Close call: The women's basketball team overcomes a big deficit. Page 3B
Discrimination?: Some greeks say professors have dislike the system. Page 6A
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3. 1997
SECTION A VOL.103, NO.89
Sleeping woman raped by unidentified intruder
(USPS 650-640)
A 19-year-old Lawrence resident was raped in her residence at 2:16 a.m. Friday in the 900 block of New York Street. Lawrence police said.
Police said the victim was asleep on the couch in the front room of her residence when an unidentified Black male in his early 30s entered the apartment.
The victim awoke when the subject threw a blanket over her and began punching her. She was at first able to fight her way to her feet, police said, but the man quickly hit her and pinned her against the couch. At that time, the man raped her, police said.
After the incident, the man forced the victim to a back bathroom and made her stay there as he fled on foot.
Police said they were uncertain how the subject entered the residence.
The victim told police that she might have known the subject. However, police still are investigating.
—Kansan staff report
ABA may seek an end to capital punishment
The report recommended an end to executions because efforts to forge a fair capital punishment philosophy had failed. It said that today, administration of the death penalty was a haphazard maze of unfair practices with no internal consistency.
SAN ANTONIO — The American Bar Association never has taken a position on the death penalty but may be on the brink of seeking an end to executions until greater fairness and due process prevail, a report from the organization said.
More than 3,000 men and women are on death rows across the nation. Most states and the federal government have death sentence laws.
The ABA's policy-making House of Delegates meeting at the association's national convention will be asked today to adopt the moratorium recommendation in response to recent federal and state actions. If accepted, it would become the focus of ABA lobbying efforts in Congress and state legislatures.
Summit wants increase in bank loans to poor
WASHINGTON - World leaders opened a microcredit summit last Sunday with calls to support an innovation in banking that may strike a blow against poverty loans to poor people to start businesses in the United States and abroad.
bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, a co-chairman, said that the world had taken too long to realize that charities and handouts only maintained and deepened poverty. They are invented to avoid giving the poor equal opportunities and to deny them the initiative to improve their lives, he said.
First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin addressed the Monday meeting, attended by more than 2,000 people from 100 countries.
Another speaker from Bangladesh was Mohammad Yunus, who founded the microcredit movement in his country 20 years ago when he lent $27 from his own pocket to a furniture maker. He said that the meeting was a celebration of "the freeing of credit from the bondage of collateral."
runus said that the microcredit was at the same level of development as when the Wright Brothers made their first flight in 1903.
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Raef LaFrentz celebrates during Kansas' 82-77 victory on Saturday against Nebraska.
Kansas' 82-77 overtime victory against Nebraska wasn't pretty, but the Javhawks are still
Flying High
Bv Bill Petulla
Kansan sportswriter
It wasn't easy, but when the fog lifted at Allen Field House on Saturday the Kansas men's basketball team won its 22nd consecutive game, breaking a 61-year-old record.
The Jayhawks defeated Nebraska 82-77, improving its record to 22-0 and breaking the record for the best start a Kansas team. The
record previously was held by the 1935-36 squad, which started out 21-0 before losing to Utah State.
But for some of the 16,300 fans in attendance, the
22-01: A look back at how the Jayhawks broke a 61-year-old record for the best start in Kansas history. Base 18
AT THE GAME: Images from Kansas" overtime victory. Page 2B
win was tempered by a larger expectation they bad for the Javhawks.
"The 22-0 performance will be better recognized later," said John Malloy, St. Louis junior. "But the agenda at hand is a national championship."
Also mellowing the celebration of the Jayhawks' historic win was their subpar performance.
In a game that Kansas men's basketball coach Roy Williams later would call frustrating, the Jayhawks shot a low five of 15 from the free-throw line in the first half, committed 17 turnovers and were out-rebounded 46 to 32.
Williamsa said that the less-than-story-book win may have been caused by the friendly atmosphere at the field house.
it is not ideal, but I think if you're a basketball coach and done it for a long time you've got to expect it," Williams said. "You tend to relax when you get home."
Students extend a helping hand
Growing number of students bitten by volunteering bug
By Nicholas C. Charalambous
Kansan staff writer
Amanda Shaw has volunteered her time to scores of community service projects since she was 16. She volunteered at a nursing home during the summer of 1994, and she's been hooked ever since.
"I'm addicted to volunteering. If I'm feeling
Shaw is not alone. She is one of a growing legion of generation X'ers who are resisting the temptation to turn on, tune in and drop out, choosing instead to give back to society.
bad, it's because I'm not do it," said Shaw, Ninnekah, Okla, freshman, who works six hours a week at Habitat for Humanity building homes for low-income families." I know that every minute I spend with Habitat is going toward making somebody's life better."
College freshmen are more civic-minded than ever, according to a 1996 survey by UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute. About 72 percent of
are drawn to Habitat for Humanity because they can see the fruits of their labor, she said.
Ryan Wilkerson, co-coordinator for the Rock Chalk Revue community service program, said that students from the 27 participating fraternities, sororites and scholarship halls had given 30,000 hours of community service last year, up from 19,000 in 1995. He expects a new record this year.
"At 18, you have to see the results," she said. "Students feel a genuine investment and ownership in Habitat. It's not 'gee, I think I should do this.'"
freshmen said that they had performed volunteer work in the past year, up 10 points from last year. About 38 percent said that they had volunteered once a week. Both figures were the highest since the survey began in the 1960s.
Volunteers, please
Volunteer work is diverse and plentiful. Here's what you should think about before picking up the phone:
Lorrie Davis, program coordinator for Habitat For Humanity, said she had noticed an increase in student volunteers. Students
What type of people or area do you want to volunteer for?
The following organizations offer placement opportunities or programs:
Center For Community Outreach at 864-4703
What's your time commitment once a week, once a day?
Roger Hill Volunteer Center at 865-5030
What do you hope to get out of volunteer work?
Alice Melin / KANSAN
Amy Griggs, co-coordinator at the Roger Hill Volunteer Center in Lawrence, which provides placements for Rock Chalk volunteers at 150 nonprofit organizations, said that government cuts in social programs had created a greater need for volunteers.
"Once people start doing it, they want to continue doing it," said Wilkerson, Mission Hills junior.
Griggs said.
Volunteers may be responding to a change in political philosophy, she said.
"People think that the way to reduce big government is for the community itself to get involved,"
Volunteers now constitute a significant part of the U.S. economy. The value of time volunteered by 93 million adults in 1995 was estimated at $201 billion, according to a 1996 Gallon survey.
The rise also may be a by-product of the increasingly cutthroat job market. Volunteering makes you more marketable, said Mike Heuring, assistant director of the Umi
Kelely Baker, iola junior, makes coffee at the Community Drop In Center, 12th and Oregon streets. The homeless can leave belongings during the day and get food and drink at the center.
versity Placement Center. It shows employers that you have better time management and communication skills and that you are not self-centered, he said.
But most student volunteers are on a social mission, said Emily Heath, co-director of the University's Center for Community Outreach. About 3,000 students participate in the center's 11 volunteer programs each year.
— from tutoring for literacy to working with people with disabilities.
There are some who do it just to fulfill hours for a class or for something that looks good on a résumé, Heath said, emphasizing that those people were few in number. "Our
Residents frustrated with Stouffer Place parking
By Dave Morantz Kansan staff writer
Ever had trouble finding a parking space for a basketball game? Don't think about trying to sneak into an appealing space in Stouffer Place. If a tow truck doesn't get you, a vandal might.
Difficulties in finding parking spaces have continually angered many Stouffer Place residents.
Many Stouffer Place residents are upset with what they believe to be a lack of enforcement by the parking department during basketball games. Someone has even taken the matter into his or her own hands and spread shoe polish on cars without parking permits.
But Donna Hultine, assistant director of the parking department, said that the department was aware of the problem and was working to remedy the situation.
"The one thing that really is frustrating is you have to pay rent and pay for parking on top of that," said Patricia Moewe, Lawrence graduate student. "Then I come home and can't find a place anywhere near my building."
"It's something we're definitely committed to protecting, and we'll just have to do a better job," Hultine said.
Rather than pay for a spot near Allen Field House or walk a long distance, many people try to park in Stouffler Place because of its location near the field house, Hultine said.
The parking problem is a result of understaffing in the parking department and the use of temporary employees. Hultine said.
During basketball games, most attendants must work at lots near the field house to collect money and to check for permits, she said. The department has hired temporary employees to guard the entrances to Stouffer Place.
That type of negligence has angered many Stouffor Place residents.
But during one game, Hultine said that the attendants were playing football rather than checking permits.
After driving home to her apartment late one night, Moee hunted for a space close to her building in the back of the complex. But because of people parking in the lot for a basketball game, she had to park almost a half-mile from her building and walk through the cold with her young child, she said.
One night, she noticed that about five cars without permits had shoe polish spread across their windshields. Moewe and other residents said they did not know who vandalized the cars. Sgt. Chris Keary of the KU police said that they had received no reports of damaged cars in the lot.
Moee said that she and other upset residents had called the parking department and KU police about the problem, but no cars had been towed from the lot until Saturday's game.
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Features ... 6A
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At the game ... 2B
Classifieds ... 5B
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