Tuesday, February 21, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
KU alumni active worldwide
by Scott Achelpohl
Kansan staff writer
KU can follow its graduates all over the world, but the communication is not always quick.
"Getting mail to and from alumni (in foreign countries) is a problem," said Loren Taylor, director of membership development at the University of Kansas Alumni Association. "We've temporarily lost alumni. We hear from members overseas very infrequently."
Taylor said communication between KU and international alumni was aided by the Flying Jayhawks program, which is offered to members of the Alumni Association and their families. Members can travel to cities worldwide. These cities are sites of international alumni chapters.
"Ordinarily, we will have a KU host on those trips." Taylor said. "We will ask them to help coordinate with the local chapter internationally to bring alumni out. Last November, we had a group come to Hong Kong to meet a group of KU alumni on a Flying Jayhawks trip."
Taylor said the most active work with international alumni chapters had occurred recently.
"We have worked most extensively with international alumni chapters in the last one and a half to eight."
In the last year, the most active international chapter has been in Tokyo, Taylor said. Alumni leadership in that city is strong. About 400 alumni live in Japan.
Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, returned in July from a trip to China and Japan, where she had meetings with Japanese alumni of the Tokyo chapter.
"The process and development of the international chapters has been fairly slow," Ramaley said. "It requires regular contact. It is becoming a priority for the Alumni Association. They are looking for a common agenda that could attract people."
Coordination of activities and events with alumni chapters is dependent on individual alumni in foreign countries, Taylor said. Chapter status is determined by activity over a certain period of time.
Leadership is encouraged in chapters abroad, Taylor said.
"We invite them to coordinate virtually all
chapter communications and activities that take place within their city," Taylor said. "We've had zero negative responses to these invitations. Of course, there are some alumni we never have."
Taylor said financing of the international chapter is similar to the Alumni Association's domestic chapter.
"The goal is to have a zero balance at the end of the function." he said.
"All of our activities are self-supporting," Taylor said. "If, for example, our Tokyo chapter decides to have an activity, each individual pays the per-person costs."
Those per-person fees combine to pay for entire activities, he said.
"There's not much contact with the Philippine chapters currently," he said.
Taylor said the earliest foreign chapter dated back to around 1856 in the Philippines.
The Alumni Association has international chapters in Costa Rica, England, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Venezuela. It has domestic chapters in 19 states.
Horowitz speaks on women's identities
bv Merceda Ares
Kansan staff writer
Francee Horowitz believes that a set of values are important for women to develop an identity.
Horowitz, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, addressed residents last night in the Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall lobby to celebrate women's week.
"I don't think that issues of women are necessarily special, rather they are the values they are adopting," florowitz said. "When women find it difficult to deal with many of the issues of feminine identity, will become less critical."
Horowitz named Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson and Eleanor Roosevelt as three women she admired for having self-knowledge.
"Each woman left a legacy," Horowitz said. "Each of them at the end of their life left something that changed the world."
However, Horowitz stressed that a woman did not necessarily have to be career-oriented to discover her identity.
"You can have an inner light having three or four children and being a part of your community," she said, "and don't have to be a writer or a poet.
Horowitz has done both.
She has raised a family as well as had a successful career. She attributes her success to an equal partnership with her husband.
"Most critical is a husband who himself had grown up in an unusual family situation and had very few friends to whom a wife should be," she said.
Horowitz's own childhood in the Bronx in New York was in many ways untraditional.
'On Sundays, the women would gather and talk about cakes and recipes and the men would play cards," she said. "She would usually
break down and end up in a discussion, which was usually an argument over political issues. And it didn't matter if the issue was of a man or woman talking."
Although intellectually there were no gender barriers in her family, Horowitz said her parents assumed traditional roles — her mother as the homemaker and her father as the breadwinner.
She was the first female vice chancellor at the University of Kansas.
Horowitz has taken on some very nontraditional roles.
"I took on some roles that had always been filled by male predecessors," she said.
Women who attended the speech agreed that Horowitz had brought up different issues.
"It was an eye-opener," said Hillary Mills, Hutchinson freshman. "I think people forget that you can have careers and families, and she
brought that up."
Elizabeth Hayes, Kansas City, Kan, freshman, said she felt Horowitz talked about issues that directly affected women.
"Women depending on their values is something that is almost forgotten." Hayes said.
"I think this is your week to use
your own thinking about your lives,
what you're going to do and how
you're going to end up," she said.
Horowitz encouraged all women to think about themselves during women's week.
Mark Thompson, academic program coordinator, said the week, devoted to women's issues, was named "Limitless" and was being set aside to raise issues that were challenging to women.
"The title 'Limitless' was chosen because it implies freedom to choose, freedom to challenge and be challenged," she said. "It's a testing of the boundaries."
Domestic violence: It's a police officer's nightmare
by Angela Clark
Kansan staff writer
Going out to catch a murderer is easier than getting involved in a family spat.
At least for Lawrence police officer Catherine Kelley it is.
"We're here to separate, to smooth down. We don't get to the core. We get so many calls for help."
"It's so stressful because people can turn so rapidly," she said. "They call the police because they can't handle the situation, and when we get to the person, the family turns their anger on the officer.
The Lawrence Police Department leaves that up to the Women's Transitional Care Services of
"We support them through difficulties," said Janet Hodges, WTCS coordinator of volunteers
and support groups. 'We help them through the steps going to court, victim counseling, just telling them.'
The service helps women recognize the three-phase cycle of violence with peer counseling.
In the first phase, tension builds and bickering and arguing begin, Hodges said. This leads to the second phase — abuse, which can be physical, emotional, sexual or economic.
After the violence, the couple undergoes a honeymoney period in which the abuser says that he is sorry and that it won't happen again.
But more likely than not, it does, Hodges said. "They have to break out of the system," she said.
Kelley described a typical cycle.
"They might threaten to press charges the night before, but the next day they're back home and they decide not to." she said. "They want to stay."
And this can be upsetting, both Hodges and Kelley said.
"You do get involved," said Kelley. "You try not to because you are there to break it up, not to cause damage."
Hodges said that the main goal of the service was to break the cycle and stop the violence. The way to stop it is to teach people how to express their anger and how to choose to avoid violence.
"It goes back to the choice," she said. "Whether or not to abuse is a conscious choice."
Kelley said that there were various reasons for domestic violence.
"Alcohol and drugs are a big part of it," she said. Domestic violence is prevalent in Lawrence, just south of Tulsa.
"It's happening — in Lawrence, and every day it goes across all lines of resistance, race, money."
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