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Monday August 23,1999
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Despite rain, 2,000 came out to support the football team at the Get Ready Rally in Memorial Stadium.
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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Chancellor Hemenway and Provost Shulenburger have approved exceptions for alcohol to be served at events in several buildings across campus, Illustration by Jason Williams/ KANSAN
Alcohol finds its way on campus
(USPS 650-640)
By Matthew Friedrichs Special to the Kansan
Dinner, drinks and a speaker — the annual Kansas Political Science Association meeting held in November was no different from thousands of conferences.
But the drinks at the event attended by political science professors from universities across the state and from nearby schools such as the University of Missouri Kansas City were served at the Centennial room in the Kansas Union.
The political science meeting was one of more than 100 events for which Chancellor Robert Hemenway and Provost David Shulenburger approved applications to serve alcohol last year.
Paul Schumaker, professor of political science, helped arrange the event.
"It's simply an expectation," Schumaker said. "We're well beyond the point where Kansas is a dry state. We're talking about adults. No one is getting drunk."
And while the events approved by Hemenway and Shulenburger were only a handful of the thousands of presentations, lectures, dinners and receptions on campus, they were conspicuous for two reasons.
First, KU officials made an effort to change student alcohol consumption on Mount Oread, ending the sale of beer in the Kansas Union in November, sending a letter reiterating the University's zero-tolerance policy to students who live in the residence halls, and announcing a $450,000 Kansas Health Foundation grant and associated public relations campaign to curb binge drinking by students in February.
Second, at the same time KU
officials began implementing the new alcohol policies, construction on a new press box, complete with luxury or "scholarship" suites in which alcohol can be served, began in November after the final home football game.
"In a real sense, the issue is not alcohol — the issue is drunkenness." Hemenway said.
He and other University officials defend the on-campus events, saying they are controlled. Union catering employees trained as bartenders must serve the alcohol. Alcohol is not sold. Relatively small amounts of
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alcohol are served and an hour and a half is allocated for alcohol service.
"It's different from a bar scene, and it's very different from a group who have demonstrated a significant number of people developing poor habits," said David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs.
An analysis of the records kept by the Provost's office for events scheduled between July 1, 1998 and June 30, 1999 shows that Hemenway and Shulenburger approved 68 applications by 31
members of the Student Executive Committee of Student Senate disagree. In June, they voted unanimously for a resolution that condemns the University for addressing student alcohol issues but allowing alcohol in the new press box.
"It's not the alcohol we desire, it is the hypocrisy we deplore," said the resolution written by Partha Mazumdar, Pittsburgh, Penn., graduate student, and Marlon Marshall, St. Louis junior.
But the press box is only the newest space on campus where alcohol can be served.
KU employee stabbed in fight on Ohio Street
By Katie Haller
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
A 25-year-old man remains in custody of charges of attempted voluntary manslaughter after allegedly stabbing a University of Kansas employee early Saturday morning, the Douglas County Sheriff Office said.
The suspect, a transient in Douglas County jail records, allegedly stabbed Lawrence resident Aron Guthrie multiple times following a fist fight shortly after midnight at 12th and Ohio Streets.
Andrea Angelo, Topea junior,
was walking down 12th Street
toward Ohio Street when she saw
the squabble.
Angelo said she saw Guthrie and the suspect viling and fighting. She said it looked like a random fight, and the two men did not appear to know each other. She said she could see the knife in the suspect's hand.
When Guthrie yelled for backup, the suspect and his friends started getting into their car, Angelo said. Guthrie ran toward the car, she said, and punched out the driver's side window.
Angelo said the suspect then exited the car, brandishing his knife and shouting that he was going to cut Guthrie. Angelo then ran to get help.
Scene of the Crime
"There were cops everywhere, so I didn't think anything would happen."
Police were already in the area; there were several parties in the 1100 block of Ohio Street, including one at 1147 Ohio St. Angelo was not sure whether the two men were attending any of the parties.
Angelo said the next thing she saw was the police attending to the victim in the yard of 1147 Ohio St.
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she said. "I was totally surprised."
she said. I was totally surprised.
Ashford Galbath, Detroit
sophomore, saw Guthrie being
loaded into the ambulance.
"He looked pretty bad," he said. "He wasn't getting up."
Guthrie was treated at Lawrence Memorial Hospital and transferred to an undisclosed facility. His condition was unknown last night.
On-scene police officers quickly apprehended the suspect. He was initially arrested on charges of attempted second-degree murder, but prosecutors filed the attempted voluntary manslaughter charge Saturday afternoon. Deputy Ryan Robinson said he remained in jail yesterday on a $50,000 cash or surety bond.
Guthrie is employed by the University at the Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin dining center. Nona Golledge, assistant director of the Student Housing Dining Department, said Guthrie had been hired within the last month.
"We certainly hope he gets better as soon as he can," Golledge said. "We'd like him to come back to work soon."
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Man's body discovered in river
By Katie Hollar writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
The Douglas County Sheriff's office hopes to confirm today the identity of the man found in the Kansas River Friday morning.
Although identification was found on the body, the sheriff's office will not release the victim's name until they are certain. Lt. Don Crowe said. A friend of the man was unable to provide a positive identification this weekend. The sheriff's office aims to affirm identity with dental records today.
The Douglas County Sheriff's office, Lawrence Police Department and Lawrence Fire and Medical Departments responded to the call. The body was retrieved at 12:10 p.m. The victim was described as being in his early 20's and was wearing a striped T-shirt and cutoff shorts. Officials were not certain how long he had been in the river.
At 9:20 Friday morning, employees at Bowersock Mills & Power Co. called 911 when they discovered the corpse of a young white male floating in an intake grate.
Alison Schaffer, Andover freshman, splashes around in the Chi Omega fountain shortly after accepting a bid to the Chi Omega sorority during the Bid Day ceremony. Schaffer and hundreds of other students pledged Saturday after participating in a week of recruitment activities. Photo by Matt J. Daungherty/KANSAN
ne Friday night, Crowe said that there was no evidence of foul play. An autopsy performed on Saturday confirmed dying as the cause of death.
drowning as Crowe said the man was not from Lawrence but would not release his hometown.
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Sorority recruitment releases 30 women
By Lori O'Toole
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
About 30 women were released from the sorority recruitment process this year, compared to the usual average of 10.
The sorority system received 652 new members Saturday, marking the end of the week-long recruitment process. However, the women who were released still have a chance to join a sorority through the open recruitment process — continuous open bidding — that starts this week.
Taylor Gill, vice president of recruitment for the Panhellenic Association, said more women were released this year than any other year since she had been tracking rush figures. She said the numbers were higher because of the loss of a chapter. Alpha Xi Delta closed its doors this summer.
"Traditionally that chapter had asked back more women than other chapters," Gill said. "Definitely in the last couple years the release rate has not been this high."
Bill Nelson, director of greek programs, said there were 52 more new members this year than last year and 82 more than two years ago, despite there being one fewer chapter
Nelson said 11 houses met quota, which is the maximum allowable number of new
Nelson said that though the quota was 52, a house could have accepted 55 new members if they used quota addition, a process encouraged by the National Panhellenic Association to reduce the number of women who, at the conclusion of bid matching, were left unmatched.
members a chapter can accept.
Nelson said there were as many as three sorority houses that did not have 140 members after Saturday's new members.
Nelson, who would not disclose the names of the chapters, said the houses were able to continue informal recruitment, beginning at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, to gain new members.
Nelson said the increased number reflected a higher retention rate of participating women.
He said each house determined its own informal recruitment schedule.
This year, 145 women withdrew compared to 249 last year, he said.
"I think it goes back to the quality of the recruitment counselors," he said. "I'm extraordinarily pleased."
Meg Godderz, graduate assistant for the greek community, said there were several
Tricia Fairchild, recruitment counselor and Topeka junior, said that at times it was difficult to persuade women to maximize their options by considering joining a house other than the one they most preferred.
changes in the training and selection of the 52 recruitment counselors who worked with the women last week.
She said the counselor positions were open to all junior and senior women in the greek community, instead of just those nominated by their houses.
"It was probably the strongest group of recruitment counselors we've had," Godderz said.
She said the counselors also emphasized the importance of keeping an open mind about the potential of joining any chapter.
"Just being in a house is great coming in as a freshman because it gives you an opportunity to meet a lot of people," she said. "It makes the campus a little smaller, too."
"Recruitment can be a very stressful time," she said. "It's tough to convince the women that it will be OK if they don't make the house their mom or their friends wants them to make."
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Kelly Howell, Overland Park freshman and new member, was accepted by her first choice, Kappa Alpha Theta.
With commercialization and violence rampant in the world, says Luciano, righteousness is the only salvation. And music unites.
Kansan staff writer
"We want to be missionaries and messengers and people who try to use their music to create unity," Luciano said. "If we can, we want to inspire people. If we can be a source of inspiration, if we can acknowledge the wickedness that has been handed to the people, we acknowledge it, and we see all these things, and we know that righteousness is the only way out of this quagmire of deception we are in."
Luciano, who will play with Mikey General, Dean Fraser, Firehouse Crew and the Earth Healer Dancers at 9 p.m. tonight at the Granada, 1020 Massachusetts Street, said he just wants to unify unity.
Artist just wants to inspire unity
Dubbed the 'return of Bob Marley' by *Time* magazine, some say Luciano's music signals the resurrection of reggae from dormancy.
By Emily Hughey
The deception of which Luciano, a native of Davyton, Jamaica, speaks is the negativity, violence and sacrilege he said he thought were indigenous to society.
While Dave Clark, director of operations at Friends of Reggae International in Kansas City, Mo., said the nature of reggae is to unite people of diverse cultures, both he and Luciano said they had seen the decline and commercialization of the genre in recent years.
"Reggae has been through a lot. For a minute there, everything went dormant for a while. In the sixties, that was when the music was more effective," Clark said. "Then, after Bob Marley's death, the music started to get watered down. It started losing its potency."
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