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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
KU
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.104, NO.5
KS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA, KS 66612
FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1994
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Cowlings to have day in court
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Grand jury seeks new information not indictment
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — The district attorney said Wednesday he was using a grand jury to investigate O.J. Simpson's friend Al "A.C." Cowlings but is not seeking an indictment, suggesting he may be searching for more evidence against Simpson.
"Any information we obtain there can be used in any other criminal proceeding as long as it's relevant," Gil Garcetti told reporters at his monthly news conference.
He said that means any information the jury turned up about the June 12 killings of Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman could be used in prosecution Simpson, who is charged with the murders.
Garcetti also said that although he wasn't seeking a grand jury indictment of Cowlings, his office could use any information the panel turns up to charge him.
"If the evidence establishes that Mr. Cowl-
ings or anyone else was involved in assisting criminal conduct we're going to prosecute that," Garcetti said.
Cowlings drove the white Ford Bronco seen on national television as he and Simpson led police on a freeway pursuit before Simpson surrendered on June 17.
In other developments:
Normally, prosecutors do not comment on secret grand jury proceedings and the investigative powers of the panel are rarely invoked in criminal cases where an indictment will not be sought.
Garcetti said his office's "death penalty committee" met yesterday to consider
whether to seek death or life imprisonment against Simpson if he is convicted.
Simpson attorney Robert Shapiro tom The Associated Press the defense would continue to hammer away at the fact police sent a trainee to sop up blood evidence.
The handling of blood,he said,is the foundation for subsequent laboratory analysis and is critical in determining whether DNA tests conducted later are reliable.
ABC News said it was told by reliable sources that the sealed envelope contains the 15-inch stiletto knife and sales receipt from the cutlery shop where Simpson bought it.
Source: Kansan staff research Dave Campbell / KANSAN
E-mail accounts are catching on
By Nathan Olson
Kansan staff writer
Lisa Sheldon has found an inexpensive way to talk to her sister at Indiana University.
"More people are finding out about e-mail," she said.
"It's the up-and-coming thing."
The Omaha junior now can sit down at a computer at Academic Computing Services and write her sister a letter. No stamps are necessary.
Sheldon is one of many KU students who have obtained e-mail accounts this year. E-mail, short for electronic mail, lets people around the world communicate simply, quickly and without stamps. KU students and faculty can get e-mail accounts free through Academic Computing Services.
Students who have these accounts can send and receive e-mail and read Usenet News, a collection of more than 3,000 news groups with different themes.
Joane Peterson, data control technician for Academic Computing Services, handles new computer accounts. She said that more students had been requesting new accounts this year than in previous years.
Peterson estimated that 200 new accounts had been processed each day for the past week. Usually, Peterson said, approximately 30 accounts are processed each day. "I would be happy."
"I could be here until midnight every night," she said.
Peterson said that she soon would be getting a second computer, which would allow her to process twice the number of accounts each day.
She attributed the increase in e-mail's popularity to increased exposure.
"It's got to be all the advertising," she said
Laura Green, documentation and training specialist at Academic Computing Services, said seminars and lectures were available for students interested in learning more about e-mail.
Accounts can be obtained from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. and from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Computer Center.
Brian Vandervliet / KANSAN
Facilities operations employee Mark Haskell climbs to a small chamber in Danforth Chapel where the air-conditioning unit is stationed. Haskell and two other employees changed the filters on the unit after a maintenance check.
--dents forged advisers' signatures."
Paul Kotz / KANSAN
Heidi Brueckner, San Francisco graduate student, works on a portrait in her studio in Joseph R. Pearson Residence Hall. The vacant dormitory has seen new life with offices and art studios being moved there in recent months.
JRP contains mix of offices
By Ashley Miller
The building, once retained by the Department of Student Housing as a men's residence hall, is being used by various departments, programs and schools at the University, including the School of Fine Arts and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The center is a five-year, $5 million grant project being conducted by the School of Education. Economically and educationally disadvantaged high school students are recruited to study early childhood education at KU.
Kansan staff writer
Right now, only the basement and the first three floors of JRP are being used. The remaining three floors are empty.
The University Space Committee began placing people and offices there about a year ago, said Linda Mullens, committee member and assistant vice cchancellor for student affairs.
Although students no longer are living in Joseph K. Pearson Residence Hall, the building is far from empty.
The first floor is occupied by both the child clinical psychology program — a master's and doctorate program affiliated with the departments of human development and family life and psychology — and the Gateway Center.
"What we do is attempt to assist in finding space for individual areas that are having difficulty with their current space," Mullens said.
The building's second floor houses studios for fine arts undergraduate students and offices for graduate teaching assistants in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The space committee is still making assignments for the third floor.
Bob Bearse, chairman of the space committee and associate vice chancellor, said the floor would probably house part of the KU Police, the School of Education and radio station KANU.
"It's not terribly convenient, but there's just not enough space to take on all the needs," he said.
Bearse said the committee did not want to use the remaining three floors if other space was available.
"We don't have the money to run the building," he said. "It's $1,000 a day or so just for air conditioning."
Bearse said there were plans to renovate JRP, but a date to begin renovations had not been set.
However, Bearse said, the School of Education is planning to move to JRP because of a space crunch in their building, Bailey Hall.
Bailey Hall then would be used to support CLAS and undergraduate education classes, he said.
Ken Stoner, director of the Department of Student Housing, said JRP was vacated in May 1992 because of the low number of students applying for campus housing.
Stamp requirement eliminated
By Colleen McCain Kansan staff writer
Pam Houston, director of the college's undergraduate center, said that students in the college no longer had to obtain dean's stamps before enrolling. The change went into effect this summer, she said.
Students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences have one less hoop to jump through during enrollment.
Previously, a student in the college could not enroll without a dean's stamp. But the stamp was no longer serving its purpose. Houston said.
"The dean's stamp was to check that students had seen an adviser," she said. "But it was impossible to know who was signing the forms, and students forged advisers' signatures."
The repercussions of the change would be minimal, Houston said.
The change was approved by the Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising and then passed by the College Assembly, the college's governing body.
Kathy Hall, director of the college's advising support center, said that those who opposed the change were clinging to the hope that the stamp served its original purpose.
"When the school was smaller and there was more central
control of students, there was time to give a stamp and verify it," Hall said. "But now we have more than 13,000 students."
While freshmen and sophomores are required to see an adviser, eliminating the dean's stamp also eliminates any enforcement of this requirement.
Mikko Crouch, Tulsa, Okla,
sophomore, said he and other students could enroll without the help of an adviser.
James Carothers, associate dean of the college, said advising was unnecessary for many students.
"When I did get a dean's stamp, I never actually saw an adviser," Crouch said. "I thought it was crazy that I had to get a stamp because it was so useless."
A blueberry delays Shanks'trial verdict
"A juror aspirated a blueberry last night." said Douglas County District Court Judge Ralph M. King. "He's at the hospital and will be going through a procedure to
By Manny Lopez
Kansan staff writer
Of all the things that possibly could postpone a verdict, few would think the culprit would be a piece of fruit.
But a blueberry was responsible for halting jury deliberations in the rape trial of Jeffrey Shanks yesterday. About 9:15 a.m., only 11 members of the jury filed into the Douglas County Division 1 Courtroom. The final member of the jury was at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
have it dislodged from his lung."
"I talked to him on the phone this morning, and he said he was going to be back this afternoon," King said. "I told him, 'Some people would do anything to get out of injury duty.'"
King said the juror was eating last night and choked on a blueberry. He was taken to the hospital and stayed there overnight for observation, King said.
On Wednesday, the jury deliberated for almost five hours without reaching a verdict. Shanks is being tried on two separate counts of rape he was charged with in February and March. The jury will begin deliberating again at 9 a.m. today.
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