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A matter of interpretation
Kim Bates depends on a love of learning, faith and teamwork as KU's interpreter coordinator
BY ELLIOT KORT ekort@kansan.com
Kim Bates takes her seat at the front of the Green Hall auditorium. Scanning the room, she locks eyes with second-year law student Ryan Schwarzenberger. When Dennis Prater starts his evidence
lecture, Kim's hands glide up and down to convert what comes out of Prater's mouth into a silent sequence of symbolic gestures that most can identity — if not understand — as sign language.
For every word Prater, Connell Teaching Professor of Law, says, Bates reacts. If students ask a question, she immediately pivots in her seat, turning toward the professor as if asking it herself. Her face — framed by her bob of auburn hair — rises and falls with the rhythm of speech.
She translates his emphatic, gravelly voice, signing so forcefully that when her hands connect they can be heard from across the room.
Although the other 25 students are focused on the professor, Ryan is completely engrossed in the movement of her
Kim is a sign language interpreter, the University's interpreter coordinator, and one of only a handful of signers deaf KU students can rely on to make the world of academic sounds accessible to them. She's had to become an expert in near countless subjects in order to provide accurate interpretation for her students.
hands. For him, Kim is a lifeline, the only person in the room capable of translating the day's lesson into terms he can understand.
-all the while using the skills she learned in drama classes to go beyond mere words
And because the number of interpreters is small, Kim's work extends beyond campus. She's delivered bad news in emergency rooms, interpreted for former president Bill Clinton when he came to KU in May of 2004, and interpreted at funerals
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Dorm suspect turns himself in
BY ELLIOT METZ emetzkansan.com
Samuel Lennell Moore, a suspect in Friday afternoon's investigation at McCollum Hall, turned himself in to KU police Sunday afternoon, Moore, 20, of Kansas City, Kan., turned himself in after University Relations released his name.
KU spokesperson fill less said Moore, who is not a KU student, was being held on one
new charge of criminal trespass, as well as three outstanding warrants for failure to appear in court. His previous charges
include theft and criminal trespassing.
The original description of the suspect on Friday was incorrect, Jess said in a news release Saturday. Police said the false description had been invented by a couple involved in a domestic dispute that resulted in the gun threat.
Police responded to a call from McCollum Hall at 1:55 p.m. Friday after a student reported hearing a man and woman arguing in an adjacent room and the man yelling "Where's my gun? Where's my gun?"
Police questioned the woman in the room where the incident occurred. The woman provided a false statement that an armed man had attacked her. She also gave a false description of the man, police said.
Moore, who was actually the man involved in the reported argument, told police he had been visiting a friend and intervened to protect the woman. According to police, he also provided a false description of the attacker. Moore was the first to
tell police he had seen a gun.
University officials said in a press release that KU police would present a report to the Douglas County District Attorney's office for possible prosecution. The woman, a KU student, will face student housing and non-academic misconduct disciplinary hearings.
Elsa Pageler, a freshman from Lenexa, said she heard the disturbance in the room next to hers, where a couple was arguing about money. She heard a male asking where his gun was. She said she was worried so she went downstairs and told a resident assistant, who called the police.
Pageler said she was surprised by the police and University response, which she thought was excessive.
"They've been dating for awhile," she said. "I don't think he would actually shot his girlfriend. I think he probably wanted it to be intimidating.
University Relations has not released any additional information about the case. Check back with Kansan.com for updates.
No shots were fired and no injuries occurred.
Officers with the KU Office of Public Safety, the Lawrence Police Department and Kansas State Troopers were all on scene on Daisy Hill. About 100 people stood in the lawn near the dorm's parking lot. Police and emergency workers set a medical staging area near the Lied Center in case of injuries. They completed a room by room search of McCollum Hall looking for the man. KU Police kept the University community informed with campus-wide alerts sent over KU's public address system.
Erin Brown, Allison Cumbow and Zach Getz contributed to the reporting of this story
— Edited by Becky Howlett
ATHLETICS
More resign as ticket investigations continue
BY JAYSON JENKS
jjenks@kansan.com
Two more employees of Kansas' ticket office have resigned, Kansas Athletics announced Friday.
Brandon Simmons, assistant athletics director for sales and marketing, and Jason Jeffries, assistant director of ticket operations, both resigned amidst an investigation into potentially illegal sales of men's basketball tickets.
Two employees of Kansas Athletics with ties to ticket sales had previously resigned in the past month.
Rodney Jones, an assistant athletics director for the
Williams Fund, resigned two weeks ago after being placed on administrative leave.
Ben Kirtland, associate athletics director of fundraising and Jones' supervisor, resigned April 5.
Simmons, who joined Kansas' staff in 2005, previously served as an assistant director in Kansas Athletics' ticket office. He had worked in the ticket office until assuming his current position in December.
Jeffries, who had served in his position since 2004, had been part of the ticket-office staff since 2003.
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