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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 17, 1991
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Ribbons fade, but war support goes on
By Nedra Beth Randolph
Kansan staff writer
The few yellow ribbons that are still on campus have faded.
The pro-troop rallies and peace protests have ceased.
With most of the gulf-war hape game, the community has returned to its roots.
For those who still have friends and relatives stationed in the Persian Gulf, the fighting may be over, but the waiting continues.
Scott Rutherford, Fort Riley
junior, is one of those who commutes to New York City.
Rutherford's father is currently stationed in southern Iraq. His mother is in Germany waiting for her husband to return.
"I get letters from my father about once a week now," he said. "The letters are about two weeks old, and the letters are less frequent, so sometimes it's pretty confusing."
Rutherford said he expected his father to be transferred back to Germany in late June or early July. He does not know when his parents will be transferred back to the United States.
Brady Hughes, Rock Springs, Wyo. junior, also is waiting for family to come back from the war.
His older brother, Matt Hughes, is a bomb expert for the Army. He has been disarming Seacons missiles since his retirement to the Gulf last November.
"I don't know exactly when he will come back, but it may be in June." Huey spoke.
Brady Hughs, who served in the Army for four years, said he wished he could have gone to war with his brother.
One of Hughes' instructors in Army ROTC, Capt. Virgil Woolridge, also is still in the gulf.
Maj. Steve Johnson, professor of
military science, said Woolridge was deployed to Saudi Arabia in late January with the 1st Infantry Division.
"In his last letter, he said he didn't know when he would be re-deployed." Johnson said "But there is a chance he will return in mid-
Johnson said two reservists enrolled in the ROTC program also were called to the gulf. They have not returned to U.S. soil either.
David Laebert, Paola senior, said
a good friend who was in the
midst of a death.
Luebbert reservist John Noltnemeyer was a KU student when he was called to serve in January. He is working at a prisoner-of-war camp
"He was supposed to be in a wedding in August with me," he said. "But we're still trying to figure out if he back in time for the wedding."
By Nedra Beth Randolph
Support groups will remain intact
Kansan staff writer
Dwayne DeSylvia, Windsor, Colo., senior, co-founded Support Our Soldiers in January along with the troops in Iraq and in the soldiers serving in the war effort.
With U.S. involvement in the Persian Gulf winding down, some campus and area groups are left with little to do.
"We're still a registered campus group, but we haven't really done anything for a while," said Cayla, Salina junior.
Caylor said that although the group did not have anything planned for the near future, the soldiers were there in an event that recognized soldiers who
"If the city throws a parade, we definitely will be there," he said.
served in the war.
Even though the group has no plans for the rest of the semester, it does for next year.
"They want us to help recognize the soldiers who were in the gulf," he said.
Caylor, who was in the Navy for three years, said the Athletic Department had asked Support Our Soldiers to help plan a half-time ceremony during a football game this fall.
The plans include having a band play at half time and possibly having military airplanes fly by the stadium.
Janice Nesler-Loux, founder of
Kansans in support, said the local soldier-support group also did not have any activities planned for the rest of the semester.
"We aren't having more rallies because most of the guys are home now," she said. "Right now we're just laying low."
Voice, a campus peace group, has changed direction but has not slowed down.
Last month, the group decided to focus on issues such as the effect of the Persian Gulf War on the environment and violence against Arabs.
Scott MacWilliams, Lawrence senior, said at a Voice meeting last month. "The really hard part of the peace movement starts now."
Forum urges more Indian recruitment
Kansan staff writer
By Jonathan Plummer Kansan staff writer
Not only is KU recruitment of American Indians a problem, but the retention of the students once they left was forgotten, panelists said last night
At a forum sponsored by University Scholarship Halls for Ethnic Studies, about 25 people gathered to discuss the importance of American Indians in the Lawrence area.
The speakers were Ann Weick,
dean of social welfare, Cavely
Smith, president of Native American
Student Association, and Teri Martin,
a liaison between Haskell Indian
 College and the KU office of
admissions.
Smith said that when he graduated from Haskell he was puzzled that KU did not significantly recruit him or other Haskell students to stay in Lawrence and continue their schooling.
Weick said American Indian students who attended KU often had to fend off the attack.
“When we have students capable of going to any university in America, I ask, ‘Why isn't KU on the bandwagon to recruit these students?’” he said. “He asked cultural diversity, and sometimes I am afraid it's just about numbers.”
Smith said he began to question whether he wanted to attend KU and whose students in his class say American Indian cultures offered nothing to society.
"What happens when people get here is an area that a lot of people need to look at," she said. "Providing ongoing support, making sure they are satisfied, providing the opportunity for social exchange is a very critical point."
"If one person says something like that, you wonder how many other students don't know." he said.
Martin said that American Indian students might not take the first step in initiating friendships with students from outside their culture and that other students should reach out to them.
"Because of connotations of the community or stigmas placed on them, the Native American student was often a great greet student," she said.
"There is a need for education with every culture. If we can facilitate the teaching of other cultures in the University, then the first thing you should do is to color it, it's going to be a face of someone you may want to meet."
Philip Meiring/KANSAN
Lawrence police and emergency personnel prepare to lift Matt Roberts, Overland Park freshman, onto a backboard near 1008 Emery Road after he lost control of his motorcycle. Roberts was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital where he received more than 20 stitches in his leg before being released. Roberts was the second motorist within a week to lose control of his vehicle on the winding stretch of Emery Road south of Ninth Street.
Motorcycle accident
Bill Resnick and Jennifer Ansley, Lawrence seniors, participate in a candlelight vigil in front of City Hall as part of GALA Week.
Anti-gay violence is rising, speaker says
She does. But her job is also to anecdotally reconstruct who the victims were.
By Lara Gold
Woman sees society as source of abuse
Kansan staff writer
"People are so numbed by statistics; "she said.
Suzanne Pharr sometimes thinks that she spends her days only counting bullets in dead bodies.
"Violence against women is connected to violence against gay men and lesbians," she said to about 70 people at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union as part of Gay and Lesbian Awareness Week.
Statistics show that biased crimes against women, lesbians and gays are rising sharply, said Pharr, who founded an organization that monitors bias-related violence.
She said that incidents of racism, anti-Semitism, ageism and sexism also were increasing.
"We as lesbians and gay men live with the constant threat of violence against us." Pharr said.
She said, however, that women had been conditioned since birth to accept violence as part of a society that was controlled by white heterosexual males.
"Gay men are hated because they are seen as women or being like women," she said.
A lesbian woman is even more hated and prone to be attacked, because she can live independently of men. Pharr said.
"There is so much permission to hate women," she said. "Violence against women comes directly from men's power and control."
But her work shows that the connection of violence against gay men and women goes deeper.
Women and gay men are often brutally killed, she said.
She described the similarities between killings as "overkill," where the victim was not stabbed once but doomed to times or was severely mutilated.
"We have found striking similarities in the way women and gay men are killed," she said.
"Gay men are devalued in the same way lesbians and heterosexual women are," she said.
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She said visibility was the key to combating the violence.
"We need to use our portion of strategy to be queerer than queer," she said. "The more visible we are as lesbians and gay men, the more we threaten white heterosexual male power and control."
Lori Irving, Lawrence graduate student should be the status quo should be challenged
"I think we are brought up not to question the power structure," she said.
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