Friday, Dec. 6, 1985
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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Jury hears final arguments
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
The jury began deliberations yesterday afternoon in the trial of Mark R. Buhler, a 21-year-old Atwood man charged with raping a KU student in her room at Hashinger Hall on April 28.
Jurors are expected to announce their verdict sometime today.
The KU student has said she was raped and sodomized at about 6 a.m. in her residence hall room by a man who was under 6 feet tall and had dark blood, wavy hair. She said the man had muscular shoulders and arms, may have had a mustache and had acne scars on his cheeks.
The woman testified in court that Mark Buhler was her attacker.
Bubler's attorney, Tom Boone,
called his client to the stand yesterday
morning in Douglas County
District Court.
Buhler he had come to Lawrence on April 27 to meet a friend and then went to a concert in Kansas City. Mo.
He said he returned to Lawrence
about midnight, went to a party in Elsworth Hall and then went to Templin Hall to stay in a friend's room.
He said the first time he had seen the woman he is accused of raping was in the courtroom.
On cross-examination, Jim Flory, Douglas County district attorney, asked Buhlier if he considered himself to be athletic and in good physical condition.
Buhler answered yes to both questions.
Flory and Boone made their final arguments to the court yesterday afternoon.
Flory said the case was "like a puzzle."
He said the biggest piece to the puzzle was the victim's testimony about the attack and her description and identification of Buhler.
Flory said testimony by Buhler's friends had placed him at a party in Ellsworth Hall on the morning of April 28, which he then left between 3:30 and 4:30.
The friends had said Buhler was sometimes called by the nicknames
"Bed" and "Bedford," and Flory said this corroborated the victim's testimony that her attacker had called himself "Brad from Ellsworth" and "Bradford — or something like that."
He said the victim had testified that her attacker had left her room just after 6 a.m., and that another student, Debora Early, had seen a man running out of Hashinger Hall at that time.
Flory said the desk assistant at Templin Hall had seen a man leave Templin about 5:30 a.m. and return about 6:30 a.m.
The desk assistant identified
Buhler as the man he had seen.
Boone began his closing arguments by asking the jury to think of the consequences of the verdict they would deliver.
"If for some reason your verdict does not speak the truth, it will alter the life of a young man for the rest of his life." Boone said.
Boone said Buhler came from a good family, had been a track star in high school and an Eagle Scout at age 16.
Police following leads in professor's murder
By a Kansan reporter
Police still do not have suspects on a motive in the strangulation of a KU professor found dead in his bedroom closet Monday evening, Sgt. Don Dalquest, Lawrence police department spokesman, said yesterday.
George VanStein Hixson, professor of interior design, died around Nov. 22, police said.
He said that about 67 leads had been developed before 8 a.m. yesterday and that the Kansas Bureau of Investigation had agreed to conduct special tests at the crime scene to get more evidence.
Hixson's body was discovered in his home at 1405 Westbrooke St, after concerned friends called the police on Monday.
Dalquest said investigators "had some solid leads" and were pursuing those leads.
Police have declined to comment on the physical condition of Hixson's
condominium and will not give any further information about the autopsy performed Tuesday.
Maj. Ron Olin, assistant police chief, said Wednesday that Hixson might have led an "alternative lifestyle" and that police were following leads to determine whether that lifestyle had anything to do with the homicide.
Although police would not comment on the condition of Hixson's condominium when his body was found, Ann Raney, Hixson's neighbor, said she had heard investigators at the condominium say Hixson's home had been burglarized.
Fourteen investigators are working on the homicide.
On Campus
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The KU Honor Students Association will sponsor a Trivial Pursuit party at 2 p.m. Sunday at Nunemaker Center. The party is open to all students and refreshments will be served.
The Biology Club will meet at 4 p.m. today in the Sunflower Room of the Kansas Union.
■The Navigator's Club will meet at 7 p.m. today at the Free Methodist Church, 802 W. 22nd Terrace, Refreshments will be served.
"On Golden Pond" will be shown at 7:30 p.m. today at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building, 1204 Oread Ave.
KU Sword & Shield will meet at 8 p.m. Monday in the Walnut Room of the Union.
Strat-o-matic Baseball Club will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in Parlor C of the Union.
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