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KANSAN
Vol.114 Issue No.18
Monday, September 15,2003
The Student Newspaper of the University of Kansas
Oliver resident dies after fall
By Joe Hartigan
jhartigan@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
An 18-year-old University of Kansas freshman died after being found on the ground beneath the window of his seventh-floor room in Oliver Hall early Friday morning.
Eric J. Wellhausen, Mount Prospect, Ill., freshman, was found unconscious and unresponsive in the grass on the west side of Oliver Hall shortly after 2 a.m. Friday. Oliver residents were in mourning as they tried to piece together tiny bits of information and rumors about Wellhausen's death.
Lt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public
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Safety Office said Wellhausen was either sitting in his window or standing on the ledge smoking a cigarette. After he fell, Wellhausen lay in the grass between 30 and 45 minutes before anyone noticed.
Kirsten Roberts, Cincinnati freshman and seventh floor resident of Oliver, said she did not think alcohol was a factor in Wellhausen's fall.
wellhausen's law.
"He wasn't drunk; he just fell," Roberts said.
Roberts said.
Roberts and her friend Danielle, also a friend of Wellhausen's who asked that her last name not be printed, found Wellhausen unconscious on the ground wearing boxer shorts and a T-shirt. They tried to wake him, but were unsuccessful.
According to Ken Stoner, director of student housing. Wellhausen was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead shortly after his arrival.
Roberts had been friends with Wellhausen since the two began living on the seventh floor in August and had been hanging out with many of the other seventh-floor Oliver residents at Last Call, Seventh and New Hampshire streets, earlier that night.
earlier that night.
"I got back at 1:50, and he got back before me," Roberts said. "Nobody knows how he got home."
Roberts said there were a lot of people hanging out near the spot where Wellhausen was lying.
"Somehow, out of the 50 people out there, nobody saw him or heard him," Danielle said.
Roberts said many people had thought Wellhausen was drunk and passed out in the grass. But it couldn't have been true, she said.
"He had maybe two beers the whole night," Roberts said. "It wasn't like a drunken accident."
The KU Public Safety Office is investigating the incident. Stoner said foul play was not suspected.
Student fondly remembered
—Edited by Michael Owells
Memorial ceremony held for freshman who died Friday morning
By Steve Schmidt and Maggie Newcomer editor@kansan.com Kansan staff writers
Students gathered outside Oliver Hall at 8:30 p.m.yesterday for a candlelight vigil in honor of Eric Wellhausen, Mount Prospect, Ill., freshman. Students mourned the death of a well-liked man who always kept them laughing.
Members on the seventh floor of Oliver Hall remembered a hallmate who always had a smile on his face and a joke on the tip of his tongue.
his tongue.
As they paid tribute to Eric J. Well-
Wellhausen
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tribute to Eric J. W.
hausen, a mound of
flowers — mostly roses
and carnations — grew
in the floor lobby yesterday
morning.
Wellhausen, an 18-year-old Mount Prospect, Ill., freshman, died after falling from his Oliver Hall window early Friday morning.
Floor residents all chipped in to buy the flowers for a memorial service held at 7:45 p.m. yesterday in the lobby. At 8:30 p.m., about 150 residents gathered outside on the basketball courts behind Oliver for an all-hall ceremony.
ad-hair ceremony.
Wellhausen's roommate, Joe Petermann, Arlington Heights, Ill., freshman, organized the ceremony. Some attendees had flowers — all had candles — as they observed a moment of silence for Wellhausen.
Though no one spoke, the emotion was evident as students hugged and cried.
Those that knew him said the affable Wellhausen never had any enemies.
"He was one of those guys that could get along with everyone," said Aaron Miller, Racine, Wis., freshman. "He never had
"He was a really good guy, always smiling."
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Miller lives next to Wellhausen's room. Out of all the floor residents that knew Wellhausen, one knew him best.
Petermann, his roommate, had been
friends with Welhausen since their sophomore year of high school at Rolling Meadows High in Rolling Meadows, Ill.
"Anybody that met him, liked him, right away," Petermann said. "He was just a kid that everybody liked to hang out with."
Petermann said that Wellhausen was undecided about his major but dabbled in photography. He said Wellhausen planned on eventually joining the military and working in special forces.
He said Wellhausen liked to listen to the alternative rock group 311, play ultimate
risbee and mix music as a disc jockey on the side.
Vic Beckerman, Topeka sophomore, is the floor resident assistant. He said that Wellhausen made quite an impact during his three weeks living on the floor.
"He was a really good guy, always smiling," Beckerman said. "He got along with everybody on the floor."
His parents were unavailable for comment yesterday.
Edited by Joey Berlin
Native-American art focus of local show
By Abby Mills almills@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Chaz Rose, 10, has been versed in Native-American culture since he was born.
This weekend he came from his home in Springfield, Mo., to pass some knowledge on to Lawrence residents. Rose and his grandmother, Esther Cajero, sold pottery and bow and arrow sets Saturday and yesterday from a tent at Haskell Indian Nations University.
Nations University.
"It comes down to a level where it's fun," Cajero said. "And at the same time we let people know about our culture."
Native-American culture was the focus of the 15th annual Lawrence Indian Arts Show. Spencer Art Museum, the Lawrence Arts Center and Haskell sponsored events Friday through yesterday.
Events began at the arts center with a reception for the art show. Items on exhibit include textiles, pottery, jewelry, photography and paintings by Native-American artists. The show is on display through Oct. 11.
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"It's a tremendous way of bringing art of Native-American culture into Lawrence," she said. "Art is a great way to promote cross-cultural understanding."
through college Maria Martin, show coordinator, said the art center's new downtown location would make the art more accessible.
In addition to traditional culture, the show includes modern Native-American artists.
Jesse Beier, 2003 graduate of the University, went to the exhibit at Spencer Art Museum Saturday. The show runs through Oct.19.
through Oct. 15.
Beeler said he had expected more traditional art and was surprised to see so many contemporary paintings.
Edmund Ridesatdoor, 7, danced at the Native American Art's Festival yesterday at Haskell Indian Nations University. The event featured dancers from a variety of tribes.
"She incorporates pop culture and stereotypes with her own culture to make a statement." he said, pointing to a painting by Jaune Quick-To-See Smith.
The picture depicted the silhouetted head of a man in a headdress. Smith painted a body in a business suit beneath the head, representing the two worlds Native-Americans inhabit. Rose said he lived with that dual identity every day.
Rose lives in Springfield but spends his summers with his grandparents in Jemez Pueblo, N.M., a reservation for the Jemez tribe.Rose learned how to make bows and arrows from his grandfather and uses
"You know you're from one culture, but then you go live in another," he said.
"It's a tremendous way of bringing art of Native- American culture into
Lawrence."
Rose began making pottery with his
Marisa Martin coordinator of the Indian Arts Show
them to hunt. He and his grandfather gather and cut the wood and hunt turkeys for feathers. He also digs and processes clay for his pottery.
mother at age 5. In August, he won firstplace for a clay canoe at the Santa Fe Indian Market. He also won two other prizes at the show.
While Lawrence's exhibit is not as big as the show in Santa Fe, N.M., it is among the 15 largest Native-American art shows in the country.
Rita Wilson, a silversmith from Canon- chito, N.M., said she enjoyed her first experience in Lawrence.
"I will be back next year for sure," she said. "This show is cheaper and I like the way they set it up."
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