Page 6 University Daily Kansan, March 12, 1982
St. Patrick's Day 1983
Hibernians, true green Irishmen . . .
By LISA GUTIERREZ Staff Reporter
They call themselves the Ancient Order of Hibernians, but they also answer to names such as O'Connor, Delaney, O'Dalley, O'Malley and McCluskey.
They are all Catholic and very,very Irish.
And for the more than 20,000 bibnarians in the United States, St. Patrick's Day is the most important day of the year.
"It's a way to stay close to our roots." Tom Wrym, a member of the Jackson County Division 1 of the Irish fraternal organization, said recently.
"It was organized in New York City in 1835 as a society for Irish immigrants"
"It was basically to help those who came from Ireland, to help them meet people, get jobs and to socialize."
The word hibernian came from the word used by the Romans to refer to the land of the green.
"Romans used to call Ireland Hibernia," said Fred Wyrsch,
president of the Missouri chapter of the order and Tom Wyrsch's brother.
"So, someone from Hibernia was hibernian."
Although Irish blood was a requirement for admission to the order, Fred Wyrcish admitted that he was of "mixed" blood.
"Wyrisch" is a Swiss name, and my father's family was from Switzerland," he said. "But my mother's family was from Ireland."
He boasted that his mother's maiden name was a "good" Irish one—O'Connor.
Hibernians must also be Catholic.
"You have to be an Irish-Catholic," said Fred Wyrsch.
"The organization in the early 1800s was an organization to defend the faith of the Irish people when the British were trying to Anglo-Saxonize it," he said.
"Hibernians were defenders of the religion."
Today, more than 20,000 hibernians in 30 states in the country raise money for educational scholarships and sponsor seminars and various social activities, according to John Concannon, assistant editor of the National Hibernian Digest.
a national newspaper for members published six times a year.
"We even predate the Knights of Columbus."
Concannon said the scope of the order was wide, which he illustrated by listing the cities in which the order exists.
The cities included Abuquerque, N.M.; San Antonio, Texas; FT. Lauderdale, Fla.; San Diego; Los Angeles; San Francisco; Oakland, Calif.; Richmond, Va.; Houston; and St. Petersburg, Fla.
He said the northwestern portion of the United States held the largest numbers of tuberminans in states such as Missouri, Ohio, Connecticut and Pennsylvania.
Kansas was not represented in the list of order locations.
The hibrarians in America retain close ties with their motherland.
"I've been to Ireland three times," Fred Wyrsch said. "It's just gorgeous, very quiet and very friendly."
Three KU students were charged yesterday in Douglas County District Court with aggravated robbery, felony bureary and misdemeanor theft.
The three men allegedly burglarized a car before Williams went to the victim's room to tell her that someone was tampering with the car. The men were suspected of stealing stereo equipment from the car.
confronted the other two men. The men allegedly threatened the woman with an air gun and stole two gold necklaces that the victim was wearing. Denean saw it was wearing.
Williams offered to help the victim, went with her to the parking lot and
Jim Denney, director of KU police, said one of the men, Williams, was first believed to have been a victim of the crime.
Anthony Farris, 18, Selwyn V Square, 18, and Alan W. Williams, 19 were arrested and charged following an aggravated robbery in the parking lot of Ellsworth Hall at 1:30 a.m. yesterday, KU police said.
The reported value of the jewelry was $8,000.
The victim's roommate heard the scuffle in the parking lot and called KU police. Denney said. Police arrived at the scene and arrested Farris. Square fled, and Williams continued to act as a victim.
Denney said that the jewelry and stereo equipment had been recovered.
Police later connected Square and Williams with the crime, Denney said.
On the record
A victim parked her car and was walking toward her apartment when four males grabbed her, made obscene remarks and fondled her, Denne said.
Douglas County Judge Mike Elwell set a March 18 preliminary hearing for the men. The men are each being held at the Douglas County jail on $30,000 budget.
KU POLICE reported a battery and sexual assault at 11 p.m. Wednesday at a Jayhawker Towers parking lot.
The woman broke away from the suspects, ran to her apartment and called police. The victim suffered slight injuries. The police said there have been no arrests.
LAWRENCE POLICE arrested Kerwin K. Bell, Lawrence sophomore, about 1:15 a.m. yesterday for consuming alcoholic beverages as a minor at the Mad Hatter, 700 New Hampshire St. Bell was released on $50 bond and is scheduled to appear before Douglas County District Court today.
By DEBBIE DOUGLASS Staff Reporter
Dancing leprechauns, baggie music and all that is green will be part of area St. Patrick's Day parades and street festivals.
Kansas City, Mo., Topeka and Wichita are all planning such activities for March 17. There are no St. Patrick's Day activities planned for Lawrence.
Gary Maun, of the Kansas City, Mo., convention and visitor's bureau, said recently that if the weather stayed nice, she would go out to play a parade and festival" "will have a blast."
At the plaza, Maun said, there would be refreshments, band and bagpipe music and dancing by various performing groups.
He said the parade was the third largest in the country, with nearly 4,000 participants.
"It's like a little Mardi Gras. I'm taking off a half a day just to see it," Maud said.
ST. PATRICK'S DAY celebrations in Topeka will begin with a sing-along of Irish folk songs at 10:30 a.m. at the Assumption Church, 204 West 8th st., according to Bob Kearns, who is on the committee for St. Patrick's Day.
Wyrsch said there would be a float competition with several categories, but the float judged the best overall win a trip for two to Ireland.
HE SAID the parade would end up at Barney Allis Plaza, which is near the Municipal Auditorium.
He said it was sponsored by KMO.
The organization and KMO-TV.5,
firmware organization, and KMO-TV.5.
Tom Wyrsch, who is on the committee for the parade, said the parade would begin at the River Creek Quay at 9 oon.
KU athletes plead no contest
Three KU football players charged with burglary and graft theft waived their rights to a preliminary hearing and pleaded no contest to the charges Wednesday in Douglas County District Court.
Cedric Alexander, Chicago freshman; Renwick Attkins, Chicago sophomore; and Broderick Thompson, Cerritos, Calif., junior, made an unscheduled appearance with their attorney, Halley Kampschroeder, in front of District Court Judge Mike Elwell and his attorney, David Primary, in preliminary hearing. The original preliminary hearing was scheduled for 11 a.m. yesterday.
The men than appeared before District Court Judge Jamek Paddock and pleaded no contest to the state charges lied against them.
complaint against Thompson that charged him with grand theft. He was originally charged with grand theft and burglary.
Atkins and Alexander each were charged with one count of burglary and one count of grand theft.
Paddock found the men guilty by plea and set a sentencing date for 3:30 p.m. April 5.
Alexander, Atkins and Thompson were remanded to custody and will begin a 10-day stay in the Douglas County C jail today.
Alexander, Akins and Thompson were charged Feb. 17 after KU police recovered more than $6,000 worth of stolen property from a hawker Towers apartment on Feb. 12.
When found guilty of a felony, the
when found guilty of a felony,
THE STATE filed an amended
ALEXANDER WAS charged for a Feb. 9 burglary at a residence in the 700 block of Ohio Street.
The state also charged Atkins and Thompson with two separate Dec 25 bribes.
"It's a great day. People are smiling, and the woes of the world disappear."
"Last year's parade looked like an Irish Halloween," he said.
He said bagpipe players would lead the parade from the church to the festival area, which would be on Eighth Street between Kansas and Jackson streets.
The festival will consist of music groups, dancers and an arts and crafts sale. Kearns said.
The Topeka bus service, he said, will also be offering free transportation in the city to people who are wearing green.
HE SAID Ramada Inn would be adding green beer and potatoes to their menu for St. Patrick's Day.
The Holiday Inn will have a Shamrock King and Queen party starting at 7 p.m. Kearns said.
Wichita's St. Patrick's Day celebration also will include a parade with close to 3,000 participants, accented by musical and dance coordinators at KAAZ-K1942 radon.
The parade, she said, will begin at noon from Lawrence-Dumont Stadium and end up at the Century II auditorium downtown.
"It's going to be a real zoo, but everybody will be happy," she said.
The parade is a tradition that Wichita could not live without. Hushev said,
When the St. Patrick's Day parade hits town, she said, "Watch out, the crazies are coming. Everyone's in a mood, and the crazier the better."
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The Kansas City Times recently described the ordeal to which our judiciary subjected a young secretary after she successfully resisted and later identified a would-be rapist last summer. Her assistant, whom she recognized as the cohabitant of the apartment manager, was a 27-year-old man whose considerable prison record included three felony convictions. Two days after the arrest, she returned to work at her employer, measuring his 2:00 a.m. onlaught, being charged only with first degree burglary. While protesting this legal expression of apprehension, she discovered that her assailant was already out on bond. In the last few years, many Kansas City rape victims have endured harassment prior to their testifying in rape trials. Several women—three of them within a fifteen-month period—were murdered to preclude their given such testimony. Yet despite the legal evidence of this recurring cycle, the secretary's assailant was released on bond.
Imagine this woman's terror when, six weeks later, she found that her assistant was suspected of murdering his 19-year-old niece. One month and a half after this chilling discovery, while driving home from work she noticed her assistant following her. Although the policeman whose assistance she franched out to help had not been seen passing before some indictment in the judiciary reduced her assault's burden thereby leaving him once again free to roam. A short time later, while walking outside her office building at noon, she saw him drive by and eye her. When informed of this intimidating act, another copinstrument in the judiciary ruled that she lacked the evidence necessary to sustain the charge and dismissed the legal apparatus advised her to leave town until the trial if she was afraid.
One hundred and ninety-five days after this woman was first attacked, a jury found her assailant guilty of both attempted rape and first degree burglary. Although the judge sentenced her assailant to twenty years on the first count and ten years on the second, state parole officers legally have the power to release him almost immediately if they so choose. Thanks to this woman's courage, watchfulness, and perseverance, her assailant was eventually brought to justice. But what of the many other rapes who have fallen before our mutilation legal machinery?
To abet, Black's Law Dictionary tells us, is "to facilitate the commission of a crime, promote its accomplishment, or help in advancing or bringing it about. It includes knowledge of the wrongful purpose of the perpetrator." Every rape or attempted rape will probably continue to inspire a comparably laudacious judicial performance. Isn't it reasonable to ask: does a guttless judiciary aid and abet justice want violence?
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