WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 1. 2006
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 3A
CORRECTION
- Tuesday's The University Daily Kansan contained an error. Ashley Pate gathered the information for the "Tuesday Top 10"
ON THE RECORD
CRIME
The Lawrence-Douglas County Fire and Medical was dispatched to Oliver Hall at 11:41 p.m. in response to a 28-year-old KU employee's complaint of chest pains and an uncontrollable trembling in his arms. The patient was transferred to Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
- two vehicles were involved in an accident at 7:58 p.m., January 24, in KU parking lot 114. Both drivers were driving with suspended licenses.
CAMPUS Cow head left on stairs
At 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, a severed cow head was found in a stairwell east of the Spencer Art Museum, behind Strong Hall. KU Public Safety Officers are investigating the incident. Facility Operations employees arrived on the scene and disposed of the severed cow head.
Bike thefts on the rise in '05 U-locks provide the best protection from potential thieves
Mike Mostaffa
Nicoletta Niosi/KANSAN
BY MIKE MOSTAFFA
mmostaffa@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
These numbers have dramatically risen compared to the 15 bike thefts reported on campus in 2004. A majority of last year's thefts occurred at residence halls and scholarship halls. Oliver and McCollum halls were the sites of 31 percent of the bikes stolen in 2005.
Campus bike thefts more than tripled from 2004 to 2005. Forty-seven bikes were reported stolen last year, amounting to more than $10,000 in stolen property, according to KU Public Safety Office documents.
Capt. Schuyler Bailey, spokesman of the KU Public Safety Office, said he was not surprised Oliver and McCollum had been rife with bike theft because they were heavily populated residence halls with many students who use bikes as transportation.
The department installed security cameras to monitor parking lots and bike racks
on campus in August, but this proved ineffective. Eighty-five percent of the bikes stolen in 2005 were stolen after Sept. 1.
What is a bike-riding student to do?
"Keep your bike inside if you can," Shay Brown, Lawrence graduate student, said.
Brown, who has worked for Sunflower Outdoor & Bike Shop, 802 Massachusetts St., for almost two years, said there was no sure way to keep your bike from getting stolen.
"If someone wants your bike they will get it," he said. "If they want it bad enough and they have enough time, they will get it."
Christopher Norris, Pittsburg freshman, unlocks his bike from the rack outside Budig Hall yesterday. Norris' previous bike was stolen.
There are some steps student bike riders can take to keep their bike from becoming another statistic.
Brown has ridden his bike everyday to campus for seven years and has never had a problem with bike theft. He said that a good, quality lock is well worth the investment.
Brown recommends students spend the extra money and invest in a U-lock, which
is less convenient because it cannot be secured to many objects other than bike racks, but provides more security.
Cable locks are less expensive and more convenient than U-locks because they can be secured to many different objects other than just bike racks, but they do not provide
enough security against theft, he said.
"Cable locks can be cut through fairly easily." Brown said.
So far this year only one bike has been reported stolen. The theft was reported last Wednesday at 1312 Louisiana St.
Edited by Meghan Miller
ON CAMPUS
- The Ecumenical Christian Ministries is having a University Forum entitled "Kansas Science Standards 2005: Why Should You Be Concerned" from 12 to 1 p.m. today in the center. An optional lunch is offered for $3 for students and $5.50 for others.
- The University Career Center is sponsoring a workshop,
"How to Attend a Career Fair," at 3:30 p.m. today at Burge Union room 149.
- Terese Guinsatao Monberg, assistant professor of English, is holding a seminar entitled, "Rewriting the Landscape: Community-Based Spaces and the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS)" at 3:30 p.m. today in the Hall Center.
A public reception for new Dole Fellows will be held at 4:30 p.m. today in the Dole Institute of Politics.
The Center for East Asian Studies is showing the film "Nobody Knows" at 7:00 tonight at the Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
Don Hogan Charles/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The family of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. walk in the funeral procession in Atlanta, in this April 9, 1968 file photo. Coretta Scott King, his widow, who continued his legacy of human rights and equality, has died. She was 78
OBITUARY
Corretta Scott King, civil rights activist
BY ERRIN HAINES THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA — Coretta Scott King, who worked to keep her husband's dream alive with a chin-held-high grace and serenity that made her a powerful symbol of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s creed of brotherhood and nonviolence, died Tuesday. She was 78.
The "first lady of the civil rights movement" died in her sleep during the night at an alternative medicine clinic in Mexico, her family said. Arrangements were being made to
fly the body back to Atlanta.
She had been recovering from a serious stroke and heart attack suffered last August. Just two weeks ago, she made her first public appearance in a year on the eve of her late husband's birthday.
Doctors at the clinic said King was battling advanced ovarian cancer when she arrived there on Thursday. The doctors said the cause of death was respiratory failure.
the Georgia Capitol and piles of flowers placed at the tomb of her slain husband. Flags at the King Center — the institute devoted to the civil rights leader's legacy — were lowered to half-staff.
News of her death led to tributes to King across Atlanta, including a moment of silence in
"She wore her grief with grace. She exerted her leadership with dignity," the Rev. Joseph Lowery, who helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with King's husband in 1957.
Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, one of Martin Luther King's top aides, said Coretta Scott King's fortitude rivaled
that of her husband.
"She was strong, if not stronger,
than he was," Young said.
Coretta Scott King was a supportive lieutenant to her husband during the most dangerous and tumultuous days of the civil rights movement, and after his assassination in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968, she carried on his work while also raising their four children.
"I'm more determined than ever that my husband's dream, will become a reality," the young widow said soon after his slaying.
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