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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, October 23, 1990
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Grissom jury will hear evidence of DNA tests
Results may link Grissom, Butler
Rv Eric Goreki
Kansan projects writer
OLATHE — Prosecuting attorneys in the Richard Grissom Jr. murder trial laid the groundwork yesterday for the presentation of controversial DNA-test evidence that they will say link Grissom to the June 1989 disap-
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crime lab, who testified yesterday that they found samples of what might have been human blood while searching Butler's rental car.
The officers testified in preliminary hearings earlier this year. DNA experts are expected to present test samples to be tested in testimony today, or tomorrow.
Grissom, 29, faces three counts of first-dgree murder and nine other charges in relation to the June 1989 disappearance of Butler, 24, of Overland Park, and Lenexa roomates Theresa Brown and Christine
The women never have been found Grissom pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
Butler disappeared June 18, 1989, and her car was recovered June 26 in Lawrence at Traitride Apartments, 250 W. Sixth St. Grissom, who was seen near the car, escaped police at the scene and left the automobile.
The car was towed to the Johnson County Sheriff's Department in Olathe early the next morning, and its interior was searched later that
day by Bill Chapin and Rick Fahy of the crime lab.
Fahy testified that he and Chapin found a wallet and a checkbook in the interior of the car containing real and identifiable bearing Grissom's picture.
During their three-hour search, the men conducted "tape lifts" to pick up hair, debris and fibers in the car's interior and trunk. Fathi试聒. They also dusted for fingerprints and found one "good" print on the seat belt buckle on the driver's side of the car.
Fahy testified that in the car's glove box he found an air pistol with two carbon dioxide cartridges used to operate the gun. In his opening statement Friday, Johnson County District Attorney Paul Morrison said that a man matching Grissom's description held a similar gun to the head of a Kansas City, Mo., woman who escaped from her apartment June 12. The woman, who escaped, has not testified yet.
During cross-examination by Thomas Erker, one of Grissom's court-appointed defense attorneys, Faby testified that he had recovered a long, brown hair from the interior of the car but that he did not know the results of tests on the hair. Blood samples were not found in the car's interior.
Chapin testified that after unloading paint supplies from the car's trunk, presumably used by Grissom, who operated a painting company, he and Fahy discovered the possible blood samples.
Under a removable black carpet, Chapin testified, they found that a section of padding had been "not removed" from the left section of the trunk. On a piece of
padding still clinging by glue to the missing area, they found a 2- to 2.5-inch by -1/4-inch sample of what appeared to be blood.
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By using a swab dipped in distilled water, benzidene and hydrogen peroxide as an indicator, Fahy and Chapin got a positive reading on the sample. Chapin testified.
It's probably blood, but the tests are not conclusive
Bill Chapin Sheriff's
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"It's probably blood, but the tests are not conclusive," Chapin said.
He testified that through the benzidene test they found another small section of possible blood and dried flakes of blood in the trunk. DNA, which is the main component of living cells, is found in blood.
In other testimony, Carla Dippel, a neighbor of Butler, identified two pieces of jewelry that were reported stolen from her apartment and recovered by investigators from Butler's apartment.
During cross-examination by Erker, Chapin testified that to his knowledge, no human hair had been wetted in the animal. Animal hairs were present, however.
Butler's siblings also briefly took the witness stand yesterday. Julie Butler, 22, a KU senior, Chris Butler, 18, a KU freshman, and Tim Butler, 24, a financial analyst in Austin, Texas, testified that they were not in the Kansas City area at the time of their sister's disappearance and that they did not come into contact with their sister's rental car.
Keith ThorperKANSAN
David Wichman, Clay Center freshman, picks up a copy of the Spring 1991 Timetable outside the SUA window in the Kansas Union. The new timetables help students prepare for enrollment advising, which began yesterday.
Advising begins
Visibility of homophobic feelings increasing
Kansan staff writer
Homophobic people are coming out of the closet and making their opinions known on campus.
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By Monica Mendoza
Homophobia is an open expression of fear through hostility and violence.
During the past two weeks, gay and lesbian posters have been vandalized at the information booth in front of the library. These fliers have been posted on campus.
The rash of overt ant-gay actions is new, but homophobia has existed forever, said Bob Shelton, KU professor and associate professor of religion.
But gays and lesbians are no longer willing to endure less than human treatment or stay undercover, Shelton said.
— Dennis Daney
Dennis Dailey professor of social welfare
"(Homophobia is) irrational and
not related to reality," he said. "It's usually excessive and the person holds the object of fear way out of neonation."
Dennis Dailey, professor of social welfare, said homophobia was created by the same bias and bigotry associated with racism and sexism.
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"It is the notion of treating some
one as less than yourself." Daisy said, "Homophobia is an open expression of fear through hostility and violence."
He said research studies had shown that people who viewed gays and lesbians as a potential threat were threatened by their own sexuality.
The word homophobic sometimes is used loosely, he said. People who sometimes are uncomfortable with a flemish are said to be homophobic.
Shelton told that when confronting a phobia such as homophobia, people should question the motivations for that phobia.
"In that way the term is too loose," Dailey said. "I prefer to apply the term to those who are hostile."
People should not question why someone is gay or lesbian, but they should question the person who asks why someone is gay, he said.
"The question assumes that there is something wrong with being gay or lesbian, and if we find out what it is
then maybe we can fix them," Shel ton said.
Regina Strong, volunteer for Headquarters, a community crisis center that homophobia came from fear and misunderstanding.
"It's very dangerous," strong said.
"Some people say, 'Call me homophobic, call me uneducated,' and it's securities that are coming through."
Dailey said homophobia could be either subtle or violent.
"It is subtle when a father does not "it want to show affection to his son because he is afraid that his son will grow up to be gay," Dalley said. "It"s a group of people beating up someone who they perceive to be gay."
Proposed roadways debated
By Elicia Hill
The two men argued about the South Lawrence Trafficway and the Eastern Bypass, two roadways that would connect Kansas Highway 10 with Interstate 70 in a loop of the city. Two roadways will be on the Nov. 6 ballot.
Kansan staff writer
About 150 Lawrence businessmen and women listened to Douglas County Commissioner Mike Amyx and Les Llevins Sr., Lawrence resident, debate election yesterday at a Rotary Club luncheon at the Holiday Inn Holidome, 200 McDonald Drive
A supporter and an opponent of two roadways proposed in Lawrence squared off yesterday in a debate about the projects.
Amyx began the debate by stating his opinion of why the city needed the roadways.
Blevins began his side of the debate by explaining why he sued the county over bonds issued to pay for the trafficway.
"The Supreme Court ruled that the commissioners had acted illegally under home rule to issue the bonds without a vote," he said. "I sued so that you and I could exercise our constitutional right to vote."
“These two road projects will help us with through traffic,” he said. “If we ignore the problem, it won't go wrong; don't do it today, we'll be strapped.”
He said the South Lawrence Trafficway was not a well-planned road because it would not be far enough from city limits.
Amyx rebuted Blevins' argument by calling the trafficway a 55-mile-an-hour freeway that would have interchanges, not traffic lights.
"We do not want another 23rd Street." Amyx said.
Booth Boho, bank director of KLWN radio, asked Blevis why a letter Blevis wrote, which was published Saturday in the Lawrence Journal-World, said the trafeway we have stop signs and traffic lights.
"Why are you deliberately misleading the public, and are you going to write a retraction to the paper?" he asked.
Blevins said that he would not write a retraction but that he would write another letter to clarify his position.
Lawrence City Commissioner Bob Walters said after the meeting that he was glad Blevins' letter was discussed.
"There has been a lot of misinformation going around to the public, and today we clarified some things," he said.
University Council urges firm response to campus violence
Resolution criticizes KU administration
Bv Karen Park
Kansan staff writer
University Council members are urging the KU administration to take a firm stand against future violence on campus.
A Council resolution, which was approved unanimously Thursday, condemns recent acts of vandalism that occurred at the information booth on Jayhawk Boulevard near Sunflower Road.
Del Shakkar, interim executive vice chancellor, issued a statement Oct. 16 condemning the acts of vandalism in the book after the first incident at the booth.
On Oct. 8, Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas posters displaying two men kissing and two women kissing, were covered with tape tape
The resolution also states that the KU administration delayed respond to the booth incident.
and newspapers
The posters were hung in celebration of National Coming Out Day.
KU police have not made any arrests in connection with the incidents at the booth.
On Oct. 10, two people sid open one of the windows and ripped down the GLSOK posters.
The final act of vandalism at the booth was during the early morning hours of Oct. 14, when a window in a booth was broken and an illegible message was spray-painted on the posters.
Aimee Hall, KU student body vice president and Council member, presented the resolution to the Council.
"I think people realize something needs to be done about this, and this resolution is a good first step," she said.
Shankel said that the administration agreed with the Council resolution.
He said the administration had made its position regarding violence on campus clear.
"We find these incidents deplorable," he said. "Sometimes you can't repeat something too often. When it happens, we wanted us to say something, we did."
Frances Ingemann, University Senate Executive Committee chairperson, said the administration did not respond to the acts of vandalism at the booth until after the booth's window was broken.
In that statement, Shankel said that the incidents at the booth appeared to be related to expressions
"They have no place in a learning community," he said.
Ingemann said that the Council expected that as soon as some violent act occurred, the administration would respond immediately.
of fear or hatred and that the University would not tolerate such cowardly acts.
The administration also should try to prevent violence, she said. It should punish anyone who is connected with the acts.
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