WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5.2005
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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NEWS
ON CAMPUS
$\diamond$ Sigma Lambda Gamma sorority is putting on a presentation called "Latinos in the Media" at 7:30 p.m. in the Walnut Room of the Kansas Union.
NATION
- "Bon Voyage," a French film set during the German invasion of France in World War II, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Admission is $2. The department of French and Italian is showing the film as part of the Tournées KU French Film Festival.
◆ The African Students Association and K.K.
Amini Scholarship Hall are washing cars for Katrina relief from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday in front of K.K.
Amini, 1318 Louisiana St. The minimum donation is $5. Refreshments will be served.
$\diamond$ The department of theater and film is performing Anton Chekhov's play "Three Sisters" at 7:30 p.m. today through Friday, 5 p.m. Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, and 7:30 p.m. Monday and Tuesday in the William Inge Memorial Theatre at Murphy Hall.
Swapping organs could save lives
CHICAGO — More than 63,000 U.S. patients now await a kidney transplant, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing. In 2004, 3,897 patients died while waiting for a kidney. But researchers reported a high success rate for a novel kidney-swap program that proponents hope could help relieve the organ shortage.
In a live-donor practice called "kidney paired donations," a patient who needs a kidney is matched up with a compatible stranger; in return, the patient lines up a friend or relative willing to donate an organ to a stranger, too.
In the first U.S. success rate study of such donations, Johns Hopkins University researchers tracked 22 patients who received kidneys from living strangers. Of the 22 transplants, only one failed. There were no deaths.
- The Associated Press
The success rates were comparable to other livedonor transplant rates, said study co-author Dr. Robert Montgomery, director of Johns Hopkins' Comprehensive Transplant Center. The study appears in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association.
CAMPUS
History museum shows evolution in action
A new Explore Evolution exhibit will open on Nov. 1 at the KU Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center.
Bruce Schertling, director of exhibits, said Explore Evolution would display seven research projects that demonstrate evolutionary principles at work in variety organisms such as HIV, farmer ants, Galapagos finches and walking whales. The exhibit will
contain several hands-on and computer interactive displays
The University is one of six universities involved with Explore Evolution. Scherting said the universities collaborated more than five years ago and received a $2.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation to fund the exhibit.
The other universities involved are the universities of Michigan. Minnesota, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas. Judy Diamond of the University of Nebraska State Museum is in charge of the project.
Travis Robinett
SAFETY
$1 million grant possible
BY STEVE LYNN
slynn@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITE
Brandon Maples stumbled home along sidewalks in the Oread neighborhood after a night downtown, but not because he drank too much.
MEETING INFO
Maples, a resident in the Oread neighborhood, said the streets were poorly lit and the sidewalks were muddy and needed repair.
"It's a real bummer to come home after a night out and to have mud all over your shoes," Maples, Overland Park junior, said.
Margene Swarts, Lawrence community development manager, said grants could be used for neighborhoods when 51 percent of the residents had a low to moderate income, which is defined as an annual income of $49,760 for a family of four in Lawrence.
Maples and other KU students may be seeing improvements to the Oread neighborhood and other low to moderate income neighborhoods after Aug. 1, 2006. The city could receive more than $1 million for community development block grants, which the Oread Neighborhood must present ideas for by Dec. 1.
The grants can be implemented for improvements on neighborhood blocks, Swarts said. Or, the grants can be used for
Oread Neighborhood Association Meeting
♥ Oct. 26, 7 p.m.
♥ Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont St.
♥ The Mayflower room
♥ Open to the public
individual properties, as long as the improvement benefits the whole block. Last year, the city received $911,227 for community development, which were part of a larger federal grant, Swarts said.
The neighborhood association used $85,000 for curb repairs on Tennessee Street last year and $11,860 for a neighborhood coordinator's salary, operating costs and a neighborhood cleanup, Swarts said. The grant is relatively small compared to the money the city spends to finance other neighborhood projects, she said.
The addition of lighting in alleys or on streets could be considered improvements the grant would cover this year, but property owners have to get estimates from contractors. Swarts said. Then the request would have to be approved by the Community Block Grant Advisory Committee and, finally, the Lawrence City Commission. James Dunn, president of
the Oread Neighborhood Association, said obtaining a grant could be a daunting task, especially for students because they are a transient population in the neighborhood, which borders Arkansas Street, Ninth Street and 17th Street, he said.
Dunn urged students to come to the meetings before the proposals for the grant are made on Dec.1.
The association's board meets monthly to talk about improvements that can be made to the neighborhood and with the public quarterly, he said. The association's board has talked about additional lighting for the neighborhood, improving the noise ordinance, traffic safety and trash on neighborhood properties. Davis said.
"We don't want to make it a blighted student ghetto," he said.
No students have a position on the board, but the neighborhood association would like one, she said.
Maples said if he knew more about the meetings, he might go, but for now he is reluctant.
"I get the impression they might be bureaucratic," Maples said. "They might end up not listening to my ideas and spending it on something stupid."
— Edited by Kellis Robinett
SCIENCE
Nobel winners shed light on physics
Hall and Haensch built on Glauber's discovery to measure the frequency of a laser beam to a precision of one part in a thousand-trillion. With that ability, scientists can build optical clocks that keep time more accurately.
packets of energy rather than continuous waves.
Glauber showed that certain types of light—including lasers could only be fully understood using quantum methods, which treat light as individual
CORRECTION
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The prizes will be awarded at a ceremony in Stockholm on Dec.10.
Americans John L. Hall and Roy J. Glauber shared the $1.3 million prize with Theodor W. Haensch of Germany. Glau-
Two Americans and a German won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for optics research that improves the accuracy of precision instruments such as atomic clocks, navigation systems and even digital animation.
ber, 80, of Harvard University, showed how the quantum nature of light can affect its behavior. His insights led to the work of Hall, 71, a professor at the University of Colorado, and Haensch, 63, of the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universitaet in Munich.
- Tuesday's University Daily Kansan contained an error.
In the story "University holds legal edge on logo," the name of Paul Carttar, executive vice chancellor for external affairs, was misspelled.
ON THE RECORD
- A 20-year-old KU student reported a $250 Sony car stereo and a $200 Sprint cell phone stolen from a vehicle sometime between 10 p.m. Sept. 29 and 11 a.m. Sept. 30 in the 1100 block of Louisiana Street.
- A 20-year-old KU student reported an estimated $700 dollars in damage to a Saturn sometime between 7 p.m. Sept. 29 and 3:15 p.m. Sept. 30 in lot 122, next to Margaret Amini Scholarship Hall.
LAWRENCE
Buses celebrate with free rides on Thursday
The Lawrence Transit System will offer free rides on its buses Thursday to celebrate the fourth annual Communities in Motion Day, a national celebration of public transportation supported by the American Public Transit Association.
Rachel Cornish, marketing coordinator for the Lawrence Transit System, said the association decided the date in July, choosing early October because of pleasant weather.
The transit system has participated all four years since the celebration's founding.
Cornish said that the local celebration is usually larger, but the transit system would celebrate its fifth-year anniversary in December, so the event was scaled back this year.
Cornish said the buses have eight routes throughout town, including to the University of Kansas, Haskell Indian Nations and Downtown Lawrence.
Travis Robinett