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NEWS
THURSDAY MARCH 10.2005
Martin K.
Miller, left,
appears for his preliminary hearing yesterday in Douglas County
District Court with his attorney, Mark Manna.
Mike Yoder/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Indicted
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Cross testified that Martin Miller said he didn't hear any screams during the night.
Lawrence police arrested Martin Miller two days later on July 30 after an autopsy concluded Mary Miller died of strangulation.
Other evidence presented yesterday was a book found by Mary Miller's bedside and explicit files found on Martin Miller's computer.
The book, "Living with Your Husband's Secret Wars," discusses issues about sex addiction and infidelity.
Investigators also discovered a cache of 1,300 to 1,800 pornographic images on Martin Miller's computer.
Judge Paula Martin decided there was enough evidence to proceed with a jury trial. Martin Miller's trial is scheduled to begin June 13.
Brain
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Carver welcomed donations of any brain with a neurological or psychiatric disease, and the collection grew quickly.
"People will very easily donate brain tissue in their illness because they feel they can still do something for others," he said.
With such an important resource now at the Med Center, both researchers are working to make the University and other local researchers aware of the collection.
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Though the bank is important for providing tissue for various research projects, insuring the bank's financial security drives the researchers' efforts.
Twelve research papers that use the bank's tissue must be published in medical journals before a grant from the National Institutes of Health can be applied for, Newell said.
There are no other brain banks in the region, Newell said. The closest is in St. Louis.
Funding for the bank comes from the school of medicine, but it can't cover everything, she said.
One half of the brain has pathological studies conducted on it and is preserved with a compound called formalin, maintaining it in a wet state, which keeps the brain pliable, Newell said.
Adding to the bank is a costly process. A donor's brain is removed during his or her autopsy and is cut in half.
Brain donations cost about $650 for all the procedures.
The other hemisphere is sliced and then frozen for future use by researchers.
"The last thing we want to do is tell a donor that this is going to cost X amount of dollars to do," she said.
Though diseased tissue is critical for research, she said the need to compare it to a normal brain from a person of around the same age and gender was just as important.
Sometimes getting the healthy brains is harder than getting diseased ones, Carver said.
"It's just hard to get the message out to healthy individuals," he said.
About $80,000 a year is needed to cover the cost to operate the room.
The figure is based on an estimate from a fellow researcher at Oklahoma State University with a brain bank that the state of Oklahoma gives $70,000 a year to maintain. Newell said.
A new grant from a federal source would not only pay for maintenance and donations, but could provide aid to those who wish to use the tissue for research, Newell said.
Awareness of the bank is increasing. A day after a small article ran in the Kansas City Star, Jill Knott, senior project coordinator of the bank, received five phone calls from potential donors.
A researcher from the University of Missouri-Kansas City has also expressed interest in obtaining tissue for his research, Knott, Rochester, N.Y., medical student, said.
Tissue from most of the brains with Parkinson's disease are not available because Pahwa still uses them for his research, she said.
Both the formalin-preserved and frozen tissues are available to researchers.
To request tissue, researchers should contact Knott to discuss use and shipping. Cost will be determined on a case-to-case basis, Knott said.
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Tickets
"Since the chapters have been back from winter break, they have practiced for an hour every night. including weekends." Carr said.
Participating chapters in the event practiced at the Lied Center from about 5 p.m. to midnight each night this week.
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Carr said 23 chapters auditioned last August, but only nine will perform.
"We feel like it's a good opportunity to bring us together as a chapter."
The theme of the event, "By the Numbers," represents the hours of community service and the amount of money traditionally raised for the event, Carr said.
Abi Bloxham
Alpha Gamma Delta director
CAMPUS
Traditionally, acts are produced by two greek organizations.
Puerto Rican poet to speak tomorrow
Its act will be a musical murder mystery in a high-society women's organization. The show is called "Die a la mode."
This year, Alpha Gamma Delta is performing its act without a partner.
Leawood senior, said all the preparation should mean a successful show.
University of Kansas students can see life through the eyes of a Puerto Rican living in America tomorrow. Poet Martin Espada will read poems from his latest book, "Alabanza: New and Selected Poems (1982-2002)," at 7:30 tomorrow night at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union. Students in American studies typically read and enjoy his poetry, said Robert Vodicka, Lawrence doctorate student.
"We just feel like it's a good opportunity to bring us together as a chapter," said Abi Bloxham, Alpha Gamma Delta director and Wichita senior. "It's fun to be pioneering something new."
Other acts include stories about a news station, a struggling marching band and a squabble in a camp between bird watchers and hunters.
Each act will feature an original song written by the performing group.
Neil Mulka
According to his Web site, www.martinespada.net, Espada has published seven collections of poetry and his poems have been published in The New York Times Book Review, Harper's Bazaar, The Nation and The Best American Poetry.
Tickets for the shows are $14 on Thursday, $18 on Friday and $20 on Saturday.
"There's a lot of students that say they hate poetry," Vodicka said. "But they say they like Espada's poems."
Espada is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Espada said he wanted to write poetry that coincided with social justice. He said many of his poems were inspired by his experiences as a bouncer and a tenant lawyer. This will be the second time that Espada will read his poetry in Kansas. He read his poetry at Kansas State University about 10 years ago.
Samantha Horner, Gamma Phi Beta member and
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Alumna trust fund helps fix church
The committee of a trust fund started by the late KU alumna Shelley Miller donated $5,000 to the St. Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church, 900 New York Ave., for renovations.
Former slaves founded the church in 1862. It was built in 1905 in East Lawrence, and has been a landmark for Lawrence citizens, including some famous ones such as Langston Hughes. Shelley Miller graduated from the University of Kansas, and received a master of library science degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. "She lived near the church," said Todd Miller, board member of the Shelley Miller Charitable Trust. "We thought it would be something near and dear to her heart."
Miller died in 1994 at the age of 40.
Adam Land
European Business Studies
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