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NEWS
Comedians from 'Whose Line is it Anyway' entertained an audience of more than 1,300 at the Lied Center last night. PAGE 5A
SPORTS The men's basektball looks for redemption against Nevada tonight, after losing to the Wolfpack last season. PAGE 10A
SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
VOL. 115 ISSUE 68
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2004
VOLLEYBALL
'Hawks bound for Seattle
BY BILL CROSS
bcross@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTWRITER
Kansas one of seven Big 12 schools picked for NCAA tournament play
The NCAA selection committee invited the Kansas volleyball team to its second consecutive postseason tournament last night.
Kansas will face Santa Clara in the first round in Seattle on Friday, with a potential Saturday contest against No.
3 Washington.
Last year, the team defeated Long Beach State before falling to Pepperdine in the second round. Kansas coach Ray Bechard said this year's situation was similar.
"I don't think it will be a lot different than what we faced last year." he said. "Santa Clara's a team that's been good for a number of years, but with what we've been through this year and the
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teams we've played, I think we'll be ready."
As for a potential second-round match against Washington, Bechard said he was excited about possibly facing coach Jim McLaughlin, who coached at Kansas State before going to Washington in 2000.
"We'll get some video on Tuesday and start breaking it down and start prepping for them on Wednesday," he said.
"That'd be awesome," Bechard said. "Obviously we have a lot of work to do before we worry about that."
He said preparing for the California school would be a challenge because he had not seen them play.
Senior libero Jill Dorsey said she was also unfamiliar with the team's next opponent, but she expected a fast-paced match.
An unwanted acquaintance
A stalker infected a student's life, leaving her fearful of what he would do next
BY RUPAL GOR
rgor@kansan.com
KANSAN SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Knock.
Knock.
Sitting in her bedroom in Naismith Hall, this University of Kansas student kept as quiet as she could. She didn't want the visitor knocking on the door to know she was there.
She was trying to stay away from him. She said she met him — a tall, brown-eyed, 21-year-old student — at a party in February 2003. He wanted to date her. And then the stalking began
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Knock.
Knock.
The woman is a 21-year-old biology major from Western Kansas. She was the victim of a stalker from February 2003 until the end of school that May. She did not want to be named because she feared this man would begin stalking her again.
Stalking is defined as intentional, malicious and repeated following and harassment of another person, according to Kansas law. While the numbers are not definite, Detective Division Sergeant Mike Patrick of the Lawrence Police Department said stalking was "not uncommon." In 2003, 12 people in Lawrence reported they were stalked. So far in 2004, the police department has not seen any stalking reports. But Sgt. Dan Ward of the police department said there was a current investigation under way that involved a man stalking two women.
Victims of stalking can get help from Lawrence police and resources on campus such as Counseling and Psychological
Services at Watkins Memorial Health Center and the Emily Taylor Resource Center.
Counselors at the resource center see eight to 10 stalking victims each year, said Kathy Rose Mockry, director of programs at the center.
"That number discourages people and reinforces the misperception that stalking is not an issue on campus," Rose-Mockry said.
People think stalking is rare because students do not get help or may think they don't need counseling, said Rose-Mockry. She said the number of students stalked each year was uncertain because some did not notify police or turned to their friends and family for help.
The beginning
At the party, the woman remembered, the man started hitting on her, asking her to go out with him. She politely refused. Still, he got her cell phone number from a mutual friend and began calling her. The phone calls, coming from random pay phones, sometimes added up to 30 in one night and into the morning, she said. She kept a log of the phone numbers and dates the man called.
One early morning, she said, he called her from two phone numbers 15 times between 3:30 a.m. and 5:37 a.m. He would say "bitch" or "whore" and sometimes spit into the phone. Other times, he would call and hang up or leave long, drawn-out messages. Her phone would ring so much her battery would die.
"I got these phone calls for about a good week," she said. "That's when I decided to change my number."
Somehow he found that number, and she
This woman was the victim of a stalker from February to May 2003. The stalker harassed her by repeatedly calling her and stopping by her residence hall many times.
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Student dies in car wreck on trip home
BY AMANDA O'TOOLLE
aotoole@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITE
Members of Alpha Chi Omega won't have a normal weekly chapter meeting tonight.
Instead, members of the sorority will gather to remember a sister who died over the Thanksgiving holiday.
Bethany Weidensaul, Wichita junior, died Tuesday night when her car collided with a semi truck. She was trying
WEIDENSAUI
to avoid another accident on the Kansas turnpike during her trip home.
Anna Clovis, Alpha Chi Omega president, said the chapter would probably have a candle-lighting service for Weidensaul, who was the house manager.
. "It's just so hard because she was an incredibly kind person," Clovis, also a copy editor at The University Daily Kansan, said. "She gave of herself all the time."
Clovis said the chapter now has the responsibility of deciding how to continue her "leacav of kindness."
A memorial scholarship, naming a star after Weidensaul and purchasing a brick for the Alpha Chi Omega brick garden are among memorial ideas, Clovis said.
She said chapter members would help make the decision tonight.
Instead, the position turnovers were postponed until next week.
Weidensaul was scheduled to turn over her house manager position tonight, something Clovis said Weidensaul was looking forward to.
Weidensaul was buried in the Kechi Township outside of Wichita on Saturday. Her service was at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Park Place Ministry Center in Wichita.
About 40 Alpha Chi Omega members made the trip to Wichita for the service and placed red carnations on her casket before she was buried.
The carnation was Weidensaul's favorite flower and also the chapter's designated flower.
Weidensaul's father, Scott Weidensaul, said the funeral was a celebration of his daughter's life.
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Fair trade sale offers alternative to mainstream gifts
BY NIKOLA ROWE
nrowe@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Fair Trade merchandise within a student's budget is available at the annual Fair Trade Holiday Gift Market. The market started Friday and will continue through Thursday from 12 to 9 p.m. in the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Building, 1204 Oread Ave.
The market features fair trade items and handmade gifts. Jewelry will be sold for prices between $2 and $10, ceramics between $8 and $40, as well as weaving and other handmade products within this price range. Check and cash are the only methods of payment
The market has been a tradition for the Ecumenical Christian Ministries since 1991 and has grown with new venders and a new focus on education. Last year the market made more than $10,000. The people at the ECM thought promoting fair trade would be one way to help the large inequalities in the world. Thad Holcombe, religious advisor at the Student Involvement and Leadership Center, said.
This year the ECM created a pamphlet to go along with the items bought. It is global economics brought into a clear focus. Holcombe said.
Nyana Miller, Shawne senior, is volunteering at the market and said she
accepted at the market.
has always been a supporter of fair trade.
"As college students, we may not have an opportunity to buy fair trade, but we should still try to understand it," Miller said.
Fair trade embodies several qualities. It begins with a living wage — an amount of money that covers bills with money leftover — for artisans, and stable and fair prices for farmers' crops. It does not allow forced labor or exploited child labor and it promotes a healthy, safe working environment with equal employment opportunities.
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Decorated alum speaks tonight
Decorated alum speaks tonight Kevin Helliker, a University of Kansas graduate and Pulitzer Prize winner, will speak this evening at the Kansas Union. PAGE 2A
Hard-earned victory
The Kansas women's basketball team struggled offensively, but still defeated UMKC,47-36, for its second consecutive victory. PAGE 10A
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