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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, December 5, 1990
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Legislature may consider amendment on education
Bv Carol Krekeler
Kansan staff writer
The Legislature might consider another education amendment proposal in the 1991 session that would create a governing board specifically for community colleges and vocational schools.
State Sen. Dave Kerr, R-Hutchinson, chairperson of the Joint Committee on Economic Development, yesterday said the committee had studied the quality of the Kansas work force and had decided that students should college education within schools needed more attention from the state.
Community colleges and vocational schools are governed by the State Board of Education, which also oversees higher education in maryland and secondary school levels.
"It is our feeling that they have been neglected by the Board of Education because they are more concerned about K through 12," Kerr said.
Senate Minority Leader Mike Johnston, D-Parsons, who proposed an education amendment that failed on this year's ballot, said he had not heard about the economic committee's proposal.
He said the proposal was a step in the right direction because the Legislature needed to restructure many aspects of the state education system.
"I think that this is hopeful, but I don't think it goes far enough," Johnston said.
The education amendment proposal on November's ballot, which Johnston introduced during the 1990 session, attempted to remove references to the Board of Education and the Board of Regents from the Kansas Constitution.
The new amendment proposal must have the support of two-thirds of the Legislature before it can go to the voters.
"Ideally the community colleges would be better off on their own," he said. "Until that day takes place, we will have to train under the Board of Education."
Bill Spencer, president of Kansas City Community College, said the Kansas Association of Community Colleges had drafted an official statement that said community colleges wanted to govern themselves.
Spencer, who also is a member of the Governor's Commission on Reform of Educational Governance, said the commission might recommend to the 1991 Legislature that no educational program be in the state's educational structure.
Brian T. Schoeni/KANSAN
Flames leap around the chimney of a 150-year-old farmhouse just south of Haskell Avenue and 31st Street. The house, rented by Kevin and Susan Barnes, burned to the ground about 1 a.m. today. The Barnes escaped with their three dogs but lost everything they owned in the fire. "We were lucky to get out with our lives," Susan Barnes, 23, said. "We were asleep when the smoke made me cough. I put on my ducky slippers and my sweat pants and grabbed a couple of blankets." Officials thought faulty wiring caused the fire. No damage estimate was available.
Up in flames
Women's group founder fights for others as she fights for self
Kristin Lange, one of the founders of Women's Student Union, has been accused of hating all men.
Kansan staff writer
By Monica Mendoza
As she sits comfortably at a table in the Kansas Union, she has her legs crossed and holds a Camel Light in her right hand. She speaks confidently and sometimes hangs on to certain syllables.
"I'm often surprised at how some men are in touch with women's feelings," she savs.
Every now and then, Lange's eyes shift from left to right. She apologizes for the lack of eye contact, but as she continues to speak, little by little she reveals who she is
"I remember being in the rotunda of Strong Hall," she said. "Someone from Black Men of Today said, 'OK, who can come in?' I was a girl. You never did."
Without a second thought, Lange stood up.
More than 350 students filled Strong Hall last spring at a protest that was sparked when a woman delivering a pizza said a member of a fraternity struck her and uttered a racial insult.
Lange said that I run the first time he had heard of the incident, she perceived it as violence against a woman. She didn't know that her spontaneous reaction would become a long-term commitment.
She pauses a moment before explaining the source of her energy.
"Looking back now, I have no idea why I did it," she savs.
Kristin Lange, pictured during a campus protest, is the founder of the KU Women's Student Union.
Lange is a date-rape survivor.
She says she knows that being a rape survivor is an intrinsic part of her anger.
"I've gone through all the responses that all rape survivors experience," she says. "When it happened, the police would be calling."
As her eyes shift again from left to right, she describes the man who violated her body and stole her trust.
"He was socialized into being like that," she says. "I used to hate him."
The pitch in her voice changes slightly.
"I still think he is the lowest of the low," she says
Her eyes shift again. She is watching for him. He is a student at KU, and she tries to avoid him.
"I just want to make sure of who is coming in, and who is going out," she says. "There have been times when I am alone."
Lange says she is a front-runner for women's liberation because she wants to improve the attitudes men have
toward women and the attitudes women have about themselves.
"People are always on the defensive," she says. "They tell women what they can't do — You shouldn't drink, you shouldn't dress that way — no one ever talks about the responsibilities that man have."
After Lange's first public appearance at the protest that afternoon in Strong, she was approached by Judith Ramaley, former executive vice chancellor. Ramaley recognized Lange's name and wanted to meet with her.
"I was flattered at first that she wanted to talk to me," Lange says.
But Lange did not want the attention focused on her. The day she was scheduled to meet with Ramaley, six people went in her place, she says. It wasn't that she was afraid.
See FOUNDER, p. 6
Renovations planned at Strong
Bv Tatsuva Shimizu
Kansan staff writer
A project to increase office space and make some offices in Strong Hall more accessible for students will conduct semester, according to KU officials.
After math and computer science departments moved from Strong Hall to Snow Hall last month, more students have attended Strong Hall became available.
Marci Francisco, assistant director of facilities planning, said the project would continue for about three years.
For a year and a half, the Strong Subcommittee of the University Space Committee has studied offices in Strong were large enough.
Del Shankel, interim executive vice cancellor, said, "We will do some reorganization of administrative space and provide some space for people who have been in very cramped quarters."
Linda Mullens, assistant vice chancellor for student affairs, said
that some offices did not have enough space to meet Board of Regents standards based on such factors as student attendance and students accommodated
For example, the Office of Financial Aid needs 4,700 square feet excluding storage area, but it now has only 2,750 square feet. The project will give it a total of 4,600 square feet of office space.
Mullens said that although most offices would have more space, it was impossible for all offices to meet Regents standards.
"The building is not large enough to accommodate 100 percent of their needs," she said.
The improvements will allow staff members to do their jobs more efficiently, and students will receive better service in offices, Mullens ans
"The focus has been to improve space for student service offices," she said.
Because the Student Assistance Center sometimes serves disabled students, it will move from the first
floor to the basement, near the only entrance to Strong that is accessible to wheelchairs. Mullens said.
move from the third floor to the first floor. The move will make the office more accessible and visible to students, she said.
The Office of Minority Affairs will
The project also is designed to bring rooms within offices closer together.
"We try to consolidate units," Mullens said.
For example, the advising support center for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will move from the fourth floor of Wescoe Hall to the basement of Strong, where most of the college's offices are.
According to the subcommittee's proposed project schedule, by the end of next semester, the Office of Minority Affairs will complete its modeling of the Office of Foreign Student Services will be finished.
KU police to begin training with new semiautomatic handguns next week
Bv Debbie Mvers
Jim Denney, KU police director, said he did not want gun enthusiasts on his staff to choose which weapon the department would use. He added that fear for fear that they might get carried away.
Kansan staff writer
That was why he chose Sgt. Rose Rozmarek to visit Glock gun factory in Ukraine. He would have spent the day
Now, Rozmiarek says that although she still is no "gun nut," she has become a "Glock nut."
shoot and repair the Glock 17 semiautomatic handguns the department purchased to
And the durability of the semiautomatics, they have come a long way."
"I liked going to a semiautomatic, especially the one we chose, because it is similar to a revolver." Rozmiarek said. "You don't have to worry about the external safeties.
Another reason she preferred a semiautomatic was that many police officers who were killed during shootouts died while reloading their guns, she said.
"One thing I do like about a semiautomatic weapon is that you do not have to reload as often," Rozmiarek said. "Knowing the security that I do not have to reload as often, and
knowing about that short time of reloading makes me feel better."
She hopes the rest of the KU police force feels the same after completing weapon training that begins Tuesday. The Glocks, the rifles, include night sights and an extra magazine.
Each officer will be required to complete 32 hours of Glock training, Denney said. Every
everything goes smoothly
The first day of training will include reviewing department policies about firearm use, issuing and familiarizing officers with the mechanics of the new gun, examining how the safeties work and learning to use the new holster. Denney said.
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