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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.103.NO.58
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10.1993
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In a constant state of motion
Bob Friauf
KU professor of physics and astronomy Bob Friauf balances classroom time with his duties as head of University Council and his quest for quality hiking time with his dog, Tessie.
a paper-packed office in Malott Hall,
Bob Friauf sits at his desk and prepares
a lecture for his thermal physics class.
Manila folders and physics literature
surround him in ubiquitous stacks. Yet
not a scrap of stray paper lies on his
desk.
"It turns out I must be a confirmed pack rat, because I tend to save everything," the physics and astronomy professor says. "I'm somewhat notorious in the department for how tall my stacks are and how organized they are. Most things I can lay my hands on in five to 10 minutes."
When someone enters the office, Friau fauf almost has to crane his neck to see over the stacks. On the wall to his right is a chalkboard covered with month-old and even year-old physics equations. The numerous cream-colored manila files brighten the dull gray-green concrete walls.
The bookshelves to his right and to the office's front are crammed with physics literature, and on the table and floor are more stacks 2 to 3 feet high, leaving little room to move.
Despite the numerous stacks, Friau's office is orderly and organized, just like his demanding schedule. At age 67, Friau finds time to teach thermal physics and honors Western civilization
and to serve as head of University Council.
"He seems to be a perfect fit to be a professor," says Friau's brother, Walter Friauf, an electrical engineer for the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.
"He is the classic mental image of a professor." Walter Frieuak said.
Classic image of a professor
This classic image of a professor tries to go skiing alone twice a year, after New Year's Day and during Spring Break. However, Friauf does not make the trip alone.
"Some of my colleagues would sound horrified when I said I'd go out with a busload of students, but most of the time I've enjoyed that," Friaufsaid.
Friauf, a member of the Kansas City Ski Club,
said he enjoyed skiing the back bowls of Vail,
Breckenridge and Kevstone resort in Colorado.
In March, Friauf and other members of the ski club went to Copper Mountain in Colorado. Friauf had the seventh-fastest time of all Kansas skiers in the 60-69 age group in the National Standard Race, a public recreational ski race sponsored by Anheuser-Busch, Inc.
By Christoph Fuhrmans
Besides skiing, Friauf also enjoys camping and hiking. During the first two weeks of August this year, he camped in Colorado Gunnison National Forest. Friauf's only companion was his 7-year-old Shetland sheepdog, Tessie, who always wore a leash.
"She's a little bit like some people," he said. "She'd be fine if she didn't use her mouth so much."
While Friau enjoys the outdoors, he draws the line at foraging for his own food.
"I'd be pretty hungry if I tried to live off the land, and I haven't really been interested in fishing, so I don't worry about that," he said.
Friauf said he ate freeze-dried food, which despite a lack of taste, was better than nothing.
During his camping trips, Friiauf carries his own tent, sleeping bag, foam rubber pad and a small gas stove. His backpack weighs about 40 pounds. Even Tessie carries her own food in a special pack.
Besides going to Gunnison National Forest in August, Friauf also has been camping in Kings Canyon, Sequoia and Yosemite national parks in
NAFTA debate gets heated
See PROFESSOR, Page 7.
Gore, Perot swap barrage of charges on deal's effects
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—In a contentious, fingerpointing debate, Vice President Al Gore said yesterday that Ross Perot will profit from the defeat of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Perot dismissed the charge as "propaganda."
The prime-time showdown was combative from the outset, reflecting the high stakes in a fight in which the Clinton administration is about 25 votes short with the pivotal House vote just a week away.
House Speaker Thomas Foley rated NAFTA's chances of passing at "50-60."
Perot traded a barrage of charges, some of them substantive, others more personal
Hours before the debate, the White House got a much-needed boost — NAFTA endorsements from five House Democrats who had been undecided. A sixth, Rep. Jim Bacchus of Florida, announced his support just as the debate started.
The debate on CNN's "Larry King Live" was but a minute old when Perot accused Gore of interrupting him. Tension crackled throughout the 90-minute program as Gore and
Gore said Perot supported the trade deal in
1991 but then flipflopped as a presidential candidate last year "to bring out the politics of fear." Later, he upped the ante, saying a Perot family business in Texas stood to make huge gains as a trade center should NAFTA be defeated.
"If NAFTA is defeated, then this free-trade zone that he is still
Ross Pero
in business," Gore said. "If it's good enough for him, why isn't it good enough for the rest of the country?"
Perot was quick to fire back, denying his opposition to the agreement was motivated by any personal or family financial stake.
1 am putting my country's interests far ahead of my personal business," Perot retorted. He said his gain would be "something like a tricle of water."
Perot accused the Clinton administration of putting up a smokescreen to hide what he said are the deal's many faults.
The debate was the climax of a frenzied day of NAFTA jockeying in the capital, led by President Clinton.
In a role reversal, Clinton served as warmup act for Gore, fiercely disputing arguments that dropping tariffs and other
trade barriers with Mexico and Canada would send U.S. manufacturing jobs rushing south to low-wage Mexico.
And, in a line Gore would echo hours later, Clinton said the United States would be stripped of its credibility in stalled trade talks with Europe and Japan should NAFTA be defeated
Al Gore
"So the stakes here are very large, indeed," Clinton said. "If we don't do this with our closest neighbor, it's going to be hard for us to have the credibility to make the case for the world."
Perot scoffed at such an argument, saying it was part of the administration's "sky-isfalling routine." Every time Clinton falls behind, he claims "the presidency is at stake," Perot said.
On that front, Perot got a boost from one of his odd allies in the anti-NAFTA coalition, House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt. "We can do better," Gephardt said in urging Clinton to renegotiate the agreement.
Governance questions policy process
By Donella Hearne and David Stewart
Kansan staff writers
The University's new consensual relationship policy has put the concept of "shared governance" along with student and faculty representation in policy making to the test.
The normal process for developing and enacting University policy remains the same. Students and faculty bring up proposed changes or amendments in policy. Task forces and committees review the issues. After receiving the task force's report, University governance — the combined faculty and student senates — makes its own recommendations. Finally the proposed changes go to the administration for Chancellor Gene Budig's signature, or in rare cases, rejection.
A look at decision-making at KU
"Governance is consulted on virtually all matters of University wide importance." Budig said. "We believe in shared governance."
Though often a tedious and drawn out process, deciding policy at the University usually involves extensive discussion and debate. But not always.
The issue of consensual relationships has raised concerns about how the administration controls the power to make policies that affect all of KU.
Without going through the expected procedures of University governance and campus debate, the administration started a policy on Aug. 20, forbidding romantic relationships between faculty members and students over whom they have direct power, including assigning grades or awarding scholarships.
The most recent example came about this summer when the administration handed down its policy on consensual relationships between faculty and their students.
Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor, said the Board of Regents and the University had not determined specifically when the admin-
See LEADERS,Page 14.
Opening the pipes
Facilities operations employee Mike Miller opens a hydrant behind the Military Science Building. Facilities operations flushes the pipes yesterday to remove mineral builds-up.
Quilted culture
The Spencer Museum of Art highlights the craft of African American quilt-making with its new exhibit.
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High Court harassment ruling encouraging
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court strengthened workers' protection against sexual harassment Tuesday, ruling unanimously that employers can be forced to pay monetary damages even when employees suffer no psychological harm.
The Associated Press
Decision increases protection against unwanted advances
"So long as the environment would reasonably be perceived, and is perceived, as hostile or abusive, there is no need for it also to be psychologically injurious," Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote as the court revived a Tennessee woman's lawsuit against her ex-boss.
Teresa Harris sued Charles Hardy, after resigning in 1987 from her job as a manager at Forklift Systems in Nashville.
Harris said that Hardy, among other things, had asked her to retrieve coins from his front pants pocket, suggested they go to a local motel to negotiate her pay raise and asked if she gained a sales contract by providing sexual favors.
Tuesday's ruling sends Harris' lawsuit back to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which had ruled that she could not sue Hardy because she couldn't prove psychological harm.
Betty Campbell, assistant professor of English who studies harassment issues, said Tuesday's ruling might encourage more people to stand up against sexual harassment.
"I think more women are reporting harassment because they are being believed," Campbell said. "After today's
That ruling banned "hostile" or "abusive" workplace environments caused by various discriminatory motives.
Tuesday's decision reaffirmed and clarified the 1986 ruling.
decision, I think it will be easier for women to go ahead and feel they do have some redress."
The high court ruled in 1986 that on-the-job sexual harassment is illegal — a violation of the anti-bias law known as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964—if it is "sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the victim's employment."
Campbell said any case of harassment
"When the workplace is permeated with discriminatory intimidation, ridicule and insult that is sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the victim's employment and create an abusive working environment, Title VII is violated," O'Connor said.
would involve some degree of psychological harm.
"The woman in that case did suffer psychological harm," Campbell said. "Maybe not to a clinical extent, but she was harmed. Anything that makes one uncomfortable at work, or even afraid to go to work, is psychological harm."
Campbell said sexual harassment included sexist comments made by someone in a position of power over those to whom the comments are being made, unwanted flirtatious behavior after one is asked to stop, solicitation for sexual behavior in exchange for a reward, threats of punishment unless one engages in sexual behavior, or any other comments, kissing or touching that is inappropriate in a working relationship.
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Kansan staff writer Shan Schwartz contributed information to this story