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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102.NO.31
MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1992
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Bone discovery prompts FBI involvement
By Joe Harder
By Joe Harder
Kansan staff writer
The FBI has been asked by the Lawrence Police Department to assist an investigation into human bones found in the basement of a Lawrence home, police said yesterday.
The bureau will be asked to help identify the bones, possibly through tests done on tissue still present, Lawrence Police Chief Ron Olin said Saturday.
The bones were found by Ron Worley, Wichita jumior, as he was exploring the basement of his apartment house in the 700 block of Connecticut Street last week.
"I was just down there poking around," he said. But his search through a 5-foot-by-5-foot crawl space turned up more than just discard
ed remnants of a previous tenant's existence.
Worley, who has lived in the apartment house since Aug. 15, said he found the first bone on the surface of the dirt floor. He found others under a bathtub that had been placed against the east wall.
"They had stuff like splinters of wood hanging off them," Worley said. "As far as I could tell, they could have been 100 years old."
Frayer said that someone at the Museum of Anthropology had identified the bones as *Chenopodium* *villosum*.
Frayer said he could tell something was
strange as soon as he opened the bag.
"There was an odor that is clearly associated not with old bones but with something that is reasonably fresh," he said.
"It seems extremely unlikely that it's more than two years old," he said.
Frayer said that he examined about 15 bones, including bones from a left arm and hand, and a tibia and fibula, which are lower-leg bones.
It is difficult to determine the sex or age of a human from only a few bones, Frayer said. But he said his guess would be that the bones were from a male.
"As far as I'm concerned, it looked kind of male because of an indication of muscularity," he said. "But it could also have been a
muscular female."
After Frayer contacted the Douglas County coroner Friday, authorities began investigating the remains. They sifted through dirt in the crawl space where the bones were found and dug a test hole in another, Worley said.
Worley said investigators told him they had also found several animal bones, including several from a cow.
Lawrence Police Ll. Mike Hall said that there were no active missing persons cases that would help explain the mystery.
The house, which currently has five tenants, was vacant from summer 1900 until August of this year, said Paul Horvath, who has owned the house since March 1991.
Lawrence Police Chief Ron Olin said on Saturday that police believed drugs were sold from the house a couple of years ago, before the five current tenants moved in.
"They had guards posted around the house and had a police line across the alley," he said.
Worley led the investigation Friday had drawn about 30 investigators, including police officers and KU anthropologists.
Worley said he and his friends had discussed several possible reasons for the presence of the bones in the basement.
"I think our favorite is the cannibal theory," he said.
Run unites American Indians
The Associated Press contributed Information to this story.
Event symbolizes leaving discrimination in the past
By Mark Martin Kansan staff writer
Four groups of runners bearing torches disappeared into the fog early yesterday morning as the Flame Spirit Run began at Haskell Indian Junior College.
About 75 people gathered as two tribal elders blessed the run, which is a symbolic effort to leave behind the discrimination that American Indians have faced during the last 500 years. Runners from various American-Indian tribes across the country, the Haskell cross country team and other running groups will carry torches from Haskell to California, North Dakota, Texas and New York. The Haskell runners will carry their torch as far as Columbus, Ohio.
A last-minute donation by Blue Cross/Blue Shield will enable the New York portion of the run to be completed. American Indian tribes in the western, southern and northern regions have offered to house and feed runners overnight, but there are few tribes along the eastern leg. The donation will be used to pay for food and lodging.
The run began at the new medicine wheel replica just south of the Haskell campus.
Throwing sacred herbs into the fire that lit the torches, Mohawk Chief Jake Swamp said the run was for the future.
Translating a prayer spoken by Iroquois Chief Leon Shemanoudh, Swamp asked that nature's elements help them heal.
"This run signifies a new road ahead for all people," he said. "It has been so hard in the past to gather people of all nations. But now, these runners and this generation will be the ones to bring all nations together."
"To the sun, our oldest brother, shine your light to show these runners the way and give us heat, so that all our hearts are warm," he said. "And to the trees, help guide the runners, and also be our teachers. For many trees are different, yet they grow together."
1964 Olympic gold medalist and Haskell alumnus Billy Mills lit the torches and told the runners to never lose sight of their dreams.
Flame destinations
"While you are running, contemplate your dreams," he said. "Think about how your dreams can benefit everyone. And think about how you are no better or no worse than any other living thing."
Runners left yesterday from Haskell Indian Junior College to carry tour cars a broch to Columbus, Ohio.
Source: Kansan staff research
Paul Kotz /Special to the KANSAN
Aaron Gaines, Grandview, Mo., resident, holds the torch that is headed for Texas and waits to start his part of the Flame Spirit Run.
Local observers ponder Perot's political impact
By Kristy Dorsey
Kansan staff writer
While many campaign observers think independent candidate Ross Perot's re-entry into the presidential race could make the election more interesting, most do not believe that he has a serious chance of winning.
And regardless of political affiliation, most agree that Perot rejoined the race because of personal reasons and a genuine concern about the issues.
"I can't believe he would say he's in it to win," said Allan Cigler, professor of political science. "He could affect a few states, the most obvious one being Texas. In Texas he hurts Bush."
Cigler said he thought there were three reasons that motivated Perot to rejoin the race: he was hurt by the criticism he received when he dropped out, he believes he can positively affect the campaign by forcing debate on the issues and he dislikes incumbent George Bush. Cigler said that at the end of the campaign, Perot might advise his supporters to vote for Democratic candidate Bill Clinton.
"He may in the very end advise his followers to vote for some other candidate, but I can guarantee you it won't be George Bush," he said.
Although Cigler said he thought Perot would not win more than 10 percent of the popular vote, he did think the independent candidate's reentry would have some positive effects.
"Some of the things he wants to talk about, we should be talking about," he said. "The other candidates may be forced to say something about these issues. I think that is good."
Patricia Macrellis, Douglas County Coordinator for Perot's campaign, agreed that Perot would be forcing the other candidates to address important campaign issues.
"Nobody is discussing the issues," she said. "That will be Perot's main aim, to get the campaign back on the issues. That is what the American people want."
Macrellis said she thought Perot had a chance of winning the presidency, although there was very little time to
campaign before the election. However, Macrellis admitted that Perox had lost a lot of support since he said in July that he would not run, including support among KU students.
"He lost a lot of people, there's no denying that," she said. "But I think he will get a lot of them back. Not all of them, but a majority."
"We had some students who were working with us before he dropped out, but after he left, they all sort of disappeared. We're hoping with him back in the campaign, we'll be hearing from some students."
Milton Wendland, Lawrence senior, worked briefly as a Perot volunteer last spring. He said he would vote for Clinton, despite his support for Perot earlier this year.
"At this point, I know more about Clinton and Bush than I know about Perot," he said. "I can't vote for someone that I know very little about."
"I supported Perot earlier because there was no clear Democratic front-runner at that time, and I liked some of Perot's ideas."
Wendland said he did not think Perot would win the election.
"I really don't see a lot of people taking Perot seriously on election day, except as a protest vote," he said. "However, I think it could put a real twist on the race, although I don't see it being thrown into the House of Representatives or anything like that."
Matt All, president of KU Young Democrats, said he thought the independent candidate's re-entry would be good for the race.
"The campaign in the last few weeks has been character assassinations and chasing red herrings," he said. "I hope Perot coming back in will refocus everyone on the issues."
Renee Karr, vice-chair of the Douglas County Republican Committee, agreed.
"I think you'll see a little less mud-slinging," she said. "The candidates will have to face the issues, if for no other reason than because Perot will be talking about the issues, and they will have to respond to that."
See related stories, Page8.
After more than a month of construction, the new maple floor has been installed at Allen Field House. The floor was installed by Hart Floors, a company based in Doniphan, Neb., at an estimated cost of $125,000.
New look floor
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Peers provide support system
Editor's Note: Yesterday was the beginning of national Mental Illness Awareness Week, Oct. 4-10. KU students are involved in one organization, Compete, which pairs volunteers with people experiencing mental illness.
By Christine Laue Kansan staff writer
Eighth-grader Brandon Boileau dreams of being a KU basketball player.
But two years ago, the youth, who has attention deficit disorder, had no interests and was performing poorly in school. Kurt Marozas, a KU graduate and volunteer with the nonprofit organization Comperem, sparked Brandon's interest in the sport, but explained what was required of a student-athlete.
"He told me I can't play basketball in school if my grades weren't good," Brandon said.
So Brandon worked hard, improving his grades from D's and F's to A's
and B's.
"This is a kid who didn't get into anything but trouble," said Kellyn Boileau, Brandon's mother. "Having a Compeuer was the best thing that ever happened to Brandon. He has aspirations he never had before."
Many KU students have helped people like Brandon through Comper, a national service recommended by mental health professionals to their clients. Comper, formed in 1973 in Rochester, N.Y., began offering its services in Lawrence in 1989.
Most of the organization's approximately 40 volunteers are KU students who spend a required hour or more each week one-on-one with an adult in the program and two or more hours with a youth. That one-on-one time gave Brandon the confidence he needed, Kellyn Boileau said.
"Anybody needs a support system. Sometimes people need a little more," she said.
Providing a support system is what
Compee is all about, Kelly Merrick Mouriz, coordinator for adult and youth services of Compee, said the word compee meant a peer or equal.
"He's influenced me just as much as I've influenced him." Marosas said.
"That's what we really stress is an equal relationship, a friendship," Merrick-Mouriz said.
Marozas said volunteering as a Compeer was one of the best things he had done, for both himself and Brandon.
Serving as a Compee volunteer helped Marozas decide that working with children with mental health problems was what he wanted as a career.
Many of Comper's student volunteers in the 24 adult matches and 16 youth matches are majoring in human services, Merrick-Mouriz said. Many are females, and the group needs male volunteers. But with a waiting
Paul Kotz / Special to the KANSAN
See PEER. Page 3.
Kurt Marozas, KU graduate, and Brandon Boileau,
Lawrence resident, play basketball behind Templin Hall.
Both involved in a program through Compeer.