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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10. 2005
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Kline to defend evolution stickers
TOPEKA — State Attorney General Phill Kline has offered to defend placing stickers in school textbooks saying evolution is a theory, not a fact, the chairman of the State Board of Education said yesterday.
"I firmly believe that it should be allowed," Kline said of the stickers, which he said he would defend in court.
Steve Abrams, the chairman of the state board, said Kline
brought up the subject during meetings with small groups of board members. Kline told The Associated Press he believes such stickers are reasonable, even though a federal judge in Georgia ruled last month that similar stickers are an unconstitutional endorsement of religion.
"I think it's a good compromise between moderates and conservatives." Kline said.
Abrams said he is not aware of any board members interested in placing such stickers in textbooks.
Kline met Tuesday with the
six members of the board's conservative majority in two groups of three, which moderate board member Sue Gamble said violated the spirit of the state's open meetings law. The law requires meetings of six or more board members — a quorum — be held in public.
Kline said the meetings didn't violate the meetings law because he was not conveying the opinions of board members from meeting to meeting, adding that the meetings weren't secret and he was willing to disclose the topics.
The Associated Press
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tunity to run his own dry cleaning business in Birmingham, Ala., at no money down and a yearly salary of approximately $100,000. He said the job did not work out for him and he became a corporate client specialist at Nation's Bank. He said he worked 80 to 90 hours a week, which caused his mental breakdown.
Conroy returned to the University this year to pursue a Bachelor of General Sciences degree in English. He said he wanted to pursue a master's degree in library sciences — a
degree that the University does not offer — at Missouri.
He said he chose the residence halls because it gave him the opportunity to concentrate on his studies and get on a meal plan.
Jonathan Doerr, Olathe freshman, met Conroy at the beginning of the year at Hashinger.
"We were just having a conversation about a movie when I met him," Doerr said. "He's an incredible human being; there's really just no other way to describe him."
Doerr said he will work to establish a law that explicitly states that a convicted felon cannot live in residence halls so that
Conroy's situation will not happen to anyone else. He said he will establish a petition through the Student Rights Committee to push the law.
Doerr, along with other Hashinger residents, passed out 300 fliers outlining their disagreement with Conroy's departure.
Conroy said he was unsure where he would attend school next. He will return to Kirkwood on Sunday.
"I'm going to get back to school, get my degree and become a librarian," Conroy said. "The reason I came here was to get a career."
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Game show
"Word got out that we were a choir," Shrader said. "We ended up singing 'happy birthday' to eight different people."
Members of the glee club said they were surprised to see how small the set was. John Paul Johnson, director of choral activities, described the glittery set as dull without the lights.
The group was split into two groups because of its size.
It can be seen on the center right of the audience on Friday's show.
Brian Ervin, glee club member and Overland Park freshman,
and Johnson were called down to Contestant's Row, where contestants compete to advance to the next level by guessing the price of an item up for action.
"I always used to make fun of the people on Contestant's Row for not getting on stage," Ervin said. "But now I am one of those people."
Johnson said he was worried about making pricing mistakes. He said he calmed down after Bob Barker asked if the club would sing on stage. On today's show, the club sang "I'm A Jayhawk." Johnson said he was eager to watch the glee club on national television.
"So I have to admit I was more excited about that then
winning the prizes," he said.
They didn't advance past the row but received parting gifts for being on the show. Johnson received a set of CUTCO knives and women's jewelry. Ervin received luggage and a Tiffany lamp. He plans to put the lamp up for auction on Ebay.
Barker made it a point to tail to the glee club, said Hugo Vera glee club director and El Paso, Texas, graduate student.
"A lot of guys were asking if there was going to be a 'Happy Gilmore 2,'" Vera said. "He was joking, but he said he thinks Adam Sandler is afraid of him. He is a very nice guy."
- Edited by Megan Claus
Proponents of literal interpretation are a small segment of the population, but are very vocal, said Evan Kreider, Potsdam, N.Y., philosophy graduate student.
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Kreider has an interest in the philosophy of science. He will be giving a talk sponsored by the
Society for Open-Minded Atheists and Agnostics on Feb. 15. He will discuss how certain Christian groups are unjustly attacking evolution.
Reider also said that scientists who push an atheistic philosophy are just as wrong.
Opportunities for public comment on the science standards are still available. Public hearings will be in Derby tomorrow and Hays on Feb. 15.
Edited by Kendall Dix
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