Tuesday, March 6, 2001
The University Daily Kansan
Section A • Page 3
Hammer time
Facilities Operations technicians Danny Mayeux and Don Craig break up the stairs behind Wescoe. The nice weather allowed construction workers to continue repairing the crumbling stairs around campus yesterday. Each section of stairs takes about one week to finish if the weather cooperates. Photo by Kyle Quillen/KANSAN
Man attempts to rob store
Police waited for him as he tried to escape
By Lauren Brandenburg
writer @kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
A man who had just attempted to rob Westiake Ace Hardware made his "escape" right into the arms of police Friday, Lawrence Police Det. John Lewis said.
Lewis explained the story this way:
A woman noticed a man who had parked in a handicapped parking place acting "weird" around the bank and ATM inside a Dillons store. The witness followed the man's truck to the hardware store at 601 Kasold Drive and flagged down an officer who was driving by while the man was inside the store.
Meanwhile, one of the store's employees came out to the parking lot to see why police were there and told them he thought the man was trying to steal sunglasses inside the store. The officers said they would wait for the man to leave the store, but the man came running out of the store right then directly toward them.
A clerk followed the man out of the store and told police the man had just tried to rob the business. The clerk said the man had given her a note written on an envelope that said he had a gun and wanted money. He told the clerk not to move or call anyone.
The clerk said she could not give the man the money, and he said he would have to leave.
Police never found a gun. Later, the man tried to run off while he was handcuffed at the Douglas County Judicial and Law Enforcement Center, 111 E. 11th St., but officers tackled him in the 1100 block of Rhode Island Street, Lewis said.
Officers also discovered the man's truck had been stolen from Missouri and contained items that had been stolen in a residential burglary in Shawnee County, Lewis said.
Nathan Hawk, a floor supervisor at Westlake, said he thought the man must have been desperate to rob a busy store in broad daylight.
"It was a really strange day," he said.
Hawk said he and-another store employee became suspicious when the man asked them if the store sold sunglasses.
"We thought it was kind of strange
"Situations like that can go very wrong. Fortunately, he was not a professional."
Nathan Hawk Floor supervisor at Westlake
because he had sunglasses on," Hawk said. "We kept an eye on him, and when he approached the cashier with the envelope, it went downhill for him from there."
Hawk said employees were surprised by the cashier's reaction to the note. He said the cashier had thought the note was a joke and that another employee had put the man up to it.
"We were lucky," Hawk said. "Situations like that can go very wrong. Fortunately, he was not a professional."
The suspect, Daniel Allen Young of Kansas City, Mo., was charged yesterday with attempted aggravated robbery and obstruction of official duty. His bond was set at $20,000 on the charges, and he was also being held on a $10,000 bond for charges in another jurisdiction.
Police uniform and ID missing
— Edited by Jennifer Valadez
Two Haskell students charged with the theft
By Lauren Brandenburg
writer @kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
A Lawrence Police Department uniform was still missing yesterday after two people broke into an off-duty officer's car downtown over the weekend, Det. John Lewis said.
At one point, officers heard a comment about going past Dillons, Lewis said. He said the officers did not know which Dillons store the people were referring to, but an officer noticed two people walking through the parking lot of the Kwik Shop, 1846 Massachusetts St.,
Lewis said two people had stolen the officer's gun, 16 rounds of ammunition, police radios, a uniform and the officer's identification from the car and were using the radios early Saturday morning.
Still, he said the missing uniform
"They were saying shots were fired and officers were down," Lewis said.
He said the department knew the people saying those things were not authorized to use the radios.
which is directly across the street from the Dillons store at 1740 Massachusetts St.
The two men kept turning around and looking at the officer, Lewis said, which made the officer suspicious. When the officer got closer, he noticed a microphone from one of the police radios sticking out of one of the men's pocket, Lewis said.
The suspects, two Haskell Indian Nations University students, Sky Betsellie and Mark Roberts, were charged yesterday in Douglas County District Court with burglary to a motor vehicle, criminal damage and theft above $500 but under $25,000, a jail representative said. Betsellie's bond was set at $1,500, and Roberts' bond was set at $1,000.
Police recovered the gun, which the men had hidden by the railroad tracks near the 800 block of East 15th Street, Lewis said. The two suspects told police where to find the gun. Police also recovered the ammunition and radios, but not the uniform.
Sgt. Mike Pattrick said he believed the identification was missing yesterday, too, but was not sure.
was not a great concern.
"It would obviously be a concern if somebody tried to use the uniform in the capacity of an officer." Patrick said. "But nine out of 10 times when an officer stops you, he's going to be in a marked car."
If an officer showed up at a person's door, it could be a concern, said Katie Mitchell. Wichita senior.
"It seems kind of disturbing that someone could impersonate an officer because people trust officers, and they are supposed to be a person you could safely trust," Mitchell said.
Diversity affected by tennis cut
She said she would not normally expect a uniformed officer to be a person with criminal intentions whom she shouldn't trust.
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Although Mitchell said she had heard that it was important to check someone's badge number and verify it with the department when approached by an officer, she said it would probably not be the first thing on her mind if an officer approached her. But she said she would take more precautions knowing a uniform had been stolen.
"I think after hearing it was stolen, I would be more cautious," she said.
Edited by Doug Pacey
While the University may lose many of its tennis players to other schools, it will lose diversity as well. Four of the nine athletes are international students from Mexico and Brazil. However, there were no international students on the men's swim team.
The balancing costs of increasing scholarships and travel costs led to both programs' demise, which will cut $600,000 from next year's budget and $3.6 million during the next five years. Frederick said at Sunday's University of Kansas Athletic Corporation meeting.
The loss of diversity isn't as important as the loss of tradition and history, said Echagarav.
The Kansas squad finished fourth last season behind three top 25 teams, while the football team finished ninth in the conference this season.
Rodrigo Echagaray junior tennis player
"We are paying the price for a poor administration"
Echagaray said it was hard to understand how the tennis team got cut and the football team received an upgrade in its stadium.
"The administration did it backwards. They built a really nice football stadium and expected people would show up." Echagaray said. "They need a good football team first that wins games. We are paying the price for a poor administration."
Edited by Joy Pilgreen
Students hope classes will improve test scores
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"MCAT is a really, really, really hard test," Meitl said. "It tests five different areas, so very few people can get a good score on their own."
John Trombold, a Leawood junior who also is in Ziglari's MCAT class, said he decided to take the class because he needed the extra edge it would give him.
"It's pretty competitive to get into medical school," Trombold said. "The better score you get, the better school you'll get in — that's the bottom line. There aren't nearly enough positions for all who apply, to begin with."
Erik Stordahl, manager of Kaplan Test Prep, 1000 Massachusetts St., said the popularity of test prepara
tion classes had increased in the past decade because of increased interest in graduate schools of law, medicine and business.
"The issue here is that every year since 1990, the scores have been going up, and the number of students applying has risen as well." Stordahl said. "However, the number of seats in each school has remained the same or even declined."
And, Meitl said, it was better for students to spend the $600 to $1,300 for a six- to 16-week prep class than to risk not getting accepted to a professional school.
"If you don't get into grad school right away, you have to wait an entire year before you can take it again," Meitl said. "That 12
But Trombold said he was more concerned about getting good scores so that he could get into a better program.
months of your life is definitely worth the cost of the course."
"I realized that the test was really hard and the better I did, the better school I'd get into," he said. "For me, it was the investment of getting into a good school so that I could be a better doctor."
Ziglari said in addition to finding a spot in a graduate program, she was looking to better herself, and wasn't worried about those she'd be competing against.
"My greatest competition is myself," Ziglari said. "Everybody else is in the same boat as me."
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