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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, March 5, 1991
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Mobile homes get new water mains
Green Acres tenants' association displeased, says the city is not done solving the problem
By Vanessa Furhmans
Kanean etalf writer
City workers finished installing new water main lines at a Lawrence mobile home park yesterday in hopes of helping complaints about lack of water pressure.
However, several tenants of the Green Acres Mobile Home Park, 1045 E. 23rd St., said they still were not planning to replace their interest in replacing the water lines.
Members of the Green Acres Mobile Home Park Tenants' Association plan to attend the Lawrence City
'We just want to give them a big thank you for doing nothing.'
— LeRoy Taylor Green Acres tenant
Commission meeting tonight to give commissioners a progress report on the water pressure at the mobile home park.
"We just want to give them a big thank you for doing nothing," said
LeRoy Taylor, a Green Acres tenant
Rod Bremby, assistant city manager, said that the new 2-inch main lines should have begun operating yesterday.
But some tenants said last night that the new lines still could not be used because water meters had not been installed.
Joann Qandil, co-landlord of the Green Acres Mobile Home Park, said that the lines were ready to use and that several tenants already had
She said tenants had to notify the
water department if they wanted to hook up and then city workers would install a water meter.
But Brebmy said that it was not necessary for individual tenants to notify the water department because the water is usually included in the department included the entire park.
The tenants' association asked the City Commission on Jan. 8 to request that the Green Acres landlords replace the main line Commissioners in order to prevent a collision because they thought it was unclear whether there was a problem.
According to a city staff report, the reason for the poor water pressure was a 3-inch main line, which the officer said would allow to allow adequate water pressure.
The Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department last year advised residents not to drink the water because it contained a promoted the growth of bacteria.
Boe Eye, attorney for the tenants' association, said that association members also might ask the commissioners to revise the current city code, which calls for an adequate police force. The lot. The association also wants the commissioners to apply the code to the present case.
"There is something like a gap in the law protecting the rights of mobile home tenants." Eye said.
Several tenants had complained that they could not wash clothes or take showers because of the low water pressure.
Students propose women's art show to combat sexism
By Benjamin W. Allen
Kansan staff writer
A group of women student artists has raised a mild controversy in the art and design building with its efforts to have an art show dealing with women's issues.
The group, which has no formal name, posted notices two weeks ago for a meeting of all women attending the panting in an all women's art show.
Those notices prompted an anonymous response that said a fictitious all-men's art show had issued because it was considered sexist.
The debate of posted notes continued with another anonymous poster stating facetiously that sexism did not exist in the art world. But it was about the representation of women artists in national galleries.
The note said that 5 percent of the art shown in New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art was created by women artists.
Combatting sexism
Lisa Puneda, Topeka senior and a group member, said the show and the controversy had forced the group to reconsider having an art show featuring only women artists.
This under-representation in the art world is what the women's art group is trying to correct by sponsoring a show open to all artists March 25 through April 7 at Garden, 438 F. Massachusetts St.
"We decided we all had some problems with separatism," she said. "It's been a heated debate in our group."
"There aren't too many opportunities for students to show their art work, and for women, the reality is we don't get shown."
Heather Campbell, Overland Park senior and a group member, said sexism in the art world was a problem.
"There are more women artists, but more men's work is shown," Campbell said.
"A group of friends got together and thought this would be a good idea," she said. "They just hap- tened to talk, and the whole idea is to have equity."
Calls for equality
'We decided we all had some problems with separatism. It's been a heated debate in our group.
Women calling for equal representation in the art world is not new.
- Lisa Purdon
Topeka senior and a group
member
The Guerilla Girls, who call themselves the conscience of the art world, are dedicated to combat racism and racism in the art world.
Last April, two members of a national women's group called the Guerilla Girls spoke at the Spencer Museum of Art.
Jeff Ridway, Lawrence graduate art student, said he thought he knew why the poster about cancelled Martin's men's art show had been put up.
"We all agree sexism is bad and that women often don't get a fair shake, but essentially what was done was to use discrimination to end discrimination," he said about the first poster.
"What would have happened with an all-white-male art show?" he asked.
"I don't disagree with the purpose of the show." Ridgway said. "We are all artists, and we need to be good at art, not good at good art, no matter who makes it."
He said he thought the poster about the all-male art show could have been misinterpreted as threatening because it resembled a ransom note made with cut-out letters.
Purdun said that the all-women's art show began as a simple idea but that it had become complex.
Janet Dreiling, registrar for the Spencer Art Museum, said she thought the current staff of the museum were working women artists in the museum.
"I don't feel we compromised," she said. "We just need to be out promoting ourselves. I just want people to see our work."
She said the primary concern of the museum was to obtain shows that best served the University, and the artists happened to be women.
"We don't separate the artist from the woman," she said.
Michelle L. Myers/KANSAN
Tony Knight, Wichita senior, attaches an Easter bunny to the side of a candle at Waxman Candles, 1405 Massachusetts St. The designs are made by stripping layers of colored wax and leaving molded shapes where needed. A wax cutout of a rabbit then is applied to the still-warm wax.
Hare attachment
Sexually transmitted diseases cause many kinds of problems
By Amy Francis
Kansan staff writer
It does not matter who the people are, what language they speak or what color their skin is. It is what they do that matters.
Anyone is capable of contracting a sexually transmitted disease if exposed to one.
But just as every person who contracts an STD is different, so is each case.
Some of the more widely known
curable STDs are gonorrhea,
syphilis, vaginitis and urinary tract
infection. The two most common are
Chlamydia and Human Papilloma-
virus, also known as venereal warts.
"Some people do not have the symptoms, typical symptoms," said Kathy Guth, charge nurse for the children's school and mental's child planning and STD clinic.
One of the problems with STDs is that people sometimes do not realize they have them.
Another problem is the difficulty involved in diagnosing an STD.
Henry Buck, gynecologist at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said, "It's not a nice, black-and-white issue.
"A lot of times it's in the latent phase. There is not a single test you can run to say you've got an STD or a tremendous amount of variation."
"You need to look down the road," Buck said. "It's not something you just come in right afterward for testing."
There also is variation in the amount of time it takes for an STD to develop.
"You can have bacteria and viruses there in lower doses and not have an infection."
could last six months or longer, while the period for syphilis could last from 10 to 90 days.
Guth said the HPV latency period
The types of treatments used and the amount of time needed for them also depend on the individual.
Buck said tetracycline usually was taken for seven to 10 days to cure Chlamydia. If the patient cannot use oral medicine, other medications are available.
Guth said Doxycycline was the usual form of prescribed tetracycline used to cure Chlamydia.
Buck said HPV lesions could be removed by lasers, freezing or chemical application. A topical anaesthetic or oral sedative usually is used to help reduce the discomfort caused by those methods.
Guth said that treatment did not necessarily last longer just because a person had a more advanced case but that sometimes it did.
Buck said the bottom line was that people should try to prevent the contraction of an STD.
Group will voice views in Topeka
By Eric Nelson
Kansan staff writer
Brad Eaden, an employee at Watson Library and classified senator, said classified employees were tired of being left until the end of the legislative session before being allotted any financing.
"We're usually left to the end of every legislative session when there is nothing left," he said.
Classified employees at KU are hoping their voices will be heard when they rally in Topeka this afternoon.
Peggy Baker, German department employee and classified senator, said, "We feel we're getting the leftovers."
Eden said the legislature seemed to focus on the issues of the baby-boom generation, like social security and health care.
"Legislators tend to focus on those issues to the exclusion of others," he said.
Carol Dressler, president of the classified senate, said that besides an 11.30 a.m. picket front of the Statehouse, eight to 10 classified employees would meet with legislators, including State Sens. Wint Winter Jr., R.-Lawrence; Gus Bogina, R.Shawnee; chairperson of the Ways and Means committee; and Christopher Lawrence, chairperson of Lawrence; and George Teagarden, D-LCYgne, chairperson of the Abpropriations committee.
Eden said that some legislators from western Kansas were removed from the needs of higher education and that many legislators were tired of hearing faculty and administration complaints.
"They're tired of it in Topeka," he said.
Dressler said the current financial situation for the University looked grim.
"What has happened to higher education is a great concern to all classified employees," she said.
Classified employee concerns focus on cost-of-living increases in salary, Dressler said. The national level is 6 percent. Gov. Joan Finney requested a $1½-percent increase at mid-year.
She said that the Legislature still had to pass the request and that even if it did pass, the increase would not be significant in paychecks until February 1992.
Eden said he doubted that the request would pass through the Legislature.
"Every time we get something, they want to take it back," Eden said.
Dressler and Eden said longevity pay, an added payment to employees who have been at their job for several years, would be eliminated.
Dressler said another program in jeopardy was the plan for reclassification of employee statewide, originally scheduled to be completed in June 1982.
"It would raise those positions to a salary level that was comparable with other states and in the private sector," she said.
Dressler said she expected more than 40 people to attend the rally.
She hoped some representatives from other places, including Emporia State University and the Regents Center in Overland Park, would attend. The group will carry letters from Fort Hays State University.
She said the employees were sacrificing their vacation time to make the trip.
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Eden said that he doubted the day would lead to any change because of the current financial strain.
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