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Jayplay: Outdoor music festivals signal summer is about to begin.
THURSDAY, MAY 4, 2000
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Athletics Department responds to allegations
By Mindie Miller
writer@kanson.com
Kanson staff writer
The KU Athletics Department yesterday answered a Kansas women's soccer player's allegations that two Jayhawk football players sexually battered her and that the department discouraged her from reporting it.
In a press release yesterday, Bob Frederick, athletics director, expressed his sadness for the alleged battery and said the department had encouraged the victim to seek counseling at the University of Kansas or elsewhere.
"We will continue to assist her in any way possible," he said. "Our athletics department has always emphasized to our student-athletes the importance of treating everyone with dignity and respect."
The victim said in a statement given to Lawrence police that on Feb. 26 two football players held her face-down on a vehicle in the parking lot of The Yacht Club, 530 Wisconsin St. She said they touched her between her legs, spanked her and taunted her.
She said she waited more than two months to report the battery because her coach, Mark Francis, advised her to go to the department first. She also said that when she and Francis met with football coach Terry Allen on March 2, Allen told her if she pressed charges it would be an unpleasant experience and he would not punish his players as harshly because the crimi
Allen: says he was not making deal with female athlete
tice system would do it instead.
"I apologize for and regret the misunderstanding with the young woman that occurred as it related to our conversation," Allen said. "I was not, in any way, trying to make a deal with the student-athlete for her to not report this matter to the police."
But Allen said in a statement yesterday that he told the victim he would support her 100 percent if she wanted to report the battery to the police.
The victim said she went to the police because Allen's punishment consisted of making the players run stairs at Memorial Stadium, which she thought was inadequate.
Allen did not confirm or deny whether he made the football players run stairs, but he said the media did not know about all the actions he'd taken in connection with the incident.
"I have been working with my staff to continue our ongoing efforts to take appropriate action to eliminate unacceptable behavior by any member of the football team," he said. "Furthermore, if either football student-athlete is convicted of any crime related to this incident, that individual will be immediately dismissed from the football team."
Francis said in a statement yesterday that when the victim came to him, he told her she should talk to Allen and should consider reporting the battery to the police. He said Allen told her at their meeting that he would support her if she reported the battery and that he would deal with the accused players.
Sgt. George Wheeler of the Lawrence Police Department said yesterday that police had contacted one of the suspects, who had admitted to putting the victim on the vehicle but not to touching her inappropriately. Reporting the battery to the police earlier would have been in the victim's best interest, he said. "The sooner any of these types of events are reported to police," he said, "the better case we have a chance of making simply because evidence can be lost and time blurs people's memories."
A billboard east of Salina advertised the "Indian Burial Pit," which remained open for business until 1989. In 1990, the United States passed the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. The act requires museums and federal agencies that have Native American remains and cultural items in their collections to meet with groups to discuss the return of items. Photo courtesy of Battlefields and Burial Grounds
RECLAIMING THE PAST
Native Americans work with University to return bones and artifacts
Native-American activists protest a sale of "Indian relics" in Kentucky. Several groups are working with the University of Kansas so that the relics of their ancestors may be returned. Photo courtesy of Battlefields and Burial Grounds
STORY BY RYAN BLETHEN
Even though the Pawnee presented the white men with their Army scout discharge papers, a shot was fired. A Pawnee fell dead. A running fire fight ensued. When the smoke cleared, all the Pawnee had died and all the whites had lived.
It was February 2, 1869. A group of Pawnee men stopped at a homestead by Mulberry Creek in Lincoln County, northwest of Salina. Suspicious Kansas settlers and United States Army soldiers confronted the Indians. What happened next was a common frontier scene.
The Pawnee scouts were to suffer one last indignity. A surgeon at nearby Fort Harkin decapitated six of the dead scouts and sent the heads to the Army Medical Museum in Washington, D.C. for cranial metric research, a method used in the 19th century to try to prove the superiority of the white race. The skulls ended up in the Smithsonian Institution.
Francis Morris, a member of the Pawnee tribe, said the return of these skulls was important to the Pawnee, even without the rest of the skeleton.
Museums have collected Native American remains since the later part of the 19th century, including the University of Kansas.
"They are each individuals," he said. "Each small bone counts as an individual."
On the bottom floor of a building on campus, kept a secret for security reasons, the University stores its collection of Native-American bones.
Stacked against the two long walls of the 7-by-20-foot room are containers ranging in size from a shoe box to a computer paper box.
Human bones fill the boxes. In one box a skull with a dark hole where a spine entered stares at the top of its container.
Even though the University has only had an anthropology museum since 1976, it collected indigenous peoples' remains throughout the
More information For copies of letters sent from Fort Harkin to the Army Medical Museum regarding Native-American remains, see www.kansan.com
first half of the 20th century
Now these items will be finding their way back to their tribes, their descendants, their homes.
KU's anthropology museum at Spooner Hall is in the process of returning its collection of Native-American bones and artifacts to 14 tribes who either live in Kansas or have lived in Kansas in the past.
The University is using a $71,270 grant from the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act to identify the museum's "unaffiliated human remains" and "associated objects" from archeological sites in Kansas. Unaffiliated human remains are skeletons or part of a skeleton that may or may not belong to a particular tribe. Associated objects are artifacts, such as necklaces or belts, that can most likely be connected to a tribe.
Maintaining Heritage
The Potawatomi have a word for their deceased: "Pastaways."
Rey Kitchkumme, a tribal council member for the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation and the Potawatomi representative for the KU repatriation process, said the return of his ancestors is paramount to his tribe.
When remains and objects are disturbed they become something they are not meant to be, Kitchkumme said.
"Those Pastaways need to be put back to rest," Kitchkume said. "It is part of maintaining part of your own heritage."
"A lot of those items have spiritual value to our members," he said. "They become material things when they're collected."
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Students seek space to meet summer storage needs
By Doug Pacey writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
When school ends in two weeks some students will stuff, pack and force their belongings into boxes to take or ship home.
"I can't take all of my stuff home for the summer because it costs a lot to send it home, and I don't have a car to drive it back either," said Jeremy Ozias, Herndon, Va., sophomore. "I'm taking summer clothes, my computer and some other stuff that I need home. The rest is going to be in storage here."
But for those other students who, for one reason or another, can't take all of their belongings home, they will have to leave some of their stuff in Lawrence.
Students have a couple of options when it comes to storing what they're not taking home for the summer — they can rent a storage unit or leave their belongings with a friend in the area.
Ozias said he and a friend rented a storage unit and were splitting the cost.
St. James Self Storage, 2201 St.
James Court, is one of a six storage buildings in Lawrence that still has available units.
"We're relatively new so we have some openings," manager Wanda Miller said.
Miller said she had rented to
some students, and many others had called and inquired about availability.
"A lot of them said they were going to wait until after May 15 because the month will be prorated then," she said. "I hope they all don't wait until the last minute, though, but I'm going to have extended hours around then because of this."
Marissa Brumley, manager of Parkway Storage, 4921 Wakarusa Court, said her building was almost full and that she had started renting to more and more students in the past week.
"We've rented out to quite a few students already," she said. "It really varies, but I started seeing
a lot of students a few weeks ago, but the first week of May it is noticeable and will be busiest around the 12th and 13th.
Other storage buildings in Lawrence are either at capacity or near it.
Eric Corp, owner of Mail Boxes Etc. in the Kansas Union, said Mail Boxes Etc. had a program tailored for students who needed summer storage in Lawrence.
For $135, the store offers free pick-up, delivery, boxes, tape and 10 cubic feet of storage space.
Corp said the boxes would be stored in a climate-controlled environment with a professional moving company.
SUMMER STORAGE OPTIONS
The following companies have available storage units for this summer. The unit size, price and availability vary for each.
■ Mail Boxes Etc.: 864-MAIL — $135 for
10 cubic ft. of space for summer.
A Ert's Econo Self Storage: 842-5937 -
About 20 x 512 ft. units available.
AAP Storage: 838.9977 — Many sizes
starting at 5x10 ft
A-1 Mini Storage: 842-6262 — Units
available in the month.
■ Parkway Storage: 749-3499 — Very few units available.
Heck Storage: 865-3614 — Only 12x36
ft. units available.
- St. James Self Storage: 838-4764 - Many units available.
Leaping at the Lied Center
The University Dance Company performance tonight features a variety of dance styles, including ballet and contemporary jazz. The program begins at 8 p.m. tonight and tomorrow at the Lied Center. Photo Jamie Roper/KANSAN
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