CAMPUS/AREA
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, November 29, 1993
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Common sense the key to safety at bars, parties
By Chesley Dohl
Kansan staff writer
College can be the best place for people to find the perfect match. It may never be easier for students to find someone the same age with similar interests.
But that search can be a dangerous, especially for women.
Alice Ann Lieberman, professor of social welfare, said there were different reasons that women were more likely to find themselves in awkward and dangerous social situations than men.
"Roles are ambiguous as to the way men and women act in social situations," she said. "It used to be that it wasn't cool for women to be socially aggressive, but that is somewhat changing."
Lieberman said another reason was that men are physically larger and can overpower women.
So how can students have fun be safe in social situations?
It is not true that people can be too careful. Lieberman said.
"If you have any qualms at all about an individual or their actions, don't go with them," she said. "Don't do it. Don't take any chances. It's your life at stake."
Students should stay in groups and go with their gut instincts about people. Lieberman said.
"People who are younger don't feel mortality like older people do," she said. "They think they're invincible to hurt and tragedy."
Dave Breo, Chicago senior and bartender, said it was common to see men and women meeting and exchanging telephone numbers for the first time at Johnny's Bar and Grill. 401 N. Second St.
"It seems like all people do from
Breo said he did not know whether people who had just met always left Johnny's together.
1:30 on is ask for pens and paper," he said.
Sgt. Rose Rozmiarek of the KU police, said social safety was different with each individual.
"I watch guys strike on out girls using some cheesy line," he said. "But then it'll work on another woman. At the end of the night, usually they end up walking toward the door together."
"I can't say what's right or wrong," she said. "Everyone has their own behavior and personal preference in handling situations."
But she said social safety at bars and parties was a matter of common sense.
"Students are not too trusting, but they let their guards down," she said. "You have to be aware of the circumstances and the situation at all times."
Alcohol may play an important role in the safety and the outcome of a night out, said Barbara Ballard, director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center.
"People aren't themselves after they've been drinking," she said. "Everyone needs to know what their drinking limits are."
There is always the chance that something bad will happen, Ballard said.
"In a nutshell, don't leave with a
total stranger," she said.
Instead, Ballard said it was good to exchange phone numbers.
"If he doesn't call you back, then maybe there was something more on the mind of that person in the first place than a sincere interest in you," she said
Center uses seminars to educate about rape
By Carlos Tejada
Kansan staff writer
Fifteen percent of female students at the University of Kansas have experienced acquaintance rape, according to the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center.
Of those, only one in 10 have reported it. the center savs.
Barbara Ballard, associate dean of student life and director of the center, said a lack of education among college students contributed to the numbers.
"They come to college, and they experience lots of things," she said. "Alcohol is one of them. Sex is one of them. Living on their own is one of them."
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Such concerns were the motivating factors behind the creation three years ago of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Education Program. The program, an extension of the center, tries to educate students about acquaintance and date rape. Ballard said.
"You don't deserve to be sexually assaulted," she said. "We try to get that message out."
The program provides speakers and workshops for residence halls, scholarship halls, fraternities, sororities and other groups. The workshops are intended to instruct students about acquaintance rape, which is forced or manipulated sexual intercourse by somebody the victim knows.
"You might be somewhat willing to participate in romance," Ballard said. "But maybe you draw the line at having intercourse. Some people don't stop, and you
Date rape help
The Sexual Assault Prevention and Education Program provides programs about acquaintance rape for no charge. For more information about the program, call 864-3600 from 8 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
might be afraid, or you might be intoxicated. That says it was rape."
"It doesn't take much to ask, 'Is this okay?' " she said. "And if you have any doubts, don't do it."
Ballard said the lessons also were aimed at men, so they could avoid causing acquaintance rape.
No scientific way can prove whether the program is effective in preventing rape, Hickman said, but the amount of audience participation showed that students were interested in learning.
Susan Hickman, graduate assistant for the program, said the workshops provided a way for students to get information about acquaintance rape that they might not find in any other place.
"It's hard to get the information out there," she said. "This is one way to get it out to the students who need it."
"An amazing number of people have stories about friends and acquaintances who have been raped," Hickman said.
To participate, living groups must contact the program, Hickman said.
Roger Kaesler, director of the KU Museum of Invertebrate Paleontology, sits among fossils of fusulinids in Lindley Hall. The museum received the fossils from Shell Western Exploration and Production, Inc. three weeks ago.
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'Irreplaceable' sea fossils donated to KU museum
Acquisition provides link to Earth's past
Kansan staff writer
By Kathleen Stolle
Kenneth staff writer
Stored like corpses in little wooden coffins, the fossil remains of 25,000 fusulinids rest in the bowels of Lindley Hall.
But Roger Kaesler, director of the KU Museum of Invertebrate Paleontology, is not in mourning.
The fossil collection consists of single-cell sea organisms, which the oil company used in determining the age of rocks to find drilling sites.
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"It's absolutely irreplaceable," he said of the recently acquired collection.
The museum received the fossil collection of long extinct single-celled sea organisms three weeks ago from Shell Western Exploration and Production, Inc. The oil company used the fossils, which indicate the age of rocks in which they are found, in selecting oil well drilling sites.
The collection is invaluable not only for its usefulness in research, but also because the fossils were extracted during drilling, a costly procedure, Kaesler said.
Kaesler said he had had his eye on the collection for about 20 years, but the oil company was using it until only recently.
"They're doingmore foreign and offshore exploration and less exploration in areas covered by this collection," he said.
Kaesler, who is also a professor of geology, said the collection was available to anyone and will be used in his spring semester course on microfossils. Researchers studying geographic history also may tap the collection
as a resource.
"We're not interested in finding oil, but we're still interested in finding the geologic history of the earth," he said.
Fusulinids meet the criteria needed in fossils to help determine rock age. Kaesler said. They evolved rapidly, they are easily identifiable and
they are found throughout the world and in different environments. The ones in the collection came from throughout the Midwest.
About the size of a grain of wheat, each fusulinid shell is extracted from the rock in which it is embedded. A thin section then is sliced from the shell and affixed to a glass slide. Under ammicroscope, the collection of chambers in the fusulinid shell
resemble kaleidoscope images to the untrained eye.
The single-celled organisms lived in the seas from about 325 million years ago to about 245 million years ago before dying out completely, Kaesler said.
"About 95 percent of all species went extinct and nobody knows why that happened," he said.
Alice Hart, a geologist in the museum, said that no organisms evolved from the fusulinids and their role in the ocean was minimal.
"They were lower in the food chain and would have been consumed by larger organisms," she said.
Millions of years later, however, the role in KU may bring the Univer-
ity international attention. Hart said she was helping enter details about the collection into a computer data base. Researchers throughout the world could learn about the collection by computer and request to borrow portions for study, Hart said.
The new acquisition may bolster the reputation of the museum, which is one of three in the United States designated as fusulinids repositories, Hart said.
"It's always nice to expand on something that's one of your strengths to begin with," she said.
The collection is the second-largest collection of fusulinids at the museum. A collection of 35,000 fusulinids was donated by another petroleum company several years ago.
Science library temporarily extends hours
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New hours, which went into effect yesterday, will extend the usual midnight closing time at the science library to 2 a.m. Sundays through Thursdays until Dec. 16, said Mary Hawkins, assistant dean of University libraries.
Late-night studiers at Anschutz Science Library will have an extra 10 hours a week to prepare for their fall finals.
Friday hours will remain from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Hawkins said. Saturday hours will remain from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
No staff-assisted library services, including circulation and reference desks, will be available during the daily two-hour extension, Hawkins said.
Nominations open for teaching awards
David Shulenburger, vice掌cancellor for academic affairs, is accepting nominations for two teaching awards.
The Distinguished Teaching Award is designated for full-time tenured faculty. The Silver Anniversary Teaching Award is designated for full-time faculty who have taught for less than seven years.
Faculty members may be nominated by any student, student organization, alumnus, faculty member or professional school.
Nominations should be letters stating why the nominee deserves the award. The deadline for nominations is Dec. 20.
Computers track stolen permits
Brife compiled from Kensan staff reports.
By Shan Schwartz
Kansan staff writer
The new hanging parking permits may be easy to steal, but both the Parking Department and KU police want thieves to know that using a stolen permit can be self-incriminating and costly.
Both departments have had some success in finding stolen parking permits this fall.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking, said that when a parking permit was stolen, the permit owner should report the theft to the police. Then, the owner can obtain a new permit for $3 and the parking department enters the old permit number into its computer as stolen.
Hultine said parking officers periodi-
hally had been searching random lots
for stolen permits. Officers check parked cars and enter the permit numbers into the computer. If the number from a stolen permit is entered, the computer indicates to the officer that the permit has been reported stolen.
Hultine said that at least one permit had been found this year by the random searches. She said the search for stolen permits would be easier and faster next year after the department had purchased electronic scanners that would read bar codes on the permits.
Hultine said that when a car was found with a parking permit that had
KU Police Sgt. Rose Rozmiarek said that 39 parking permits had been reported stolen this school year, and three permits have been recovered by the KU police department.
been reported stolen, the car was towed and the owner fined $25 by the parking department for display of a stolen permit.
Parking would notify the KU police department, Hultine said. KU police also would impound the vehicle so both the police and the parking department would have to approve the release of the car by the towing company.
Before the car owner gets permission to retrieve the car, the visit to the police station could lead to criminal charges.
"They would probably at least be charged with possession of stolen property, " Rozmiarek said.
Additional charges were possible, Rozmiarek said, but each case would be handled differently depending on the circumstances.