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University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 23, 1990
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Pride march ends GALA Week
Rich Festen, left, member of GLSOK, and Kim Windholz, march organizer, lead the Gay Pride March down Massachusetts Street.
E. Joseph Zugra/KANSAN
Bv Carol B. Shinev
Kansan staff writer
About 75 people chanting slogans such as "24-4-6 gay is just as good as straight" filled the south-bound lane during a Saturday day of pride march.
"We're here, we're there, we're everywhere and we're not going away," the marchers shouted.
the archers made their way down the street with a police escort, afternoon shoppers and business owners watched. Some just stared with gaping mouth while others clawed and clapped for the marchers.
Marchers carried signs with messages for onlookers such as, "Proud to Be Gay." "Homophobia is a Social Disease," "We're Gay - And I Don't Mean Happy" and "Someone You Love is Gay."
the march was for Gay and Lesbian Awareness Week, sponsored by Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, Marchers, including members of GLOSK and people from Lawrence, Wichita, Kansas City and Manhattan, and Massachusetts streets to South Park Gazebo for a rally.
Kim Windholt, march organize,
said the march was to show gay pride
and to heighten people's awareness.
She said the march also was a time
for women to come forward. The
closet could see the marchers walking
down the street with pride.
"One of the things I'm trying to promote is that people won't be afraid to be who they are if they're not afraid," Windholz, Boulder, Cressa, Freshman.
In addition to the human marches, two dogs participated. One of the dogs had a pink triangle painted on its head.
Windbok had gay men and lesbian women had to wear a pink triangle in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.
"The pink triangle is a symbol of our struggle," she said. "It's so we don't forget the oppression and what happens to sisters and sisters have gone through."
Jarrod Brown, member of GLSOK, said the march was one of the biggest and best that he had seen. He said marching was exciting and empowering.
"It was really nice when people on the side of the street were waving, chapping their hands, honking their horns and showing their support." Brown said.
At the rally, Henry Schwaller, member of GLSOK, said, "We're
'it's a lot easier to be gay and lesbian in the 1990s than it was in the 1950s. But there's still a long way to go. Some people are still scared.'
Maggie Childs Assistant professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures
here to make a statement about ourselves. We're here to make a statement for the community. We're here fighting for change. We need rights and we need them now."
Liz Gowdy, graduate teaching assistant in social welfare, said, "We are here to remind the world that we are an ancient people, that we have loved each other since time began. Let's take that love into the future."
Dowdy asked members of the audience to look into each others faces. She asked what everybody saw.
"I say that you see courage," she said. "I say you see love. And I say you see that invincible spirit that cannot be squelched."
After the rally, Maggie Childs, 38. assistant professor of East Asian
languages and cultures, said there had been many changes for gays and lesbians during the past 20 years.
"It's a lot easier to be gay and lesbian in the 1980s than it was in the 1950s," Childs said. "Everywhere I go there are bigger and bigger people, but there's still a long way to go. Some people are still scared."
Marchers carry signs demanding gay rights.
Minority concerns discussed
By Carol B. Shiney
Kansan staff writer
Two members of Students Concerned About Discrimination and a member of Black Men of Today said they were encouraged after a closed meeting Friday with KU faculty and administrators.
"I was encouraged with the administration's response to our demands as minority students," said Andrea Katzman, facilitator for SCAD. "However, I think it is just the beginning."
She said she also was pleased because of the large number of administrators at the meeting.
About 30 students and faculty attended the two-and-a-half hour meeting. SCAD members discussed five points of concern, and Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, distributed a summary of the issues that have been discussed on campus since the incident at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon House on March 30.
Members of SCAD plan to meet with Ramaley again May 2.
Michael Sullivan, member of SCAD, said, "It's great to have an ongoing dialogue with the administration, but we came to little or no conclusion on any of the issues at the meeting."
Katzman said the points on the agenda included a proposed freshman class that would focus on different races, cultures, religions, women, sexual orientation,
the physically disabled, racism and discrimination. Other agenda items were the incident at the ASE house and the structure and job search process of the Office of Minority Affairs.
She said members of Black Men of Today also were present at the meeting because their agenda coincided with SCAD's.
In a news conference after the meeting, Mark McCormick of Black Men of Today said, "Considering what is going on now, I'm really encouraged. I'd like to stop the fighting. I think we're on the verge of getting a lot of charges. University that are long overdue doesn't let the current problem die down, if we don't forget about it."
Ramaley said she did not think the issues would die down.
"I'm firmly committed to putting together the structure and the contacts and the continuous communication that assures that all of us have this in our minds every day," she said.
"I'm delighted that in the past three weeks we've been able to talk through perceptions and concerns and are already launched a thoughtful process of these changes in programming to recognize these deep concern," she said.
Ramaley said she also was encouraged about the meetings with students.
Groups share cultures at international festival
Bv Kathrvn Lancaster
Kansan staff writer
Music wafted Friday from all corners of the fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
Hundreds of people streamed through the fourth-floor lobby, examining curios from distant lands and singing the sounds of far-away places.
“It's a way of giving back, of sharing our cultures,” said Miguel Roca, president of the International Club. “We want U.S. students to learn about our country just like we learn about theirs.”
The 38th Festival of Nations brought together people from the United States and 15 foreign countries.
Club members began planning for the festival early this year, Roca said.
Amnesty International and the Office of Study Abroad, set up booths that were open from 8:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Despite the fact that the festival had to be moved inside because of the threat of rain, many said it was a success.
Seventeen groups, including
"I didn't expect it to be as great a success as is shown here," said Raj Alada, Visakhapatnam, India, junior.
"They are all finding something interesting here." Allada said.
Fernando Rodriguez, Madrid,
Spain, sophomore, said the best part
of the festival was watching the
people.
At the Panama booth, Berty Escallona pointed out photographs taken during the U.S. invasion in December.
"It was a scary time," said Esca-lona, Panama City, junior.
Students practice criminal civil law
By Sandra Moran
Kansan staff writer
On a sunny November afternoon in 1988, Charles Shrackle made a left-hand turn through a busy intersection and hit and killed Katherine
Saturday afternoon, he was found 100 percent negligent for her death by a jury of three KU students.
Shrackage was one of 19 mock trials conducted this weekend in the Douglas County Courthouse as part of School Law of Law trial advocacy case.
'My hope is that they'll be able to take bits and pieces they have learned and put it all together.'
- Laurence Rose Law professor
About 70 second- and third-year law students received either a criminal or civil case in which they prepared opening and closing arguments and questioned witnesses.
Laurence Rose, faculty adviser and professor of the trial advocacy class, said the trials were half of the course grade. The other half consists of a series of nine workshops where participants practiced trial advocacy techniques.
"My hope is that they'll be able to take bits and pieces they have learned and put it all together," he said.
Rose said he had been teaching the trial advocacy class for 14 years and had been using the trial exercise for 10 years.
The criminal and civil trials are acted out by teams of two law students in one of two cases.
in the criminal case, students defend or prosecute a man accused of killing his girlfriend. In the civil case, students argue for the defendant or plaintiff in the Potter vs. Shrauck case.
Other students, community members and legal professionals act as witnesses, judge and jury member
Kathryn Myers-Hampion, second-year law student and attorney for the plaintiff in the Shrake case, said on the trial about three weeks ago.
She said that to prepare, the team studied case information, rehearsed delivery and thought of questions.
Madeleine Thore, co-attorney with Myers-Hampton, said even though she had practiced trial advocacy techniques, she still was nervy.
A frustrating aspect of the trials is that the volunteers acting as witnesses sometimes forget their lines and do not know the answers to cross-examination, Therpe said. The volunteers must memorize information given to them by student-attorneys before the trial.
"You can never really be sure what the witness will remember or not remember." Thorpe said.
Emily Hull, 13, who served as a witness for the Shrackle case, said the most difficult part of the trial was the cross-examination because she did not know what the attorneys were going to ask her.
"It was just like being in a play," she said.
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