MONDAY,APRIL 8,1996
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS 864-4810
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
ADVERTISING 864-4358
SECTION A VOL.102 NO.128
(USPS 650-640)
SPORTS
Nebraska sees red - and blue
The No.10 Kansas men's tennis team downed the'Huskers after a slow start. Page 1B
CAMPUS
Reality Walk
KU students and Lawrence residents got a glimpse Saturday of hunger and homelessness in Lawrence.Page 5A
NATION
Unabomber's brother to talk
A news conference will be held today by the family lawyer, but the family will not attend. Page 7A
WORLD
Serbs not cooperating
Reconstruction funds may be held until prisoners are released. Page 6A
WEATHER CLOUDY
High 58°
Low 34°
Weather: Page 2A
INDEX
Opinion ... 4A
Nation/World ... 6A
Features ... 8A
Sports ... 1B
Scoreboard ... 2B
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Thomas to visit campus today
By David Teska Kansan staff writer
Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas will speak about being a judge at 6:30 p.m. today at the Lied Center.
Thomas, who was accused of sexual harassment during his Senate nomination hearings in 1991, will be on campus for three days as a Stephenson Lecturer in Law and Government.
"If people feel strongly about it.
it's up to them to organize and act," she said.
Turnbull said that for her, the issue of Thomas on the bench was personal.
When she worked as a congressional
page, she witnessed some of the Senate hearings and protested his appointment.
Clarence Thomas
Katherine Smith, Beaver Creek, Ohio junior and a member of the Feminist Collective Force, would
not comment on whether any protest activities were planned.
Smith said Thomas' visit to the University wasn't something she felt good about.
"The hearings were in his favor and weren't taken very seriously," she said.
Stephen McAllister, associate professor of law, clerked for Thomas immediately after his appointment to the court in October 1991, and he helped arrange Thomas' trip to the University.
Thomas was appreciative of the help he received after his appointment and was a justice the clerks found they could approach easily.
"If you needed to talk to him, you could pretty much knock on the door and come in," McAllister said.
Tomorrow, Thomas and four other judges will judge the final round in the school's moot court competition. Two teams will present arguments on both sides of a fictional case challenging the federal government's power to seize property purchased with money earned in drug deals.
For the competition, the teams had to prepare to argue both sides of the issue.
Thomas received his law degree from Yale University in 1974. He was assistant secretary for civil rights in the Department of Education from 1981 to 1982, and chairman of the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission from 1982 to 1990. After his nomination by President George Bush to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1991, he was charged with sexual harassment by Anita Hill, a former staff member of his at the department and the commission.
Renee Speicher, Hutchinson graduate student and a coordinator with the Commission on the Status of Woman, said she preferred to look at the positive impact the hearings had on the topic of sexual harassment.
She said it had brought the issue into public debate.
A tie that binds
Lubv Montano-Laurel /KANSAN
Eight women from different cultural backgrounds hug and touch their hands while reciting the last sentence of Another Birth, a poem about women's feelings, loneliness and life. Masoud Delkhah, a KU graduate from Tehran, Iran, is making a video of women reciting this poem for an international festival about women and poetry. The poem was written in 1964 by the Iranian woman poet Forough Farrokhead, Delkhah said. The poem shows how women, regardless of race, language or culture, share the same problems, he said.
Police arrest man in rape of student
By Amy McVey Kansan staff writer
A 20-year-old KU student allegedly was raped Thursday morning at a party by a 21-year-old Johnson County Community College student.
Police arrested Jeffery A. Ballman on a charge of rape Friday.
The victim said that she told friends the next day that she had been raped. After confiding in her friends, the victim went with one friend to the police department to report the rape.
According to police reports, the victim and Ballman were at a party in the 1200 block of Tennessee. The two and others at the party fell asleep in the basement, where Ballman allegedly raped the KU student between 8 a.m. and 11 a.m.
"He was a friend of a friend," the victim said. "It was not a threatening situation. He took advantage of me when I was passed out. By the time I got him off of me he was up, dressed and out quick."
Lawrence police Sgt. George Wheeler said that while the victim
was reporting the rape to police, four of her friends found Ballman and injured him.
The victim said that she didn't know her friends went after Ballman.
The four friends of the victim were arrested on charges of battery.
Wheeler said that Ballman was treated at Lawrence Memorial Hospital for cuts and lacerations. Police then arrested Ballman on the rape charge.
"They were very upset and angry," the victim said.
"Everybody got to go to jail except the victim of the rape," Wheeler said.
Ballman said that he didn't rape anyone and that he didn't know why he was being accused of the rape.
The victim said that she had had no contact with Ballman since she was raped but that he had tried to contact some of her friends.
Ballman was released from the Douglas County Jail Saturday on $20,000 bond. He will appear in front of a judge on April 24.
The price is right for KU student on spring break
Job as Kansas bat girl helps KU sophomore get on TV game show
By R. Adam Ward Kansan staff writer
Amy Ludwig, Haysville sophomore, went to Los Angeles to visit her boyfriend's grandparents and aunt and uncle during spring break.
A KU student's connection with the baseball team helped her win $4,588 worth of prizes on the TV game show *The Price Is Right*.
But she put one condition on going to California with her boyfriend, she said. If they were going to go to California, they had to get tickets to The Price Is Right.
Ludwig has watched the show since she was four months old. and
her parents have a photograph of her doing it to prove it.
So she wrote for tickets in January when they got their plane tickets
Ludwig and her boyfriend, Tim Phenicle, Lenexa senior, arrived at the studio of The Price Is Right at 6:45 a.m. on March 25 to wait for their chance to watch the long-running game show, she said.
The producer of the show interviewed every person in line beginning at 2 p.m., she said. He asked everyone the same question: "What do you do?"
"I said, 'I'm a student at KU and a bat girl for the baseball team,'" Ludwig said. "Tm in California for the first time, and I want to come on the show."
"The producer asked, 'You're a what for the baseball team?' she said. "I said, 'I'm a bat girl.' He asked,
'So you carry bats?' and I said, 'Well, yeah.'
And those were the fateful words that provided her with an opportunity to come on down.
In fact, her name was the first name called for a chance to come down and bid on the random prizes on The Price Is Right.
She bid $1,001 dollars on a love seat and a large container of Centrum Silver Vitamins. She bid the highest amount and was the closest to the actual retail price.
When she got up on stage, Bob Barker, the host of the show, said she could win a cherry wood entertainment center, which came with a 25-inch television, she said. She had to play the range game, which involves a thermometer-like apparatus with prices on it. When the device shows the range of prices the
prize is worth, contestants push a red button to stop it. When she won, she jumped up and down and kissed Barker on the cheek.
But during the showcase showdown, where contestants spin the wheel to see who gets the number closest to $1, she stayed at a spin of 70 cents and was defeated by another contestant.
After the show she called her parents to ask them whether they could pay taxes on $4,588 worth of prizes. Her parents said they could pay the taxes, which included a seven percent California sales tax and a federal tax of about a third of her winnings.
Phenicite, her boyfriend, said he was excited that she got picked but relieved that they didn't pick him to be a contestant. The show will air on April 23 on CBS.
Pam Dishman / KAWAII
Amy Ludwig, Haysville sophomore,
won $4,588 in prizes on the *Price is Right*. The show will air on at 10 a.m.
on April 23 on CBS.
EPA opposition of routes leaves campus groups hoping
By Sarah Morrison Kansan staff writer
The Environmental Protection Agency announced recently that it opposed routing the South Lawrence Trafficway through the wetlands southeast of Lawrence, but campus environmentalists are cautiously optimistic about what the EPA's position means.
Terry Huerter, co-coordinator of KU Environers and Lake Quivira junior, said he would not call the announcement an outright victory.
"It looks like we are winning the battle, but the war is still on," Huerter said. "The South Lawrence Trafficway has been in the works for years, and this is just one more round."
But John Pasley, Douglas County trafficway project manager, said the
In its comments on the project to the Federal Highway Administration, the EPA wrote the proposed 31st Street route was objectionable because of the spiritual significance of the land to students at Haskell Indian Nations University.
position released by the EPA on March 26 was the knockout blow for the proposed 31st and 35th street routes.
"We believe that no matter how well the project impacts are mitigated, they will still inhibit students, faculty, alumni and others from freely worshiping in a manner that is not only unique to Native Americans, but to cultures throughout the world," the letter said.
The EPA also rated the 35th and 38th street routes as objectionable because of the impact they would have on the wetlands.
Pasley said the comments doom the 31st and 35th street routes.
"It is extremely unlikely that we could go with those routes," Pasley said. "If you use federal money for the project, you need the EPA's approval."
Pasley said Douglas County could not build the eastern leg of the trafficway without federal funds.
However, Pasley said the EPA's comments did not completely rule out the 38th Street route, which would still infringe on the wetlands. If the county built the eastern leg on piers, water and wildlife could still move unimpeded throughout the entire wetlands area, he said.
Despite the EPA's concerns, Pasley said Douglas County was still not considering routing the leg south of the Wakarausa River, where it would not affect the wetlands.
Proposed trafficway routes
These are the three proposed routes that Douglas County is considering and why the Environmental Protection Agency objects to them.
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