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University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 23, 1992
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Three arrested in connection with burglaries
Students stole various items from three fraternity houses Thursday and Friday,
By Jay Williams
Kansan staff writer
Police have arrested three KU students in connection with the Thursday-night and early Friday-morning burglaries of three KU fraternity houses, including the house the students had pledged last semester.
The three students are former pledges of Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity, 2021 Stewart Ave., said Kurt Bowman, AKL president.
Matthew Glayerssh, Crystal Lake, Ill., freshman, Russell Haas, Englewood, Colo., sophomore, and Shane McAdams, Overland Park freshman, were arrested and charged with aggravated burglary and theft Friday morning.
The three burglaries occurred between 11 p.m. Thursday and 2:47 a.m. Friday at Tau Kappa Epsilon, 1911 Stewart Ave., Zeta Beta Tau, 1942 Stewart Ave., and Alpha KappaLambda, according to Lawrence police reports.
The items taken from the fraternities included composite photographs, trophies and an oil painting, according to police.
Bowman said the three students pledged the house last semester, but left at semester break for personal reasons.
"At first, I thought it might be something against us, but with the other fraternities so close to us, I don't think they acted purposely against the house," Bowman said.
Lt. John Mullens, KU police representative
said witnesses saw some people leave Ellsworth Hall with a television early on the morning of the burglaries. The witnesses wrote down the license plate number of the car the people left in and called police, Mullens said
He said more information about the Ellsworth incident would be available today.
After receiving the call from witnesses, KU police intercepted the students' vehicle on Irving Hill Road near the Burge Union. The students fled on foot after being stoned.
KU police caught Haas and arrested him. The other two students, who escaped police, were arrested by Lawrence police later Friday morning.
The students were taken to the Douglas
County jail for arraignment and later were released on their own recognizance. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for April 28.
The students could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Two trophies and a plaque, valued together at $125, were taken from the Alpha KappaLambda house.
A brass lamp, lamp shade and oil painting, valued together at $565, were taken from Tau Kappa Epsilon.
Three composite photographs of house members and two trophies, valued together at $2,200, were stolen from Zeta Beta Tau.
Mullens said the crime was similar to others that had occurred at KU fraternities. Fraternity members take items, such as composite photographs, from other houses as a type of game, he said.
"They play it in pretty good humor, usually," Mullens said. "The suspects were probably introduced to the game that way."
According to the police reports, the suspects entered Tau Kappa Epsilon through an unlocked door.
"We may do something for increased security," said Tim Marks, Tau Kappa Epsilon house president.
Rest break
After a 20-minute workout during the Dance for heart fund-raiser, Phil Hollrah, St. Louis senior, left, throws up his hands in relief as he sits next to his friend, Mark Dwyer, Ft. Collins, Colo., freshman, for a 10-minute break. About 250 people participated in the three-hour workout yesterday at Anschutz Sports Pavilion. More than $3,000 was raised to benefit the American Heart Association.
Speaker describes hunt for Duke
Kansan staff writer
By Shelly Solon
Elizabeth Rickey said she was not a typical civil rights activist when she began researching David Duke three years ago.
"I was raised in a conservative household," said Rickey, member of the Republican State Central Committee of Louisiana. "We cried when Nixon resigned. We supported Reagan. Coming from this background, I seemed unlikely for the job of a liberal."
Rickey spoke last night to about 275 people at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. The speech was sponsored by Hillel, the office of minority affairs, Black Student Union, KU Young Democrats and the Division of Student Affairs/Cultural Sensitivity Committee.
Rickey said she had no idea of the extent of Duke's ideology when she began researching him while cam-
daigning for an opponent of Duke.
"I thought he was a Klan-type guy," she said. "But I had no idea how he would change my life."
Rickey said she found that Duke was distributing white supremacist and Holocaust revisionist literature out of his legislative office.
She also followed Duke to a Populist Party convention in Chicago, where he declared that his election to the Louisiana legislature wasa victory for white supremacists. Rickey also described how she spoke to Duke during dinners.
Rickey said she unsuccessfully had asked the Republican party and the Louisiana media to denounce Duke. It was not until the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism was formed that Duke's opposition crystallized.
"He's a personable, charming, very attractive man," she said. "It's not like he's goosestepping around or anything."
"Most people did not see the immediacy of getting rid of Duke," she said. "But when it looked like he might become governor of Louisiana, people mobilized. The business, African-American and Jewish communities came together and with their money used radio and TV spots to scare the wits out of Louisiana."
Rickey said that although Duke was not doing well in the 1992 presidential race, people could not give up their concern about politicians who had racially-based platforms.
"Pat Buchanan has stolen the thunder on Duke's issues," she said. "And candidates like Duke and Buchanan do influence people. Buchanan has influenced George Bush. Conservative voters think that use racial and religious stereotypes and scapegoating in their campaigns just to get votes."
Jenifer Marck, Schaumburg, Ill., sophomore, said candidates like Duke should concern everyone, not just
Elizabeth Rickey
African-Americans and Jewish people.
"It's amazing that Rickey . . . ok this on," she said. "I don't think many people expected that a white, upper-middle class, gentle Republican would stand up against Duke."
KU officials hail House budget bill fear Senate fight
State representatives to vote today on financing Kansas higher education
By Greg Farmer and Gayle Osterberg
Kansan staff writers
TOPEKA THE KU budget should complete its smooth cruise through the House of Representatives today, but rough waters await in the Senate.
The House will take final action today on a bill that would increase the University of Kansas budget by 3.7 percent and include money for library improvements.
On Friday, the House tentatively approved the bill, which provides funds for all Board of Regents universities.
The bill would allow universities to increase faculty salaries by 2.5 percent and funds for other operating expenses by 4 percent. The measure also would include tuition increases of 10 percent for Kansas residents and 12.5 percent for nonresidents. The Regents approved the tuition increases last year.
After the House takes its final vote on the bill today, the Regents will continue to lobby for the bill in the Senate, where toucher treatment is expected.
"I expect we'll get fair treatment in the Senate, but judging from the way other appropriations bills have been treated in the Senate, the fight will be a little tougher." "Aryes said," "I appreciate the leadership the House has exhibited on this bill. We now must do our best to convince senators of a need."
Ted Ayres, the Regents legislative liaison, said the fight in the Senate, which has a Republican majority, would be tougher than in the House, which has Democratic majority.
Regent Rick Harman said, "We are very pleased to say that our budget is fair during these tough budgetary times. The House has treated us fairly, and now we must fight for this bill in the Senate."
The House on Friday voted 61-58 for an amendment to add $1.88 million for library improvements at all Regents institutions.
"I'm going to fight like the devil to try to put some money into the library system that has been woefully underfunded for a number of years," said State Rep. Bill Wisdom, D-Kansas
"The House has treated us fairly, and now we must fight for this bill in the Senate."
Regent Rick Harman
City, who offered the amendment. "If we are truly interested in funding education at all levels properly, it would appear to me we would want to fund the libraries in our system."
State Rep. Rochelle Chronister, R-Neodesha, said that the state was strapped for money and that the Legislature had to be careful adding money to the budget proposals approved by the Anoroiations Committee.
"It sounds like just a little, bity, tiny bit," she said about the $1.88 million. "But we'll be lucky if we get to the end and that money is there."
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Dawrence, said the library amendment was a good idea because the Senate was likely to cut the bill.
"The libraries at our universities have a need," Charlton said. "But we also must consider our bargaining position. The Senate will make cuts. You can't send them a bill that contains exactly what you want because you aren't going to get it."
KU officials and Regents members who were present in the House gallery during Friday's debate said they were pleased with the budget proposal.
Jon Josserand, KU's legislative liaison, said Chancellor Gene Budig was very pleased by the House's treatment of the budget. Budig could not be present at the debate because he was in Dayton, Ohio, for the first round of the NCAA basketball tournament.
"We at the University are very happy, and we look forward to the fair treatment of the Senate," Josserand said. "We could not be more pleased with what is coming out of the House."
The Schools of Business and Law are pleased to present a public lecture by the winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Economics:
RONALD H. COASE
Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Economics,
University of Chicago
"ON RECEIVING THE NOBEL PRIZE"
6:00 p.m.
Alderson Auditorium
Kansas Union, University of Kansas
Tuesday, March 24, 1992
Ronald Coase is one of three eminent scholars to visit the University of Kansas during the 1991-92 academic year under the auspices of the Koch Distinguished Professorship in Law and Economics. The Koch Professorship is made possible by a gift to the University from the Fred C. Koch Foundation of Wichita.