THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.100, NO.122
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TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1990
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Student to file complaint in SAE incident
By Eric Gorski and Buck Taylor Kansan staff writers
A KU student who claims she was struck and racially scurred early Friday at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, said she was with the university today, she said.
Ann Dean, St. Louis sophomore,
said she decided to file the complaint against an SAE member after meeting with KU officials yesterday.
Danny Kaiser, assistant dean of student life, said Dean could file a complaint against either an individual or a fraternity.
Matthew Willebnorg, St. Louis freshman, was suspended from the fraternity Sunday because of a confrontation with Dean about 2 a.m. Friday on the second-floor landing of the ASE house, 1301 W. Campus Road.
According to a Lawrence police report filed Friday, the suspect struck Dean's hand while she was delivering pizzas to the fraternity and knocked two pizzas to the floor. He yelled a racial slur against her and a vulgarism against Pizza Shuttle and threw a pizza at her back. A second police report said items were taken from Dean's car.
Bryce Petty, SAE president, said SAE members did not take the items from Dean's car.
In an emergency meeting of the fraternity Sunday afternoon, Willenborg and a witness to the incident said no racial comment was made. Willenborg was found guilty of conder unbecoming of a great gentleman."
Margaret Miller, assistant director of the organizations and activities center and coordinator of greek programs, said she met yesterday with Petty to discuss the fraternity's options.
Miller said she could not comment on SAE's choices in the matter until she gathered more information about Friday's incident.
Although Petty would not answer any questions last night about the incident, he said the SAE investigation was continuing.
"The fraternity realizes that whether the individual is guilty or not, a problem has occurred," he said. "He is minimally eager to work this thing out."
Dean said Willenborg should have been expelled from the fraternity.
Kaiser said he met with Dean yesterday to assist her and to discuss possible action. If a complaint is received by the University, a hearing probably would begin about two weeks after it is filed.
"I'm sorry I have to use them as an example. Hopefully, it won't happen anymore," she said. "He picked the wrong person to mess with."
Kaiser said the hearing would be informal with a three-person panel composed of University faculty and staff that would question both parties.
If an individual is found guilty, sanctions range from a warning to expulsion from the University, Kaiser said. The most serious sanction against an organization is withholding salary or means the University would not acknowledge the existence of the organization.
"Typically, a national organization takes down such a group," Kaiser said.
The Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic boards said they could not take action against the fraternity while the police and the University
See SAE, p. 9
Fraternity has had ups, downs at KU
Kansan staff writer
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SAE suspended one of its members Sunday because he was found guilty of "conduct unbecoming of a true gentleman."
This is not the first conflict in which the fraternity has been involved.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity has encountered problems but also has contributed to the Lawrence community during the past five
On June 19, 1985, the fraternity was suspended from registered organization status for violation of University regulations. Suspension is the most severe action the University can take against a fraternity.
At the time, the fraternity reported that the suspension was related to a hazing incident. The University requested that the national chapter of SAE revoke the fraternity's charter. However, the national chapter decided to place control of the KU chapter under the local SAE alumni commission.
Because of the suspension, the fraternity, which was founded locally in 1903, could not use the name of the
The fraternity returned to good standing with the University on June 4, 1986, after a series of reforms within the fraternity that included building its house, instituting stricter grade policies and eliminating hazing.
University, its facilities or participate in University sponsored events.
In Spring 1989, SAE began an adoption program, which eventually spread nationally. The goal of the program was to create the opportunity for more people to handicapped persons and members of college living organizations.
Gary Sampson, Red Cross instructor-trainer, said other fraternity members were involved as instructor aides.
The fraternity also has 29 certified Red Cross instructors who teach at CPR Saturday. The annual event, sponsored by the fraternity, teaches CPR to members of the Lawrence community.
The fraternity has contributed to the community through public service programs.
"They really make the project go." Sampson said. "They are involved in the planning process, and they underwrite some of the costs involved."
Spring for food
Keith Thorpe/KANSAN
Sara Hall, Lawrence senior, purchases daisies from Tim Cox, Des Molnes senior, donating money to establish a food bank in Lawrence. Two organizations, KU Students Against Hunger and
business fraternity Delta Sigma Pi, combined efforts for the daisy sale as part of this week's third annual KU War on Hunger.
New urban developments sadden Lawrence resident
By Lisa Ray
Special to the Kansan
For 42 years, Betty Prink looked out her living room window and enjoyed a grassy prairie and farmyard. She used it to bow down and immatures a trafficway.
The image is so unsetting that Brink, a widow, has decided to move a mile down the road. She is escaping because the land next to her home is part of the proposed site for an interchange on the new 14.2-mile, $88.2 million South Lawrence Trafficway, which will link Kansas Highway 10 with the Kansas Turnpike.
"I just didn't want to put money into the old house when the traffic way would be right next door," Brink said.
It means financial security because she is selling some of her land to the trafficway. But she is losing a precious part of her life.
In 1973, she and her husband, William Brink, were forced to sell their land so Clinton Lake could be created.
Urban Sprawl. It both surprises and angers Brink.
This is just the latest in a series of blows Brink has had to face when dealing with the development of Douglas County.
Then last year the county
decided to build the trafficway on property adjacent to hers.
Initially, it was to be nearby on land known as Elkins Prairie. But the prairie is the home of Meads Milkweed and the Prairie Fringed Orchid, both listed as endangered with the federal government.
"It's too bad when weeds take precedent over people," Brink said.
Last year Brink learned that the county planned to try to acquire some of her land for the trafficway.
Frank Hempen Jr., Douglas County director of public works, said that trafficway plans were not final and that no land had been purchased yet. But Brink isn't going to wait for the outcome.
She has turned her home over to her son, Bob. She fears that even the land the house is on ultimately may be taken by the county.
For now at least, Brink, 69, takes comfort in the fact that not everything changes. As she organizes her new home, she delights in watching a spring ritual: the annual migration of geese.
"I got used to the country gradually, and now I wouldn't want to live in town." Brink said.
her at first by buying small pieces of land, and soon she found out they were acquiring a large farm of more than 1,000 acres.
If he were alive, she said, he never would have wanted to move.
Brink said her husband tricked
"He loved the land and would never think of selling." Brink said.
Like many of their neighbors, the Brinks started out in the dairy business. And, like most, they were farmers. They made wheat and some feed crops.
When the Clinton Lake project began, Brink said she and her husband sued the county to get a fair price for their land. They also had to fight the county to prevent it from taking a corner of land separated from the rest of their land by a road.
She thinks she now is more prepared for the battle over the trafficway and will make sure she knows how to handle if she has no choice to sell.
The Brinks won their case. She said a judge told them he could see no reason for the county to take the piece of land.
"I learned you should never take their first offer," Brink said. "They don't consider people. Unless you experience losing your land, you really don't know how it feels."
Iraqis claim they possess gas weapons
The Associated Press
BAGHADAD, Iraq — Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said yesterday for the first time that his country had deadly binary nerve gas weapons, and he threatened to use them on Israel if the Jewish state attacked Iraq.
Binary weapons, usually artillery shells or missile warheads, contain two relatively safe compounds that combine to produce toxic nerve gases. They are outlawed under a 1925 treaty.
Iraq already is considered a front-runner in a Middle East drive to develop arsenals of long-range and surface-to-surface missiles. Its development of chemical weapons and possibly nuclear arms has raised fears of an arms race in the volatile region.
In Israel, government officials warned yesterday that Israel would retaliate if Hussein used chemical weapons against it.
The U.S. State Department denounced Hussein's chemical weapons战说“inflammatory, irresponsible and outrageous."
Mussen, in a speech broadcast by Baghdad Radio, denied that Iraq had nuclear weapons. Concerns about this were raised last week by the interception in London of 40 Iraqi-bound trigger devices that officials said were designed for nuclear bombs.
Lithuania invites Kremlin to negotiate
The Associated Press
MOCSW — Lithuania's president yesterday invited Kremlin officials to Lithuania to discuss the republic's secession drive and struck a deal. Lithuania did not extend its gradual, not immediate, full independence.
While government officials sought a compromise solution to the dispute, 1,000 pro-independence demonstrators rallied at the Lithuanian office to protest its occupation by Soviet soldiers.
Washington criticized Moscow for ordering all 100 foreign journalists in the republic to leave by yesterday.
There was no immediate response from Moscow to the invitation from President Vytautas
with Lithuania's March 11 declaration of independence.
Landersberg told Lithuanian legislators that officials faced political difficulties in dealing
Gorbachev faces independence movements in several of the Soviet Union's 15 republics. Lithuania and its Baltic neighbors, Estonia and Latvia, were annexed after the Soviets took control of them under the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1940.
"Theereference it is essential to look for a way of helping them and ourselves," he said in comments carried on Lithuanian Radio and moni-
tary by the British Broadcasting Corp. in London.
The Lithuanian declaration of independence "may seem to some people . . . a demand that power be handed over the very next day," Landsberrs said.
Instead, Landsbergis told legislators the republic had stated how it would consolidate its
independence by means of agreements and a gradual takeover of certain functions.
Gorbachev has said talks on independence could take place only if Lithuania renounced its declaration of independence. He has pressured the republic to do so by sending Red Army soldiers to take over public buildings in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius.
Refusal to take back the declaration of independence may result in "grave consequences for all of us." Gorbachev said in
In a telegram sent to Gorbachev yesterday morning, Landsberg indicated that legislators would debate a full response, and he invited a petition in the discussion to explain Moscow's stand.
Landsbergis also sent a delegation to Moscow in hopes of starting negotiations in the Soviet capital.
UNLV rolls over Duke in championship game
The Associated Press
DENVEP — The NCAA's ultimate Rebel won its biggest prize.
UNLV ended the tournament of thrills and close finishes with the largest margin of victory in a championship game, defeating Duke 103-78
UNLV became the first team to score more than 100 points in the championship game. It also is the first preseason No. 1 to win the title
Jerry Tarkanian, the coach who fought the NCAA in the courts for the past 15 years, guided UNLV to its first national title, and Duke remained the school with the most frustrating of postseason records.
since North Carolina in 1982. The Rebels are the first Western team to win since UCLA in 1975.
They did it with the style they have made famous — tenacious man-to-men defense — as they rudely Duke, a team known for its savvvy and poise.
"Our team was overmatched today," Duke coach Mike Krzewskiw said. "They are more athletic than we are. They never let down. They're better than we are, especially when they're playing like that. We lost to the best team in the country playing at their best."
And they were at their best from
See NCAA, p. 13