2A • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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MONDAY,APRIL28,2003
News briefs
CAMPUS
Law library gets donation to make it largest in state
The University of Kansas Law Library will receive $1 million to expand and enhance its collections.
Douglas D. Wheat and his wife, Laura, donated $1 million to the University of Kansas endowment fund to expand the law library, which will be named the Wheat Law Library in honor of the KU alumnus.
The library will have more than 370,000 books, which will make it the largest law library in the state. Some of the holdings include every statute ever passed by the Kansas Legislature; hundreds of years of art from South America, Europe and the Pacific Rim regions; federal statutes and resources pertaining to specific legal areas.
Steve McAllister, dean of the law school, said the library was important to the school.
"The Wheat's gift ensures that the KU Law Library will remain the premier law library in the state of Kansas and this area," McAllister said.
—Kellev Weiss
STATE
Kansas counties can force private land owners to sell
LAWRENCE — Kansas ranks second in the nation when it comes to the number of times residential property has been condemned in the past five years so it can be used for industrial and economic development projects.
"People throughout your state who hear about proposals to take their land for private development should start immediately organizing," said Dana Berliner, an attorney for Institute for Justice. "Activism is the main way that people can defend themselves."
The state Supreme Court ruled April 18 that Kansas counties may force private land owners to sell property to be used for industrial and economic development projects.
found abuse of credit cards by employees in the University of Missouri system, a newspaper that successfully sued to get access to those audits reported yesterday.
Shortcomings were found in 18 of 23 audits that covered card usage in 2001 and 2002.
The system, with about 20,000 employees, had 5,286 active cards in 2002.
NATION
A campus mail service manager charged $5,260 in groceries, laptop computer equipment and other items on her University of Missouri-Kansas City charge card. At the University of Missouri-St. Louis College of Fine Arts and Communication, one audit found that receipts were missing for one in five credit card charges. Some with receipts, such as $1,097 for T-shirts, had unexplained business purposes.
Employee credit misused at University of Missouri
Auditors from PricewaterhouseCoopers found undocumented or personal card expenditures, charges without receipts, scores of cards that were issued and never used, and credit limits that often far exceeded need.
WORLD
Interloper arrested in Iraq U.S.wants cooperation
BAGHDAD, Iraq — The U.S. military arrested a political pretender in Baghdad yesterday, while a Shiite Muslim group signaled a new willingness to cooperate on the eve of a pivotal U.S.-sponsored conference to help form a provisional government for Iraq.
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The arrest of Mohammed Mohsen al-Zubaidi reflected U.S. determination to brook no interlopers in its effort to build a consensus for administering Iraq. Timed just before today's high-profile conference, it sent a clear message: Don't meddle.
Al-Zubaidi was a returned exile associated with the opposition Iraqi National Congress who had declared himself mayor of Baghdad without sanction from U.S. occupation authorities.
His activities, including designation of "committees" to run city affairs had complicated the efforts of postwar U.S. civil administrator Jay Garner to reorganize political life.
The Associated Press
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Camera on KU
Eric Braem Kansan
Dylan Hilpman,
Dylan Hilman,
Lawrence freshman, as
Dr. Frank-n-Furter takes
a good look at Rocky
Horror, played by James
Garvic, Olathe sophomore,
during Hashinger Hall's presentation of
The Rocky Horror Show.
Sponsored by The Hashinger Hall Arts Council,
the event played Thursday
through Saturday to full audiences, said
Lindsay Taylor, music director and Salina freshman.
ON CAMPUS — For more events, go to kucalandar.com
Nicholas Illsley of the New Jersey Medical School will lecture on "The Placenta and IGF-I: Pivotal roles in the coordination of human fetoplacental growth?" at 11:30 a.m. today at Room 100 in Simons Laboratories. Call (913) 588-5774.
- **Ineta Savickiene of Vyautats Magnus University at Kaunas, Lithuania will lecture on "The Acquisition of**
Noun Morphology in Lithuanian" at 2:30 p.m.today at the International Room in the Kansas Union.Call 864- 3450.
Kara Northway of the English Department will lecture on "The Language of Spectacle in Renaissance Drama" from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. today in the Hall Center for the Humanities. Call 864-4798.
Roy Gephart of Pacific Northwest Laboratories will lecture on "Hanford: A Conversation about Nuclear Waste and Cleanup" at 4 p.m. today at Room 2048 in Malott Hall. Call 864-4626.
The KU Tae Kwon Do Club will meet from 7 to 8:30 tonight at 207 Robinson. Contact Tim Forthman at 865-3913.
'Reality' finds own channel on TV
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — The audience appetite for reality television could be tested by a planned cable channel that will offer a diet of all reality, all the time.
Reality Central, slated to debut in early 2004, is being developed by Larry Namer, co-founder of E! Entertainment Television, and Blake Mycoskie, a businessman who was a reality show contestant.
Namer and Mycoskie contend that reality TV has proved its staying power and can attract and hold enough viewers for a niche channel.
"Reality is now a genre, just like any other genre," Namer said in an interview last week. The venture was to be announced today.
"Right now it has a cult-like following, and we're not saying that's going to exist forever," he said. "But I think this
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type of programming will remain a genre just by the basic economies of it and what it does for a network."
Networks have found success with such hit series as Fox's American Idol and CBS' Survivor. The shows are especially popular among the young adult viewers favored by advertisers.
"It's an interesting idea," Bruce Nash, Reality pioneer said. "Whether it will work remains to be seen."
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