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Late last night, before today's Kansan went to press, power went out around Lawrence. While details are sketchy as of print time, it seems that areas north of Ninth Street were unaffected.The cause remains unknown.A representative from Westar Energy said calls began coming in before midnight and were still streaming in at 12:30. A severe line of storms with hail larger than golf balls moved through the area about 10 p.m.Windows in at least one campus building were broken and students reported damage to their vehicles, including Pat Bruin, St. Louis sophomore, with a broken windshield.
The paper is smaller, but the crossword puzzle managed to survive
THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904
MONDAY. APRIL 24. 2006
VOL.116 ISSUE 138
ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT
Chancellor Robert Hemenway and Athletics Director Lew Perkins speak at a press conference in Hadi Auditorium Friday morning. The press conference addressed Kansas' self-reported NCAA violations and other non-reported allegations.
NCAA cites University, finds two violations
BY ERIC JORGENSEN
ejorgensen@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
The NCAA completed its investigation of violations allegedly committed by the Athletics Department and found two more violations including a "lack of institutional control."
The NCAA also stated during the same time frame that the University did not act efficiently in reporting violations.
The NCAA cited that from August 1997 to December 2002, the institution did not have a compliance auditor on three occasions, a total of 20 months.
The University failed to "create and maintain an atmosphere for compliance," and "failed to report NCAA rules violations," among others.
Athletics Director Lew Perkins said before his arrival the department was understaffed, including in the NCAA compliance department. He said one his first moves as athletics director was to hire new staff and beef up the department's workforce.
The two violations that turned up in the notice were not in the self-report.
The other violation was the improper benefits received by sophomore men's basketball player Darnell Jackson from donor Don Davis.
Already under self-imposed punishments, the University must decide whether to impose sanctions on itself after the allegations.
The next step for the University is to respond to the "Notice of Allegations." The University will meet with the NCAA Committee on Infractions on Aug. 13. After that meeting, it will be determined if the NCAA will impose penalties in addition to the ones already handed down by Cancellor Robert Hemenway. Hemenway placed the entire department on a two-year probation.
Rick Evrard, former NCAA compliance official, said there was a chance for additional penalties to come, because of the additional allegations.
Evward said the penalties should be administered by the institution. Regardless, he said there was a chance the NCAA could bring more punishment because of the allegations against Davis and Jackson.
SEE NCAA ON PAGE 3A
CRIME
Violence erupts at local bar
BY MIKE MOSTAFFA
mmostaffa@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Abe and Jake's Landing was shut down around 1 a.m. Sunday after a series of fights inside the club.
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A Douglas County Sheriff spokesman at the scene said he did not know exactly how
many people were injured, but said at least six arrests had been made.
About 1:15 a.m., the club's parking lot was filled with nearly 20 Lawrence Police Department, Douglas County Sheriff, KU Public Safety Office, Lawrence Douglas County Fire and Medical vehicles and a large number of bar patrons.
One man was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital after a beer bottle had been smashed into his neck. The man sat on the corner of the street with a blood-soaked towel over his wound awaiting the arrival of an ambulance.
Street-clothed authorities led a. shirtless man to
"The place was way too crowded and the security couldn't stop it."
Tasha Jacobs Kansas City, Kan., freshman
Tasha Jacobs, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, said the man with the neck wound was a childhood friend who came from Kansas City, Kan., to visit her.
Jacobs said that she did not know what caused the initial altercation, but said that after her friend was hit with the beer bottle, four or five more fights broke out.
"The place was way too crowded and the security couldn't stop it," Jacobs said. Abe and Jake's representatives could not be reached yesterday.
an ambulance. The man was scratching his eyes and making fanning motions toward them. The authorities sat the down and
assisted him by waving a towel in front of his face.
Two of the bar's patrons were Olympic Gold Medal winners Justin Gatlin and Dwight Phillips.
Abe and Jake's was playing host to what it billed as the Kansas Relays after party. Cover was $10. A bar patron asked Phillips if he had been injured and Phillips said no.
As for Jacobs, she and her friends would be seeking a new place to hang out next Saturday night.
"This is my first and last time," she said.
Jacobs said that she had been to the club a few times, but for her other friend, this was her first time at Abe and Jake's.
— Edited by Janiece Gatson
POW-WOW
Tribes compete in Robinson
BY ANNE WELTMER
aweltmer@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
The thunderous beat of 10 mallets on a three-foot diameter drum and the unison singing of the 10 men who sat around the drum shook the entire main gymnasium at Robinson Center Saturday afternoon at the University of Kansas pow-wow.
The pow-wow brought people of all ages, from all tribes, from all over the United States to compete in three categories of dancing: fancy, traditional and grass.
Kyle Funmaker, a 19-year-old freshman at Haskell Indian Nations University, said he'd been fancy dancing all of his life. His parents travel across the United States to dance at powwows, and he does the same in the summers.
He said his mother made his costume; she hand-threaded the thousands of beads that covered his entire chest and his headband that accented the rest of his costume. It was light
"I'll do this all my life," said the self-taught dancer from Wisconsin Dells, Wis. from the Ho-chunk tribe.
David Noffsinger/KANSAN
Participants in an intertribal dance perform around the Haskell color guard Saturday afternoon during the KU Pow-Wow in Robinson gymnasium. The pow-wow lasted all day with traditional dance, singing and competition.
blue, dark blue and orange. It also had bear claws and a bear in the center of his chest, representing the bear clan, of which he is a member.
He wore white fur leggings that covered his shins with bells around
the top, just below his knees. Moccasins and silver streamers hung from his shoulders. He said it was a typical fancy-dance costume. The costumes have evolved because Native Americans at pow-wows are always trying
to outdo one another with their costumes. It's a competitive event because there's usually around $1,500 in prize money, he said.
SEE POW-WOW ON PAGE 3A
HEALTH
Brian Holland/KANSAN
Mumps cases reach triple digits
More than 100 people in Douglas County have the mumps.
BY CATHERINE ODSON
codson@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
The spring outbreak has provided experience dealing with infectious diseases without the potential for severe complications and fatalities. Patricia Denning, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said she thought that Watkins had communicated well with students, University of
The number of mumps cases in Douglas County totaled 102 on Friday, with the majority of cases occurring in people ages 19 to 26 years old, said Sheryl Tirol-Goodwin, spokeswoman for the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department. Seventy-six of those cases were University students.
ficials and parents. However, she was frustrated by infected students' lack of response to medical recommendations.
MUMPS COUNT
Students, who often felt indestructible, she said, would often disregard recommendations such as isolating themselves because their schedules were packed.
Here are the number of mumps cases as of Friday afternoon. These numbers include probable and confirmed cases.
Total cases in Douglas County: 102
Total cases among KU students: 76
Sources: Sheryl Tiol-Goodwin, Lawrence Douglas County Health Department; Lynn Bretz, University Relations
But with more serious diseases — including measles and a potentially lethal pandemic flu — following those recommendations could be the difference between life and death, she said.
"Sometimes, we as adults have to put aside our personal agendas for the good of the group," she said.
In the future, Denning said, Watkins would try to distribute clearer information to students, which might help students follow doctors' recommendations.
Tirol-Goodwin said the county health department was handling this outbreak the same way the department had treated infectious disease outbreaks in the past. The department followed a "long-standing protocol," she said, that immediately informed the public to keep the disease from unnecessarily spreading. She said she could not think of anything the department hadn't done.
Mumps caused a disaster drill planned for this Wednesday at Watkins to be postponed for the fall. Denning said planning the event would have placed an additional burden on a busy staff.
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