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NEWS
THURSDAY, APRIL 14.2005
INSIDENEWS
University stockpiles fuel in 10,000-gallon tanks
All University vehicles, except for KU on Wheels, get their needed gas from two tanks buried on West Campus. Though the University buys in bulk to keep the effect of rising gas prices to a minimum, the University bus system depends on Kansas fuel dealers to get a good deal. PAGE 1A
Commuters suffer as gas prices rise
Native-American students play host to conference
Native-American students from Big 12 Conference schools and Haskell Indian Nations University will come to campus for the American Indian Student Leadership Conference beginning today. Students from the University of Kansas volunteered to hold the conference after its original host, the University of Colorado, backed out. PAGE 3A
Students and faculty who commute to and from campus feel the burn from rising fuel costs. Whitney Mathews, Lexena junior, decided to cut a work shift in Lenexa because her earnings barely covered the cost of the commute. PAGE 1A
IFC member resigns. cites biases
University faculty members boycott evolution hearings
Michael Pilshaw, Lawrence junior, stepped down from the vice president of risk management position last Friday after the Interfraternity Council expelled his fraternity. Pilshaw said that biases within the council were one reason for his resignation. PAGE 1A
Lindley Annex to be demolished in summer
Members of Kansas Citizens for Science and other faculty members boycotted hearings on whether the theory of intelligent design should be taught in Kansas classrooms with evolution. The educators gave a variety of reasons for skipping the proceedings, including one who said science was not a democratic process. PAGE 2A
It's official. After a decade of waiting, Lindley Annex, a building located south of Lindley Hall, will be razed this summer. The annex was originally used as a mess hall for students coming to the University after World War II. PAGE 3A
INSIDEOPINION
Column: More of the same in Mexico
Stephen Shupe investigates how the mayor of Mexico City was looking good for a shot at being president of Mexico until special interests reared their ugly heads. So why doesn't the United States act in the name of freedom and democracy to our neighbors to the south? PAGE 7A
Column: No internship, no experience, no networking, no job
Erica Prather tells why your good degree and good grades are no longer enough to get a good job. Students will wish they would have heard what Prather has to say a few years earlier now.. PAGE 7A
INSIDESPORTS
Wichita State strikes back
After losing to the Jayhawks last week, the Shockers won, 5-1 last night. Wichita State pitcher Mike Pellefry only allowed on run three hits by Kansas. *MAGE 1B*
Softball team upsets Missouri
The Kansas softball team took down the No. 18 Missouri Tigers, 5-3, last night in Columbia, Mo. The Jayhawks benefited from their pitching, which allowed only three runs, and a three-run home run in the second inning from junior infielder Nettie Fierros.
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Doubles prove to be Jayhawks' nemesis
Kansas tennis coach Amy Hall-Holt identified doubles play as the difference in the jayhawks' home loss to the Wildcats yesterday. This was the fifth-straight match in which Kansas failed in the doubles department. PAGE 1B
Column: Cut Mitch Albom some slack
Columist Bill Cross says syndicated writer Mitch Albom of The Detroit Free Press committed an error when he filed his Final Four column before all the events had happened. Some journalists are calling for his head, but Cross says Albom doesn't deserve to be fired or suspended. PAGE 18
Men's golf team trains for tournament
team members are playing as much golf as they can to prepare for the Big 12 Championship, which will be held at Whispering Pines Golf Course in Trinity, Texas, April 29 to May 1. The 7,300-yard, par-72 course is a jack Nicklaus design. None of the Kansas golfers have played this course. *PAGE 28*
University in for the long run
Former track coach Bob Timmons donated Rim Rock Farm to the Kansas University Endowment Association. The farm is worth an estimated $500,000.
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Crew members bond while making money
The Kansas crew team spends a lot of time together raising money to fund its expenses. Team members take this opportunity to get to know each other and hang out PAGE 3B
CAMPUS
Students trying to vote in the Student Senate elections yesterday morning had trouble accessing the Web site set up specifically for the election.
Morning voting attempts problematic
it took several minutes for the page to load, and some students received messages saving the Web site had been timed out.
Information Services has dedicated its entire server to the election and there nothing they can do to make it faster, Diaz said.
messages saying the web site had been tried out. Michael Diaz, election commissioner, said the error occurred.
As of yesterday morning, Diaz did not have any turnout numbers, so he could not officially say whether more people voted this year than last.
Traffic on the Web site, www.ku.edu/computing/election, cleared up later, and ran without delays.
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Master sand sculptor Karen Frailch of Toronto climbs the sides of the centerpiece sand sculpture for the Texas SandFest on the beach in Port Aransas, Texas yesterday afternoon. The event officially begins tomorrow. More than 20 master sand sculptors who also will be competing at the festival will shape the 250 tons of sand for the centerpiece into a sand castle that will be about 50 feet long.
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Faculty boycott hearings on evolution teachings
EDUCATION
By TY BEAVER
tbeaver@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Hearings on whether the theory of intelligent design should be taught alongside evolution in Kansas classrooms are coming up in May. But the subcommittee in charge of the hearings is having trouble finding supporters of evolution to attend.
Scientists from the University of Kansas have declined invitations to present evidence for evolution. Some are members of the group Kansas Citizens for Science and are boycotting the hearings.
The organization made the decision not to attend the hearings shortly after
see no reason for further discussion. Posny said.
the Kansas Board of Education announced a subcommittee to hold further hearings on the teaching of evolution and intelligent design in classrooms, Phil Baringer, associate professor of physics and astronomy, said.
Members of Kansas Citizens for Science had argued on whether to attend the hearings and consulted national groups, such as the National Center for Science Education, before making their decision. Baringer said.
Baringer said he thought the only thing that could help the situation was for Kansans to be upset by the addition of intelligent design to the state curriculum and vote for a new board in 2006.
"It's just ironic they want to do this after the Legislature wants to pump money into the biosciences industry," he said.
Other faculty are avoiding the hear-
Hearings for State Science Standards
All hearings are open to the public.
Times have not yet been determined.
May 5-7, Memorial Hall, Topea
May 12-13, Capitol Plaza, Topea
Source: State Department of Education
"It is not a foregone conclusion on what set of standards the board will accent," she said.
Hearings held earlier in the year to review the state's science standards were part of a regular process, he said. This second set of hearings are unprecedented and meant to give the board political cover, Baringer said.
"These guys keep wanting to change the rules until they can validate what they want to do," he said.
Twelve scientists submitted papers in response to the report from the science standards committee, and they
Thoughts that the board's decision would not be swayed by further discussion are not necessarily true, Alexa Posny, assistant commissioner to the state department of education, said.
ings for their own personal reasons and not because Citizens for Science asked them not to.
The last thing Hume Feldman, associate professor of physics and astronomy wants to
do is turn the hearings into an intelligent design debate, and said he would not attend. There is no discussion involved in these hearings and they are designed to convince people that intelligent design is science, he said.
"The majority of people thinking the same thing does not make it science. Science is not a democracy," Feldman said.
Approached several weeks ago by the subcommittee, Ed Wiley, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, declined appearing at the hearings. He said he was sure the board would not be swayed by his arguments.
"I think it's clear that this is simply meant to promote intelligent design," he said.
Wiley submitted eight pages of suggestions to the board on the teaching of evolution. The suggestions were
DEFINING IDEOLOGIES
This past year, the Kansas Board of Education reviewed the state science standards. Several board members have argued that other theories of origin should be given equal time in science classrooms with the theory of evolution. Opponents say that the other theories presented cannot be tested by scientific method and should not be taught alongside evolution.
Evolution: any process of change over time. In the context of life science, evolution is a change in the traits of living organisms over generations, including the emergence of new species. Since the development of modern genetics in the 1940s, evolution has been defined more specifically as a change in the frequency of alleles in a population from one generation to the next.
Intelligent Design: a set of arguments which assert that empirical evidence supports the conclusion that life on Earth was deliberately designed by one or more intelligent agents.
Creationism the belief that God created the world and all life within it; creationism usually further entails the belief that this occurred as literally described in the book of Genesis (for Jews and Christians) or as literally described in the Quran (for Muslims.)
Source: wikipedia.org
not adopted and he said there was no reason to offer further input.
Another reason Wiley said he refuses to attend the hearings was because of his opinion that intelligent design was not a scientific question. Instead, Wiley said he thought it was a religious and political question.
Edited by Lori Bettes
INTERNET SECURITY
LexisNexis admits past breach
BY ERICA WERNER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — A LexisNexis executive said yesterday there may have been an earlier breach of consumers' personal data that was never reported to the public.
The disclosure at a Senate hearing came a day after London-based Reed Elsevier, which owns LexisNexis, revealed that criminals may have breached computer files containing the personal information of 310,000 people since January 2003.
That in itself was a tenfold increase over the 32,000 people the company said in March were put at risk.
The company said the fraud involved the improper use of IDs and passwords.
"I believe there may have been a security breach in LexisNexis prior to 2003 that involved personal data and we did not make notice." Kurt Sanford, LexisNexis' president and chief executive for U.S. corporate and federal markets, said in response to questioning at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
spokesman Sean C. McCabe said later that Sanford was referring to more than one past breach, but he could provide no information about how many there were, when they took place or how serious they were.
Sanford gave no details. LexisNexis
The string of recent data breaches has drawn national attention to the loosely regulated companies that collect information on consumers — from Social Security numbers to medical records. The companies then sell the information to insurance companies, prospective employers, law enforcement agencies and others.
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