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TUESDAY
APRIL2,2002
ISSUE 121 VOLUME 112
Weekend arrests above average
By Rachel Keeseee Kansan staff reporter
University of Kansas students were among those listed in police reports yesterday.
Six KU students were arrested on charges ranging from disorderly conduct to driving under the influence Saturday night and Sunday morning.
Other students were victims of burglary or had their vehicles damaged over the weekend.
On a usual weekend, one or two KU students are arrested and three or four other incidents are reported.
But the amount of police activity was typical of a Saturday night and not just because of the Kansas-Maryland NCAA Tournament Final Four basketball game, said Sgt. Mike Pattrick of the Lawrence Police Department.
"These were dispatch calls like normal," he said. "But our response time was greatly reduced because we were down there already. We had adequate
resources and were able to act much swifter in regards to dispatch calls."
Police were in "response mode" in case things got out of hand after the game, Pattrick said.
Although he cannot give out the exact number of officers or where they were stationed, Pattrick said all available personnel were on duty and in strategic places around town.
"Lots of times we get called downtown to a fight scene and when we get there, the suspects have already left," he
said. "In a situation like Saturday night, we can get there immediately and the suspects don't have much of a time to get away."
Lt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office said the only thing he could directly attribute to the game was the broken display case at Watson Library.
"Everything was fine, everything went well," he said. "Then again, we lost, so no one would have a reason to celebrate. We still don't know what would have happened if we had won."
The weekend's events were what one could expect from a college town, Bailey said.
"It's Saturday night in Lawrence. There are fights in bars. That's normal," he said.
Contact Keesee at rkeesee@kansan.com. This story was edited by Angela Cox.
For more coverage of KU basketball see page 3A.
"Gateway to hell" razed
CHRISTINA NEFF/KANSAN
By Maggie Koerth Kansan staff writer
The remains of a 100-year-old church that was torn down this weekend are all that is left of a rumored gateway to hell in the town of Stull. northwest of Clinton Lake. The church had to be torn down for safety reasons.
It seemed like good had finally triumphed over evil. During Easter weekend, the church in the Stull cemetery was mysteriously torn down.
But the church, which was rumored to be a gateway to hell, came to an unremarkable ending.
John Haase, the rural Lecompton resident who owns the land, said the church, which was about 100 years old, was torn down because it had become unsafe. He said the Douglas County Sheriff's Department had called him to express concern about the building's stability.
"There were only three walls to begin with and the other long wall fell down recently in a storm," he said.
the church, near the small town of Stull, northwest of Clinton Lake, had enjoyed local popularity as a place to go on Halloween. Students and Lawrence residents trespassed onto the land in numerous attempts to see if the devil really was in Kansas.
Tim Miller, chairman of religious studies, said he first heard about the Stull legend in the 1970s.
"I went out there once on Halloween," he said. "It was just a mob scene. There were cars everywhere and there was a deputy sheriff out directing traffic."
Miller said he caught a glimpse of the dilapidated church before he was shooed off, but said he didn't consider the trip a frightening experience.
He said he thought the destruction of the church might lead to a decline in the legend.
"It will take a while to go away, but I think the combination of the spooky, old church and the graveyard really was the main attraction," he said. "The site won't be as sexy without the church."
But some KU students disagreed with Miller's assessment.
"I think people will want to go out and see the ruins," said Ian Spiridigliozi, Flint, Mich., senior.
Kasey Stark, Wichita freshman, said she thought the legend would go on without the church.
"I imagine the superstition will just carry over to the land," she said. "People will still go out to the graveyard if they want to."
Haase said people were already coming to view the crumbled landmark.
"The Stull cemetery trustees called and said a bunch of people had come out to haul off chunks of the wall," he said.
Haase said that if the church been safe and if visitors not been prone to vandalizing the cemetery, he might not have torn the church down.
"We would have had it preserved and let kids enjoy it every Halloween," he said.
believe the spot was satanic.
Haase has owned the purported gateway to hell for about five years. He said he had done research into the site and had never found anything that led him to
"From my research, it seems someone at KU wrote a short story that was pretty gripping and actually created the myth," he said.
Spiridigliozzi said that whatever happened to the Stull legend in the years to come, today its KU students would fondly remember its satanic presence.
"There will always be a gate to hell in my heart," he said.
Contact Koerth at mkoerth@kansan.com.
This story was edited by Eve Lamborn.
Enrollment forms online make, solve problems
By Meredith Carr Kansan staff writer
The enrollment process has a new face this semester with enrollment forms available online.
Some students thought the current process was more of a hassle because there were too many forms to download and too many steps to take.
The online forms became available to students starting in early March. Enrollment started last Friday and ends on Friday, April 19.
Students were able to download their Academic Record Tracking System form starting March 15 from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Web site, www.clas.ku.edu/us. Students then needed to access the Web site to request the web to later be sent to them within a time period of one hour to 24 hours.
Students could also print their e-passport and course selection form as early as March 11. The e-passport has specific information of each student such as address, year, school and any holds that will not allow a student to enroll. It is available at www.epassport.ku.edu. The course selection form, formerly known as a permit to enroll form, includes the course, credit hours, line number, time and days of the week that the course meets. It's also available at the CLAS Web site.
SEE FORMS ON PAGE 6A
Coalition continues despite setback
By Sarah Hill
Kansan staff writer
The Vision Coalition will continue in this month's Student Senate election without presidential and vice-presidential candidates.
Presidential candidate Matt Steppe and vice-presidential candidate Laura Rupe were disqualified from the race last Wednesday, leaving behind 49 candidates who still wanted to run for office.
Elections commissioner David Mitchell decided that the remaining candidates could keep the Vision name. The coalition could not choose new candidates for the top positions because the deadline for presidential and vice-presidential candidates to declare their candidacy was March 6.
"Through a lot of talks, the candidates still had lots of enthusiasm, and wanted to go ahead and run," said Hayley Rumback, Wichita senior and campaign manager for the Vision Coalition.
Mitchell said that 37 candidates
were now running under the Vision name.
Twelve candidates for senator positions dropped from the election after
Rupe said she was still committed to Student Senate regardless of the election and would continue to be active on the Student Rights Committee in Student Senate.
According to Senate rules and regulations, if either a presidential or a vicepresidential candidate is disqualified from an election, the other candidate can not run for the same ticket but can run as an independent senator.
The Elections Commission's hearing board disqualified Steppe because he was not enrolled as a student when he declared himself as a presidential candidate.
Steppe and Rupe were disqualified.
She said she didn't know whether she
Rupe said she would still support the Vision Coalition in this year's election.
"What happened was not fair to anybody," she said. "The Vision Coalition should still be allowed to win."
would try to run in the election as an independent.
Rumback said she was relieved that so many people still wanted to run after the disqualifications.
"Some people had legitimate changes that had nothing to do with what was going on," she said. "Others had some frustration about the situation."
Amanda Boyer, Amarillo, Texas freshman and Vision Coalition residential candidate, decided to continue with the coalition.
"We had a meeting after the hearing and decided the platform issues were what we came up with as a group," she said. "We thought it was important to stick with those ideas."
Contact Hill at shiil kansan.com. This story was edited by Sarah Smarsh.
GETTING THE WORD OUT
AARON SHOWALTER/KANSAN
INSIDETODAY
Baker University students Kelee Saunders-Ferguson, left, and Jessica Schoeder write messages in chalk on campus sidewalks advertising the new chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority that will open in the fall. Zeta Tau Alpha was selected in February from a group of 13 to establish a colony at KU.
COMING IN TOMORROW'S KANSAN
CAMERA ON KU ...2A
HOROSCOPES ...2B
WEATHER ...6B
CROSSWORD ...6B
WELCOME HOME: Coverage of tomorrow's men's basketball team homecoming rally.
REC CENTER: A preview of what the new facility will include.
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