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Student is victim of armed robbery
By Michelle Burhenn
Kansan staff writer
When Crystal Reed, Burden junior, answered a knock on her door early Thursday morning, an unidentified man, his face covered with a white bandana, greeted her with a handgun.
"I opened the door and he put the gun to my head and came in," Reed said. "At the beginning, I screamed."
Reed's scream woke up her roommate, Haley Stevens, Overland Park junior.
The man proceeded to rob Reed and Stevens, who live in the1300 block of Ohio Street, said Sgt. Mike Pattrick of the Lawrence Police Department.
Reed came home minutes before she heard the knock, she said.
"I don't think he followed me, but I think maybe he was watching for me or anybody." Reed said.
Before opening the door, Reed said, she tried to see through the peephole and remembered her porch light had burnt out.
"I do live right next to The Hawk, so sometimes my friends do drop by," she said. "Being stupid, I didn't ask who it was and I opened the door. I've lived here over a year and never had a problem."
Reed said the man demanded all their money, a total of $32, asked for their phone, shoved them into her bedroom and then escaped with the women's General Electric white cordless phone.
The women then called 911 on another phone in the bedroom. When Lawrence police arrived, they couldn't find the suspect.
After the incident, Reed and Stevens fixed the porch light. But when Reed's boyfriend heard another knock about 5 a.m. Sunday, the light was not on.
When her boyfriend asked who it was, Reed said, he heard someone running down the stairs. Reed discovered Sunday that someone had unscrewed the light bulb. She said she then contacted Lawrence police, who said they would continue to investigate the incidents, but that she might consider moving.
"I'm really scared now, because, you know, after the first time you always think they won't come back," she said. "I'd like to say, 'Hey, it's a coincidence,' but I've lived here all of last year, and I've never had anything like this. Now all of a sudden it's two hits in one week."
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Contact Burhn at mburhn@kansan.com. This story was edited by Melissa Shuman.
Student drugged with GHB
Defendent accused of attempted rape, date-rape druggings
By Michelle Burhenn
Kansan staff writer
A University of Kansas student charged with drugging three KU students and attempting to rape one of them told Douglas County District Court Judge Peggy Kittel that he understood his charges.
"I'm a teacher — that's my life," Michael D. Carpenter, Olathe sophomore, told Kittel as she set his bond Friday. "I know that this looks bad on paper."
Carpenter, a 21-year-old coach and paraprofessional for Lawrence Public Schools, was charged with attempted rape, slipping gamma hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) to three female KU students, possession of the drug and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Carpenter, who lives at 800 Murrow
Michael D. Carpenter was charged in Douglas County District Court Friday with attempted rape, slipping gamma hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) to three female KU students.
Court, appeared in court via teleconference from Douglas County Jail. As Kittel read his charges, he repeated the maximum penalty three times.
Two charges of reckless aggravated battery were dropped Friday because the affidavit did not include that two of the girls were injured in a car accident after they were drugged Thursday. Assistant District Attorney Brad Burke said he
Attempted rape carries a maximum penalty of 247 months — more than 20 years — in a state penitentiary. Kittel set his bond at $25,000. He was released after posting bond late Friday.
Carpenter said he was trying to comprehend the charges and possible penalties.
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Lawrence fire department Captain Shaun Coffey asks Sharon Gennon, Beta Theta Pi house mother and Matt Hubbard, Beta President, about the structure of the house. A fire broke out in the Beta sleeping dorm last night, but the cause of the fire has not yet been determined.
Fraternity fire damages house on historic register
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By Michelle Burhenn
Kansan staff writer
A fire in the dormitory of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, 1425 Tennessee St., last night engulfed a three-bed bunk and caused smoke and fire damage.
Lawrence-Douglas County Fire and Medical was dispatched to the house at 7:23 p.m.yesterday.
Andrew Schurle, Manhattan junior, said he entered the dormitory, which members call "The Roost," to find a cell phone charger.
"There was a crackling noise and one of the beds was in flames," he said.
Schurle said the room was empty when he found the fire.
Morgan Carmichael, Mulvane junior, said about five members of the fraternity used fire extinguishers and garden hoses to keep the flames at bay before firefighters arrived.
Officials contained the fire to the sleeping dormitory, which is on the third floor of the building's new addition. The fraternity occupies the John Palmer Usher House, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.
"We also smothered the flames with blankets and the sprinklers came on," Carmichael said. "The whole Roost was completely in smoke."
Matt Hubbard, fraternity president and Prairie Village senior, said he did not know what had caused the fire, but several fraternity members said they thought it was an electrical fire.
"We also smothered the flames with blankets and the sprinklers came on. The whole Roost was completely in smoke."
Morgan Carmichael Mulvane junior
Battalion Chief Dan Morrow said the fire's cause was still under investigation and a damage estimate would not be made until the fraternity's private contractor assessed the damage.
■ Contact Burhenn at mburhenn@kansan.com. This story was edited by Kyle Ramsey.
False pass has price for forgers
KU on Wheels adds fine for fake bus pass hopes to stop fakes
By Justin Henning Kansan staff writer
Students forging KU on Wheels bus passes had better think twice before flashing their fake.
Last semester, those caught with a forged bus pass had to pay for a legitimate pass. Forgers now face an additional $125 fine and a citation on their non-academic conduct record for six years.
Mike Appleby, transportation coordinator for KU on Wheels, said all offenders also would have to buy a pass, which would cost $65 for one semester and $120 for a full year.
The fine results from a tight budget and an increase in forged passes, Appleby said. KU on Wheels caught about 20 people using a forged pass last spring. In past semesters, there were five cases.
"It may not sound like much, but 60 percent of the KU on Wheels budget is derived from the sale of bus passes. That can add up if more people are forging passes," he said.
That 60 percent adds up to $840,000 a year.
"Kids thought of it like speeding on K-10. Everyone does it, some people will get caught, but everyone will still keep doing it," Appleby said.
He said cases would be handled on an individual basis, which means not all students would get the fine and citation. Based on the conversation with the student, the offender could still buy a valid pass.
If the fine and citation become a possible course of action, the punishment would not be administered by KU on Wheels.
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Korbslegae Kuawogai relaxes on the palyground near her home. The Topeka junior fled her native Africa when she was a child due to a civil war.
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Woman fights painful disease
Student diagnosed with disease that affects millions
By Vonna Keomanyvong
Kansan staff writer
Some women often associate abdominal pain with their monthly periods. But for Topeka junior Korbalagae Kuawogai, it was more than just bad cramps.
Nine months ago, she was diagnosed with endometriosis.
"Every month it felt like someone was
Faces in the Crowd
According to the Endometriosis Research Center, more than five million women suffer from the disease.
taking my uterus and squeezing it very hard or taking a hammer and hitting my stomach," Kuaogai said.
which occurs when the lining of the uterus does not dissolve or shed during menstruation. As a result, the lining builds up and forms "spider webs" inside and outside the uterus, eventually scarring tissue.
Kuawogai has had pains since she was 14, but doctors kept misdiagnosing her pain, she said
Some of the doctors prescribed drugs such as painkillers and birth control pills. Kuawogai even had a sonogram done to see if she had a cyst. Others told her to take over-the-counter medicine such as ibuprofen.
She estimated that she had seen eight doctors since high school.
"I was starting to doubt myself that maybe it was in my head and that I'm not
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