4A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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THURSDAY. AUGUST 18,2005
Fraternity and sorority share home, chores
BY LOUIS MORA
lmora@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
The women of Alpha Gamma Delta have taken over the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house, 1301 West Campus Road, for recruitment this week while their house undergoes construction.
With so many people in the house and restrictions for women during recruitment week, the situation has created a different experience for the men of the fraternity.
The women started using the fraternity house Aug. 7 and will leave tomorrow.
"It's been a little noisy and pretty chaotic with everybody
moving in and all the commotion around the house," Bryson Stamm, Sigma Alpha Epsilon president, said.
Women involved in recruitment week are told not to socialize with men.
To maintain the tradition, the sorority has taken precautions to prevent the men from interacting with the women.
They have blocked off certain areas of the house and are using sheets as barriers to keep the men separated from the freshman women. Stamm said.
The women are using the first floor, basement and kitchen of the fraternity.
Alpha Gamma Delta approached the men of the fraternity to use their house for
two weeks while the women work on the recruitment process.
Debbie Pitts, chapter adviser, said the men agreed to the contract and that no money was involved.
The women take over the lower levels for most of the day, and that limits the areas where the men may go. They may still go out to the backyard and use the stairs, but they must remain careful of where they enter.
"They have done it out of the kindness of their hearts," Pitts said.
The restricted areas have put a hold on some outside chores because the women conduct several activities on the front lawn.
"It's kind of put a damper on our workweek activities, like cleaning up the yard," Stamm said.
Outdoor chores may be a problem, but it hasn't stopped the men from getting other chores completed.
The men can do chores and keep busy even if it means staying on the top floors, said Mike Zamora, Olathe junior.
"There is plenty of room on the second and third floors, and we're getting our daily chores done and everything we need to get done to get school started," he said.
Pitts said sharing the house had gone better than expected.
"You plan for the worst and hope for the best," Pitts said.
"The men have been fantastic."
The men also benefited when the women made cookies and pitched in to complete some of the chores.
Eric Trompeter, Atchison junior, said the women cleaned their rooms and the bathroom floor.
Zamora credits the smooth transition to the working relationship established by the two Greek houses.
"We have really communicated very well," he said. "Everybody is real flexible about everything. We're just glad to help out Alpha Gamma Delta and help come together for something other than just a big party."
The men said that the fraternity was not only helping the sorority, but also helping build a stronger relationship with the women of Alpha Gamma Delta.
"We all kind of see it as a good way to get in touch with the girls and also to help them out." Trompeter said.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon hopes the help provided this week will strengthen the fraternity's reputation and resonate throughout the Greek community.
"We've had a bad reputation in the past, so we're trying to show we've changed around here and get more involved in the greek community and help out," Trompeter said.
Edited by Tricia Masenthin
Back to school we go
Roesland Elementary School student Jonathan McMillin, right, a second-grader, peers out the bus window after arriving Tuesday at Somerset Elementary School in Prairie Village on the first day of school. Roesland students will attend school at Somerset for the next two years while a new school is built in Roeland Park.
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Nebraska man arraigned for impregnating 14-year-old
BY KEVIN O'HANLON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FALLS CITY, Neb. — The conflicting worlds of Matthew Koso collided yesterday inside a tiny Richardson County courtroom.
In one world, Koso is an ordinary 22-year-old factory worker who goes home each night to his wife, who is expecting their first child in less than a month.
In the other, Koso faces rape charges after impregnating and then marrying the now 14-year-old girl.
Koso did not say a word as Richardson County Judge Curtis Maschman set his arraignment in district court for Aug. 30 — two days after his wife is due to give birth.
The Associated Press is not naming the girl.
Koso's mother, Peggy, and older brother, Nick, sat in the
courtroom during the hearing. His wife was not present. She started school yesterday morning at Falls City High School, where she is freshman.
"That is her primary job — finishing school," Peggy Koso said. "She just wishes all of this would go away so they could get on with their lives."
After the girl became pregnant, her mother gave permission in May for Koso to take her daughter to Kansas, which allows minors to get married with parental consent.
Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning has charged Koso with first-degree sexual assault, punishable by up to 50 years in prison.
A Falls City Police investigator testified that the case began last May when the state Health and Human Services system asked the department to look
into a report that the girl might be pregnant.
Bruning said earlier that Koso is a friend of the girl's half brother and began a relationship with her when she was 12.
Nebraska requires people to be at least 17 before they can marry.
Kansas does not have a minimum age restriction on marriage as long as both parents or guardians approve or it is approved by a district court judge, said Whitney Watson, spokesman for Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline.
If only one parent approves, the judge must approve, as well.
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said yesterday she was asking legislators to establish a minimum age for marriage.'
She said the age should be 16,17 or 18,"so we don't, after the fact, cover up abuse of children."
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