Wednesday, March 5, 1986
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Man offers to pay for broken window
A man threw a shoe through a window last week at Pinkney Elementary School, 810 W. Sixth St., and later showed up at the Lawrence police station offering to pay for the damage.
Lawrence police said school officials found the shoe inside a classroom. The shoe was believed to have been taken from a dumpster near the school because trash had been strewn around.
Police spokesman Sgt. Don Dalquest said the man came to the station at about 2:20 p.m. Monday and offered to pay for the 25 by 30-inch window.
The man told police he was walking home from a grocery store when he became upset and threw the shoe through the window. Dalquest said the man said he didn't know why he threw the shoe.
Hearing rescheduled
A hearing to determine whether to vacate a restraining order on a downtown slum and blight study was postponed until 1:30 p.m. today.
The rescheduled of the hearing, which was scheduled for yesterday, was due to court scheduling problems.
Last week, city commissioners were served with a restraining order to prevent them from hiring a consultant to do a study to determine whether the site of the proposed downtown was slum and blight.
Conditions considered when determining slum and blight are building conditions, streets and lots, safety, site improvements, ownership, taxes, land title, land uses, endangered life or property and economic obsolescence, according to the proposal for the study.
Hall officers elected
The Fertility Coalition won all four officer positions last night in the association of University Residence Hall elections.
Drew Blossom, Topeka junior, was elected president for the second consecutive year. His running mate, Wanda Wood, Waverley junior, is the new vice president. They received 490 votes.
Sarah Hart, St. Paul, Minn,
junior, was elected secretary with
490 votes. The new treasurer is
Bruce Miller, Fern Creek, Ky,
junior, who received 455 votes.
The 1986-87 officers will be sworn in at the next AURH meeting at 7 p.m. March 18 in Ellsworth Hall.
Film to be discussed
A forum about the issues raised by the novel and movie "The Color Purple" will be at 8 tonight in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
The forum, titled "The Situation of Women in Society: Issues raised by 'The Color Purple', the book/the movie," is in celebration of International Women's Day.
Panel members are Laura Olbike, who has a doctorate degree in mass communications; Dorthy Pennington, acting chair of African studies and associate professor of communication studies; and Billie Dee Anderson, a local singer and poet.
Weather
Today will be partly sunny with a high in the low to mid-60s and northwest winds at 15 to 25 mph. Tonight will be mostly clear with a low in the low to mid-39s. Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with a high around 60.
From staff and wire reports
Committee delays abortion bill action
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee yesterday delayed action on a bill that would require physicians to get parental consent before performing an abortion on a girl under 18. The committee voted to have the measure studied over the summer.
Members of the committee said the issue was too complex and they needed more information before they could endorse a parental consent bill. Others said they wanted time to study other states' laws and to study the larger problem of teen-age pregnancy.
Bui State Sen. Ed Reilly, the committee's chairman, acknowledged that interim studies historically were used by lawmakers to avoid dealing with tough issues.
"I think we have avoided the issue," said Reilly, R-Leavenworth.
The bill would require physicians to get written consent from both
parents of a minor before performing an abortion on a girl under 18. If the parents are divorced, consent from one parent or a guardian would be sufficient in some cases. Also, a girl who no longer lives with a parent or guardian would not be affected by the law.
In addition, a girl could go to court to get permission for an abortion, and a physician could perform an abortion without parental consent in a medical emergency.
State Sen. Jeanne Hoferer, R-Topeka, said the bill needed to be studied before the committee took action. The committee had two days of hearings on the bill last week.
"We've only given this thing two hours," Hoferer said. "We could give it three months."
Also, Hoferer said, she wants lawmakers to study the broader issue of teenage pregnancy and perhaps consider programs aimed at preventing pregnancy in girls under 18.
Debaters to compete in national tourney
By Tom Farmer Staff writer
Staff writer
Continuing KU's winning tradition in debate, two teams will compete at the National Debate Tournament this year.
The University has sent 50 debate teams — more than any other school in the United States — to the national tournament since it began in 1947, said Donn Parson, director of forensics and professor of communication studies. This is the seventh consecutive year that KU has sent two teams, the maximum number allowed, to the national tournament.
Sixty-two teams from across the United States qualify to compete for the national title from April 4-7 at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.
Representing KU at the national competition will be the team of John Culver, Overland Park junior, and George Lopez, Wichita junior, and the team of Pat Whalen, San Antonio, Texas, freshman, and Barry Pickens, Winfield freshman.
A KU team has won the tournament four times. The last victory was in 1983.
Culver, who will be competing nationally for the second consecutive year, said his past experience would help him better prepare to face the traditionally strong teams from Dartmouth; Baylor University; Waco, Texas; and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass.
"The experience will make it a lot easier to prepare," Calver said. "We're also concentrating on some of the better teams, which we didn't do last year."
First, 16 teams receive automatic bids from the national debate committee on the basis of their record for the year. Culver and Lopez were one of those teams.
There are three ways to qualify for the national tournament.
Then are the regional tournaments, from which 36 teams advance to the national tournament. Whalen and Pickens won the regional tournament, which took place last weekend at Washburn University, to qualify for a trip to the national tournament.
Finally, there is a second round of at large bids for 10 teams, which are selected by the national debate committee. These teams usually have good records for the year, but failed to quality either of the first two ways.
Parson attributed the success of the debate program to an established tradition and support from the administration and Student Senate.
"You get a tradition going and that attracts good debaters to your pro-
Lopez said that, on the average, debaters spent between 15 and 20 hours a week working on research and preparation for debates. At some tournaments, they debate as many as eight to 12 times and often experience burnout.
The debaters said the time and effort put into debate paid off by increasing their research and communication skills.
"It it entails so much work, but the overall effect is that it helps in your school work," Whalan said. "It's not so much an individual effort."
Mary Burger/KANSAN
All in a lather
Bonnie Amess, 1200 W. 21st St., soaps her van. Amess took advantage of the nice weather yesterday afternoon to wash her van
Students stampede to booths for before-spring break tans
Bv Debra West
Staff writer
Students wanting to lose their winter pallor are making a mad dash to tanning booths for a pre-spring break tan.
The local tanning salons have been booked days in advance as students try to get tans before hitting the surf.
Joan Herschell, owner of Elite Nail Studio, 3238 Louisiana St., said her tanning beds were filled all day from the beginning of February until spring break.
Jan Bryan, floor manager of the Magic Mirror, 601 Kasold Drive, said that when the store opened yesterday, a line of people waiting to catch some artificial rays had already formed.
Keri Rash, Chicago freshman, tans at the European Suntanning, Hot Tub & Health Club. 2449-G Iowa St.
"I'm going to Daytona and I want a
tan first," she said. "I don't want to burn."
'At age 18, you feel immortal. You say. "Don't tell me about 20 years down the road.I want to have a tan now." '
— Lee Bittenbender Dermatologist
Rash said she might join the club after spring break.
"It's a good deal," she said. "I can tan, lift weights, do aerobics."
Marsha Farel, Springfield, Mo., junior, and Stephanie Segraves, Overland Park sophomore, also wanted to avoid burning by getting a
tan before spring break.
"I'm going to Fort Lauderdale," Farel said. "I went a couple of years ago, and I burned really bad."
But Lawrence dermatologist Lee Bittenbender warned that tanning beds could be dangerous.
Tanning is a reaction of the skin to the damaging effects of ultraviolet light, he said. The accumulation of exposure to ultraviolet light can cause long-term problems, such as premature aging, skin cancer or pigment changes.
"At age 18, you feel immortal," he said. "You say, 'Don't tell me about 20 years down the road. I want to have a tan now.'"
Some types of medication also can increase the effects of ultraviolet rays. Birth control pills, tetracycline or diuretics can cause the skin to burn more easily, he said.
Nuns help prof study stress in women
Rv Tom Farmer
Staff writer
Women of all walks of life face some of the same struggles, and communal living may help women handle stress better through strong group support.
Sharon Brehm, professor of psychology, is researching a hypothesis that women who are part of a closely knit community share a strong feeling of belonging which leads to better personal and social adjustment.
Brehm also is trying to discover if women who don't belong to such a close community, career women for example, have a strong belief in their own capabilities which leads to better personal and social adjustment.
The groups included in her study are a religious order, two KU sorority houses, a local Protestant church group, and career women, mostly KU faculty members.
Brehm would not name the sororities or the church group.
The Sisters of Charity, a religious order in Leavenworth, have played a significant part in her research.
Brehm traveled to Leavenworth on weekends last summer to visit with and observe the sisters individually to form her hypothesis on communal living.
Because the research still is incomplete.
"They all seemed fantastically energetic." Brehm said. "I think their community can be very supportive and, in a sense, that aids them psychologically."
The purpose of Brehm's research is to examine the relationships of women in these communities and determine the benefits and drawbacks of communal living and individual living.
The project was begun through the combined efforts of Brehm and Sister Constance Phelps, Sister of Charity and professor of sociology at
Saint Mary College in Leavenworth.
A questionnaire was mailed in November to between 50 and 75 women from each of the four groups to determine how their communities affected their personal and social adjustment
The findings are being tabulated by Susan Barker, graduate research assistant in clinical psychology.
Brehm and Phelps will not begin studying the findings until late spring when all the questionnaires should be returned. A journal will be published after a thorough examination of the data.
Brehm said that while doing the research, she was surprised by the sisters' good humor and their concerned, but not overbearing, attitudes.
"There's lots of humor, and they're really a joy," she said. "I didn't expect to laugh when I
In studying the four groups, Brehm expects
Many of the daily duties of the sisters are the same as those performed by laymen, Brehm noted. Before becoming sisters, they must complete training in some area of work in order to be productive members.
to find that those women who have a combination of communal, social support and personal, individual support will be better adjusted personally and socially than other women.
Not only do they have to work and contribute to the community, but they also must attend Mass daily and perform other religious duties, she said.
Brehm considers this double duty to be the difference between sisters and most career women, who have to worry only about their jobs.
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