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Thursday, February 24, 1977
University Dafly Kansan
Citizens $ ^{7} $ goal is safe community
To get people to do more than just worry about rapes, residents of one Lawrence neighborhood are working to make their neighborhood safer.
The area, comprising the 1000 to 1400 blocks of Ohio St. and the 1100 to 1400 blocks of Louisiana St., has recently been the scene of two ranes — the last Feb. 12.
Julie Gordon, assistant dean of women who lives at 1227 Ohio St., said yesterday that after the Feb. 12 rape several neighbors had taken their photos, 10 to get acquainted with each other.
The main reason for the meeting was to learn neighbors' faces, she said. The residents always just find out who lives in the yellow house on the corner."
GORDON SAID the residents were leaving on their porch lights and were circulating a petition to obtain more street lights for Ohio and Louisiana streets, which
"We don't want it to look like New York," Gordon said. "We want it light, but not too bright."
One neighborhood woman is designing a sticker for residents to put in their windows.
Gordon said the neighborhood now "almost has an escort system."
Some of the houses don't have porch, neither the said, and their residents may try to get a new one.
'SOMEONE WHO has a night class can
'Talk to a neighbor and say 'Hey, I'm going
Most of the people who attended the meeting were women. Gordon said that perhaps men must didn't care as much as everybody that he was sure to get everybody in the neighborhood together.
up on the hill tomorrow night—would you like to walk with me?” she said.
At the first meeting, the Rape Victim Support Service (RVS) presented a film by one of its members who lives on Louisiana Street. Poppy Petit.
SPEAKER, Lauren Cape, Lawrence senior and RVSS member who lives on Ohio Street, said the organization would be glad to show the film to any neighborhood organization.
Conviction not cause of magazine's recall
By JIM MURRAY
Staff Reporter
Hustler magazine is no longer available in Lawrence, but not because of publisher Larry Flynt's recent conviction on obscurity and conspiracy charges in Ohio.
THE AREA around Ohio and Louisiana streets is known as an easy mark for rapists, Cape said, because many students live there and many women from GSP-Corbin Residence Walks to taverns or to night classes through that area.
Bev Noyes, manager of the Town Crief,
930 Massachusetts St., recently said the
store's distributor, Palmer News Co., Inc.
Topkea, had recalled all air-conditioners
even though the magazine was a good seller, it apparently
hadn't been missed.
"Not many people asked about it after it went of the said. "Not as many as I was when I said."
Rerry Tolle of Palmer News said that Trump's plan for economic reasons before Flint's convulsions
"IT WAS strictly a business decision to call back the magazine," Nola said.
Nolte said that before Flynt's conviction, the Flynt Distribution Co., which sold the magazine to wholesalers such as Palmer News, had made several demands on wholesalers about how to distribute. He said Palmer News added the demands so much 'hard' and economically unprofitable, so it decided to stop distributing Hustler.
He said that because Rustler was sold on a guaranteed sale basis, Palmer News recalled all distributed copies of the February issue, and returned them to Flynt Distribution Co. to get its money back. He said it never received the March issue.
NOLTE SAID that Flynt hadn't made any demands about his other magazine, Chic, and that Palmer would continue to distribute it.
Note emphasized that Flynn's conviction
seems to the decision not to
distribute Hassler.
"We do not censor the magazines we distribute," he said. "We have no legal right to publish."
JESSE SADI, "It's clear that the jury was angry" as Flint and Hunt, and was wasted in a trial where they were
"Our neighborhood organization is one of the most positive things to happen yet, instead of people just sitting around talking about the rape that happened." Cape said. Gordon agreed that her neighborhood was known as an easy mark.
The circumstances of Fynt's conviction raised several legal questions, according to Paul Jess, associate professor of journalism who teaches communications law.
Three other Hustler executives, including Plyn's father and brother, were acquitted on charges.
The conspiracy charge was more of a distribution charge, yet people more central to the distribution were acquitted, and Flynt was convicted."
Jess said another charge, that of engaging in organized crime, raised other charges.
Jess said he couldn't explain how Flynt alone had been convicted on both charges when the law says a minimum of five people must be involved.
The sentence Flynt received also raises a constitutional question. Jess said.
The residents are transients, so they never get to know each other and don't worry much about the upkeep of their homes, she said.
"The fine line ($1,100) is not unusual, but the sentence of 7-25 years probably can be challenged on eight amendment grounds—that it is cruel and unusual punishment," he said. "I think the sentence is terribly severe."
Jess said that cases like this were the result of the Supreme Court returning obscurity rulings to the states and their community standards.
"This causes problems because it leaves variations and uncertain standards in publishing for national publishers and distributors," he said.
People on their way to the Jayhawk Cafe and the Wagon Wheel Cafe, taverns in the area, often scream and make noise, she said.
and.
*BESIDES wishing they'd realize that
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THURSDAY, FEB. 24
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this is a residential neighborhood, I wish they'd stop screaming because we can't tell when someone's really in trouble." Gordon said.
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Kathy Hoggard, director of the KU Information Center and RVSS member, said the center had received several calls asking whether there had been many rapes in the
The only recent reaps in Lawrence, Hoggard said, were Feb. 12, when a woman was abducted from 1135 Ohio St. and raped by an employee and Jan. 30 in the same Ohio Street area.
*Wywe hope this will help other com-
munities get them involved.*
She said she hoped the stickers would be designed and the petitions signed by that
The neighborhood organization's next meeting is 6:30 p.m. on March 1, at 1080 Oak St. Gordon said she encouraged anyone meeting to march 3 and missed the first meeting to attend.
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TABLE TENNIIS: All-campus Tournament planned for sometime in April.
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