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KU graduate's life shines after death
By Down North
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Amy Watkins' mother will never receive another phone call from her daughter, nor will she have the privilege of loving and spoiling the grandchildren Amy might have given her.
Amy has been dead for two years and now her killer is being sentenced. David Jamison, 28, will be sentenced Thursday for the March 8, 1999, murder of Amy Watkins. Watkins, a 26-year-old 1996 KU graduate from the School of Social Welfare, was walking to her apartment after finishing her shift at a New York City domestic-violence shelter when she was stabbed to death.
A second accomplice, Felix Rodriguez, will be charged with second-degree murder June 10 for his alleged role in standing guard during the assault.
With tomorrow's sentencing of Jamison and the impending investigation of the death of KU student Shannon Martin, homicides of young
women are gaining more attention in Kansas. For Margy Tafoya, Watkins' mother, the attention is centered within her home.
"I miss those phone calls and I miss having mother-daughter conversations," she said. "We had become more and more close as time went on."
She misses her daughter's voice mostofall.
Watkins, who was working on her graduate degree at the Hunter College School of Social Work, counseled women and children at the New Settlement House in the Bronx. Tafoya said her daughter always had a fond heart for abused women and was very bright and artistically talented. She thought it was fitting that Amy used art as a healing bridge to help the children and their mothers at the Settlement House.
Tafiya said she wears something of her daughter's every day, whether jewelry, a scarf or another personal item.
Many of those same children wrote letters to Watkins and her family after
March 8, 1999 Amy Watkins is stobbed two blocks from her Brooklyn, New York apartment and dies an hour later.
March 13, 1999 Graveside service in a St. Luke's suburb.
TIMELINE OF EVENTS
into a murder.
August 2, 2000 Police charge David Jamison and Felix Rodriguez with the stabbing death of Watkins.
August 4, 2000 jamison admitted his
role in the batched robbery that turned
January 19, 2001 The district attorney announces he will seek life without parole rather than death penalty for Jamison. May 18, 2001 The jury finds David Jamison, 28, guilty of second-degree murder and robbery. He is acquitted of first-degree murder, which carries a potential sentence of life without parole. June 8, 2001 Jamison will be sentenced. June 10, 2001 Rodriguez, charged with second degree murder in the case, will be in court.
New York Times and New York Daily News
she was killed. One little girl, Ciamero, wrote, "I will never see you again because of what happened, but you will always be in my heart forever."
Another girl, Deshele Young, wrote,
"You was always a sunshine person
and waking up on the right side of the
bed."
Most people saw Watkins that way. Her aunt, Judy Gehm, said that Watkins always talked a mile a minute and was a sparkly person. She
said that when the family used to go on trips to Door County, Wisc., members switched Amy back and forth between cars because she talked so much.
"She was like a bright star, a nova, that burned brightly and went out too soon." Gehm said.
She said it was hard because Watkins lost her future.
Death is something that is never expected, especially for the young. However, in 1988, 8.6 percent of the United States' 270,289,524 population
died. Accidents accounted for 97,855 of the total deaths, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, and were listed as the fifth leading cause of all U.S. deaths. Homicide was listed as the 13th leading cause of death.
In their book, A Woman's Guide to Personal Safety, Minneapolis police officers Jane Hanteau and Holly Keegel write that many college-age girls think that nothing bad is going to happen to them. They caution women to pay close attention to their surroundings, to be careful when they go to parties, to not drink too much and to try not to walk across campus alone.
Alice Lieberman, one of Watkins's professors and current chairwoman of the KU undergraduate program for the School of Social Welfare, said she was sure that Watkins felt living in a big city was worth the risk.
"The newspapers portrayed Amy as the girl from Kansas who moved to the big city to change the world." she said. "And it was true."
Hemenway fills position to boost KU's image
Edited by Jeff Denton
Former Clinton aid looks forward to new challenge
By Mark Hansen
writer @kanson.com
Kansas staff writer
The image and lobbying clout of the University of Kansas will get a boost from the White House's West wing starting in early July.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway filled a new position in the
University's administrative brass May 17. He named Janet Murgula as executive chancellor for University Relations.
Murguia will be in charge of stabilizing the University's image in the eyes of parents, prospective students and budget makers.
Murguia; she will provide input to the University's public relations department.
and university-deep."
She will provide input into the university's public relations across the board, including the Athletics Corporation, Endowment and Alumni Associations.
Murguia hails from the Argentine neighborhood in Kansas City, Kan. She earned undergraduate degrees in journalism and Spanish and a law degree from the University.
Under President Clinton's administration, she was a deputy assistant and deputy director of legislative affairs, in which she served as the senior White House laison to Congress.
More recently, she was a deputy campaign manager for the Gore-Lieberman presidential campaign.
Murgia, who is Hispanic, will join Karen, Swisher, president of Haskell Indian Nations University, as a minority woman with a high-ranking administrative university position in Lawrence.
person.
"I'm honored that Chancellor Hemenway chose me," Murgia said. "It sends a signal. As a woman of color, it puts the right face on higher education. I have worked with Haskell in the past; it has a very special relationship with KU I hope we can further develop." Lynn Bretz, interim director of University Relations, said she thought Murgia would help coordinate KU's public relations.
"We are elated it is the beginning of a new era. I think what Janet Murgia will bring to us will tie
"I'm looking forward to taking on the position, reviewing, listening and learning and then putting together a plan."
Janet Murguia executive chancellor for University Relations
everyone together, make sure we are on the same sheet of music." Bretz said. "It is a matter of coordinating our resources; she will be kind of like a symphony coordinator, making sure that we are all working in concert."
murgia will be on the same organizational level as Provost David Shulenburger and Don Hagen, executive vice chancellor for the University of Kansas Medical Center. In fact, murgia's total salary will be $195,000, surpassing Shulenburger's $106,068 salary. Hemenway makes $207,489 and Hagen makes $241,117.
"It is a coup on the chancellor's part," Britz said. "Lots of law firms were after her with more lucrative deals. She is at a high level, and her salary makes sense. That just goes to show what it costs in this day and age."
Edited by Amber Huntzinger
Hashinger resident injured from tumble off eighth-floor ledge
Freshman's fall resulted in two broken ankles
By Julie Carter
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
He was treated for two broken ankles and a shattered left heel bone and was released, said Chris Keary, assistant director of police for the Public Safety Office.
Ward, Kingman freshman, was out on the window ledge of the eighth-floor lobby smoking a cigarette when he lost his balance and fell. A friend had asked Ward to return to the lobby. Keary said. He said Ward had been drinking beer before the incident and did not remember much about the night.
Police were called to the scene at 1:35 a.m. after witnesses heard obscenities from above and saw a male fall and land on
the roof of the entry way. Witnesses said they saw a hand reaching out the window to grab the falling student, who fell about 41 feet.
Ward was lying on his back on the roof when police arrived.
"We see students on ledges from time to time," said Ken Stoner, director of student housing. "It is very dangerous."
He said the ledges were not meant to be used as patios for personal use. Instead, he said the ledges were meant to displace heat and keep the residence halls cooler.
Occasionally students place things on the ledges, such as signs or decorations. Stoner said, but he said this was also against the housing department's rules and action would be taken in those instances.
"We'll see something on the ledge occasionally, but I don't recall anything like this." Stoner said.
The window screen had been removed and placed on the floor next to the window, Keary and Stoner said. Stoner said the screens were easy to remove but should not be tampered with.
Ward could not be reached for comment.
Edited by Chris Wristen
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