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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Friday, March 16,2001
Sports: The Jayhawks will see some familiar faces when they play Cal State Northridge today.
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Inside: Students prepare for spring break activities.
(USPS 650-640) • VOL. 111 NO. 108
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Student housing delays decision on new proctor at Watkins Hall
By Cassio Furtado
writer @kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
A delay in a decision on Watkins Scholarship Hall's next proctor created controversy among residents about whether it related to an ongoing lawsuit hall residents have against the University of Kansas and Bank of America.
Jennifer Scott, current Watkins proctor, said both candidates for the position — Kaliil Kupler, Salina junior, and Aidan Loveland, Lawrence junior — received phone calls from the Department of Student Housing yesterday telling them the decision, which was reached last Sunday and scheduled to be announced yesterday, would be re-evaluated and delayed.
Scott said student housing delayed the announcement because Kuiper was involved in the lawsuit.
"They're questioning her participation in the lawsuit." Scott said.
Kuiper, who has lived at Watkins since Spring 1999, said she was disappointed with student housing. She said her involvement in the lawsuit showed that she was involved with Watkins.
"I want what's best for the hall," she said.
I want what's best in the mail," she said. Kate said didn't learn any similar case in the history of the hall.
"I'm assuming they are unhappy with what was supposed to be the permanent decision," she said.
Scott said that student housing normally checked whether the nominees had violated any of the halls' policies and approved the nominees if they had no violations.
She said neither Kuiper nor Loveland had violated the hall's rules.
"The only thing is that Kaili is a participant in the lawsuit." Scott said.
The hall's selection committee's members are Scott; Zora Mulligan, scholarship hall director; Jennifer Morris, Olathe freshman; and Dan Suitor, complex director for the scholarship halls.
Scott said Suitor had expressed concern that Kuiper was involved in the hall's preservation committee and in the lawsuit against the University and Bank of America. Suitor declined to comment on the case.
"It's a personnel matter." he said.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said the recommendations made by the selection committee were just a part of the input that the department received before deciding who would be the new proctor.
Stoner said he didn't know when student housewould make an announcement.
He said the decision had been delayed because he hadn't received enough input.
"the timetable has flipped a little bit," he said.
Scott said that even though most residents still didn't know about the episode, those who knew were unsatisfied with student housing's action.
"The ones who know are very upset that hous ing wants to override our decision," Scott said. Edited by Courtney Carrière.
16-year-old driver sentenced
Scott faces 30 months in correctional facility
By Lauren Brandenburg
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
accident Sept. 16.
Family and friends of Bland and Sean Scott, the driver who pleaded no contest two weeks ago to an involuntary manslaughter charge for the death, filled the Johnson County courtroom yesterday, forcing chairs to be removed to make room for more people to stand. It was difficult to hear the sentence over the sobbing and sniffling in the room.
A 16-year-old Shawnee boy was sentenced yesterday to 30 months in a youth correctional facility and 24 months of aftercare for the death of lifelong Lawrence resident Felicia "Lisa" Bland in a car
Before Judge Janetelle Sheldon sentenced Scott, she said she could
not replace the loss of the victim,
fulfill the community's loss or
restore Scott's life to the way it
was before the accident.
After explaining the sentence and its required aftercare conditions of community programs such as the Teen Advisory Council and the Wrong of Passage program, she told Sean that the sentence satisfied no one.
"It doesn't make me happy to sentence you, and it doesn't make the family happy to hear it," she said.
"But you did something very, very wrong, and there is a consequence." She then ordered that Scott be taken to the detention center.
Scott was driving to his girlfriend's home in Lenexa when he hit Scott. He had been drinking earlier in the day at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house, 1540 Louisiana St., and the Wheel, 507 W. 14th St., with his brother, Mike, who was a pledge.
the case was "sad all around." She explained that aftercare would be like a probation, and it would include the Alcohol S.T.E.P. programs and a DUI victim panel.
She had asked for a sentence of 24 months in the youth correctional facility and reminded the judge that the state could have asked for a waiver that would have put Scott's case in the court's adult division, which could have
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Rolling down the river
Megan Spielbusch, Overland Park sophomore, and Mary Gilliland, Edmond, Okla., freshman, push off from the shore at Clinton Lake Tuesday. The boat is one of two concrete practice canoes used by the concrete canoe队. The women's team will race Saturday, April 28 in Fayetteville, Ark. Photo by Katie Moore/KANSAN
Engineers strive to perfect concrete canoe
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
By Sarah Warren
ever to paddle a concrete canoe.
Four young women scrambled into canoes that sat on the bank at Clinton Lake. They have to beat the sun and have only an hour and a half of sunlight left.
They grabbed paddles and seat cushions, quarreled over who would get the dirty seat cushions, threw everything into the two boats and padded into the middle of the Clinton Lake Marina as the horizon began to swallow the sun.
These four young paddlers are engineers on a mission — they want to be the best
That's right, they — along with their four male counterparts — will paddle a concrete canoe constructed by a team of about 30 KU students Saturday, April 28 at the Midwest region's American Society of Civil Engineers and MasterBuilders Concrete Canoe Competition Thursday, April 26 to April 28 in Fayetteville, Ark.
This is the 26th year for the concrete canoe team. Renee Scholz, Atchison senior and a head canoe designer, said the team was doing everything possible to make this year's canoe a winner after placing third in last year's regionals.
went to the national competition this past summer in Golden, (Colo.)," she said. "We wanted to get some ideas from the national level."
"There were about four or five of us that
Jen Jones, St. Louis senior and secondyear team member, said she hoped the team could regain its former glory. She said a decrease in support and participation had weakened the team, but there had been an increase in both this year.
Making a canoe is a difficult endeavor, even for the civil engineers who make up the majority of those involved in the project. Making a concrete canoe is even more difficult. Armed with the ideas gained at the national competition and a new boat-
designing program, the team has made some changes from last year's model.
"The shape is completely different from last year," Scholz said. "The whole construction process is different this year."
The team won't know for sure how this year's canoe will fare until the competition, though, because it has not practiced with it. The paddlers practice with concrete canoes from previous competitions.
At the regional competition, the team must submit a final paper, a skit, compete in five races — a sprint and a distance race for each sex and then a coed race — and
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Berkeley Flats tenants mad about cable dispute
By Cynthia Malakasis
writer @kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
DuVale, Lawrence resident, received a $300 concession from Berkeley Flats, 1123 Indiana St., in exchange for termination of basic cable service, which was offered free by the complex until October 2000. But DuVale said that neither he, nor the other 30 tenants who renewed their leases in May, nor those who then signed for the first time, were made aware upon signing that basic cable would no longer be part of the rent package.
Raymond DuVale received the financial compensation he was looking for from his apartment complex, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have hard feelings.
"No tenant was told that." "DuVale said."
"You can't do that. It's not ethical."
He said that both the Lawrence Apartment Guide and the Lead Apartment Guide listed free cable as a perk offered by Berkeley Flats in their 2000 and 2001 issues.
DuVale said a Sunflower Cablevision employee knocked on his door in October and notified him that the service — which up to then had been offered free by the complex — would be terminated unless he signed a contract with
Sunflower Cablevision and paid them for cable service.
"They used cable to their solicitation for year-leases," DuVale said.
He distributed a questionnaire to other tenants, which showed that none of the tenants who had lived there before May 2000 had been notified about the change in cable service.
Whitehead said the complex had not increased the rent price upon rent renewal in May as a way to make up for the loss of free cable service to residents. She also said cable was not a necessity, and residences could choose not to have it if they could not afford it.
Not having the finances or the time to pursue the issue legally, DuVale took other steps. He formed the Berkeley Flats Tenants Association and contacted the complex rental office, asking for retroactive financial relief in exchange for the termination of free cable service from October 2000 until the termination of his lease.
DuVale and Mandy Whitehead, the general manager of the complex who has since resigned, exchanged a series of letters.
Student trainer Lindsay Ace, Emporia senior, assists softball team member Megan Urahart, Showjunie junior, with stretching exercises. Ace is one of 33 students working as athletic trainers with University teams, area high schools and clinics. Photo by J. E. Wilson/KANSAN
Peter Engelman, an employee at Nolan Estate Services, which owns
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Student trainers build relationships with athletes
By Andrew Davies
Writer @ kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Rodney Johnson used to go to rowing practice twice a week at 6 a.m., but the Olathe senior was not a member of the rowing team.
He is one of 33 students working as athletic trainers with University teams, area high schools and clinics.
Johnson, who often rode in the boats during practice, said he enjoyed getting to know the athletes on the teams he had worked with.
"It took some time, but relationships by the end of that semester were really strong," he said.
The trainers, who usually work 20 to 30 hours a week in the training room, receive four hours of class credit but are not paid. These hours apply to 1,500 hours of clinical experience they must complete in order to take a certification exam given by the National Athletic Trainers' Association.
Lynn Bott, director of sports medicine for intercollegiate athletics, said students could take on more responsibility as they completed the classes and internships and accomplished skills in areas such as tapping, technique and rehabilitation.
Bott also said this was a time for
students to decide if they wanted a career in the field.
Student athletic trainers work with a different sport each semester.
They treat any injuries the athletes have before and after practice, stretch or tape the athletes, supervise rehabilitation and prepare water and other equipment for practice.
Larry Huff, Troy senior, is working his second season as a trainer and is working with the football team this semester.
Bott said the trainers were assigned to sports randomly, but that the program tried to give them at least one semester working with a high school and contact sport.
After practice, the student trainers give treatments and clean up the training room. They also take athletes to the doctor or hospital for more extensive treatment.
He said his favorite experience was working at Lawrence High School last spring.
"I enjoyed working at the high school because the high school students listened a little better. They respected the trainers more," he said. "And it was a good opportunity to work with limited resources."
Johnson said he liked working with the rowing team because he had more responsibility and traveled with the team more.
Athletes who work with the trainers say the trainers help keep their bodies as the season goes on. Erin Harrington, a member of the Kansas rowing team, said she appreciated the work the trainers do.
"Mostly they help us stretch and get water and ice for us," Harrington said. "They do a good job."
The student trainers usually begin working with the training staff in the fall semester of their junior year or after being admitted to the School of Education. They take four classes: organization and administration, management treatment and protocols, rehabilitation, and techniques of athletic training.
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