University Daily Kansan / Thursday, March 1, 1990
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FCC official scolds KJHK staff
By Sandra Moran Kensen staff writer
Kansan staff writer
An FCC official reprimanded KJHK student workers and urged communication between them and staff members at the weekly KJHK staff meeting.
James Dalley, engineer-in-charge for the Federal Communications Commission in Kansas City, Mo., spoke to about 50 JKHK workers and journalism faculty members about their views on廻ing indegenecy and obscurity.
"The University is not your worst enemy," he told the students. "I am. You've spent an awful lot of time and energy fighting each other, and you're forgetting about me . . I can take your license."
He said he never before had spoken to a station's staff. He was invited by Tim Mensendiek, KJHK general manager.
— James Dalley
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'The University is not your worst enemy. I am. You've spent an awful lot of time and energy fighting each other, and you're forgetting about me. . . I can take your license.'
Engineer-in-charge for the FCC
Dailey said that because the University of Kansas and the Board of Regents held the license for KJHK, students should not have had control of the station.
"Clearly, the students thought they were running the station," he said.
The FCC fined KJHK $2,000 in September 1989 for violations of their non-commercial license.
As license holder, the University would be punished for any FCC violations at KJHK, Dalley said, even if students ran the station. Congress recently raised the maximum possible fine from $25,000 to $250,000.
Student-run radio station KJHK is on the air to serve the public, he said, and the students do not seem to know it. The students and faculty to work together.
"I seriously doubt the University has those kinds of funds to bail out KJHK," he said.
Menskind said he had considered inviting Dalley last semester but did not.
Dailey said that everyone had freedom of speech but that when the students walked through the door at the station, they left their freedom of speech behind.
"You must become a team," he said. "One valid claim of indecency, and JKHJ could be off the air for
"It's basically because of recent coverage in the UDK and what I feel is a lack of fundamental understanding of a lot of people," he said. "I think that Jim did a good job of clarifying where the lines are."
"When you become an employee of a company, you give up some of your rights," he said. "You are able to say freely anything you want to as long as it doesn't infringe on another person's rights. Not in broadcast."
Mensendiek said he thought people were surprised to learn about the power of the FCC.
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"Based on the questions, people were surprised at times to hear things like 'freedom of speech stops at the front door.'" he said.
Dailey said the job of the FCC was not to monitor the station but to reprimand it for mistakes.
"I can't tell you what you can and can't say," he said. "It's not clear cut. The bottom line is, you have to work in agreement."
Dailey said the line of decency was not well defined.
"If you cross the line, and we're not going to tell you where the line is, that will determine whether it was indecent," he said.
Jason McIntosh, KJHK program director, said it was helpful for the staff to hear the speech.
"The students and the radio station can't afford to misinterpret any FCC guidelines because our license is at stake," McIntosh said.
Lawyers ask Supreme Court to judge checks
Sobriety stops could challenge 4th Amendment
by Curtis Knapp
Kansan staff writer
Lawyers for six Michigan legislators asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to ban sobriety checkpoints.
Sobriety checkpoints are roadblocks set up by law enforcement officials to stop drunken driving.
The Michigan lawyers argued that checkpoints in that state were ineffective and allowed police to harass motorists.
Thirty-nine states, including Kansas, use checkpoints.
Holly Sergent, co-coordinator for the Kansas chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, said that she supported checkpoints and thought that stopping people and checking them for violations was fair.
People who drink and drive create a dangerous situation for other drivers, she said, and checkpoints deter the urge to drink and drink.
Eddie Lorenzo, president of the University of Kansas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, said that checks were unconstitutional.
Lorenzo said checkpoints violated the Fourth Amendment, which guarantees safety from unlawful search and seizure.
Lorenzo said that police had to have a reasonable cause to stop someone for suspicion of drunken driving and that checkpoints did not provide police officers with suspicion.
Chris Mulveron, Lawrence police spokesman, said Lawrence police used checkpoints to target driver's license violations, but most checkpoint arrests were for drinking offenses. Notices to appear in court are issued for most
other violations.
Mary Horsch, press secretary for Attorney General Bob Stephan, said sobriety checkpoints in Kansas were constitutional. She said the checks had to include every
— Chris Mulvenon Lawrence police spokesman
'Lawrence police used checkpoints to target driver's license violations, but most checkpoint arrests were for drinking offenses.'
car that came through a checkpoint.
Mulvenon said Lawrence police looked for several things when stopping someone at a driver's license checkpoint. Among things checked are registration, insurance, equipment such as turn signals and lights, and compliance with seatbelt and vehicle drinking laws.
"You can accomplish lots of different tasks at one time," Mulvenon said. "They're always successful but extremely time consuming."
Mulvenon said the frequency of the checks depended on the number of police officers and time available. Lawrence police have not made checks for a year because of a lack of manpower.
Police are required to notify citizens 24 hours before the checking starts, Mulvenon said. Police announce the plans through the media.
He said police would choose a frequently traveled spot and stop an indefinite number of cars. Some of the key spots for checkpoints have been at Sixth Street and Kasold Drive, at 23rd Street and Naismith Drive, and the Sixth street bridge.
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
Gretchen Pippenger/KANSAN
Sign of the cross
Father Bob Everard places ashes on Tim Christian, St. Louis junior, during an Ash Wednesday Mass at St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center, 1631 Crescent Road. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, the 40 days before Easter, April 15.
Drunken fraternity members are assured safe rides home
By Christine Reinolds
Kansan staff writer
Jon Humiston skipped bar-hopping and partying twice last semester to offer his friends a safe ride home.
Humiston and members of his fraternity, Phi Gamma Delta, 1540 Louisiana St., are assured a ride home every weekend if they become too drunk to drive or cannot get a ride with Secure Cab.
"It's fun," said Humiston, Hutchinson sophomore. "You get to see some people drunk you would never see. I think every house ought to have it."
Humiston said that some members used the Secure Cab but that remembering the house phone number for a ride was easier.
Secure Cab is a Student Senate-sponsored service that provides rides home for students who are too drunk to ride.
The fraternity service, Brothers Against Drunk Driving, started about three years ago and is used every week by the members.
Freshman provide the rides but also use the service, said Scott Fitzzerald, house treasurer.
Todd Cleveland, member of Phi Gamma Delta, said he used RAD about every other week.
"I served my turn as a freshman, and now I use the service," said Cleveland, St. Louis junior.
Sigma Na fraternity, 1501 Sigma Nu Place, and Sigma Phi Epsilon, 1645 Tennessee St., have the same service but give it a different name. They jokingly refer to it as Drunks Against Drunk Driving.
Bill Zimmerman, Sigma Nu president, said that the service was offered in the past but that use of it had increased since March 1989. He said increased alcohol awareness by fraternities led to the program.
"We had a DUI a year ago, and we don't want anyone hurt," he said. "We have guys in the house who are avid studiers and usually sign up to stay at home and pick up members."
Zimmerman said members used the service once or twice a weekend.
"They don't use it as much as they should," he said. He said that Secure Cab was used by members but that by sponsoring their own program the fraternity could take care of its own.
Speaker discusses sex roles
By Carol B. Shiney Kengan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
A man wants to have sexual intercourse. The woman says no. When they have sexual intercourse anyway, movies and books often portray the act as a positive experience, a KU professor said yesterday.
Charlene Muehlenhard, assistant professor of psychology and women's studies, said the scenario was an example of how the standard that existed in society.
"With respect to sexuality, women are not supposed to express their feelings."
Muehlenhard spoke to more than 50 people about "The Sexual Double Standard: Negative Consequences for Women" as a part of University of Chicago's uniinchon sponsored by Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Aroad. Ave.
Society says that a woman's role is to produce token resistance to sex, Muehlenhard said. Women are not supposed to initiate sex and are not supposed to admit they want to have sex.
Token resistance occurs when a woman says no to a man, but the couple has sex anyway, she said.
"The message to men is, if she says no, just keep pushing," Muehlenhard said.
Muehlenhard said that in a KU study she recently conducted with Marcia McCoy, Wichita graduate student, 37.2 percent of the women surveyed said they had engaged in token resistance with a new partner.
She said the study revealed that women in token-resistance situations perceived their partners to be more accepting of the sexual double standard than women in open acknowledgment situations.
Open acknowlledgment occurs when a woman makes it clear to a man that she wants to have sexual intercourse with him, she said.
Muehlenhard said other research had shown that men and women tended to engage in behavior that was likely to be rewarded. Therefore, if a woman perceives her partner to accept the sexual double standard, she is more likely to engage in behavior that goes against her partner's belief.
The sexual double standard also may lead to unprotected sex, she said, because a woman who says no and then pulls out a condom is perceived to have violated her traditional script role.
"It seems like if a woman is going to follow this traditional script, there is no way a woman can have a condom with her if she decides she wants to have sex with this guy and be safe." Muehlenhard said.
She said that because women felt inhibited using condoms, they were at risk of catching sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS.
To solve the problems created by the sexual double standard, Muehlenhard said, the economic structure of society made men and women needs to be changed.
"I think it's probably insufficient to just say something like, 'Well, let's promote open communication between women and men,'" she said.
Rebecca Moeller, Lawrence freshman, said after the speech that although she agreed with much' of what Muehlenhard said, she thought that more than reducing financial dependence on men was needed.
"I just think men and women need to educate themselves more into not playing games," Moeller said.
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