CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, September 13, 1996
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Earth movers
Melvin Litton, of B.A. Green Construction, tosses a shovelful of rocks as Mike Fowell scoops rock that was jackhammered Wednesday night in front of Fraser Hall.
Chris Hamilton / KANSAN
Demolition of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house, 1301 W. Campus Road, will begin Sept.,21 to make way for construction of a new house.
Chris Hamilton / KANSAN
Fraternity house to be rebuilt
SAE to demolish house to make way for new one
By Ashlee Roll
Kansan staff write
The windows and doors of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house, 1301 W. Campus Road, have been boarded since last May. On September 21, the unoccupied house will be demolished to make way for the fraternity's new house.
"The house has served its useful purpose," said Terry Dwyer, president of the house corporation. "We did a study comparing cost of renovating and the cost of rebuilding. Rebuilding is better in the long run."
The structure was built in 1917 and was the first fraternity house on West Campus Road. It was vacated at the end of the spring semester and will begin its six-week demolition at 10 a.m. Saturday, September 21. Construction on the new house is scheduled to begin in late fall of next year or early spring of the following year.
The majority of the $2.8 million needed to build the house was raised by alumni with the help of Pennington and Co., 2721 W. Sixth St.
The lack of a chapter house has caused the members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon to find other residences. Members are scattered around Lawrence, living in private residences.
"Most all the members live with other guys from the house," said Mark Katz, Northbrook, Ill., senior. The fraternity is trying to keep members living as close together as possible.
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Katz also said that not having a house made it difficult to have activities.
"We are a tight group, but it's hard trying to remain visible on campus," he said.
The new house will include individual and group study rooms, sleeping rooms and a large library in the south end of the house. The new design also will bring the dining room out of the basement.
The fraternity began working with Michael Treanor Architects, 110 McDonald Drive, in April 1995 on the design for the new house. The decision to replace the old house was a mutual one between members and alumni.
Bob Schulte, vice president of Gene Fritzel Construction Co., 628 Vermont St. , said that in the past few weeks the house had been cleaned and asbestos had been identified and removed
"Sheet rock had been torn off the walls," Schulte said. "It looked like the guys did a little demolition of their own."
Katz said that he was aware of
rumors that the fraternity would cease to exist as a result of members' recent behavior.
bets to Dwyer said he had heard the rumor. "But anything that occurred last semester had nothing to do with our decision to rebuild the house."he said.
Getz said the fraternity did have a party at the end of the semester, but there was no damage out of the ordinary.
Caller ID traces accused murderer
The Associated Press
PITTSBURG — Several obscene phone calls were made to a Pittsburg State University student in the months before she was murdered, and authorities traced one of the calls to the accused murderer, the woman's roommate testified.
The testimony came yesterday in the final day of a preliminary hearing for Gary Kleypas in Crawford County District Court. Kleypas. 40
is charged with murder and six related felony charges, including rape and sodomy, in the March death of Carrie Williams.
Robin Kress, who lived with Williams, said the caller addressed the girls by name during the calls, which were sexual in nature, over several months. Kress said the women had reported the calls to police in September and had gotten a caller identification service installed in February, which allowed them to trace the calls.
Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent Bruce Adams testified at a July hearing that Kleyps quickly became a suspect in Williams' murder when his phone number showed up on her Caller ID box
District Judge Donald Noland said he would rule in three to four weeks whether Kleypas would stand trial.
Kleypas is scheduled to be arraigned on Oct. 17.
Williams, 20, was found dead on the floor of her Pittsburgh apartment on March 30. Kleypas, a nursing student at the university who lived two houses away, was arrested and charged April 5.
Kleypas could face death by lethal injection if convicted of her murder.
At the time of Williams' death, Kleypas was out on parole after serving roughly half of a 30-year term for his 1977 second-degree murder conviction in the beating death of Bess Lawrence, 78, of Galena, Mo.
No more rivalry among siblings
Family quibbles fewer in college
By Megan Jordan
Kansan staff writer
Bounces off me and sticks to you cause I am rubber and you are glue.
Childish taunts, name-calling and other disagreements often plague early sibling relationships. But many KU students agree that those relationships improve when brothers and sisters come to college.
"When I am around we won't waste time arguing about stupid stuff," said Allison Roby, Topeka freshman.
Paul Friedman, associate professor of communication studies, said siblings may get along better once they have separate lives.
"When living together, you are competing for scarce resources like parents' attention, the TV or the car," he said.
Once this tension is removed, college students may find themselves turning to brothers and sisters who still are at home for a sympathetic listener. Because they are trying to impress new friends, Friedman said students often feel more comfortable discussing problems with people who already know and love them.
Kelly Cannon, Lenexa junior, described her relationship with her older sister as tense and antagonistic.
"I was in seventh grade when she was a senior in high school, and there was such an age difference communication was almost
impossible," she said. "I spent my days annoying her, and she spent her days telling me how much she hated me."
"We went out," Cannon said. "She would introduce me to her guy friends, but at home she would lock me in the closet and say she didn't have a sister."
That all changed, however, when her sister came to the University. Suddenly it became cool to have a little sister to visit, Cannon said. The two did things together that they never would have done at home.
Steve Renz, Lenexa junior, and his brother Ryan, sophomore, live together in the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house. In the past year, Steve said they had gotten to know each other much better.
Although Cannon's sister graduated before she got here, attending the University at the same time can be a true bonding experience.
"We just kind of lived together," he said. "In high school the difference in age was a bigger deal."
Though siblings' relationships seem to grow stronger once one of them leaves for college, Friedman said the tide also can turn the other direction.
This can be a temporary time when sibling ties weaken, Friedman said, because the younger brother or sister is unable to relate to the new lifestyle of the older one.
"The superficial things of life are going to change, so if you are going to stay in touch you must do so in a deeper way," he said. "You just have to realize you are going through a time in your life which may cause you to neglect the folks back home."
ON CAMPUS
Recreation Services will have a KU Juggling Club meeting at 12:30 p.m. today in front of Strong Hall. For more information, call Mark Ellner at 841-4203.
207 Robinson Center. For more information, call Adam at 842-9112.
St. Lawrence Chapel will celebrate Mass at 4:30 p.m. today at 1631 Crescent Road. For more information, call Father Ray May at 843-0357.
Tae Kwon Do Club will meet from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. today and from 9:30 to 10:30 p.m. Sunday at
Campus Christians will have Sunday celebration at 7 p.m. tonight at 1320 Ohio'St. For more information, call Jim Musser at 842-6592.
Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship will meet at 7 p.m. tonight at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union. For more information, call Steve Swanson at 542-1101.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's stereo was stolen between 10 p.m. Tuesday and 5:45 a.m. Wednesday from a car in the 100 block of Hanover Place, Lawrence police said. The stereo was valued at $100.
Robinson Center basketball court No. 3, KU police said.
A KU student's KUID and bus pass were stolen between 8:30 and 10 p.m. Sunday from
The items were valued at $60.
A KU student's bicycle was stolen between 11:30 p.m. Tuesday and 10 a.m. Wednesday from the north side of Stouffer Place Apartments, KU police said. The bicycle was valued at $55.
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