Monday, January 22, 2001
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 3
Slaughtered cat found at complex
By Lauren Brandenburg
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
A KU student living at Meadowbrook Apartments said she was concerned about the brutal killing of a cat at the complex last week.
"It freaked me out just to think that someone living amongst us would do something like that," said Jenni Sweeten. Overland Park junior.
A groundskeeper for the complex discovered the cat Wednesday when he saw something that looked like pizza cheese and was going to put it in the dumpster, said Tony Frentrop, groundskeeper.
It turned out to be Mama Cat's intestines.
Frentrop said the cat, who recently had two kittens, was cut open from its pelvis to its throat, and its head was crushed. He and other maintenance workers at the complex had been taking care of the cat for about one or one-and-a-half years, he said.
"It was a really brutal death to a really nice cat." Frenton said.
Animal control workers described the scene outside the building as bloody. Lawrence police Sgt. Mike Patrick said he saw blood on vehicles, the side of a building, the parking lot, a balcony and part of a doorway.
After further investigation, police issued Brett Rizzo, a 23-year-old Lawrence resident, a notice to appear in court on misdemeanor charges of cruelty to animals and criminal damage, Pattrick said. He said getting the offender into the court system was the most officers could do when they had not witnessed the crime.
Rizzo did not live at the complex, Pattrick said, but he arrived while police were talking with the residents of the apartment where the blood was found. When officers obtained a warrant and searched the apartment, they found drugs, Pattrick said. He said the investigation was continuing and would not comment on the type or amount of the drugs discovered.
Frentrent said the cat's blood was splattered throughout the apartment.
An apartment manager, who did not give her name, said the right actions were being taken but would not comment any further.
Complex resident Stephanie Smith, Shawnee junior, said the incident was disturbing because many serial killers started out killing animals. She said she was concerned that anyone who treated an animal that way would do the same thing to a human.
"They purposefully did what they did to it," she said.
— Edited by Melissa Cooley
STUDENT SENATE
Senate to mull constituency bill
Bv Brooke Hesler
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Students will see more of their student senators if Justin Mills gets his way.
Mills, a holdover senator and Lansing senior, is in the process of redrafting a bill that Student Senate rejected last semester. The bill would require senators to attend one meeting a month related to their individual constituency groups.
"I think it will detour people who just want to join Senate for a resume booster," said Mills, co-sponsor of the bill. "I think some senators can go out and meet with constituency groups on their own, but I think other senators need that extra push."
Mills said he expected the bill to go to Senate committees Feb. 7 and full Senate Feb. 14 for a vote. He said the original bill would require senators to attend two meetings a month related to their constituency groups. The new bill will require senators to attend one meeting a month.
"A lot of people contacted me and said they'd be behind it if we revised it a little." Mills said.
Mills said one of the main complaints about the bill was that there was no way to enforce it. However, he said he and the other co-sponsors of the bill planned to look at options for enforcement, although they hadn't decided on what route to take.
"The biggest concern was who keeps track of who is attending the meetings," Mills said. "But while keeping track of attendance is important, it isn't the focus of the bill."
Dallas Rakestraw, a Nunemaker senator representing freshmen and sophomores, said the bill needed substantial revision before he would vote in favor of it.
Senators are held accountable to their constituency," Rakestraw, a Wichita sophomore, said. "Accountability has got to rest with the constituency, not Senate. If the constituency feels a senator is lying or not doing his or her job properly, they vote that senator out of office. Senate shouldn't."
rakesraw said the original bill promoted a system of liars because senators could have other people sign them in at the meetings and not attend.
"I just worry that the bill would punish the good senators who won't
What happened? A bill that would require student senators to attend two meetings related to their constituencies every month failed in Student Senate last semester.
CONSTITUENCY BILL
What's next: Justin Mills, holdover senator and co-sponsor of the bill, plans to rewrite the bill so that it requires senators to attend only one constituency meeting a month. He said he plans to introduce the new bill during Senate committee meetings Feb. 7.
lie." Rakestraw said. "The bad senators can just say they attended, but the senators who admit they didn't attend will be punished."
Mills said he didn't think lying would be a problem.
"I think people on Senate should be considered trustworthy to do what they said." Mills said.
Mills also said he expected Senate to pass the redrafted bill.
Josh Burdette, engineering senator and co-sponsor of the bill, said he also hoped it would pass.
"It should be interesting to see what happens this time around," he said.
Walker, Marshall lay out semester goals
— Edited by Jason McKee
By Brooke Hesler
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Ben Walker and Marlon Marshall want to go out with a bang.
Walker, Hutchinson senior and student body president, and Marshall, St. Louis senior and student body vice president, said they would like to change some things before their terms run out in April.
Walker said a goal this semester was to ensure the state continued to help pay the technology fee at the University of Kansas. Now, students pay a one-dollar-per-credit-hour technology fee each semester. The state matches that and pays two dollars per credit hour.
"Our hope was that the state would see how beneficial it is not just with research, but with everything here," Walker said.
He said he also hoped that a newspaper reader-
ship
program, now in its trial run,
w o u l d
become permanent. The pro gram would allow students to pick up several newspapers for free.
Walker said he was also working on an online off-campus housing guide that should be completed in February.
But Kansas Gov. Bill Graves didn't exclude that fee structure from his new budget proposal. Walker said he wanted to make sure the state continued to pay.
"I hope to see the program all the w a y through." Walker said.
Marshall said increasing minority recruitment and retention
was his top priority for the semester. He said he was working on a plan that would increase the number of minority students at the University.
"When you graduate from KU and you go out into the work force, it's a diverse environment." Marshall said. "At KU right now, it's not really like that. It's not that diverse."
Marshall
Walker
Marshall said he had studied minority recruitment and retention programs at other universities, particularly Big 12 universities. He said he had visited with members of other minority organizations on campus for suggestions. He also plans to meet with Chancellor Robert Hemenway later in the semester with ideas and possibly form a task force to tackle the issue.
"A lot has already been done, but there's still more we can do," he said.
Marshall said he also wanted to see a new discount service for students implemented. He said he wanted the service to offer discounts to all students who showed their KUID at local businesses. In exchange, the task force would advertise for the businesses.
Marshall headed the Senate task force that looked into the issue last semester. He said it found many retailers and local businesses that already had an agreement with Student Advantage, another discount provider. Marshall said by contract, the businesses weren't allowed to enter into any other student discount agreement.
— Edited by Courtney Croigmile
Students, public lead search for new Lied Center director
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
By Sarah Smarsh
The Lied Center is one step closer to hiring a new executive director, and University of Kansas students will have an opportunity to influence the final decision.
The center announced the names of three finalists Friday, from a search that has lasted since mid-summer. The candidates will be interviewed and tour the center in February and March. Then KU students and the general public will be able to meet the finalists, fill out comment sheets and express their opinions.
"We hope that more students will see the importance of the Lied Center and use their voice," said Toni-Marie Montgomery, KU Fine Arts Dean and
search committee chair. "It's an open process."
Montgomery said students might not realize the quality of the center, which was ranked among the Top 10 centers for university arts by International Arts Manager magazine in 1999.
Avraham Mor, Wilmette, Ill., senior and backstage technician at the Lied Center, said he hoped students would take the chance to help select the best candidate for such an influential position. He said the executive director controlled which acts to bring to the center.
Mor also said that this was a rare occasion for students.
"Seventy percent of people who go there are students," Mor said of Lied Center performances. "The director has to know what the kids like."
The finalists are Ellis Finger, director of the Williams Center for the Arts at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa.; Timothy Van Leer, executive director of the El Camino College Center for the Arts in Torrance, Calif.; and Evy Warshawski, executive director of the Ann Arbor Summer Festival in Ann Arbor, Mich.
"Students don't get a say in what professors they hire," he said. "The fact that they're doing this just shows how important it is."
"We're sure any one of them would lead the center in the direction we want to go, and hopefully would come up with some ideas for a new direction." Montgomery said.
She added that such a new direction might include broadening the Lied Center's reach to the Kansas City area.
The search for a new director came
PUBLIC MEETINGS
What: Open meetings are scheduled for each of the three candidates for the post of director of the Lied Center. The meetings will be in 123 Murphy Hall. The times are:
Evy Warshawski — Feb. 1 from 2:30 to 1:00 p.m.
Timothy Van Leer — Feb. 13
from 2:30 to 3:20 p.m.
Ellis Finger — March 1 from 2:30 to 3:20 p.m.
after Jacqueline Davis announced her resignation in spring of 2000. Fred Pawlicki will continue to serve as interim director until the new director begins July 1.
- Edited by Courtney Craigmile
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