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Man found hurt between Strong, Spencer library
By Holly M. Neuman
Kansan staff writer
A former Haskell Indian Junior College student was flown to the University of Kansas Medical Center. The student found inured behind Strong Hall.
Lt. John Mullens of the KU police department said Rodney Dolley, 25, had suffered a skull fracture. He underwent surgery early Sunday morning, and he was listed in critical condition. He was the Med. Center early this morning.
Mullens said a KU security officer found Soldier on the concrete surface by the parking garage between the back of Strong Hall and the Spencer Research Library at 3:30 a.m. sun. day, KU police responded to the call at 3:31 a.m. and contacted the Douglas County Ambulance Service.
Soldier was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital and later was flown to the Med Center by helicopter.
The call that KU police responded to after 3:30 a.m. was not the first involving Soldier in the early hours of Sunday morning. Mullens said.
"At 1:30 a.m. we were called to Spencer Library where a one-sided fight had been reported," Mullens said. "Soldier had helped break up a fight between two individuals he held at the library, and was an 18-year-old male KU student."
Mullens said the other person involved in the fight had been arrested and placed in jail on accounts of battery against the KU student.
After the fight, Soldier went to sleep on the rock wall that surrounds the back of Spencer Library, Mullens said. People who knew soldierk won him up and later said Soldier had been consumed alcoholic liquor — "he was worse."
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Soldier's blood-alcohol content was
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He said that at 3 a.m., the KU
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— John Mullens
KU police lieutenant
He virtually knew everybody who was around when it happened. There are such confused stories about what happened.
security officer entered the research library on patrol rounds. Two people who had not been involved in the fight and who did not know Soldier told police they sold Soldier sleeping on the rock wall at 3:10 a.m.
When the security officer left the research library at 3:30 a.m., he found Soldier on the ground, about ten feet from the wall where he had been seen last.
"What we have to do is piece together what happened to him between 3:10 and 3:30." Mullens said. "We have no idea if it was foul play, an accident or if any malicious activities happened at all."
Mullens said 12 KU police officers, two Lawrence police officers and two officers from the sheriff's department were working on the case. They are trying to determine whether Soldier fell off the wall at a construction site or to him. No other injuries or bruises were reported on his body. Mullens said
Mullens said it had been difficult to find out what had happened because many people had wandered through the early hours of the morning.
"He virtually knew everybody who was around when it happened," Mullens said. "There are such confused people." He said he just trying to piece it all together.
Nobel Prize winner stresses creativitiy
Kansan staff writer
By Tatsuva Shimizu
Wole Soyinka, who in 1986 became the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, said artists still had a long way to go.
Artists, including writers, need to keep crossing frontiers to maintain their creativity, a Nobel Prize winner from Nigeria told about 200 people last night at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
"Writers cannot exist without frontiers to cross," he said. "There are few creative territories more congenial than the wilderness, but there is a creative species than the frontier."
Cornell University in New York. He said creativity not only from Western artists but also from artists in the rest of the world.
Even after an expansion of the scope of European arts in the 19th century, creativity in African arts was not recognized fully. he said.
"African writers and artists still have to undergo the terrain in the 20th century," he said.
Soyinka was born in 1934 in Nigeria. He was the director of the Drama School of Ibadan University and had been arrested and imprisoned for 22
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Deo Tajuba, a graduate student from Uganda, said he admired Soyinka.
Folabo Ajayi, assistant professor of African and African-American studies and Soyinna's sister, said she thought he earned the Nobel Prize because of both his literary works and for his concern for human rights.
He said Soyinka's books, including "The Man Died," which was inspired by Soyinka's imprisonment, were read all over Africa.
"I have read most of his books," he said.
He does not separate art from society but uses it to improve society, Ajayi said.
"He was standing for the rights of the oppressed," she said.
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KJHK celebrates 15th anniversary
Bv Amv Zamierowski
Kansan staff writer
During the week, KJHK will be steering away from its normal format by playing three older songs for every song on its current playlist to commemorate its 15th anniversary.
"I think it is a chance for KJHK to step back and realize our music heritage that put us where we are now," she said. "KJHK graduate teaching assistant."
KJHK 90.7 FM celebrated its 15th anniversary by broadcasting from no.1 to p.1m. yesterday in front of the first KJHK event at the site of the first KJHK broadcast.
Shannon Chappell, KJKHD jockey in Spring 1988, said KJKH had changed in the past few years because its disc jockeys now followed basic programming formats.
KJHJ first went on the air at 12:25 p.m. Oct. 15, 1975, one hour after it received authorization Federal Communications Commission
"When I was a DJ, we didn't have a format, and it allowed for a set of experimentation," Chappell said. "I would play into a reggae, you could玩reggae
four-hour shift. Now they have to play a rotation of music."
Wade Johnston, KJHK program director, said the station had changed its format this semester.
"Dividing the songs into groups by the sound was confusing," he said. "Now we categorize songs by the time they have been at the station."
From 1887 to this semester, the station programmed songs by categories, such as pop and rock, he said.
The sequence of categories rotates every four hours to give listeners a wider variety of music, he said.
"One of the reasons we changed is that we wanted the DJs to experiment more with the different music they had," Johnson said.
He said the station tried not to play songs that were on commercial radio stations.
"We are the sound alternative, and so it seems we should provide something more attuned with the campus atmosphere." Johnston
to learn about different aspects of radio programming.
"At college stations, everyone works together to make the whole station work." he said.
Dave Krivgansky, KJKH disc jockey from 1987 to 1984, said his experience at KJKH allowed him
Mike Kautsch, dean of journalism, said that the station provided an important service to listeners and that it also prepared students for internships and jobs in the field as well as in news, sales and management.
KJHK has invited 12 former DJs to visit KJHK and broadcast the music they played as KJHK DJs. Six DJs from 1975, including KJHK's first, Robert Baker, will return for the anniversary.
Other events include an open house from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at KJHK studios in Sudler Annex, north of 11th Street near West Campus Road. Thursday a band, Material issue, will play from noon to 1 p.m. in the Kansas Union.
KJHK began as a nine-watt station with about a 10-mile listening radius using equipment from an unlicensed station, KUOK, Peck said. The station increased its power to 100 watts in 1978, which gave the station about a 30-mile broadcasting radius.
Candles denounce violence, prejudice
By Monica Mendoza
Kansan staff writer
About 120 people carrying lighted candles gathered at the Campanile last night to denounce homophobic attitudes and violence on campus.
The "candles are in honor of the man who was injured," Tolbert said. Rodney Soldier, 25, was in critical condition early this morning at the University of Kansas Medical Center after suffering a skull fracture from an 10 and 3:30 a.m. Sunday behind Hall, KU police reported.
Liz Tolbert, member of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, said the vandalism last week to the information booth at the corner of Jayhawk Boulevard and Sunflower Road prompted the candlelight vigil. The vigil also was conducted in response to the injury of a former Haskell Indian Junior College student Sunday morning.
A KU security officer found Soldier on the concrete surface by the parking garage between the back of Strong Hall and the Spencer Research Library at 3:30 a.m. Sunday
Authorities are trying to determine whether Soldier fell off the wall or whether something else happened to him.
Lt. John Mullens of the KU police department said after the incident that it was likely Soldier was gay and that two men involved in a fight in the same area earlier Sunday also probably were gay.
Last week the booth on Jayhawk Boulevard and posters in it were vandalized several times. The posters inside the booth were posted by GLSOK in honor of National Coming Out Day on Thursday.
Scott Manning, member of ACT-UP, an AIDS awareness group, said the posters generated a lot of conversation and raised issues that frightened them.
He said most people who threatened gay men or lesbians usually could not deal with their own sexuality.
"I tried to pretend that those who destroyed that booth didn't get a part of me," he said. "But they did."
Tolbert said she was angry that KU officials had not made a public statement that denounced the recent acts of violence.
"No action has been taken to inform the students about what has happened." Tolbert said.
Christopher Craig, GLSOK peer counseler advising, said similar incidents of violence toward gay and lesbian students had occurred at Kansas State University, including "the Queens" on campus sidewalks.
"Their administrators spoke out immediately," Craig said. "At KU, there is silence."
Angela Cervantes, president of Hispanic American Leadership Organization, said members of HALO had discussed sending a letter to the U.S. House that they supported GLOSK's efforts in the fight against homophobic attitudes.
"But I decided to come out here and it face to face." Cervantes said. "This is the way things should be done. Not behind locked doors, not in letters, not in video tapes, but face to face."
Teri Martin, member of Native American Student Association, said her group was new and small.
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