Jayhawks face something different The baseball team have a new, mid-week challenge when they face St. Mary (Kan.) tonight at 7. St. Mary (Kan.) is a private school and a member of the NAIA conference. PAGE 12A
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Horrortontals going to national tourney The KU men's club frisbee team made it through a thunderstorm and a soggy field to go 5-1 in a regional weekend tournament and earn a bid to the championship. PAGE 12A
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VOL.116 ISSUE 144
CRIME
Murder and a mother's travail
BY COURTNEY FARR
editor@kansan.com
KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
- Assailants murdered KU student Shannon Martin in Golfito, Costa Rica, five years ago, May 13.
Jeanette Stauffer, Martin's mother, spent the first two-and-a-half years trying to put Martin's murderers in prison. Now, since the convictions in 2003, she continues to travel to Costa Rica, opposing the convicted's appeals and keeping them incarcerated with the help of two dedicated investigators.
Staiffer and her team returned last month to Golftifo for the second appeal of Martin's convicted murderers,
Kattia Cruz and Luis Alberto Castro.
She said that the appeal was "the most difficult of all the testimony I have given at the trial or any of the hearings." She told the court during the hearing how on Mother's Day in 2001, she received a phone call informing her of Shannon's murder.
The appeals
Originally convicted of "simple homicide," the two received 15-year sentences.
Under Costa Rican law, the prosecutor can request longer sentences during an appeal.
SEE MURDER ON PAGE 3A
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Shannon Martin's older sister, Staci Wolfe, Tacumseh graduate student, rests adjacent to Martin's grave after tending to flowers planted at the site. Wolfe visited the grave in respect to the five-year anniversary of her sister's death.
Sister's life continues after Martin's death
MORE INSIDE
Farr writes how Shannon Martin's family has dealt with her death. See page 5A.
BY COURTNEY FARR
editor@kansan.com
KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
A can of Vienna Sausages sits on the base of Shannon Martin's headstone, surrounded by orange, pink and purple flowers.
Staci Wolfe, Martin's older sister and Tecumseh graduate student, still laughs about the can of processed meat.
"We were at a Quik Shop our last Christmas together and Shannon picked up a can of Vienna Sausages" Staci said. "The first ingredient listed was 'Mechanically Separated Chicken.' She was horrified. She was a vegetarian and animal lover."
that year as a gag gift, Staci and Shannon put a can into the Christmas stocking of Sheri Martin, Shannon and Staci's younger sister. The sausages became a running joke. Staci said she has found cans in her shoes and once mailed one to Shannon in Costa Rica.
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ACTIVISM
Amanda Sellers/KANSAN
Protestors stood at the corner of Ninth and Massachusetts streets at noon on Monday to let their views on immigration laws be known. One protestor, Christine Smith, had personal reasons for being at the gathering. She was seven years old when INS deported the fathers of her friends in her neighborhood. Since then she has spoken out and been a part of groups that oppose racist treatment to minorities.
Protestors unite across nation
BY MICHAEL PHILLIPS AND DEJUAN ATWAY editor@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITERS
Diego Frazier gave his Spanish students an assignment Monday afternoon that had little to do with vocabulary and plenty to do with politics.
He asked his students to voice their opinion on the immigration battle, attend one of Monday's rallies in Lawrence or research the topic if they did not know much about it.
Demonstrations were held across the country Monday as pro-immigration leaders urged immigrants to skip work and demonstrate their influence on the American economy.
In the afternoon, about 100 people including Frazier, gathered at Ninth and Massachusetts streets for the opportunity to contact their representatives.
mms" he said. "This is a great opportunity to participate in a movement."
it's easy to see the theoretical side of
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Kristen Blosser. Lawrence freshman, listens to speakers about struggles with immigration outside city hall Monday night during a candle vigil. The vigil ended a day of protesting against new immigration laws. Blosser said as a person of European decent she needed to support people of color who are denied access because of racism.
MUMPS COUNT
Here are the number of mumps cases as of Monday afternoon. These numbers include probable and confirmed cases.
Total cases in Douglas County: 162
Total cases among KU students: 121
Sources: Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department Watkins Memorial Health Center
ATHLETICS
What will NCAA do to Kansas?
Athletics Department says it's made progress
BY ERIC JORGENSEN
ejorgensen@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
On Aug. 13, the University of Kansas will go before the NCAA committee on infractions in Baltimore. Then the NCAA will decide what penalties, if any, to add to those Chancellor Robert Hemenway imposed on the University in July.
What will the NCAA do?
"I learned a long time ago that it doesn't do anyone any good to predict what the committee would do," said Associate Athletics Director Jim Marchiony. "The
best course of action is to proceed through the process and let the process carry you through."
Marchiony said the committee could just accept the self-imposed punishments, including probation, set forth by Hemenway. It could also add punishments not created by the University.
The allegation of "lack of institutional control" was a new violation the NCAA announced on April 21. That was not in the self-report conducted by the University. Considering this allegation, there is no telling wither the NCAA will penalize the University.
On April 6, the NCAA punished both Cal State and Fresno State basketball with four years of probation after labeling them with lack of institutional control. Within that allegation was the charge that coaches and staffs from the two programs made phone calls to recruits in violation of NCAA rules.
Because most of the allegations against the University happened before Lew Perkins took over as athletics director in 2003, the department has made what it thinks are the adequate corrections. It has added personnel and increased compliance education.
SEE NCAA ON PAGE 4A
LAWRENCE
Wireless ban discussion pushed back to include all drivers
BY MELINDA RICKETTS
mricketts@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Drivers who habitually use their cell phones can do so without worry for a little while longer.
about the two proposed ordinances restricting the use of cell phones while driving. Four people attended the Monday meeting where the ordinances were discussed.
The Traffic Safety Commission didn't reach a decision
commits an act of inattentive driving while using a wireless communication device." The other would prohibit people under the age of 18 or with an instructional permit from using cell phones while driving.
One of the proposed ordinances would establish, according to the meeting agenda, "an additional fine for a person who
Wireless devices would include cell phones, devices with text messaging capability and
anything that can access the Internet or another network wirelessly.
Both ordinances were tabled until the July meeting. The staff attorney, Scott Miller, will rework the language of the ordinance relating to minors to express an outright ban on the usage of wireless
communication devices for people of any age while driving within city limits.
Richard Heckler, a member of the commission, said both proposed ordinances had problems.
He said that the inattentive driving ordinance wouldn't be effective because it only punished people once they have already had an accident. He also said that people of all ages had trouble concentrating while talking on cell phones and driving.
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