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NO SUMMER SLOWDOWN Traditionally a slow time for business, bars are enjoying an increase in business during summer. PAGE 3A
Charlie Gruber, former Kansas cross country and track and field star, will run the 1,500-meter in Athens today. PAGE 10A
SPORTS
KANSAN
FRIDAY. AUGUST 20. 2004
VOL. 115 ISSUE 3
www.kansan.com
BY NIKLA ROWE
nrove@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Campus security updates set
Security will increase this fall at campus parking lots, said Capt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office.
Public Safety officials plan to install cameras in several parking lots on campus. Bailey said the cost and date of
installation of the new surveillance system was still unknown.
Parking lots near Daisy Hill, the Lied Center and the area surrounding GSP-Corbin Hall will have priority for the new security system. The lots were selected because they are near residence halls, where safety has been an issue.
According to the KU Public Safety Web site, 861 criminal offenses were
reported in 2003, a 6 percent increase since 2002. Bicycle thefts and burglaries made up a majority of the incidents. One rape and four aggravated assaults were reported to the office in 2003.
One of those assaults happened last October, when a female resident of Ellsworth Hall was attacked while walking to her car in the Lied Center parking lot. The attacker held the woman at knifepoint. In February 2003,
a man with a knife threatened a female student in the GSP-Corbin parking garage.
Elyse Calderon, Denver sophomore, lived in Ellsworth last year and was worried by these attacks. She said she thought security around campus and residence halls could be better.
"I would definetely recommend cameras in the parking lots," Calderon said. "I don't think it would invade privacy
unless they were in the residence halls."
unless they were in the residence hall. Ken Stoner, director of student housing and Campus Safety Advisory Board member, said other safety improvements under consideration included more lighting and new crosswalks on West Campus Road and 15th Street
Staying safe on campus just takes some common sense, Bailey said.
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Steve Munch, Bellevue, Neb., junior, keeps his desk in his senate office neat and clutter-free. "I want to make it comfortable while still being halfway professional and orderly," he said.
Rooms with a viewpoint
Executive offices show softer side of Student Senate
BY LAURA FRANCOVIGIA
lfrancoviglia@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
In room 410 of the Kansas Union, the Student Senate executive staff offices are cozily clustered together.
"If you come in and there's a lot of yelling going on back here, it's not a fight, we're just trying to do business," said Steve Munch, student body president.
Munch said he and Jeff Dunlap, student body vice president, did much of their business in this fashion.
Munch and Dunlap are student representatives to University administrators, faculty and staff. Munch, Bellevue, Neb., junior, meets with various administrators to accomplish his coalition's agenda.
Dunlap serves as chairman of Senate. Senate provides University funding for student groups and advocates for student rights and interests, according to the Senate Web site, wwwku.edu/~senate.
But the office dynamics tell more about the staff than just the
way Student Senate business is conducted. The offices are a window into the personalities of KU's student leaders.
'The Notorious MUNCH'
A convocation poster hangs on Munch's bulletin board. "The Notorious MUNCH" is written on it, but Munch can't explain it. He doesn't know who wrote it.
"Munch is indeed my last name," he said. "And, in fact, I am known as notorious."
Munch describes himself as nurturing. He has plants in his office and said he fed them.
Munch has a mini-fridge under his desk stocked with Coke, Diet Coke and grapefruit juice, with which he plans to entertain. He said he really wanted students to come to his office.
But Dunlap said the nickname was completely a joke. Munch is approachable, he said.
He's a high school Quiz Bowl champion, Dunlap said, and he has an excellent poker face.
Munch said as far as he knew, it was some random person who wrote it.
But the fact is, Dunlap said Munch was known as notorious, which means known widely and usually unfavorably, in two circles: the history department and at the poker table.
But the fact is, Dunlap wrote it.
"We can sit down, have a discussion, I can maybe offer them a Coke and then we'll go from there." he said.
Comfort is key, he said.
Comfort is key, he said.
"I want to make it comfortable while still being halfway professional and orderly," Munch said.
Diana Rhodes, administrative assistant for Student Senate, admitted the office was not the most formal of offices. But she said it was cleaner this year.
Munch keeps a neat desk. When Munch is not working, there is no clutter on his desk besides a file organizer and computer.
Whether Munch does his job better because of the cleaner office has yet to be seen. His platform which includes a tuition contract, might seem lofty.
At least one platform issue is always on his mind. Munch's window is a view of the north side of Jayhawk Boulevard and the Mississippi parking garage. It is a constant reminder that Munch's coalition, KUnited, promised students more parking.
Dunlap and his Fellowship of the Ring
Across the main office, Katie Wolff, legislative director for Senate, sprawled across Dunlap's
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Tony Corbeill, professor of classics, was one of yesterday's seven winners of Kemper Awards who were surprised by Chancellor Robert Hemenway and others during the first day of class. Corbeill was shocked at the honor and joked that he hoped it would increase the enrollment in his class in which there were only 10 students.
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Professors earn Kemper Awards
By Ross Fitch
rfitch@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Latin 105 has open seats. But after a visit from Chancellor Robert Hemenway, Tony Corbeill, professor of classics, might be able to fill the spaces.
He and seven professors were surprised yesterday starting at 8:30 a.m., when Hemenway and Mark Heider, president of Commerce Bank in Lawrence, presented them with giant checks for $5,000 Kemper Awards.
Corbeill, although obviously surprised, played it cool, and in a shameless plug, said there was room in his class if anyone wanted to add.
Michael Shaw, associate professor of classics and Corbeill's colleague, said he thought it was about time Corbeill received the award.
"He's a real all-around player," Shaw said. "He can do it all."
Apart from teaching, Corbeill was also involved with research and service. Shaw said.
A committee established to honor faculty with $5,000 Kemper Awards said Corbeill was among the best of the professors at the University of Kansas.
For the ninth consecutive year, an entourage of officials from the University, the William T. Kemper Foundation, Commerce Bank-Trustee and the Kansas University Endowment Association — together known as the Surprise Patrol — started off the school year by handing out oversized checks to University faculty for excellence in their fields.
Each year the awards are handed out
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Murder suspect may stay in juvenile court system
BY AMANDA O'TOLE
aotoole@kansan.com
KANSAN STAPWITHER
The decision whether to move 17-year-old Andrew Ellmaker into the adult court system may not happen at his first court appearance in a Johnson County Court Aug.24.
Ellmaker, who has been charged for the murder of KU graduate student Teri Lea Zenner, could have several first appearances because he is currently classified as a juvenile, said Terri Issa, executive assistant to the Johnson County district attorney.
Brenda Cameron, the judge assigned
Zenner was found dead by Overland Park Police Tuesday night at 12623 W. 105th St., Ellmaker's residence in Overland Park. Autopsy reports have not been released.
to the case, may not take up the motion until a later date, which would leave Ellmaker in the juvenile court system, Issa said.
Zenner was working for Johnson County Mental Health Hospital when she was killed.
She was expected to graduate with a master's degree from the School of Social Welfare in May.
- Edited by Neil Mulka
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Ride along
Lawrence police officer David Ernst sees a night's worth of happenings while patrolling the downtown Lawrence nightlife. PAGE 3A
Basketball begins practice
The KU men's basketball team uses their first practice of the 2004-05 season to prepare for its Labor Day trip to Canada. PAGE 10A
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