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Thursday, December 2,1976
University Daily Kansan
Few request night escort service
By DAVID JOHNSON
Staff Writer
Three years ago, if a female student at the University of Kansas wanted an escort to drive her to a night class on campus, she could call a number and a ride would be provided. Today, no such campuswide service exists.
An informal escort service does operate within the scholarship halls, however.
In October, women in Sellards Hall requested that 10 men from Pearson Hall serve as escorts to girls in the scholarship halls.
ONE ESCORT, Greg Hamel, Concordia
enior, said recently that his only call came
from a girl who wanted an escort to the
library. He said he hadn't heard of any
people about the service, which he
estimated had been used six to eight times
this semester.
Cynthia Fequay Puntenney, director of Doutheast Hall, said, "The escort service is not used a whole lot, but it's kind of a nice security thing to know it there."
Responding to a rash of assaults on campus in late 1972, 25 members of the Pershing Rifles Unit of the Army ROTC formed "Operation Escort" in January 1973. Women wanting escorts onto campus at night simply called a number at the military science building, and a unit member drove her to her destination.
ORIGINALLY limited to girls living on campus, the service eventually expanded to include areas from Iowa to Massachusetts streets and from Ninth to 23rd streets.
Donald Alderson, acting vice chancellor for student affairs, said that the escort service was implemented because of at least 10 deaths incurred from November 1972 to March 1974.
SHANNON MOORE, commander of the Pershing Rifles Unit, said the service was discontinued in fall 1937 because "the size of the unit dropped so dramatically."
He said the night bus service and the installation of emergency telephones last summer could cut down the number of assaults.
Although the unit received $2,200 for expenses from the Student Senate in fall 1973, membership in the unit dropped from demand; demand for the services also declined.
Moore said she hadn't heard any demands for starting a new service, although membership in the rifles unit has gone up to nine active members and 28 pledges.
Mike Hill, lieutenant of the KU Police Department, said an escort service wasn't needed because there weren't many
assaults on campus. Records of assaults by strangers aren't keep separate from other assault records, making it difficult to trace an assault or record of assaults an escort service would deter.
POLICE OFFICERS occasionally give students rides onto campus at night when they request them, Hill said, but it isn't a normal practice.
Kathy Hoggard, director of the Information Center and a staff member of the Douglas County Rape Victim Support Service, said that she couldn't remember receiving many requests at the Information Center for an escort service.
"I think the students at the University have enough concern for one another that if an escort service were needed, we would start one," Hoggard said.
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WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE IF:
—Our finest actors weren't allowed to act.
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IT WOULD BE LIKE AMERICA IN 1953.
Students honor profs
Mortar Board selects 10 professors, five of whom are honored in the fall and five in the spring.
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Five University of Kansas professors have been recognized for excellence in teaching by the KU Torch Chapter of Mortar Board, whose members reviewed nominations by students to make the selection.
The professors are Margaret Byrne, professor of speech and drama; Karlin Campbell, professor of speech and drama; Russell Gellert, assistant professor of speech; Nicholas Cox, professor of physical education; and Phillip Palatian, associate professor of history.
MORTAR BOARD is a senior honor society, which annually recognizes outstanding professors as a way of expressing satisfaction with excellence in teaching.
An organizational meeting will be held Mon., Dec.6 at 5:00 p.m. in Room 205 Robinson Gym For more information contact Recreational Services, Room 208 Robinson Gym. 864-3546.
BYRNE is the Second woman to be awarded a Fulbright Award in 1970 and the recipient of the hearing and speech department at the University of Kansas Medical Center from 1961 to 1970
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Getter received the Hill teacher award for outstanding teacher in 1973. He was an organizer of the National Dairymen's Association and is the author of seven books.
Campbell was a seminalist in who's YOSEH award. She is listed in Who's In American Women and did a series of lectures on the subject, which were broadcast on the Pacific network.
OSNESSE SPECIALTY is cardiovascular fitness. He was named a fellow in the American College of Sports Medicine in 1971 and received an honorary award from the medicinal college in 1972, in recognition of his selective of the National Association for Sports and Physical Education.
ranadun received the Elizabeth Watkins summer fellowship in 1969 and the American Council of Learned Societies study fellowship in 1973-74. He also was a fellow in law and history at Harvard from 1973 to 1974. He was coordinator of a radio program on KANU in 1974-75 (called "History in Today's World."
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