempted rage.
He choked Ann until she quit fighting.
In Kansas, rape is defined as penetration of a female sex organ by a male sex organ, which is committed by a man with a woman who is not his without consent.
The maximum penalty for rape is life imprisonment, for attempted rape, five years.
"ITS ALCHEMIC to me," Ann said. "The sex
part is the worst. The scary thing is the violent
part."
Ann shrugged her shoulders and said she figured she had gotten off" pretty light."
act of violence which, if not actually followed by beattings or murder, always carries with the threat of a death.
Although rape is defined in sexual terms, it is an
"Rape is to women as lynching was to blacks: the ultimate physical threat by which all men keep all women in a state of psychological intimidation," says Susan Browmeriller in her 1972 book "Against Our God."
Ani reported her assault to the police but said she never expected anything to come of the effort.
Only half of the rapes reported lead to arrests, and at least 40 percent of the men arrested are never prosecuted. Of those cases that come to trial, 60 percent end in acquittals or dismissals.
"I woke up in a cold sweat," she said. "I didn't like the way I was reacting to the situations in there."
ANN THOUGHT she was doing well.
That was before her nightmares started.
She didn't dream about her assault. Instead she dreams placed her in the classic role of tempress, one inviting rape. Am's dreams replayed the tired myth that says rape is impossible unless a woman
That was before her nightmares started.
Jo Bryant, counselor for the Rape Victim Support Services, said Ann's reaction was not uncommon. Bryant characterized such residual effects as subliminal guilt.
"Women in our society have been taught that control of sexual contact is their responsibility," she said. "Boys will be boys; girls should control the situation."
this is the point of "Rape: The Price of Coercive Sexuality," written by Lorenne Clark and Debra Lewis and published in 1977. The book states, "What is called 'rape', then, is thought to be only an unsophisticated seduction; at most, it is a minor breach of our social standards."
In other words, rape crosses the boundaries of what is otherwise acceptable pressure for sex.
SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES notwithstanding, the psychological effect of a sexual assault on a victim is
Am, who said that before her attack she had "loved the nighttime," doesn't leave her house alone after all.
"It terrifies me," she said. "I don't know how long it takes to go away. I wished I did."
"Did you ever notice that cats sound like women screaming?"
Susan couldn't scream.
She had fallen asleep in her living room watching television. She woke up struggling with a man who entered her home and turned off the lights and left. She waited his hand over her mouth and raped her at his nifternoon.
Her rage is subsiding, Susan said, as the months pass since she was raped.
"It was rage. It was really rage," she said. "I was afraid of being killed. I had no defence whatsoever." She stopped, looking at me.
Once, after arguing with a friend on the telephone,
Susan smashed her phone and receiver to bits.
THE INMIDATE rape had a persistent side effect. Susan had a violent temper for several months.
"I would go out of control," Siam said. "I couldn't
oop myself. It's getting a lot better now. I scared me
away."
Susan also suffered from insomnia after the rape.
Researchers and counselors say that it is not unusual for a woman's humiliation and helplessness to be present.
"When you're attacked in your sleep, it makes it hard to go to sleep," she said. "Until he was caught, I would have been murdered."
"Sexually, I was really scared." Susan said. "In his sleep, he would touch me and I stand it off — I can't see him."
She also talked of residual guilt.
IT WAS FOUR months after the rape before Susan was able to have sex.
She has installed a strong lock on her door and now lives with a man she has been involved with for
This is the stopped message you see.
If not, just "You just about accepted it."
"I've kicked myself that I didn't fight back more," she said.
Has she stopped kicking herself yet?
But the fear that haunts Susan has been benign. It is a fear that Susan doesn't think will ever go away.
"I hate being afraid," she said. "That's the biggest thing. I've always been really confident and felt secure about myself. Now I'm really scared just walking down the street."
That fear doesn't even dissolve with the arrest of the attacker.
Mary was raped and beaten after she had asked her date to take her home. He later pleaded guilty and was convicted of rape and assault. Yet Mary said he had served no time in jail.
Instead he was put on probation on the conditions that he would be under psychiatric supervision, that he would pay Mary's medical expenses and that he would have no contact with her.
MARY HAD hesitated to call the police in the first place.
"I was just afraid," she said. "I guess afraid to go through the whole thing. It wasn't going to do any good. It was already over with."
Now she is more cautious
"It made me afraid of men, that's for sure," she
says. "So RORRACKWORK."
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