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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2005
VOL.115 ISSUE 111
▶ PHI KAPPA THETA
Fraternity plans to appeal
BY ERIC SORRENTINO
esrentrito@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
A day after his fraternity was expelled from campus, Matt Moreno, president of Phi Kappa Theta, said the punishment was too severe.
The Interfraternity Council charged Phi Kappa Theta, 1111 W. 11th St., with 24 charges for recruitment and alcohol policy violations. Lawrence police cited nine people alcohol violations and confiscated more than $500 in cash, signs that advertised the party and 16 kegs.
"To tell you the truth, we're shocked," Moreno, Wichita sophomore, said. "Basically, we feel it was unprecedented. It
almost seemed they were making an example out of us. It feels like we were victims of the circumstance."
Moreno said he wanted to appeal by Friday. The KU charter of Phi Kappa Theta was the fraternity's oldest operating chapter in the nation. It has been at the University of Kansas since 1910.
The chapter has already taken actions to improve accountability within the fraternity, Moreno said. They have created a proactive outline for members to follow.
Within the outline are steps the fraternity members can take to hold themselves accountable, after the incident.
Moreno said the 35 members of
the fraternity would be required to listen to a guest speaker talk about the dangers and risks of alcohol tomorrow night. Members will be required to participate in a park cleanup activity at South Park this weekend as well.
Fraternity members abided by a 10-point plan of corrective measures in 1998, which followed hazing allegations, Kevin Lampe, Phi Kappa Theta national secretary, said.
This is not the first time a proactive list has been scheduled for the fraternity.
Phi Kappa Theta is the first greek organization the IFC has ever expelled.
Scott Shorten, IFC president, said he could not compare a previous situation to the magnitude
of the Phi Kappa Theta incident.
The IFC judicial board decides whether a chapter should be expelled on a case by case basis. Shorten said the Phi Kappa Theta decision was made because of the chapter's disregard for IFC rules.
"I would say their lack of effort to conform to our laws and bylaws endangered those of their fraternity and the guests of their fraternity." Shorten said.
Though the IFC no longer recognizes Phi Kappa Theta as an active fraternity, Moreno said his fraternity would plan to remain active as a Greek organization.
— Kansan staff writer Daniel Berk contributed to this story. Edited by Austin Caster
Brian Lewis/KANSAN
Phi Kappa Theta fraternity was expelled from the Interfraternity Council earlier this week after 24 charges were lodged against it. Fraternity members say they will be appealing the charges.
CITY COMMISSION
City commission to amend smoking ban
BY JASON SHAAD
jshaad@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
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Jerry Nevere, owner of the Red Lyon Tavern, speaks with a Channel 6 News reporter about the smoking ban during a break at the Lawrence City Commission meeting last night in Lawrence City Hall. Several topics about the ban, which was put into effect on July first of last year, were brought up at the meeting, such as the definition of an enclosed area and the level of occupation in an outside dining area.
Bar and restaurant patrons may soon be allowed to take their beer with them when they step outside to light up a cigarette.
The city commission last night directed staff to draft two ordinances that would amend the city's smoking ban. One draft would outline changes to the city's policy on sidewalk dining licenses. The other would make an exception to the smoking ban for a ventilated smoking room at Hallmark Cards. 101 McDonald Drive.
Business owners in downtown Lawrence currently have to make 70 percent of their revenue from food sales to get a license that allows customers to eat and drink on the city's sidewalk.
The proposed amendment would allow businesses, which were established before the smoking ordinance took effect, to be exempt from the food sales requirement.
More than 30 businesses in downtown cannot currently obtain the license because they
do not meet the 70 percent requirement.
Jerry Neverve, owner of Red Lyon Tavern, 944 Massachusetts St., cannot allow customers to smoke with their drinks in front of his business because not enough of his revenue comes from food sales. If the city amends the requirement Neverve said he would apply for
a license.
Rusty Nelsen, Omaha, Neb. senior, said he favored the amendment. Nelson, an employee at Quinton's Bar and Deli, 615 Massachusetts St., said the requirement was not fair to older bars that do not make as much money from food sales.
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ENROLLMENT
Nursing school denies record numbers
BY NATE KARLIN
nhkarlin@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Despite the nursing shortage across the country, the KU School of Nursing continues to turn away record numbers of applicants. The school received 498 applications this year, but had only 120 available spots.
A rapidly aging baby-boom population is a main reason for the nursing shortage.
Limited resources and a tight state-funded budget are two reasons for the high number of rejections, Rita Clifford, associate dean of student affairs, said.
seven more applications than last year, but rising numbers continue to worry the school's administration because it cannot accommodate more students.
Clifford said school officials would like to admit more applicants, but the available spots are restricted by a limited number of faculty members. The school prefers a one to 10 ratio for professors and undergraduate students. Some of the faculty members on staff teach undergraduate
The school received only
"We never like to turn away anyone who we think would be a good nurse," Clifford said. She said she worried about the students who didn't make it in.
Because applicants outnumber vacancies, administrators encourage applicants to apply to several nursing schools in addition to the University of Kansas.
The high rejection rate hasn't discouraged Emma Rieper, Overland Park sophomore, from pursuing her application to the school. She is also applying to Baker University and St. Luke's Hospital of Kansas City, Mo.
and graduate students and some teach just graduate students.
The University was very competitive and Baker and St. Luke's offered more one-on-one learning environments, she said.
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MIZZOU RIVALRY
Rich Littrell, Lee's Summit, Mo., junior, left; Andrew Wymore, a 2004 KU graduate, center; and Chris Kaufman, Denver, Colo., senior, right, display the sign they hung during the Kansas-Missouri game in Mizzou Arena on Sunday. The sign prompted a scuffle that ended with Wymore being taken to jail, the men said.
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Sign prompts tussle
KU fans file complaint against police chief after incident
BY DANI LITT
dllitt.kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITE
The rivalry between University of Kansas and University of Missouri fans escalated on Sunday when four KU fans got into an altercation with an MU fan over a sign.
Chris Kaufman, Denver senior, filed a complaint against University of Missouri police chief lack Watring yesterday.
Included in Kaufan's complaint was an allegation that Watring assaulted him after he refused to relinquish a sign.
The 3-foot-by-6-foot sign said that Mizzou Arena was the Allen Fieldhouse of the East.
The University of Missouri police department referred calls yesterday to the MU news bureau. Christian Basi, assistant director of the MU news bureau, said that the police department was investigating the allegations and that Watring
According to Kaufman's description of events, an usher gave him and three others permission to hang the sign over a railing.
would not be suspended during the investigation.
Kaufman and his friends were sitting two rows away from the railing, according to the complaint. Christian Green. 2003 KU alumnus; Richard Littrell, Lee's Summit, Mo., junior and Andrew Wymore. 2004 alumnus, were with Kaufman.
Fifteen minutes after the students hung the sign, a man sat down in his seat behind it, Kaufman wrote in the complaint. Another man on the walkway below him called up and asked the man sitting behind the railing if he was going to allow the to sign hang in front of him.
After learning what the sign read, the man attempted to take it down, according to the complaint.
The man and Kaufman had a disagreement about the sign, according to Kaufman's complaint. When Kaufman went to grab the sign from the man, he grabbed Kaufman by the collar of his shirt and drew him towards him, Kaufman wrote.
It was then that the man identified himself as the University of Missouri chief of police, Kaufman wrote in the complaint.
Littrell wrote in a separate complaint that he intervened and took the sign to roll it up as a uniformed officer approached the group.
Maj. Doug Schwandt escorted the group to the concourse, according to Littrell's complaint.
The four KU fans asked questions of the police, according to Kaufman's complaint, but were responded to vaguely and with threats of being arrested or thrown out of the game.
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Sounds from the tower The top of the Campanile houses a carillon, a stationary instrument that weighs more than 36 tons and is made up of 53 bells. Students in any major can take classes to learn how to play it. PAGE 6A
Ending on a down note
Art and Design makeover
The KU women's basketball team lost its last game of the season yesterday against Missouri in the Big 12 Women's Tournament. PAGE 1B
More than $500,000 worth of renovations will take place in the Art and Design Building. Additions started with new computers during winter break and will continue throughout the summer.PAGE 2A
Coach leaves a legacy After more than 20 years at the University, bowling coach Mike Fine will leave to coach at Florida State University after this semester. His teams were saddened by the news. PAGE1B