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THURSDAY. MARCH 3, 2005
4A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Sorority reports prowler to police
Lawrence police responded to a report of a prowler outside the Sigma Kappa sorority house Tuesday night.
Police arrived at the house, 1325 West Campus Road, at around 8:30 p.m. that night after some women in the house reported seeing a man outside who was looking into the windows, said Sgt. Dan Ward, Lawrence Police Department spokesman.
The man has not yet been identified or located.
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As of yesterday afternoon, the police report had not been filed, so it is unknown if police are investigating the situation any further, Ward said.
The man was seen hiding in bushes near the house and was described as wearing black clothes, glasses and a backpack. Ward said.
Shelley Hellman, president of Sigma Kappa, said that the police were immediately notified and the situation was under control.
School ranks third in research grants
Pharmacy research at the University of Kansas has placed the University third in the nation for acquiring funds from The National Institutes of Health. Sixty-four schools were ranked.
Ranking was based solely on research grants from the 2004 fiscal year. The School of Pharmacy received $13 million in funding from the institute. The school has been in the top five in funding for six out of the past seven years, said Todd Cohen. University Relations.
Cohen, University of California "The ranking shows that the University is significant," Cohen said. "We have top flight researchers and, although the University has grown, we have maintained a high standard."
High ranks can help the University's ranking as a whole, Cohen said.
- Adam Land
STATE
Kline seeks details of underage cases
TOPEKA — Attorney General Phill Kline plans to discuss today a brief he will file with the Kansas Supreme Court as part of his effort to force two abortion clinics to turn over medical records of nearly 90 women and girls.
Kline has said he needs the materials for an investigation into underage sex and illegal late-term abortions. He plans to hold a news conference to talk about the case at 2 p.m.
Kline is seeking records of women who sought abortions at the clinics during or after their 22nd week of pregnancy. The two unnamed clinics are fighting Kline's request, citing doctor-patient confidentiality.
The clinics have said the records Kline wants include patient's name, medical history, details of her sex life, birth control practices and psychological profile.
BTK arrest concerns suspect's pastor
CRIME
A newspaper with a headline referring to the BTK killings lays in the front yard of Dennis Rader's home in Park City yesterday. Rader, the churchgoing family man and Cub Scout leader accused of leading a double life as the BTK serial killer, was charged Tuesday with 10 counts of first-degree murder.
The Associated Press
BY ROXANA HEGEMAN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Charlie Riedel/ASSOCIATED PRESS
"We are not going to cut him off. I could tell that he was relieved," Michael Clark, pastor of Christ Lutheran Church in Wichita, told The Associated Press. "He is still a part of the body of Christ — and that is something some people will have a hard time hearing."
WICHITA — The pastor of the church whose leaders include the suspect in the BTK serial killings talked to Dennis Rader in jail yesterday and told him he would continue to be a part of the congregation.
Clark declined to disclose more details of his 45-minute conversation with Rader, citing confidentiality as his pastor. They spoke a day after Rader was formally charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder in the serial killings that had haunted Wichita for the past three decades.
"His demeanor seemed to be OK." Clark-said. "He seems to be handling things as well as he can."
Since the BTK killer's first slayings in 1974, investigators have searched for the man who gave himself the "Bind, Torture, Kill" nickname and taunted police with letters and packages sent to media outlets. BTK had been wanted for eight killings for years, but when authorities announced Rader's arrest Saturday they alleged he also had committed two other murders, the latest in 1991.
For now, Rader remains president of the church council—although he will eventually have to relinquish some church leadership positions, Clark said.
The case has shaken Clark's church since Friday, when detectives arrived with a search warrant and informed the pastor of Rader's arrest in connection with the BTK killings.
Rader used the computer at least once, when he printed out a council agenda in late January. Clark said. The pastor said he had to show Rader how to put the disk into the computer and use it.
learned from Rader's family later that police had taken a DNA sample from Rader's daughter, but he did not know any other details. He stressed that the daughter did not turn her father in as a local media outlet had reported.
Clark was so dumbfounded he asked detectives to repeat their information three times. He gave police a list of 10 to 15 people, including Rader, who had access to the church computer.
The Rader family, which has been in seclusion, may be ready to make a public statement in a week or so, he said.
A diskette authorities said was sent by the BTK killer to a television station apparently contained an electronic imprint that identified the church computer. Clark said.
For now, the pastor wants to focus on helping his congregation through these "dark times."
Although he looked haggard as he prepared for church services last night, Clark said, "This will be a source of power and strength in our congregation. ... I don't think we have to be victims — I think we can come out stronger."
A preliminary hearing has been set for March 15 for Rader, who appears unlikely to face the death penalty.
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If students weren't able to get the loans, it would probably cause more unemployment because more teenagers would not have the opportunity to go to college, Seawood said.
The University of Kansas was given $30,000 a year for the Perkins Loan Program, an amount determined by the federal government for each school.
This year, the University awarded about $3 million in Perkins loans to 892 students. When students pay back their loans, their money goes directly to the school they got the loans from and the money is reused, Maigaard said.
"We have not seen clear detection whether or not they are going to cancel the current money we receive annually or if they will make us give back all the money we have as a result of Perkins loans," she said.
Maigaard said the impact on students would be determined after it was clear what the Bush Administration would do with the money from Perkins loans.
Students are consolidating their loans and paying them back together because interest rates are at an all-time low of 2.77 percent.
There were other viable options for students, but they did not have the same benefits of the Perkins loan, she said.
Benefits such as low, fixed interest rates, loan forgiveness under certain circumstances and the opportunity to postpone loan repayment make the Perkins loan a practical option for students.
"The Perkins loan program is a small program." Maigaard said. "But to those students it is very important to their funding."
If the budget proposal passes, Maigaard said the Office of Student Financial Aid would continue to provide information about other federal loan programs such as alternative loans and the parent loans.
Students must apply by the March 1 deadline each year to be eligible for a Perkins loan. They must also show their need for assistance by having an expected family contribution to attendance of less than $5,000. They may receive anywhere from $1,000 to $4,000 in Perks loans each year.
— Edited by Lori Bettes
Fire
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Spector said most of the basketball players he saw leaving the gym where they were practicing seemed confused.
Campers were evacuated pretty quickly, he said.
The oven was removed from the fieldhouse and a fire extinguisher was used to put out the flames.
"It looked like a camp fire," Spector said.
Marchiony said that the hallways and the floor would be cleared of the smoke between 45 minutes and one hour.
He said he hoped fans wouldn't realize there had been a fire.
In the two seasons Marchiony has been at the University, he said a fire had never occurred.
The fire department continued to monitor the atmosphere of the building until the start of the men's basketball game.
Two fire engines and several police cars responded to the small fire.
Edited by Ross Fitch
NATION
End of the line for titanic lobster
PITTSBURGH — He may have survived two world wars and Prohibition. But a trip to the zoo proved too much for a 22-pound lobster named Bubba.
The leviathan of a lobster died yesterday afternoon at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, about a day after he was moved from Wholey's Market, said zoo spokeswoman Rachel Capp and fish market owner Bob Wholey.
"They're very finicky, it could have been a change in the water. You have no idea," Wholey said.
Bubba spent a week at the market after he was pulled from the waters off Nantucket, Mass. He died in a quarantine area of the zoo's aquarium, where he was being checked to see if he was healthy enough to make a trip to an aquarium at a Ripley's Believe it or not museum, Capp said.
Bubba will be examined to try to determine the cause of death; Capp and Wholey guessed it may have been the stress of being moved.
Based on how long it typically takes a lobster to reach
eating size — about five to seven years to grow to a pound — some estimated Bubba was about 100 years old. Marine biologists said 30 to 50 years was more likely.
— The Associated Press
State scales back outdated statutes
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Fishermen often utter obscenities and throw their catch back in the water after hooking the long, skinny, ugly fish known as a garfish.
What they probably don't know is that, according to Alabama law, they are supposed to suddenly become the garfish's executioner.
The Alabama House passed a bill Tuesday to repeal a 1943 law requiring fishermen who catch a garfish — also called "junk fish" or "trash fish" — to kill it rather than throw it back in the water to be caught again.
Rep. Jeff McLaughlin said the bill he sponsored is part of his effort to highlight some of Alabama's archaic laws and outdated language in the state constitution.
The Associated Press
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