THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7,1995
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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SECTION A VOL.102.NO.74
(USPS 650-640)
TODAY KANSAN
SPORTS
Kansas returns to paradise
Get caught up on the No. 11 Kansas football team's trip to the Aloha Bowl. Section C
CAMPUS
Perturbed about parking
The KU parking board proposes that residence hall parking permits increase from $35 to $50. Page 3A
NATION
Clinton vetoes GOP plan
The seven-year budget package would have reworked health-care packages for the elderly and poor. Page 7A
WORLD
U. S. plane lands in Bosnia
Twelve Air Force and Army officers will start the first preparations for the peace mission. Page 10A
WEATHER
ABITCHILLY
High 40°
Low 19°
Weather: Page 2A
INDEX
Scoreboard...2B
Horoscopes...5B
National News ...7A
World News...10A
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Is it art? Is it smut? Or is it just...
On the Internet, pictures such as this one can be found with lists of phone sex services. While some argue that photos such as this one should be kept off the Web, others argue they are protected by the First Amendment.
Story by Craig Lang
A lot of men liked the pictures. Fans of the pictures wrote to Nash telling him how much they loved the pictures, and they asked if he had others he could post.
Nash photographed Cormeier in front of campus buildings and in front of the Texas A&M sign that marks the entrance to campus. And she was naked in every picture.
Shelly Cormeier and her friend Trey Nash decided it might be fun to take some pictures of Cormeier at various places around the Texas A&M campus in College Station during the summer of 1992.
"The reaction was overwhelming," said
Just for fun, the two A&M students posted a few pictures in various newsgroups on the internet, a system of bulletin boards that allow users to exchange messages, graphics and pictures.
Nash, a graduate student at Texas A&M. "The demand for more was enormous."
Sex on the World Wide Web has been a hot topic since the creation of the Web, an uncensored system of pages on the Internet featuring text and graphics that is available to anyone with a computer and a modem. Politicians and political groups have spent hours arguing whether certain stops on the Information Superhighway considered indecent by some should be closed down for public good.
viduals have taken advantage of the Web to put pictures of everything from bestiability to child porn on the Internet. Those people have found that besides arousing controversy, posting pornographic material on the Web, both hard-core and softcore, can make a person's Web site very popular.
A few months later, Cormeier found herself on the front page of the Texas A&M newspaper in a story about the Internet and sex on the Web.
Nash allowed an undergraduate to put together a page on the World Wide Web featuring 11 pictures of Cormeier.
Meanwhile, several magazines and indi-
Nash's site pulls in 35,000 viewers a day, and it grew more popular in the few months after Corneier's appearance on the front page of The Battalion, Texas A&M's newspaper.
Cormeier also has become very popular. She has received several offers for modeling jobs, including one for a Playboy "Girls of the Internet" pictorial, which she decided to turn down.
See SEX ON THE WEB, Page 16A.
Presidents balk at call to reform evaluations
University presidents discuss Regents' request
By Phillip Brownlee Kansan staff writer
Faculty evaluations need reform, but the system isn't broken, Chancellor Robert Hemenway told the Council of Presidents yesterday at the Adams Alumni Center.
"It is a system that does weed out people who do not have the same standards as the University," he said. "It's built into the very structure of the academy."
Hemenway and four other Regents university presidents discussed their universities' progress at developing faculty evaluation reforms. The Kansas Board of Regents instructed the universities to come up with reforms by May 1996.
However, progress has been so. "All the discussions have been about the process, but we also need to think in terms of measures and data," said John Welsh. Regents director of academic affairs.
Edward Hammond, Fort Hays State University president, said one of the biggest problems was that universities didn't invest money in faculty development.
Hammond said that when he came to Fort Hays nine years ago, the university was spending less than one-half of 1 percent on development.
"There's not any business that spends less than ten times that amount," he said.
"Itisa
system that does weed out people who do not have the same standards as the University."
Chancellor Robert Hemenway
"We think that it's good management," he said.
Hemenway agreed that investing in the work force was critical.
"We think that it's good management," he said. The presidents discussed tuition waivers and training seminars for faculty and department heads as ways to develop faculty and staff. However, no action was taken.
The presidents also expressed concern about the amount of work it took to examine faculty evaluation issues, develop plans for the Regents Vision 2020 reform initiative and conduct statewide academic planning.
"We don't have time to be a president of a university," said Eugene Hughes, Wichita State University president.
Jon Wefalf, Kansas State University president, said that ultimately the presidents, not the Regents system, were accountable for the success of their own universities.
But David Shulenburger, vice chancellor of academic affairs, said the issues the Regents faced were critical and needed attention.
"Don't turn us into staff people to the Regent staff." he said.
"This is a big issue because of our lack of success in convincing the Legislature that we need funding," he said. "Our argument to get additional resources hinges on meeting the state's needs."
GTA union files request to delay hearing
Representative cites need for witnesses
By Novelda Sommers
Kansan staff writer
A hearing that would have settled a complaint filed in August by KU graduate teaching assistants against the University has been postponed, and no new date has been set.
University officials were supposed to meet with GTA union members and the Kansas Association of Public Employees in
Topeka today and tomorrow before an officer from the Public Employee Relations Board.
Scott Stone, executive director of the association of public employees, filed a petition Dec. 1 to delay the hearing.
Stone, who will argue for the GTA union, said he needed more time to gather key witnesses and that recently the union had decided to increase the number of witnesses it would use. He said the delay was undesirable but necessary because of the high-profile nature of the case.
"We would have rather gone forward with the case," Stone
said.
The GTA union filed the complaint in August because GTAs will not receive the same 3.5-percent raise that faculty will get in January.
Money in the budget, determined by the Legislature last spring, was not earmarked for GTAs. University officials interpreted the Legislature's action as a mandate not to give raises to GTAs.
In the complaint, the union alleges that the University denied the wage increase to punish GTAs for voting to unionize last spring, and that the Univer-
Scott Stone
case."
"We would have rather gone forward with the
Kansas Association of Public Employees
sity did not bargain in good faith. "We are trying to interpret things that were said in last
year's legislative session," Stone said. "Our No. 1 goal is to present the best case we can, and we don't want to rush into it."
The two sides met before a mediator Nov. 6, but the Kansas department of administration, also named in the complaint, moved to halt mediations.
Tom Hutton, director of University Relations, said the University was opposed to the latest delay.
Hutton said Karen Dutcher, associate general council for the University, filed a motion to oppose the delay, but the motion was denied.