THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904
TEAM SPIRIT
Group meets to find new shirt slogan
Student-athletes met last night to reinvent the student section and leave the "Muck Fizzou" shirts in the dust.
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Members of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee invited other student organizations to give their ideas for a new game day shirt to replace the old shirt deemed offensive by ESPN. The sports channel issued a statement last year saying it would not film student sections if the anti-Missouri slap was present.
The SAAC said they hoped to unite the student body in inventing a new game day tradition that KU can be proud of.
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OREAD INN
However, members of the commission did show support for the project's size and how it could benefit students.
New hotel gaining approval
Oread Inn will have to wait another month to hear the Lawrence Douglas County Planning Commission's final recommendation.
Oread Iron, originally called Eldridge on the Hill, would be a seven-story structure that would include hotel rooms, retail locations and extended stay rooms. It would be built at 12th Street and Oread Avenue. The City Commission probably will have the final say on the project after the Planning Commission meets again Oct. 22.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
U. S. RAIDS STEROID PRODUCERS
A federal investigation led to more than 120 arrests.
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CRIME
Report of rape results in no charges
Oliver Hall resident makes accusation; man jailed Sunday, released Monday
BY MARK DENT
mdent@kansan.com
No charges were filed Monday against a man who, according to police reports, was arrested for allegedly raping a female resident of Oliver Hall early Sunday morning.
County Sheriff's Department, said the man was held in the Douglas County Jail on Monday before being released after no charges were filed.
The man was arrested by the KU Public Safety Office at about 3:30 Sunday morning, according to reports. Lt. Kari Wempe, public information officer for the Douglas
According to police reports, the woman said she had been drinking heavily and passed out because of the alcohol. She told police that when she woke up, the man was on top of her and having sex with her, according to the report.
Police located, arrested and inter
viewed the man, according to the report. Capt. Schuyler Bailey, a spokesman for the KU Public Safety Office, said police couldn't release any information that the man told them.
Bailey said the man and woman were acquaintances from Oliver Hall. He said that they had been part of a group that had been together earlier in the night.
- Edited by Matt Erickson
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Amy Harris, Overland Park junior, gives blood in the Kansas Union Ballroom on Monday. The ballroom is one of several donation sites on campus. Blood drive committee members hope that the increase in donation sites will allow students to donate blood between classes. The Blood Vessel also will travel to other locations on campus. To be a donor, students must go through a short interview process and supply their health history. Donors must be 17 or older and weigh at least 110 pounds. The Blood Drive will be going on all week. For more information visit, including locations and schedules, visit www.kublooddrive.com.
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> > LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Returning leaked documents was for benefit of University
Last week's story on the leak of personal information spawned several discussions in the Kansan newsroom. The question most commonly asked was, "Why did you give the records back to the University?"
The University Daily Kansan was one of three media outlets to receive the envelopes containing personal documents. The Kansas City Star and The Lawrence Journal-World made the records available for University officials to review, but both declined to return the records to the University. The Kansan made copies of the documents for use in the story, secured all of the documents in a locked location and returned the originals.
The University contacted me Thursday afternoon, asking that the records be secured and that they not be shared any further. At no point was I asked to return
the records. It was a decision that I made myself. After talking it over with the other editors, I arranged to return the documents without the envelopes or the included cover letter.
I made the decision with no knowledge of what either of the other publications had chosen to do with the documents. My interest was obtaining enough information to publish a detailed
account of a story that was vitally important to the student body. Beyond that, keeping the original documents would have only prevented the University from moving forward in its efforts to conduct an investigation and to contact all of the students and faculty who were named in the documents. There was nothing that The Kansan turned over to University officials that would have helped to reveal the identity of the person or persons who sent the material.
The University's actions in letting these documents get into the wrong hands were inexcusable. That private information of students and University employees is open to exploitation is a significant concern. But withholding those documents and keeping the University from taking steps to prevent further problems would have been another mistake in itself.
》 ACTIVISM
Student clubs take on Capitol to help Darfur
Students from across the nation will gather this weekend to advocate for increased action against genocide in Darfur. Students Taking Action Now: Darfur, will hold a conference in Washington, D.C., to educate students about the importance of the cause, and allow them to lobby on Capitol Hill.
Students who can't make the trip to Washington, D.C., this weekend but are passionate about the cause can join the KU organization FIGHT. The group works to stop humanitarian threats in Darfur, Uganda, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
President Mark Skoglund, Olathe junior, said FIGHT worked closely with STAND events throughout the year. He said he was excited to see students mobilizing on campuses across the country.
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