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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2. 2005
VOL.115 ISSUE 106
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CRIME
Pitcher benched for fight
BY JOSHUA BICKEL
AND ALISSA BAUER
editor@kansan.com
KANSAN STUDI WRITERS
A Lawrence police officer arrested a University of Kansas baseball player for battery early Sunday morning, according to a Lawrence police report.
A fight occurred at about 2:15 a.m. Sunday in the 400 block of West 14th Street. Lawrence police arrested Scott Sharpe, senior pitcher, shortly after, according to the report.
The victim, a 19-year-old KU
The victim then told the two men to leave. The three men began arguing, said Sgt. Dan Ward, Lawrence Police Department.
As the two men were leaving the house, one of them slapped a friend of the victim in the face, Ward said.
The victim then followed the two individuals outside of the house.
Two or three other men met up
Sharpe
with the two outside the house. The group attacked the victim, punching him five or six times, Ward said.
A witness nearby recognized Sharpe as one of the
individuals involved in the altercation. The witness notified authorities.
Lawrence police located and arrested Sharpe in the 1300
block of Tennessee Street.
Around 3:15 a.m., Sharpe was booked into Douglas County jail for battery, Ward said.
Jail records indicate that Sharpe posted a $100 bond and was released later that day.
The victim said that he couldn't tell whether all the individuals were members of the baseball team. It appeared that they all knew each other and had been out together earlier that
Sharpe was the only individual identified and arrested, but several people were involved, Ward said.
"I think from my perspective that we've handled it properly within our program," Price said. "It's something that you don't like to see happening, but players make mistakes. They pay penalties and hopefully they learn from those mistakes."
Baseball coach Ritch Price said he was disappointed and that Sharpe was suspended.
night. the victim said.
The victim refused medical treatment at the scene, Ward said.
Price said he was concerned about the damage the incident
would bring to the program's reputation.
"It's certainly an embarrassing situation and it's embarrassing for our program," Price said. "I think Scott understands that."
Price declined to comment on how long Sharpe would be suspended.
"I think we've taken an appropriate action and hopefully we'll move forward." Price said.
"I've decided, and it's a while." Price said.
Edited by Kim Sweet Rubenstein
DOLE INSTITUTE
Pizza attracts Dole interest Politics institute reaches out
BY JASON. SHAAD
jshaad@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Ed Rollins should be an intimidating person. His gruff voice and stout stature reinforce his career as a hard-nosed political strategist and former amateur boxer. But surrounded by people munching pizza yesterday, Rollins seemed a friendly uncle, albeit a knowledgeable one.
Rollins was a political director for President Ronald Reagan and has been a longtime political strategist in Washington D.C. He spoke with about 30 people yesterday in the Kansas Union for a program called Pizza and Politics. The program provided free pizza to students who wanted to discuss politics. It is part of a bipartisan series sponsored by the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics.
Kelly Hutsell/KANSAN
For Rollins, Pizza and Politics was more than a discussion; it was an opportunity to demystify politics.
"It frightens me that young people are frightened and disillusioned by politics," Rollins said.
Bill Lacy, who became director of the institute in September, has similar concerns. Lacy said that since the Dole Institute opened in 2003, it had not attracted as many undergraduate students as he had intended.
One reason for this may be that the institute is still in its infancy, Lacy said.
Ed Rollins, former political adviser under President Ronald Reagan, enjoys a laugh and slice of pizza after speaking with KU students yesterday afternoon at the Centennial Room in the Kansas Union. Rollins told stories about the many campaigns he had been a part of and talked politics with about 30 students as part of the Dole Institutes' Pizza and Politics event series. The event allowed students to talk politics in an informal environment.
"We're kind of just learning like a baby." Lacy said.
Some students also confuse the Dole Institute, located west of the Lied Center, with the Dole Human Development Center, which is located on Sunnyside Ave. south of Watson Library, said Lawrence Bush, director of facilities and events for the institute. Each semester
POLICY
SEE PIZZA ON PAGE 3A
Steve Ducey, Overland Park senior, smokes a cigarette Monday afternoon outside of Murphy Hall, north of Allen Fieldhouse. Some building entrances on campus have signs stating that people must smoke at least 20 feet away from the building. The sign on the lower level of Murphy has "No" scratched off the sign.
Stephanie Farlev/KANSAN
Smoke-free unenforced
Signs don't keep smokers 20 feet away from doors
BY TY BEAVER
tbeaver@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Recent survey results suggest that the University of Kansas could be more nonsmoker friendly.
With 20-foot pieces of string and chalk, student volunteers went to 22 different campus
buildings and monitored their smoke-free entrances during the second week of November last year.
Each building on the main campus of the University is required to have at least one smoke-free entrance. Smokers are not supposed to smoke within 20 feet of that entrance, said Melissa Smith, manager of the Wellness Resource Center at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
Results of the survey were released last week and show a problem with compliance, she said.
Smith said she planned to approach the Office of the Provost about altering the policy and changing the environment by moving ashtrays and putting signs 20 feet from the entrances.
Three of the buildings surveyed had no smoke-free entrances.
Five of the buildings had non-handcapped-accessible smoke-free entrances, and 16 of the 22 buildings had smokers within the 20-foot perimeter.
While Smith said that the results were upsetting, she did not lay all blame on smokers.
Most complaints come in the cold months, she said, when people don't like to move beyond doors and shelter to smoke.
CRIME
Protecting others from secondhand smoke while not irritating smokers is the goal. she said.
Thirteen of the buildings have an ashtray receptacle within the 20 foot perimeter. Smith said.
"Every time the door opens, it just sucks smoke into the building." she said.
the provost's office is in charge of the smoke-free
SEE SMOKERS ON PAGE 4A
Late-night looting causes earlier store close
BY JOSHUA BICKEL
jbicket@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
A Lawrence convenience store will no longer stay open 24 hours after looters stole hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise.
The Zarco at 1500 E. 23rd St. will now close its doors from midnight to 5 a.m., because looters stormed into the store early Saturday morning, Feb. 19, Kelly Williams, store manager, said.
She thought the people who looted her store on Feb. 19 had been to Last Call, 729 New Hampshire St., earlier that night because she noticed that a lot of the looters were wearing wristbands from that bar. She said that about 100 people were in her store during the time of the looting and grabbed anything they could get their hands on.
Williams said her store had looting problems in the past.
It's up to the individual store,
though, to close during the night if they have problems, Williams said. The Zarco at 900 Iowa has never had a problem with looters and will stay open 24 hours, she said.
Williams also told police that she thought the looters were from Kansas City, Mo., because she noticed Missouri license plates on some of the cars parked outside. She also thought that the location of her store was part of the reason looters targeted it.
"The owners are just trying to make money too," Williams said. "I don't think they can do anything about it after they leave."
"The store is on the way out of town, so they hit it when they leave." Williams said.
The bar owners, however, are not responsible for the actions of their patrons after they leave the bar, Williams said.
She also said that once patrons left a bar, it was up to the city to handle them.
Earlier during the night of the looting Williams received a call from Douglas County Emergency dispatch alerting her that Last Call would close early. The call was out of the ordinary because Williams never called anyone at dispatch to ask them to alert her of early bar closings. She didn't know why the bar closed early and Last Call could not be reached for comment.
It's not the policy or the responsibility of the Douglas County Emergency
Management Office to alert all night businesses about the closing of bars, Jim Denny, director of communications, said.
Denny said he questioned why the call was made as well and that it was not their policy to make calls to businesses. '
"When we do that, it levies a responsibility that we can't live up to," Denny said. "If we do it for them, we have to do it for everybody."
Edited by Austin Caster
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Intramurals
Technical fouls led to victories for higherranked teams Monday night at the Student Recreation Fitness Center. The Fists of Fury failed to connect and the Pocket Rockets didn't fly. PAGE 8B
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