THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.115 ISSUE 144
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CRIME
MONDAY,MAY2,2005
Mizzou looks into scuffle
BY JOSHUA BICKEL
jbickel@kansan.com
KANSAST WSRT WRITE
Officials from the University of Missouri are investigating a KU student's complaint against MU police chief Jack Watring.
The report claims that Watring assaulted Chris Kaufman, Denver senior, during the March 9 men's basketball game at Missouri.
"They wanted to get our perspective on the things that happened," said Littrell, Lee's Summit, Mo., junior.
Rich Littrell, a witness in the investigation, said Lisa Wimmenauer, assistant director of business services at MU, interviewed him Thursday at the University of Kansas.
During the interview, Wimmenauer asked for the students' sides of the story and had them demonstrate physically what happened by acting it out, said Chris Green, another witness.
"We drew diagrams so that she could get an idea of the setting and layout," said Green, a KU alumnus.
Green also brought the sign that sparked the incident so that Wimmenauer could physically see it. he said.
In the complaint, Kaufman accused Watring of assaulting him after he refused to take down the sign.
Written on the sign was a statement that said Mizzou Arena was "Allen Fieldhouse East."
Kautman said in a written statement that Watring grabbed him by the collar after Kaufman tried to take the sign back.
Andrew Wymore, a KU alumnus, was ejected from the game during the incident and then arrested for trespassing after he bought another ticket into the game.
Mary Jo Banken, director of the MU News Bureau, declined comment about the situation and said a statement would not be released until the investigation is complete.
Wimmenauer could not be reached for comment.
Wimmenauer had told Green during the interview that she had spoken with other witnesses who gave the same version of the story as he and his friends had. Green said.
Wimmenauer told him that more people had come forward as witnesses after news spread throughout Columbia, Mo.
"it's 100 percent true," Green said. He said that Wimmenauer told Green and his friends that that there was no variation in other witnesses' accounts of the incident.
Aside from punishment, Watring should give us a public apology. Green said.
"Not only to us," he added. "But to anyone wearing blue that day."
The University of Missouri Police Department could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Edited by Jesse Truesdale
PROFILE
I yell and do all of that stuff and people are like 'Oh he is fish' But they weren't saying that when I was making shots
Following a disappointing sophomore year, J.R. Giddens is taking a more serious approach to next season. This offseason is the first he has been healthy and able to work out, and he plans on making the most of it by working out and concentrating on his outside shot.
From freshman fame to sophomore slump J.R. Giddens is ready for redemption
fresh off an offseason weight-lifting session, J.R. Giddens has one thing on his mind.
"Man, I am starving," Giddens saeve
Miranda Lenning ♦ Kansan senior sportswriter
"Man, I am starving," Giddens says. The 6-foot-five 200-pound sophomore guard is healthy for the first offseason of his college career, and he intends to use every second of it to improve his game. One of his summer goals: get stronger.
On the way there, Giddens can't stop talking about the afternoon's workout. Like they've done
"Where do you all want to eat," Giddens demands impatiently. "I could eat anywhere, I'm so hungry."
As he always does, Giddens suggests McDonald's. He will not often turn down a double cheeseburger and a milkshake. But on this Wednesday afternoon, his dinner companions choose Subway.
almost every day since the conclusion of the season, Giddens and some of his teammates played three-on-three after lifting weights.
He loves three-on-three. He likes the emptiness of Allen Fieldhouse when it is just him and his teammates showcasing their athleticism and raw talent.
Giddens describes one play where he and freshman guard Russell Robinson executed a perfect two-on-one play. Robinson beat a defender in transition and threw an ally-oop pass to Giddens on the opposite end.
Slain!
"We were out there running and playing fast, Giddens said. "We are going to be so fast next year
Although next year's Jayhawks will look entirely different than this year's senior-led squad, Giddens talks about the 2005-06 Jayhawks with excitement.
He could easily be the leader of that team. As a junior on a team with 11 freshmen and sophomores, Giddens knows there will be room for leadership. He also knows he has to prove to his teammates that he is capable of that role. Leadership has to be earned. This year's group of seniors, for example, spent three seasons training to be leaders
Albert Johnson, athletics assistant at Texas A&M, coached Giddens his sophomore and junior years in high school. Johnson was his coach at John Marshall High School and coach of his AAU team, Athletes First.
But next year, there is not an inherent leader or group of leaders. So Giddens wants to lead by example.
SEE GIDDENS ON PAGE 4A
LAWRENCE
Kansas Taylor, Johnson County Community College sophomore, relaxes in between customers for his Kansas' Barbecue Sauce stand and his mother's soap stand at the Farmers' Market, 1000 block of Vermont Street, early Saturday morning. He has sold his sauce there for three years
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Saturday was the opening day of the Lawrence Farmers' Market. About 6 a.m. more than 30 local Kansas vendors lined their pickup trucks and mini-vans along half of the 1000 block of Vermont Street.
Market supplies rarities
BY NATE KARLIN
nklarin@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Mayor Boog Highberger rang the opening bell at 6:30 a.m.
From flowers to meats to cookies, the market attracted a variety of customers that day.
into a family event. Fathers pushed and pulled their children in strollers and little red wagons. The majority of the of customers have attended the Farmers' Market for years.
Matt Richard, 1999 School of Law graduate, and his wife, Jennifer, went to the market to buy bison meat, which they both tried for the first time at last year's market. Richard said he couldn't find the meat anywhere else in Lawrence.
The market was also turned
Not only does he find bison meat at the market, but he gets to support the community and
the Kansas economy, he said.
Don Gibbs supplied the Richards with the hard-to-find meat. For the fifth straight year, Gibbs has come from Overbrook to sell bison meat from the Lone Star Lake Bison Ranch & Meat Sales.
He said the market offered fresher products than supermarket chains.
"You know where its coming from," he said. "It's the stuff that hasn't been thawed out and frozen and thawed out and
SEE MARKET ON PAGE 2A
Sk8 or die
Lawrence skateboarders can now buy their equipment in town. Midwest Skateboarding, 836 Iowa St., is the only skate shop in Lawrence. The shop fills the void left when Let It Ride closed less than a year ago. PAGE 2A
Classroom time cut for added game
Baseball team defeats Kansas State Wildcats The Jayhawks bounced back from a 0-7 defeat in Manhattan Friday night to win the series 2-1. A Wildcat error gave Van Slyke a homerun. PAGE 1B
Classroom time cut for ducas game Columnist Ryan Colaianni says the NCAA and university presidents say one thing and do another. If the groups want to add a 12th football game they should revise the playoff system, he said. PAGE 1B
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