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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Wednesday, October 25, 2000
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Sports: Senior forward Jaclyn Johnson is poised to become a better offensive player. SEE PAGE 1B
PS 650-640) • VOL. 111 NO. 42 For comments, contact Nathan Willis or Chris Borniger at 864-4810 or e-mail editor@kansan.com
Inside: University threatens professor with removal because of an unapproved guest lecturer.
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Players may face charges soon as inquiry wraps up
By Lauren Brandenburg and Katie Hollar writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writers
Charges may be filed by the end of the week against the two football players accused of sexually assaulting a female soccer player in February, said Christine Tonkovich, Douglas County district attorney.
Charges were originally expected by the end of August, but Lawrence police said the process had been slowed when students left town for the summer. Det. M.T. Brown said the investigation continued to take more time after school started because several interviews still had to be completed, which required working with several attorneys.
Brown also said that not all the students involved in the case came back for the school year.
"Witnesses who were available last year were not in the city this semester." Brown said.
The police forwarded the reports to Tonkovich late Monday afternoon.
"We have received the reports, and we are reviewing them," Tonkovich said. "There are a couple other interviews the officers still want to conduct. However, I think we will be able to make our decision before the end of the week."
The victim said she was glad to have the police investigation finished.
"I've been hearing 'We're about
done' since May," she said. "Now I'll just have to wait and see what happens."
She will meet with Tonkovik today. She said she didn't know what charges to expect, but she said she would definitely testify in court.
"I wouldn't take it this far otherwise," she said.
The assault occurred on Feb. 26 as the victim was leaving the Yacht Club, 530 Wisconsin St. The victim reported that two football players she knew fondled, spanked and taunted her.
The victim first reported the assault to her soccer coach, and she agreed to take the matter up with football coach Terry Allen instead of going to the police.
When the victim found out that Allen had required the players to run extra sprints at practice as punishment, she went to Bob Frederick, athletics director. By now, it was April 25.
The victim gave a statement to police on April 26.
Meanwhile, one of the players who is accused continues to play for the football team. Under the football team's discipline policy, he is one step from suspension from the team. His status is pending the results of the Lawrence Police Department's investigation.
The other player accused in the incident was dismissed from the University of Kansas for poor grades and plays football at Garden City Community College.
Speaker discusses rock 'n' roll history
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Bv Leita Schultes
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Kansan staff writer
Julian Bond, a professor, civil rights activist and veteran of the Georgia General Assembly, showed he could still rock to rhythm and blues last night at the Lied Center.
Bond, chairman of the Board of Directors for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, spoke to nearly 2,000 people about the history of rock and roll and its influence on American history.
His speech, "Crossing the Color Line: From Rhythm and Blues to Rock and Roll," was part of the 2000 Horwitz Lecture Series and was sponsored by the Hall Center for the Humanities.
"Almost all of America is about race, but this is of particular interest," Bond said before quoting Martin Luther King, Jr. and John F. Kennedy, both of whom condemned rock and roll for corrupting America's youth.
He showed a slide of a poster published by the Citizens Council of Greater New Orleans, Inc.
For suburban Caucasian teenagers influenced by the culture of minorities, the new music provided a way to reject their parents' values. He said it offered "an option to surrender to adult norms."
"Notice!" it read. "Stop. Help Save the Youth of America. Don't Buy Negro Records."
But Bond said despite rock 'n' roll's African-American roots and sexually suggestive lyrics, it was a craze the older generation could not stop.
Bond played some tunes ranging from original rhythm and blues songs to the more recognized "Hound Dog" by Elvis Presley. He invited audience members to tap their feet, snap their fingers or dance in the aisles.
Bond, who was born in 1840, removed his glasses while he played song clips, swaying to the beat of the music he grew up with.
"Musical history and the musical present is filled with all kinds of complaints," he said.
Then he pushed the play button for the song "Earth Angel," calling it blue light music.
Julian Bond, civil rights activist and chairman of the Board of Directors for the NAACP, takes off his glasses and sways to the song "60-Minute Man." Bond spoke about rock 'n' roll last night at the Lied Center. Photo by Craig Bennett/KANSAN
"Your family's away," he said. "You go down to the basement, put a blue light bulb in there, invite some friends over ..."
The audience laughed as one artist sang, "Rock and roll all night, I'm a 60-minute man."
"It incorporated a lot of different kinds of music," said Cylus Scarbough, Topeka sophomore. "He blended race with music and how each affected America, and I thought it was nice."
The speech was a hit with audience members.
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Julian Bond led a question and answer session yesterday afternoon.
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City bus system nears debut
By Matt Merkel-Hess
Kansan staff writer
A bus transfer station located on North Street between Massachusetts and Vermont streets was approved last night by city commissioners. The new station will serve as the hub of the Lawrence Transit System. Photo by Thad Allender/KANSAN
The transfer station would serve as the hub of the Lawrence Transit System and will be located on Ninth Street between Massachusetts and Vermont streets, near the location of the KU on Wheels downtown bus stop.
A mid-December start for the new Lawrence bus system seems possible after the City Commission gave a green light to the location of a downtown transfer station at last night's meeting.
After the removal of six parking spaces on the block, the area will provide enough room for three to four buses at one time, necessitating a staggered system in which the buses would arrive in waves, 20 minutes apart.
The Public Transit Advisory Committee also debated a pulse system in which all seven routes through downtown would arrive at the same time. Karin Rexroad, public transit administrator, said that unless off-street land was purchased, a staggered system would have to be used.
Holly Krebs, a committee member and KU on Wheels transportation coordinator, said she opposed the idea of a staggered system and instead pushed for a pulse system where no one would have to wait.
"Twenty minutes is too long to ask people to wait," she said. "I think it's our responsibility to make this as convenient as possible for people to use."
The bus service is scheduled to begin in mid-December with leased buses. City-owned buses
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CITY COMMISSION
What happened: The City Commission approved the location of a downtown transfer station on Ninth Street between Massachusetts and Vermont streets for the new Lawrence Transit System.
What it means: The city bus system is one step closer to a mid-
what happens next? Leased buses will arrive in December to start the system, and city-owned buses should begin arriving next June.
U.S. troops on alert in Persian Gulf
By Lori O'Toole
writer@kansan.com
Kansan wire editor
U. S. military troops tend to become too complacent in the usual security level and they need to consider how life would be in a higher state of alert, said Col Kevin McNellis, commander of the University of Kansas Air Force ROTC.
The professor of aerospace studies spoke to about 55 Air Force ROTC students yesterday at Wescoe Hall during a weekly leadership laboratory.
The laboratory includes discussion of current events, and this week the students learned more about the U.S. military's levels of security alert.
The topic is important because the Pentagon announced yesterday that American forces in two small Persian Gulf states, Bahrain and Qatar, and in Turkey are on the "Delta" state of alert because of specific new indications of terrorist threats.
The U.S. military employs four levels of security alert above the "normal" threat condition. They are "Alpha," "Bravo," "Charlie" and "Delta." Delta is the highest level of security alert and signifies immediate threat.
In Washington, Pentagon representative Craig Quigley said the threat condition in Bahrain and
Qatar was raised to "Delta" this past weekend.
quail was raised to Delta this past weekend.
He said the threat condition for U.S. forces at Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey was elevated more than a week ago to "Charlie" level, the second-highest threat condition. Incirlik is the hub for American and British warplanes enforcing a "no fly" zone over northern Iraq.
There are about 1,100 U.S. military personnel in Bahrain and fewer than 50 U.S. troops in Qatar. Bahrain is the base for the Navy's 5th Fleet, which is one of the most important American military
Quigley said the decision to raise alert levels was based on intelligence reports of "multiple threats" from "multiple sources." He said the threats were specific, but the credibility of the sources was unknown.
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contingents in the Gulf.
U. S. troops in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait were not included in the heightened state of alert, Quilev said.
McNellis said the heightened state of alert did not directly affect KU ROTC students.
However, Mike Daigh, Air Force ROTC wing commander, said it was important for ROTC students to be aware of overseas military events.
"We're not commissioned yet, we're not in active duty yet," said Daigh, a Wichita senior, who attended the leadership lab. "For us as cadets, it's mainly important from the standpoint to appreciate what the men and women in uniform are doing."
"In the end, that's the team and that's the force that we'll be a part of. You can't help but think, 'I could be doing that.'"
--- The Associated Press contributed to this article.