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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
KS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA, KS 66612
VOL.104.NO.3
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1994
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Shanks takes stand in day two of trial
Defendant cries as he recounts his side of story
By Manny Lopez
Kansan Staff Writer
By the time Jeffrey Shanks took the witness stand yesterday afternoon, emotions in the courtroom had already run high.
Three times during his 90 minute testimony, Shanks' voice quivered, and he had to take time to catch his breath.
Tears welled in his eyes when he talked about his family, who were in town from California, again when he talked about having to resign his graduate assistant position with the KU football team and at the end of the day when a photographer started taking pictures of him on the witness stand.
Shanks is being tried on two counts of rape from a probable cause complaint filed Mar. 16 in Douglas County District Court. Last week, Judge Ralph M. King had combined another complaint against Shanks, but on Monday that case was separated.
a date for Sundav. Mar. 13.
Earlier in the second day of testimony in the trial, the second woman who said she was raped by Shanks also had to take time to compose herself while she was on the stand.
Dressed in a gray business suit, the 29-year-old woman from Kansas City, Kan., told the jury she met Shanks last November at Kelly's Bar in Westport. She said she spoke to him briefly that night. In March, Shanks called the woman, and they talked for about an hour, she said. At that time they set up
After meeting at Carlos O'Kelleys on 23rd Street, they went to Clinton Lake, rollerbladed, washed his car and then went back to his apartment at Javawker Towers, she said.
The stories of both victims and of Shanks were similar until the sexual acts occurred.
"I don't even know you," she said after Shanks started massaging her back in his bedroom. "You're making me feel uncomfortable."
Once in the apartment, Shanks invited her into his bedroom to look at family pictures, she testified
everything was consensual.
Shanks said during testimony he too was uncomfortable about the situation so he said he initially stopped the massage. He said he never used force or his size against either woman and
She said Shanks never stopped the massage, even after she began to scream.
During cross examination, the woman said Shanks was always very polite, and she said she did not find him unattractive.
When Mike Warner, Shanks' lawyer, asked the woman if she had ever sat and played Scrabble with the other victim involved in this case, she said no. The statement brought murmurs from people in the audience, including her mother.
"She did play Scrabble with her," her mother whispered to one of the woman's roommates.
After resigning his position with the football team last March, Shanks said he moved back to California and has been working as a coordinator for an emergency supply company in Irvine, Calif.
Shanks will retake the stand at 9 a.m. today.
Brian Vandervliet / KANSAN
Jeffrey Shanks briefly cried while on the witness stand yesterday at the Douglas County District Courtroom.
KU student speeds for NASCAR
Father's encouragement strong desire lead to sport
By Colleen McCain Kansan staff writer
Jennifer Cobb's car caught on fire Saturday.
For Cobb, a race car driver, it was just another day at the track.
Jennifer Cobb's car caught on fire Saturday. "The engine blew up, and my car spun around, but it real-
Cobb has been competing in NASCAR-sanctioned races since July 1991, and although she has seen the dangers of the sport first-hand, Cobb said the risks were worth taking.
Cobb's affinity for racing dates back to her childhood. Cobb's father has competed as a race car driver for the past 18 years, and Cobb said it seemed only natural that she raced too.
"I cracked a vertebra in my neck two months after I started racing, but I never considered quitting," she said. "I just love racing."
"I've been going to the race track since I was three years old," she said. "I've been around racing my whole life, and I've always wanted to race."
Cobb said that when she expressed a desire to race, her father helped to launch her racing career.
"My father rebuilt the Mustang that I race," Cobb said. "He has taught me everything I know about racing."
Cobb spends every weekend between May and September competing in races at Lakeside Speedway in Kansas City, Kan., and at I-70 Speedway in Odessa, Mo. Racers are divided into five classes, based on the types of cars they drive. Cobb competes in the pony stock class.
"My father is going to build me a new car, and I will move up one or two classes by next year," she said. "The class I compete in will be determined by how much money I can invest. You easily can spend up to $50,000 on a car."
Cobb said that a new car would help to advance her racing career. But Cobb's present car, a recent-model Mustang, has served her well. She has competed in 18 races since May, and she has garnered seven first-place finishes and six second-place finishes.
"The way I look at it, 24 people compete in a race, and there is only one winner, but there are 23 losers," Cobb said. "I feel like I have the determination necessary to be the winner."
Cobb said she was determined to make a mark, both for herself and for women in racing. Cobb is one of few women competing in a traditionally male-dominated sport.
Paul Kotz / KANSAN
Jennifer Cobb poses with the essential gear for racecar driving. Cobb has been racing for several years and hopes to turn it into a possible profession.
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Jamie Plesser, live music coordinator for SUA, said that he thought Amos' performance would be appropriate for a KU audience.
Singer and pianist Tori Amos will make the University of Kansas a stop on her world tour, the Student Union Activities office announced yesterday.
Tori Amos schedules concert at the Lied Center
Amos, who is known for being outspoken on feminist issues, will perform at 8 p.m. Sept. 23 in the Lied Center.
"I think it will bring a different perspective to the KU campus,"
he said. "Tori is behind a lot of women's issues, and people who support womens' rights will have a lot of interest in what Tori has to say in her performance."
Plesser said that Amos was expected to have an opening act at the performance, but SUA had not been told who it would be.
Tickets will go on sale at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. They will be available at the SUA box office in the Kansas Union, the Lied Center box office and at all Ticketmaster ticket centers.
By Carlos Tejada Kansan staff writer
Lawrence may be spot for pimp and prostitutes
The University of Kansas: home of top-notch academics, excellent basketball teams and prostitution.
KU students and faculty are no doubt familiar with the first two, but.
.. prostitution? KU and Lawrence police say they know of no recent prostitution activity in the community.
However, the president of an outreach group in Westbrook, Conn., said otherwise this summer.
Frank Barnaba, president of the Paul and Lisa Foundation, spoke in Wichita July 21 at a seminar on exploited children. During his address to the seminar he made his claim: big city pimps come to Lawrence to recruit KU students for prostitution.
Barnaba's group works in New York City with prostitutes to try to get them off the streets. He said his group found 32 prostitutes from Kansas, more than any other state.
Many of them come from the KU campus, he told the Kansan in a July 26 interview.
Barnaba said the information came from a prostitute from Kansas who said her pimp recruited here.
"There is a problem in the state of Kansas," he said. "I don't know why, but pumps have had success there in recruiting prostitutes. There's no panic at the University level, but everyone should be on the lookout."
"She was a prostitute from the Lawrence area who said her 'man' – her pimp – and another man had been in Lawrence as late as this past spring trying to recruit prostitutes," he said.
Pimps recruit prostitutes by fooling them, Barnaba said. He said they go to local restaurants and bars and pose as representatives of modeling agencies.
"They will romanticize you, and you might not know for months they're in the sex business," he said.
"We're not aware of it," said Sgt. Rick Nickell of the Lawrence police. "We have had no indication that that type of thing occurs."
Last week, both KU and Lawrence police said they had not heard of any such activity, although they have been listening for it since the comments were made in July.
Search committee drafts new job description
By James Evans
Kansan staff writer
The chancellor search committee has clarified what qualifications KU's new chancellor must have.
Steve Jordan, executive director of the Board of Regents and member of the search committee, said at Monday's Faculty Convocation that the committee no longer was divided about what kind of candidate they were looking to attract.
"Let me say that every member of the search committee is committed to finding the most qualified individuals possible to be considered for the chancellor," he said.
Jordan said that the committee members had previously been at odds over the specifics of the chancellor's job description.
Because of the committee's conflicting viewpoints about the job description, Jordan composed a draft of new criteria for the position, said T.P. Srinivasan, head of University Council. Srinivasan helped Jordan define the job criteria.
"Reasonable differences of opinion occurred concerning how prescriptive the advertisement should be on the credentials of the candidates for a faculty appointment to an academic unit of the University." Jordan said.
The initial job description, which was drawn up by the Board of Regents, omitted reference to candidates having a commitment to education, Srinivasan said. He said that the Board of Regents didn't realize how the faculty felt about the importance of having academic-minded candidates apply for the position.
At a meeting yesterday, Srinivasan told members of the Faculty Executive Committee about the revised job description. He said that many members of the faculty were in favor of the new job description.
In the current draft of the job description, two academic qualifications are listed, Srinivasan said. They are "commitment to academic excellence" and "eligibility for and willingness to accept a concurrent faculty appointment in an academic unit of the University of Kansas."
"The draft attempts to draw attention to the roles, knowledge, skills and traits desirable in a new chancellor, and in my view, places great emphasis on the academic mission of the institution and the chancellor's responsibilities to that mission," Jordan said.
Daron Bennett / KANSAN
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T. P. Srinivasan, presiding officer of University Council, told the Faculty Executive Committee that he was pleased with the newly drafted job description for chancellor's.
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