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University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 19, 1990
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KU student dies of meningitis
By Steve Bailev
and Christine Reinolds
A KU student hospitalized March 8 with meningitis died March 9 at a Kansas City, Mo., hospital.
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 some cases, in children.
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 was 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.
"We are thankful for the University," Phyllis Zieke 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."
Mr. Zielke, 1988 graduate of Goodland High School, lettered in football, basketball and track. He was selected as a class 4 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.
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 and off the football field..
Mason said he was impressed by the number of friends that postponed spring break plans to attend school.
"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 was always happy. He had a strong work ethic and was very dedicated."
"I think it is a rite to him that so many friends would drive all the way to Goodland to attend the event."
Phyllis Zielke 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 Tulisa, Okla., and Juanita Scott of Boonville, Mo., for the fifth annual Twin Fair.
Med Center researches twins' gene inheritance
Kansan staff writer
Bv Mark McHugh
"Twins offer us a unique opportunity to look at how genetic and social factors influence behavior," said Michael Crawford, director of the Midwest Twin Registry at KU.
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.
The twins were given tests, including blood pressure and body fat measurements, fingerprinting and osteoporosis screening.
Coleta Bryant and Juanna Scott, who are identical twins, came from Missouri and Oklahoma for the fair.
Bing Hart, coordinator of the Twin Registry, said that about 72 people underwent testing.
The two arrived in matching outfits.
"We planned it," Scott said.
They, said, family, member.
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," he said. "I just didn't quick double-take that you don't normally do with other people."
Identical twins Melissa Burnam and Michele Jeannain arrived with their younger sisters Pamela and Kate, who lived in 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 sisters took blood-pressure tests, which revealed marginal differences between each twin.
"The greater your genetic similarity, it's more than likely your blood pressures will be similar," said Jans Hutchinson, professor of physical anthropology at University of Houston. She was one of about ten researchers at the fair.
Hutchison said, however, that twins might not always have the same blood pressures. Environmentally, their diets are 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 accused 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 also have have 46 bomb threats and numerous other incidents.
"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."
Aref Enayetullah, Dhaka, Bangladesh, sophomore, said he encountered violence last week when he received a letter to Louisiana on a Greyhound bus.
On Saturday, six new incidents of violence were reported, including one in Fayetteville, N.C., where a union vice 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. Col. Adam Bunting. The 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 and that service was almost back to normal.
Despite the picketers, Enayetulah said Grevhound's service was good.
James Hoercht, assistant manager of the Lawrence Greyhound termi-
nium W. Sixth St., said there had been no kickers 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 contributed
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
Grissom says he's not guilty of charges
Special to the Kansan
Bv Rich Cornell
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 Christine Rusch and Theresa Brown. No bodies have been found.
In orange jail clothes and with braided hair, Grissom also pleaded not guilty during the arraignment to charging, 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, placed outside of Johnson County, where 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 years of being in Dallas, Grissom said he could tell him everything about the killings.
Grissom said investigators would not find the womens' bodies in Missouri 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 did not require any special 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.
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.
"He's intelligent and very articulate." she said.
"It just looks bad for young girls to be snatched up." Coe said.
Coe also criticized the investigation and prosecution of Grissom's case. She said that Johnson County she thought they had an image to protect.
"Had he been somebody of another ethnic background, they wouldn't have pursued it as much as they have." Oe said.
Although investigators had evidence linking Grissom to the disappearances, she said, they overreacted in their effort to deter other young Black men from harming young white women in the county.
"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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