THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2008
NEWS
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Events, groups raise assault awareness
BY FRANCESCA CHAMBERS
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In addition to crimson and blue, the colors teal and white will be prevalent on campus this week.
The Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center will tie teal ribbons to trees along Jayhawk Boulevard and the student group One in Four will pass out white ribbon pins on Wescoe Beach to raise awareness about sexual violence against women.
Angela Oliver, assistant director of the Student Involvement and Leadership Center, said more attention needed to be brought to sexual violence against women because it was one of the most unreported crimes.
"Many of the victims are acquaintances, which is a huge cultural problem," Oliver said.
The teal and white ribbon campaigns are parts of national campaigns that promote Sexual Assault Awareness Month, or SAAM. The women's resource center, One in Four and several other campus organizations will be host to other sexual violence awareness events throughout April, as well, including Mike Domitrz's program, "Can I Kiss You?"
Domitrz, who began "Can I Kiss You?" in 1990 after his sister was raped, said he would teach students
how to make dating easier and more fun.
He said he would teach students how to read body language, know when to make a move and how to handle situations that involve alcohol, to result in safer choices.
Domitrz said he did not want to give away too many details about the program, but he said the program was extremely interactive. He said students would be on stage, and the audience would be able to shout out answers to questions.
Domitrz will be performing from 6 to 7 p.m. and 8 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday in the Kansas Ballroom at the Kansas Union. Domitrz has also written two books and is the director of The Date Safe Project.
Rehaan Shaffte, Overland Park senior and president of the men's group One in Four, said the group would run an informational table at Domitrz's program, where the group will pass out pledges that will be hung the Kansas Union's lobby.
He said even though the violence was aimed at women, it was a problem that affected men, too.
He said women had made great strides toward ending the violence, but until men joined the fight, violence against women would continue.
sexual assault awareness month events
Wed., April 9:
"Can I Kiss You?" presented by Mike Domitzr from 6 to 7 p.m. and 8 to 9 p.m. in the Kansas Ballroom at the Kansas Union. Students who attend can also enter a drawing to win dinner for two at the H H Bar & Grill or La Familia.
Mon., April 14:
"We're really just standing by
"The Truth about Sexual Assault: What is Happening Now on College Campuses," a sexual violence panel that will feature two sexual assault survivors as well as people from KU Public Safety and Watkins Memorial Health Center.
Students will watch and discuss an episode of "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit" about alcohol and the date rape drug from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Malott Room at the Kansas Union. The event will be sponsored by One In Four.
Tues., April 15:
EmPOWER Self-Defense Workshop from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Student Recreation Fitness Center. The course is free female KU students and $5 for all other women. Hy-Vee will also provide bottled water.
Mon., April 28:
and watching, when we really need to be getting in there and helping out in the ways that we can," Shaffie said.
Shaffie said the group would give pins to people who signed pledges declaring that they would never commit, condone or remain silent about violence to women.
Oliver said she wanted students to attend the events because she wanted to get rid of the myths on campus about sexual assault and to
educate students on what to do if a friend was sexually assaulted.
She also said alcohol was part of the reason sexual assaults go unreported and that needed to change, as well.
"It doesn't matter how much you drink, that doesn't mean that someone can sexually assault you," Oliver said.
Edited by Matt Hirschfeld
BUSINESS Microsoft sets time limit for Yahoo to accept offer
SEATTLE — Microsoft set the clock ticking for Yahoo to accept its $41 billion buyout offer in a letter to the Internet pioneer's board Saturday, warning that if a deal wasn't reached by April 26 the software maker would launch a hostile takeover at a less attractive price.
"If we have not concluded an agreement within the next three weeks, we will be compelled to take our case directly to your shareholders, including the initiation of a proxy contest to elect an alternative slate of directors for the Yahoo board," wrote Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer.
"If we are forced to take an offer directly to your shareholders, that action will have an undesirable impact on the value of your company from our perspective which will be reflected in the terms of our proposal," he wrote.
In the letter, Ballmer said Yahoo's search share and page views, two measures of the strength of the Web portal company's business, appear to have fallen since the offer was made at the end of January. At the time, Microsoft's cash-and-stock offer was valued at $44.6 billion.
or 62 percent above Yahoo's market value. Judging by Friday's closing share prices, the deal is now worth just less than $41 billion.
Yahoo's board formally rejected Microsoft Corp's bid in February, saying it undervalues the company.
Since then, the Silicon Valley company has explored alliances with Google Inc., News Corp.'s MySpace. com and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL, but no alternative to Microsoft's offer has surfaced.
Ballmer acknowledged the alternative negotiations and questioned why, in the absence of another offer, Yahoo was still dragging its heels.
"This is despite the fact that
"We believe that the majority of your shareholders share this assessment," despite a forecast recently released by Yahoo that calls for the company's revenue to rise more than 70 percent during the next three years, he wrote.
our proposal is the only alternative put forward that offers your shareholders full and fair value for their shares," Ballmer wrote in the letter. Ballmer said the Microsoft offer has grown stronger as the economic climate has weakened.
Associated Press
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Officers stand at the entrance to the El Dorado Civic Center Friday in El Dorado, Texas, after children were removed in the buses in the background from a nearby polygamist retreat. Child welfare officials and state troopers removed a bus load of children from the secretive West Texas religious retreat built by polygamist leader Warren Jeffs following a complaint to state authorities.
Officers conduct raid on polygamist retreat
BY MICHELLE ROBERTS ASSOCIATED PRESS
ELDORADO, Texas Authorities who removed 219 women and children from a polygamist compound were struggling Sunday to determine whether they had the 16-year-old girl whose report of an underage marriage led them to raid the sprawling rural property.
Many people at the compound, built by followers of jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, are related to one another and share similar names; investigators said in some case they were giving different names at different times.
Investigators on Sunday bused them out of Eldorado, nearly 200 miles northwest of San Antonio, as other law enforcement agents continued to search for more children and evidence at the 1,700-acre compound, the former site of an exotic game ranch.
State troopers armed with a search warrant raided the compound on Friday to look for evidence of a marriage between the
girl, who allegedly had a baby at 15, and a 50-year-old man. Under Texas law, girls younger than 16 cannot marry, even with parental approval.
The women and children were taken out of the compound Friday and Saturday and had been staying in a local church and civic center.
By midday Sunday, dozens of women and children, mostly girls, were seen boarding buses on their way to San Angelo, a larger town 45 miles away. The women wore long pastel dresses and many carried bedding; several had infants.
Officers entered the temple on the grounds late Saturday, but by Sunday they still had not located the 16-year-old whose initial report of abuse led to the raid.
"There were some tense moments last night, but everything has remained calm and peaceful and they are continuing their search," Allison Palmer, a prosecutor from a nearby county handling the case, said early Sunday.
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