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Geis' incident occurred at Meadowbrook Apartments, near 15th and Iowa streets, but several of the crimes, including a home invasion and a case of sexual battery, allegedly occurred near 12th and Louisiana streets.
CRIME
Student-filled neighborhoods attract violence
BY DAVID LINHARDT
Matthew Geis, Topeka junior, looked up from an Oct. 10 poker game at a Lawrence apartment as his friend answered a knock at the door. Another poker player was supposed to be arriving.
Instead, two men entered the apartment. One of them wrestled Geis' friend into a headlock, dragged him back into the apartment and put a gun to his head. Geis and his friends were being robbed.
Last weekend, Lawrence police and the KU Public Safety office continued investigating aggravated robberies and burglaries that victimized KU students.
Fabian Conde, Overland Park junior, lives in a house near the 1200 block of Tennessee. On Oct. 8, what Conde described as a "drunken fight" broke out during a party.
Conde normally leaves his front door unlocked and lets almost anyone inside to party and drink. Later that evening, seven to 10 men allegedly gained entry to Conde's house. Though Conde and his roommates said they had nothing to do with the fight earlier, the group of men demanded revenge for the brawl.
"One guy started swinging a bat," Conde said. "We got it away from him, but others started throwing fists. There were three of them on each of us."
The men allegedly smashed Conde's TV and kitchen table and threw a cinder block through the garage door.
Conde called the police but acknowledged that without insurance, there was little the police could do for his situation. He said the fight was the "stupidest thing that's ever happened" in his life.
"The sad part about it was that we were used to people going in and out," Conde said. "Now if we don't know you, we're not letting you in the house."
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CRIME
Alleged rape victim gives testimony during preliminary hearing
BY DAVID LINHARDT
A 19-year-old McCollum Hall resident remembered the shock she felt when she woke up Aug. 27 about 2:30 a.m. with no pants or underwear on and a sharp pain between her legs.
The KU student recounted that moment and added further details at the preliminary hearing on Oct. 12 of Arrin Bernard, an 18-year-old McCollum resident charged with allegedly raping her earlier that night.
Bernard was charged Aug. 28 with having sex with the victim without her consent. The University Daily Kansan has a policy of not revealing the names of alleged victims of sexual assault.
The woman said she was asleep when the incident allegedly occurred, but that at least five or six friends were in the room watching a
movie while the incident may have occurred.
She had been taking vodka shots with those same friends earlier in the evening before the group went to a party on Tennessee Street about 9:30 p.m. She drank beer with her roommate at the party, and the group returned to McColum after midnight, she said.
Her memories were somewhat "fuzzy" until she fell asleep but when she woke up about an hour later, wearing only a tank top, the shock jolted her into alertness, she said. She had been lying on top of the blankets, but when she woke up she was underneath a blanket, she said.
The group may have decided to order pizza and watch a movie, the woman said. She said she lay down on her bed with Bernard and fell asleep as the movie began to play.
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》 ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT
NCAA ANNOUNCES SANCTIONS
Mark Mangino and his football team lost scholarships for committing academic fraud.
Bill Self and his basketball team lost a scholarship and and face recruiting restrictions.
Athletics Director Lew Perkins was cited for improving the University's NCAA rules compliance.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway hired athletics directors who, the NCAA said, ignored compliance.
Attorney Rick Evrand was responsible for conducting the initial investigation for the University.
The NCAA said Bonnie Henrickson's women's basketball team faced disproportionate sanctions.
Football,men's basketball face restrictions for past violations
BY C.J. MOORE
Lew Perkins couldn't help but smile as he responded to reporters' questions about the sanctions the NCAA handed the University of Kansas last week.
His smile grew larger in response to a question about his predecessor, former Kansas Athletics Director A Bohl, who the NCAA said described his approach to college athletics in one statement to a KU compliance worker: "Compliance doesn't sell tickets."
Chancellor Robert Hemenway said Bohl had never made that statement to him.
"I think you know what my response to that would have been," Hemenway told the assembled journalists.
Because of Bohl's disregard for compliance, the NCAA labeled the University as having a "lack of institutional control." But the sanctions the NCAA chose to impose amounted to little more than a slap on the wrist.
"The committee has been very fair with us," Hemenway said. "We trust the process, and we accept the committee's judgment."
The Kansas Athletics Department
walked away with three years of probation and lost three scholarships in football and lost a scholarship and eight paid on-campus recruiting visits for men's basketball over the next two seasons. The University will not appeal the decision.
The infractions committee accepted several of Kansas' self-imposed sanctions, including the already-served penalties by the women's basketball program that the committee deemed "wholly disproportionate" to the violations that were reported, especially as related
see also...
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Complete coverage of the NCAA sanctions is inside. On page 1B, columnist Michael Phillips writes that the sanctions prove the NCAA's irrelevance. On page 2B, see a sport-by-sport breakdown of the violations.
Also, visit Kansan.com for the full report issued by the NCAA, as well as responses from Kansas officials.
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Pulitzer Prize winners, Marine share stories of grief
Todd Heisler, photojournalist, left, Jim Sheeler, reporter for The Rocky Mountain News, center, and Maj. Steve Beck discuss working on the Pulitzer Prize-winning story, "Final Salute" on Kansas Editors Day on Saturday in 110 Budig Hall. Heisler and Sneeker won the prizes in photography and reporting for the story.
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BY KIM LYNCH
With virtually one hand, the assembled crowd wiped away stray tears as Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jim Sheeler read aloud from his winning article, "Final Salute."
The article, published in a special section of the Rocky Mountain News, was accompanied by photographs from Todd Heiser, who also won a Pulitzer for his work.
With a slide show of the pictures playing on a screen towering above the speakers, accompanied by the deep, powerful music of a cello, emotions ran high on Kansas Editors Day.
Temple
The School of Journalism invited the Pulitzer Prize winners, as well as Rocky editor and publisher
John Temple and the focal point of the article,
Marine Corps
Maj, Steve Beck,
to speak to a group of students,
faculty and profes-
for the annual event.
The story was more than a year in the making, Sheeler said. In that time, Sheeler and Heisler attended the funerals of fallen Marines,
"Final Salute" recounts Beck's experiences as he tenderly and carefully notified families that their loved one had died in combat and walked them through the processes and rituals that accompany the battlefield death of a Marine.
played with the children whose fathers would not be coming home and documented a story that Beck said had never been told before.
Beck, who was reserved and often took thoughtful pauses to prepare his responses, said from when he first met Sheeler and Heisler, he tried to impress upon them the gravity of the story.
"I knew the journey I would have to take them on," Beck said repeatedly. The Marine, who said he had faced some criticism within his own chain of command for allowing the story to be written and granting the team so much access, said he trusted his instincts that Sheeler and Heisler were doing the story for the right
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