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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL 100, NO.2
(USPS 650-640)
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
MONDAY AUG.28,1989
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Grissom was a nice guy, KU students recall
By Lisa Moss Kansan staff writer
When Katherine Arenal met Richard Grissom Jr., she thought he was a nice guy.
Arenal, El Paso, Texas junior, met Grissom at Pizzaz, a bar at Ninth and Mississippi streets, near the beginning of April. He told her his name was Ricky Cho, Arena said.
"We started hanging out." Arenaal said. "We played tennis and racquet-ball."
- Five months later, on Aug. 16.
Grissom was charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Christine Rusch, 22, and Theresa J. Brown, 22, both of Lenexa; and Joan M. Butler, 24, a 1887 University of Kansas graduate from Overland Park. No bodies have been found.
Butler was reported missing June
but said Maj. J. John Round of the Ocea-
nian Air Force.
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The week Joan was missing, Ricky (Grissom) came over in her car. We drove around in it.'
- Katherine Arenal
Lt. David Burger of the Lenexa Police Department said Rusch and Brown, who were roommates, were reported missing June 27. They were assumed missing with foul play sur-
pected on June 26, he said.
El Paso, Texas, junior
A reward of $18,000 is being offered for information about the three women, said Jim Graham, managing director of the Kansas City Crime Commission.
Grissom also is a suspect in the
death of Terri Maness, 25, of Wichita,
Round said.
Grissom faces numerous other charges including one count of aggravated. kidnapping, four counts of aggravated robbery and two counts of aggravated burglary. Bond has
been set at $1 million. Round said.
In 1977, a juvenile court judge ruled that Grissom strangled 72-year-old Hazel Meeker of Lansing with a hair net and a rope and bludgeoned her with an iron railroad spike, said Capt. Ellen Hanson of the Lenexa police.
"The worst thing I ever would have said about him is that I thought he was boring," Carolyn Masiniston, 24, Lawrence resident, said. "He just seemed like your average guy."
Masinton, Arenal's friend, also met Grissom on Pizazz.
"We noticed him because we had never see him before," Masinton said. "He had presence about him. He was an incredibly good dancer and he was very good looking."
She said Grissom liked being in Lawrence because the people were [wr]er.
"When I first met Ricky (Grissom) I thought he was cute." Lyn Nye, Highland Park, Ill., senior, said. "I remember hearing on the news that Joan Butler was missing, but I never
KU prof interprets data from Voyager
By Derek Schmidt Kansan staff writer
When the data transmitted from Voyager 2's pass by Neptune reached the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., a KU professor was there to study it.
Tom Armstrong, professor of physics and astronomy, is part of the
Volcanoes spotted on Neptune's moon
The Associated Press
PASADENA, Calif. — Voyager 2's close-up photos of Neptune's
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Secure cab reinstated for safety
By Beth Behrens Kansan staff writer
Charles Bryan, KU on Wheels co-
ordinator, has announced the reinsta-
ment of the Secure Cab program
beginning tonight.
Secure Cab is a taxi service for clients who need a ride home. The
is free with a valid KUID.
lens can call Secure Cab at 842-
from 11 p.m. until 2:30 a.m.
on days a week.
I. City Cab & Shuttle Corp. won contract for the service. Student ate will pay the company an rate.
Jake White, student body presi st and North Platte, Neb., senior, if the contract called for 64 hours service a week at $18 an hour or 54.50 kg for the 1989-90 school year. He said priority would be given to is received from campus.
The purpose of Secure Cab is to a people who are in trouble a ride nee." Bryan said. "It's not for mal transportation. We're there when they had one beer too many their friends left them at a bar or arm, or they are on campus and ask someone is following them.够 still need to be responsible for its own transportation."
o keep students from abusing the vice. Bryan said students would asked for their KUID number and address where they ask to be left.
ryan, Lawrence graduate student, said the transportation board's in concern was that students did abuse the program.
insan staff writer
Although the number of women being through rush this year increased, the percentage of pledges accepted increased by about 5 per cent.
Sorocities at the University of Kano received their pledges Saturday, id all but four houses reached iotas set for this year.
The per-house quotas set by the priority system have remained fairly table the last few years. Two years ago the quota was 68, and last year it was 52. Despite last year's closing of the Alpha Phi house, 1602 High Drive, the quota remained about the same, aid Trisha Harris, Tulsa, Okla., unior.
"There have been open-house paries with about 900 women, and this as much less than last year," said irristin Frenow, Overland Park junior and a member of Alpha Chi imega, 1500 Signa Nu Place. "All he houses set their quotas at 54 members this year. There have been considerably less people going through, though, than last year."
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"If we had a larger number of people going through one might think the closing mattered, but it really didn't make a difference," said Harris, a member of PI Beta Phi, 1612 W. 15th St., and vice president of sorority affairs for the Panhellenic Council.
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She said the number of women who
pledged last year was 980, compared
to this year's 901.
"We're pledging more than a usual," Harris said. "It's a smaller number than last year, but the percentage of pledges accepted is larger. We usually pledge about two-thirds, but this year it was around 73 percent."