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Last minute celebration
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Senior forward Jamie Boyd jumps in celebration behind junior guard Katie Smith and junior forward Marija Zinic after sophomore guard Danielle McCray draws a foul on a drive to the basket with 1.4 seconds remaining in the game. McCray stepped to the line and broke the 61-16 tie by hitting her first free throw. Kansas defeated Nebraska 62-11 and improved to 15-9 overall and 4-7 in the Big 12. The Cornhuskers dropped to 6-5 in the conference.
CRIME
Knife incident occurs at Jet Lag
BY JESSICA WICKS
jwicks@kansan.com
A knife fight at Jet Lag, 610 Florida St., led to the injury of three Jet Lag employees and two arrests early Friday morning. Police are still looking for two other suspects in relation to the incident.
According to witness Betsy Cutcliff, Overland Park senior, staff members were herding people out of the bar at 1:40 a.m. when she noticed four men surrounded by staff members outside the club. She said the men appeared drunk and did not want to leave.
When the argument escalated into a physical fight, one of the men pulled out a knife and threatened the staff members who were trying to calm the situation, according to Cutcliff.
"Someone came into the bar and started screaming that he had a knife." Cutcliff said.
At that point, Cutcliff said, a staff member pushed people back inside the building and
locked the patrons inside. Cutcliff said that while they were locked inside, someone started a rumor that a gun was involved, and the atmosphere inside the bar became chaotic.
"Some of the girls were crying because they thought they were going to die," Culff said.
Police officers arrived after the incident at 1:48 a.m. and blocked off the parking lot preventing many patrons from leaving.
thought they were going to die. Curtin said. She said they were locked inside the bar about eight minutes before a staff member with blood on his face carried a man into the building and took him to the back. Then, another staff member told everyone that if they didn't work at the club, they needed to leave immediately.
Cutcliff said some of the patrons were anxious to leave because they were underage and feared the police citations.
Three staff members suffered minor injuries during the altercation, police officer Todd Polson said. He said when police officers arrived on the scene, two of the suspects had fled.
According to police reports, one of the men arrested, 29-year-old Stanley Williams, had five warrants out for his arrest. He was also charged with battery, disorderly conduct and obstruction in relation to the incident. The other man arrested, 25-year-old Norman Harrison, was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer.
Police are still looking for the two men who fled. One is described as a 30- to 35-year-old black male. He is $5'10''$ to $5'11''$ and 200 to 250 pounds. He was last seen wearing a red leather jacket with a sports logo and blue jeans. The other suspect is unidentified.
Cutcliff said she was surprised the incident happened at Jet Lag because it had always been known as a safe bar. Cutcliff said so many people were freaked out because of last week's shooting at Last Call, 729 New Hampshire St.
The manager of Jet Lag had no comment on the incident.
— Edited by Jessica Sain-Baird
》 LAWRENCE
Owner decides to close night club
BY RUSTIN DODDrdodd@kansan.com
Dennis Steffes, the owner of Last Call, 729 New Hampshire St., has decided to close the Lawrence night club.
The decision comes after three people were shot Feb. 10 during a skirmish outside the club.
"Steffes was extremely shocked and unhappy about what happened over the weekend," Dan Owen, Steffes' lawyer, said to the Associated Press. "He wants to continue to live in Lawrence and be a responsible member of the community. He understands that safety and peace of mind in the community has to come first."
Joel Balzer, Whitewater senior, said he went to Last Call a few times during his freshman year. Balzer said he didn't feel unsafe at the club, but he did stop going there.
One University of Kansas student said he wasn't surprised by the club's closing.
"It was a sketchy club," Balzer said. "I just didn't really like it. I think most KU students knew not to go there."
Balzer said he didn't know of any University of Kansas students who had been to the club in the past few years.
Two of the people injured at the club were employees while the third was a 15-year-old from Topeka.
Steffes released a written statement last week that said he could open a new business at the club's location.
Lawrence city officials may still file criminal charges against the owners of the building according to the Associated Press.
"He's promised to do different things before." Douglas County District Attorney Charles Branson told the Associated Press, in regard to Steffes. "Until we're positive he's out, we're going forward."
The incident Feb. 10 was not the first act of violence committed at Last Call. Gunshots were fired outside the club in May 2006, and two separate highway shooting incidents had been linked to the club.
In January 2008, Last Call lost its liquor license following a shooting that took place on Highway 10. A similar incident took place on Interstate 435 in Kansas City, Mo. On the night of both incidents, the shooting suspects were reportedly at Last Call before being thrown out of the club.
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》 STUDENT SENATE
BY BRENNA HAWLEY
bhawley@kansan.com
Senators postpone use of clickers
The clickers that Student Senate spent almost $5,000 on this year were not used at last week's meeting because of technical difficulties.
A majority of senators voted to approve the clickers to improve voting and attendance accountability in Senate meetings.
The clickers transmit a signal to a receiver that is hooked up to a computer. Wednesday night at the Student Senate Executive Committee meeting, executive secretary Aly Rodee's computer would not recognize the receiver without an administrator password, which was not available.
A bill to fund clickers was originally passed last year, but Senate found it did not provide enough money to buy the equipment. Last summer, senators voted on a second bill, but that bill was vetoed, and the veto upheld by senators. In September, Senators passed a third bill that increased the amount of funding for the clickers.
Rodee, Wichita junior who was in charge of the clickers, said the meeting was supposed to be her practice session, and that after months of work, she was upset they didn't work at the meeting.
Rodee trained on the clickers on Jan. 23, and at the time, the University-loaned receiver did not work with her laptop. She said at training, when her laptop didn't have the clearance to install the hardware, she just switched computers.
Each clicker cost $17, and each clicker must be registered for $35. With 94 clickers, the total cost of the clickers was $4,888. Rodee said the receiver was worth $500 but
"I played with the clickers before the meeting and didn't even think about using the receiver." Rodee said.
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by the numbers
$17 Each clicker
$35 Each clicker's registration fee
94 Total number of clickers
$1,598 Total clicker price
$3,290 Registration fee
$4,888 Total cost
was borrowed from the University because Senate did not want to buy its own. The money for the clickers came out of the Student Senate reserve account, which got its funds from student fees.
Rodee said that when the clickers arrived last semester, she worked hours on registering and labeling the clickers.
"Ive definitely been putting in overt, and we don't get overt," Rodee said.
Currently, voting is done by voice. If the vote is close, senators raise their hands, and Rodene and Ray Wittlinger, Olathe senior and student body vice-president, count the hands.
Cox said the clickers provided accuracy where votes cannot be mistaken.
Tom Cox, Shawnee senior and holdover senator, said he supported Senate buying the clickers because they would improve accuracy and accountability in Senate meetings.
"Humans make errors, and errors are unacceptable" he said.
"We shouldn't have waited until an hour and a half before Senate to see if the clickers would work," he said.
The funds for the 94 clickers comes from student fees. In September, Senators passed a third bill that increased the amount of funding for the clickers.
Cox said he wished the executive staff had been more prepared to use the clickers.
Wittlinger said that he didn't support buying clickers from the beginning because they were too expensive and were paid for with student fees. He said that the money and time spent on the clickers may have been too
"When you're depending on computers and technology, you always have that risk of something going wrong." Faletra said.
"The way we count votes has been very effective for many years," Wittinger said.
Amanda Faletra, Lawrence senior and fine arts senator, said that technical difficulties happen and she thought Senate would eventually get to use the clickers.
much, and that there had always been a way to count votes member by member.
Rodee said she had an appointment with Academic Technology Services this week to resolve the problem in time for next week's full Senate meeting.
Dan Consolver, director of Academic Technology Services, said that if Rodee's computer was supported by ATS, then all that was needed to fix the problem was a trip by a technician. He said administrative passwords were put on many Senate computers to prevent people from installing outside software on the computers. He said a technician would enter the password and any hardware should work from that point forward.
Edited by Daniel Reyes
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PHILANTHROPY
Two Universityof Kansas students will find out if they remain in the running for Harry S. Truman Scholarships. The scholarships are given to students interested in public service and provide funding to complete graduate school.
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HONOR
Former Kansas basketball players, coaches and trainers filled Allen Fieldhouse on Saturday, during the game against Colorado, to celebrate 110 years of Kansas basketball. The 1988 national championship team was also present, and members of the current basketball team wore retro uniforms from the 1988 season during the game.
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