Tuesday
May 6,2003
Vol.113.Issue No.149
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Tornadoes strike close to home
By Lauren Bristow
lbristow@kansan.com
Kensman staff writer
The tornadoes that hit the greater Kansas City area Sunday afternoon left a path of destruction that affected several University of Kansas students.
The tornadoes have killed 39 people in Kansas, Missouri and Tennessee. The storm moved into the southeastern part of the United States last night.
Several students had prime viewing spots to the destruction.
Cole Smart, Overland Park freshman, was driving down Interstate 70 when he saw an ominous black cloud at the intersection of I-70 and I-435.
"The tornado was right next to the road," Smart said. "It was really dark and really wide like a cylinder all the way up."
Smart pulled to the side of the road and called his dad to see if it was safe to proceed.
"He told me to just keep coming."Smart said.
Kevin Dickson, Kansas City, Kan. freshman, watched another tornado from his girlfriend's parents' front porch south of Basehor.
"We saw the funnel come down out of the sky and touch down," he said. "We saw it tear up two subdivisions."
Dickson said the funnel was on the ground for about four minutes.
when it hit something it became really black," he said.
As the storms rolled through, students worried about family members at home.
"Ihad just left my parents' home at about 3:30," said Elora Gregory, Piper sophomore. "They called me and told me to hurry and get back to Lawrence."
Gregory's parents' home lost roof shin- les and had several windows broken.
"Mine wasn't nearly as bad as others," Gregory said. "A house about two houses down from ours is missing its roof."
The Wyandotte County Red Cross is still assessing damage to homes in the area.
"We know that we may have more than 500 homes damaged," said Cynthia Allen, the executive director of the Wyandotte
County Red Cross. "We know that we have at least 100 with very severe damage."
The total cost of the damage was still being assessed and officials were trying to have it completed by today, Allen said.
The Greater Kansas City Red Cross, which coordinates relief efforts for five counties in Missouri, had two counties affected, Platte and Clay.
"Our call center is receiving about 100 calls per hour," said Jamie Patterson, a media associate for the organization. "We also have 72 volunteer and staff activated in the Kansas City area."
William Jewell College located in Liberty, Mo., received severe damage.
SEE TORNADOES ON PAGE 6A
Donovan Atkinson/Kansan
Tornadoes tore through the Kansas City area Sunday night, killing at least 39 people and causing extensive damage as it traveled on to Tennessee.
MARCHING TOWARD
Students at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., skipped classes March 6 on the "Books not Bombs" national day of protest against the war in Iraq. An estimated 1,000 students participated in the strike.
Ryan Ellis/The Stanford Daily
Students continue to protest nationwide despite end of combat
Story by Erin Ohm
Kansas City, Kan., junior Kristin Werner paused in front of the newspaper kiosk on Wescoe Beach last week before picking up The Lawrence-Journal World.
Werner was looking for a paper with news other than Iraq coverage.
"That's why I grabbed this one because it's not on the front page," she said.
Werner said she was getting tired of being fed "war cheesecake" by the media.
"The coverage is definitely not real. There's flying flags and crying mothers, but give me a break, that's not what it's about," she said, "Thousands of people died."
With President Bush's announcement of the end of major combat in Iraq on Thursday, some students at the University of Kansas and other universities stopped following the conflict closely.
But protesting and advocating
debate about Iraq are still central issues in the lives of some students.
At The University of Iowa, students feel strongly enough about the conflict that a group of 10 to 20 are still protesting, camping out in an area in the center of campus. For these students, the issue is not only the military conflict in Iraq, but the U.S. foreign policies surrounding the war.
The visibility of demonstrations on all sides of the issue have contributed to dialogue on the war, influenced student opinion and affected campus atmospheres.
Students from KU and three other
"The coverage is definitely not real.There's flying flags and crying mothers,but give me a break,that's not what it's about."
Kristin Werner Kansas City, Kan., junior
campuses have diverse opinions on the conflict as the focus turns to the United States' role in rebuilding Iraq.
SEE CAMPUS REACTIONS ON PAGE 6A
New bus route approved, old route ended
By Henry C. Jackson
cjackson@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Students will have a free, on-campus bus route starting in the fall.
The Jayhawk Express, as it was dubbed by KUnited during its Student Senate campaign, was approved yesterday at a transportation board meeting. The new route will run through most of the main campus on a half-hour loop. The bus will travel down Jayhawk Boulevard, the most heavy area for student traffic, four times each half hour.
To facilitate the new route, the transportation board voted to eliminate the East Lawrence bus route. The East Lawrence bus route was the least used bus route currently in use, Tim Akright, transportation coordinator, said.
The majority of riders on the route, which is the only bus route linking KU on Wheels with Haskell Indian Nations University, were students who got the bus in front of Oliver and Naismith Halls. By canceling the East Lawrence route, the transportation board was able to avoid any change to its overall budget or a change in fees.
James Dick, president of the board at Pine Tree Townhouses, 149 Pinecone Drive, a neighborhood serviced by the East Lawrence route, said he rode the route to campus each day along with a number of Pine Tree residents, though he could not provide specific numbers.
See page 6A for coverage on the dwindling participation in the Yellow Bike program.
"This bus route is an important component of living in East Lawrence and especially Pine Tree," he said.
Andy Knopp, student body president and member of the transportation board, said he was excited by the approval of the Ivahawk Express.
The establishment of the Jayhawk Express represents the fulfillment of one of KUnited's largest campaign promises, providing a free, on-campus bus for all students.
Despite Dick's concerns, the transportation board made the decision to discontinue the East Lawrence line.
"It's not quite realized yet," he said. "We still have to make it work time-wise, but it's a huge step taken today."
While Knopp acknowledged that some students would be forced to find different ways to campus with the cancellation of the East Lawrence route, he
said there were not enough people that utilized the route to make it worthwhile.
"When we're talking about 40 students a day or creating a student bus route that everyone uses, the difference blows my mind," Knopp said.
Knopp said Lawrence's public bus system, the "T", ran along much of the route formerly covered by the East Lawrence route, making the decision easier.
Catherine Bell, student body vicepresident and member of the transportation board, said approving the Jayhawk express showed the board was taking a student-centered view.
"It's about what students want, not fiscal decisions," Bell said.
— Edited by Andrew Ward
Dailey given recognition at athletics award dinner
By Cate Batchelder
cbatchelder@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
In the midst of public outcy, Dennis Dailey, professor of social welfare, is still winning awards.
Dailey
Last night at the Athletics Department's 10th Annual Jayhawk Scholar Recognition Banquet, Dailey added another award to an accomplished list: the Del Shankel Teaching in Excellence Award.
"It feels incredibly positive although it seems a little ironic in terms of what else is going on," he said.
Yesterday, the University of Kansas released Dailey's credentials to the public, as requested by Sen. Susan Wagle (R-Wichita). Wagle is the Kansas senator who lead an attack on Dailey and his class, "Human Sexuality in Everyday Life." "It feels incredibly positive although it seems a little ironic in terms of what choice."
W a g l e requested an investigation of Dailey and his class last week. Dailey would not going on." Dennis Dailey Professor of social welfare
comment last night on the controversy. Wagle couldn't be reached for comment.
Credentials and awards aside, Kate Borniger, Wichita junior, said Dailey's teaching style was what students appreciated. Borniger is a student in Dailey's class.
"It's something about the way he relates to students," Borniger said. "He doesn't try to pull the wool over our eyes. He tells it like it is."
Because sexuality tends to make people tense and become embarrassed, Borniger said Dailey conducted the class in the right manner by joking around but kept an educational atmosphere.
Ann Weick, dean of the School of Social Welfare, said Dailey had been an outstanding teacher for the school and the University.
She wrote in a news release, "It is appropriate for KU to offer a course on human sexuality in everyday life, and Dr. Dailey is highly qualified to teach it, as he has since 1979 to approximately 15,000 students."
SEE DAILEY ON PAGE 6A
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