NEWS
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21.2005
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 3A
ON THE RECORD
- A 31-year-old KU student reported to Lawrence police a theft of a dart gun between 10 a.m. Oct. 31 and 9 p.m. Nov. 1 on the 2500 block of 31st Street.The dart gun is valued at $220.
- ♦ A 21-year-old KU student reported to Lawrence police a theft of a specialized bicycle between 9 p.m. Wednesday and 1 p.m. Thursday on the 400 block of West 12th Street. The bicycle is valued at $1,800.
- A 33-year-old KU student reported to Lawrence police a burglary and a theft of a Dell laptop between 8 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Wednes day from the 800 block of Michigan Street. The laptop is valued at $2,600.
- An 18-year-old KU student reported to the KU Public Safety Office a theft of a misplaced KU bus pass between 5 and 5:30 p.m. on the 1300 block of Jayhawk Boulevard. The bus pass is valued at $140.
Professor of surgery wins grant to teach in United Arab Emirates
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Laurence Cheung, a professor of surgery at KU Medical Center, received a Fulbright Scholar grant to teach at the United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates.
Cheung, who served as chairman of the Med Center surgery department for 17 years, leaves Nov.29 to teach at the university's medical school through April. He is one of about 850 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel to 150 countries this academic year with the Fulbright Scholar Program, a highly competitive international exchange program for scholars.
Cheung applied for the fellowship with the idea of traveling to United Arab Emirates University after he had served as an external examiner there for each of the last three years. In that role, he traveled there for a week each year to make sure the university's medical school entrance exam met standards.
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He said he hoped to improve the medical school at the United Arab Emirates University by bringing American teaching methods that students at the university hadn't been exposed to. He wanted to teach students to learn more analytically rather than by memorizing material from lectures and textbooks.
"I'm going to try to get that started over there," he said. "It's more of a student-oriented teaching method."
Frank Tankard
Darcie, the red-nose doggy
Elizabeth Fox, 10, of South Dayton, Fla., checks out Darcie, owned by Lori Hacker, who is disguised as a reindeer during the first annual Doggie Festival in Port Orange, Fla., on Sunday. Darcie entered the "best dressed" competition, but was also in the "prettiest eyes" and the "longest tail" competitions.
BAT Van
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Drivers who request blood tests will still be transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital for testing.
Edited by Jonathan Kealing
The van will also aid in traffic investigations. The technology in the van allows officers to reconstruct accidents in a timely manner.
Ward said he hoped the van would help keep KU students safe at night by reducing the number of drivers impaired by alcohol.
Before, officers had to diagram an accident by hand then return to the station to upload the information on a computer, then return to the scene of the accident, he said.
"It took three to four hours in the past," Ward said. "If we can reduce that time, officers can have more time on the street."
Lawsuit
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Schimmel said the lawsuit was aimed at the alumni corporation, which is responsible for overseeing the housing operations.
"They are a party to the actual contract duties and obligations to oversee and maintain the house," he said. "They were negligent in overseeing the house."
The lawsuit also names Christopher Vetter, alumni corporation president. It indicates Vetter began throwing Troter's personal belongings out of his room and Troter was assaulted when Vetter put him in a headlock. Vetter said the reaction was out of self-defense.
He said he would not respond to the specifics of the lawsuit because he was not president of the alumni corporation until February 2005, which was before the occurrence of some of the incidents mentioned in the lawsuit.
"We have turned this matter to
our nationals and will help in any way to get to the bottom of this," Vetter said.
Kevin Lampe, spokesperson for Phi Kappa Theta, said he had yet to see the lawsuit and that the organization would look into the situation.
He said the University could not do anything more to punish the chapter because it no longer existed on campus, and the organization has a good working relationship with the University and would continue to work with its officials.
He said the allegations would be taken seriously, much like the actions levied on the fraternity last semester after hosting a unregistered party.
"The men did not live up to the standards," he said. "We took the action that was most appropriate when we revoked their charter."
Edited by Nate Karlin
France
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White said like other countries, including the United States, minorities were being excluded from French society. But she also came to understand that the right to protest is an important part of the French heritage and that it is a right they exercise often.
"This sort of thing is not out of the ordinary here in France. My host family found it interesting that all the Americans were so concerned," White said.
Urban violence is not unusual in France. Most notably, and what has drawn the biggest comparison to this year's riots, were the strikes that brought France to a standstill in May 1968. The uprising started in Paris and spread to cities across France.
In the 1980s and 1990s, smaller protests broke out, including a series of bombings in Paris and Lyon in July 1995 and strikes by public sector workers in Paris in late 1995.
Additionally, car-burning has almost become a rite of passage for angry youths in the suburbs. According to The Associated Press, about 30,000 cars are burned each year in France.
Susan Gronbeck Tedesco, director of study abroad, said her office wrote two letters to students and faculty currently in France. One sent on Nov. 7 expressed concern, reminded students of standard safety protocol and asked them to contact the study abroad office if they had any concerns. The second, sent on Nov. 9, was a public message from the state department.
Fourteen KU students are studying in France, two of them are in Paris. The University, on top of the letters, has maintained phone contact with faculty and also has contacted families. The western civilization program left Paris for the Florence, Italy, portion of its semester a week before the riots started. The University also has programs in the French cities of Angers, Besançon and Clermont-Ferrand.
"Several students wrote back and said they weren't worried but thanked us for writing." Gronbeck-Tedesco said. "Most hadn't seen much because it was contained in specific areas."
Ann Harris, Jenks, Olka., sophomore, is studying in Angers. She said the general sentiment in France was apathy. She hadn't heard about the riots until well into the second week. She said her roommate, who was in Paris during the last weekend of October and the worst weekend of rioting, had no idea what was happening until she returned to Angers.
"Those of us from abroad and people back home took it much more seriously and had a much more severe reaction to it than anyone from France that I have talked to," Harris said.
Amy Bowen, Topeka senior, is also in Angers this semester. She said she is still learning about the many facets of the racial issue involved the riots and hadn't discussed this aspect of French culture in her classes.
"Personally, I had no idea there were such social problems in the immigrant community. It has opened my eyes, so at least they maybe accomplished something," Bowen said.
- Edited by Katie Lohrenz
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