UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, September 29,1994
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By Manny Lopez Kansas staff writer
KU law grad to fill district attorney spot
The creation of a fifth division in the Douglas County Courthouse landed a KU Law graduate a new job.
Roselle Orr, a 1992 graduate of the KU Law school, will leave her private practice in Lawrence to become the
county's 10th staff assistant district attorney Monday.
"It is always a welcome addition when we can bring someone in from private practice," said Jerry Wells, Douglas County district
attorney. "Roselie is already a competent lawyer and will make a competent prosecutor."
Orr, who was selected from a field of 45 applicants, will be primarily in charge of prosecuting traffic cases.
cases involving people with mental illnesses and misdemeanor cases, Wells said.
"I'm a very compassionate person, and I take issues very seriously," Orr said. "I still care about people even when I will be handling their cases at the worst part of their lives."
Working with the other members in the district attorney's office was one thing Orr said she was looking forward to.
"Ireally respect the DA's office here in Lawrence," Orr said. "The other judges, attorneys and clerks are good people, and I look forward to working with them."
Before joining the district attorney's office, Orr had a private practice in Lawrence where she specialized in family law. Orr said she had handled divorce cases and child custody cases as well as some criminal matters since her practice opened in 1992.
Wells said Orr's private practice experience would help her assimilate and immediately take part of the case
load from her associates in the office. While Orr will fill a newly created position, most of the attorneys who join the Douglas County District Attorney's Office stay for some time.
load from her associates in the office
"The average term of an assistant district attorney in Douglas County is about 11 years," Wells said. "That fact is excellent for the community."
The division Orr will be working in at the courthouse, along with three others, handles a variety of cases. The third division is responsible for divorce and most juvenile cases.
Orr's ties to KU and Lawrence are not new. Although she was born in Lawrence, she was raised in Chapman, which is between Junction City and Abilene. She later moved back to Lawrence to attend the University of Kansas and graduated with a psychology degree in 1988. In her spare time, she does manicures at her salon, Foxy Fingers, 900 Indiana St.
"I'll miss the freedom of private practice," Orrsaid. "Still, I am looking forward to the structured atmosphere in the DA's office."
CHILD CARE: Facility projected by Spring 1997
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pus, but it is unclear whether Hiltop will operate a new center.
Martha Langley, co-director of Hilltop, is a member of the child care task force. She said the task force had not offered a recommendation on the issue.
"We certainly hope that Hilltop will be in the new facility," Langley said. "But there has been no recommendation to include Hilltop."
Hilltop, a nonprofit corporation, is not part of the University.
"I feel like the task force generally has been supportive of Hilltop," she
said. "But it's not been stated whether we would run a new center, and it needs to be clarified."
Meyen said the issue of who would operate a new facility simply had not been addressed yet.
"I'm not saying Hilltop won't run it." Meyen said. "At this point, I have not heard anyone arguing against Hilltop."
Meyen said a new facility would accommodate at least 200 children. Langley said 170 children were enrolled at Hilltop, or the equivalent of 140 full-time children.
"Additionally, we always have between 150 and 200 children on our waiting list," Langley said.
Langley said children could spend up to two years on Hilltop's waiting list.
"I was told not to expect an opening at Hiltop until Spring 1996," Lewis said. "KU should have planned ahead so that parents wouldn't have to go through this."
Andrea Lewis, Denver freshman, added her daughter's name to Hilltop's waiting list last spring. She said that KU needed to act quickly in building a new child care center.
"It feels like the University has put me in a hopeless situation," Lewis said. "There's not an immediate solution at this point, so I guess I'll just have to wait it out."
CRIME: Crime decrease attributed to awareness programs
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entered a residence hall.
three reported rapes in 1994 in the residence hall system.
Trespassing in a residence hall was the only crime to show an increase in 1994. Rozmiarek said trespassing usually meant that a student evicted from the student housing system had
dent reports with student housing.
"The residence halls are a place where we like to think these things don't occur, but they do," said Jonathan Long, an assistant director of student housing.
Long said that liquor violations were the most common crimes in the halls, but they often weren't reported to the police. Most students filed inci-
In 1933, there were 299 liquor law violations in the residence halls, he said, not including violations filed with the KU police. Student housing numbers for 1994 were not available.
"We continue to see either more alcohol violations or more violations due to the consumption of alcohol." Long said.
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