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Friday, April 12, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
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"Run For Your Life"
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION
Proudly presents:
THE 39th INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF NATIONS
COME SEE THE WORLD!!! APRIL 12TH, 1991
--elected as the assistant presiding officer of the body.
--elected as the assistant presiding officer of the body.
Country display festival-9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Lawn between Stauffer-Flint and Wescoe halls
International Variety Show and Dance
7:00 p.m. to 1:45 a.m.-Kansas Union Ballroom
(Tickets available at the door-$3.00)
Justin Knupp/Special to the KANSAN
Car flip
Lawrence Emergency Services workers inspect an overturned car that went off the road yesterday afternoon near the intersection of Ninth Street and Emery Road. The driver, William Harrison, Minneapolis junior, was treated at the scene, then taken by ambulance to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, where he was treated and released with no serious injuries.
Date rape often difficult to prosecute, lawyers say
By Nedra Beth Randolph
When the accused pleads not guilty, all the prosecution has to use in its case, outside of any physical evidence, is the alleged victim's word versus the perpetrator's word, she said.
Kansan staff writer
The prosecution of date rape is difficult because convictions often hinge on credibility battles between a victim and the alleged victim, experts said.
Chris Kenney, Douglas County district assistant attorney, said there were two significant obstacles in prosecuting date rape cases.
The other problem arises when the accused claims the accuser agreed to have sex.
"You have to prove to a jury of 12 people that you didn't consent," Kenney said.
According to a Senate Judiciary Committee report issued last month, the number of raped reported annually was 100,000 for the first time in 1990.
Nationally, at least 60 percent of all reported sex crimes are classified as acquaintance or date rapes.
'Our society still does a lot of victim blaming in the crime of rape. This is much more prevalent in aquaintance rapes than in "stranger rapes." '
Mark Brothers, Lawrence police representative, said that in 1990, 24 reports of rape or attempted rape in Lawrence were filed.
Denise Snyder
Title Director of a rape crisis center
in Washington, D.C.
But he said a large number of the rape reports proved not to be rapes.
"We have had everything from totally false reports to reports that proved not to be rapes and were tortured," Mr. Hancock said at the edge of sexual battery." Brothers said.
Lawrence police officer Ernest Gwin said rape cases were more difficult to prosecute than sexual battery cases. The victim's past can be used as evidence in a rape case but not in a sexual battery case.
Rape is a felony, and sexual battery is a misdemeanor.
Denise Snyder, director of a rape crisis center in Washington, D.C., said, "Our society still does a lot of victim blaming in the crime of rape and is much more precluded in acquaintances rapes than in Stranger rapes."
She said that police and prosecutors often responded to acquaintance rape by blaming the victim.
No one knows how many rapes go unreported, but Snyder said that law enforcement officials were told about only one in 10 rapes. Of the reported incidents, some — some estimate fewer than 5 percent — result in criminal trials
Snyder said FBI statistics showed no higher percentages of false reports for rape than any other crime.
But Rikki Klieman, a Boston defense lawyer who also has prosecured rape cases, said the accused was wrongly convicted on the woman's word alone.
Kleman said acquaintance-rape complaints often ended up a credibility contest
"To think the system today is lifted against alleged victims is nonsense," she said.
"The most frightening case, from the defense point of view, is what I call the 'You should have sent her flowers' in case, in which a respectable man meets a woman, sleeps with her and then doesn't pursue her. Next he knows, he's being accused of rage," she said.
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
University Council chooses new officers
Kansan staff report
At yesterday's University Council meeting, Frances Ingemann, professor and chairperson of linguistics, was appointed officer for the 1991-92 academic year.
Ingemann served as the chairperson of Senate Executive Committee during the past year.
Greg Hughes, Merriam junior, was
Also elected were the six new members of SenEx. They are Elizabeth Banks, associate professor of classics; Tom Beiseker, associate professor of communications; Bezael Benjamin, professor of architectural engineering; Nancy Dahl, assso-
ciate professor of physical cell biology, Anita Herzfeld, professor of Latin American studies; and Ellen Ward, professor of law.
Student representatives will be Hughes and Roger Ross, Iola senior
The new SenEx members then elected Beisecker as chairperson and Hughes as assistant chairperson.
KU Students Against Hunger Declares War On Hunger!
War on Hunger Week 1991
Balloon
Launch
Picnic
Campanile Hill
2-4 p.m.
Picnic, Live Jazz, Win
a hot air balloon ride!
Art Exhibit
Stauffer-Flint Lawn
Multi-Media Display
Hunger Olympics
Fraser Lawn
Different events each day
Art Exhibit
Stauffer-Flint Lawn
Multi-Media Display
Hunger Olympics
Fraser Lawn
Different events each day
Art Exhibit
Stauffer-Flint Lawn
Multi-Media Display
Hunger Olympics Fraser Lawn Different events each day
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Hunger Olympics
Fraser Lawn Different events each day
Hunger Olympics
Fraser Lawn Different events each day
Saturday
Spring Softball Scramble
24 team co-ed tournament
$20 entry fee
For more information on any of the Hunger Week 1991 events, call:
Jay 842-8170
Leslie 865-4023
Sunday
Hunger Run
5K & 16K runs
$10 fee w/l-t shirt
call R.J. 749-9596
World Hunger
Awareness
Dinner
$2/person
call Jessica 864-5971
Join the Fight !