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University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 19, 1990
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KU student dies of meningitis
By Steve Bailey
and Christine Reinolds
A KU student hospitalized March 8 with meningitis died March 9 at a Kansas City, Mo., hospital.
in its great 3 at a Kansas City, Mo. hospital.
Jeffrey Theodore Zilake, 20, St. Francis sopho
more, died about 10:15 a.m. at St. Luke's Hospital, said fellow Sigma Nu fraternity member Matthew Druten.
Meningitis is a bacterial infection that inflames the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord. It can cause painful complications and, in severe cases, death.
some cases, coma and death.
"Jeff had a dynamic personality," said Druten, Overland Park sophomore. "He was very involved in sports. In his spare time he would hang out at the house and play basketball.
"He wasreal friendly and easy to get along with. His dad was his best friend, and he liked working on their farm. He wanted to grow up, go to law school and maybe return to Goodland High School
to coach football."
Memorial services were held March 12 at the First United Methodist Church in Goodland, where a memorial fund has been set up in his name. A memorial fund also is being set up at the Sigma Nu fraternity. Mr. Zielke was buried in Goodland Cemetery.
He is survived by his parents, Ted and Phyllis Zielke of St. Francis.
About 40 fraternity members attended the service, Druten said. The members had planned to leave for Padre Island on Friday but stayed to attend the service.
Mr. Zielke, 1988 graduate of Goodland High School, lettered in football, basketball and track. He was selected as a class A4 first-team, all-state linebacker as a senior and won all-league honors as a running back and as a basketball player at Goodland High School.
"We are thankful for the University," Phyllis Ziekel said. "They have been so supportive and kind to us. It was Jeff's dream to go to KU. The Sigma Nu men were wonderful."
He entered KU as a pre-business major in 1988.
and Phyllis Zielke. He played on the KU football team as a walk-on his freshman year. He was forced to quit last spring when he was diagnosed as having lupus, a chronic, inflammatory disease that could be caused by viral infection or dysfunction of the immune system.
Glen Mason, KU football coach, said Mr. Zielke had great potential on and off the football field.
"Jeff was a tremendous person," Mason said. "The one thing that really stood out about him was his positive attitude. He always had a smile on his face and he looked up to me with a strong work ethic and was very dedicated."
Mason said he was impressed by the number of friends that postponed spring break plans to attend
"I think it is a tribute to him that so many friends would drive all the way to Goodland to attend the wedding."
Phyllis Zieke said that in high school and college her son exhibited leadership. He was student body president and homecoming king in his senior year.
"He enjoyed people immensely and loved sports," she said, "We will miss him."
Ann Valentine registers Coleta Bryant of Tulsa, Okla., and Juanita Scott of Boonville, Mo., for the fifth annual Twin Fair.
Med Center researches twins' gene inheritance
Bv Mark McHugh
Kansan staff writer
KANSAS CITY, Kan. Researchers at the University of Kansas Medical Center were seeing double this weekend as twins from the Midwest came to participate in genetic and environmental factors research at the fifth annual Twin Fair.
“Twints offer us a unique opportunity to look at how genetic and environmental factors interact,” she said. “We also work with the Midwest Twin Registry at KU.
The twins were given tests, including blood pressure and body fat measurements, fingerprinting and osteoporosis screening.
Bing Hart, coordinator of the Twin Registry, said that about 72 people underwent testing.
Coleta Bryant and Juanitsa Scott, who are identical twins, came from Missouri and Oklahoma for the fair.
The two arrived in matching outfits.
"We planned it," Scott said.
"We said, family, membe.
They said family members, including their parents, mistook one for the other.
Oklahoma State Sen. Ben Robinson, R-Muskogee, came with them and underwent testing as well. Robinson, who is Scott's son, said he still confused his mother with his aunt.
"In fact, this morning I wasn't sure whose side I was walking on." Robinson said, "more of a fear than a talent to normally do with other people."
Identical twins Melissa Burnam and Michele Jeannin arrived with their younger sisters Pamela and Marcia, who are fraternal, or non-identical twins.
Jeannin said she had not heard of another family with pairs of fraternal and identical twins.
"It's through mom," Jeannin said. "She's the one with the lucky gene, I guess."
"The greater your genetic similarity, it's more than likely your blood pressures will be similar," said Janis Hutchinson, professor of anthropology at the University of Houston. She was one of about ten researchers at the fair.
The sisters took blood-pressure tests, which revealed marginal differences between each twin.
Hutchison said, however, that twins might not always have the same blood pressures. Environmentally related factors dual's nutrition, weight or exercise
Paige Johnson's facial dimensions will be compared to her twin's.
habits, contribute to the differences.
Ann Valentine, fair registrar,
said working with twins was interesting.
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Greyhound talks fail to end strike
By Bryce J. Tache
Kansan staff writer
Negotiations between Greyhound and its striking drivers broke down yesterday when company officials led the leaders of not controlling violence.
Greyhound Lines Inc. and the Amalgamated Council of Greyhound Local Unions on Saturday met for the first time in Tuscon, Ariz., for negotiations. The union presented a new proposal, which Greyhound said was unacceptable. Yesterday, talks broke off after about an hour.
Since March 2, there have been at least 14 shootings on Greyhound buses, one of which was fatal. There were also two other threats and numerous other incidents.
Aref Enayetullah, Dhaka, Bangladesh, sophomore, said he encountered violence last week when he beaten a police officer to Louisiana on a Greyhound bus.
"Every time the bus would pull into a station, there were six or seven picketers who would beat the bus," he said. "They had sticks in their hands. One guy spat through the window on the driver. They gave him a hard time, but he handled things very well."
On Saturday, six new incidents of violence were reported, including one in Payetteville, N.C., where a man in president beat a non-striking driver.
Fred Ingram, vice president of the union, struck Stanley Harvey, a Greyhound driver, on the side of the head while he was collecting tickets from boarding passengers, said Lt. Jeffrey Bodine, a police Police Department. A warrant was issued for Ingram's arrest, but his whereabouts are unknown.
Steve Scarpino, a Greyhound spokesman, said more talks between the company and union had not been scheduled.
"I was lucky," he said. "I didn't have to wait long at all. But I did hear people in the stations who were heading east and were having a lot of problems. They had to make a lot of changeovers."
He said that he could not speculate about why there had been so many violent incidents throughout the city. His service was almost back to normal.
Despite the picketers, Enayetullah said Grevhound's service was good.
James Hoecht, assistant manager of the Lawrence Greyhound terminal, 1401 W. Sixth St., said there had been kicksters or violence in Lawrence.
"Things are completely back to normal," he said. "There were some slight delays last week because of students leaving for spring break, but things are going fine."
The Associated Press
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
Grissom says he's not guilty of charges
Bv Rich Cornell
Special to the Kansan
OLATHE — Richard Grissom Jr. pleaded not guilty last week in district court in the killings of three Johnson County women.
Grissom is charged with the murders of Joan Butler, a 24-year-old Overland Park KU graduate, and 22-year-old LENEXa roommates Christmas Rusch and Theresa Brown. No bodies have been found.
In orange jail clothes and with braided hair, Grissom also pleaded not guilty during the arrarmation to stealing, skipping, burglary and theft charges.
District Court Judge Earle Jones scheduled a March 27 hearing to set Grissom's trial date.
Earlier in the week, Andrew Warren, deputy public defender, joined Johnson County office outside of Johnson County. Jones did not rule on Warren's motion.
Warren would not comment about his request, but during Grissom's preliminary hearing he said Grissom's defense had suffered because of extensive negative publicity and state-level politics.
During the preliminary hearing, an FBI agent testified that during eight hours of questioning in Dallas, Grissom told him everything about the killings.
Grissom said investigators would not find the women's body in Misia, because he knew the state had a death penalty and Kansas did not, the agent testified.
Before Kansas legislators voted on a bill that would legalize the death penalty, Gov. Mike Hayden, a death penalty advocate, said publicly that he had learned about Grissom's comments to the FBI agent. The bill was passed by state lawmakers and a law requiring a minimum 40-year sentence for first-degree murder.
Also last week, Carol Coe, Jackson
"He's got quite a lot of people who want to help him," she said.
County, Mo., legislator and a lawyer,
said she would defend Grissom if he
and his friends gathered enough
money to pay her.
"He's intelligent and very articu late." she said.
A friend of Grissom's asked Coe to represent Grissom, Coe said. Coe has advised Grissom about his case for several weeks, suggesting that he remain with his public defenders until hiring her.
"It just looks bad for young girls to be scratched down." Coe said.
Coe also criticized the investigation and prosecution of Grissom's case. She said that Johnson County brought they had an image to protect.
Although investigators had evidence linking Grissom to the disappearance, she said, they overreacted in their effort to deter other young Black men from harming young white women in the county.
"Had he been somebody of another ethnic background, they wouldn't have pursued it as much as they have." Coe said.
"From an investigative viewpoint, I see this as very typical," he said. "You deal with what you have to work with."
Johnson County Sheriff Fred Allen brand said that Coe's comments were unfounded and that the investigation was conducted properly.
Coe said she doubted that District Attorney Paul Morrison could convict Grissom without the victims' bodies.
"I think it's kind of comical that they say, 'We don't need bodies in this case,'" Coe said. "That would even baffle Perry Mason."
She predicted that a jury would not be able to decide whether Grissom was guilty because no bodies had been found.
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