NEWS
THURSDAY. AUGUST 18. 2005
2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN INSIDENEWS
A proposal to allow alcohol to be served on campus was rejected Friday. Student Senate is disappointed its effort to bring 3.2 percent beer is a failure. PAGE 1A
No beer in the Union
Parking department implements appeals fee
The KU Parking Department is now assessing a fee to students wishing to appeal their parking fines. PAGE 1A
KU Bookstores change sale guidelines
New sales policies for course pack materials at KU Bookstores could hurt the profit margin of other bookstores in town. PAGE 1A
A sign in front of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity was damaged Sunday morning for the second time in less than three months. PAGE 2A
Fraternity victim of continued vandalism
Young life ends too soon
A month before Matt Yost was to become a Kansas jayhawk, the 18-year-old high school graduate committed suicide. PAGE 3A
Greeks start school by sharing home
A fraternity and sorority are collaborating during recruitment week by sharing living quarters and chores, and found ways to make it work. PAGE 4A
Chalkings encourage KUBS boycott
Messages written in chalk on sidewalks around campus accuse KU Bookstores of unfair employee treatment. PAGE 8A
National Pan-Hellenic Council offers greek alternatives
Greek organizations that are part of NPHC give multicultural students an alternative to traditional fraternity and sorority life. PAGE BA
INSIDEOPINION
Two KU Info workers analyze the University's treatment of one of its longest and most useful programs and traditions. 7A8
Column: Where have you gone, KU Info?
Column: It's cool to be a nerd
Columnist Betsy McLead says it's up to all the nerds, dorks and geeks out there to embrace who they are.  PAGE 7A
INSIDESPORTS
adidas gear trickles into town
The University's athletic merchandise contract with adidas is now in effect and the new gear making it into town for the new school year. PAGE 1B
Special teams gear up for coming football season Coach Mark Mangino looks to sophomore Scott Webb to replace graduated kicker Johnny Beck. PAGE 1B
Kansan sports section will attack on all fronts
Soccer newcomers look to returning players With six new additions to the soccer team this year, KU looks to meet the challenges traditionally faced by young teams. PAGE 1B
The editor and associate sports editor think the latest Terrell Owens drama is a perfect example of different ways media can cover sports. PAGE 1B
Men's golf searches for leadership
Women volleyball newcomers have different skills
Coach Ross Randall will begin his 27th season at Kansas with an optimistic outlook looking to replace Kevin Ward and Andrew Price. PAGE 28
The volleyball team's new faces are taking different approaches to help follow up a successful season. PAGE 28
Coach Mark Mangino says he's pleased with his team's performance as the Jayhawks prepare to kick off a new season. PAGE 3B
Football team wraps up two-a-days
Baylor football preview
in the first of an 11-article series, highlighting the competition Kansas faces in the
Big 12, the Baylor Bears are previewed. PAGE 3B
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Vandalism continues
CRIME
BY STEPHEN LYNN
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KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Tau Kappa Epsilon receives another strike on its letters
For the second time in a little over two months, the sign at Tau Kappa Epsilon, 1111 W. 11th St., bearing the fraternity's greek letters, was damaged early Sunday morning. Specific details on the extent and nature of the damage were not available.
Police found a broken golf club at the crime scene, Sgt. Dan Ward of the Lawrence Police Department said.
It was too early to tell how much it would cost to repair the damaged, $4,300 sign, said Aaron Payne, Garden City sophomore and scholarship chairman for the fraternity. The damaged sign replaced the fraternity's original sign, which was destroyed in June.
Tau Kappa Epsilon's insurance company will cover the cost of the repair, said Alex Plassmeyer, Stilwell junior and president of the fraternity.
versity Daily Kansan, the original sign was installed June 1, 2005, and the next morning was partly knocked off its stone base, which was spray-painted with the Greek letters of Phi Kappa Theta. Members of the now-disbanded Phi Kappa Theta fraternity previously occupied the house. Police have not identified any suspects, Ward said.
According to an article in The Uni-
The recent damage could have been random and not caused by former members of Phi Kappa Theta, Payne said.
Phi Kappa Theta was expelled from campus after police confiscated 16 kegs from an unsanctioned party held Feb. 19, 2005, the article said.
"We don't want to come out in the paper and say it was them," Payne said. "We don't want to burn any bridges."
On May 13, 2005, two other incidents occurred at 1111 W. 11th St. involving former members of Phi Kappa Theta. Police arrested a 22-year-old member for inflicting criminal damage that occurred between 2:30 and 2:59
a. m. and another 22-year-old former member for criminal trespassing that occurred between 3:30 and 3:55 a.m.
According to another article in the Kansan, vandalism that occurred that night included broken ceiling tiles and light fixtures. Matt Moreno, former president of Phi Kappa Theta, had no comment.
When asked if he knew whether a former member of the fraternity committed the crime, Mark Monika, St. Louis junior and former member of the fraternity, said no and that he didn't think the incident would damage the relationship between the former fraternity and Tau Kappa Epsilon.
"Sure it could have been someone in our house, sure it could damage our relationship with TKE," Monika said. "But it doesn't matter because we're not a fraternity anymore."
Payne said police told him they would remain vigilant at night.
BTK
Edited by Anne Burgard
Sedwick County Kansas Sheriff's Detective Thomas E. Lee describes yesterday how BTK serial killer Dennis Rader killed Marine Hedge, one of his 10 victims. Lee testified during the sentencing phase of Radar's murder trial.
Sentencing unveils horrific details
BY MATT SEDENSKY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WICHTITA — As one of Dennis Rader's victims lay dying, tied up and with a plastic bag over the little boy's head, the killer pulled up a chair.
The show had begun.
Bo Rader/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Prosecutors pushing to ensure Rader stays behind bars for the rest of his life portrayed the confessed BTK Strangler on Wednesday as a man driven to take the lead role in fantasies of torturing his victims and a monster eager to have a front-row seat to their grisly final moments.
There was little doubt Rader's sentence would be stiff, but prosecutors want him to be handed a term of at least 175 years without a chance of parole. So they told, in detail, of his crimes.
Detectives testified to the horrific findings at the crime scenes and the unremorseful words of the defendant after his arrest. They looked on as prosecutors showed graphic photographs of victims' bound and tortured bodies. And they outlined Rader's meticulous planning, the way he kept track of his murders and the way he relived them through his souvenirs.
"He doesn't have a heart," said Jeff Davis, son of Dolores Davis, one of Rader's victims. "He doesn't have a soul."
The testimony from those involved in the case gave a glimpse into Rader's world of fantasy.
crimes — projects, he likes to call them — kept coming from the stand.
"It's kind of like in the movies," Rader told police, according to the testimony of one Wichita detective, Timothy Relph. "The boogie man has got you, you ain't going to get out of it. It's all over."
How he dreamed of having a torture chamber, how he recounted his crimes with glee.
All of it seemed to have little effect on Rader, who sat stoic through most of the proceedings, taking notes on a legal pad at times, sipping water at others. He was not handcuffed; he was neatly dressed in a jacket and tie.
The horrifying details of Rader's
And they described the killer's Jekyll-and-Hyde attributes.
He told detectives he gave toys to children locked in a bathroom, and a glass of water to their young mother who he would kill.
For the families of victims, the testimony was not easy to hear.
Carmen Otero, whose parents and two siblings were Rader's first victims
in 1974, clutched an afghan in the courtroom and nervously tapped her foot on the floor through much of the testimony. She was just 13 when she used a fingernail clipper to try to cut the gag off her mother's face.
Such emotion undoubtedly played out throughout the day, in the courtroom and out.
The proceedings, set to continue today, mark the beginning of the end of a very long, disturbing chapter in this city's history.
The 60-year-old Rader — married until recently and a father of two - first killed in 1974, though the murders continued until 1991. It wasn't until February that authorities zeroed in on the church congregation president and Boy Scout leader. He pleaded guilty in June to the murders.
Rader's attorneys sat silent through most of the day, declining to cross-examine those who testified and rarely entering an objection.
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