UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, November 19, 1996
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Lost: owners of found items
By Dave Breltenstein Kansan staff writer
One KU student probably has to ride a bike standing up. Another student's car looks like part of it was chopped off. Yet another lost a bra in Wescoe Hall.
Items found in the University of Kansas' lost and found range from bicycle seats to automobile
"Students probably lose so much because they are preoccupied with everything they're doing in college," said Gayle Reece, KU police officer who
bumpers to clothing. The University has a central lost and found department at 302 Carruth-O'Leary Hall, and most campus buildings also offer similar services for students to find misplaced items.
Elizabeth Rawson, Belleville freshman, added some items to the lost and found cabinet in Wescoe Hall.
Lost and Found
if something has been lost in a campus building, this list can help track down the office that may be holding the item;
Bailey Hall — 4297 Bailey — dean's office
Dole Center—2001 Dole — learning resource center Fraser Hall—426 Fraser — psychology department Green Hall—202 Green — school of law office
maintains the central lost and found. "It's the first time students have been away from home and their familiar environment."
Haworth Hall — several offices accept lost and found items Kansas Union — 4th floor information center
Learned Hall—Spahr Engineering Library
Lindley Hall —120 Lindley — geology department office Malott hall — 2010 Malott —
Reece recommended students place belongings in the same place every time, such as keeping keys in the same pocket or putting books on the same shelf. She also suggested students put their names on everything, because she would try to return the lost item to the owner.
chemistry department office
Marvin Hall — 206 Marvin — dean's office
Murphy Hall — 317 Murphy University theater office Robinson Center — 129 Robinson information and service center
Snow Hall — 405 and 415
Snow — departments of mathematics and computer science
Stauffer-Flint Hall — 200 Staufer-Flint — dean's office
Strong Hall — 121 Strong — registrar's office
Summerfield Hall — 203 Summerfield — dean's office
Watson Library — both the fines and circulations offices
Wescoe Hall — 4069 Wescoe — language laboratory
"I've traced a lot of people down before," Reece said. "I recently found someone at the University of Iowa who left something here when they were in town for a seminar. But more often that not, I end up at a dead end."
Some unusual items that have been turned in at the lost and found include barricades, flags and a picnic table, Reece said. But the most common items are school supplies, such as notebooks, calculators, folders and bookbags.
Elizabeth Johnson, St. Paul,
Minn., graduate student, works
at the Ermal Garinger Academic
Resource Center, 4069 Wescoe
Hall, the lost and found for
Wescoe.
"I'm not sure some students realize where the lost and found is or where they may have lost
something," Johnson said. "Some students need to keep better track of their belongings."
John Huy, resource center director, said the laboratory kept lost items until the end of each semester, when the shelves were cleaned out. Valuable objects are sent to the police department, clothing is sent to the Salvation Army, and all other objects find a new home as well.
Gavin Bruce, Topeka senior, agreed with Johnson that students sometimes didn't watch their belongings on campus.
roundings, and other people are just unlucky," Bruce said. "If I lost something on campus, I don't really know where I'd go to find the lost and found."
"Some people have their minds on things other than their sura music group. And the rest is rhythm and blues history.
Bruce said starting a central lost and found location on campus would be negative and positive.
"On one hand, if you have no idea where you lost it, it's a good idea to have just one lost and found," Bruce said. "But if you know where you lost it, it's easier to just go back into that building."
R&B musician to tell More stories
Montell Jordan to begin tour from local club
By Jeff Ruby
Kansan staff writer
He grew up in South Central Los Angeles, avoiding guns and gangs by spending his time in church. He then enrolled at Peperdine University in Malibu, Calif., and worked his way through college. While preparing for law school, Jordan joined
This is how Montell Jordan did it.
With two successful albums and several hit singles under his belt, including the multi-platinum single This Is How We Do It, Jordan will begin a national tour at 9 tonight at Langston's Nightclub, 804 W. 24th St., to support his new album More...
"Making good music is a natural thing," said Jordan, 27. "I was doing it way before I had a record deal. I'd do it even if I had no one to listen to it."
Jordan said the industry dubbed his genre hip-hop soul.
"My music is all based on traditional gospel music and what was big where I grew up. It's all
based on experience and me wanting to tell stories to people." he said.
The 6-foot-8-inch star said that his success began with a weekly talent showcase at a Pasadena club, which led him to record a demo that landed in the hands of Def Jam label founder Russell Simmons.
Jordan, who graduated from Pepperdine with a degree in Organizational Communications, said that his years at the mostly-Caucasian school were a lesson in survival.
"Most kids were financially able." he said.
"But while other people were driving around in BMWs, I was working three or four jobs at a
time to get by."
Jordan said that attending religious services was an escape — not just from gangs but from drugs, theft and street life in general. Even with stardom staring him in the face, he continues to draw strength from church activities.
"I'm very active in my church now," he said. "I interact with the Los Angeles Youth Network, which is for kids who are abused at home."
Vaughn Patterson, manager of Langston's Nightclub, said that Jordan was at the top of the list of performers his club had been trying to bring in.
& B. And he's a hell of a performer," Patterson said. "He's got a great stage presence. There's a five-piece band and dancers. There's nothing like a smaller venue for a live show."
Heather McIntosh, manager of Vibes Music, 911 Massachusetts St., said that she'd heard about Jordan from customers.
"He's definitely a hot item for R
"He's big," she said. "We haven't sold tons of his new album, but it's definitely going to be a big show. We've got the posters up and people coming in, going 'Oh, my God, let's go.' I'm surprised he's playing a club."
Tickets for the show are available through TicketMaster for $18.50 and are $20 at the door.
Masturbating man cornered in Memorial lot
By Andrea Albright
Kanean staff writer
Kansan staff writer
A Texas police officer helped KU police identify a man suspected of masturbating in front of a KU student in the Memorial Stadium parking lot after Saturday's football game.
"A 60-year-old man in a mini van asked for directions to Allen Field House," Rambow said. "I walked up to the car but I wasn't looking in."
Megan Rambow, Overland Park junior, said that she was walking through the parking lot about 4:40 p.m. when a man asked her for directions.
Rambow said she walked toward the van as she answered. As she approached, she got a clearer view of the vehicle's inside, she said. When Rambow was wif'in about three feet, she noticed that the man wasn't wearing pants and that he was masturbating.
Rambow said she then quickly walked away, but looked around for help in the parking lot.
"He was old, so I knew that if he got out of the car I could out-run him," Rambow said.
Rambow said the man followed her in the car and asked her if she wanted to have sex with him.
"I saw some guys packing things into their car and asked them if they could help me," Rambow said.
One of the men told Rambow that he was a police officer from Texas, and drove after the van that was driving toward the south exit of the parking lot.
Rambow said the other man drove her back to her dorm where she called KU police.
When police arrived at the parking lot, Rambow said, the Texas police officer was able to give them a description of the van and the driver because he had cornered the suspect in the south end of the lot.
"Television equipment blocked him in," Ram bow said. "He got trapped waiting to see what we were going to do."
KU police officer Chris Keary said that his department had contacted the suspect and was continuing an investigation. The suspect, who is in his 60s, is not a Lawrence resident. Keary said information about the incident would probably be sent to the district attorney's office for prosecution.
Rambow said she was relieved police caught the man. She said both she and the Texas police officer would testify in court.
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