Look inside
Event links students
Hundreds gathered for HAWK Link's kick off events. The
freshman retention program was out on Wescoe Beach showing new students what the Office of Multicultural Affairs program has to offer. PAGE 3A
Bat attack
A Kappa Sigma fraternity member was treated for a bite received while he was catching a trapped bat in the fraternity house.The bat was sent to Kansas State University for testing. PAGE 10A
New coach hits courts A new, but familiar face will lead the 2003 Kansas tennis team. Assistant coach takes over as Waterman steps down. PAGE1B
A 'hawk of art
The Jayhawk will replace the state of Kansas at midcourt of James Naismith Court
in Allen Fieldhouse. PAGE 3B
Opponents to teammates
The Brazilian duo of Jana Correa and Josi Lima are emotionally charged and ready for the
volleyball season.PAGE6A
Weather Today 10262
isolated thunderstorms
Two-day forecast
tomorrow 9861 sunny
9061
sunny
-weather.com
Talk to us
Tell us your news. Contact Michelle Burhenn, Lindsay Hanson or Leah Shaffer at 864-4810 or editor@kansan.com
index
Briefs 2A
Opinion 4A
Sports 1B
Sports briefs 2B
Horoscopes 8B
Comic 8B
Vol.114 Issue No.2
KANSAN
The Student Newspaper of the University of Kansas
Thursday, August 21, 2003
By Abby Mills amlles@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Fraternity hazing probed
Sigma Nu scrutinized after student pledge receives head injuries
The University of Kansas chapter of Sigma Nu fraternity could face penalties
after the possible hazing of a 19-year-old Olathe student.
The district attorney's office is reviewing the police investigation and will decide if charges should be brought against some fraternity members. District Attorney Christine Kenney said she would not comment on the case until that decision had been made.
pledge was thrown and expected to land on his feet. The injured student struck his head during the ritual, according to the Journal-World article.
The Lawrence Journal-World reported that police arrived just before that decision had been made.
10 p.m. Aug. 13 at Sigma Nu, near 10th Street and Emery Road, to find the Olathe student unconscious. The student was transferred by ambulance to Lawrence Memorial Hospital and then taken to the University of Kansas Medical Center for head injuries. Hospital officials reported he was released Thursday.
Police said in the article the injury was received in a pledge ritual in which the
Police said five suspects ranging from 19 to 21 years of age were also being investigated for furnishing alcohol to a minor, the article said. Promoting or permitting hazing is a misdemeanor offense
Convocation
"Everybody's cool right? No fear." — Chancellor Robert Hemenway, talking to the audience about first day of college jitters.
SEE HAZING ON PAGE 9A
Distinguished members of the KU faculty cheer with students as they finish singing the alma mater. The 138th Convocation kicked off the new year last night at the Lief Center, About 1,500 people attended the event. Student Body President Andy Knopp also addressed the audience of mostly new freshmen students. SEE PAGE 3A
Student loved, lost life
By Joe Hartigan jhartigan@kansan.com Kansan Staff Writer
Life lost one of its biggest fans Monday night.
Chantal E. Anderson, 25-year-old Lawrence graduate student at the University of Kansas, died when the car she was riding in was struck from behind.
The accident took place shortly before 5 p.m. on US-40 Highway, just outside of Lawrence. Anderson and another passenger Jesse E. Blake, 24-year-old Lawrence resident, were pronounced
dead at the scene. The driver of the vehicle Jonathan P Merz, 24-year-old graduate student at the University, was airlifted to the University of Kansas Medical Center and is listed in stable condition.
Anderson's par-
Anderson's parents, Brian and Vickie Anderson, were still struggling with the loss Tuesday.
Anderson
still struggling with the loss that nearly "There wasn't much she didn't love." Brian Anderson said.
Anderson used her life to do things most people only talk about.
most people
She was a 4th-degree black-belt in Tae
Kwon Do and taught the sport at New
Horizons, 2329 Iowa St.
"She always had the sweetest smile while she was kicking your ass," family friend Lynn Saunders said.
Brian Anderson said his daughter loved the outdoors — especially skiing, water-skiing, snow-boarding and mountain-climbing.
SEE DEATH ON PAGE 9A
Research discredits 0-5 drink campaign
By Joe Hartigan jhartigan@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas recently discontinued use of the "social-norms" campaign anti-drinking because grant money from the Kansas Health Foundation ran out.
dence mails. The widely-used social-norms campaign — popular among many college campuses including KU — may be ineffective, according to a recent study by the Harvard School of Public Health College.
Many University students may recognize the slogan "Most KU students drink moderately or not at all (0-5 drinks) when they party" from posters on the walls of most University residence halls.
College. Researchers surveyed 14,000 college students at 120 universities. Almost half of the colleges participating in the study had adopted the social-norms campaign.
The study shows that the percentage of college students who are binge drinkers has stayed about the same, and the frequency of binge drinking among college students has increased on some campuses where the social-norms campaign was used.
None of those schools participating in the social-norms campaign showed any significant decrease in alcohol consumption by students.
sumption by students Melisa Higginbotham, Iola junior, said she didn't believe the social-norms campaign posters when she saw them.
rectly. Two of the studies also focused on athletes instead of the general student population.
saw them.
"When I go to parties, I see people drinking way more than five drinks," Higginbotham said.
Jeff Usher, program officer for the Kansas Health Foundation, which originally funded the University's social-norms campaign, said there have been some questions about the methodology of the study.
dent drinking.
"Even when I'm the designated driver, people try to get me to drink," Higginbotham said. "People use peer-pressure quite a bit."
population. Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett, senior vice provost for academic affairs, said the social-norms campaign didn't reduce student drinking at the University.
methodology of the study For example, Usher said some universities claiming to use the socialnorms campaign did not use it correctly.
Higginbothan also noted the prevalence of peer-pressure related to student drinking.
suy. "We didn't see any increase, but we didn't see any significant decrease, either." McCluskey-Fawcett said.
The University adopted the socialnorms campaign in 1999. The program is designed to curb binge drinking among college students. The discontinuance of the campaign has nothing to do with the Harvard study.
McCluskey-Fawcett said the University would experiment with different ways of using the social-norms campaign on campus, but she said she didn't know what would be implemented to replace it.
第
— Edited by Katie Bean