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Wednesday
October 22,1997
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Vol. 108 • No.45
Today's feature
Sports today
A KU doctoral candidate is writing her dissertation about alien abduction stories and how the stories may provide insight into human emotions.
SEE PAGE 6A
Three Kansas football starters were suspended yesterday for violating the team's code of conduct. They will not play in Saturday's Nebraska game.
SEE PAGE 1B
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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Two football players arrested
Warrants served in connection to Sept.13 beating
Mary Corcoran
mcorcoran@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
(USPS 650-640)
Lawrence police have arrested two University of Kansas football players in connection with a fight that took place outside Jayhawker Towers Sept. 13.
Police arrested senior defensive back Avery Randle, 22, and redshirt freshman tight end Jason Gulley, 20, Monday afternoon on warrants issued by the district attorney for
aggravated battery.
Randle and Gulley posted $5,000 bonds within four hours of their arrests, said Lawrence police Sgt. Susan Hadl.
KU police had sent the case to District Attorney Christine Tonkovich's office after they
finished their initial investigation. The district attorney's office then made the decision to prosecute the men.
The fight took place between 11:45 and 11:48 p.m. Sept. 13 in front of the towers. Two KU students, Christopher Ruddle, Overland Park sophomore, and Brian Wilson, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, were injured. University of Missouri sophomore Mayor Patel also was injured.
The three men were injured when a group of 10 or 15 men attacked them on the northeast corner of the towers, police said.
Randle: Kansas defensive back
The victims had been standing on the street corner when an unknown number of vehicles stopped and the attackers got out.
Witnesses said they had seen a lot of people outside the towers that night but could not identify who
those people were or what they were doing.
According to hospital and police records, Patel lost two teeth in the incident. Wilson had a cut on his face and received stitches. Ruddle had minor cuts and bruises.
After the incidents, Kansas football coach Terry Allen suspended Gulley and Randle for the Sept. 20 Cincinnati game for violating team rules. At the time, he did not say whether the suspensions were related to the fight.
Gulley is out for the season with a foot injury suffered during the Oklahoma game Oct. 4. Randle will continue to play because he has already served a one-game suspension, Allen said.
"We will wait and see what the courts decide," Allen said. "We'll let the legal system take its course before anything else is done."
Happy holidays!
Rabbi Mendy Wineberg, left, Michael Kazen, Rabbi Zev Wineberg and Ayelet Goldberg, right, brought the Chabad House "Sukkah Mobile" to Stauffer-Flint Hall. Yesterday, they were celebrating the Jewish Sukkat holiday, which follows Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and is celebrated as the "Season of Rejoicing." For seven days, they celebrate by living in the small hut, which has holiday blessings inscribed on the inside walls. Photo Marc Shank/KANSAN
Books bound for Budig
Basement to be used for extra library space
By Matthew Friedrichs
Kansan staff writer
The construction of the two lower floors in Budig, referred to as 966 and 980 by architects because of the floors' elevations, was funded by the Kansas Legislature with the stipulation that the University find money to complete the construction.
The project, which is being designed, will enable the University to move about 125,000 volumes stored in the basement of Joseph R. Pearson Hall into Budig, said Kent Miller, director of Watson Access Services.
The University of Kansas will spend $1 million to create additional library space in Budig Hall.
The $1 million, taken from the University's budget for fiscal year 1998, will pay for heating, ventilation and air-conditioning, additional shelves for level 966 and will pay to seal the walls and floors in the unfinished levels.
The books will be moved to level 966 sometime in Spring 1998.
The books must be moved because JRP is scheduled to be renovated next
year to house the School of Education.
Miller said the locations of most of the volumes could not be found on the online catalog. When students look up the titles in the online catalog, the listings say, "Remote storage, ask at circulation desk."
William Crowe, vice chancellor for information services and dean of the libraries, said the books had been stored in JRP since 1994.
The books were chosen after months of review by the libraries and academic departments. Crowe said.
The University's construction plans are the first step in fulfilling a promise Chancellor Robert Hemenway made to about 30 state legislators who visited campus last week.
Hemenway said that the University planned to keep its end of a deal it made with the Legislature that the University would not request additional money to finish the library space.
Students and faculty who want to check out one of the volumes stored in JRP need to fill out a remote storage request. Requested volumes are available within 24 hours. Miller said.
Crowe said the request process would not change once the books were moved to Budig.
Instead, University money will be used to finish the two basement levels.
Kelly Lawson, Shawnes sophomore and outreach representative for the KU chapter of Habitat for Humanity holds a board while Amanda Shaw, Ninnekah, Okla., sophomore and chapter president, hammers a nail into a playhouse. The two were helping build the playhouse yesterday in front of Woecon Hall. The playhouse, which will be finished tomorrow, will be auctioned off and proceeds will help build the first KU chapter Habitat for Humanity house. Photo by Laurie Fletchall / Kansas
Playhouse Additional information about the Habitat for Humanity project. See page 5A
Payment center gets put on hold
Jennifer A. Yeoman
Kansan staff writer
Unpaid parking tickets, late fines at the library and missing immunization records cause students to run all across campus in time to pay holds for enrollment.
Last spring, Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett, associate provost, led a group of administrators in forming a centralized enrollment-hold center. The center, located in 156 Strong Hall, was next to the enrollment center and allowed students to pay all holds, except for parking, in one place.
This semester, the center is gone. McCluskey-Fawcett said that because of a lack of interest last spring, the administration decided not to institute the center. But some students say no one used the center because the administration did not publicize it.
The center only drew 457 students last spring, said Brenda Selman, associate registrar. This is about 7 percent of the 6,018 students who had holds in Fall 1996. Selman said.
"I think they should have written on our add forms all of the possible places to pay your fines out of convenience for the students," said Lea Chediak, Lawrence senior. "It would have been nice to know that I could have paid my fine at Strong instead of having to walk to Carruth O'Leary. It was just one more annoyance I had to take care of."
The parking department would have needed to provide its own computer and staff members as well find a phone hook-up for its credit-card line to participate in the center, Hultine said.
However, students were not told about the center unless they went to enrollment with holds that had not yet been paid. Students with parking holds were sent to the parking department because the department was not included in last semester's center.
"I don't know why my department wasn't incorporated," said Donna Hultine, assistant director of the parking department. "Someone said they were going to bring us on board, but they never contacted us. I thought that when the time was appropriate, someone would let us know."
"The first we ever heard about this last year was when the 'Kansan' called and asked us why we wouldn't do it," she said. "But it's something that we would do if we had the opportunity and if the phone line could be hooked up."
The hold-center issue began last semester when Student Senate passed a resolution urging the administration to implement the center. Student Body Vice President Jamie Johnson then negotiated an agreement for the center with Lindy Eakin, associate provost, and other administrators.
Student Senate has not yet discussed the issue of the hold center this year.
"Nobody has brought it to the floor yet," said Mike Walden, student body vice president. "But it wouldn't surprise me if somebody brought it to the floor again. It's certainly something that could come up as an issue."
But the center may not be needed in future semesters if enrollment is done online. The software for the system will arrive in December and should be operational one year after that, McCluskey-Fawcett said. If the system is working, students with credit cards would be able to pay their fines through the campus network.
Groups discuss sorority incident
Other students would have to do it the old-fashioned way: walking across campus.
By Rachlee Detweiler
rdetweiler@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Groups affected by sorority members' offhand remarks at last week's "Womyn Take Back the Night" rally met yesterday in an attempt to settle differences.
The meeting, attended by KU Panhellenic Council representatives, sorority members and a march organizer, was in response to an incident at Thursday's rally in which two groups of Gamma Phi Beta sorority members singled out and insulted two women who were holding hands.
Bill Nelson, assistant director of the Student Organizations and Leadership Development Center, said that the meeting focused on educating sorority members about the march in general and increasing sorority members' awareness about women's issues through programs in the community.
See SORORITY on page 3A