Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Fraser Hall
Ivana Radovanovic walked into her office Thursday in 616 Fraser and found a note slid under the door.
The letter contained information about a man’s relationship with Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin, according to the KU Public Safety report. It was signed by John Carland.
“The content was rather unusual,” Radovanovic said, “and entirely unrelated to my archeological expertise.”
Radovanovic, a professor of anthropology, reported the strange letter to the KU Public Safety Office.
The officer didn’t find Carland’s name in the Lawrence phone book or KU Directory. According to the report, members of the department of anthropology saw a man about 40 years old with brown, curly hair and glasses walking through Fraser Hall. He was asking them to look at some artifacts. They thought, according to the report, he could’ve written the letter.
Radovanovic said that people came to show artifacts all the time. The man wasn’t suspicious for that reason. She said the anthropology department staff filed the report because of the strange letter.
Anyone who sees the suspicious person should contact the KU Public Safety Office.
Strong Hall
An employee for the Office of the University Registrar in Strong Hall received a death threat on the phone last Thursday, according to police reports.
Joshua Dean was speaking to a registrar office staff member, who asked to remain unidentified, about his transcript on the phone. He became angry, according to the report, when the staff member declined to give him his transcript because of a hold.
Grace Vaughn, an administrative specialist for the Registrar, was notified of the threat and called police.
“We take it very seriously,” Vaughn said. “You don’t talk to people like that.”
According to the report, the staff member who received the threat had already left for the day when the officer arrived. The officer went to the staff member’s house later that afternoon. The employee told police she didn’t want to press charges and just wanted to put the incident behind her.
Vaughn said this was the first time she knew of a worker at the Registrar office receiving a death threat.
When The University Daily Kansan searched for Dean on KU People Search, no account came up. Vaughn declined to say whether Dean was a student but confirmed that he was asking for a transcript.
The Campanile
Two young men assaulted a KU student walking east of the Campanile at 1 a.m., Thursday, according to police reports.
While walking, the student saw the men standing on the stairs. As he approached them, they hit him and took his wallet. The KU Public Safety Office advises students to walk in groups and in well-traveled areas at night. It also advises students to give up their purses or wallets if they’re attacked.
—Edited by Luke Morris
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