2A - THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
LOCAL NEWS
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2002
MEDIAPARTNER
KUJHTODAY
Top Story: There's a new twist to this year's Rock Chalk Revue. KUJH-TV's Erin Day shows you how two women's groups join forces for a Rock Chalk first.
Anchors: Michelle Sherwood and Kelsey Head Weather: Matt Laubhan Sports:Dale Ziegler
Today's Poll:
Where are you going for spring break?
■ Visiting another state
■ Visiting another country
■ Going home to see family
■ Staying here
To cast your vote, log on to www.kansan.com. Check out results to this poll tonight on KUJH-TV news.
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CAMERA ON KU
Lawrence senior Adrien Vlach (left) spars in the KU Judo Club's President's Cup tournament. Vlach took first place in his division in the tournament, which was organized by the KU Judo Club.
Do you want to see your face in the Kansan? This is your space, so bring photos or negatives of parties, athletic events or just you and your friends hanging out to 111 Stauffer-Flint Hall. Label them "Camera on KU" and include the names of those photographed as well as the event and when it took place. Provide your name and phone number so we can verify the photographs.
Mother of 'boy genius' admits to faking test results, records
The Associated Press
DENVER — A mother whose son scored 298 on an IQ test at age 6 now admits she rigged the results and falsified other records that helped him gain renown as a boy genius.
Chapman told the News she had checked out a copy of the Stanford-Binet IQ test booklet and researched it with her son before taking the test. She told The New York Times that Justin himself had found the manual for the test in the University of Rochester library and memorized the answers.
Elizabeth Chapman, 29, confessed to faking the results after the Rocky Mountain News reported on the boy's hospitalization and began investigating his mother's claims about the intelligence tests.
The Times quoted her as saying she told Justin, "When you take the test, make sure you don't say the full answers and make some mistakes."
puter copy of a neighbor's son's SAT scores and altered it so it appeared the perfect scores of 800 in math and 650 in verbal were lustin's.
She said Justin never finished the Wechsler test at age 3 and the score was fake.
Chapman also said she made a com-
Still, Chapman said her son was highly gifted. She said Justin took University of Rochester courses himself, and did the course work necessary to receive a high school diploma from Cambridge Academy, a Florida-based online school, where he was credited with a 3.75 grade average.
ON CAMPUS
Black Student Union will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Pioneer room in the Burge Union. Contact Mark Dupree at 864-3984.
Tae Kwon Do club will meet from 6:30 to 8 tonight in 207 Robinson. Contact Greg Isaac at 749-4649.
ON THE RECORD
OAKS, the nontraditional students organization, will have a brown bag lunch from 12 noon to 1:30 p.m. today in the Burge Union. Contact Joan Winston at 864-7317.
KU Greens meets tonight at 8 p.m. at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union, Contact Sarah Hoskinson 838-9063.
A 69-year-old KU professor's brown leather bag, leather trifold wallet, Kansas driver's license, KU ID, Medicare insurance card, Blue Cross & Blue Shield insurance card, Commerce Bank personal checks and dark gray prescription sunglasses were taken between 7:03 and 7:06 p.m. Tuesday in the 1700 block of Massachusetts Street, Lawrence police reported. The items were valued at $350.
A 21-year-old KU student's Visa check card, K-State Visa card and Associates Visa card were taken between midnight Saturday and 11 a.m. Sunday from his apartment in the 2000 block of Naismith Drive, Lawrence police reported. The items' total value was not available.
A 51-year-old KU professor's Capital Federal checks were taken between midnight Feb. 1 and noon Feb. 8 from his home in the 3800 block of Pinnacle Drive, Lawrence police reported. The items were valued at $11.
NATION NAACP boycotts state for Confederate flag use
FORT MILL, S.C. — Travelers driving into South Carolina on Saturday were met by protesters waving bright yellow signs telling them to take their money elsewhere as the battle over the Confederate battle flag hit the state's borders.
The new protests are the latest push in an NAACP boycott of South Carolina that was launched two years ago over a Confederate flag that flew atop the Statehouse dome.
"We will continue until the Confederate swastika is removed from a position of sovereignty on state property," the Rev. Charles White Jr., director of the NAACP's southeast regional office, said Saturday at a welcome center just south of Charlotte, N.C.
The Legislature eventually agreed to bring the flag down, but in a compromise it raised another at a Confederate monument a few yards away. The compromise satisfied some groups, but the NAACP says the Confederate flag now flying is still on state-owned property and must go.
The message is simply "not to shop, not to stop until the flag drops," he said.
While about 20 members of the civil rights organization flashed signs outside the welcome center, two members of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan greeted travelers inside. The Klausmen left afterstate authorities asked them not to distribute material inside the building.
Timber companies may sue if spotted owl limits remain
SEATTLE—A coalition of timber companies is threatening to sue the federal government if it doesn't review the protected status of the northern spotted owl, whose classification under the Endangered Species Act has halted logging on millions of acres of public land.
In a petition filed with Interior Secretary Gale Norton, the American Forest Resource Council accused the government of failing to comply with the act's requirement to review the status of threatened species every five years, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported Friday.
The coalition also argues that new evidence shows the birds are not in as much trouble as they were thought to be when they earned protection under the law in the early 1990s.
The petition is similar to one the group filed in January over the marbled murrelet, a type of sea bird.
The Associated Press
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The Student Alumni Association is proud to announce their new officers for 2002
Marcie Rohleder President
Rob Zernickow Vice President of University Relations Laci Lauffer Director of University Relations Amanda Denning Vice President of Internal Relations Sara Gillispie Director of Internal Relations Melissa Nguyen Vice President of Tradition Keepers Sarah Kutschka Director of Tradition Keepers Emily Werner Vice President of Outreach Julie Robinson Director of Outreach Channing Koonce Vice President of Special Events Liz Godfrey Director of Special Events
Congratulations, new officers, and Rock Chalk Jayhawk!
If you'd like to join all the fun of the Student Alumni Association contact Jennifer Mueller at the Kansas Alumni Association by calling 864-4760.
Do you appreciate the incredible miracle that is your body?
March 4th "The Myth of Perfection; The Impact of Media and Culture on the Way We View Our Bodies" Woodruff Auditorium, 7:30 PM
"Celebrate Every Body Week"
February 27th - March 4th, 2002
M H work in memorial health center
Coca Cola
H. O.M.E.B.A.S.E Health Options for Movement and Exercise Body Acceptance, and Savvy Eating.