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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, February 22, 1995
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Biblical graffiti linked to grad student
By Eduardo A. Molina
Kansan staff writer
The message written in chalk, "Legalize Marriage," hasn't reappeared on the sidewalk in front of Wescow Hall since last month.
But similar chalk messages against divorce have been written on the sidewalk in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall and the Ekdahl Dining Commons.
The new messages read: "Pastors depraved, mum on divorce, with 50 percent divorce (See Mark 10:2-12)."
Kathleen Driscoll / KANBAN
The writer is referring to the Biblical passage in which Jesus counsels against divorce. But again, the writer left no identity.
But one student believes she has solved the mystery of the chalk messages.
Amy Kepka, Ellsworth sophomore, said she discovered the perpetrator while driving through campus at midnight.
"I have seen this Indian guy, the homeless man with the pink blanket, writing on the sidewalk," Kepa said. "I have seen him about three or four times."
But who is this person?
As people walk in front of Stauffer-Flint and Fraser halls, there are statements written in chalk on the sidewalk about divorce.
who does this work. His name is Thomas S. David, a graduate student.
from India.
Gerald Harris, director of International Student Services, said David was a doctoral student in English.
"He is a pretty interesting person," Harris said. "He used to have a place to live. He has a daughter who lives in Ottawa, but it seems to me that he is homeless now."
David did not want to comment about the meaning of his messages. His only words were, "Don't force me to talk. I don't want to talk."
Kepka isn't perplexed about the messages.
The first time I read them I didn't have any feelings about it," she said. "I think his ideas are about the church and marriage." Nika said chalk messages weren't a bad form of
expression.
"Everybody has an opinion," she said. "He states his opinion in a nonaggressive way, and it is his right to do it."
Lit cigarette and sleeping smoker cause Towers fire
Kansan staff report
A lit cigarette was all it took to start a couch on fire yesterday morning in a sixth floor room at Jayhawker Towers.
The cigarette fell between the cushions of the couch and started smoldering.
Chris Wickler, Shawnee freshman, said he was talking to his sister at about 5 a.m. yesterday and dozed off after the phone call with a lit cigarette in his hand.
"The next thing I knew, my roommate was punching me, telling me to wake up," he said.
His roommate, Andrew Klaasmeyer, Olathe freshman, said he was asleep when he heard the fire alarm. Klaasmeyer jumped out of bed and ran to the living room, which was filled with smoke.
Klaasmeyer woke up Wickizer and grabbed some rags. He wet them and threw them on the couch.
Wickier said that after smoldering for a few minutes, a cushion on the couch caught fire and shot flames two or three feet high.
Wickizer and Klaasmeyer threw water on the couch and put out the fire. They then went outside with the other evacuated residents.
Klaasmeyer said that when the Lawrence fire department arrived it had to cut the couch in half to take it out of the room.
KU police transported Klaasmeyer to Lawrence Memorial Hospital after he suffered second degree burns on his hand. He was treated and released yesterday. Wickizer was not injured.
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