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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2005
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BY ERIN CASTANEDA
editor@kansan.com
KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
Top 10 "Horror" Movies
10. "Bride of Frankenstein" (1935)
9. "The Night of the Hunter" (1955)
10. "Kabinet des Doktor Caliari"
Das" (1920)
7."Jaws" (1975)
6."Aliens" (1986)
5."The Shining" (1980)
4."Faust" (1926)
3."Alien" (1979)
2."Se7En" (1995)
1."Psycho" (1960)
Source: imdb.com/chart/horror
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Author writes book about mourning covers
Jes Cook, Topeka senior, volunteers for a number of organizations in the Lawrence community including the Women Transitional Care Services, an organization that strives toward peace in the world by eliminating violence in communities. Cook will present a documentary film, "System Failure" exposing problems with the juvenile justice system to be followed by a public discussion at 7 p.m. on Monday at the Lawrence Public Library Gallery.
TOPEKA — Ernest Mosher wanted to do something in which he was an indisputable expert, no matter how narrow it was. This, coupled with his penchant for analyzing postal history, steered him into writing a rare book that has won him laurels.
Mosher, of Topeka, is the author of "Mourning Covers: The Cultural and Postal History of Letters Edged in Black."
The 353-page book is an illustrated story about the history and use of mourning covers as a cultural practice or custom in the United States and in many other countries. It is about postal history illustrated by the use of mourning covers.
"Mourning covers can be briefly defined as black-edged posted letters used in many countries, especially during the 19th and early 20th centuries, as harbingers of death and messengers of grief." Mosher said. "Mourning covers were as common in the past as wedding and birth announcements are today."
He said people in the 20th and 21st centuries would find the use of death-related blackedged letters a strange and bizarre cultural practice. But in the context of social customs or ethos of the time, they were rational social phenomenon and are still considered to be so in a few countries.
At one point, Mosher had the largest collection of U.S. and foreign mourning covers in the world — 5,000 covers from more than 180 countries. The Associated Press
ON THE BOULEVARD
Taking issue with social problems
BY FRANK TANKARD
funkard@kansan.com
KANSNAR STAFF WRITER
Jes Cook sat at a sidewalk table outside Java Break, a coffee bar off Massachusetts Street, with a dollar in her pocket for a cup of coffee on a cool afternoon.
A worn old woman approached and asked for 58 cents.
"Get some food," Cook said with a smile and handed over the bill.
Students come to college for all sorts of reasons: to gain job skills, to grow up, to drink. For Jes Cook, Topeka senior, college is a place to get involved in the community, a place to get informed on social issues and fight for them.
"Once your eyes are open, it's hard to pretend bad things don't happen." Cook said.
It was a small gesture, but one not everyone would've made.
Growing up as the oldest of three sisters, Cook was always the strong, independent one, said her father, Joe Cook.
"I've said many times that she was somehow teleported from the '60s era," he said.
Her involvement at the University of Kansas started the week she arrived four years ago when she signed up for KU Greens and Women's Empowerment Action Coalition, two groups no longer in existence.
The Associated Press
As freshmen, she and Laura Adams, Overbrook senior, started a group called the Lawrence Fair Trade Coffee Commission.
By talking to KU officials, they convinced the Kansas Union and KU Dining Services
to offer a domestic coffee brew. Cook and Adams were amazed to learn how easy it could be to bring change to campus, even if it was something small.
"It was an awesome freshman-year campaign to make us aware of how all the infrastructure in the University works and how to make actual change on campus." Adams said.
Since then, she's done just
about everything she could think of to bring change to the community. Cook branched into the Lawrence community. She organized a five-week lecture series at Lawrence Memorial Hospital about poverty that featured speakers from different backgrounds.
and Massachusetts streets with a group of "women in black" who wore veils, held signs and distributed anti-war leaflets.
When the war in Iraq started, she spent time for more than six months on the corner of Ninth
"I think it's important for people to protest, to have a dialogue," she said. "You also have to help your neighbor who's
It's not always easy to stand on the street corner, she said, but it's worth it if you believe in your cause.
maybe having a rough time. I think they have to go hand-inhand."
Cook serves on the board of directors of Women's Transitional Care Services, where she started as an advocate volunteer as an underclassman. The organization offers an array of services from answering calls from battered women to providing shelter to going to court with them. She also helps organize Women Take Back the Night, a yearly march and vigil for women's safety, and works at the Multicultural Resource Center.
Cook will co-host "Our Kids and the Juvenile Justice System: A Public Dialogue" at 7 p.m. Monday at the Lawrence Public Library, 70 Vermont St.
Cook spent this summer looking at ways to improve the juvenile justice system as a Public Policy and International Affairs Fellow at the 2005 Junior Summer Institute at Princeton University.
Cook will graduate in May with bachelor's degrees in African Studies and Sociology. She hopes to get a job that affects public policy in some way, whether it's women's issues, migrant issues or something else, in the United States or abroad.
Wherever she goes next, she's made an impact while she's been here, said her friend Ranij Tapit, a Lawrence graduate student.
"We always hear that students these days don't care, that they're apathetic," he said. "She's living proof that that's obviously not the case."
Edited by Theresa Montaño
Helping hands
Keith Mvers/THE KANSAS CITY STAR
A U.S. flag flutters atop Roger Ruhnke's tractor Monday as friends and neighbors harvest corn for Larry and Brenda Turpin in a field southwest of Troy. Volunteers pitched in to help the Turpins, who were unable to complete the harvest after they were injured in a car accident a few months ago.
▼ SUPREME COURT
Court allows inmate an abortion
BY GINA HOLLAND
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Missouri officials must let a pregnant inmate have an abortion, the Supreme Court said Monday, rejecting an appeal by anti-abortion Gov. Matt Blunt.
Missouri, which has some of the strictest abortion laws in the country, argued taxpayers should not have to pick up the tab for transporting the woman to an abortion clinic. The unanimous order declining to intervene comes as the Senate prepares for the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, during which lawmakers are sure to press her on abortion. She was picked to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor,
a key swing voter in abortion cases who is retiring.
"I don't think the justices have ever wanted to have this fight under the bright glare of a political spotlight," said Stephen Wermiel, an American University law professor.
Blunt criticized the court, saying its decision "is highly offensive to traditional Missouri values and is contrary to state law, which prohibits taxpayer dollars from being spent to facilitate abortions."
He called a special session this fall to pass new restrictions on abortion and has promised to work
The Republican governor earlier had denounced what he called "an outrageous order from an activist federal judge" who sided with the inmate.
with abortion foes on more laws.
The inmate, known only as Jane Roe, is at least four months pregnant and her lawyers told justices that she is anxious and depressed.
She found out she was pregnant after being arrested on a parole violation and sued the state after her attempts to get an abortion were rebuffed.
The Supreme Court has never addressed the rights of pregnant inmates to get abortions, but U.S. District Judge Dean Whipple in Missouri said that the high court has made clear that women have a constitutional right to abortion.
Whipple ordered the state to transport the woman on the 80-mile trip from her cell in Vandalia to a St. Louis clinic.
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