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Charge filed in alleged rape at Downs The district attorney has filed a felony rape charge against a former student in connection with an alleged October assault
Sarah Wright/KANSAN Cora Downs Hall was reportedly the location of a rape that was reported on Oct. 6, 2017. The district attorney’s office has now brought charges against Stephen Owens in this case. EMILY WELLBORN @EmWellborn Charges have been filed on a rape that allegedly occurred in the Downs Residence Hall last October. Stephen Michael Owens, 18, was charged with one count of felony rape and was arrested on Thursday, according to
Douglas County Jail booking logs and a complaint filed on April 3 by the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office. A University student, 19, was allegedly raped while “physically powerless,” according to the charge. The incident was investigated by the KU Public Safety Office, ac-
cording to the complaint, which listed four PSO officers and four KU students as witnesses. It was then turned over to the DA, but that office decided not to file charges at that time. Cheryl Wright Kunard with the DA’s office said in an email that the the office didn’t file charges because they were wait-
ing for “additional investigation” to be completed and given to the office to review. Campus Crime Reports list that there were two other reported rapes that month that were investigated by KU PSO, but were not charged by the DA’s office for similar reasons, according to previous Kansan articles.
Owens was a student during the fall 2017 semester, but also withdrew from classes during that time, according to an email from Erinn Barcomb-Peterson, director of news and media relations for the University. Booking records list his address as in Deer Park, Illinois, but he was arrested in Lawrence.
Wright Kunard said that Owens’ first court appearance would be on Thursday, April 19, at 3 p.m. Owens posted a $2,000 bail on Thursday, so he is no longer in custody.
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Voters’ guide to 2018-2019 Student Senate elections SAVANNA SMITH @savsmith20 The most recent data shows over 1,000 students submitted votes in the first six hours of voting on Wednesday, according to Jeremy Latronica, chair of the elections commission. The commission is waiting on voter turnout updates to be available Thursday. Polls close at 4 p.m. and Latronica said final results can be expected between 4:45 and 6 p.m. Thursday and candidates have 24 hours to request a recount if they choose. Editor-in-chief Chandler Boese and Associate News Editor Katie Bernard will sit in with elections commission to stream live coverage of the results on the Kansan Facebook page starting at approximately 5 p.m Here are a few things to know for those filling out their ballot on Thursday:
VOTING PROCESS The ballot on Rock Chalk Central will include a section to vote for a presidential/vice-presidential ticket, followed by sections for senators connected to fields that apply to the student, such as business, journalism, pharmacy and
This coalition’s watch party will be at the Bird Dog Bar in the Oread, starting between 5 and 5:30 p.m..
RISE KU Presidential candidate: Zoya Khan • Two-year chair of Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee (formerly Multicultural Affairs committee)
Caitlynn Salazar/KANSAN Student Senate coalition Crimson and Blue encourages students to vote in the election on Wescoe Beach on Wednesday afternoon. others. Students can also vote for on and off-campus, nontraditional, graduate student and international representation. Students may vote for representation from different coalitions if they choose, but each candidate is listed with an associated coalition. There is also a write-in option for all representatives. Also included on this year’s ballot is a referendum for funding of the Collegiate Readership Program that provides copies of the New York Times, USA Today, Kansas City
Star and the Lawrence Journal-World in 70 bins across campus. If passed, it would add $2.50 to student fees.
MEET THE COALITIONS JAYHAWKERS Presidential candidate: Anna Buhlinger • Intern for State Sen. Randall Hardy (R-Salina) Vice-presidential candidate: Avery Anderson • Liberal Arts and Sciences senator
• Intern for State Rep. John Carmichael (D-Wichita) The Jayhawkers have released platforms concerning student health, safety, affordability and gameday fun. Their platform, health and wellness, focuses on creating a holistic approach to wellness, promoting a partnership between Counseling and Psychological Services, the Ambler Student Recreation Center and Watkins Health Services. Additionally, they proposed designated nap areas in libraries to help alleviate sleep deprivation.
Vice-presidential candidate: Nellie Kassebaum • Off-campus student senator With a major focus in retention and Senate-student relationships, Rise KU launched platforms which, as proposed, would provide streamlined and affordable services to students. For example, Rise KU released a platform in early March that proposed access to free menstrual products in University bathrooms. This would include the free availability of pads and tampons in highly trafficked areas on campus. This coalition’s watch party will be at The Nest on the top floor of the Oread at about 5:30 p.m.
CRIMSON AND BLUE
Presidential candidate: Noah Ries • Current Student Senate policy and development director Vice-presidential candidate: Charles Jetty • Current Student Senate chief of staff
Crimson and Blue has introduced seven platforms since their campaign launch in February. Many of the platforms focus on underrepresented demographics on campus, including student parents, graduate teaching assistants, and women in science, technology engineering, math and medical fields. The Women in STEMM platform proposes an expansion of the Emily Taylor Center and Jayhawks Breaking Barriers WiSTEMM mentorship program. The program proposed would create an event where young women pursuing STEMM fields could gather to learn about available resources, as well as receive mentorship from women in the prospective fields. Their watch party will be on The Wheel’s patio, starting between 5 and 5:30 p.m.
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Project Callisto unanimously approved SYDNEY HOOVER @sydhoover17
Following months of research and debate, the Student Senate Safety Advisory Board voted unanimously to implement Project Callisto on Tuesday evening. Project Callisto was one of the OneKU coalition’s campaign promises in the 2017 Student Senate election and has been in the works the majority of the academic year. Callisto is an online system for sexual assault survivors to privately store information before reporting the incident. “We were allowed to address any questions people had and then at the end we all spoke about what we thought about Callisto and different experiences we’ve had on campus that made us believe it was beneficial,” Student Body President Mady Womack said. Though there is currently a reporting system in place through the Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access, the board agreed that Callisto would be a useful program for students to access and keep track of evidence before reporting. The current system in place sends any information straight to IOA Director and Title IX coordinator
Kansan file photo Chief of Staff Charles Jetty, left, Student Body Vice President Mattie Carter, center, and Student Body President Mady Womack outside of the Kansas Union. Shane McCreery. With Callisto, information would be stored privately until the account user chose to report it to IOA. “I’d be an end user. So, it wouldn’t change the way that IOA or KU promotes our services, provides support or the reporting process,” McCreery told the Kansan in a previous article.
“It just sets up a, basically, an indirect link. If a student wants to share their data to Project Callisto, it will go there and remain there until they either authorize it to come to me.” The board voted on Callisto following a discussion with advisers and a phone conference with a Project Callisto representative. Ac-
cording to Womack, Senate leaders were also pushing to fulfill Callisto as part of the “core platforms” from the OneKU campaign, especially given positive feedback from students that Womack has received. “I’ve talked to so many students about Project Callisto at this point between the campaign and just all
the work we’ve done in Student Senate,” Womack said. “And ultimately, we took a vote at the end and it was unanimous in approving Callisto.” Project Callisto will be moved to University Procurement Services to form a contract and allocate Safety Advisory Board funds for implementation.
Downtown cameras evoke privacy debate KALLI JO SMITH @kallijosmith The Lawrence City Commission held a heavily contentious discussion about whether or not to add cameras to the downtown area on Tuesday during its meeting. Lawrence Police Chief Gregory Burns Jr. spoke for the majority of the meeting, providing evidence that supported his new policy, which would include installing non-moveable overt security cameras from 6th to 11th streets on Massachusetts Street, Burns said. According to Burns, the security cameras will only include video recording, no audio recording, and the project is estimated to cost approximately $108,000. Burns said he believed that the “tipping point” for the need for cameras downtown was last year’s triple homicide that occurred on Massachusetts Street in nearly the same location as where the proposed security cameras would go. “Do I believe that we will have a triple homicide downtown every year? Absolutely not. Do I believe that it could happen again? Yes, I do. I believe that we can’t wait until the next multiple homicide or heinous act of violence takes place to act,” Burns said. Burns said that had it not been for the cameras that caught video of the Oct. 1, 2017, shooting on Massachusetts Street, he was uncertain whether the men now facing trial would have ever been caught. “At the end of the day, knowing and proving something are two different
Bob (Jiatong) Li/KANSAN Gregory Burns, the Chief of Lawrence Police Department, speaking during the City Commission meeting. things,” Burns said. “And without those cameras, I do not know if we would have caught those involved.” Burns said another reason adding cameras downtown was brought back into the light was because it was reported that Lawrence has seen an increase in violent crimes since 2015, according to the city’s downtown violent crime memorandum. According to the city memorandum submitted by Burns to City Manager Tom Markus, adding security cameras downtown would increase public safety, deter crime, help catch criminals and assist in providing clues to investigations. Burns argued that adding security cameras in the downtown area was not an uncommon practice nowadays. He said local Kansas agencies such as the University’s Public Safety Office, and the police departments of Overland Park; Kansas
City, Missouri; Kansas City, Kansas; Wichita and Olathe all make use of surveillance cameras. After Burns’ testimony, City Commissioners Jennifer Ananda and Leslie Soden brought up the issue of privacy concerns because Massachusetts Street is, in fact, a residential area. However, Burns addressed these concerns by saying the cameras would not be angled directly onto someone’s home, which is prohibited by the Fourth Amendment, but the cameras would be focused on businesses and pedestrian traffic downtown. Despite City Commissioner Matthew Herbert agreeing that there should be some type of surveillance downtown, Kirsten Kuhn, chair of the Douglas County Libertarians, spoke in opposition of the new policy. “Additional cameras do not, and will not, prevent
crime. At best, they may help solve some crimes after the fact,” she said. “We also suspect that the expected potential deterrent effect of cameras is not necessarily applicable to this area.” Kuhn also argued that even if crime was ridden in the downtown area, the cameras would cause it to disperse to other parts of neighborhoods around Lawrence. Few, though, were in complete opposition. Vice Mayor Lisa Larsen said she felt strongly about the need for cameras, but also said she felt that the policy still needed to work out some specific details about who in the Lawrence Police Department will have access to the videos. Currently, the policy states that video feed or images may only be viewed by individuals outside of the LPD for only specific needs. Burns said this will depend
on whether or not the video attempting to be accessed is a part of a criminal investigation or not. Sally Zogry, executive director of Downtown Lawrence, Inc., gave a neutral speech on the matter, but said she didn’t think most downtown business owners would be against the cameras, especially when it comes to catching shoplifters. “Not one person but the Chief has mentioned shoplifting and this is a major problem for businesses, and the majority of businesses do not have cameras downtown,” Zogry said. Zogry also said she thought the cameras would help deter bad behavior from panhandlers, who can sometimes be aggressive toward pedestrians walking on Massachusetts Street. At the end of the discussion, Larsen said she would like to see a revised policy, which Burns agreed to and said he would be meeting with City Attorney Toni Wheeler to discuss more details. “I walk into this with a lot of hesitation, but I also see the value with it for reviewing crime,” Larsen said. Burns said no matter what the decision was, the LPD would not stop serving citizens to the best of its ability. “I think this is the step in the right direction, again whether we do it or not, we’re going to continue our job,” Burns said. City commissioners did not set a date for when this topic would be voted on next.
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McBride: Move past the hookup era
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The days of serial monogamy and steady relationships appear to be long gone.
MALLORIE MCBRIDE @malloriemcbride Waking up on Sunday with a text received at 1:30 a.m. from an unrecognizable number asking, “what are you doing right now?” seems to be the modern day romantic calling card. Relationships are just one of the many things college students learn how
to navigate throughout the years they spend on campus. However, the days of serial monogamy and steady relationships appear to be long gone. Today, it’s the “hookup” culture that prevails. Between 60 and 80 percent of North American college students have engaged in some form of hooking up, meaning anything from
kissing to intercourse. In the age of feminism, girl power and open and honest conversations about sex, I applaud those who choose to take control of their bodies and do with them as they please. However, an increase in our comfort levels when discussing sex does not mean there needs to be a decrease in our desire for long-term, serious, monogamous relationships, or our respect for those who choose to participate in them. College is stereotypically advertised as the time in your life to be selfish and
have fun, but this ideology could be detrimental to our futures. If we establish and live in an environment that does not value or respect relationships, how can we expect to transition from a culture that glorifies having numerous partners simultaneously, to a lifestyle of committed relationships with a single person once you graduate and move on? We have allowed ourselves to not only build a toxic romantic environment, but actively support it as well. College students hook up twice as much as they date, and by their senior
year, one-third have been on fewer than two dates. Our generation simply does not know how to date anymore. In the age of expediency, people want quick fixes to their problems; rarely do we have the patience to wait for the real, good things to come. This causes us to settle for less than we deserve and become comfortable in this notion. While the sexual revolution has given many women and men the courage to explore their sexuality, the tradition of monogamous relationships should not be placed on the backburner. Mallorie McBride is a sophomore from Overland Park studying journalism and business.
Issawi: There is hope for post-grad life
DANYA ISSAWI @danyasawi The thought of graduation is a driving, yet crippling force. There’s about a month before the umbilical cord gets cut — before we’re completely untethered and left to fend for ourselves in the “real world.” A month before possibility and potential, and all their allure, are no longer simply the themes of our daydreams, but rather sources of anxiety, stress and worry. Suddenly, “what do you want to be when you grow up?” isn’t an open-ended question, but rather an angst-inducing mantra
gnawing at the back of your mind, reminding you of the impending doom graduation may bring. Not to be dramatic. Graduation, as an entity, is completely ironic. It’s happy and sentimental, and often, the weeks leading up to it are filled with bittersweet lasts and goodbyes, and yet, it’s impossible to see beyond the mist of the melancholy realization that nothing will be the same. It’s a tumultuous time of change and transition we are privileged enough to experience. How lucky we are to get a college education. But for many of us, this is all we’ve known. Sure,
we’ve worked part-time or full-time jobs while being in college, but for the better part of the last 17 years, our main identifier has been as students. For nearly two decades, our main occupation has been our education. So, now what? There’s an insurmountable amount of pressure to continue the path that has already been forged by society for us. Graduate, get a job (maybe even a job you might like), do the introductory first two years of arduous labor, network, get a promotion, work your way up, retire, and eventually move to a quiet community in Florida. Some of us might want that, and some of us might want something different. Some of us might want to, as one of my peers put it during a class discussion, “f--- up for a little bit.” In fact, maybe that’s what we should all be doing, whether we have jobs and concrete plans postgrad or not. There’s a notion that come May, we’ll suddenly be grown. We’ll
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It’s a tumultuous time of change and transition we are privileged enough to experience. be firm in who we are as people and confident in the trajectory of our lives. But that doesn’t have to be the case. We’re allowed to continue our exploration and our education, especially of our ourselves. We’re allowed to experiment and switch jobs if we feel unfulfilled, in fact, millennials are job-hopping more than any other generation before us. We have the liberty to experiment and change, move cities or even countries. Of course, these notions are completely idealistic, but they’re also completely plausible. Because there is light at the end of the tunnel. At least, it looks like it. People graduate, and then, shockingly enough, they continue to exist. Sure, they were stripped of their identity as college students, but they found solace in identifiers else-
where. Just look. They’re walking around, upright, on their own two feet. They survived. Some of them are even thriving. These next few months are completely horrifying, and it’s hard to envision yourself as anything but a mime in an invisible box, pushing the walls out as they’re closing in. It’s hard not to feel suffocated by the uncertainty and looming sense of loss this next chapter may bring, but there’s something to be said about the beauty of the unknown. Come graduation, we’ll be losing a lot (friends, security, sanity, etc.) but have the potential to gain just as much, if not more, than we’ve surrendered. Danya Issawi is a senior from Prairie Village studying journalism, psychology and peace and conflict studies.
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“Do you think I got a new FBI person? * waves to laptop camera * Nice to meet you!!” my cousins just bought an old plantation farm in the south...... republicans really are wild my brand of self harm is getting attached to a boy/ in a committed relationship one month before graduation and three months before I move half way across the country Officially cutting the greeting “good morning” out of my vocabulary bc I keep saying it to people at whatever afternoon time I manage to drag my a-- out of bed My life aspiration is to someday trick the Facebook algorithm into giving me nothing but food videos One cool thing about anxiety is I stress clean, so like I may have gotten 3 hours of sleep last night but at least my room is cleaner than it’s been all semester!! just put on a sweatshirt i last wore on senior night and found newspaper confetti... rip basketball szn :((( Buying canes and calling it #SelfLove I feel like Bill Self makes it a goal to throw shade at Clay Young at least once at every public appearance. I may be broke, stressed, and hungry, but at least I’m not in f------ high school anymore
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Ries: We go beyond a one-size-fits-all approach
NOAH RIES Editor’s Note: This column, written by Crimson and Blue Presidential Candidate Noah Ries, is one of three guest columns from the three coalitions in this week’s election. The coalitions were asked to discuss the biggest issue facing KU and their response to it. College campuses across the country currently face a complex range of issues affecting everything from student experience to affordability, safety and retention. The University is certainly no exception to this trend, and although it may be easy to just pick one particular issue and propose a solution to it, the reality of the situation is never going to be that simple. The fact of the matter is that the University has such a diverse range of students from different backgrounds who have had different experiences. These 28,000-plus stu-
dents have all lived unique lives and hold unique identities, causing them to be affected by issues differently. We at Crimson and Blue must take the approach that one issue is not, nor can it be, inherently more important than another, because this will inevitably leave out some students who are seriously affected by other equally pressing issues. Speaking from my own experiences, one of the issues I’m constantly faced with is lack of education regarding LGBTQ+ issues on our campus, as an openly gay man. Many people are misinformed on the topics or have simply never been exposed to people who hold similar identities. Having to constantly come out to and educate new people I meet, despite the worry of how their perception of me will change, is something that has become a part of my everyday life. A student who may not hold the same identity may therefore see
other issues that affect them more directly as more pressing. Recognizing this, our coalition has taken a holistic approach to issues affecting the students here and has platforms designed to address issues that affect people of every identity, where we know we can make a positive impact and improve the lives of our students. A brief scroll through the list of our platforms on our website can confirm this. For students like myself who are looking to see increased resources for LGBTQ+ students, we are looking to increase our PREP services and free HIV testing around campus. For students who are struggling to manage their time while taking classes and also raising a child, we are looking to establish a student-parent advisor. For students who would like to see more resources for women to get involved in underrepresented fields, we have our Women in STEMM Program. For students who feel
Contributed photo like the bus system is too overcrowded, we have our transit improvement plan to increase 43 Red services. All of these proposed solutions will attack the serious issues affecting our students from multiple angles so that no student feels left out of our plans. We recognize any issue affecting even one student is valid and should, therefore, be addressed. Crimson and Blue will do our best, if elected, to first and foremost hear the concerns of our constituents and from there
seek out the means of solving those concerns. We are a diverse coalition made up of enthusiastic, intelligent and all-around capable students who are affected by different issues in college and want to make sure our platforms reflect that. As presidential candidate of this coalition, I have had the honor of working with all of these passionate students who genuinely want to see the Jayhawk experience improve. I have no doubt in this team’s ability to lead, and I hope that the vote students cast on this
Wednesday and Thursday is one that will benefit every Jayhawk. A vote for Crimson and Blue is a vote for just that. For more information regarding our candidates, team and platforms head on over to Crimsonblue.org. Vote Crimson & Blue!
Noah Ries is a junior from Kansas City, Kansas, studying economics, business and Chinese.
Buhlinger: Experience, input shape reform ideas
ANNA BUHLINGER Editor’s Note: This column, written by Jayhawkers Presidential Candidate Anna Buhlinger, is one of three guest columns from the three coalitions in this week’s election. The coalitions were asked to discuss the biggest issue facing KU and their response to it.
There is no single story of a KU student. I do not know every single student’s path, struggles or experience at the University of Kansas. However, through this process, I have met many wonderful students and have listened to the issues that face them.
ACCESSIBILITY
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riety of resources available to support student needs. However, many students are unaware of the resources the University provides. If I were elected student body president, I would work as hard as possible to make campus resources more accessible to students by championing them from the top. Our first platform we released was our health and wellness platform. This includes a more extensive partnership between Counseling and Psychological Services, Ambler Student Recreation Center and Watkins Health Center. Being a fitness instructor and a working student, I see firsthand how working out and making positive lifestyle choices improves mental and physical health. It is a dream of mine to invite all University students to the football field to participate in a fitness class. Our sexual assault report reform platform also directly relates to accessibility of campus resources. Many people in my life have been
impacted by sexual assault, and listening to their stories showed me what a widespread problem this is. Doing research has shown me that there is desperate need for reform in this area, especially because 90 percent of assaults are not even reported. I want to change how students report so that more feel comfortable coming forward, and know exactly what to do when they are impacted by sexual violence.
AFFORDABILITY
Affordability is also an issue that largely impacts many KU students. I have four jobs and work 38 hours a week to pay for many of the expenses of college. I believe it is important for students to have a student body president who understands firsthand what it is like to have to work and go through school. I believe Student Senate needs to support working students and advocate to lower the different costs of college. From parking per-
mits, to tuition, to rent, there are many expenses college students face. We have a platform that allows for students to volunteer around the Lawrence community to help pay for the cost of parking tickets. Our discounted carpool permit platform deals with affordability, and also sustainability. We believe that both of these platforms address the issue of affordability and help students alleviate the cost of parking at the University.
OVERALL STUDENT EXPERIENCE
Sometimes, students have a hard time explaining what they need. How do we help them achieve academically? How can we make them feel safer while on this campus? The platforms below focus on the student experience. First, we released a dead week platform to help students succeed. This would be a week during the semester where no tests, papers or academic coursework is
assigned. A common theme in many of my conversations with students had to do with the stress and anxiety that comes with the pressure of academic performance. As someone who has taken active shooter trainings, I believe gun safety is essential to ensure that students feel safe and prepared for an emergency. Having University-wide active shooter trainings would help inform students of the steps they have to take, while also giving students confidence to take control of an emergency situation on campus. Thank you for taking the time to read how I have put together platforms to address the different issues facing KU students. I encourage every student to do their research and vote for the ideas and candidate that they believe will bring positive change to this University.
Anna Buhlinger is a junior from Bartlesville, Oklahoma, studying political science and communication studies.
Khan: Support the coalition that gives a damn
ZOYA KHAN Editor’s Note: This column, written by Rise KU Presidential Candidate Zoya Khan, is one of three guest columns from the three coalitions in this week’s election. The coalitions were asked to discuss the biggest issue facing KU and their response to it. As a University, we are on the precipice of great change. We have the opportunity to elect a passionate, engaged and concerned student body president. This is about more than a title to me. I have spent three years as an active participant and open critic of Student Senate. I am running for student body president because I am not satisfied with the status quo, and you shouldn’t be either. My harsh criticism is meant to inspire much-needed change within the Senate
chambers and among the student body. Our University is at a major crossroads with the recent news of our provost moving on to new opportunities, increased pressures from within the University and external pressures from the state; we must elect leaders who will bring about change. This work is personal to me, as I have been a part of Senate for three years. In my two terms as the chair of the Student Senate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, we have begun the process of reshaping avenues to implement change. The University has a dangerously low retention rate, with the most recent numbers showing that less than 50 percent of students graduate after four years. There are three major factors that generally account for why students leave our University: lack of financial capital,
lack of social capital and lack of sense of belonging. This is an issue that the Office of the Provost has been trying to tackle. However, since the issue of retention directly impacts students, Student Senate must be on the front lines of this cause. Instead of using its powers to intentionally support and engage with students, the body has done the bare minimum of funding student groups and has failed in almost every other regard. This was clear when the student group Engineers Without Borders was blatantly disrespected and humiliated by members of the body, with little intervention from the executive staff. This was evidenced when fellow student senators were publicly ostracized and discouraged from dissenting against Senate leadership, and when our student body president decided to defund the Mul-
ticultural Student Government. The lies told to the student body by coalitions during the election seasons in the past have made Senate irrelevant to most students on campus. If we do not elect serious leaders into this body, Student Senate will lose any of its remaining advocacy power. If we do not elect leaders with a comprehensive and dynamic understanding of student experience, then we will continue a tradition of disappointing the student body. For this reason, my running mate, Nellie Kassebaum, and I are part of a team of students who care about their peers, and who love this University. Many of our senatorial candidates have not been in Student Senate but come from leadership across campus because they, like us, want to create change and are ex-
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hausted by Senate’s inability to do so thus far. Now more than ever, representation matters. This election cycle has the potential to make history. Not only would I be the first Muslim student body president at the University of Kansas, I would also be the first woman of color. It is time we elect an experienced leader, and
a leader who cares to represent the voice of the student body. Vote Rise KU on Wednesday and Thursday. It’s time for a change.
Zoya Khan is a junior from Overland Park studying political science and global and international studies.
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Katie Counts/KANSAN Randy Walker owns the Museum of Odd, which features sock monkeys, celebrity memoribilia and other artifacts.
Museum of Odd highlights eccentricities
in the book “Kansas Curiosities,” the website “Roadside America,” HGTV’s show “Home Strange Home,” and numerous articles. With that fame has come some judgement. Even in Lawrence, where Walker says “you have the freedom to be yourself,” he has encountered backlash. To that, all he can say is, “As long as I’m not doing you any harm, what do you care about what I’m doing?” Because at the end of the day, Walker believes there’s nothing wrong with a little odd. “People are unique and they should express their uniqueness and not be afraid to show it,” Walker said. “Even if it’s a little left to center of what normal is, because, in my opinion, normal is full of shit. Only because, who’s to say what’s normal and what’s not? I think you need to express yourself however you want to express yourself and not be afraid.”
of lamps stand around the room, casting light on a variety of trinkets. All of these things represent just a little of Walker’s vast collection. Guests sign their names with a feathered pen, and then Walker begins his tour. Featured is a wide variety of eccentricity. Walker has vintage clothing, pictures of circus freaks (including a card signed by the world’s tallest man), bezoars (inches thick cow hairballs) and a painted pile of cow dung dubbed “Adolf Shittler.” “It’s got to hit me. It’s gotta be something real weird or kind of off or folk art,” Walker said. “Or it’s like ‘What the hell is that?’ I like that...Or it’s just so weird that I have to buy it.” He even has an array of celebrity memorabilia — Charles Manson’s signature, Bob Barker’s toothbrush, the gloves of the world’s tiniest man, a rock Helen Keller touched, clippings of Elvis’ hair and even Elvis’ underwear. Walker especially loves
to collect items made from nothing — toothpicks made into tiny cabinets, aluminum cans cut apart and peeled into blossoming flowers and bottle caps stacked into human figures. But most notable is a collection of roughly 400 sock monkeys on the front couch. “The human spirit has to create,” Walker said. Having grown up in St. Louis and Overland Park, Walker first started collecting during a junkyard run with his family when he was 12 years old. There he found dozens of daguerreotypes and he was fascinated. After that, he caught the collecting bug. Before he could drive, Walker was renting out his own booth in Westport, where he sold insulated glass his grandpa had. He’s been buying and selling stuff ever since. He’s taken breaks, but over the years, he’s operated several booths, owned a shop and sold goods on eBay. Now, he works as an estate-sale
manager so he can pay for more oddities and travel. As soon as he was able to, Walker began to travel as fast and as hard as he could, driving wherever, stopping whenever, looking for unconventional destinations and items. He has been to almost every state in the U.S. and a couple of locations overseas. “If you ever want to go junking, I’m the man to talk to, because I know every place in the Midwest,” Walker said. Because to Walker, the best part of collecting items is the acquisition itself. “That whole hunt, it’s the process,” Walker said. “Buying it is almost anticlimactic.” Despite the vast collection, what matters most to Walker are sentimental items that his family gave him. He is not too attached to anything he owns. “As far as I’m concerned, I don’t own any of this stuff. I just rent it for a period of time and then it goes somewhere else,” Walker
said. “It’s all one big kind of movement. It’s not permanent, it’s a temporary stop at my house and then it goes somewhere else.”
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“Everyone should collect something.” That’s what Randy Walker believes. From the piles of sock monkeys to intricate can art to Elvis’ DNA, Walker has it all in the Museum of Odd. But this is not your traditional museum — this is Walker’s house, a project over 40 years in the making. Located at 1012 New York St. surrounded by suburbia, the house does not look like much. On the door, a small sign reads “Open.” All it takes is a simple knock, and Walker ushers his guests inside. The main level of the house is no more than a few small rooms, but the whole place is filled. Every wall is covered with pictures, paintings, sculptures, artwork of any kind. Stacks of old books rest on every desk, ranging in topic from roadside attractions to taxidermy to sex. Dozens
“Everyone should collect something.” Randy Walker owner
It wasn’t until a couple of years ago that Walker began treating his collection as a museum. When he held parties, people would tell him that his place looked like a museum and eventually he started doing tours. “Randy captures your attention with all the vivid information he provides,” visitor Kebra Panko of Yates Center said. “There were a lot of laughs, questions (which he always welcomes) and makes you appreciate the small things.” Since he started giving tours, he has been featured
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Kansas basketball linked to Adidas scandal Two unnamed men’s basketball players’ families may have recieved money for recruitment, according to an FBI investigation MICHAEL SWAIN @mswain97
On Tuesday afternoon, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced additional charges related to a federal investigation into apparel company Adidas’ influence in college basketball recruiting. In the document, an indictment of former Adidas employee James Gatto, two Kansas players are mentioned, but not named. Several other Division 1 schools are also mentioned. Joe Monaco, the University’s director of strategic communications, released a statement Tuesday evening. In it, he called the University a “victim” of the allegations mentioned in the document. “The indictment does not suggest any wrongdoing by the university, its coaches or its staff,” he said in the email statement. “We will cooperate fully with investigators in this matter.” After Kansas basketball’s end-of-year banquet Tuesday night, Kansas coach Bill Self spoke with the media about the news. “I haven’t seen exactly what was written, I don’t know all the details about it,” Self said. “I do know that would not be part of the role in which [the coaches] would play at all. I’ll look forward to hearing more about it.”
“The indictment does not suggest any wrongdoing by the university, its coaches or its staff.” Joe Monaco University director of strategic communications
In the charges, the parents of “studentathlete 3” are said to have received over $65,000 between Oct. 31, 2016, and May 31, 2017. Adidas allegedly funneled money to the student athlete’s family through the former recruit’s Amateur Athletic Union team, as well as in-person meetings, in which money was exchanged, according to the indictment. There have been conflicting reports on who “student-athlete 3” might be. The dates in the document correlate precisely with the recruitment of freshman guard Marcus Garrett, who signed his letter of intent on Nov. 9, 2016, a date mentioned in the indictment. Yet, ESPN and Yahoo Sports have both reported that, through anonymous sourcing, “student-athlete 3” is former five-star recruit Billy Preston, who left Kansas in January after months of questions surrounding his eligibility. Another athlete mentioned in the document allegedly had at least $20,000 sent to his
guardian. The Kansan believes this athlete is freshman forward Silvio De Sousa, due to parallels between his decision to come to Kansas and the decision of the athlete described in the indictment. “On August 30, 2017, in what media reports called a ‘surprise’ decision, the student-athlete announced he would not attend the school sponsored by the rival apparel company but would instead enroll at the University of Kansas,” the document said. De Sousa announced his decision to attend Kansas on Aug. 30, the same date as the one listed in the document. The other school De Sousa was considering was Maryland. Soon after De Sousa announced his decision, the Baltimore Sun described the decision as “unexpected.” — Edited by Alexandra Martinez
Photos by Missy Minear/KANSAN Three basketball players, from top, Silvio De Sousa, Billy Preston and Marcus Garrett have recruiting dates that coordinate with an indictment related to the Adidas scandal.
Kansas Relays to feature Street Pole Vault event ANDREW ROSENTHAL @Rosentrotter Adding onto an already action-packed week, the Kansas Relays will feature the Street Pole Vault Exhibition for the third straight year. The event will feature seven professional female vaulters. Last year, the event was structured differently, with male participants and female participants alternating flights. Kristen Hixson, a three-time Division II Champion at Grand Valley State University took the event for the women, clearing 15-foot-0.25. For perhaps the most exciting finish of that event, then-Kansas senior Nick Meyer cleared 18foot-4.5 to beat out the entire field of professional
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vaulters, who didn’t even come close to Meyer’s height. This year Hixson returns to Lawrence to defend her street pole vault title, joining No. 4 American Morgann LeLeux-Romero, Baylor alumna Annie RhodesJohnigan, Alabama alumna Lakan Taylor, and former Indiana teammates Sydney Clute and Sophie Gutermuth. No male vaulters are set to compete in the event this year. Set for 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 19, the event will be held in the parking lot of the Salty Iguana restaurant on the corner of Sixth and Wakarusa streets. Salty Iguana will offer food and beverages for sale in the parking lot during the event.
Kansan file photo Brazilian Olympian Joana Costa fails to clear 13-foot-8.5 in the women’s street pole vault in 2017. For the third straight year in the Salty Iguana parking lot, the Street Pole Vault Exhibition will include professional athletes as part of the annual Kansas Relays.
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