4A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 2, 2005
Let's Do the Time Warp
Taylor Miller/KANSAN
Jill Williams, Lenexa freshman, puts the finishing touches on Aaron Couch's make-up for the annual SUA "Rocky Horror Picture Show" event in the Union on Monday night. The event included Rocky Horror Karaoke, a costume contest and the interactive movie. Traditionally the guests dress up as their favorite characters and act along with the movie. This was both Williams' and Couch's first time.
Language
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John Janzen, director of the Kansas African Studies Center and professor of anthropology, said the center had been building its African language programs during the last three years in an attempt to regain the designation. Five new faculty members have been hired and three more will be by 2007.
Other language programs have also made new hires. A total of 17 faculty members were hired this year and 17 more are expected to be added next year.
The NRC funding is the biggest source of federal foreign language grants, though other federal departments, including the Department of Defense and the CIA, offer a few scattered programs and scholarships.
"NRC is far and away the most visible source of funding," said Paul D'Anieri, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, who oversees the University's language programs.
While the KU programs that have the NRC designation have been growing, courses in Middle-Eastern languages at the University and much of the United States are notably lacking.
The Department of Defense gives grants to teach so-called "critical languages." The languages are mostly spoken in areas of the world where the United States has a military interest,
The Department of Defense gives grants to teach so-called "critical languages." The languages are mostly spoken in areas of the world where the United States has a military interest, especially the Middle East.
especially the Middle East.
The University offers elementary and intermediate classes in some Middle Eastern languages, including Arabic, Hebrew and Turkish, but doesn't have a Middle Eastern department or a cohesive program.
"There's a real dearth of those languages here at KU," said Ray Finch, assistant to the director of the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies.
D'Anieri said the University had looked to expanding programs in the future, but was torn between developing its existing languages and adding new languages such as Persian and Hindi.
"The dilemma we always face is resources," he said. "Would we, for example, want to add Persian or more Arabic?"
D'Anieri said the University was weighing these factors as it considered adding languages. In the mean time, he hopes to keep NRC status for the languages the University specializes in.
Guilty in space case
COURTS
Museum head faces 5 years
Edited by Kellis Robinett
BY ROXANA HEGEMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WICHTIA — The former head of the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center was found guilty Tuesday of stealing and selling museum and NASA items, including data recording tape from the Apollo 15 mission and an Air Force One control panel.
After less than a day of deliberations, a federal jury found Max Ary, the former president and chief executive officer of the Hutchinson space museum he had co-founded, guilty of 12 counts — two counts theft of government property, two counts of wire fraud, three counts of mail fraud, three counts of interstate transport of stolen goods and two counts money laundered. He was found not guilty of one count of interstate transport of stolen goods and one count of money laundered.
Ary faces up to five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine on each of the wire fraud and mail fraud counts. He faces up to 10
Ary showed little emotion as the verdict was read, although he shook his head once.
During the trial, jurors were shown space artifacts and heard testimony from three former astronauts — Eugene Cerman, Charles Duke Ir and Tom Stafford.
tarder something to join him.
Later Tuesday, the jury ordered
Ary to turn over $124,140 linked
to the crimes to the government.
Prosecutors had sought $156,744.
years and a $250,000 fine on each count of theft and each count of transportation of stolen property. U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten set sentencing for Jan. 19.
"The evidence showed that Max Ary knowingly sold space artifacts that belonged to the Cosmosphere or NASA and deposited the money in his personal account," Melgren said. "On all these counts, the jury determined that he did it voluntarily and intentionally, not because of a mistake or some other innocent reason."
U. S. Attorney Eric Melgren acknowledged Ary did good things for the Cosmosphere but said he should still be held accountable for his crimes.
Ary's attorney, Lee Thompson,
declined to comment Tuesday.
Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, testified that items he provided to the Cosmosphere went there because he was comfortable with Ary and had faith in him, and Stafford described Ary as
Duke testified for the prosecution, saying miniature Kansas flags he had taken into space were given to the Cosmosphere, not to Ary. After Ary came under investigation, Duke wrote a letter saying it was his understanding Ary could have one of the flags.
Prosecutors claimed Ary stole items that belonged to NASA and the Cosmosphere and profited by selling them.
"completely honest."
Ary, 55, acknowledged that he sold items that belonged to NASA and the Cosmosphere but said it was a mistake — that the artifacts had accidentally been intermingled with items in his own space artifact collection.
In testimony Friday, Ary also said many items that prosecutors identified as stolen were part of the collection he bought with him when he came to Hutchinson in 1976 and helped found the Cosmosphere, items he said he obtained as gifts or through trades.
Ary left the Cosmosphere in May 2002, when he moved to Oklahoma City to become executive director of the Kirkpatrick Science and Air Space Museum at Omniplex. He was placed on leave from that job after being indicted in April and was replaced after his contract expired in August.
Bikes
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Jeff Gravatt, Tonganoxix freshman, who lives at Battenfeld, said a professor who uses a cane to walk up the stairs next to the hall has complained and bikes were removed from the stairs by Battenfield residents.
Residents chain their bikes there to keep from walking their bikes up those stairs every time they ride through campus, Gravatt said.
Robert Quach, director of Battenfeld Hall, said he told his residents to be mindful of leaving bikes chained to the rails.
Johnson said she planned on putting neon paper messages on bikes, which were in violation of the code, to remind students to move them before the bikes were cut from chains.
"We will do it if it has to be done only." Johnson said about removing bikes. The goal of the change is to try and change the habits of people who park their bikes where they shouldn't. "I really don't want these people to get their vehicles impounded."
— Edited by Kellis Robinett
NATION
Plans to prevent pandemic draw fire
WASHINGTON — President Bush outlined a $7.1 billion strategy on Tuesday to prepare for a possible worldwide super-flu outbreak.The plan aims to overhaul the vaccine industry so eventually — Bush's goal is 2010 — every American could be inoculated within six
months of a pandemic's beginning.
The plan's critics said it wouldn't provide enough protection in the meantime. States got an unpleasant surprise, ordered to purchase millions of doses of an anti-flu drug.
The strategy expands attempts to detect super-flu before it reaches the United States, paying close attention to parts of Asia that are influenza incubators.
The Associated Press
New judge called for in DeLay case
AUSTIN, Texas — In a courtroom victory for Rep. Tom DeLay, the judge in the campaign-finance case was removed on Tuesday.
Semi-retired judge C.W. Bud Duncan ruled in DeLay's favor and ordered the appointment of a new judge.
contributed to John Kerry and the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org.
The ruling came after a hearing in which DeLay's attorneys argued that state District Judge Bob Perkins' political donations might indicate bias. Perkins, a Democrat, has
"The public perception of Judge Perkins' activities shows him to be on opposite sides of the political fence than Tom DeLay, defense attorney Dick DeGuerin argued.
The Associated Press
Wall-to-wall
Ken Wright, a framer with Home and Building Solutions, lifts a wall into place in the basement of a new single-family home in west Wichita on Tuesday. The costs of building materials have risen dramatically across the country in the wake of hurricane damage along the Gulf Coast.Increased demand for supplies and high fuel and transportation costs have contributed to the higher prices.
Mike Nutmacher/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS