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THURSDAY, FEB. 13, 1986, VOL. 96, NO. 96 (USPS 650-640)
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Public airs views on S. African rule
By Tim Hrenchir and Lori Polson
and Lori Poison Staff writers
Their styles were different but their messages were the same: KU students and faculty are concerned about the situation in South Africa.
The committee heard statements from eight groups and individuals. The hearings continue tonight with nine speakers scheduled to present their views.
The University Senate Human Relations Committee conducted the first round of public hearings on South Africa last night in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
See related story p. 12.
The South African government follows a policy of apartheid, which is legalized racial segregation.
Chris Bunker, Shawne third-year law student and president of the KU Committee on South Africa, told the human relations committee that his committee was frustrated with the
lack of communication with the Kansas University Endowment Association
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In the past year, some students and faculty members have protested the Endowment Association's ties to companies that do business in South Africa.
"We've sat in, we've protested, we've educated, we've worked politically." Bunker said. "At this point, I don't know what else we can do.
"This is the kind of issue that really sets people on fire. There is nothing more obvious than apartheid is the wrongest thing you've ever seen."
Bunker suggested the University take legal action to prove that the Endowment Association is not a separate entity from the University. Therefore, he said, the Endowment Association would be forced to abide by the wishes of faculty and students.
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By Juli Warren
Kansan Magazine writer
Colleges are sometimes looked upon as marriage mills, with a seemingly endless number of people to meet, things to do and places to go.
That special someone — or someone just to spend an evening with — may be out there, but can they really be found on the traditional campus or bar scene?
Some students don't think so and are trying alternative ways to meet potential dates.
"Bored guy sees bored girl to compare boredom. Call Steve
Steve Jackman, Manhattan freshman, was one of these. He may be recognized by the personal ad he placed in the Kansan;
Jackman said, "People say they meet people in classes, but everybody's still got this wall up in the classroom.
"They're kind of aloof. You've got to be cool."
Jackman said that when he sometimes walked into a classroom and greeted everyone, he was met with strange looks.
Because he lives in an apartment and has never lived in a residence hall where there are more people, he said, it is harder to meet people.
"Lonely male, 23, non-student,
non-Christian, looking for female
for caring relationship, friends
or more. You should read a lot,
like to talk and wear little or
makeup. Call John . . ."
But an impulse, not despair, prompted him to place his ad when he accompanied a friend who was placing an ad. he said.
John, who did not want his last name used, had a different reason for placing his ad:
When he was a student, he said, most of his classes were in the same building and he had a girlfriend so he didn't meet many new people.
John said a recent break-up prompted him to place the ad.
John, a former KU student, works in a Lawrence fast-food restaurant.
When that relationship ended, he said, he didn't have many people to fall back on.
"Partly, it was a psychological break," he said. "I wanted someone else to be calling me."
"I don't smoke or drink, so I don't enjoy bars. I don't like rock 'n' roll and I'm not religious, so that cut out about 99.9 percent of my places to meet people."
"I'm not a very social person," he said. "Generally, I didn't go out very much.
John said that he enjoyed science fiction and role-playing games, such as Dungeons and
"I also had the experience of talking to people I would have nothing in common with," he said.
Dragons, but that the people he met playing those games were "extremely limited" in their interests.
The 40 calls in response to his ad, John said, included one 15-year-old girl and three crank calls.
Three dates resulted from the ad, John said, but all was not moonlight and roses.
"I'm from New York, so I expected a lot more crank calls," John said.
Jackman said he got 21 phone calls, some of them more interesting than others.
Some people, he said, called him several nights in a row to ask him whether he was still bored.
Jackman said he did go to the sorority and was introduced to the whole house. He said he was glad he went because he learned that sorority women were "real people."
Members of one sorority house invited him over, he said, and he got calls from people in bars.
And then there were the calls from amused females.
"Once in a while, I'd get a call that was all giggles," Jackman said. "They just couldn't stop."
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He said the wording of his ad was not especially serious.
"I wanted to put something fun in," he said. "It's inoffensive and it gets a response.
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"I wasn't going to put "Horny dude sees blonde bombshell."
John said his advice to people considering placing a personal ad would be: "Don't expect to have somebody fitting your requirements call and go out that Saturday night."
John said the wording of his ad seemed rather brusque when he saw it in print, but reflected his criteria.
He said he preferred a girl with no makeup because he thought he wouldn't get along well with a "sorority type."
He wrote the part about the respondent wanting to be friends, he said, because "I always look for friends first."
"If I can think of another one with good wording, I might put it in," he said.
The recent ad was Jackman's first, he said, but it may not be his last.
John said he met one of his dates through a mutual friend, and went to dinner and a movie with her. He went to lunch at the Union with the other two because it was neutral ground, he said.
It was helpful, John said, to be able to talk to the girl before going out with her.
One of the lunches was "pleasant," he said, and the other was "excruciatingly boring."
"Blind dates are uncomfortable no matter how you set them up," he said. "It was no more and no less uncomfortable than any other blind date."
Jan Moklebust, who opened New Connections, 2201 W. 25th St., with her fiance, Dean McCall, said that viewing a video about a potential date helped answer some of the preliminary questions that were answered on a first date.
In hopes of taking the blindness out of blind dating, students may also trv video dating services.
As a result, she said, the first date seems like the third or fourth.
"You have a feeling like you've met the person already," Moklebust said.
Questions asked include problems with mental health, narcotics or drinking and whether the applicant has been convicted of a felony.
Potential customers fill out a personality inventory that is a screening device, Moklebust said.
Moklebust and McCall met through a video dating service.
The potential customer also fills out a questionnaire about his interests.
An eight-to-10 minute video is then made of the person being interviewed, with questions ranging from what he is looking for in a relationship to his favorite season.
Books brimming with photographs and profiles of the participants line bookshelves in the office waiting room.
The video service has 700 members in the Topeka, Lawrence and Kansas City area. And members can choose from photographs of members that belong to both the Lawrence and Kansas City, Mo., offices.
The photos are grouped by age — 19-25, 26-34, 35-42, 43-50 and 51 and over.
More men than women are members, Moklebust said.
If the customer finds someone he or she wants to meet, the customer tells one of the employees, who then contacts the other person by phone.
The person chosen comes in and watches the video of the person who picked him and decides whether to meet the person.
Moklebust said she and Dean McCall, owner of the Lawrence office, had helped one man in his early 20s that had little dating experience choose and plan dates.
"It was so neat to see that kid grow in self-confidence and get out into the dating world," she said.
"Others are dating quite actively, but not the people they want to meet." she said.
"It's still an ego trip for a guy
Moklebust predicted that within 10 years, video dating services would take the place of singles bars.
However, Moklebust said, introverts aren't the only members.
But, she said, people sometimes tire of the bar scene.
to go into a bar, find a good-looking girl and take her home," Mokleburst said.
One New Connections member said he joined because he wanted to meet people other than students.
Mike, a KU student who did not want his real name used, said,
"Being a graduate student, you're mostly with people from your own department."
Undergraduates, he said, can meet new people every semester.
Joining a video dating service, Mike said, "saves a lot of the initial hassle."
"By joining, they've identified themselves as someone who wants to meet someone," he said.
Mike, who has a one-year membership, said he had dated six different members.
"Everyone I've asked to meet has wanted to meet me," he said.
Most of the women he's dated have lived in the Kansas City area.
McCall said, "What really makes us happy is to have someone come in and show us their ring.
The videos, he said, usually give a fairly valid impression of what the person is like.
"At least they're identifying themselves, giving their name and phone number." Mike said.
And he said the service eliminated the anonymity of meeting someone in class.
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