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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1997
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SECTION A VOL.103, NO.91
McCollum freshman injured after food fight
A food fight in Ekdahl Dining Commons on Friday may have led to the aggravated battery of a McCollum Hall resident.
michael Admiral, Leavenworth freshman, had a knock on his door around 10 p.m. Friday, KU police said. Two male suspects then entered the room and struck the victim.
Admiral received a blow to the top of his head with a candy jar. He was eventually taken by a friend to Lawrence Memorial Hospital where he received six staples to mend the gash on his head.
KU Police Sgt. Chris Keary said that the incident occurred in retaliation for an argument between the victim and a sister of one of the suspects. The fight between the two individuals resulted from them throwing food into each other's laps while in Ekdahl Dining Commons.
Keary said that police did contact the 25-year-old suspect, believed to be the brother of the KU student involved in the food fight. However, as of yesterday, no arrests had been made and no charges had been filed.
Keary said that the other suspect had yet to be contacted by KU police, but that neither of the suspects were KU students.
'Bandit' case postponed upon lawyer's request
Steven Hipp's preliminary hearing scheduled for yesterday afternoon has been moved to March 4.
The former Wichita freshman was accused of felony burglary, felony criminal damage, theft and pulling a fire alarm during winter break in McCollum Hall.
Hipp, a former McColllum desk assistant, was accused of causing more than $11,000 in damages to the residence hall on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
Following his arrest Jan. 15, Hipp withdrew from the University.
Hipp's lawyer, David Brown, filed a motion Monday to postpone Hipp's preliminary hearing an additional month. After the motion passed, subpoenaed witnesses were notified that the preliminary hearing date had changed.
Hipp is scheduled to reappear at 1:45 p.m. on March 4 in Division I court.
Angry bar patron returns to Astro's with handgun
A game of darts resulted in gunfire and a Lawrence man's arrest at a local pool hall shortly before 11 p.m. Monday.
Lawrence police said that 37 yearold Chris Iden was arrested Monday night after he allegedly waved a gun in the air and pointed at two victims from the doorway of Astro's ,601 Kasold Drive. Police said that a man fired the handgun while in the parking lot.
The incident began when Iden started harassing some of the bar patrons who were playing a game of darts, police said. The suspect was asked to leave twice, but refused. Iden was then escorted from the pool hall.
Police said Iden returned to the doorway of the establishment armed with a handgun. He then threatened two men.
Witnesses told police that Iden returned to his vehicle and fired two shots into the air. At that time, police were dispatched to the scene and Iden was arrested on charges of aggravated assault.
Iden also was charged with possession of marijuana.
Iden was released from the Doug las County Jail on $10,000 bond yesterday. He is scheduled to appear again at 1:30 p.m. on Feb. 11.
—Kansan staff report
Lauren and me
Every year one in nine women at KU gets pregnant.
This is the story of one of those women.
Story by Susan Gatton Special to the Kansan Illustrations by Sarah Phelps
February 17,1995
I came out into the waiting room and looked at my friend. Shandra knew without my saying a word. She took me for ice cream, a double-dip of chocolate.
It has been almost two years since I sat at Planned Parenthood on a cold February day. I wasn't nervous. I knew. My hangover from hell had lasted for weeks. It wasn't a hangover.
I decided to go for a drive.
A cop pulled me over: 80 in
a 65 mph zone. I should
have cried, but I couldn't.
Then, the thought crossed my mind. The due date was Oct. 12. Its birthday, I.
couldn't kill anything with a birthday. What could I do?
While I ate, I wondered how I could get the money for an abortion.
About one woman in nine gets pregnant at the University of Kansas each year, said Candyce Waitley, nurse health educator at Watkins Memorial Health Center. That means that 1,400 KU women reading this article have been, or will be, pregnant before May.
"Many of these women, especially freshmen, aren't as worldly as they think," Waitley said. "When you're young, you think that it can't happen to you."
She said more than 55 percent of teens in Douglas County had abortions. From her experience at Watkins, Waitley estimated that 90 percent of pregnant
KU women had abortions. She said that for most college women adoption didn't seem to be an option.
"I think that, initially, any woman is in shock and then denial," said social worker Nancy Hughes. "There are often no pregnancy symptoms yet. However, coming to grips with the pregnancy and choices is better earlier than later. That way, you still have choices."
KU women had abortions.
"So when are you doing
February 19,1995
Initially, the father was receptive and took responsibility, as I had hoped. But it didn't last.
See LAUREN,Page 10A
OVERTIME UPSET AT THE HEARNES
Details on Page 1B
KU parking could become more plentiful
By Kevin Bates Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Students could see more than $11 million in changes in parking and transportation at the University of Kansas next semester if a report on improving campus safety and
access is approved.
The report, issued by the University, addressed several goals to improve movement on campus, such as creating additional parking spaces, starting a shuttle transportation system, installing gates on certain campus parking lots, making safety improvements to Jayhawk Boulevard and building a new 1,000-space parking garage.
Parking Proposal
"The University has had the same scheme since the '70s," said Tom Waechter, planning coordinator for design and construction management. "Every square foot on campus is competed for, and the problem is only expected to increase."
The University is proposing that gates be put up at selected parking lots near and on campus. The gates would reduce permit oversell and help guarantee spots. The lots in red are being considered for gates.
The University will hold three
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community meetings to hear public comment on the proposed changes. The meetings will be at noon 18 in
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Jury finds Simpson liable, fines $8.5 million
Jurors unanimous about every count against defendant
The Associated Press
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — A civil jury found O.J. Simpson liable yesterday for the slashing deaths of his ex-wife and her friend, a moral victory for grieving relatives who felt the football great got away with murder.
The jury ordered him to pay $8.5 million in compensatory damages and will return tomorrow to decide whether to award millions more in punitive damages.
The mostly Caucasian panel, forced to start deliverances anew
last Friday after a juror was removed for misconduct, snatched away some of the vindication Simpson claimed when he was acquitted of murder by a mostly African-American jury in 1995.
1980. This civil jury, using the lesser standard of preponderance of evidence rather than beyond a reasonable doubt, was unanimous on all counts in blaming Simpson for the June 12, 1994, deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
Christopher Darden, a prosecutor in Simpson's criminal trial, told CNBC: "We said all along that O.J. Simpson committed these crimes and all we asked ... was our day in court. A fair hearing. A fair hearing on the issues. And I believe that we've done that, that that's been
accomplished."
The jury reached the verdict after 17 hours of deliberations during three days — more than five times as long as the criminal jury deliberated.
allan Park, limo driver for Simpson, testified that he didn't see Simpson's Bronco when he pulled up in his limo and got no answer when he repeatedly rang the buzzer at Simpson's gate.
Simpson maintained that he was in bed, showering, chipping golf balls and taking his dog for a walk around the time of the slayings.
Most incriminating for Simpson were 31 photos of him wearing the same style of Bruno Magli shoes that left bloody footprints at the crime scene.
And for the first time before any jury, Simpson took the stand, testifying for four days that he never killed anyone, and never once hit, kicked or beat his ex-wife.
Among a series of rulings favorable to the plaintiffs, Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki allowed testimony about a lie-detector test Simpson failed and blocked defense efforts to play the race card that many felt had turned the tide in the criminal case.
But the main themes of his defense remained: Simpson was the victim of an elaborate frame-up, and physical evidence and witnesses couldn't be trusted.
"There's a killer in this courtroom," said plaintiff's attorney Daniel Petrocelli.
And as the trial drew to a close, plaintiff attorneys took direct aim at Simpson's character, angrily portraying him as a coward trying to deny the undeniable.
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Television .2A
Opinion .4A
National News .8A
World News .9A
Basketball wrap. 1B
Scoreboard .6B
Horoscopes .8B
Classifieds .9B