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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1996
SECTION A VOL.103, NO.40
(USPS 650-640)
Rotten banana causes problem ripe with guns
An argument yesterday about a rotting banana ended at gun point.
Michael Maloney, Lawrence graduate student, found an overripe banana on his bed when he returned to his home in the 900 block of E. 13th Street, Lawrence police said.
Police said Maloney took the banana off the bed and put it in front of the bedroom door of his roommate, a 28-year-old pharmacy student, and then left the house.
When he returned home, the banana was back on Maloney's bed, police said.
When Maloney took the banana and confronted his roommate, he saw two guns laying on his roommate's bed, police said.
The roommate threatened Maloney and told him to get out of the room, police said.
As Maloney backed out of the room, police said, the roommate picked up one of the guns and pointed it at him.
No one was arrested, but police referred the case to the district attorney's office, which will decide whether charges will be pressed.
—Kansan staff report
Student shot and killed in dormitory at Purdue
WEST LAFAYETTE, IND. — A Purdue University student shot and killed another student who was a dormitory counselor yesterday, then remained in the residence hall with a shotgun.
The victim, an upperclassman who acted as a resident supervisor in the dormitory, had discovered cocaine in the younger student's possession on Tuesday, said university representative Ellen Rantz.
The counselor told campus police, who then searched the student's room and car, and confirmed the drug possession. Rantz said.
The names of the victim and gunman were not immediately released.
Police cleared the area around the dormitory as the armed student remained in the dormitory.
Restraining order served by way of Online notice
Anger turned to fear when the online writer added: "By the way, I have a .45 too."
DALLAS — When someone began declaring on the Internet that Teresa Maynard was unfaithful to her husband and had her breasts surgically enhanced, the couple was angry.
On Monday, a judge issued a temporary restraining order that breaks new ground in barring someone from using the Internet to transmit certain types of speech. It also was unusual for the way it was served — it was posted on the Internet.
District Judge Joe B. Brown ordered Kevin Massey to stop transmitting via the Internet "embarrassing, private information concerning the Maynards."
Angry Belgians protest judicial incompetence
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM — It took the kidnapping, rape and murder of at least four girls to unite all Belgians behind a common cause — demanding an end to judicial incompetence and police bungling.
Belgians who'd been lulled into complacency by decades of tranquility and economic good fortune, have let it be known they're tired of the kingdom's cozy, but inefficient, order where cronyism is commonplace.
When the Supreme Court dismissed a judge handling a child murder investigation — a man who'd become a national hero — protesters stoned and egged a courthouse and blocked highways.
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They are KU athletes playing for the good of the community and scoring smiles all the while. They are the...
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Keshana Ledet, a fifth-year senior from Los Angeles, hangs out with students on the playground. Ledet is part of a Helping Hawks program that gets student athletes involved in the community. Ledet did play for the Jayhawk women's basketball team last season.
Helping Hawks
Stories by Cameron Heeg
Kansas athletes have been called fighting 'Hawks. But after this year, some of them will be remembered as Helbing Hawks.
The Hale Achievement Center started the Helping Hawks program this year to give former and current athletes an opportunity to become active in the Lawrence community.
"When I created the vision of Helping Hawks, I saw student athletes working in the community all over Lawrence," said Leroy Brown, assistant director of degree and career counseling. "We are trying to push the program to such a point that it makes KU and the Lawrence community realize how good it is to work together."
Senior running back June Henley earned the title of Helping Hawk for the time he spent raising the spirits of an injured football player at St. Francis Hospital in Kansas City. Mo. two weeks ago.
"This program gives us the opportunity to organize existing community service projects with more long-range individual athlete activities and new projects," said Paul Buskirk, associate athletic director.
The first Helping Hawk project began two weeks ago. The
See HELPING, Page 2A
Program offers a second chance
y giving former student athletes a chance to complete their degrees, KU's degree completion program has helped serve as the model for the new Hebbing Hawks school outreach project.
An NCA4 degree completion program was established at the University in 1992. The program allows former KU athletes who dropped out or didn't complete their degrees an opportunity to return and finish.
The returning students are required to carry a 2.5 grade point average, a full-time class load of at least 12 hours and work 10 to 15 hours each week at New York Elementary School, 936 New York Street. In exchange, the University pays their tuition and books.
"To be accepted in general, they have to be within one year of graduation, and the tough part is finding out what in their lives has changed to convince us to take them back," said Paul Buskirk, associate athletic director. "We do this program at the New York school because we want all of our students to graduate."
Former KU football player Dino Bell, who attended KU from 1981-1985, returned last year to complete his degree. Bell needed one class to graduate.
"I sold my condominium, my car and packed up my golf clubs, clothes and few out here," Bell said. "The class that got me was Math 101. I always hated math as a kid, and it caught up to me."
The Huntington Beach, Calif, native had been working as a sales representative. Bell is now in his first year of graduate school for sports administration.
"We used the success experienced with New York program to set up the Helping Hawks program," Buskirk said. "It has become the cornerstone to our involvement with the other local schools."
Fraternity repels would-be burglar using wood boards
Kansan staff report
Several members of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity foiled a man's attempt to burglarize the fraternity house on Tuesday morning.
Police said that the noise made by the suspect during the burglary had awakened the fraternity members, but that they had feigned sleep, allowing the man to exit the house. But the suspect forgot to take his own backpack from the scene, police said.
Fraternity members used 2-by-4s as weapons, police said, and when the man returned to the house to retrieve his backpack, the members struck the suspect with the boards.
About 5:15 a.m., a man entered the house at 1637 Tennessee St. and removed a backpack, three pairs of tennis shoes and other miscellaneous items, Lawrence police said.
The man fled, but was found near the scene by Lawrence police officers. All of the stolen items were recovered.
Police made no arrest, but the case was sent to the district attorney's office.
The suspect is a 27-year-old Lawrence resident who lives near the fraternity house. Police said the suspect committed the burglary on a dare. The suspect did not need medical care.
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Symposium examines post-revolution sexuality
By Ashleigh Roberts Kansan staff writer
Preachers, nurses, professors, social workers and psychologists have been eating, breathing and sleeping sex for the past two days at the KU Medical Center.
The conference, "Let's Talk About Sex: After the Revolution," was an 18 1/2-hour exploration into the relationship and non-relationship between medicine, religion and human sexuality. Lectures included topics ranging from masturbation, teen abstinence and gay and lesbian spirituality to impotence, religion and elderly sex.
"We don't propose what to do, but we put as much as we can on their plate to make them think," she said.
"The conference offers a truly unique dialogue," said Barbara Berry, a member of the conference planning committee. "The ciergy, allied health and the medical field
are talking about tough issues from very polar and opposing views."
Berry said the symposium tried to open peoples' minds and broaden their perspectives in a safe environment.
The Rev, Dick Dearwester, administrator of Youth and Single Services at the Nall Avenue Baptist Church in Prairie Village, lectured on adolescent sexuality and the True Love Waits program, in which students pledge not to have sex until marriage.
Dearwester said that the pressures today were a lot different than the ones he dealt with growing up.
"Kids begin to think everybody is doing it," he said. "We haven't left them much hope." Deerwester said that the
Dearwester said that the
Rachel Gowler, a senior at Shawnee Mission North High School and member of True Love Waits, said she had joined the program because of her religious convictions.
church, the medical community, families and physicians needed to form a partnership to help the upcoming generation.
"God wants me to do this.
He wants me to be sexually pure," she said. "I think that sex was made to be used for a husband and his wife to produce kids. It isn't just for anyone when they have a desire."
Dennis Dailey, human sexuality professor at KU, said he thought Gowler's decision was wonderful, but that he hoped the program also taught participants to respect and validate people who made the choice to be sexu-
See SEX, Page 2A