2A • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Inside Front
FRIDAY,APRIL25,2003
News briefs
CAMPUS
Douglas County AIDS Walk begins tomorrow morning
The 13th-annual AIDS Walk, sponsored by the Douglas County AIDS Project, starts tomorrow at 10 a.m. by the South Park gazebo, 11th and Massachusetts streets. Registration begins at 9 a.m.
The walk will be follow a five-kilometer route down Massachusetts Street.
The goal for this year's event is to raise $10,000, said Sidney Hardgrave executive director of the project. Hardgrave wants to host about 200 walkers with an average of $50 in pledges this year.
Even if students haven't collected pledges, Hardgrave said, they should feel free to join in the walk to show their support.
The AIDS Walk is one of the Project's three major fund-raisers, but another aim of the walk is to continue to raise awareness of the disease and to support those who have been affected by it. Hardgrave said.
"Part of our goal is to help the broader community realize this impacts our neighbors and community," she said.
— Nikki Overfelt
STATE
Sebelius relaxes security at Statehouse and offices
TOPEKA — Visitors to the State house will no longer have to sign in, and an additional entrance will be open for them, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said Wednesday.
Sebelius said she ordered relaxed security at the Statehouse and nearby government office buildings effective immediately because federal homeland security officials last week downgraded the national terrorist alert level to "yellow" from "orange." Federal officials still perceive a significant risk of attacks, but not a high risk.
Visitors had been required to sign in at the Statehouse and were subject to random searches of backpacks and briefcases since March 20, the day after the U.S.-led war against Iraq began. Visitors could enter the Statehouse only through the east door on the ground floor.
In a memo for "all interested parties," Sebelius said that visitors would now be able to use the west wing's ground floor entrance.
NATION
Director of Kansas City Zoo resigns amid drop in visitors
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Mark Wourms, director of the Kansas City Zoo, has resigned so the struggling animal park can hire a more business-minded leader in hopes of boosting attendance.
Zoo attendance has dropped steadily the past few years, down from 715,000 in 1998 to 425,000 last year. The zoo has been losing money and was forced to borrow against a "founder's fund."
James E. Stowers III, president of the Friends of the Zoo board, praised Wourms passion for animals and conservation but said the zoo needed to be equally attentive to its human guests.
"This zoo, if we're successful with the master plan, is going to require a CEO that is familiar with all the business aspects," Stowers said.
Stowers spoke between a closed session of the board and a general staff meeting to inform zoo employees of Wourm's departure.
Wourms, formerly of New York's Bronx Zoo, became director of the Kansas City Zoo in 1992 and oversaw the park's expansion to include Australian- and African-themed areas after voters approved funding.
"Mark has guided our zoo for 11 years through a time of transformation and transition." Stowers said. "He has led the zoo through good times and bad and through it all had only one goal in mind and that was to make the Kansas City Zoo the best it could be."
Wourms and Stowers said the resignation came by mutual agreement.
The zoo announced in February that it would acquire as many as 300 new animals and enhance some of its exhibits.
The changes followed a consultant's warning last fall that the zoo needed to change its focus on education and natural settings,the principles that guided the $71 million makeover in the 1990s.
The Associated Press
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Ryan Burton, Wichita senior,
bends a heated a rod to form a
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class is designing and building
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Queers and Allies will sponsor a Brown Bag Drag Show at noon today on the patio in front of the Kansas Union. Call 864-3091.
The Center for East Asian Studies will screen the Iranian film The Circle at 7 tonight at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Call 864- 3849.
The Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center will sponsor the play The Yellow Dress at 7 tonight at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Call 864-3552.
The Department of Theatre and Film will sponsor a screening of the upcoming film The Shape of Things, starring KU alumnus Paul Rudd, at 7:30
tonight at Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St. Call 844-3982.
The University Dance Company will perform at 7:30 tonight at the Lied Center. Call 864-4264.
Comedian Deidre Sullivan will perform at 8 tonight at the Hawk's Nest in the Kansas Union. Call 864-3091.
The Center for East Asian Studies will sponsor "Silk Road," a conference that will explore ethnicity and Islam along the silk road, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow at the Kansas Union. Register online at
http://www.ceas.ku.edu or call 864-3843.
The Kansas Woodwind Quintet will perform at 1 p.m. tomorrow at the
Central Court in the Spencer Museum of Art. Call 864-4710.
Paul Siegel, legal communications professor, will lecture on "Why Queer Rights is a Free Speech Issue" at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Walnut Room in the Kansas Union. Call 864-3091.
University Theatre will present the play The Magic Flute at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow and 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall. Call 864-3381.
The University will present Museum Day, with activities for all ages at all KU museums, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. For more information, call 864-4710.
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The Yellow Dress
A play based on the true story of a young woman's relationship that begins as love and ends in tragedy.
Come see the The Yellow Dress and do your part to help prevent relationship violence and sexual assault.
Alderson Auditorium,KS Union Friday, April 25th 7:00 pm (will be followed by panel discussion on sexual and domestic violence)
Presented by:
Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center and Women's Transitional Care Services, Rape Victim Survivor Services, The KU Theatre Department, KU Student Senate, Man Can Stop Rape, and Deana's Fund
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