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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
NEWS 864-4810
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1996
ADVERTISING 864-4358
SECTION A VOL.103, NO.12
(USPS 650-640)
Battery case dimissed against Calvin Rayford
The Douglas County district attorney's office dismissed the battery case against Calvin Rayford yesterday at the request of the victim, who is the mother of Rayford's daughter.
According to court records, Rayford, former Kansas basketball player, was charged with engaging in physical contact with another person in a rude and angry manner after an incident that occurred Jun. 25.
Records filed with the district court yesterday indicated that Rayford pleaded not guilty, and the court dismissed the case.
Records also showed that the court reimbursed Rayford yesterday for a bond that was initially paid by KU basketball coach Roy Williams. A KU sports information spokesperson said that Williams loaned Rayford the money for only a day until Rayford could secure the money himself. KU sports information said that the loan was not in violation of NCAA rules.
Rayford is no longer eligible to play basketball for the University, but attended summer school on a basketball scholarship. He is not enrolled at the University this semester.
Students navigate through the broken and deteriorating repairing the steps while classes were in session; B.A. west stairs of Fraser Hall. After four days of noisily Green Construction plans to work during weekends.
The NCAA could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Brian Hott / KANSAN
The district attorney's office dismissed the case under conditions of an agreement that Rayford made with the district attorney, who served before current district attorney. Christine Tonkovich.
Tonkovich said that her new policies concerning domestic battery were not in effect when Rayford's case was being prosecuted.
Tonkovich's new policies include a policy prohibiting accused batterers of having contact with their victims and a no drop policy, in which the district attorney's office prosecutes the case, rather than the victim.
"The prosecution was following through on an agreement with the previous administration," Tonkovich said.
Under the agreement, the dismissal will remain in effect as long as Rayford does not violate the law and continues counseling as directed by his therapist.
—Kansan Staff Report
More than 500,000 tourists and residents were ordered to evacuate the coast in North and South Carolina as Fran drew near, leaving a string of deserted beach towns.
Carolinas anticipate destruction from Fran
Fran was expected to come ashore near Calabash, N.C., just north of the South Carolina state line, about 8 p.m., the National Hurricane Center said.
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Closing in with 115 mph winds, Hurricane Fran began battering the Carolinas yesterday, bending trees and blowing rain sideways as thousands of people scrambled for storm supplies or the road out of town.
"believe you me, we wanted to get out of there," said Audrey Landers, who fleed her townhouse a block from the ocean with her neighbors and their children. They took shelter at a high school in Conway, 15 miles intail.
At 4 p.m., the storm was about 80 miles south-southeast of the South Carolina-North Carolina line, heading north-northwest at 16 mph. Gusts up to 100 mph were reported along the North Carolina coast south of Wilmington.
Construction an annoyance
Hurricane warnings were posted from Edisto Beach, S.C., to the Virginia line. People living as far inland as West Virginia were warned to expect tropical storm-force winds and 5 to 10 inches of rain.
By mid-afternoon, waves crashed 10 feet high along the shore at Myrtle Beach. The governors of both North and South Carolina declared emergencies.
Step repair disrupts class in Fraser Hall
The Associated Press
By Jeff Ruby
Kenneth staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Noise from construction outside Fraser Hall, which has been a source of annoyance to students and teachers since Monday, will continue for at least two months, said a local construction company.
Tracy Green of B.A. Green Construction Company said he expects his crew's construction, which also includes alterations to the steps on the east side of Fraser, will last at least until Thanksgiving. But the jackhammer noise will be confined to weekend hours, Green said.
Green said that they had only planned to install a wheelchair ramp, but after seeing the steps on the west side of the building, decided to repair them as well.
skid-proof brick steps.
Jeff Lane, a carpenter for B.A. Green Construction Company, said workers are tearing out Fraser's steps and replacing them with new
Lane said the construction crew had received many complaints from teachers, causing them to move all jackhammer work to the weekend, starting Saturday. Doug Riat, associate director of Design and Construction Management on campus, said he was able to get night classes moved to other buildings so the construction crew could begin jack hammering at 5 p.m.
Ray Hiner, professor of history and education, who teaches classes on the first floor of Fraser, said even without the jackhammer noise, his classes still were bothered.
"I've found it hard to concentrate and focus on interaction with the class," he said. "I'm sure there are reasons for doing it now, but it's still extremely disruptive."
Students, angry and distracted,
wonder why the construction
couldn't have taken place during
the summer.
Riat said the 90-day project couldn't have started during the summer.
the summer.
"It's so irritating," said Chelsea Levengood, Los Angeles junior. "I have three classes where as soon as we hear the noise, students and teachers have to stop and wait for it to finish."
"The first thing to consider is when the funding is available," Riat said. "We were waiting for contracts in the summer months. There's going to be some disruption regardless of when the work is done. The building is in use 12 months a year."
Aaron Hull, Lawrence graduate student, said he wasn't inconvenienced by the daily construction.
"I just walked around it," he said.
"It didn't bother me in the slightest."
green said the University planned on replacing the crumbling steps at the west entrance of Fraser two years ago, but it never got around to it.
Taking care of business
Kathleen Driscoll / KANSAN
Cintas Corporation employees Scott Williams (left), 1996 graduate, Allan Slanley, 1994 graduate and Steve Dennis, Wichita State graduate, speak with Joe Ely, Overland Park senior, at the Career Fair in the Holidome. The 15th annual fair was sponsored by the School of Business Placement Center. See Story on 3A
Allocating budget is a difficult process
Money doled out to more than 20 groups
By Spencer Duncan Kansan staff writer
Student Senate will pass out almost one million dollars of student's money this year, and Jade Shopp will be paying close attention.
"The budget is confusing to explain." Shopp said. "This is not a simple process and it is my job to watch everything."
Shopp, Student Senate treasurer, watches the $976,300 in student fees that the Senate hands out.
Shopp does not watch the money alone. Student Senate and the finance committee also determine how the money is spent.
Stevie Case, residential senator, said that the Senate and the committee are ready for the process.
"It can be a trying experience," said Case. "But I think this committee will do well."
For the committee to do well, it will take some work. The budget process is broken down into different allocations.
Of this year's money, $912,633.84 already has been promised to g.oups.
Every two years, the Senate and finance committee grant money to almost two dozen groups through the Bloc Allocation Account, which was last approved in 1944 and will be
BUDGET GRAPHIC: A breakdown of Senate's allocation of funds. Page 3A
Bloc money goes to groups who ask the Senate for money. The group must reappear before the senate after two years.
DeLeon Bell, finance committee member,
said that the committee this year will scrutinize the Bloc allocations.
approved again this year.
This year $852,000 was given in bloc allocations.
Bloe money is not given to groups in one lump sum.
To use money from their allocation, groups need approval from the University Purchasing Office.
ingOffice. "They must abide by state and University rules," Shopp said. "There is no unapproved spending."
Another account groups get money from the Line-item Allocation Account. This account is approved by the previous years Senate. The Senate this year will approve next year's line-item spending. That spending is based on projections of the next year's revenue from student fees.
Last year, Senate promised $60,693.84 of the current year's money.
That money will not go straight to the groups either. Instead, groups must receive spending approval from Shopp.
With most of the money allocated, student
See BUDGET,Page 2A
Suspect to be tried for August shooting
Date of trial set in murder case
By Andrea Albright
Kansan staff writer
Damon McCray will be tried for first-degree murder, according to a judge's decision yesterday at the end of the preliminary hearing.
McCray is accused of fatally shooting Topeka resident Onie Branch at 12:30 a.m. Aug. 15, in the parking lot of the Lawrence nightclub Langton's,806 W. 24th St.
Langston, S. 800 W. Darrell
Corey Johnson was one of the final testifying witnesses. He said he drove Danny Thompson, Marcus Jones and Onzie Branch from Topeka to Langston's after a day of playing basketball and drinking beer.
Johnson said he and his friends were not admitted into the nightclub because they were inappropriately dressed. Langston's doesn't admit people wearing tennis shoes.
The suspect and his friends were also in the parking lot because they were not admitted.
Johnson testified that he asked McCray, who he knew from Topeka, if he had any marijuana. McCray said he did not. Johnson went back to his car to sit and talk with his friends.
Six or seven minutes later, Johnson said, he saw an arm reaching around the front of the car parked next to theirs. Johnson heard a shot and saw a flash of flame at the end of a gun.
Johnson said he heard four shots as he ducked down in his car. When the firing stopped, Johnson, Thompson and Jones ran to the door of the nightclub.
Thinking they were caught in crossfire, the door of the fireman
men tried to locate the origin of the shots but could not.
They then noticed that Branch was still in the car, and that he was not moving.
Johnson went to the car and realized that Branch was injured. He then quickly drove the car through a parking lot and on to 23rd St. to look for a hospital, he said.
When the police saw the speeding car, they followed it into the parking lot of Gill's Amoco, 2301 Louisiana St. The police unsuccessfully attempted to resuscitate Branch.
After yesterday's testimony, Judge Michael Malone decided to hold McCray on $500,000 bond, and set a trial date for Dec. 2.
"People who come should behave and dress to impress," said Dannie M. Thompson Jr. "People tend to act better when they're dressed up."
Dannie M. Thompson Jr., who is in no way associated with the Danny Thompson in Johnson's car, is a co-owner of Langston's. He said this was the first incident of its kind at the club and that the dress code prevented many people who would act criminally from entering.
Meeks said.
Dannie M. Thompson Jr. said 40 percent of Langston's patrons on a given night were KU students.
dressers. Cordell Meeks, Kansas City, Kan., senior, and co-owner of Langston's, said the fact that the crime occurred in the parking lot was an example of how the dress code worked to keep out undesirable patrons.
students. "Our club is very nice inside," Dannie M. Thompson, Jr. said. "The dress code shows respect. We want everybody to come in, have a good time and be safe."
we don't want it to be perceived that this is the kind of people who come to the club," Meeks said.
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