MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2005
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 3A
ON CAMPUS
Music and dance professors will perform for free at 7:30 tonight and Tuesday night at Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall as part of the Faculty Recital Series. Tonight features Edward Laut on cello, and tomorrow will feature Eric Stomberg on bassoon and Robert Koenig on piano.
♦ Francois Le Roux of South Africa is playing a free cello concert at noon on Tuesday at Alcove F in the Kansas Union as part of the Kansas African Studies Center's Ujamaa Brownbag Series.
ON THE RECORD
- Palden Gyatso, a Tibetan monk who spent 33 years in prison for protesting the Chinese occupation of Tibet, is speaking at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. A book signing will follow.
♦ An 18-year-old KU student reported a Toyota Corolla valued at $9,000 stolen sometime between 4 p.m. Oct. 1 and 1:27 a.m. Oct. 7 from lot 104, next to Ellsworth Hall.
♦ A 22-year-old reported a $100 Shimano bicycle stolen sometime between 4 p.m. Sept. 30 and 5 p.m. Oct. 2 next to the Burge Union.
Demand
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"I'd hope they'd plan in advance." Love said about students asking for help before tests. "But a lot of students just want help one time."
The program helps students find tutors, but the participants arrange schedules and payments. Love said tutors charged an average of about $10 an hour, but some tutors helped for free.
Math tutors are the most frequently requested, Love said.
Margaret Grattan, Segovia, Spain, sophomore, tutors for Math 122, Calculus II, with the KU Tutoring services. Now students are worried about Tuesday's midterm exam.
Other math classes with upcoming tests have also seen increased demand for tutors. The number of students needing help in algebra classes increased from 10 to 15 students to 30 or 40 students, said Katie Wetterhus, Morton, Ill., junior.
The rising demand led the Senate tutoring program to increase its recruiting efforts. Love told senators about the demand for tutors in committee meetings last week, called students and sent e-mails to find more
Love said Senate caught up with current demand and was working on adding tutors to the list.
Students wanting a tutor can go to the Senate office on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
Fire
Bradford said, referring to the next step investigators would take after their search for bodies.
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Thirty-two KU students lived in the building and all but one had been accounted for as of 5 p.m. Friday, according to a press release from University Relations. The missing woman, Nicole Bingham, Wichita senior, is a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority.
Eighteen people were injured and a 400-by-40-foot building was destroyed after the fire Friday morning at Boardwalk Apartments. Firefighters arrived at 1:25 a.m. and had the blaze under control by 4:30 a.m. Two people were transported to Kansas City-area hospitals because of injuries.
Also, family members of Jose Gonzalez, 50, who lived in the complex, said the man did not show up for work Friday morning. His car was parked in the parking lot. Gonzalez' sister said
More people could have been in the complex Friday morning in addition to the 87 who live there, but there was no evidence to suggest that was true Sunday afternoon, Bradford said.
Jaret Flores, Omaha sophomore, was picking up his mail from a box across the street from the burned building Saturday afternoon. Flores owns only the clothes he was wearing and a car with a melted bumper, which he can't remove until the fire investigation is concluded. He said he didn't have renter's insurance.
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There are some things he can't buy back: the grades and homework of students he teaches in College Algebra and pictures of friends stored on his computer.
"It's going to suck having to buy back some of the stuff I lost." Flores said.
Student housing has a few open spaces, but is relatively full, Tuttle said. Managers of Boardwalk Apartments have been trying to help students find housing as well, he said.
Flores said he was staying with friends in Templin Hall and planned to move in with friends at Meadowbrook Apartments.
Jane Tuttle, assistant to the dean, said Boardwalk Apartments' management company emailed the University a list of students who lived in the complex.
Ken Stoner, director of KU Student Housing, said most of the students had been accommodated by friends, family or vacancies in other units at the Boardwalk Apartments. If any students need housing, officials at student
The dean's office is helping students find temporary housing and is working with the KU Bookstore to help replace textbooks, Tuttle said.
"So far we haven't had any body say 'I have a crisis and I need to move in.' Stoner said.
Janet Roecker, assistant director of the KU Office of Financial Aid, said student victims could receive up to $500 in emergency grant money. Those affected should stop by the office or call 864-4700.
housing will work to accomodate thm. Stoneer said'.
They could also be eligible for additional aid, including loans, Roecker said.
Tim Norris, director of KU Bookstores, said he received the list of students affected by the fire and would give school supplies and textbooks to the students for free.
Canda and a few other workers were wearing red hats with "Mental Health" embroidered on them.
The workers were trying to reduce the stress of those who lost their apartments and were working to help them find resources, Canda said.
Hwi-Ja Canda, a social worker at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, was attending to residents at the site Friday afternoon.
"This is a crisis and people have lost everything," Canda said. "It's a community effort and the community has been helpful," she said.
— Edited by Jonathan Kealing
HEALTH
Marso starts job at newspaper
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BASEHOR — Nearly 18 months after bacterial meningitis almost claimed his life, Andy Marso has started work as a part-time sports reporter and columnist for a weekly newspaper.
Marso contracted the disease when he was just weeks from graduating at the top of his journalism class at the University of Kansas. Toxins the disease released in his body destroyed skin tissue and forced doctors to amputate parts of his feet and all his toes and fingers, except his right thumb.
After months of hospitalization and rehabilitation, the 24-year-old drove himself to Lawrence from his parents' home in Minnesota so he could begin his job at the Basehor Sentinel. His parents worried about everything from how he would take off the gas cap to whether he would be able to extract a single credit card from his wallet.
Marso was undaunted.
"It's a matter of using your brain to think about how to do things that you used to not think about at all," he said.
He no longer takes notes, instead recording interviews. And he
"I'm just trying to get back to a little bit of normalcy at this point," he said. "I want to be treated like I was before."
uses his laptop differently, tapping out words with his right thumb and a tool wedged into what remains of his left hand.
The Sentinel held his position open for the 18 months while Marso endured surgeries and therapy.
Walking sometimes hurts his feet, but he is proud his wheelchair is stashed in the trunk of his car.
He already has written a column and covered a few sporting events since starting work last week.
No pencils for Rader
BY ROXANA HEGEMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WICHITA — Prosecutors want to make sure BTK serial killer Dennis Rader cannot get items in prison — even markers or crayons — that he could use to draw or write anything that would satisfy his sexual fantasies.
That and other possible conditions of his incarceration will be taken up at a hearing Wednesday at the El Dorado Correctional Facility. The proceeding will also involve questions about restitution, defense fees and disposition of evidence.
Prosecutors have also asked that Rader be barred from seeing or listening to news reports regarding his murders and prohibited from making audio or visual recordings other than for law enforcement purposes.
Rader was sentenced Aug. 18 to 10 consecutive life sentences for a string of murders that terrified Wichita for decades. But Judge Gregory Wailer did not rule at that time on the prosecution's request for additional restrictions on how Rader spends his years behind bars.
Kansas law at the time that the murders were committed allows the judge to make recommendations on the conditions of a defendant's imprisonment to the Kansas Department of Corrections.
BTK — which stands for "bind, torture and kill" — is the name Rader gave himself in taunting messages to police and the media that started in 1974. After years of silence, he resurfaced last year with communications to the media that ultimately ended in his arrest in February.
He pleaded guilty at a nationally televised hearing in which he gave chillingly detailed descriptions of stalking and killing his victims.
Georgia Cole, spokeswoman for the Sedgwick County District Attorney's Office, declined to disclose the amount of restitution prosecutors were seeking until it is presented at Wednesday's hearing. She also said the district attorney's office was not going to comment before then about the prison conditions it is seeking.
The prosecution's request for the more restructive incarceration — first presented at Rader's sentencing in August — surprised defense attorneys at the time, who told the judge they had not had time to research the issue.
The hearing is being held at the El Dorado prison primarily because of security concerns over transporting Rader back to Wichita, as well as the convenience of holding it in the most expeditious manner. Cole said.
THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS
"Intimacy for Committed Couples"
With Dr. Dennis Dailey, KU Professor Emeritus of Social Welfare Two-part workshop: Friday November 11th & Saturday November 12th Register at the ECM (1204 Oread)
Cost per couple is $35 for students,$45 for non-students
*Space is limited to 15 couples
The workshop will cover such topics as:
-Emotional intimacy
-Sexual bonding
-Negotiation of differences Tolerance of sameness
October 10,2005
funded by:
STUDENT
SENATE
2014 CONFERENCE ON WATER SOLAR MARKETING
PAID FOR BY KU
Meeting Tuesday October 11th,8:00pm Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union
*New Volunteer Opportunity
*Opportunity for new builds
ALTERNATIVE WEEKEND BREAKS
Volunteer at Ashby House in Salina
Apply by October12!
Ashby House serves jobless or homeless families. Salina's only full-time family shelter, it offers a secure family-oriented facility focusing on individual needs.
*Orientation on October 17
*Volunteering on October 21-22
www.ku.edu/~albreaks