TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 21, 1995
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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SECTION A VOL.102,NO.65
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TODAY KANSAN
SPORTS
The waiting game begins
The No.11 Kansas football team still does not know where its bowl game will be. Page 1B
CAMPUS
Sporting a new channel
The long-awaited ESPN2 hits Lawrence in time for Saturday's basketball game. Page 3B
NATION
Three charged in grisly murder
The accused are being held for killing a pregnant woman and two of her children and removing the fetus from her womb. Page 5A
WORLD
Polish voters turn back clock
President Lech Walesa's loss to his Communist opponent shows returning support for the old ways. Page 5A
WEATHER
MOSTLY SUNNY
High 49° Low 27°
Weather: Page 2A
INDEX
Opinion ... 4A
Features ... 6A
Sports... 1B
Scoreboard... 2B
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Kassebaum will not seek office in'96
By Novelda Sommers Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — In a year, Sen. Nancy Kassebaum could be tooling around Burdick with an "Ask me about my grandchildren" humper sticker on her car.
Kassebaum announced yesterday at a news conference that she would not seek a fourth term in the U.S. Senate in 1996.
"My reason for this decision is very simple and purely personal," Kassebaum said. "I believe the time has come for me to leave the Senate and pursue other challenges, including the challenge of being a grandmother."
kassaebu said she eagerly awaited retirement on her Burdick farm.
Kassebaum's retirement means that next year, the posts of chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources committee and Kansas junior senator will be open.
Burdett Loomis, professor of political science, said anyone could replace Kassebaum, especially now that
Rep. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., announced last week that he would not run. He said Kansans could expect a knock-down, drag-out fight in conservative Republicans, moderate Republicans and Democrats for Kassebaum's seat.
Nancy Kassebaum
Former state senator Eric Yost, R-Wichita,
will announce at 2:30 p.m. today in Wichita
whether he will seek the Republican nomination.
Kassebaum said she was confident that a Republican would replace her.
Loomis said Kassebaum's retirement would be a sad loss for Congress.
The Senate is losing one of its most dignified, Loomis said. "It has become an increasingly unruly and uncivilized place."
Kassebaum has served 17 years in the Senate. One of her proudest moments was when the Aviation Product Liability bill was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1994, she
said. The law protects general aviation manufacturers from lawsuits alleging unsafe design or production on aircraft that have been in service 20 years or more.
She said she did not plan to re-enter politics after her term expired, although she would campaign for Bob Dole's nomination as the 1996 Republican presidential candidate.
Kassebaum's father, Alf Landon, was governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937 and the 1936 Republican presidential nominee. But Kassebaum said she did not think politics would become a family tradition.
Rock Chalk officials announce performers
Behind Closed Doors...
Then she looked at her two sons, who were seated to her left, and said, "But little did I know I would be serving in the United States Senate."
Five winners capture coveted spots in show after tough competition
By Phillip Brownlee Kansan staff writer
And then there were five.
And after all, Amid tears of joy and disappointment, Rock Chalk Revue officials announced last night the five groups chosen to perform at the annual variety show and fund-raiser, Feb. 22, 23 and 24.
About 75 group members huddled close, holding hands and squeezing their eyes shut.
Rock Chalk finalists
Delta Delta Delta and Giorgio Chi
Delta Gamma and Beta Theta Pi
Annie Newcomer, Germantown, Tenn., junior, receives a congratulatory hug after Rock Chalk Revue officials announced that the Gamma Phi Beta and Sigma Phi Epsilon group made the show's cut. Winners were announced last night in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Kappa Alpha Theta and Sigma Nu
Kappa Kappa Gamma and Phi Delta Theta
Andy Rullested / KANSAN
Gamma Phi Beta and Sigma Phi Epsilon
as Tony Field, Rock Chalk revoke executive director and Olathe senior, made the announcement. Cheers erupted as each group was named.
"I'm very happy right now," said Chris Murray, Omaha, Neb., junior and a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, which was chosen with Gamma Phi Beta. "Today was hell. I went to class thinking about it all day." Other finalists were Delta Delta Delta and Sigma Chi, Delta Gamma and Beta
Theta Pi, Kappa Alpha Theta and Sigma Nu,
and Kappa Kappa Gamma and Phi Delta
Theta.
Thirteen groups auditioned for the revue by submitting a tape and a notebook containing a script, character sketches, sheet music, set designs and stage directions for a 20- to 30-minute musical production. Directors also were interviewed about ideas for their shows.
Six area KU alumni judged the audition notebooks.
"All of the notebooks submitted this year were outstanding," said Melodi Wolf, Junction City senior and Rock Chalk Revue promotions
director. "I'm so excited to see what the directors have in store for the five shows this year."
In addition to announcing the five groups, Rock Chalk Revue officials also recognized Vincent LoPresti, Lawrence senior. LoPresti designed the poster and logo that will be used for the 1996 show.
Rock Chalk Revue donates its earnings to the United Way of Douglas County. Last year, the event netted $16,000 through ticket sales, alumni donations, corporate sponsorships, souvenir sales, program advertising and other
community donations.
This year organizers are shooting for a $30,000 donation, Wolf said.
Students also donated more than 19,000 hours of service last year. Volunteers participated in activities such as highway clean-ups, canned food collections and blood drives for United Way agencies and other social service programs in Douglas County.
Allie Stuckey, Hutchinson sophomore, and Reagan Judd, Tulsa, Okla., senior, said the suspense of the announcement was nerve-
racking.
"I almost wet my pants." Judd said.
But Stuckey and Judd left the announcement ceremony happy because Kappa Alpha Theta and Sigma Nu were one of the five groups picked.
The losers left heartbroken.
"It's disappointing because we worked really hard," said Krista Engelmann, Wichita sophomore and Alpha Chi Omega member. "Now we'll focus on the community service aspect of our house."
It's bond,jail bond for DEA impostor
Kansan staff report
He looked the part, acted the part and even had a gun and a badge.
But police say a Lawrence man who had been representing himself as a Drug Enforcement Agency employee at a local bar was an impostor.
Kelly Labelle, 33, was arrested Saturday on a charge of false impressionation after police discovered he had been telling employees and patrons of the Wagon Wheel Cafe, 507 W. 14th St., that he was a DEA agent.
"I don't know what he is, but I don't believe he's with the DEA," said Rick Nickell of the Lawrence police department.
Nickell said Labelle had been frequenting the bar for the last two months and had told people he was on various assignments.
Wheel employees suspected Labelle was not telling the truth and called police.
Labelle was released Sunday from Douglas County Jail on $250 bond. A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for 3 p.m. Nov. 30 in Douglas County District Court.
Delts' nightly hoopla could wake the dead
Fraternity members arouse slumbering neighbors' anger
By Phillip Brownlee Kansan staff writer
Shane Farley wouldn't be mad if only one or two fraternity members were a problem.
But the Wellington sophomore has 30 Delta Tau Delta members as neighbors, several of whom are loud and obnoxious, he said.
"It's not that I'm not tolerant, but it's an every-night thing," he said. "Half the time they're drunk and speeding into the parking lot."
Farley, who lives at Sundance Apartments, 1407 W. Seventh St., said the Delta Tau Delta members raced into the parking lot almost every night at 2 a.m. and started yelling, screaming and basically raising hell.
"If I would have known that they were going to be here, I would never have signed a lease," he said.
The 30 fraternity members are living at the apartment complex while their house, 1111 W. 1.1th St., is being renovated. About 45 other members live at Shannon Plaza apartments, 2100 Heatherwood Drive.
"Some of it we were responsible for. Other noise complaints got pinned on us."
Mett Leonard Delta Tau Delta president
Farley said he had called police repeatedly about the noise but that nothing ever changed. He also has tried the direct approach.
"Some of it we were responsible for," he said. "Other noise complains got pinned
"I've gone out on my balcony and told them to be quiet, but they just yelled back," he said.
on us."
Mart Leonard, Delta Tau Delta president and resident of Shannon Plaza, said he was contacted by the property manager of Sundance Apartments about the repeated noise complaints and that he had talked to fraternity members.
nut Shannon Plaza residents also have complained about the fraternity members. Last month, Delta Tau Delta members Bill Nelson, Omaha, Neb., sophomore; Jason Dinneen, Overland Park sophomore; and Kenneth Hillman, Oklahoma City sophomore, received an eviction warning from the Shannon Plaza landlord for excessive noise.
The students said they hadn't intentionally disturbed their neighbors but that their walls were just thin.
Leonard said that although Delta Tau Delta members were living out of their house, they still had academic and behavioral expectations. But it's hard to oversee members, he said.
"They're not living in the house, and so they have a lot more freedom," he said.
Bill Nelson, greek program coordinator and assistant director of the Organizations and Activities Center, said it was common for fraternity and sorority members not to live in their houses. Of the 4,200 students in KU's greek system, about 1,600 live out of the house, he said.
The Delta Tau Delta house is scheduled to reopen by February, at which time the members will move out of Shannon Plaza and Sundance Apartments.
"That will be a happy day," Farley said.