THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
CAMPUS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1993
The Knowledge of Life
SECTION TWO
Michael Young is a husband,father and philosophy professor. He also has brain cancer.Between the operations and treatments,he teaches and spends time with his family. This story is a look at his life.
Story by Traci Carl
They call Michael Young "the resurrected one." The KU professor of philosophy does not believe in God, but his colleagues at the KU Honors Center could not resist comparing him to Jesus when he returned in October from a cancer treatment that nearly killed him. A cancer that first appeared in 1985 as a small mole on his back was rediscovered July 9 after Young complained of headaches, loss of vision and hearing, fatigue and fainting spells. But this time, doctors discovered that the melanoma,
See KNOWLEDGE,Pages 4B & 5B.
Campus group decries killings
Life group resists abortion, violence
By Allison McCready Special to the Kansan
Tanya Teresa Weide, Lawrence senior and president of KU Students for Life, is concerned about recent attacks against abortion doctors from anti-abortion activists.
"It's a stereotype — people take it and reflect it on the whole group rather than seeing it as the action of one crazy person." Weide said.
During this year abortion doctors nationwide have been the targets of violence and harassment by anti-abortion activists. David Gunn, a Pensacola, Fla. doctor, was killed outside his abortion clinic last spring, and this fall a doctor was shot while leaving his clinic in Wichita.
Weide said she did not think the shootings had damaged the credibility of her group. But she said students who were considering joining KU Students for Life might associate the violent tactics of those extremist individuals with her group.
"It's the bad press, publicity and feelings they might get from being associated with these people." Weide said. "So it's really hard on us because it just turns that many more people against us."
Weide said that her group's fundamental belief was the right to life. She said the murder of Gunn and the attempts on other doctors' lives went against that belief.
"These people who are shooting abortion doctors, they're unstable." Weide said. "They really don't understand what the pro-life movement is
"I think by their actions, by screaming in front of the clinics and carrying violent and graphic signs, they encourage it in a real roundabout way," she said.
all about, if they would try to save babies by taking the lives of others. We're not trying to trade one life for another."
But Stephanie Gabriel, Orland, Calif, sophomore and president of the KU Pro-Choice Coalition, said that although many anti-abortion groups have denied involvement in the shootings and harassment, they supported any means by which babies were saved.
Weide said her group focuses on donating time and money to Birthright and Hannah's House, institutions that provide help for unwed mothers.
"By using terrorist tactics, scaring doctors away from doing abortions, closing down clinics all over the country, you're virtually taking away choice, for all practical purposes."
Gabriel said KU Pro-Choice Coalition members volunteered with political campaigns, sponsored letter-writing campaigns, donated money to Planned Parenthood and escorted patients from abortion clinics.
But Gabriel and Weide have one thing in common — finding support for their causes. Both said they hoped to gain that support through public discussion or other nonconfrontational methods.
"That is what democracy is all about—listening to many points of view and hopefully coming up with the right solution," Gabriel said.
Photographs by Doug Hesse
Child care search is stress for students
Campus centers have long wait list
By Katherine S. Barber Special to the Kansan
As finals approached, Galindo's babysitter quit.
For nontraditional students like Maria Galindo, Nueva Rosita, Mexico, the stress of being a parent outweighs the stress of being a student.
Her 4-year-old daughter attends the Hilltop Child Development Center, but there are no openings in the class for her 2-year-old son.
For one week, her brother and a friend alternately watched the boy, but Galindo had no idea who would watch him after that.
The number of students like Galindo is growing. According to the student profile compiled by the Division of Student Affairs Research Committee, the number of student-parents on the Lawrence campus has grown. In 1988, there were 992. In 1992, the number had grown to 1093.
In March Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor, formed a task force to study child care needs of students, faculty, staff and the community.
Ann Eversole, director of the organizations and activities center and associate dean of student life, chairs the committee. She said that in order to fully understand the extent of the problem, the Institute for Public Policy and Business Research would conduct a telephone survey of child care needs in the University community.
Presently, there are child care facilities on campus, such as Hilltop Child
Development Center and the Edna A. Hill Child Development Center in Dole Human Development Center and Haworth Hall. But the waiting lists are long. Hilltop has a waiting list of 171 applicants, which can mean a six-month to a year wait, said Andi Workman, director of Hilltop. On-campus day care is not the only alternative for students. Many put their children in other centers in Lawrence. The KU Dependent Care Referral Service in Carruth O'Leary Hall can help students, faculty, staff and Lawrence residents find child care. The phone number is 864-4648.
The service can give parents a list of facilities that have slots for their child's age group. It is the parents' responsibility to decide whether the facilities meet their criteria for quality, cost, location and transportation availability.
Betty Peterson, coordinator of the referral service, said, "We do the phone calling for them. That in itself is stressful."
Because of the cost of infant care, Linda Kunkle, office assistant in custodial services, had two students a day come and watch her son, Dakota, until he was 7 months old. She paid them a small wage and gave them access to her home. The real benefit to the students was guaranteed study time while Dakota slept.
"We have a lot of good child care in Lawrence, in both centers and home," Cooper said. "But parents still have to really do some sleuthing and make sure that it is good, that it's what they need and that it fits their family situation."
Working to unite a community
Adrian Brown believes in evil.
He says he has seen evil — not in a metaphoric sense, nor in a religious sense.
By Carlos Tejada
Kansan staff writer
He says he has seen it — in the form of racism — on the streets of Lawrence.
"It's not the people," says Brown, student body vice president of Haskell Indian Nations University. "It's more of an evil in the city itself that makes Lawrence what it is."
Mike Jimboy of Lawrence stands in front of City Hall protest the treatment of American Indians in Lawrence during a protest in April.
Photos by Brian James / KANSAN
"To me, that calls up religious images," says Andersen, Lawrence city commissioner. "In my church, we look at evil as 'live' spelled backwards.
Jo Andersen does not believe in evil.
"Iagree with him, but I don't put any demonic element into racism."
Brown and Andersen, both members of the Lawrence community, see the world from different perspectives. But from these two different people — a
Brown and Andersen are members of NALE, Native American Law Enforcement. Their missions, and the missions of the Lawrence American Indian community and the city government, is to reconcile years of mistrust between American Indians and Lawrence law enforcement.
young American Indian student from the Viejas Band of Mission Indians reservation near San Diego and a white resident of Lawrence since 1964 — comes an effort to unite a community that has been divided for as long as most involved can remember.
Between them is a history of miscommunication that Brown
"Who's the mayor here?"
Brownsays. "EvenI don't know."
says has made many American Indians and Haskell students feel distant from the city.
Judy Sevier holds a picture of her brother, Gregg, who was fatally shot by two Lawrence police offi-
See BRIDGING, Page 6B.
not by two Lawrence police officers in April 1991. More than
Historu of distrust
The mayor of Lawrence is John Nalbandian, KU associate professor of public administration, and he says he is frustrated by the
300 people attended the April march in memory of her brother.