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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2008
NEWS
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》 LAWRENCE
Student reports rape at Lorimar Town Home
BY FRANCESCA CHAMBERS
fchambers@kansan.com
On Saturday an unidentified man entered a Lorimar Town Home and reportedly raped a 20-year-old female KU student.
According to a Lawrence Police Department media release, the sexual assault occurred about
occurred about
3:30 a.m. and the suspect's whereabouts were unknown.
The attack was the fifth in what the media release said could be a series, and it was the second rape that occurred
in Lawrence this month. The police department is encouraging women to take preventative measures including planning escape routes from their residences in case of an attack.
The media release said that in each of the cases that could be a part of a series, the suspect was described as a slim, white man between the ages of 25 and 40 and between 5-feet-9 inches and 6 feet tall. He was also said to be armed with a weapon and entered the apartments between 3 and 4 a.m.
The suspect was described as a slim, white man between the ages of 25 and 40 and between 5 feet 9 inches and 6 feet tall.
On June 13, 2006 an unidentified man entered a residence in central Lawrence and sexually assaulted a 21-year-old woman. On December 29, 2004 an unidentified man entered a north central
residence and raped two females, ages 19 and 20. On July 14, 2004 an unidentified male entered a residence in southwest Lawrence and raped a KU student.
Kim Murphree, of the Lawrence Police Department, said the department could not release any further information regarding the motives or evidence involved in
the attacks. She said Kansas law prohibits the release of any information that might identify the victim of a sexual crime. Lorimar Town Homes refused to comment on the incident.
who is a resident of Lorimar Town Homes, 3801 Clinton Parkway, and did not want to be named because of the circumstances of the crime, said she stayed at a friend's house the night the rape occurred. She said that when she returned home the next day, she was still questioned by the police. She said the police wanted to make sure residents did not know the rapist.
The student said the police would not give her any information about the rape,but she said she thought the man broke in because the officer who interviewed her said that she and her roommates should look out for each other.
tion. She said it looked through residents' trash and dug up suspicious-looking footprints.
She said the police department was very thorough in its investiga-
The student said the severity of the crime did not hit her until she noticed that police had flagged
footprints near her back door, which she said was in major need of repair.
"It was like CSI, but too real," the student said. "Like something you see on TV but you don't want to happen to you."
"I think that was the most eerie feeling - to come home that night still not knowing what happened."
Lauren Punch, Eden Prairie, Minn., sophomore, said she was nervous about a rapist being on the loose because she knew
ist. She said she would no longer walk to her car alone at night.
KU STUDENT
Resident of Lorimar Town Homes
The student also said she thought the FBI was involved. She said police department vehicles and a white trailer were parked at the complexes from the time the crime was reported until she and her roommates left at 9:30 p.m. the following evening. She said that when they returned, the police were gone and everything was cleaned up like nothing had happened.
"I think that was the most eerie feeling - to come home that night still not knowing what happened," she said.
She said that she felt like rape was becoming a problem in Lawrence and that it needed more awareness because the suspect has not been caught and was armed.
Randi Jordt, a Leavenworth junior who lives in southwest Lawrence, said it worried her that the police had not caught the rap-
many people walked home drunk. She said it would be easy for a rapist to follow girls home and return at another time to rape them.
- take your pick," Punch said.
"Like my house. Six girls Punch said.
Kelly Lacome, Bloomington, Minn., sophomore, said she was not worried about being raped because she lived at Alpha Chi Omega, which houses more than 80 girls.
However, Lacombe said she thought it was scary that a rapist was on the loose in Lawrence because it was not a community she would consider dangerous.
The Lorimar Town House resident said her neighborhood seemed very safe beforehand. She said there was a large quantity of lights in the neighborhood. She said she had the landlord fix her door since the rape. She also said that she has started carrying pepper spray and that she was now terrified to be at home alone.
—Edited by Jessica Sain-Baird
》 ACADEMICS
Library offers a unique collection
BY CALEB SOMMERVILLE
csommerville@kansan.com
The University has one of the world's largest collections of Irish literature in the special collections department at Spencer Research Library.
Even though St. Patrick's Day is over, students can continue to celebrate Irish heritage — with an academic flavor.
but the collection contains several lesser-known authors, which Smith said were still "incredibly important to those who study Irish literature."
One of the largest collections
The special collections department was started in 1953 to obtain other collections. The James Joyce collection was one of the first acquired.
The collection includes more than 250,000 books, including a large number of William Butler Yeats works and more than 900 books and articles by James Joyce.
The University has one of the world's largest collections of Irish literature in the special collections department at Spencer Research library.
The Joyce collection features first editions of all but five of his works. It also has the first edition and the first issue of Joyce's famous novel "Ulysses" signed by Joyce himself.
The Yeats collection features first editions of all except one of his works, "Mosada," which is extremely scarce.
Yeats and Joyce were the two most well-known authors featured.
Rebecca Smith, public relations director for KU Libraries, said that the collection was so large because of many gifts and collections have been added.
the department acquired was in 1959, and was accompanied by a note from Watson Library that said "11 tons of books." The collection came from a book
collector named P.S. O'Hegarty. He was also a historian and author who lived during the 19th and early 20th century.
O'Hegarty's collection contained Yeats' books, poems, historical pamphlets and journals.
The collection even features a signed copy of the Irish declaration of independence.
The Spencer Research Library is at 1450 Poplar Lane, behind Strong Hall.
Edited by Nick Mangiaracina
CRIME
Racy text messages prove perjury conviction of mayor
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DETROIT — Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was charged with perjury and other offenses Monday — and got a stern lecture about the importance of telling the truth
the importance of seeing the truth after a trove of raunchy text messages contradicted his sworn denials of an affair with his chief aide.
The 37-year-old "Hip-Hop Mayor" who brought youth and vitality to the job in this struggling city of 900,000 could get up to 15 years in prison for perjury alone and would be automatically expelled from office if convicted.
Ignoring mounting demands that he step down, Kilpatrick said: "I look forward to complete exoneration once all the facts have been brought forth. I will remain focused on moving this city forward."
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy brought charges of perjury, conspiracy, obstruction of justice and misconduct against the popular but polarizing mayor. In announcing the charges, she delivered something of a civics lesson on the importance of telling the truth under oath.
"Some have suggested that the issues in this case are personal or private," said Worthy, a Democrat like the mayor. "Our investigation has clearly shown that public dollars were used, people's lives were
ruined, the justice system severely mocked and the public trust trampled on."
She added: "This case is about as far from being a private matter as one can get."
Kilpatrick's former chief of staff, Christine Beatty, 37, who also denied under oath that she and Kilpatrick had an intimate relationship in 2002 and 2003, was charged with many of the same offenses. A call to her lawyer was not immediately returned.
Both the mayor and Beatty turned themselves in for booking in the afternoon. No trial date has been set.
The mayor's lawyer, Dan Webb, said forcing Kilpatrick to resign now would punish him before he has had his day in court.
The charges could be the beginning of the end of Kilpatrick's six-year career as the youngest man elected mayor of Detroit, one of America's largest and most troubled cities, with deeply entrenched poverty made worse by the downturn in the auto industry.
Worthy began her investigation in late January, the day after the Detroit Free Press published excerpts from 14,000 text messages that were sent or received in 2002-03 from Beatty's city-issued pager.
The messages called into question testimony Kilpatrick and Beatty gave last August in a lawsuit
filed by two police officers who said they were fired for investigating claims that the mayor used his security unit to cover up extramarital affairs.
In court, Kilpatrick and Beatty strongly denied having an intimate relationship. But the text messages reveal that they carried on a flirty, sometimes sexually explicit dialogue about where to meet and how to conceal their trysts.
Kilpatrick is married with three children. Beatty was married at the time and has two children.
The city eventually agreed to pay $8.4 million to the two officers and a third former officer. Some of the charges brought against the mayor on Monday accuse him of agreeing to the settlement in an effort to keep the text messages from becoming public.
"I'm mildly in love with you," Kilpatrick wrote on Oct. 3, 2002.
On Oct. 16, 2002, Kilpatrick wrote: "I've been dreaming all day about having you all to myself for 3 days. Relaxing, laughing, talking, sleeping and making love."
"I hope you feel that way for a long time," Beatty replied. "In case you haven't noticed, I am madly in love with you, too!"
All of the charges against the mayor are felonies. Under the city charter, a felony conviction would mean the mayor's immediate expulsion.
Council President Ken Cockrel Jr., who was among those who called on Kilpatrick to resign last week, would succeed him if he left office.
"If a witness lies, innocent people can go to jail or prison, people can literally get away with murder, civil litigants who deserve money may not get it or may get money they don't deserve," she said. "And lying cannot be tolerated even if a judge or jury sees through it."
The City Council asked Kilpatrick to step down last week, but he refused, and the council has no authority to remove him in the meantime.
In announcing the charges, Worthy delivered a 14-minute lecture on the oath that all the witnesses take, and how the criminal justice system relies on people to tell the truth. "Even children understand that lying is wrong," she said.
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