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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Weekend Edition
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2000
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(USPS 650-640) • VOL. 110 NO. 99
Two students allegedly raped by same person during party
By Mindie Miller
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Two female KU students who attended a Halloween party the night of Oct. 30 say they were raped by the same man.
Lawrence police said the 20-year-old and 21-year-old students both went to a party held at a private residence in the 1600 block of Tennessee Street. Police said both victims consumed alcoholic beverages and then went to separate rooms in the residence to lie down and take naps. The alleged sexual assaults took place between 7:10 p.m. Oct. 30 and 3 a.m. Oct. 31.
Sgt. George Wheeler said police had been in contact with a male suspect, whom he described as a 21-year-old Leawood resident. The incident report does not indicate whether the suspect is a KU student, Wheeler said.
The victims apparently knew the suspect as an acquaintance — someone who was attending the party — but not as a friend, Wheeler said. He said that the two victims were acquainted with one another but that he didn't think they had come to the party together.
He said the victims waited until Nov. 2 before calling police.
Wheeler said he could not comment on whether a rape kit had been performed. He said police waited until yesterday to release the report to the public because they were trying to build a case.
"We have contacted the suspect and attempted to interview him without success," Wheeler said. "We have written up a report and are sending it to the DA's office to see what, if any, charges will be filed."
Douglas County District Attorney Christine Tonkovich said yesterday that her office had just received the report and had not had time to review it. She could not comment on whether action would be taken.
EVENTS CALENDAR
Tonight:
Del McCoury and Split Lip Rayfield, 8 p.m. at the Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St. 18 and older, $12.
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Ladies night with D.J. Kilby, 9:30 p.m.
at the Brown Bear Brewing Co., 729
Massachusetts St. Ladies free, men $2.
■ Space Pocket, 10 p.m. at The Jazzhaus,
926-1/2 Massachusetts St..21 and older, $4.
TOMORROW:
Darkstar Orchestra, 8 p.m. at the Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St..18 and older. $10.
The Strut, 10 p.m. at the Brown Bear Breeding Co., 729 Massachusetts St. $4.
Brewing Co. 12, Massachusetts St. 8.
Shannon Curfman, 7 p.m. at the Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St. 18 and older, $7.
Jeffrey Lee and the Pale Moon Kings, 10 p.m. at The Jazzhaus, 926-1/2 Massachusetts St. 21 and older, $4.
T.S. Monk, 8 p.m. at the Lied Center,
students, $6, nonstudents $12.
Index
News ...3A
News Briefs ...2A
Opinion ...4A
Feature ...6A
Coupons ...3B
Track ...3B
Horoscopes ...2B
Movie Listings ...5A
Classified ...4B-5B
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Natalia Reynolds,
Neodesha sophomore,
discusses her current
project with Ben
Revelle, an Arnold,
Mo., sophomore.
Architecture students
typically spend many
sleepless nights working
together in the studios of Marvin Hall.
Photo by Craig
Bennett/KANSAN
Students burn midnight oil in Marvin
By Clare McLellan
Special to the Kansan
The lights are always on in Marvin Hall. John Gaunt, in his sixth year as dean of architecture and urban design, hears about it all the time.
"People walk by late at night and notice the lights are on and always ask me what goes on in here," he said.
What does go on in Marvin Hall, the ornate old building at the end of Jayhawk Boulevard? Sketching, drawing, drafting, model-making, laughing, talking, collaborating, eating, drinking, sleeping, singing, playing — at all hours, all year long.
Architecture students take 165 hours within their five-year bachelor's degree program. Combined with an average of 20 to 40 hours per week outside of class and inside the studio, majoring in architecture is a full-time job with long nights and tedious work that takes a particular personality.
A creative, artistic impulse is what draws people to study architecture, Gaunt said.
They must also be committed.
"You gotta have the love"
Students may enter the school of architecture freshman year, but the application process is highly selective — only about 50 percent of applicants are accepted.
"I always loved drawing, painting and building Legos, but at first I wanted to be an artist," he said. "My grandma was an artist.
Tom McDonough, St. Louis, junior, said he wanted to be an architect since he was four.
and she told me, 'Be an architect, they make more money.' So that's what I decided to do, and I love it. You gotta have the love."
Barry Newton, professor of architecture and urban design, has been teaching in Marvin Hall for 20 years. To be a successful architect, he said, a student must be hardworking and adventurous.
"The students come from very different backgrounds, which is good," he said. "We wouldn't want generic architects, because there aren't generic buildings or generic clients."
It's 10:30 on a Tuesday night, and Room 114 in Marvin Hall is alive.
All work and no play?
"This building just seems to have a presence," said Mariah Walters, Bonner Springs junior and architecture major.
The students in Dave Griffin's third-year studio have a project due in less than a week, and the room is full.
Several small conversations about measurements, preliminary sketches, music and wisdom teeth pop up periodically. And there's lots of laughter.
"We have a good time," Walters said.
"The atmosphere in here is supportive. We're here for each other. What we go through together forms such a great bond. I wasn't looking for friends. It just happens."
Most students agreed the studio was their home away from home. Such circumstances produce a sort of subculture, Newton said.
See ARCHITECTURE on page 2A
Architecture faculty to decide fate of undergraduate program
By Nathan Willis
writer@kansan.com
Kansan campus editor
Faculty of the School of Architecture and Urban Design will vote at noon today on a proposal that would eliminate the undergraduate architecture program in favor of a six-year program resulting in a master's degree.
However, students in the school said they were angry because most were not informed about the vote until yesterday and then only through word of mouth.
"There's been nothing explained to us," said Marcus Carter, a St. Louis fifth-year senior. "The students just want to have a voice, to have input to the professors."
John Gaunt, dew of architecture, said the students' beliefs that they purposely had been left in the dark about the vote were wrong.
"There's nothing secretive about it," he said. "But these kinds of changes make people very nervous."
Rather, the vote is a step in a long process to change the school's emphasis, he said.
"The school has been going through a
gradual transition to a graduate emphasis from an undergraduate emphasis," he said. "It's not something that's happening overnight."
He also said that in the new six-year program, students would earn a bachelor of arts degree as well as a master's degree in architecture. He said that, if approved, the changes would be phased in slowly and that no current students would be forced out of the five-year undergraduate degree.
Still, Patrick Gleason, a fifth-year St. Louis senior, said administrators needed to listen to the negative student reaction.
"They seemed surprised that, to us, this should be a very big deal." Gleason said.
"The students are very interested, and the sad thing is that so few have had the opportunity to learn anything about it."
Donna Luckey, chairwoman of architecture and urban design, will meet with architecture students at 8 a.m. today on the third floor of Marvin Hall.
"Students are under a lot of misinformation, and we need to clear that up." Luckey said. "This proposal would give them a much stronger professional education."
As spendthrift as they want to be
The Jayhawks look for a victory at home tomorrow against K-State to keep the league title within reach.
See page 1B
See page 5A
Student Senate campaigns won't be bound by spending limits.
From Hoosier to 'Hawk
Women's golf coach Nicole Hollingsworth will lead the Jayhawks against Indiana, her alma mater, this weekend.
See page 3B
Redemption in love
Unique writer
Unique writer William S. Burroughs charts the final nine months of his life with a focus on his affection for others.
See page 6A
Spring enrollment on the rise
The University enjoyed a 1.3 percent increase in students compared to last spring.
See page 3A