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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
NEWS 864-4810
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VOL 103, NO.67
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1996
(USPS 650-640)
Student awakens at night to find intruder in her bed
A male KU student who crawled into a sleeping female KU student's bed early Saturday morning was arrested for aggravated burglary and aggrivated sexual battery.
Lawrence police said that James W. McCartney, St. Louis, sophomore, and the victim talked at a party Friday night. The two knew each other because they had attended the same high school, police said.
Police said the woman, who had attended the party with friends, left the party without McCartney.
She was asleep at 3:30 a.m. Saturday when McCartney allegedly entered her apartment through a second-floor balcony door, police said.
McCartney allegedly began kissing the woman, but police said she convinced McCartney that she needed a glass of water.
When she got up, police said she went to a neighbor's apartment and called friends to come and get the man out of her apartment.
Some of the woman's male friends knocked on her apartment door, police said, but could not get a response from the man locked inside.
When her friends could not get into her apartment, they approached Lawrence police officers in the apartment complex parking lot. The officers had been responding to a call about a loud stereo.
Police said the officers contacted the suspect and arrested him on a charge of aggravated burglary and aggravated sexual battery.
McCarthy was released at 4 a.m. Saturday from the Douglas County Jail after posting $2,000 bond.
Officials at the Douglas County district court said that McCartney was not scheduled to appear in court at this time because no charges have been filed against him.
Kansan staff report
GOP governors discuss agenda for coming year
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. — GOP governors urged Congress on Sunday to make streamlining job training programs an early 1997 priority and promised swift help with ratification if a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget clears the House and Senate.
The governors vowed to use their three-day meeting to put their stamp on the national GOP agenda. And several questioned President Clinton's commitment to cut taxes and balance the federal budget.
"Republican ideology won the election," New Jersey Gov. Christine Whitman said. But she said Clinton also had talked of cutting taxes in his 1992 campaign only to turn around and raise them.
Man punches Turkey's former prime minister
ANKARA, Turkey — A man punched former Turkish Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz in the nose Sunday at a hotel lobby in Budapest, Hungary, and then fled.
The motive for the attack, which left Yilmaz with a bloody nose, was not clear. A caller to a live phone-in show on HBB television, who said he was Turkish, claimed responsibility. The claim could not be verified.
"A well-dressed, muscular, young man suddenly hit me in my face," said Yilmaz, leader of the center-right Motherland Party, yesterday on private television.
The Associated Press
"I couldn't stand a former prime minister playing with the honor of the Turkish state," the Anatolia news agency quoted the caller as saying.
Student may be deported
Persecution possible if Ethiopian man is forced to return home
By Bradley Brooks
Kansan staff writer
He once was surrounded by friends and fellow KU students. Now he only stares at the walls of his jail cell, waiting to be deported to Ethiopia and to face possible persecution by the nation's government.
Hamel Mesfin, known to his friends as Mamoosh, Kansas City, Mo., junior, was arrested Nov. 16 in front of his workplace, Miracle Video, 1910 Haskell Ave., by Immigration and Naturalization Services agents for having an expired visa. He has been in jail since he was arrested. He could be deported within two weeks.
"I'm afraid for my life. It is as simple as that," said Mesfin from the Plattsburg, Mo. County Jail.
Right now, Mesfin and his attorney, Roger McCrummen, of the Kurlbaum and Stoll law firm in Kansas City, Mo., are working to get a stay, or delay, on his deportation order.
Mesfin came to the United States in 1989 to avoid political persecution in his home country. In 1990 he applied for
Hamel Mesfin
political asylum to remain in the United States and was denied. In 1992, after two years of working through the legal system, the U.S. government ordered Mesfin's deportation.
It was not until Saturday that he knew of this order, he said.
Mesfin has changed addresses more than once, and he never had received a written deportation order, he said.
Mesfini is afraid of persecution by the present democratic government in Ethiopia.
"They planned to be a democratic government," he said. "That is far from the truth."
"Most have been jailed or killed," Mesfin said. "There will be no exception for me. I don't approve of the way they run the country."
Mesfil's problems began when he first applied for political asylum as an 18-year-old.
"I thought I had a really strong case, so I didn't get the help of a lawyer," Mesfin said. "They denied it, and now they want me to go back home. I want another chance to present my case so that they can see the severity of it."
McCrummen said that returning Mesfin to Ethiopia could endanger his life.
"There have been changes in the political texture of Ethiopia," McCrummen said. "That makes it much more dangerous for him. He has a clean record; he just allowed his status to lapse."
Sossina Negash, a KU graduate and native Ethiopian, said she visited Mesfin in jail Saturday, and that he was worried about his situation.
"He's really down. He hasn't had any sleep since he was arrested," she said.
Negash said that she was aware of the political situation in Ethiopia, and that she was afraid that Mesfin would be persecuted.
"He could easily just disappear when he gets back to Ethiopia," she said.
Some KU students are doing all they can to help Mesfin out. Petitions have been circulating around campus addressed to Mike Heston, the district director of Immigration and Naturalization Services in Kansas City, Mo.
Heston controls whether Mesfin's case would open again, McCrummen said, but Heston could offer no insight because he can't discuss a pending case.
For now, the only thing that is keeping Mesfin in the country is that he had no passport. Immigration Services has ordered another one, and it is expected to arrive from 30 to 60 days. Once it arrives Mesfin will be deported unless his case is requrenced for review.
"It has been hard — I barely sleep. But I'm grateful for everything that my friends have been doing to help me," Mesfin said. "Right now I'm holding on. I'm just holding on."
"We invested four months of our lives for this."
And the winners are...
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Long hours, hard work pay off for Rock Chalk Revue winners
Laura Sawyer, De Kalb, Ill., junior; Elliott Krejci, St. Louis, sophomore; Krista McGlohon, Topeka senior; Tyson Leyendercker, Omaha, Neb., sophomore, and Meg Strayer, Glen Ellyn, Ill., senior, who are members of the Pi Kappa Alpha and Alpha Delta PI team, celebrate the selection of their notebook for Rock Chalk Revue. Their notebook was one of five winners announced last night.
By Ashleigh Roberts
Kansan staff writer
After months of work, five groups made the final cut last night for the 1997 Rock Chalk Revue production.
Reagan Judd, executive producer,
announced the winners to an eager
60-member audience in the Kansas
Union Ballroom. This year's show
will feature the following musicals:
- The Precious Spotlight, Delta Upsilon and Delta Gamma
Digging for Gold, Pi Kappa Alpha and Alpha Delta Pi
"We had 10 of the most fabulous notebooks that were ever turned in
- The Family Jewels, Phi Delta Theta and Gamma Phi Beta
Song Wars, Sigma Nu and Kappa Kappa Gamma
Judd, Tulsa, Okla., senior, said announcing the finalists was the best and worst part of his job because of the emotional intensity of the members of the 10 Rock Chalk hopefuls.
Accidentally Midnight, Phi Gamma Delta and Pi Beta Phj
Each group made a notebook outlining their production, and 10 judges evaluated the books. The judges looked at the groups' set designs, originality in music, choreography and costumes.
this year," he said. "It was really fun to watch the productions develop through all of the different stages."
"The judges have to have theater or Rock Chalk experience and be at least five years removed from KU," said Cain, Omaha, Neb., senior. "None of the judges were teachers or students with interests in the current show."
Michael Cain, promotional director of the revue, said none of the judges had ties to the organizations.
Members of the winning groups were overwhelmed with emotion after the announcement. Many cried. Glen Collins, Dallas senior, and participant in Accidentally Midnight, said waiting for the announcement was emotional because of the time and effort that each group contributed.
"We invested four months of our
lives for this," he said. "Everyone has other jobs, classes and responsibilities going on and they managed to put them on the back burner to pull it off. It's really incredible."
"We created something out of nothing," he said. "It took almost an entire semester, working three nights a week to produce. Even when you weren't working on it, you were working on it in your mind."
Chris Jones, Prairie Village sophomore and participant in The Family Jewels, said he was exhilarated.
The theme for the show is *On A Mission*.
The show will run March 13 to 15 at the Lied Center, Several awards, including best actor, best actress and best overall performance, will be given after the final show.
Annie Newcomer, Anchorage,
Alaska, senior, said she couldn't wait
for the real thing.
"You get to entertain an audience with something you invented," she said. "It is amazing to see people laugh and enjoy your creation."
The Rock Chalk Revue will be presented March 13 to 15 at the Lied Center.
The project usually raises about $20,000, which is donated to the United Way.
Members of participating living organizations volunteer about 20,000 hours helping United Way organizations.
K-State falsely publicizes KU's computer science program status
By Eric Weslander Kansan staff writer
Posters displaying false information about Kansas State University and the University of Kansas are hanging in high schools across the state, University administrators said yesterday.
The posters, which were printed by Kansas State, indicate that Kansas State offers the only accredited computer science program in Kansas. However, both Kansas State's and the University of Kansas' computer science programs are accredited by the Computer Science Accreditation Board.
Kansas State's explanation for the posters is that they were true when the print order was made. The Kansas State program was accredited a year before the KU program was. When the posters returned from the presses, they were outdated, said Tom Roberts, assistant dean of engineering at Kansas State.
"K-State's engineering program continues to advertise that they have the only accredited computer science program in the state of Kansas, and that's simply not true," said James Roberts, chairman of the KU department of electrical engineering and computer science. "It has been brought to their attention, but so far they haven't retracted their statement."
He said that instead of recalling the posters and printing new ones, the university had decided to distribute the posters as they were to avoid waste.
"Certainly K-State's program was the first to be accredited," Tom Roberts said. "But we acknowledge and understand and are certainly glad and happy that KU has an accredited program."
That attitude has made KU administrators wonder why the false information continues to circulate
Provost David Shulenburger recently wrote a letter to Kansas State's provost, enclosing a copy of the poster, and requested that the information be withdrawn from high schools.
"I have confidence that Kansas State will, in fact, do that," Shulenburger said. "We are in a business of higher education where it pays to be highly ethical, but we all sometimes get carried away tooting our own horn.
"Things like this happen in the heat of the eagerness to push your own university."
Tom mummazzi, associate dean of engineering at the University, said the misinformation could hurt his school's recruitment.
"Kansas State should just say that they have an accredited computer science program," he said. "There's no problem with that because that is the absolute truth."
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