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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2009
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CRIME
Animal cruelty charge filed
Basoflas in custody with $12,000 bond and a court date set
BY ALEXANDRA GARRY
agarry@kansan.com
VOLUME 120 ISSUE 95
A KU student charged with one count of felony animal cruelty remained in custody at the Douglas County Jail Sunday evening.
At the first appearance hearing
for Cem Basofasl, Turkey sophomore, on Friday, Pro Tem Judge James George set bond at $12,000 with the stipulation that, if released, Basofasl would not be allowed to have any contact with any animal and would have to surrender his passport. As of 11:05 p.m. Sunday, no one had posted Basofas' bond.
Basolas was arrested Wednesday afternoon after maintenance crews found a large quantity of blood in his apartment in the 2100 block of Heatherwood Drive, Sgt. Bill Cory, Lawrence Police public information officer, said on Thursday.
Lawrence Police said the alleged incident involved one dog, which is now dead. Cory said on Friday that the investigation was ongoing and that officers would continue to look for evidence at the scene of the arrest.
Basilofas has another pending animal cruelty charge stemming from an arrest on Aug. 19, 2008. According to court records, he failed to appear at the case's first hearing.
The court date for both charges has been set for Feb. 24 at 2 p.m.
Basoflas' defense attorney, Sarah Swain, was retained in August following the first charge.
More charges may be filed against Basoflas in the next week depending on the results of the investigation, according to a Friday press release from Charles Branson, Douglas County district attorney.
For continuing coverage, check Kansan.com and Tuesday's Kansan.
- Edited by Sonya Enlish
Ryan McGeeney/KANSAN
PRESSING UP
Cem Basoflas, Turkey sophomore, makes a first appearance before Pro Tem Judge James George via video teleconference from the Douglass County jail on Feb 6. Basoflas was arrested Feb. 4 on charges of animal cruelty and criminal sodomy with an animal. Bond was set at $12,000, with the stipulations that he have no contact with animals and that he surrender his passport. Basoflas' next hearing is scheduled for Feb. 24 at 2 p.m. Basoflas was already scheduled to appear in court Feb. 24 on a previous charge of animal cruelty that was filed in August.
Rachel Gray
**Amy Vitrinia Buchanan Stillwater Okla senior prenaree har makeup for the dross rehearsal of "Furdure" a University Theatre production that will run from Feb. 9 to 16 in Inge Theatre. The play is told from Furdyce's point of view.**
Students perform'Eurydice'with a new twist
An old myth from a new perspective debuts tonight
BY JENNIFER TORLINE
jtorline@kansan.com
University Theatre is taking a new look at an old Greek myth.
Beginning with the opening night performance this evening,
University Theatre will be performer Sarah Ruhl's contemporary version of the Greek myth "Eurydice" every evening this week until Sunday.
The play is directed by Chanda O. Hopkins, Cornelia, Georgia,
doctoral student, and features a cast of all KU students.
Mackenzie Wiglesworth, Olathe senior, portrays the heroine, Eurydice, and Spencer Holdren, Topeka senior, plays the villian, the Lord of the Underworld.
The University Daily Kansan spoke with Hopkins, Wiglesworth and Holdren about the play, their characters and what's next after this production.
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ACCIDENT
Student killed on overpass in collision
Student was helping a disabled vehicle
BY MIKE BONTRAGER mbontrager@kansan.com
A 23-year-old KU graduate student was killed in a car collision early Saturday morning.
Merritt Police responded to the accident on Shawnee Mission Parkway at Interstate 35 at 3 a.m. The student was declared dead at the scene.
The student was killed when a Dodge Dakota collided with a disabled vehicle the student was helping move off the overpass. The man the student was helping was inside the car at the time of the accident and was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
Steven Kyle Cummins, 25,
was the driver of the Dodge Dakota.
Cummins was taken into custody Saturday morning and charged with driving under the influence and involuntary manslaughter Sunday.
The name of the victim will not be released until the family is notified.
Edited by Liz Schubauer
CAMPUS
Tires slashed on 22 cars near fraternity house
Sigma Alpha Epsilon members victims of anonymous crime
BY MIKE BONTRAGER mbontrager@kansan.com
Early Sunday morning, 22 cars had their tires slashed at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house at 1301 W. Campus Rd. The cars belonged to fraternity members, current rushes and three guests.
The crime occurred some time
Most of the cars involved had their front right tires punctured. The puncture wounds on the tires varied from a tiny slit in the wheel wall to giant gashes across the tire. Mike Moore, Overland Park senior and a Sigma Alpha Epsilon member, had two tires of his truck slashed. Moore had his tires slashed
Pat Thomsen, Shawnee junior and a Sigma Alpha Epsilon member who had his tires slashed, said he knew it happened some time after 4:45 a.m. because one of the cars vandalized had returned from Manhattan at that time.
between 4:45 a.m. and 7 a.m.
last semester, but said he thought the two acts were not related. He said he guessed that members of Delta Chi, the fraternity located next to Sigma Alpha Epsilon, were responsible.
Thomsen said there had been a rivalry between Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Delta Chi for 30 to 40 years.
Alex Stamos, Blue Springs, Mo,
junior and a Delta Chi member,
said there was bad blood between
the fraternities, but no one really
know why. He said no one in Delta
"It's pretty obvious this time." Moore said.
Chi had come forward to take responsibility for the tire slashing.
Sgt. Monroe of the Lawrence Police department said the investigation was ongoing.
Edited by Sonya English
Pat Thomsen, Shawnee junior, exchanges information with a tow truck driver before his 1997 Ford Monte Carlo is hauled away for repair. Thomsen's car, which Thomsen said he had owned for about five years, was one of 22 vehicles that suffered slashed tires behind the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house early Sunday morning.
Ryan McGeeney/KANSAN
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