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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Wednesday, May 2, 2001
Wednesday, May 2, 2001
Sports: Junior javelin thrower Andrea Bulat hopes to qualify for the NCAA tournament. SEE PAGE 16A
Inside: Foreign student hopes to create change abroad.
SEE PAGE 3A
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KU student reports rape after party
By Lauren Brandenburg
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
A 20 year-old KU student has reported to police that she was raped early Friday morning, Lawrence police said.
Det. Mack Pryor said the student was at someone's house in the 2000 block of Palmer Drive, between Kasold and Wakarusa drives near Clinton Parkway, for a small "afterhours get-together."
The student and the suspect, who she met that night, were together for awhile and ended up in a bed, Pryor said. She refused sexual contact, but he didn't listen.
After the incident, she left. She went to Lawrence Memorial Hospital Friday afternoon, and the hospital contacted the police department. Prvor said.
Police are gathering witnesses and interviewing the suspect, described as a Baldwin man in his 20s, Pryor said. The victim could not be reached for comment.
Sgt. Mike Pattrick said it was not uncommon for women to be raped by acquaintances.
Sarah Jane Russell, executive director of Douglas County Rape Victim Survivor Service, said the majority of rapes the service learned about were acquaintance rapes in which the victim knew her attacker.
who contact the service are college age, Russell said, but that does not mean they are all from the University of Kansas.
More than half of the women
"We offer 24-7 comprehensive crisis service with no charge," Russell said of the campus service organization. "What that means is we are available to talk with someone on the telephone or can meet with people. We're available to go to the hospital, to sit through a police interview or to go to court."
She said the service, which began in 1973, was available to both men and women, and students could locate the service by calling Headquarters Counseling Center, 1419 Massachusetts St., or KU Info. The service also works in alliance with the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center. Last year, four rapes were reported campus.
Russell said people sometimes labeled raps and placed them into categories, such as acquaintance rape or stranger rape, but that these categories were irrelevant.
She said people often wanted to know rape's causes or trends, but she could not offer those.
"Rape is rape is rape," she said.
"In our last fiscal year, we were contacted by over 200 people." Russell said. "People always want something to connect it to, but rape just happens when it happens."
— Edited by Melinda Weaver
Jewish student gets threatening e-mail
By Brandon Stinnett
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Jason Hahn sat at his computer desk late Sunday evening and logged on to the Internet to check a homework grade from earlier in the week before going to bed. But the routine task took an extraordinary turn when the Memphis freshman received a threatening instant message from someone he had never met.
The message read, "Hail Hitler. I'm going to stick you in the Jew oven. I am Hitler, and I'm going to kill you. I'm back from the grave."
Angry and scared, Hahn, who is Jewish, filed a police report the next morning. Particularly unnerving for Hahn was not knowing who the sender was or how to contact him or her.
"I knew none of my friends would say something like that." he said.
Hahn called his mother in Memphis and told her about the incident. Hahn said his mother suspected the perpetrator may have been someone they knew and called his 14-year-old cousin, who confessed to having his friend send the message as a "toke."
Although relieved that the sender had been found and that it was not meant as a serious threat, Hahn said he was still upset and called his cousin.
"I told him how serious it was and that it was not a ioke." he said.
Police are still investigat ing the incident, Hahn said he didn't plan to pursue
Sgt. Mike Patrick of the Lawrence Police Department said crimes committed on the internet created problems.
any legal action. He does,
however, intend to confront
the sender when he visits
Memphis later this week.
This is not the first Internet-related crime to hit the University. In January 2000, a 22-year-old male student received an anonymous threatening email that read, "You're going to die really soon."
“It’s difficult in that you don't know where the origin is from until it is investigated,” Patrick said.
One month later, another 22-year-old male student received an e-mail from an unknown sender who threatened to stab him.
Patrick said Internet crimes remained a rarity despite an increasing number of people with access to computers.
"We can't say that one crime is not as serious as another," he said. "The nature of the crime is what deems it to be serious."
Patrick said threats made on the Internet were no different than threats made face-to-face or in writing.
"I think it's a small problem," Hahn said. "His words mean nothing unless he actually does something. My only fear was not knowing who the person was." — Edited by Joy Pilarese
"I can't recall any other specific Internet-type crime that we've had in the recent past," he said.
Hahn said the incident would not affect his desire to use instant messaging in the future.
Librarian dies of brain aneurysm
Funeral services planned for Friday
By Brooke Hesler
writer@kanson.com
Kansas staff write
Funeral services for Mary Rosenbloom, external relations librarian, will be held at 4 p.m. Friday at First Methodist Church, 946 Vermont St.
Rosenbloom, who died on Monday after suffering a brain aneurysm, is survived by her husband Joshua Rosenbloom, instructor in economics, and three sons ranging in ages from seven to 10. She was 43 years old.
Rosenbloom suffered the
Rosenbloom: died of brain aneurysm on Monday
aneursyum Saturday night at the end of a Lawrence Civic Choir per-
he said. "She was a part of other people."
formance in which she was participating. Bill Crowe, Spencer librarian, was Rosenbloom's friend. He described her as a woman who cared passionately about students. "She wasn't apart from other people."
He said students might not know Rosenbloom by name, but he imagined many would recognize her face.
"She loved working with the students," he said. "She would help them in any way that she could."
"She loved those kids," he said.
"She was a great person, and she will be missed."
Crowe said above all, Rosenbloom was a deeply devoted daughter, wife and mother to her three young sons — whom she frequently talked about.
Crowe said Rosenbloom loved books and music. She was recently appointed interim music and dance librarian at the Gorton Music and Dance Library. She worked at the University for 13 year as external relations librarian, reference librarian and bibliographer.
University libraries, said Rosenbloom's death was an enormous loss to the University and Lawrence communities. She said the department was devastated.
"Mary was a lovely, warm person," Rholes said. "She was very full of energy and always very enthusiastic."
She remembered Rosenbloom as a talented writer and singer.
Police transported Rosenbloom to Lawrence Memorial Hospital at approximately 9 p.m. Saturday, where a brain aneurysm was diagnosed. Just before midnight she was transferred to the KU Medical Center where she was treated. She died around 12:30 a.m.
Julia Rholes, assistant dean of
Players get the hollers. KU keeps the dollars
Joshua Rosenbloom could not be reached for comment.
- Edlined by Matt Dougherty
Allen Fieldhouse vibrates with roars from the throats of 16,300 fans when KU's Kenny Gregory catches Jeff Carey's hail mary attempt near the top of the backboard and dunks it at the buzzer.
"Even in the wintertime," Emma Gregory said. "That's how much he loved the game. We would look outside and Kenny was out there in the snow playing basketball."
Their son Kenny spent years in that driveway perfecting his jump shot.
As the players run to the locker room for halftime, men in cashmere sweatervests and tasseled loafers line up at tables to buy posters and $50 jerseys featuring the names of their favorite Jayhawks. They won't find a Jersey with Gregory's name on it, however. He refused to give permission, a small protest against the pittance players receive in a sport that earns millions of dollars.
The Jayhawks beat Colorado 91-79 that night, but coach Roy Williams and his assistants were the only people on the bench who got a paycheck for their efforts.
Kansas basketball raked in almost $4.75 million this year — an average of $395,000 for each of its 12 scholarship players — but players didn't see a dime. They were rewarded only with tuition and room and board, valued at about $15,000 a year for out-of-state residents and about $9,000 a year for Kansas residents.
"I just felt like it was a situation where people were making enough money off of us anyway, so I decided not to let them put my name on their jerseys. It's the only thing we have control over."
In contrast, players in the NBA have a collective bargaining agreement with team owners that guarantees players receive 61 percent of league income. If college basketball played by those same rules, each KU player this year would get about $230,000 for his efforts.
An orange, scuffed basketball clinks through a chain-link net in the driveway of Gomas and Emma Gregory's modest home in Columbus, Ohio.
Gregory made his nationwide television debut at the age of 18 as the leading scorer in the McDonald's High School All-American game. This year he became a TV star, thanks to KU's 18 nationally televised games and ESPN's replays of his thunderous dunks, but he is tired of being used.
Although few players go on to play for pay in the NBA, many fail to complete the college degree that the NCAA says can be their only pay for playing before adoring fans in sold-out arenas and on national television. During their college years, players complain they have to dip into their own savings or rely on family support to pay for living expenses, even though the University and the NCAA are making millions exploiting their athletic talents.
Gregory pulled the plug on an Athletics Department plan to profit from his name without him reaping any of the benefits. He refused to let it sell $50 jerseys or $10 posters sporting his name. He said he would have gone along with it if he would have been compensated because that would have helped his living situation.
He said he was comfortable knowing his value to fans without needing jersey and poster sales to remind him. Autograph hounds were enough proof for Gregory, and he eagerly signed every T-shirt and slip of paper offered.
"That was something I didn't want to do." Gregory said. "I won't say I was pressured, but people asked me about it, and I just didn't want to do it even though everyone else on the team did."
Perks and pains
By Chris Wristen
Taking his game from the driveway to Allen Fieldhouse brought a whole new set of NCAA rules that Gregory was forced to follow. They specified how much money he could earn while working a summer job, where he could live and even what gifts his friends could give him.
Every aspect of Gregory's college life has been regulated by NCAA
Every cent associated with a Kansas basketball scholarship goes toward academics. A full out-of-state athletics scholarship is valued at $14,805.50 per year; $9,120.59 for tuition; $4,000 for room and board and $1,687.91 for books, tutors at the Hale Achievement Center and student fees for yearbooks and bus passes. Instate scholarships are worth $8,040.50.
FALSE. The restis were a pain, he said, and the benefits were few.
That's as far as the dollar stretches.
Plane tickets, money, cars, even trophies or plaques valued at more than $150 are not allowed because the NCAA says those benefits might corrupt a student-athlete's amateur status. That status, the NCAA claims, keeps academics as players' top priority, and no their sport.
Gregory and his teammates play on national television, are revered by fans on campus and rub elbows with wealthy donors to KU's athletic programs, but NCAA rules prohibit paying for anything they might want or need, whether its $30 for an oil change or $160 for new tires; $15 for a movie and fast food meal; $60 for long distance phone calls to mom; $200 a month for laundry and dry-cleaning; or even $300 for plane tickets to fly home to Columbus for Thanksgiving or Christmas.
Williams says his players do deserve more than they're given for their talents. He has been a longtime supporter of increasing the value of athletic scholarships to compensate for additional living expenses.
Gregory, like most physically active athletes his age, likes to eat and often gets hungry between meals. If he wants a snack that's not available at Mrs. E's, where he has a board contract, he has to pay for it out of his own pocket.
His scholarship doesn't pay for clothing, either, such as the suits Williams requires his players to wear when the team travels. NCAA rules require players to purchase that suit themselves, as well as any other clothes they need. Gregory usually wears his gray Kansas Basketball sweat suit to class because it's comfortable and it eliminates having to buy another day's wardrobe.
"We can make the scholarship a better scholarship and make it cover the true cost of matriculation." Williams said. "Every academic scholarship at every institution has an item that says 'miscellaneous expense.' The basketball scholarship should say the same thing.
"They're getting a great thing when they're getting their educa-
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