University Daily Kansan / Friday, May 4, 1990
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Senate to denounce ROTC
By Matt Taylor Kansan staff writer
Student Senate will join at least 27 other universities today in denouncing a U.S. Department of Defense policy that bans homosexuals from military and receiving commissions to the Reserve Officers Training Corps.
Mike Schreiner, student body president, said that he and other student leaders would issue a statement challenging the department's policy in a public meeting at 1:30 p.m. at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union.
Although the national news conference will be organized differently on each campus, all participating schools plan to simultaneously read an identical speech denouncing the policy. Other participating universities include the University of Oklahoma, the University of Colorado, the University of Iowa and the University of Arkansas.
sity of Arkansas.
Senate passed a resolution at its Wednesday meeting condemning the department's policy. Authors of the resolution said the student body would not tolerate discrimination
against homosexuals.
"Any form of discrimination against any group presents a grave danger to the rights of every member of society," said Pat Warren, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman.
ROTC officials were unavailable for comment.
"It is Department of Defense policy that homosexuality is incompatible with military service," Capt. R.L. Shurtz, Navy ROTC commander, said in an April 13 letter sent to
Kelley Hayden, assistant to the executive vice chancellor. "The presence in the military environment of persons who engage in homosexual conduct or who, by their statements, demonstrate a propensity to engage in homosexual conduct, seriously impairs the accomplishment of the military mission."
Lie Tolbert, member of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, said, "This is a good sign. It's nice to learn that amorphous is no longer to tolerate."
Cutting Edge wins election for class seats
arts students were completing the regular end of semester maintenance yesterday at Murphy Hall.
m Snook, Plano, Texas, freshman, scraps tape from battens backstage at Crafton-Preyer Theatre. Snook and other performing
Behind the scenes
Joe Panegasser is senior president; Katy Dillingham is vice president
By Matt Taylor Kansan staff writer
All the candidates on the Cutting Edge coalition won class officer seats in the Board of Class Officers election yesterday. Candidates on the sophomore and junior lots ran unopposed. The board is involved with many projects, including
Bill Kovack, 1989-90 senior class president, said Cutting Edge carried 52 percent of the votes. Cheers won 31 percent and WHIM claimed 17 percent. Polling was Wednesday and yesterday. Including Homecoming, the post-graduation senior breakfast and selection of the annual class gift to the
Kathy Dillingham won senior vice president with 121 votes. Kimberly Bowling of Cheers finished second in the Women's Ebola svodoba of WHIM womens 39 votes.
Joe Panggasser
won senior presi-
dent with 121 votes. Katie Stader of Cheers finished second with 71 votes, and Keith Schneider of WHIM finished third with 40 votes.
Shannon Pearson won senior secretary with 122 votes, 52 more than
opponent Aaron Rittmaster of Cheers.
Chris Herrmann won senior treasurer with 124 votes. Ladea Copering of Cheers finished second with 67 votes. Mick Gier of WHM bad 35 votes.
Winning junior class offices were Jeb Robbins, president; Matt Stafford, vice president; Meghan Lasa-ferre; and Mary Kostel, treasurer.
Winning sophomore class offices were Greg Mosher, president; Kurt Goeser, vice president, Julie Love, Cynthia Hale, and Megan Waugh, treasurer.
Westerday's rain dampened the voter turnout, said Marcie Rosenbaum, Strong Hall poll worker.
Kovack said 488 ballons were cast. He said the board was involved with many projects, including Homecoming, the post-graduation senior breakfast and selection of the annual class gift to the University. The Honors College is the Homer Outstanding Progressive Educator (HOFE) award to a faculty member every fall. It is an official sponsor of Rock Chalk Revue.
The board is composed of the four officers from each of the four classes, Kovack said. Next semester's freshmen will elect class officers in September.
Naismith Hall sees decline in residents
Kansan staff writer
By Christine Reinolds
In 1987, about 200 people were on a waiting list to get into Naimith Hall. This semester, about one-third of the hall is vacant.
Two floors were closed in 1988 and a third was closed this year. But that situation could be reversing.
Sandy Hill, general manager of Naismith, 1800 Naismith Drive, said the decrease in residents partly was due to a move in to graduate high school seniors.
Hill said she planned to re-open at least one floor, based on the number of applications she received.
"It's based on my sales and the increased interest in single rooms," she said.
Naismith's capacity is 488 residents with two in each room. This semester 200 people live in double-room and 60 people in single-occupancy.
Craig Cardwell is the regional manager of Allen and O'ara Inc. in Memphis, Tenn., which owns Naiad Bancorp and also operates at universities around the country.
"Naimish is solid and solvent," Cardwell said. "There have been some changes in demographic trends nationwide. There are fewer high school graduates and therefore fewer men coming to college in Kansas."
Hill said, "New freshmen, especially out-of-state, are the lifeblood of
Naismith Hall and any other residence hall."
Another reason for Nalsmith's decrease is the housing glut in Lawrence, Cardwell said.
"In Lawrence there is more housing than there are students." he said.
Cardwell said the company had not suffered significant monetary losses.
"We're not losing money, we're just not at optimum," he said. "Any residence hall operates more efficiently when the number of students equals the number of spaces available."
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, agreed with Cardwell and Hill but added that the expense of housing should factor in the decrease of residents.
Double occupancy with 19 meals a week costs $4,214 a year. Additional charges include optional parking and telephone service.
Each room or suite has a sink, two beds and two desks. Two suites share one bathroom. There also is weekly gym time, a fitness center and an outdoor pool.
"There are services." Stoner said. "But you have to decide if the added service is worth that much."
He said that general costs of attending a university had increased and that students were more aware of how they spent their money.
Susan Lebow, Tusa, Okla, freshman, said the price she paid to live in Naismith was somewhat worth it.
Anti-violence group scolds police
People Against Violence says sensitivity training is needed
By Kathryn Lancaster
Kansan staff writer
A citizens' action group this week accused local law enforcement officials of not doing the best possible to prevent victims of domestic violence.
People Against Violence, formed in 1888, asked city and county commissioners this week to take action to improve the situation in Lawrence.
"The streets in Lawrence are safer at midnight for women than are homes," said Jean Rosenthal, group chairman.
Rosenthal gave commissioners a petition with more than 1,500 signatures calling for a protocol that would ensure consistent enforcement of laws protecting victims of violent crimes.
The group is calling for increased sensitivity training for local police officers and mandala therapists in the service of all domestic violence calls.
Rosenthal said she began requesting the drafting of a protocol more than a year ago because law enforcement policies concerning domestic violence were inconsistent.
At the root of the problem, she said, is Lawrence Police Chief Ron Olin. She said Olin was not willing to provide greater sensitivity training for police or to record
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statistics about domestic violence.
"Ron Olin is the stumbling block." Rosenthal said.
In an interview yesterday, Olin disagreed with that assessment and said many of the policies she sought were already in place.
told commissioners.
Olin said that police policies had existed for more than a decade to protect victims of abuse.
"What we have here is the envy of many other jurisdictions," he said. "The people who are sniping about what is in place here."
'The streets in Lawrence are safer at midnight for women than are homes.'
Jean Rosenthal group chairman
"She has a perception that law enforcement is neanderthal," Olin said about Rosenthal. "If she can give me specific instances of indi- man acting improperly instead of indi- man actions, I will fix the problem."
Kathy Greenele, staff attorney for the Legal Aid Society in Topeka, told commissioners Wednesday that after several attempts to get local enforcement officials to adopt strict regulations, People Against Honesie was forced to seek alternative remedies.
"When we cannot get the law enforcement to respond, our only option is to come to you," Greenlee
He said police officers annually receive training in sensitivity and victim abuse. All recruits receive training to handle the safety and domestic violence.
A joint study done in 1982 by Rape Victim Support Service, Women's Transitional Care Shelter and the police department's Crime Analysis Unit showed that domestic violence calls were only 1 percent of the calls that police responded to. Olin said.
Joyce Grover, a coordinator at the Women's Transitional Care Shelter, said that figure probably was not accurate for 1990.
Grover, who has worked at the shelter for seven years, said she
could not remember a day when the shelter was empty. More than 300 battered women turn to the shelter annually.
But, Greenlee said, no statistics are kept in Lawrence because local law enforcement officials are not willing to keep them.
"Ron Olin does not want to write reports." Greenlee told county commissioners Wednesday. "He is not willing to do so."
However, Olin said that reports were filed in the department and with the district attorney's office even when an arrest was not made. The report is used to determine whether that later can be used by prosecutors. When abuse is evident, an arrest is made, he said.
Loren Anderson, Douglas County sheriff, said that because of a policy established in September, all three local enforcement officers were required to present documented domestic violence even when no arrest is made.
Judy Osburn, coordinator of the victim witness program in the district attorney's office, said that Mr. Tennison had filed, the office would prosecute.
But Rosenthal said police training was not adequate and should be expanded to include judges and prosecutors. She also would like a system where the policy that would not allow the prosecution to drop the case.
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