4A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
KANSAS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2005
Father relives death
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OLATHE — The father of a teenager whose killing captivated the community said Thursday he felt like he was reliving his daughter's death after a judge bound her alleged killer over for trial.
"It just takes you right back to the first," Roger Kemp said in a phone interview Thursday night after hearing Benjamin Appleby's taped admission during the second day of the preliminary hearing.
Earlier in the day District Judge Steve Leben ordered Appleby, 30, of Bantam, Conn., to stand trial on charges of capital murder and attempted rape in the June 2002 killing of Ali Kemp, who was 19.
Appleby was arrested more than two years later in November 2004 in Connecticut, where he was living under an alias.
Among the witnesses testifying Wednesday was Roger Kemp, who told the court about finding his daughter's battered body in the pump room of a Leawood swimming pool. She was working there
After the killing, Roger Kemp helped set up a $50,000 reward fund, got billboards put up around the Kansas City area seeking information on his daughter's killer and bought advertisements in USA Today. Her case also was the subject of "America's Most Wanted" segments, and never fully faded from the public eye.
after finishing her freshman year at Kansas State University.
"I can see it all how it unfolded," he said. "It was a very tough day."
Bringing his daughter's killer to justice was his goal, but he was emotionally exhausted as the process got under way.
Earlier this month, Leben rejected defense attorneys' efforts to have Appleby's taped statement describing the crime disallowed. Appleby had a small pool-cleaning business in the region at the time Kemp was killed, and said he occasionally stopped at pools looking for work.
Also Thursday, a pathologist testified that the likely cause of
After the killing, Roger Kemp helped set up a $50,000 reward fund, got billboards put up around the Kansas City area seeking information on his daughter's killer and bought advertisements in USA Today. Her case also was the subject of "America's Most Wanted" segments, and never fully faded from the public eye.
death was strangulation, though other injuries could have caused her death.
"At least the ball is rolling," Roger Kemp said. "We're taking one step at a time. It's starting to happen."
Funds
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Work has already begun on Murphy Hall, but further improvements are needed, said Steve Hedden, dean of the School of Fine Arts. A price has not been set.
He said that the University has made other renovations the building needed but that private funds would have to be used
to improve Swarthout Recital Hall.
The University renovated Murphy's choral rehearsal room and 15 practice rooms.
Hedden said the University was planned to renovate a large portion of the practice rooms in the summer of 2006. Murphy has not been renovated since it was been built in 1957.
science building for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences was at the top of the University's list. But this is not the easiest goal when the building would cost an estimated $75 to $100 million.
The University is also looking for funds to build the new Multicultural Resource Center and library annex.
Steeples said building a new
— Edited by Erin Wisdom
Ethics
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The University brought May to campus this summer to strengthen the programs that the center offers.
Besides ethics classes, the School of Business also relies on its International Center for Ethics to educate students. The center's mission statement says the center was established "to promote individual and corporate integrity through research, teaching, and training."
Part of the center's efforts to promote ethical decision-making in business is the annual Sutton Lecture Series that brings speakers in the business field to campus. In addition, the center facilitates a student honor system established in 1990, which was revised this year.
Susan Gianairs, Wichita senior, said she was satisfied with the School of Business' handling of teaching business students ethics.
"They give us a heads up on what will get us in trouble or not," Gianairs said.
- Edited by Patrick Ross
Oh, what a beautiful day
Valley Falls junior Joe Kearns walks home from class yesterday afternoon near 14th and Alumni place. Thursday's weather was cool with a low of 44 degrees. Today's forecast is predicted to be 76 degrees for the high and 58 degrees for the low.
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