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Army sergeant convicted of rape in court-martial
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, MD. — A drill instructor was convicted yesterday of raping six female trainees in the most serious case yet to come out of the sex scandal that has rocked the Army.
Staff Sgt. Delmar G. Simpson, 32,
could get life in prison for his conviction
on 18 of 19 rape counts.
The 6-foot-4 soldier stood at attention, facing the judge as the verdicts were read in rapid fire succession by the foreman of the military jury.
Prosecutors said Simpson raped the women while he was a drill sergeant at Aberdeen in 1995 and 1996. Simpson intimidated them with his size, his superior rank and implied threats of harm or punishment, prosecutors said. One trainee said Simpson threatened to kill her if she told about having sex with him.
The jury of three white men, two black men and one white woman, all of superior rank, will decide Simpson's sentence after hearing additional testimony, perhaps next week.
Simpson already has pleaded guilty to having consensual sex with 11 trainees, including five of the rape victims. He could get up to 32 years in prison on those charges and on five sexual-harassment offences he admitted to.
Women's advocates had said that the court-martial would show if the Army is serious about dealing with sexual misconduct.
AIDS vaccine successful in study with two chimps
NEW YORK — An experimental AIDS vaccine made from HIV genes has protected chimpanzees for more than a year in a recent study, raising doctors' hopes that the approach will work in humans.
Two chimps got the vaccine and then a stiff dose of HIV — 250 times the amount needed for infection.
"We're encouraged but cautious," said David B. Weiner, senior author of the study.
It's the first time that a so-called DNA vaccine has squared off against HIV in chimps.
Weiner is an associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He reported the work in the May issue of the journal Nature Medicine.
Preliminary tests in people have begun already to look for side effects and to see how the vaccine affects the body's defenses against disease. No results are available yet.
The work is another step toward developing new concepts for vaccines, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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Terrorists held KU parents
Student's kin experienced attack in Peru
By Sean Demory Kansan staff writer
The recent standoff at the Japanese ambassador's house in Peru, ending in an assault that left 17 dead came close to one KU student.
Luis Yamamoto, Lima, Peru, junior,
returned home at the end of the fall
semester to wait for word about his
parents, who had been captured in
the Dec. 17, 1996, attack by the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement
Yamamoto's mother was among the first hostages released by the terrorists. His father, an official in the Office of National Devel-
Ahmad Revolutionary Movement.
Luls Yamamoto
released in January.
Yamamoto said that he was concerned for his family's safety but that they were no strangers to this kind of event.
"After I found out that they weren't
The Shining Path is a Maoist terrorist organization that has been active in Peru since the early 1970s.
being held by the Shining Path, I was a little more confident," Yamamoto said. "The Shining Path doesn't take hostages."
"Until about four years ago, Peru was basically engaged in a civil war with the Shining Path," said Philip Schrodt, professor of political science. He said that the almost anarchic violence demonstrated by the Shining Path overshadowed some of the less extreme organizations in Peru.
Schrodt said that U.S. perceptions of the Lima hostage situation and its resolution were not what they might have been a few years ago.
"Terrorist attacks aren't exactly unknown in the U.S." he said. "The
victims of the Oklahoma City bombing were the victims of a terrorist attack, and the two people held in Texas probably considered themselves victims of terrorism."
"There hasn't been any big action for the past several years," Yamamoto said. "The economy has gotten stable, but the social change that's the cause of terrorism takes longer than economic changes."
Yamamoto said that his father had spoken to Nestor Cerpa, leader of the terrorists, before his release. The Tupac Amaru's recent actions, he said, were something of an isolated case. Yamamoto said that his father had told him that security had been lessened at the ambassador's house because of a lack of concern on the part of the Peruvians.
Contact with other hostages was allowed through the Red Cross, Yamamoto said, and many people expected an attack, rather than an accord between the Tupac Amaru and the government.
"Everybody was hoping for an agreement, but there was a lot of noise that they were prepping a rescue," he said.
Schrodt said that the Peruvian government's path is relatively clear.
"What the government should do is look at the demands of this group and see which ones are reasonable, so as to eliminate future terrorist action."
The long march home
"The fact that these people committed an illegal act doesn't mean that their demands were unreasonable or that they are lacking in public support," Schrodt said.
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Law students walk up hill to commemorate ancestors
Kansas law students gather in front of Lippincott Hall to hear retired professor Paul Wilson speak. The students marched from Green Hall to Lippincott. The march has been a tradition for the last 20 years.
Trek remembers old Green Hall ends at Wheel
Since the spring semester of 1978, law students, led by a law professor, have walked from Green Hall to Lippincott Hall to pay homage to the building that housed KU's first law school and the statue of its first dean.
By Ann Premer Special to the Kansan
"It's kind of a whimsical thing," said Paul Wilson, retired professor of law. "We do it on the last day of classes. The students are carefree."
This year's walk started with Stephen McAllister and Martin Dickinson, both professors of law, receiving the Moreau Award, an award students give to professors in appreciation of their services.
Dickinson led the students up the hill and carried Jimmy Green's cane, who was the first dean of the law school.
The walk ended at the Wheel, a popular hang-out for former law students.
The tradition of walking up the hill to Lippincott Hall was started by the class of 1978, who wanted to return to Old Green Hall where they had spent most of their law school careers.
"The they had some fondness for the old building, and they asked me to go back with them." Wilson said. "They enjoyed it, so we decided to go back the next spring. I called it a sentimental journey."
"It provides a sense of history — a link to the old days when Green Hall was up here," said Michelle Gustin, Sioux Falls, S.D., second-year law student.
the building on Jayhawk Boulevard was dedicated as Green Hall in 1905 and remained there until a new building was finished and the school was moved to its present location on 15th Street in 1977.
Dickinson, dean of the law school when it moved, said that the new building was needed because of the increased size of the law school.
"I called it a sentimental journey."
Paul Wilson retired KU professor of law
"It was intensely crowded and not air conditioned," Dickinson said. "It was a hard building to teach in."
When the law school moved, the statue of an engineering student and James Wood Green, dean and professor of the school from 1878 to 1919, remained because the building had been placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Having that designation does not allow buildings or their immediate environments to be disturbed without the consent of the secretary of the National Register, Wilson said.
Even though the concrete was laid at the new law school location and arrangements were
made for the removal of the statue, the National Register denied the removal request from the law school.
Court proceedings ensued, but the fate of the statue was sealed on Jayhawk Boulevard.
"His commitment was to the law students not to a building," Wilson said. "That was his strength. He was a friend to the students."
Wilson said that the students in the 1920s wanted to have a permanent reminder of Green, so they contacted Daniel Chester French, who had just finished sculpting the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
French's first impulse was to decline but, after visiting with law school alumni, he was so taken with their fondness of Green that he agreed to create the statue, Wilson said.
The statue cost $45,000 and was paid for by funds collected by the University after World War I.
The concrete platform that was meant for Green's statue still stands empty on the north end of Green Hall.
New mentor program to start in fall
Support extended to LesbigayTrans students
By Umut Bayramoglu Kansan staff writer
The Student Assistance Center will coordinate a mentoring program between faculty members and queer students on campus.
Next fall, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered students at the University of Kansas will have a new resource to rely on for support and advising.
Scott Manning, Lawrence graduate student and LesbigeyTrans Liaison at the SAC said that the main purpose of the program was to address the issue of student retention.
Issues such as homophobia and heterosexism on campus, Manning said, lead to students dropping out of college. Mentoring might be one way to avoid that.
"This will be a chance for LGBT students to just have a professor who can talk to them about being out and help them get integrated into the system," he said.
Bill Coner, assistant professor of Slavic languages said that he volunteered for the mentoring program to let students know that they were not alone on campus.
Manning said that eight faculty members have offered to volunteer for the mentorship program.
"As mentors with a friendly, opendoor policy, we can help them find the different options they have as resources." he said.
"I think it's good for the students to see successful people similar to them, that have been through the experiences they are going through now," he said.
Allen Omoto, assistant professor of psychology who will serve as a mentor, said that faculty also could act as role models for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered students.
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