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CAMPUS
Today show to distribute gifts to needy area kids
The Center for Community Outreach will be spreading a little holiday cheer to disadvantaged area children with a little help from a popular weekday morning show.
NBC's *Today* show chose Lawrence as one of five cities to distribute toys the show collected from across the nation. The center will give away the 200 toys at a holiday party from 6 to 8 p.m. Dec. 15 at the Boys and Girls Club of London, 1520 Haskell Ave.
"Lawrence is a college town, and yet we still have a lot of social problems," said E.J. Reedy, co-director at the center. "They've worked with us before, and I think they knew we'd do a good job."
Reedy said the organization was expecting between 300 and 400 children — more than the number of toys donated — to attend the party. The center requests that students and faculty donate additional presents, help wrap gifts and help during the event itself.
"That's the area we need the most help with now," he said.
Reedy said that the center would accept toys for children of any age and that the presents should not cost more than $10-$15.
The center is coordinating the event with the Boys and Girls Club, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, the Pelathe Community Resource Center, Ballard Community Center and Edgewood Homes.
LAWRENCE
Chris Borniger
Parking meter boxes meter stolen downtown
Three meter collection boxes and a parking meter were stolen, and two meter collection boxes were damaged between 5 p.m. Nov. 12 and 10 a.m. Nov. 16 from several downtown locations. Lawrence police said.
The damage and theft will cost the City of Lawrence almost $1,700, said David Anderson of the Lawrence police.
Anderson said that no arrests had been made and that the department had no suspects.
— Katie Hollar
NATION
Third man convicted Texas dragging death
JASPER, Texas — The last of three white men to stand trial for chaining James Byrd Jr. to the back of a pickup truck and dragging him to pieces
was found guilty of murder yesterday but spared the death penalty.
Shawn Allen Berry, who insisted he was just a frightened bystander, was sentenced to life in prison for one of the nation's grisliest racial crimes since the civil rights era. His racist roommates were both sentenced to death.
The all-white jury took 10 hours Wednesday and yesterday to convict him, but only two hours to agree on a sentence. Berry, 24, must serve at least 40 years in prison before he has a chance of parole.
Jurors rejected Berry's pleas that he felt his own life was in danger by his racist companions.
Prosecutors called no witnesses in the punishment phase but introduced evidence regarding Berry's prior convictions for burglary and drunken driving.
For the defense, nine people testified that Berry — who unlike his fellow defendants did not have a history of racist activities — did not meet the death-penalty test of being a future threat to society. Among those witnesses were several of Berry's friends and a psychiatrist who testified against the other two defendants in their trials.
Byrd, a 49-year-old African-American man, was beaten, hooked to Berry's truck with a 24-foot logging chain, and dragged by his ankles over three miles of a country road last year.
Berry's roommates, avowed white supremacists John William King, 25, and Lawrence Russell Brewer, 32, were sentenced to die in separate trials earlier this year.
Apparent homeless men dead in possible turf war
DENVER—The decapitated bodies of two apparently homeless men have been found less than a week after arrests were made in five recent beating deaths of transients.
The bodies were found Wednesday after a homeless person spotted one of the corpses in a weed-covered field behind Union Station, Denver's main railroad station.
The unidentified men were believed to be homeless. Both were decapitated. Mavor Wellington Webb said.
Webb said he thought the killings would stop after several youths were arrested in the beating death of a transient.
He said some investigators thought the killings resulted from a turf war between a group of "mall rats" — homeless young people along the downtown 16th Street Pedestrian Mall — and older transients who had been the targets.
"We were really taken aback when the other two bodies were found," Webb said.
Two men and a 16-yearold boy were charged with first-degree murder last Friday in one of the fatal beating. The defendants are part of the
clique that hangs out around the pedestrian mall.
Five others have been jailed on assault charges for nonfatal beatings.
Calif. Southern Baptists against gay marriages
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—California Southern Baptists have pledged to support an anti-gay marriage initiative on the March 2000 ballot, saying it affirms the sanctity of marriage.
The motion to support Proposition 22, which would prohibit the state from recognizing same-sex marriages, received unanimous support at the California Southern Baptist Convention on Wednesday.
The move comes a day after the Georgia Southern Baptist Convention ousted two churches for allowing homosexuals to be church leaders and for allowing a gay marriage to be performed at one of the churches.
The state organization will send a letter to Davis outlining their disapproval of recent bills passed in California giving special rights to homosexuals, said the Rev. Wiley Drake.
The convention also overwhelmingly voted, without debate, to condemn Gov. Gray Davis for signing recent gay-rights bills.
The new laws ban discrimination based on sexual orientation in public schools, strengthen protection against job discrimination based on sexual orientation and provide health benefits to the same-sex domestic partners of state employees.
KC museum's watercolors may not be by O'Keeffe
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The authenticity of 28 watercolors attributed to Georgia O'Keeffe has been questioned by scholars producing the definitive catalog of her work.
The works — vivid, abstract images of Texas desert — are known as "The Canyon Suite" and hang in the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Mo.
R. Crosby Kemper, the banker who purchased the works for display in his museum, was told about a month ago that they would be omitted from the "catalogue raisonne," art historian' term for definitive catalog, of O'Keeffe's work.
The omission renders the works — which had been purchased for $5.5 million — virtually worthless in the art world.
The catalog is being produced by the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation of Abiquiu, N.M.
Researchers believe that the paper the watercolors are painted on is not authentic and that their style does not conform with the work of O'Keeffe, who died in 1986.
- The Associated Press
1863 President Lincoln delivered the Gettsburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
1794 — The United States and Britain signed the Jay Treaty, which resolved some issues left over from the Revolutionary War.
Today: in history
1919 — Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles by a vote of 55 to 39, short of the two-thirds majority need-der ratification.
1942 During World War II. Russian forces launched their winter offensive against the Germans along the Don front
1959 Ford Motor Company announced it was halting production of the unusual Felsel
1969 — Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean made man's second landing on the a
1977  Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to visit Israel.
1985 President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev met for the first time in Geneva
1988 — Shipping heiress Christina Onassis died in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at age 37.
1994 — The UN Security Council authorized NATO to bomb rebel Serb forces striking from neighboring Croatia.
1998 - Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr laid out his evidence against President Clinton during a daylong appearance before the House Judiciary Committee.
University responds to parents' lawsuit in student's death
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The defendants denied the petition's allegation that the medical care and treatment provided to Angela Griffin was negligent and caused her unnecessary and conscious pain, suffering and fear.
In its final paragraph, the response asks that the case be dismissed and the defendants discharged.
The answer was submitted by the defendants' attorney, Janet Simpson from Kansas City, Kan. Simpson could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Because the University is a state institution, the case could have been handled for it by Carla Stovall, Kansas attorney general. But because Simpson was already representing Brown, Hickert and Rock, the attorney general's office decided to use the same lawyer for all defendants listed.
Tiffany Ball, public information officer at the attorney general's office, said the decision to work with private counsel was based on Simpson's experience with medical malpractice.
"We agreed to use her as well," Ball said. "Our staff doesn't have the knowledge or expertise she does."
Yesterday David Amber, vice-chancellor for student affairs and a previous representative for Rock, Hickert and Brown, said he had not seen the answer and did not feel comfortable discussing it.
ON THE RECORD
A KU staff member reported that a desk was vandalized between 11 a.m. and 1:45 p.m. Tuesday in a room at the Military Science Building, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A KU student received a harassing phone call at 1 a.m. Wednesday in a room at Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A KU student's tires were damaged between 4 a.m. and 10 a.m. Saturday in the 1600 block of Tennessee Street, Lawrence police said. The tires were valued at $432.
A KU student's cellular phone was stolen between 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 a.m. Sunday from an unknown location, Lawrence police said. The phone was valued at $100.
A KU student's wallet was stolen at 11 p.m. Friday from an unknown location, Lawrence police said. The wallet was valued at $20.
- Edited by Chris Hopkins
ON CAMPUS
OAKS, the nontraditional students organization, will meet for morning coffee from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. at Wescow Terrace, Call Simmie Berrova at 830-0074.
Overeaters Anonymous will meet from 4 to 5 p.m. today at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call 312-3412.
Tavola Italiana, the Italian club, will meet from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. today at Teller's, 124 Massachusetts St.
KU Bacdinlion Club will practice from 6 to 10:30 p.m. today and tomorrow at rooms 211 and 212 in Robinson Center, Call Tee or Kevin at 843-2267.
■ KU Habitat for Humanity will have a benefit dinner at 6 p.m. today at ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. A donation of $5 is requested. Call Sarah at 830-9883.
KU Badminton Club will meet for an intercollegiate tournament from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. tomorrow at rooms 210 and 211 in Robinson Center. Call Kevin at 843-2267.
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will celebrate mass at 4:45 m.p.m. tomorrow and at 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. Sunday at the center, 1631 Crescent Road. Call Sister Vicki at 843-0357.
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