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African cuisine Mrs. E's is offering a selection of traditional African dishes tonight from 4 to 7 p.m.The meal options are in honor of Black History Month. The dining hall cooperated with the Office of Multicultural Affairs to plan and prepare an authentic African meal. PAGE 3A
New vintage clothing Adonis Apparel, a vintage clothing line has designed clothing specifically for two Kansas universities: the University of Kansas and Kansas State University. PAGE 5A
Silver lining
Silver lining The Jayhawks may have lost last night, but freshman guard Sharita Smith lit up the court. Smith energized her team, scoring nine points while running on an injured knee. PAGE 7B
Double team
Two members of the Kansas
tennis team have paired to create a dynamic doubles team. The pair brought the team a victory during the first match of the season on Feb. 1 against Mississippi. PAGE 10B
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KANSAN
February 18, 2004 IN ITS 100TH YEAR AS THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Vol.114 Issue No.95
Student threatened
Corbin resident verbally attacked by man with knife
By Neeley J. Spellmeir
nspellmeir@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
A KU student reported being threatened by a man with a knife early Friday morning on the lower level of the GSP-Corbin parking garage.
A Corbin resident, who asked not to be identified for her protection, said she first noticed the man earlier when she was leaving Ellsworth Hall at approximately 1 a.m. Friday. He was standing on the southwest side of McCollum Hall with a group of men. As she walked to her car, she was verbally assaulted by the man.
He asked her, in expletive terms, what
She got in her vehicle and began to drive home to GSP-Corbin Hall. While driving, she thought a car was following her. When she got to West Campus Road, she took a left and the other car turned right. She said she must have been wrong.
she was looking at. She quickly responded "nothing" and walked to her car.
She parked her car in the gravel lot on Indiana Street that is reserved for GSP-Corbin residents. As she was walking through the parking garage, the man who had confronted her at McCollum pulled up beside her.
He again verbally assaulted her and then_thgatened her.
He said he didn't know what she
thought she had seen at McCollum Hall. "But if you tell anybody I'll cut your throat!" she said he shouted at her.
The man then held up a knife and mimicked sliding it across
sliding it across Police composite his own throat.
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she said. She didn't know what the man said she saw because all she saw was a group of men standing in a huddle.
Hip with the lifestyle
Olaithe freshman Jenni Hansen (center) and Angie Davis (left) practice with the Unity Hip Hop Dance Troupe in the Hashinger Hall dance room last night. The Troupe, made up of ten women, is practicing for its halftime performance at Lawrence High School. It meets twice a week for four hours to rehearse and once a week to workout. "We promote diversity through the common goal of hip hop," said Maya Tillman, Hutchinson graduate student. "Hip hop is a lifestyle not a fad." The Troupe will be traveling to Chicago in March for the Monsters of Hip Hop convention, where famous choreographers will be present, such as Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake's choreographers.
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Commission postpones PATRIOT Act resolution
By Laura Pate
fate@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
A crowd spilled out into the main lobby of City Hall until midnight last night as the Lawrence City Commission discussed its position on the USA PATRIOT Act.
After discussing the act for four hours, the commission decided to continue the discussion at a later date. David Dunfield, mayor of Lawrence, said a local legal staff would have to put together a resolution before the city formally banded against the act.
The Lawrence Bill of Rights Committee wanted the Commission to reject the act and wrote a draft resolution for the city, Steve Stemmerman, of the Lawrence Bill of Rights Committee; said he had more than 600 petitions as a show of support for his resolution. Two-hundred fifty communities have approved such resolutions that reject the act.
The 342-page act was passed on Oct. 26, 2001 after little debate by members of Congress. The act was passed in an effort to combat acts of terrorism and gave the government more power to monitor people through records such as library records.
The resolution submitted by the Lawrence Bill of Rights Committee was faulty, said Kris Kobach, who served as a council to Attorney General John Ashcroft until 2003.
"If I were grading it, I would give it a failing grade," said Kobach, who teaches law at the University of Missouri in Kansas City.
Lawrence has a sufficient cause for concern and sufficient reason to be involved in discussing the issue of the act, said Dunfield.
The City Commission was not wasting its time by discussing the PATRIOT Act said Burdett Loomis, chair of the University political science department. He said that the commissioners could come to a useful conclusion but that they had no power to change the act.
"What it provides is a forum for serious discussion of the many issues put forth by the act," Loomis said. "A serious discussion on a serious issue is never a waste of time."
Nhan Nguyen, president of the University's chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, said he thought the Lawrence Bill of Rights Committee had a good chance of passing the resolution, because other cities have passed similar resolutions.
Bill Myers, director of Library Development, said that the act was a potential infringement on civil authority. If, and when, the federal government asked to see student records, the library would have to refer authorities to University Council, the legal representative of the University.
Edited by Guillaume Doane
Republicans struggle to get voice heard
By Patrick Cady
pcady@ku.edu
Kansas writer
After almost five years of silence, technical difficulties and frantic search for writers, The Pachyderm finally gets its opportunity to stampede.
The Pachyderm, the KU Campus Republicans' newsletter, is preparing to break online ground today with its first issue, which was written last semester. The newsletter, coined from the scientific name for elephants, will be uploaded to the KU College Republican Web site, www.ku.edu/~kucr.
"We wanted it to have a local feel," Josh Steward, Hays junior and editor of the newsletter, said.
Beyond that, Steward said, the goal of the newsletter is to help propel the group's specific conservative beliefs.
Jessica Adkinson, St. Louis freshman and editor of the newsletter's Local/ State section, decided to be involved for
"It's pretty difficult to find people to write for us. Definitely on a liberal campus, there's not a strong conservative view."
Jessica Adkinson
St. Louis freshman
this reason.
this reason.
"I think it's a value to the University simply because we offer another perspective." Adkinson said.
Before The Pachyderm, the KU College Republicans tried to publish a newsletter half a decade ago called The Kansas Review, Steward said.
The current group wanted to create its own publication once more, to spread out their own viewpoint and rival the Young Democrat's Newsletter, Jackass,
"It's pretty difficult to find people to write for us," Adkinson said. "Definitely on a liberal campus, there's not a strong conservative view."
The road to creating The Pachyderm wasn't easy.
Steward said.
Some stories from last semester's issue included a piece showing the disparity of black appointments to the Student Senate.
"We got really ambitious," Justin McFarland, Lenexa junior and president of the KU College Republicans, said.
Another article lambasted Janet Reno's appearance at the Lied Center, and another called the Lawrence transit system a, "total waste of time, money and resources."
This led to another problem some members had with The Pachyderm — it's too negative.
Steward said the group was working to correct this for future issues, and that the negativity might have been because
"I think that for the first issue, people jumped on board because they had something to vent about," Steward said.
of the struggle to get the paper off the ground.
For now, The Pachyderm will be published solely online, but Steward said they hope to publish a hard copy.
That will be the next step. Steward said, but he still finds that he and the publication have come a long way.
"The best experience is just seeing it all come together for the first time." Steward said. "It gives you a good feeling."
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