TUESDAY,OCTOBER 29,2002
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 3A
Neighborsticked about tenants'trash
By Matt Stumpff
nstumpff@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Jared Soares/Kansar
Lawrence resident Jake Slimp picks up trash and reclaims his mailbox on his front porch. Slimp has had complaints from neighbors about trash laying idle on the front porch.
Some Lawrence residents have zero tolerance for students who leave trash on their own property.
The majority of the complaints stem from older residents in the neighborhoods who were singing out students, said Dan Johnson, Lawrence environmental inspector.
"They can't sneeze without having a complaint called in," Johnson said. "I can usually pick up the trash myself faster than handle the complaint."
Some residents think trash in yards is a more severe problem, said Arly Allen, Centennial Neighborhood Association committee member.
"What we're dealing with are single family homes converted into rental apartments with three or four students," Allen said. "They start parking cars on the front lawn, having parties late at night and leaving trash on the lawn."
Allen said older residents had a right to live without some of the problems brought on by some traditional students.
"It's not part of the environment these people anticipated when they bought these homes." Allen said.
"I go by my properties every day." Ebey said. "If something's wrong, I jump on it."
Landlords should take steps to keep tenants from having to make complaints, said Bob Ebey. Lawrence landlord and vice president of the Landlords of Lawrence, Inc.
Mike Strohm, Overland Park senior, said he had to pay multiple fines to his landlord in a previous residence because of trash on his property.
He said he didn't think his landlord would be so strict.
"We got a fine for having one single trash bag outside of our place," Strohm said.
Master Plan Management rents out houses in some neighborhoods with complaints about trash at students' homes,
said Liz Stecklein, manager for the company. She said most of the complaints she received were from retired people who lived there.
"They make a job of going around and looking at the rental houses," Stecklein said. "And sometimes I don't think it's fair to the tenants, because they will have, like, two beer bottles or a
trash bag outside.
Stecklein said she knew certain neighbors picked on students, because she only received complaints from certain neighborhoods each year.
"The houses I get complaints on, it doesn't matter what tenants are there." Stecklein said.
Edited by Melissa Shuman
Arrest in robbery case relieves students
By Michelle Burhenn
mburhenn@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
A 19-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Friday after a search provided information linking him to the robbery of two KU students, said Sgt. Mike Pattrick of the Lawrence Police Department.
Christopher Lee Jackson, resident of 934 Illinois St., was arrested Friday after Lawrence police executed a search warrant relating to a different burglary. Jackson was not involved in that burglary. Pattrick said, but through that search, Lawrence
police had enough evidence to charge him with the Aug. 29th robbery of two 20-year-old female students, Patrick declined to say what Lawrence police found to connect Jackson with the robbery.
A man, his face covered with a white bandana, robbed. Crystal Reed, Burden junior, and Haley Stevens, Overland Park junior, at gunpoint about 3 a.m. Aug. 29 in their home in the 1300 block of Ohio Street. He demanded all their money, took their phone and shoved them into a bedroom. Reed said.
Jackson was charged yesterday with two counts of kidnapping.
two counts of aggravated robbery and one count of aggravated burglary Douglas County District Court Judge Peggy Kittel set his bail at $75,000.
Patrick said the kidnapping charge was brought because the victims were moved from room to room inside the house.
Reed said Friday's arrest was a relief to her and her roommate and the final step to returning to normal life like before the robbery.
"I didn't stay here by myself for a few weeks," she said. "We decided we weren't going to move but we did what we could to get back to normal and live like
"... We did what we could to get back to normal and live like we used to."
Crystal Reed
we used to."
She said that when Lawrence police notified her and Stevens, she was surprised that an arrest had been made.
"It was really a big relief," she said. "It didn't seem like they had anything to go off of."
Edited by Adam Pracht
Seminar to instruct minority leaders
By Katie Nelson
knelson@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Jennifer Huang, a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences student senator, said her Taiwanese background made her more accessible to the Asian community but also brought frustrations.
An ethnic minority background does not always determine how a person is treated, but for someone holding a leadership position, it may color their actions unfairly.
She said that last year she worried about how people perceived her support for the Student Senate's push for a new Multicultural Resource Center.
"It might have been construed that I was just promoting the new MRC building because I was a minority, when really, that isn't true at all," said the Wichita senior.
A spring semester course. Minority Student Leadership Seminur, is designed to address situations such as these.
The two-year old class helps emerging student leaders develop their leadership skills in a non-mainstream environment, said Robert Page, director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs.
Page helped develop the course, in which 15 to 20 students study topics such as leadership theory, community involvement and parliamentary procedure.
Non minority students have taken part in the class as well, helping to create a more balanced spectrum of opinions and leadership experiences. Page said.
Students of color experience heightened expectations from minority groups and the mainstream world, Page said.
"Whether you want it to or not
those issues automatically come up," he said.
As a result, Page said, students need a place to study leadership styles which can help them deal with those pressures.
Olivia Standingbear took the class two years ago when it was offered for the first time. Her 12-person class discussed backgrounds, cultures and stereotypes.
"It was an eye-opener," said the Pawhuska, Okla., junior. "The whole idea of thinking about culture as not just some ethnicity, but as a family or whatever — I never thought of it that way."
Standingbear is serving as the president of KU's First Nations Student Association. Being a Native American in a student leadership role brings challenges that the Leadership Seminar has helped her address, she said.
"It's hard to stay confined to how America does everything," Standingbear said. "We're living in a white man's world. It's important to keep your traditions and still be able to conduct a meeting."
The Minority Student Leadership Seminar has no prerequisites, but it is recommended that students take Pre-101, a college adjustment course, and participate in Hawk Link, a minority retention program run by the Office of Multicultural Affairs, before enrolling in the class.
"When it comes to minorities you need to be getting your voice out there, and teach others that don't know about your culture," Standingbear said. "This class helped me learn that the only way you will be heard is if you speak up."
—Edited by Andy Samuelson
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