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The Inside Front
Tuesday January 18,2000
News
from campus, the state the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Coach still under review for athletes' treatment
Whether action will be taken against Kansas swimming and diving coach Garv Kempf still is undecided.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway said Bob Frederick, athletics director, was working with Kempf to consider allegations of mistreating athletes raised in a Nov. 17 Kansan article. Hemenway said the decision ultimately would be up to Frederick.
Frederick had no comment Thursday.
Complaints from athletes included Kempf's verbal abrasiveness, encouraging unhealthy eating practices and ridiculing athletes in front of their teammates. Several swimmers and assistant coaches have left the team in recent years.
— Erinn R. Barcomb
KU playwrights, actors to compete in festival
Members of KU's English
Members of KU's English Alternative Theater will compete at the regional festival of the Kennedy Center/American College Theater Festival this week in Sioux Falls, S.D.
Student playwrights and actors will compete at the regional level for scholarships and recognition to perform in April at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
"This is the sixth time we've been selected to take a show," said Paul Lim, EAT advisor and associate professor of English. "Each time, I hope we can be selected to perform at the Kennedy Center."
The two plays in contention are the one-act play, "Bereft," by Nick Woods, May 1998 KU graduate, and the 10-minute play, "Pterodactyls," by Scott Ferree, McPherson senior.
"Bereft" was produced in Lawrence last October," Lim said. "The feedback we received was that it was a truly powerful script. We have high hopes for it."
Seven or eight plays from different regional festivals will be packaged for the Kennedy Center with cash prizes from $1,000 to $2,000. Lim said. Winners also are guaranteed publication, given New York agents, and their plays will be publicized and distributed nationally.
Scenes from the plays "April in Akron" by Dan Kulmala, Lawrence graduate student, and "Writing Love Songs for Holly" by Chris Nelson, Lawrence junior, also will be performed at the festival.
SIX KU students were chosen to compete at the same festival with more than 300 other actors in the region for the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarships.
— BriAnne Hess
LAWRENCE
Asbestos removed at new arts center site
Developers have found and removed dangerous amounts of asbestos in the 900 block of New Hampshire Street, the site for the new Lawrence Arts Center.
jeff Shmalberg, one of the owners of Berkely Plaza, Inc., said the Inspection Group of Topeka, which did the original environmental assessment, said asbestos levels were not high enough to require professional removal. Berkely Plaza, Inc., is handling the demolition of the four houses on the site.
Although the site was originally cleared for asbestos, Kansas Department of Health and Environment inspectors arrived Dec. 15 on a citizen request to check asbestos levels. The levels were dangerously high. Removal began Jan. 3 and was completed Thursday.
The additional work required will cost the city $23,600 more than originally planned. The City Commission originally agreed to give Berkeley Plaza, Inc. $20,000 for their services. The asbestos removal increased that fee to $43,600.
Gary Miller, chief of the air and asbestos compliance section at the Kansas Department of Health in Topeka, said the inspector had not received proper training for the job.
Shmalberg said Inspection Group officials asked that their $3,000 fee be transferred to the cost of the asbestos removal.
— John Audlehelm
Officer sentenced after striking cyclist
A Lawrence police officer was fined $200 Dec. 16 and ordered to compensate the 22-year old bicyclist he struck with his Jeep while legally intoxicated.
Officer Micah Stegall, 24, struck 22-year-old cyclist Stephen Mitchell after leaving a downtown bar early Aug. 7. Stegall pleaded guilty Nov. 11 to charges of battery and driving under the influence.
Stegall's blood alcohol level was 0.117 at the time of the accident. The legal limit is 0.08.
As part of the compensation owed to Mitchell, Stegall must pay the victim's medical bills, lost wages and the cost of replacing his destroyed bicycle.
Kansas Senior Judge Adrian Alien also handed Stegall two years of unsupervised probation and ordered him to complete 100 hours of community service.
In addition, he must cover all court costs and expenses associated with the alcohol abuse evaluation and counseling that were part of his sentence.
Because Stegall was convicted of misdemeanors, it was City Manager Mike Wilden's decision whether to keep him on the force. City code
Sgt. George Wheeler said Stegall still had a job on the force.
mandates termination if an officer is convicted of a felony.
"The city manager retained Stegall as an officer," Wheeler said. "He is still an officer assigned to patrol duties."
Mindie Miller
Man found incompetent to stand trial for rape
A 29-year-old Lawrence man accused of two 1999 attacks on female KU students, including one in which he allegedly wore a clown disguise, was found not mentally competent to stand trial.
Douglas County District Judge Jack Murphy, after reviewing an evaluation by the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center, ordered the man to undergo further evaluation at Lamed State Hospital.
He is accused of a Dec. 1 attack on a 21-year-old female KU student. The woman struggled with her attacker and finally convinced him to leave. She said the attacker was wearing a clown disguise that included goggles over his eyes.
He also is accused of a June 22 attack on a 21-year-old female KU student who told police a man jumped on top of her in bed and held her wrists. The attacker then said he was in the wrong apartment, got up and left.
The suspect was charged with one count of attempted rape and two counts each of aggravated burglary and battery.
Dave Zabel, assistant Douglas County district attorney, said the suspect could be held at the state hospital for up to 90 days for further evaluation. If and when he is ruled competent, the case will begin.
— Mindie Miller
WORLD
Russia's new doctrine expands nuclear use
MOSCOW — Russia unveiled its new national security doctrine on Friday, broadening the Kremlin's authority to use nuclear weapons and accusing the United States of trying to weaken Russia and become the world's dominant power.
The doctrine replaces one adopted in 1997, a time when political and military partnership with the West were still buzzwords and many Russians remained optimistic about the country's economic future.
The Associated Press
But Russia's attitude to the West has hardened following the eastward expansion of NATO and the alliance's intervention in Yugoslavia, and because the nation's economic reform efforts have suffered serious setbacks.
Former KU student sentenced to prison for criminal sodomy
By Mindie Miller
writher@kansan.com
Kansan stoff writer
A former KU student was sentenced Jan. 5 to more than 12 years in prison in connection with two 1999 attacks on female KU students.
William A. Morris, a Daleville, Ala., freshman who withdrew from the University of Kansas during his trial, likely will serve only 10 years of his sentence, but will be required to register as a sex offender in any community in which he lives.
"This office believes the sentence imposed is appropriate given the nature of the crimes," said Angela Wilson, assistant Douglas County district attorney.
Morris pleaded guilty Dec. 2 to two counts of aggravated burglary and one count of aggravated criminal sodomy.
The criminal sodomy charge and one count of aggravated burglary stemmed from a July 20 incident in which a female student said she woke and found Morris naked in her bed, performing oral sex on her.
District Court Judge Paula Martin sentenced Morris to 117 months, or almost 10 years, in prison on the sodomy charge and 32 months, or more than two years, on the burglary charge.
The other burgary charge arose from a Sept. 11 incident, in which another female student said Morris broke into her house and wandered naked. Morris received 32 more months in prison on this count.
"This office believes the sentence imposed is appropriate given the nature of the crimes."
Angela Wilson
Assistant Douglas County district attorney
The two cases were charged together under one case number as part of the plea agreement. Sentencing Morris under two separate incidents would have resulted in a longer sentence.
At the sentencing, Morris' defense attorney, Harry Warren, asked the judge for a lesser sentence, and Morris' family presented letters requesting that he receive probation instead of prison time.
As part of the defense effort, psychologist Robert Schulman testified that Morris suffers from obsessive compulsive behavior and narcissistic personality disorder.
The psychologist said Morris could not stop himself from going out and patrolling the neighborhood at night. Wilson said the fact that Morris randomly roamed the neighborhood was one of the factors in the judge's decision to deny probation.
During the summer, several women in the Oread neighborhood reported seeing a nude man, whom police say matched Morris' description, walking on the street or fondling himself.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's vehicle was stolen between 10:30 p.m. Jan. 10 and 10 a.m. Jan. 11 from the 1000 block of Emery Road, Lawrenceville police. The car was valued at $8,000.
police said. The car was valued at $9,600.
A KU student received a harassing phone call between 4:30 and 5:04 a.m. Sunday in Grace Pearson Scholarship Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. A KU student's vehicle was stolen
ON CAMPUS
between 10:30 p.m. Jan, 10 and 10 a.m. Jan,
11 from the 1000 block of Emery Road, Lawrence
valley. The answer will be at $ 9,000.
A KU student received a harassing phone call between 4:30 and 5:04 a.m. Sunday in Grace Pearson scholarship hall, the KU Public Safety Office said.
OAKS, the non-traditional student organization, will have a brown bag lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Alcove G in the Kansas Union, Call Karen Bovd at 844-7313.
OAKS, the non-traditional student organization, will have a brown bag lunch from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. at Alcove E in the
Kansas Union, Call Karen Boyd at 864-7313.
The Office of Student Financial Aid currently is awarding Federal Work-Study funds for the spring semester. To apply, access the on-line application at www.ukans.edu/~osfa. Call 864-4700 or visit 50 Strong Hall for more information.
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