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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Weekend Edition
FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 2000
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Campus police continue search for Burge Union shooting suspect
By Sara Shepherd writer@kanson.com Kanson staff writer
The KU Public Safety Office still is searching for information to help identify a suspect in the shooting of a KU student early Sunday morning at the Burge Union.
"All we have is a general description, but we have not identified who this person is," said Ralph Oliver, director of the KU Public Safety Office. "We have no clue who it is."
An article in yesterday's Kansan incorrectly reported that the suspect had been identified. A crime alert issued Wednesday listed only a physical description of an unknown man.
The most recent composite describes the suspect as an 18- to 21-year-old African-American male, who is between 5-foot-7 and 5-foot-9-inches, and 130 to 140 pounds.
Composite sketch of shooting suspect
party sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
According to the composite, the suspect was wearing a hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans.
Gregory J.
Davis, Denver
senior, was shot
in the hip shortly
after 1:30 a.m.
Sunday at the
Frontier Room in
the Burge. Davis
was of 25 dances
Oliver said investigators had questioned students who attended the party. He said that many of the same people went to similar parties each week and that some of them probably knew the suspect. He said public safety officers had obtained information from the interviews.
"We are getting some cooperation," Oliver said. "We're basing the direction of our investigation off the information that we get."
KU Crime Stoppers is offering a $2,000 award to anyone who supplies information that leads to the arrest of the suspect.
Ann Ewersole, associate dean of students and chairwoman of KU Crime Stoppers, said yesterday that she was unaware of any callers, despite the large award.
Oilver said $2,000 was the biggest award offered by KU Crime Stoppers since the program began in the mid-80s. The average award usually is $200 to $300.
Anyone who has information about the crime should call the KU Public Safety Office at 644-5900 or KU Crime Stoppers at 864-8888.
EVENTS CALENDAR
Tonight:
The Breathing Show, 8 p.m. at the Lied Center. For tickets, call 864-ARTS.
DJ Kilby, 10 p.m. at the Brown Bear Brewing Co., 729 Massachusetts St. $2, 21 and older.
Shaking Tree and Jived Turkey, 10 p.m. at the Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St. $6 and $5, 18 and older.
Son Venezuela, 10 p.m. at the Jazhaus,
981 11 Massachusetts St, $4 21 and over.
Tomorrow:
The Magic School Bus, 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. at the Lied Center. For tickets, call 864-ARTS.
DJ Pedro, 10 p.m. at Coco Loco Mexican
Cafe, 943 Massachusetts St. $7 and $4, 18
and over.
Index
News .3A
Nation/World .6B
Feature .8A
Basketball .1B
Horoscopes .2B
Track .3B
Movie Listings .6A
Classifieds .6B-7B
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Neighbors fight back
City association wants landlords to curtail noise
By Jessie Meyer
writer@kanson.com
Kansan staff writer
It was 2 a.m., and Ann Merydith-Wolf was ripped awake from a sound sleep because her bed started to shake.
Sitting straight up in bed, Merydith Wolf, project coordinator for international programs at the University of Kansas, assured herself there was not an earthquake and looked out her bedroom
Illustration by Jason Williams / KANSAN
and saw what she learnt. The neighbors were throwing another party. It was the bass from the stereo blasting through the windows that was pumping through her chest.
"This is the third set of students to rent next door," said Merydith-Wolf, who has owned her home at 616 Mississippi St. for six years. "Each year it gets a little bit worse."
But residents want it to get better. Wednesday, during a morning work session with the city commission, the Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods asked the city to require landlords to register their rental properties — and, hopefully, to curtail some of the frustration.
Jo Anderson Abbott, chair of the association, said the goal of registration would be to keep track of where the disruptions took place so problems could be monitored and controlled.
The problem lies in tracking which homes are rented and which are owned. According to U.S. Census data for Lawrence, 52.4 percent of homes are rentals and 47.6 percent are owned, but homes are converted into rentals annually. Jim Henry, city commissioner, said there might be a fee involved in keeping such records — a fee that might not be welcomed.
robert Ebey, vice president of Landlords of Lawrence, Inc., said that landlords were the last to hear about the noise problems, but that when they were informed, they tried to correct the problems. Therefore, the plan's potential effectiveness is questionable, he said.
Residents like Merydith-Wolf who deal with partygoers urinating in their yards and staggering down their streets say they need some kind of intervention.
"When all is said and done, we still have to be neighbors," she said. "I've been trying to cultivate a relationship, hoping they would modify their own behavior."
Dave Wysong, Sabeth junior, said the police had come a few times to his house to break up parties. Wysong said that during the most recent bust, the police officers who came to the house checked
his driver's license and told him to break up the party.
"I had to kick out everyone who wasn't an overnight guest," Wysong said. "We didn't really have any room to complain."
Lawrence Police Sgt. George Wheeler said the department dispatched police officers when anonymous neighbors called the station's non-emergency phone number.
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"When all is said and done, we still have to be neighbors. I've been trying to cultivate a relationship hoping they would modify their own behavior."
Ann Merydith-Wolf international programs project coordinator
Sailing away
Interest in the Kansas Sailing Club has been growing rapidly, and now it has received recognition from a national magazine.
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Battling about booze
Kansas lawmakers propose statewide keg registration despite protests from lobbyists.
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State of the Union
President Bill Clinton outlined several new initiatives and proposed tax cuts for his final year in office last night.
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Taking a breather
Dancer Bill T. Jones will perform Audiences will perform "The Breathing Show" tonight at the Lied Center.
See page 6A
No calm in the eye of this storm
The Kansas women's basketball team will encounter an Iowa State Cyclone team with an affinity and ability for three-point shooting.
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