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Thursday February 17,2000
News
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CORRECTION
In the Feb. 16 edition of the Kansan, the bottom lines of a feedback letter by Jerry Coyne, professor of ecology and evolution at the University of Chicago, accidentally were left off during printing. For the purpose of clarification, Coyne does not doubt neo-Darwinian theory.
CAMPUS
Greek students to attend leadership conference
Twenty-eight Interfraternity and Panhellenic students will travel to Chicago today to participate in a weekend-long leadership conference with Greek students from across the Midwest
The Mid-America Greek Council Association Conference is an annual event that brings greek students from across the Midwest to share ideas and programs, said Bill Nelson, director of greek programs.
All 16 appointed officers and 12 presidents will attend.
"The goal is to learn as much as we can from the advisers and leaders," said Chace Ramey, FC president and Kansas City, Mo., junior. "But it's also to see what works and what doesn't from other students."
Nelson said the four-day conference, which is held at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare, will be comprised of nearly 2,000 Greek students.
Jessie Meyer
Alumni make donation to KU worth millions
Two alumni who graduated 75 years ago remembered the University of Kansas by leaving $2.1 million to the schools of education and engineering, the KU Endowment Association announced Tuesday. The gift is the largest ever to the School of Education.
William B. Anderson earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1924, and his wife, Ruth M. Anderson, earned a bachelor's degree in education in 1925.
William Anderson died in 1964, and Ruth Anderson died in 1998. Ruth Anderson left $840,000 to the School of Engineering to endow the William B. Anderson Memorial Scholarship Fund and $840,000 to endow the Ruth M. Anderson Memorial Scholarship Fund.
In a separate bequest, William Anderson left $280,000 to the School of Engineering and $140,000 to the School of Education. These funds are unrestricted gifts that may be used to support the schools' academic programs, said John Scarife, director of communication for the endowment association.
After their marriage in 1927, the Andersons moved to Pittsburgh where William Anderson worked for Westinghouse Electric Corp. He held
Jim O'Malley
Lawrence Public Library to hold public book sale
more than 25 patents for electrical and refrigeration inventions and invented the "bug bomb" to apply insecticides.
Friends of the Lawrence Public Library will be holding a book sale starting tonight.
The sale tonight will be open to members only from 5 to 9 p.m. Tomorrow, the sale will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. The sale will continue through the weekend and end on Monday.
"We're going to have a lot of books," said Jean Hetherington, board member of Friends of the Lawrence Public Library. "Name a category, and we'll probably have those kind of books."
Mike Hoffman
Health status improves for former KU student
A former KU student's condition has been upgraded from critical to serious after he fell four stories last weekend at a campus construction site.
Andrew Witkowski, 21, of Lawrence, fell shortly before 1 a.m. Saturday from scaffolding at the future Margaret Amini Scholarship Hall, near 1.311 3 Louisiana St
A representative from the Kansas University Medical Center in Kansas City, where Witikowski was admitted Saturday, said his condition was upgraded yesterday.
According to the KU Public Safety Office, Witkowski and a friend, Matt Dunbar, Overland Park senior, crossed a barricade fence and scaffolding to look around at the site, which belongs to B.A. Green Inc., a Lawrence construction company. Paramedics estimated Witkowski fell 40 feet from the fifth floor of the partial structure. He suffered multiple broken ribs, a broken pelvis and possible internal bleeding.
Charges of criminal trespassing and criminal damage to property could be pending.
According to the police report, an estimated $250 worth of damage was sustained by an air-conditioning vent and sheet rock at the site during Witkowski's fall. Information about the accident has been forwarded to the city prosecutor's office.
— Sara Shepherd
Officials detect leak in NY nuclear plant
NATION
were not in danger.
BUCHANAN, N.Y. — A small amount of radioactive steam leaked from a Hudson River nuclear plant just north of New York City, promoting the first alert in the plant's 26-year history, but officials said yesterday that workers and residents
Soon after the leak was detected Tuesday night, plant officials declared an alert — the second lowest of four emergency classifications for nuclear plants — but no evacuations were ordered and none was expected, police said.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said yesterday that plant operators have stabilized the plant and are in control of all systems after manually shutting down the reactor. It said the operators successfully isolated the generator where the leak occurred.
"Radiological monitoring by the company at this point indicates there have been no measurable releases of radioactivity from the plant," the NRC said in a statement issued from the agency's headquarters in Rockville, Md.
Prospect of accord dims in Northern Ireland
WORLD
The British and Irish governments, seeking to extricate Northern Ireland's peace process from a deepening crisis, failed yesterday to narrow the divisions between key parties in the province's suspended Protestant-Catholic administration.
As they departed British Prime Minister Tony Blair's London residence, the rival leaders of the Ulster Unionist Party and Sinn Féin traded angry accusations about Britain's decision last week to strip authority from the Belfast power-sharing Cabinet.
"We've come such a long way, I simply cannot believe that we are going to let this chance slip away," Blair said.
Northern Ireland's four-party coalition took shape just two months ago in fulfillment of the 2-year-old Good Friday peace accord. After Wednesday's deadlocked talks, it looked unlikely to return to power soon.
Sinn Fein, which is linked to the Irish Republican Army, emphasized the IRA would make no disarmament commitments, as the governments demand, until Sinn Fein regained its two posts within the 12-member Cabinet.
The Good Friday accord anticipated the IRA's total disarmament, along with that of pro-British paramilitary groups, by May.
The IRA, which is 31 months into a cease-fire, never has promised it would gradually scrap its stockpiled weapons in cooperation with the province's independent disarmament commission.
And the IRA retaliated Tuesday for Britain's resumption of direct rule by breaking off talks with the commission and withdrawing a vague proposal hinting at the outlawed group's eventual disarmament.
The Associated Press
Missouri man faces charges in deaths of wife, four children
The Associated Press
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WARRENBURG, Mo. — Della Davis had this image of the Wood family — a playful bunch whose home-schooled children were often seen riding their bikes down the dirt roads and hills near their underground home.
"You couldn't come across sweeter people," said Davis, the family's nearest neighbor.
But on Monday, gunshots shattered the morning calm and killed Tina Wood, 31, and four of her children. Two other children, girls aged 1 and 3, were wounded and in fair and critical condition, respectively. Both were expected to survive.
Yesterday, Raymond E. Wood,
36. was arraigned on 14 charges
in the shootings of his wife and children, including first-degree murder, which could bring the death penalty. Bail was set at $2 million.
"My wife is innocent." Wood said as he was led out of the Johnson County Courthouse. "My children are innocent and beautiful."
Sheriff's Maj. Randy L. Vick said in an affidavit that Wood told officers he had shot his family.
Dispatcher Patricia Leighter said the sheriff's office got a 911 call Monday about a disturbance at the family's home built into the side of a hill in Warrensburg, about 50 miles southeast of Kansas City, Mo.
"It was horrible." Leighter said. "There were kids found in
the house, in the yard, one at the edge of the woods. They were shot with some kind of rifle."
Vick said that when he arrived he found Wood standing in his driveway with his parents, who live nearby.
The dead children were identified as Jared, 10, Joshua, 8, Emily, 7, and Hannah, 5.
The shootings occurred in a rural, heavily wooded area off a dirt road. Sheriff's cars guarded the driveway leading into the property Monday as chickens and geese roamed across the yard.
Neighbors said the family lived in an earth contact home; a partially underground shelter about a quarter-mile off the road. The energy-saving homes are common in the area.
ON THE RECORD
■ Louise's West, 1307 W. 7th St., reported a broken window pane and occurred to an interior wall that occurred between 2:15 a.m. and noon Tuesday, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $75.
A KU student's portable disc player, compact disc holder and CDs were stolen between 8
p. m. Monday and 5 p.m. Tuesday from the 700 block of Maine Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $212.
A KU student was arrested on suspicion of operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol early yesterday morning at Ninth and Mississippi streets, the KU Office of Public Safety said.
ON CAMPUS
The Student Alumni Association will meet at 7
6447779
OAKS, the non-traditional student organization, will have a brown bag lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Alcove in the Kansas Union. Call Dena Haena Hardie at 864.7317.
tiongate at Adams Autumn Cefter. Call 804-974-971
The Office of Multicultural Affairs will present "Racism 2000: A Program on Racism at KU," for African American History Month at 7 tonight at the Multicultural Resource Center. Call Alton Scales at 864-4351.
University Christian Fellowship will meet at 7 tonight in Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Rick Clock at 841-3148.
■ KU American Civil Liberties Union will present "Religion, Government and the First Amendment" at 7:30 tonight at the ballroom in the Kansas Union. ■ KU Chess Club will meet from 8 to 10 tonight at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. Call David Wanna at 312-1070.
■ KU HorrorZontals ultimate frisbee team will practice from 8 to 11 tonight at Anschutz Sports Pavilion. Call Will Spots at 841-0671.
OAKS, the non-traditional student organization, will have a brown bag lunch from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. tomorrow at Alcove E in the Kansas
Union. Call Daena Hardie at 8647317.
Educational Christian Ministry will have a University Forum, "The Church of the Family Farm" from noon to 1 p.m. tomorrow at ECM, 1204 Orchard Ave, Call Thad Holcombe at 843-493-93.
Human Biology Club will meet at 6 p.m. tomorrow at 2025 Haworth Hall. Call Becky Holcombe at 841-2181.
Student Union Activities coordinator applications are due at 5 p.m. today at the SUA office in the Kansas Union. Call Camille Payne at 864-3477.
**Registration**
**leadership**
Canonstown are due at 5 p.m. tomorrow at 400
Kenton Union. Call 864-484-6816.
Submissions for Kiosk art and literature magazine are due at 5 p.m. Feb. 25 at 3114 Wescoe Hall Call Kendall twin at 841-3352.
Mortar Board applications are due Friday at 400 Kansas Union, Call Allison Deutch at 313-0970.
The Office of Student Financial Aid encourages financial aid applicants to file the 2000-2001 free application for federal student aid by the March 1 priority call. Call 864-4700.
Student Union Activities officer applications are due at 5 p.m. March 3 at the SUA office in the Kansas Union. Call Camille Payne at 864-3477.
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