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November 15, 1999
Section:
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Vol. 110 • No. 62
Inside today
Mortuary science students study the finer points of preparing for death.
SEE PAGE 6A
Sports today
The Kansas men's basketball team cruised to a 119-44 exhibition victory against the Geelong Supercats Saturday night in Allen Fieldhouse.
SEE PAGE 1B
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Fraternity ID-making operation discovered
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Bv Katie Hollar
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Firefighters sounded the alarm on a fake ID operation last weekend at a University of Kansas fraternity.
Lawrence fire and medical crews were called to the Phi Delta Theta
house, 1621 Edgehil
Road, at 7:45 p.m.
Nov. 6 after a Frisbee
hit a fire sprinkler,
triggering
the house's sprinkler
and alarm systems.
The firefighters looked through the house but found no fire. They did, however, find traces of a fake ID operation in a furnace room on the second floor. The firefighters then notified the Lawrence police department.
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The police obtained a search warrant that evening and seized at least six false Kansas driver's licenses and some computer equipment used in the manufacturing of fake IDs, including a
Phi Delta Theta is the third university fraternity to be caught with a fake ID operation this year.
Jan. 15:
police fire
four false
driver's licens
es at Alpha
Tux Orang
printer, hard drive and scanner
April 18:
Police seize a laminating machine, laminating paper, photo paper and at least a dozen fake IDs from Phi Kappa Tau.
Lawrence police Sgt. George Wheeler said no arrests had been made and the investigation still was in its early stages. Police do have some suspects, he said.
Preston Jones, Wichita junior and vice president of the fraternity, said the chapter immediately notified its alumni and international fraternity about the investigation. Jones said Phi Delta Theta intended to cooperate with the police, the University and its international organization to rectify the situation.
Phi Delta Theta plans to go dry in 2000. Jones said the fake ID manufacturing was totally unrelated.
"I don't think alcohol has anything to do with the situation at all," he said.
Phi Delta Theta is the third University fraternity to be caught with a fake ID operation in 1999. On Jan. 15, police investigating a possible burglary found four false driver's licenses at Alpha Tau Omega, 1537 Tennessee St. On April 18, an investigation of fake IDs led police to Phi Kappa Tau, 1100 Indiana St., where they seized a laminating machine, laminating paper, photo paper and at least a dozen fake IDs.
Rescuers and neighbors watch as rubble is removed from a collapsed apartment building during a rescue operation in the center of Duzze, east of Istanbul, yesterday. An earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale hit Northeast Turkey Friday, leaving 374 people dead and 3,000 injured. KRI photo
—Edited by Katrina Hull
Another Turkish earthquake levels town
News of the tragedy leaves some faculty, students concerned
By Amanda Kaschube
writer@kansan.com
Kansan stuff writer
The earthquake, which registered 7.2 on the Richter scale, hit 90 miles outside of the capital city Istanbul and has left 374 dead and more than 3,000 injured.
An earthquake that hit Duzce, Turkey, on Friday has left many University of Kansas faculty and students worried about their family members living there and the safety of the buildings in Turkey.
Riza Demirer, Lawrence graduate student, has several family members who felt the earthquake even though they live an hour and a half away from the epicenter.
"My mom said she felt the house shaking but she stayed inside the house because she didn't want her cooking to burn," she said. "But there was no real damage to the town."
The multitude of earthquakes in Turkey during the past three months also worries Ahmet Oziyigit, Lawrence sophomore, who is originally from Cyprus.
"I have a sister in Ankara, Turkey, and she said she felt some shakes, but it wasn't as bad as the one in August," he said. "But I'm worried it could happen again."
Two faculty members, JoAnn Browning, assistant professor of civil engineering, and Steven McCabe, chairman of the civil engineering department, traveled to Turkey late
last month to survey the damage to northwest Turkey from the Aug. 17 earthquake that killed more than 17,000 people.
"There was still a lot of damage two months after the earthquake," Browning said. "Blocks of buildings were torn down, buildings were titled on their foundations. People were still afraid to live in their buildings, so they lived in tents."
Browning said the recent outbreak of earthquake was caused by the fault lines under Turkish towns.
"It's like the San Andreas fault in California — similar length, frequency and movement," she said.
Demirer said she was unaware of the fault lines until recently.
"There were never any quakes when I was a child," she said. "When I called home on Friday, I was really worried. You always think the worst."
One problem facing Turkey is a lack of enforcement when it comes to building codes, Browning said. She said the codes stacked up to the United States', but they were not followed as well.
"Their inspections are sub-par, and builders can get away with lower standards," she said. "Even so, it's hard to survive earthquake greater than seven on the Richter scale in less than two months."
McCabe said he saw examples of the building codes not being enforced. He said many of the buildings' first stories were not built well, and it brought down the stability of the entire building.
— Edited by Becky Stauffer
wnat happens is the first story gets soft," he said. "It makes the whole building lose their connection and integrity. It only takes a little thing to go wrong to bring down the whole building."
Rescue workers look for survivors
The Associated Press
DUZCE, Turkey — Rescue workers from 23 different countries poured into Turkey and joined thousands of soldiers yesterday in a massive effort to save people believed to be buried beneath the rubble of Friday's earthquake. The earthquake killed at least 374 people and injured 3,000 others.
Emergency crews and volunteer organizations say the organization of the relief efforts stands in contrast to the aftermath of the devastating Aug. 17 templor, when relief teams wandered through the quake zone with little idea where their help was needed.
But they add that many basics, including food, tools and maps, still are in short sunny.
She said a crisis center was established within hours of the quake to help coordinate efforts, but her team had to wait a day until they received maps of the city.
"Some things are better," said German rescuer Britta Edinger, returning to camp after a day of guiding her black German shepherd sniffer, Arisha, through collapsed buildings.
Delays in identifying crisis areas left some rescue teams pacing the crisis center.
The efforts came as President Clinton left Washington yesterday for a state visit to Turkey. He also will participate in a European summit in Istanbul, Turkey's biggest city, then visit Greece, Italy, Bulgaria and Kosovo before returning home Nov. 23.
Turkish volunteers attributed what improvement there was to a change in attitude by a government that was sharply criticized in the press and on the streets for its slow response to the August quake, which left more than 17.000 people dead.
"At the first earthquake, the attitude was, we are the government, we do the work," said Zarif Karac, coordinator of a civil crisis center that had just deployed 500 university students to the quake area.
This time, he said, the conservative establishment swallowed hard and took advice from the largely youthful Turkish volunteers who won praise for their efforts during the first quake.
"It was hard for them to accept our long hair and earrings, but we got the job done," Karac said.
Last time, relief workers came days after the disaster when it became clear that the situation was out of the Turkish government's control.
The 12-magnitude quake struck Bolu province, an area just 45 miles east of the region worst hit by the Aug. 17 quake. That quake, which had a magnitude of 7.4, was centered on the more populated coastal areas of western Turkey.
Children's advocate stresses desegregation, political action
Bv Erinn R. Barcomb
By Erinn K. Barcomi
writer@kansan.com
Jonathan Kozol, writer, teacher and children's advocate, spoke to an audience of about 500 about the inequalities faced by children in inner-city public schools Saturday night at the Lied Center.
Kansan staff writer
A Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar, Kozol began his career by substitute teaching at a school in a poor. African-American neighborhood in Boston.
"I don't want to teach in any voucher school, any charter school or any private school that educates the elite or the relative elite," he said.
His latest book, Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation, is about children in a neighborhood in the South Bronx in New York.
from the South Bronx, but you can see Riker's Island," Kozol said, referring to the city's prison.
"You can't see the Statue of Liberty
You can't see the from the South Bronx.
Kozol also discussed the segregation of inner-city schools.
Kozol: Spoke about his experiences with inner-city youth
He said there was one white student among 800 at a South Bronx school. Kozol said it was the first white student the teacher had there in 18 years.
Kozol said he was involved in the civil rights movement of the 1980s and had
friends who said they had marched across the bridge in Selma, Ala.
"The teacher said, 'It doesn't matter what bridge you were on 30 years ago,'" Kozol said. "They want to know what bridge you stand on now.' That's the question America doesn't want to answer."
Kozol said his book inspired the Rev. Jesse Jackson, political activist, and Mister (Fred) Rogers, children's television personality, to meet the children in the book. The children defied the inner-city stereotypes, he said.
"They have a right to be selfish, but they are unselfish," he said. "They worry about older people of any race."
Kozol also made the point that college students were not as selfish as the media often portrayed. He used students from
Kozel met for about two hours at his hotel room Friday night with students involved with poverty issues at the University of Kansas.
Johnson County as an example, saying some students who grew up in such communities experienced guilt about the advantages they had.
"I get that there is a push for goodness in the country and a longing for unselfishness," Kozol said.
"Unfortunately that doesn't transform itself into political action."
Jenny McAdam, Lawrence senior, said Kozol wanted to find out what KU students were doing. She said he had heard about the extent of their involvement in poverty issues from a Washington advocate who was a friend of Chris Hess, Wichita senior.
"He never asked us if we'd read his books," Hess said. "He's one of the nicest, kindest men I've ever met."
Kozol said Lawrence was a utopia compared to the places he was used to writing about, but the town faced problems such as the socioeconomic inequality resulting from the drawing of school district lines.
Hess said he asked about programs such as the Jubilee Cafe and intergenerational programs.
Janet Crow, executive director of the Hall Center for the Humanities, which sponsored the event, said Kozol's speech was funded by private money from the Kansas University Endowment Association.
Edited by Katie Holtor