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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL. 116 ISSUE 65
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2005
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CRIME
BY STEVE LYNN
slynn@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITE
Rachel Davis had blacked out when she left her residence hall room and drove drunk to an ATM on Nov. 4.
Davis, Knoxville, Iowa, freshman, said her friends told her she crashed into a vehicle, fled the scene and never reported the accident to police.
Someone recorded her license plate and called police, she said. The police officers contacted her parents, and she was charged
with operating under the influence, failure to report an accident and leaving the scene.
Since the accident, Davis has withdrawn from her classes and returned to Iowa to work to pay off her $6,500 in student loans, she said. She doesn't know how much she will have to pay in fines, but she knows it won't be cheap.
PATROL STATISTICS
Lawrence police didn't catch Davis the night of Nov. 4, but that same night, they handed out five OUIs, 18 moving violations, 38 speeding tickets, two seat-belt violations and one open-container violation during their saturation
Number of saturation patrols conducted in Lawrence since formation of the traffic unit:
◆ Oct. 2004 to Sept. 2005: 13
◆ Oct. 2004 to Sept. 2004: 7
◆ Oct. 2002 to Sept. 2003: 0
Number of sobriety check lanes conducted in Lawrence since
formation of the traffic unit:
♦ Oct. 2004 to Sept. 10; 3
♦ Oct. 2003 to Sept. 2004; 3
♦ Oct. 2002 to Sept. 2003; 4
patrol. An OUI is the same as a DUI and DWI, said Jerry Little, city prosecutor. The Lawrence Police Department will conduct another saturation patrol from 5 tonight to 3 a.m. Saturday.
Number of OUI arrests
* Oct. 2014 to Sept. 2005: 567
* Oct. 2013 to Sept. 2004: 569
Source: Sgt. Dan Went, Lawrence Police Department
A $2.2 million federal grant from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration allowed the city to form a new traffic unit in October 2002. The unit consists of seven vehicles,
six officers and one sergeant, who conduct the saturation patrols and check lanes.
Sgt. Dan Ward of the Lawrence Police Department said officers would also set up a sobriety check lane about 11 tonight in Lawrence. The department's new Blood Alcohol Testing van will be there to ease the procedure of testing potentially impaired drivers, he said.
Lt. Doug Woods of the Douglas County Sheriff's Office said the office would additional officers on the roads and highways during Thanksgiving week. Officers will look specifically for people not wearing seat belts and impaired drivers.
Traffic enforcement will continue from Nov. 21 to Nov. 27.
Last year, 459 people were killed in traffic crashes in Kansas. Woods said 116 of those deaths were alcohol related. In Kansas, a person involved in a car accident has a 23 percent chance of being injured or killed. A person's chance of injury or death increases to 46 percent when a car accident involves alcohol.
— Edited by Patrick Ross
ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT
Violations not a concern
University 'handled it properly'
BY RVAN SCHNEIDER
rschneider@kansan.com
KANSAM STAFF WRITER
Despite filing two separate reports outlining NCAA violations in the last six months and sophomore guard Darnell Jackson's nine-game suspension from the Kansas men's basketball team, the Kansas Athletics Department is not concerned about the negative light cast on its athletic programs.
This negative publicity does not include the Moon Bar incident involving former men's basketball player J.R. Giddens or the sexual harassment lawsuit filed against softball coach Tracy Bunge, because those incidents did not involve the NCAA.
Associate. Athletics Director Jim Marchiony said the Athletics Department dealt with the possible NCAA violations the right way.
"I think it would concern us if we hadn't handled it properly," Marchiony said. "We've handled the process as well as it can be handled. I think the NCAA appreciates that."
In an effort to curb future violations, every student athlete and coach meets with university compliance staff on a yearly basis to review NCAA rules. Marchiony said if those meetings were not held, the number of incidents "would be astronomical" and would present more problems for the Athletics Department.
Despite the rules education, secondary violations are not uncommon for college athletic programs.
"The NCAA would tell you every school has secondary violations." Marchionn said.
Kansas is not the only Big 12 Conference school to report NCAA violations over the last several years.
Earlier this year, Baylor's men's basketball program was barred from playing nonconference games this season after the NCAA found unethical conduct by former coach Dave Bliss. He was found to have paid the tuition of players on his team.
Rules violations, including improper extra benefits, were found at Missouri in 2004 prompting the men's basketball
NCAA VIOLATIONS
- Kansas boosters provided clothing and cash to men's basketball players' nets.
clothing and cash to men's basketball player's whose eligi-
bility is established in 2000.
basketball player's whose eligibility was finished (2000-2003)
Transportation for women's basketball
ketball recruits by former coaches and student athletes (2002)
Providing test preparation
- Providing test preparation classes for two women's basketball recruits (2002)
- ♦ Improper academic assistance, including shared answers, for football players (2003)
- Improper clothing provided to a football recruit and player (2003)
- Improper benefits, including transportation and lodging, provided to basketball player Darnell Jackson by a booster (2005)
Source: KU Athletics Department
program to be placed on three years of probation.
Colorado's football program was placed on two-year probation in 2002 after the NCAA found the school provided clothing and excessive reimbursement of travel expenses for recruits.
The Athletics Department self-reported numerous secondary violations to the NCAA this summer, by several sports programs, including the football and men's and women's basketball programs.
According to NCAA rules, lack of rules education is part of the criteria for determining if a university is found to have a lack of institutional control. The 'lack of institutional control' label is among the worst a university can get from the NCAA. The criteria also includes a pattern of secondary violations, failure to report violations in a timely manner and lack of action if a university knows about possible violations.
Marchiony said he has yet to hear word on the status of the NCAA investigation into the self report from this summer.
With several violations reported in the last six months, Marchiony said the NCAA would decide if Kansas could receive the lack-of-institutional-control tag.
An NCAA spokesperson declined to comment on the status of Kansas' report and said there was no timetable for the completion of the investigation.
"I certainly don't think there is a lack of institutional control," Marchiony said. "I think you'd see this with how we handled it."
Edited by Patrick Ross
RESEARCH
Stella Bentley, dean of libraries, responds to a question from Heide Crawford, German assistant professor, during the an impromptu meeting concerning issues of the libraries on campus on Thursday. Bentley called the meeting to discuss issues brought up by a formal paper on Monday.
English department upset at library
Janet Sharistian, associate professor of English, shows her frustration of research quality in the libraries during the meeting with the dean of libraries, Stella Bentley, Thursday afternoon in the Kansas Union
Rachel Soymour/KANSAN
BY FRANK TANKARD
fiankand@kansan.com
KANKSAN STAFF WRITER
Disgruntled faculty members and graduate students met with the dean of libraries in an impromptu meeting Thursday to voice a wide range of complaints concerning research in the libraries.
Nearly 100 faculty members, library staff and a few graduate students — mostly from the humanities departments — attended
the meeting, Stella Bentley, dean of libraries, called the meeting Monday after receiving a letter in the form of a position paper from the English department.
The complaints at the meeting centered on some serial journals being cut, concerns over the new library storage facility being constructed on West Campus, computer space being used by students surfing the Internet
SEE LIBRARY ON PAGE 4A
ARTS
Musical event to serve as a fundraiser
BY MALINDA OSBORNE
mosborne@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Try fitting more than 300 band members in one performance hall and directing everyone's movements as they fill the stage, aisles and any other free space, and you have the KU music and dance department's first ever Band Spectacular.
EVENT INFO
This program, which serves as a way to raise money for the department, would be a logistical conundrum for anyone unfamiliar, or familiar for that matter, with how to direct a band.
When: 3 p.m. Sunday
Where: Lied Center
Tickets: $7 for adults and $5
for students and seniors
Call 864-2787 for tickets
Source: School of Fine Arts
But Amy Knopps, a first-year graduate teaching assistant for the music department, said it was well worth the effort.
"It's really hard to fit everyone on stage," Knopps said, "so we'll have the Marching Jayhawks everywhere. They'll be on the sides of the house
The event is the brainchild of band director John Lynch in an effort to raise funds for more music scholarships.
and in the aisles. The audience will be in the middle of the sound and it will be very visually attractive."
The event is the brainchild of band director John Lynch in an effort to raise funds for more music scholarships. Lynch said this was key to accomplishing his goal of becoming one of the top five music programs in the nation.
"There are not enough scholarships to go around and in order to be competitive we have to offer more," Lynch said. "Everyone realizes this is important."
Knopps described the program as something like a sampler platter of the instrumental music department.
SEE MUSICAL ON PAGE 4A
Today's weather
Jayhawks to play in Maui for tournament Kansas' basketball team is traveling to Hawaii where it will spend six days focusing on the EASPORTS Maui Invitational. PAGE 6A
Business, philosophy combine to offer ethics Recent ethics violations in the business world have prompted some University of Kansas professors to create services to educate students in the School of Business about ethics. PAGE 2A
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Beginning of an era
Beginning of an era The Kansas men's basketball team will kick off its 2005-06 season at Allen Fieldhouse tonight. Kansas hosts Big Sky Conference member Idaho State before leaving for Maui, Hawaii, on Saturday. PAGE 10A
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