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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL 100,NO.2 (USPS 650-640)
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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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, mei Grissom at Pitzaz, a bar at Ninth and mississippi streets, near the beginning of his name was Ricky Cho, Arenal said.
"We started hanging out," Arrenal
wrote. "We played tennis and raucet-
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 1987 University of Kansas graduate from Overland Park. No bodies have been found.
Butler was reported missing June
said Maj. J.H. John Round of the
Oyate City Police Department.
"T
The week Joan was missing, Ricky (Grissom) came over in her car. We drove around in it.'
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 suspected on June 26, he said.
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 Mastison, 24, of New York, who just seemed like your average guy.
Masinston, Arena1's friend, also met Grissom at 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 friendly.
"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 1975, a KU professor was there to study it.
Tom Armstrong, professor of physics and astronomy, is part of the team of scientists studying radiation from Neptune's magnetic field.
Volcanoes spotted on Neptune's moon
The Associated Press
PASADENA, Calif. — Voyager 2's close-up photos of Neptune's moon Triton reveal what look like active ice volcanoes that could
Destination Kansas City
See GRISSOM, p. 5
Worlds of Fun a good choice for fast pace
by Bruce Johnson
The Timberwolf adds to the howling good times at Kansas City's two major amusement parks.
Life in the fast lane; Worlds of Fun's new Timberwolf opened to rave reviews.
This 4,230-foot long,100-foot high wooden rollercaster is the newest attraction at Worlds of Fun. This summer, the american Coaster Enthusiasts Organization rode the Timberwolf and ranked it one of the best rollercoasters in the country.
the fast-paced waiting lines allowed Chris Matha, Kansas City sophomore, to ride the Timberwolf twice in one day.
The Timberwolf is a lot faster than the Orient Express," Mathia said. "My stomach dropped a bunch of times. It's the best rollercoaster by far."
Offering more than 120 other rides, Worlds of Fun's other attractions include the Orient Express, Viking Voyager and Furv of the Nile.
Currently in its 17th year, Worlds of Fun offers concerts throughout its season. Entertainer perform in Forum Amphitheatre, an outdoor theater with seating for 4,500. For the price of a admission (Worlds of Fun calls it a "passport") plus 32 visitors call
plus $2, visitors can attend con-
Life in the fast lane, Worries of Pain's new certs. Act schedled in September are Willie Nelson, Sept. 2, and White Heart, Sept. 30.
The adjacent theme park, Oceans of Fun, features water slides, a wave pool and a swim-up bar for adults.
Discounted student tickets are available at the Kansas Union. The student ticket price for Worlds of Fun is $10.50 and tickets for Oceans of fun cost $9.50. A regular adult one-day passport costs
$13.95 Parking is $3 a vehicle.
Oceans of Fun's season usually runs from Labor Day weekend to Memorial day weekend After Labor Day, Worlds of Fun is open weekends through October. It is currently scheduled to reopen for the 1990 season the first weekend in April.
To get to the two theme parks, take Interstate 435 East into Missouri and go north past 1-70 to Exit 54. Watch for the water tower.
Kansas City's Chinatown
by Lisa Koav
Kansas City's "Chinatown" is a place where Americans can see many Asian things and many Asian people can feel more at home. In the area between interstate-70 and Walnut in downtown Kansas City, many residents are Asian, especially Vietnamese.
In this area you can find Asian grocery stores selling a huge variety of Asian spices. One Chinese grocery store, the Hong Kong Market, carries a wide variety of spices that not even a Chinese person can name all of them! The store also rents videotapes imported from Hong Kong and Taiwan. To Asians, the store helps them keep in touch with up-to-date news and movies from home.
Every Saturday there is a morning market in the area between Fifth Street and Walnut Avenue. The market sells everything from fresh vegetables and meat to shirts and jeans, often at bargain prices.
The area has a number of small, family-owned restaurants. Since their customers are usually residents of the area, the food is very authentic by Asian standards.
A visit to Chinatown is an experience well worth traveling for.
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Secure cab reinstated for safety
Kansan staff writer
By Beth Behrens
Charles Bryan, KU on Wheels coordinator, has announced the restatement of the Secure Cab program beginning tonight.
Secure Cab is a taxi service for students who need a ride home. The de is free with a valid KUID. students can call Secure Cab at 842-32 from 11 p.m. until 2:30 a.m. van days a week.
All City Cab & Shuttle Corp. won
a contract for the service. Student
rate will pay the company an
rate rate.
6. Jake White, student body presi-
dent and North Platte, Neb., seni-
or, if the contract called for 64 hours
service a week at $18 an hour or
$545.60 for the 1989-80 school year.
He said priority would be given to
his received from campus.
kryan, Lawrence graduate stuat, said the transportation board's in concern was that students ulde abuse the program.
"The purpose of Secure Cab is to be people who are in trouble a ride nee." Bryan said. "It's not formal transportation. We're there when they had one beer too many their friends left them at a bar or ern, or they are on campus and ok someone is following them. ope still need to be responsible for its own transportation."
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o keep students from abusing the vice, Bryan said students would ask for their KUID number and address where they ask to be left.
enough the number of women
ag through rush this year
lessed, the percentage of pledges
pretended increased by about 5 per-
Bryan Swan
san staff writer
poorities at the University of Kan-
received their pledges Saturday,
all but four houses reached
as set for this year.
orority rush nishes with 01 pledges
a per-house quotas set by the city system have remained fairly the last few years. Two years he quota was 68, and last year it 82. Deplete last year's closing of phi House, 1602 High Drive, quota remained about a Trisha Harris, Tulsa, Okla.
There have been open-house par-
wish with about 900 women, and this much less than last year," said仁再滔, Overland Park r and a member of Alpha Chi kappa, 1500 Nu Plu Center. "All houses set their quotas at 54 bers this year. There have been derably less people going ihh, though, than last year."
we had a larger number of
we going through one might think
losing mattered, but it really
take a difference," said Harmon
of Pl Beta Phi, 1612 W.
st., and vice president of soror-
fairs for the Pannhellenic Coun-
said the number of women who ad last year was 980, compared a year's 901.
a're pledging more than usual.' said a. It's a smaller number last year, but the percentage of us accepted is larger. We u士ledge about two-thirds, but this it was around 73 percent.