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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, Ei Paso, Texas junior, met Grissom at Pizazz, a bar at Ninth and Mississippi streets, near the beginning of April. He told her his name was Ricky Cho. Areal said.
"We started hanging out," Arenael said. "We played tennis and raquette to him."
Five months later, on Aug. 16.
Grissem 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
after Mal J. John Round of the Over-
land Rangers.
"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.
Katherine Arenal
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.
death of Terri Maness, 25, of Wichita,
Round said.
Grissom also is a suspect in the
Grissom faces numerous other charges including one count of aggra-
vated. kidnapping, four counts of aggraviated robbery and two counts of aggraviated 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 Ellen Hanson of theLENexa police.
"The worst thing I ever would have said about him is that I thought he was boring," Carolyn Mastinon, 24, Lawrence resident, said. "He just seemed like your average guy."
Masinton, Arenael's friend, also met Grissom at Pizzaz.
"We noticed him because we had never seem 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 Pasadena, Calif., 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.
It's an interesting and complex
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 erupt
See GRISSOM. p. 5
Destination Kansas City Index
Touring
Touring
Fountains a beautiful attraction ... 8
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art ... 9
Worlds of Fun ... 10
Kansas City's Chinatown ... 10
Kansas City Museum ... 14
Sports
Royals Stadium-the Bo show ... 11
Comets soccer ... 15
Chiefs: ready to win ... 15
Shopping
Shopping
Shopping choices: mall, the Plaza ... 7
Flea Market bargains ... 14
Nightspots; Dining
Milton's Tap Room: jazz ... 5
Westport for variety and fun ... 4
Rock & roll 50s and 60s ... 9
Restaurant guide ... 13
Theater: 45 minutes to Broadway ... 5
Getting There and Back
Playing it safe ... 14
Driving safely ... 7
On the cover, from left to right, Pomona by Donatello Gabrielli, located in front of Woolf Brothers on the Plaza; the courtyard of Barney Allis Plaza, 200 block of West 12th Street in downtown Kansas City; The Scout, by Cynus Dallin, located in Penn Valley Park;
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Secure cab reinstated for safety
By Beth Behrens Kansan staff writer
Secure Cab is a taxi service for students who need a ride home. The
Charles Bryan, KU on Wheels coordinator, has announced the reinstitution of the Secure Cab program beginning tonight.
tents can call Secure Cab at 842-
from 11 p.m. until 2:30 a.m.
in daws a week.
1 City Cab & Shuttle Corp. won
contract for the service. Student
will pay the company an
fir rate.
yan, Lawrence graduate student, said the transportation board's concern was that studentsd abuse the program.
Jake White, student body presi-
dent and North Platte, Neb., senior,
the contract called for 64 hours
twice a week at $18 an hour or
$6.50 for the 1989-90 school year.
said priority would be given to
received from campus.
the purpose of Secure Cab is to people who are in trouble a ride." Bryan said. "It's not for air transportation. We're there then they had one beer too many friend leaves them at a bar or on, or they are on campus and someone is following them. we still need to be responsible for own transportation."
keep students from abusing the see, Bryan said students would be taken for their KVUD number and dress where they ask to be left.
priority rush mishes with 01 pledges
Bryan Swan an staff writer
courtes at the University of Kaneceived their pledges Saturday, all but four houses reached as set for this year.
though the number of women
through rush this year
eased, the percentage of pledges
pied increased by about 5 per-
here have been open-house parish with about 900 women, and this much less than last year," said in Renrow, Overland Park p and a member of Alpha Chia, 1500 Nu Shape Nu Place. "All houses set their quotas at 54 bers this year. There have been iterably less people going in, though, last year."
a per-house quotas set by the city system have remained fairly the last few years. Two years the quota was 68, and last year it 12. Despite last year's closing of Alpha Phi house, 1602 High Drive, it remains about the same. Trisha Harris, Tulsa, Okla.,
we had a larger number of be going through one might think losing mattered, but it really make a difference," said Harmenbern of Pi Beta Phi. 3612 W. St., and vice president of sorer-fairs for the Panhellenic Coun-
said the number of women who
last year was 900, compared
a year's 901.
"we pledging more than usual," it is said. "It's a smaller number last year, but the percentage of we accepted is larger. We usuledge about two-thirds, but this it was around 75 percent."