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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, April 12, 1996
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KU students gather to pray for the dead
Jerel Harris / KANSAN
Native-American remains at Fraser anger descendants
By Susanna Löof
Kansan staff writer
Silence rested over the lawn in front of Fraser Hall at noon yesterday.
A circle of 22 people, many of them Native Americans, sat on the grass and prayed for the remains of Native Americans who have been stored in cardboard boxes in Fraser Hall.
"We prayed for those old ones to help them out on their journey to the other side," said Terry Brockie, Fort Belkamp, Mont., junior.
The hour-long ceremony included prayers by Henrietta Mann, Cheyenne Elder and professor at the University of Montana at Missoula. Part of the prayer was directed to this and future generations.
"Give them strength to continue to manifest their great love for their ancestors," Mann said. "Give them strength to see that they are returned, that they are treated with the respect that is theirs."
Carol Burns, Roeland Park junior, was one of the initiators of the ceremony.
She said she found out about the remains in October when the ancestors talked to her.
"They spoke to me and told me that they were here," she said.
She said that when she actually saw the remains, shattered bones sitting in cardboard boxes, she was angered.
"It hurts very deeply to see this happening to my people," she said.
The Native-American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, which was passed Nov. 16, 1900, required institutions receiving federal funds to inventory all their Native-American human remains and certain artifacts within five years.
Institutions then had to send inventories to all tribal entities affiliated with the artifacts and remains. According to the law, tribes are entitled to any items with which they are affiliated.
The University of Kansas, which
Henrietta Mann, Cheyenne Elder and professor at the University of Montana at Missoula, and Terry Brooke, Fort Bellkamp, Mont., junior, prepare
has bones from 219 individuals, received permission to extend the deadline to April 30. Late directions about how to do the inventory and limited funding caused the delays, said Al Johnson, director of the Museum of Anthropology.
Johnson said the bones dated from 5,000 years ago to the 19th century. They have been stored in Fraser Hall and moved between the Museum of Anthropology and Fraser Hall during the inventory. The inventory now is completed, and the bones were moved earlier this week, but Johnson did not reveal where the remains had been moved because of security reasons.
"We don't want to endanger the remains," he said. "They have been moved to a new location where they are more secure and accessible to
a traditional pipe for smoking yesterday in front of Fraser Hall. About 22 people participated in yesterday's event.
appropriate American Indians."
The next step in the process is to contact the tribes that are related to the remains, Johnson said.
Burns said she no longer was angry, although she thinks the University should have been faster in returning the remains.
"I don't hate these people," she said of the anthropologists. "But I don't like what they're doing for a living. I can only feel sorry for them and pray for them."
Burns spent several hours praying yesterday in the vicinity of Fraser Hall. She said the praying ritual was positive.
"I feel like all this is working for the betterment," she said. "It's for the good. I know that in the spirit world, they know that we are taking care of them."
Senator discusses policy
Kassebaum speaks on changing world
By David Teska
Kansan staff writer
Sen. Nancy Kassebaum told an audience of about 1,100 last night at the Lied Center that we pay a price when we criticize government institutions.
As the next century approaches, technology will play a bigger and bigger role in the lives of people, said Kassebaum, who will retire at the end of her term in the Senate.
"We are in the middle of a technology revolution, and it's transforming our lives," she said. "The
"If we continue to denigrate them, it only adds to the cynicism people feel about government." she said. "We may agree and we may disagree — that's the way it should be."
Billed A Washington Update, the Republican senator chose to deviate from the announced topic and discuss her own views on issues being debated in Congress such as the budget, foreign and domestic policy and the changing world we live in.
next generation is going to have to know this technology."
Kassebaum stressed that Americans and Kansans can't ignore that they live and work in a world economy where the products they produce, such as airplanes, wheat and beef, are sold on world markets.
"Domestic and foreign policy must be linked," she said.
She followed that point by cautioning that the United States must work with its allies to accomplish goals important to both, and that it can't solve the world's problems alone.
"We can't be the world's police-man or the world's nanny," she said.
At the end of the speech, Kassebaum took questions from the audience on topics ranging from the United Nations, legalization of marijuana, abortion, and gay and lesbian marriages.
Hari Paramesh, Larned senior, asked Kassebaum why she had voted for legislation that allowed Pakistan to buy weapons from the United States.
Kassebaum responded that both countries needed to work together to solve their regional
Brian Hott / KANSAN
Sen. Nancy Kassebaum receives a gift from Thomas Sarowki, dean of the School of Business, last night at the Lied Center.
problems, starting with agreeing not to spread nuclear weapons.
At a reception following the speech, Amy Triplett, Wichita junior, said she appreciated Kassebaum's frankness in discussing her views on controversial issues such as abortion.
"She didn't try to hide what she was feeling," Triplett said. "I thought she was really honest."
Bowman guilty of mistake
By Jason Strait
Kansan staff writer
Samantha Bowman, Voice coalition vice presidential candidate, said she was found guilty of misleading the elections commission in connection with a Vision coalition banner that was stolen last week.
Bowman, who was defeated last night, said she had been cleared of any connection with the stolen banner and that she was not present at the incident.
Bowman said she now had to write a letter of apology to the Vision coalition and the elections commission. She also must purchase a new banner for the elections commission in excess of $150.
"I still maintain that I had nothing to do with the banner being stolen," she said. "But I'm still sorry about it. It was something that shouldn't have happened."
"It's money that I don't have," she said. "I now have to pay for a mistake that was made. Unfortunately I've been accused of making that mistake. But someone has to pay for it."
Bowman said she seriously was considering appealing the commission's decision if her reputation continued to be ruined in the media. If she does appeal, the conditions of the commission's decision would be suspended until the appeal was heard.
Brady Cantrell, Dallas third-year law student and chairman of the elections commission, said that he had no comment about the results of the elections commission's hearing, which was held Wednesday night.
Business manager and editor positions at Kansan selected
Kansan staff report
The University Daily Kansan editor and business manager positions for Summer 1996 and Fall 1996 have been chosen.
Sarah Wiese, Overland Park senior, will be the editor for the summer Kansan, and Amanda Traugher, Overland Park senior, will be the Kansan's fall editor. T.J. Clark, Ulyses senior, will be the Kansan's business manager for Summer 1996. Karen Gersch, Oswego, Ill., senior, will be business manager in the fall.
The editor and business manager are chosen by the Kansan board, a six member committee that includes the present editor and business manager, a Student Senate representative and three journalism faculty members. The editors and business managers will assemble their staffs in the next two weeks.
KU students' OUIs increase despite drop in overall crime
Kansan staff writer
By Amy McVey
Although the overall crime committed at the University of Kansas has dropped by 5.7 percent since 1994, the numbers of burglaries, thefts, drug and alcohol violations and rapes have increased on campus, according to a recent criminal statistics report released by KU police.
The report, released annually for more than 20 years by KU police to provide information on campus crime, shows property crimes to be the chart topper.
With 585 total thefts on campus in 1995, compared to 629 total thefts in 1994, campus thefts have decreased. But picking pockets, purse snatching, shoplifting and thefts from motor vehicles have increased.
KU police Sgt. Chris Keary said that there were 188 reported thefts from motor vehicles on campus in 1995, compared to 180 motor vehicle thefts in 1994 and 109 motor vehicle thefts in 1993.
"It shows in the numbers that the biggest number of crimes comes from property crimes," he said.
And although total thefts from buildings on campus dropped from 297 in 1994 to 260 in 1995, Keary has seen a rise in computer thefts.
"We've had an increase in the theft of computer parts," he said. "As the University gets more computers on campus, the opportunity to steal gets greater and greater."
Rapes increased from three reported in 1994 to four reported in 1995, but sexual battery decreased from two in 1994 to one in 1996.
But Keary said these numbers weren't accurate because most raps weren't reported.
The greatest crime increase on campus was the number of people arrested for operating a vehicle under the influence, Keary said. In 1995 the number of arrests for operating under the influence totaled 151, compared to 37 arrests in 1994.
Keary said that there probably weren't more people drinking and driving in 1995 than in 1994, but that police have just gotten better at spotting an intoxicated driver.
Shelly Wachter, Topeka junior and president of Promote Alcohol Responsibility Through You, said she was
surprised at the increase of arrests for operating under the influence.
"It's kind of shocking." she said. "I don't know why there would be an increase."
Wachter said that the number of arrests showed people weren't being responsible enough.
"They need to consider Safe Ride as a better option," she said. "And they need to be a little more responsible. They're dealing with a life."
Keary said that police were pleased in the decrease of criminal damage to property on campus in 1995. Criminal damage to University property has decreased from 297 reported damages in 1994 to 260 reported damages in 1995.
"It's good to see that that has gone down," he said. "People are doing a better job caring about where they live and go to school."
Keary said that the student's watchful eye could help decrease the number of crimes committed on campus.
"Students can help by watching out for their own belongings and by reporting suspicious activity," he said.
Rap sheet
While the number of crimes on campus has remained relatively constant, reports of operating under the influence have risen more than 300%.
Andy Rohrhack/KANSAN
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