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Staff,student feel brunt of offenses on Hill
KU Public Safety Office reports mysterious letter, death threat, mugging on campus
BY MARK DENT
mdent@kansan.com
FRASER HALL
Ivana Radovanovic walked into her office Thursday in 616 Fraser and found a note slid under the door.
The letter contained information about a man's relationship with Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin, according to the KU Public Safety report. It was signed by John Carland.
"The content was rather unusual," Radovanovic said, "and entirely unrelated to my archeological expertise."
Radovanovic, a professor of anthropology, reported the strange letter to the KU
Public Safety Office.
The officer didn't find Carland's name in the Lawrence phone book or KU Directory. According to the report, members of the department of anthropology saw a man about 40 years old with brown, curly hair and glasses walking through Fraser Hall. He was asking them to look at some artifacts. They thought, according to the report, he could've written the letter.
Anyone who sees the suspicious person should contact the KU Public Safety Office.
Radovanovic said that people came to show artifacts all the time. The man wasn't suspicious for that reason. She said the anthropology department staff filed the report because of the strange letter.
STRONG HALL
An employee for the Office of the University Registrar in Strong Hall received a death threat on the phone last Thursday, according to police reports.
Joshua Dean was speaking to a registrar office staff member, who asked to remain unidentified, about his transcript on the phone. He became angry, according to the report, when the staff member declined to give him his transcript because of a hold. Dean told her he would kill her and hung up.
Grace Vaughn, an administrative specialist for the Registrar, was notified of the threat and called police.
"We take it very seriously." Vaughn said,
"You don't talk to people like that."
According to the report, the staff member who received the threat had already left for the day when the officer arrived. The officer went to the staff member's house later that afternoon. The employee told police she didn't want to press charges and just wanted to put the incident behind her.
Vaughn said this was the first time she knew of a worker at the Registrar office receiving a death threat.
When The University Daily Kansan searched for Dean on KU People Search, no account came up. Vaughn declined to say
whether Dean was a student but confirmed that he was asking for a transcript.
THE CAMPANILE
Two young men assaulted a university student walking east of the Campanile at 1 a.m., Thursday, according to police reports.
While walking, the student saw the men standing on the stairs. As he approached them, they hit him and took his wallet. The KU Public Safety Office advises students to walk in groups and in well-travelled areas at night. It also advises students to give up their purses or wallets if they're attacked.
—Edited by Luke Morris
》 CLAS
New policy guarantees probation
One year ago, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences implemented a new probation and dismissal policy that administrators said had helped simplify the requirements to remain in good standing.
With the new policy, students must maintain a 2.0 KU grade point average or they are placed on probation. Once on probation, freshmen and sophomores must maintain a 2.0 KU GPA until their cumulative GPA reaches 2.0. Juniors and seniors must earn a 2.5 KU GPA until their cumulative KU GPA is 2.0.
Previously, the policy classified students as "subject to dismissal," put them on probation or dismissed them, depending on the amount of hours they had completed compared to their GPA. Now, students are split into two categories, and are either on probation or dismissed.
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CAMPUS
Pre-law fair provides answers
Students interested in going to law school can meet in the Kansas Union today to talk to law school representatives from across the nation.
Unger also said it would be a great opportunity to network with other pre-law students.
Clarissa Unger, Colby junior, helped with setup for the event. She is the secretary for Phi Alpha Delta, the pre-law fraternity. She said she has been to similar fairs but is looking forward to a better turn out this year.
Lift with your knees,not your back
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Princeton sophomore Nathaniel Cunningham, far right, and Holton Sophomore Britten Hufford, second from right, participate in group log lifts Tuesday evening for the physical training portion of Leadership Lab for the Air Force ROTC. The Leadership Lab meets every Tuesday and teaches students teamwork and leadership skills.
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Former ambassadors to compare genocides
》 DOLE INSTITUTE
Human rights crises topic of world discussion
The Robert J. Dole Institute will feature a humanitarian issue important to students Thursday, with "Genocide: What the world can do and should do."
Former U.S. Ambassadors Robert Beecroft and Edward Brynn will compare the current situation in Darfur, Sudan, with their experiences in Bosnia,
Rwanda, Burkina Faso and Ghana, where similar human rights crises occurred.
effect on the crisis in Darfur. She said the ambassadors would give a real-life perspective of the situation and make students realize it was an issue they couldn't walk away from.
Amanda Applegate, Wichita junior and member of the Dole Institute's Student Advisory board, said the student interest in the program and past Darfur programs had been high. Applegate said students felt they could actually have an
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