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Ecumenical Christian Ministries 1904 Ovied
FEBRUARY 2: Latin American Solidarity Planning Meeting (No Dinner) 6:00 p.m.
FEBRUARY 3: Spiritual Life Retreat
At Camp Chippewa
Cost: $10
Leave ECM at 6:00 p.m.
Friday Free Movie
"New York, New York"
Popcorn and Drink Provided
"20 mins"
Sponsored by
United Methodist Church
Presbyterian Church (USA)
United Church of Christ
of the Brethren
FEBRUARY 5: Sunday Worship & Supper
5:30 p.m.
FEBRUARY 8: University Forum
Professor Jan Roskam
"The Stealth Bomber:
Why and How."
Lunch line opens at 11:40
Speaker begins at Noon
Valentine's Day at the Kansas and Burge Unions
In 300 words or less, write an essay about your worst or funniest date. Winner will receive a gift certificate for dinner for two at Flitt's Nabil's and two tickets to the KU production of Cabaret (Apr.14-16,20-22). For more details, stop by SUA
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--ings, harassing phone calls, harassing statements made in public business places, notes left on doors and threats of violence.
Giuliana Nakashima/Special to the KANSAN
Flute music
Shakuhachi musician John Neptune performs an original musical piece on a flute. Neptune, who lives in Japan, was in Lawrence for the opening of the Spencer Museum of Art's exhibition of the Art of Zen.
Network supports harassment victims
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cast spring, for instance, Tolbert said three gay men were returning to their parked car behind Strong Hall when a man smashed the back window of their car with a heavy object and shouted the word "faggot."
The Victim Assistance Network,
established by Citizens for Human
Rights in Lawrence, gives support to
those who have been harassed,
threatened or treated unfairly
because of their sexual orientations.
Tolbert and Cook said their effort to document instances of harassment was part of their official roles as a representative of the Victim Assistance Network.
The data will be used to counter those who say there is no discrimination against gays and lesbians in Lawrence and who oppose an amendment to include sexual orientation under the protective umbrella of Lawrence's human rights ordinance, Cook said.
Human Rights Ordnance 5436 now gives the city the power to protect citizens from being discriminated against on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, ancestry or handicap. The ordinance leaves out protection for those disputed against on the basis of sexual orientation.
Requiring documentation is a catch-22 situation, Tolbert said, because the city will not pass the amendment without documentation and will not document instances of an assault without violence without such an amendment.
Tolbert said she did not believe documentation should be necessary to pass the amendment to the Human Rights Ordinance.
Rehella Samuel, director of the Lawrence Human Relations Department, said that on Nov. 17, 1987, an ad in a magazine called *The New York Times* instances of harassment ream
The city commission voted in January, 1988, not to include sexual orientation as a protected class after more than seven hours of public debate.
mended the Human Rights ordinance be amended to include sexual orientation as a protected class.
Tim Brownlee, secretary for Citizens for Human Rights, said that requiring documentation before protecting a minority group such as gays and lesbians was like asking how many blacks were refused service at the counters of Woolworths in the 1950s.
I convent said she thought discrimination against blacks and other minority groups happened for the reason as discrimination against gays.
"I think all those things come from a place where a person has to protect him or herself, and so they feel better. Somebody else down," Tobler said.
Tobert and Cook said that discrimination against gays and lesbians was common nationwide.
Until recently, she said, states were not required to keep records about civil rights abuses against gays and lesbians.
In a 1984 study conducted by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Washington, D.C., of nearly 2.074 homosexuals (654 females and 1,420 males) in Boston, New York, Atlanta, St. Louis, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles and Seattle, more than one in five gay men and nearly one in 10 lesbians reported having been the victim of physical assaults.
One-third reported threats of violence. More than 90 percent reported some kind of harassment, threat or assault.
Nearly half of the gay men and one-fifth of the lesbians reported that they had been harassed, threatened with physical assault in high schools or junior high schools.
Four in five said they thought that they might be victimized at some time in the future.
Chamber polled; controversy rises
Lawrence residents voice concerns about suburban mall development
by Angela Clark Kansan staff writer
The South Lawrence Trafficway,
increased economic development in
Lawrence and the downtown River-
front Plaza once again are the top three concerns of the Lawrence
Department. The department released an annual survey released Tuesday.
Surveys were sent out to 1,540 members of the chamber and 476, or 30 percent, returned them.
Ann Wiklund, chamber membership director, said the census directly related to the sentiments of the community.
"Our membership includes not only businesses, but many other segments of the Lawrence community," she said. "We include many broad based. Because we are so broadly based, this represents the community."
Wiklund's opinions are not shared by Alonzo Beardshear, a member of a chamber opposition group. Let The People Decide. For a Change.
"It just doesn't profit Lawrence.",
Beardshear said on the top priorities.
"We need to sit back and take some
action," he said in a situation,
rather than quick solutions."
Gary Toebben, president of the chamber, said the only suprise on the
survey was low support for a suburban mall.
In 1988, 52 percent of the members polled gave the mail low priority. In 1989, 61 percent disliked it.
But Tooebben said the new Riverfront Plaza had not influenced the drop in support.
"Our members support the Riverfront Plaza," he said. "We've discussed additional retail facilities for the residents, and we've started that everyone has agreed on."
Beardshear said a mall was not needed downtown.
"I'm not too happy about it," he said. "I'm afraid that downtown businesses will be hurt by it. People come to Lawrence for the creativity of the small shops, not mediocre big business."
Increased state financing for the University of Kansas was considered top priority by 50 percent of the revenue, a 10 percent decrease from 1988.
But this is a difference of a change in survey wording rather than a change in support for KU, Toebben said.
"Throughout the survey, more people rated things top priority last year more than this year," he said.
Mind gets workout in sports laboratory
Kansan staff writer
by Scott Achelpohl
The new laboratory, 125 Robinson Center, is housed in a former storeroom and soon will be available to KU students.
The popularity of sports psychology has prompted the Department of Physical Education and Recreation to develop a technology laboratory to its curriculum.
The laboratory offers hands-on sports psychology training for students and therapy for athletes to enhance athletic performance, said Wayne Osness, professor and chairman in the HPER department and member of the United States Olympic Committee.
"The lab is just in its infancy," Osness said.
Sports psychology is the study of the psychological aspects of athletes and athletic competition, Osness said, and is used to help athletes prepare themselves mentally for competition. It also is used to help increase athletic performance to its highest levels.
David Cook, supervisor of the lab and director of sports psychology, said the lab, which will open soon, would offer a variety of sports psychology services and valuable training for students in the major.
The lab will offer biofeedback training, relaxation management, mastery tapes to help athletes visualize their success in competition, and services to help athletes improve training during competition he said.
Bifeedback training and relaxation management help athletes use their minds to reduce body tension and improve grip and body temperature. Cook said.
"Anyone interested in enhancing their athletic performance can use the lab," he said. "It will help athletes and help the graduate students receive experience on their applied sports psychology degrees."
Cook said the lab would be open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 8 a.m. to noon and from noon to 5 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
The Associated Press
Shuttle liftoff may face some delays for repairs
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA says it will probably have to replace at least two suspect turbopumps whose failure could touch the ground. Discovery and the repairs could delay the shuttle's liftoff indefinitely.
Shuttle managers scheduled a late afternoon meeting today to discuss the three turbopumps, which became questionable when NASA discovered
tiny cracks in one of Atlantis' pumps following that shuttle's December flight.
The space agency had been aiming for a Feb. 23 liftoff, but a series of technical delays have prevented that date. The agency said it didn't have a new date.
The technical problems have postponed Discovery's rollout to the launch pad, originally set for Jan. 26, a total of eight days.
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