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The group has not faced any opposition from the campus community, but Manning said he realized that opposition was still a possibility in the future when more people find out about the organization.
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"Campus really does have a lot of tolerance," Manning said. "Even if people don't want to join they won't come banging down our door."
organization had been fortunate and had not had negative backlash at any of the other universities
Charlie Grandinetci national executive director of Delta Lambda Phi, said the
Manning has been communicating with Delta Lambda Phi in order to have association with a national fraternity.
Manning said he was working with them to establish a timeline for the organization but did not want to make a commitment to the national organization until he was sure there was enough interest and initiative from the student body.
"It takes more than interest to motivate people," Manning
"Campus really does have a lot of tolerance. Even if people don't want to join they won't come banging down our door."
Jimmie Manning Lawrence graduate student
said.
Grandinetci said it usually took about 18 months for a group to receive a charter from the national office, which would make the group an official chapter.
There are about 15 men interested in joining, and Manning said he was surprised there was a large interest from incoming freshmen. He said people were becoming aware of their sexual orientation earlier, before they reach college.
The group plans to begin having meetings this summer.
For more information about Delta Lambda Phi go to www.dlp.org.
"Everyone is excited to get everything up and running," Manning said.
Edited by Todd Rapp
Cruise ship diverted by threat letters
The Associated Press
HONOLULU — A Hilobound cruise ship was diverted to Honolulu yesterday after two threatening notes were found in a ladies restroom, the FBI said.
Royal Caribbean's Legend of the Seas was diverted to waters off Honolulu yesterday afternoon and officials from the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force boarded to investigate.
The two anonymous handwritten notes contained vague threats against the ship, its passengers and its crew, said Daniel Dzwilewski, special agent in charge of the FBI's Honolulu office. They were found separately by a passenger and a maintenance staff member sometime late Tuesday while the ship was en route from Ensenada, Mexico.
Officials did not release the text of the letters but said they did not specify the potential methods the writer planned to use to carry out the threats. Dzwilewski said it was not certain if both letters appeared to come from the same source, though the handwriting would eventually be analyzed.
At a news conference yesterday afternoon, Dzwilewski indicated that passengers had been restricted to an area of the boat perceived to be safe, though he offered no further details.
Security sweeps for bombs or other threats were underway yesterday afternoon and officials began questioning the estimated 2,500 passengers and crew members, Dzwilewski said. Officials said they were unsure how long the investigation would take.
The Legend of the Seas was anchored about a mile off Sand Island, said Lt. Jacqueline Brunette, a Coast Guard spokeswoman. It was unknown how long the ship would be detained.
The diversion from Hilo was a nuisance for some passengers.
Michelle Stottlemire, 28. of Topeka, said her sister, Crystal Unruh, was aboard the ship to attend a wedding. The minister
was to board in Hilo yesterday to perform the ceremony.
"She wasn't panicking but she was taking it seriously," said Stottlemire, whose mother was reached by Unruh by phone yesterday afternoon.
Stottlemire said when she inquired about the ship's status to Miami-based Royal Caribbean, an official there "said 'we sporadically place notes on the ships' and that's why the Coast Guard was involved," she said. "She didn't flat out say it but she made it sound like it was under the control of Royal Caribbean."
Dzwilewski would not comment on the possibility that the situation was a drill.
Missouri school districts face budget cuts
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Craig Rogers is one of many teachers in Missouri who learned this month he's not guaranteed a job for the coming school year.
Faced with the possibility of significant cuts in state education funding, the Independence school district is preparing to cut 121 teaching positions, most through retirements and resignations. But 19 district teachers, including Rogers, got the equivalent of a pink slip.
"I guess how I look at this is we have a president who said no child should be left behind, but it's going to be hard with classroom sizes larger and teachers' workloads increased," said Rogers, a social studies teacher at William Chrisman High School.
The state Senate passed a budget yesterday that would cut funding for public schools by around $300 million in the next school year. The Senate's Republican majority says the cuts are regrettable but necessary in order to balance the state budget for the fiscal year starting July 1.
Gov. Bob Holden has said the cuts could result in the layoff of 5,000 teachers.
Independence, like many other school districts, has prepared for the worst case scenario, handing out dozens of the nonrenewal notices with the hopes of hiring some of the teachers back later if the budget situation improves. Districts had until April 15 to tell teachers that their contracts weren't being renewed.
The Independence district also has eliminated several central-office jobs in the last year, saving $1 million, and is cutting an assistant middle school principal job.
Elsewhere in Missouri, the proposed funding reductions have left districts thinking about cutting everything from transportation to maintenance to custodial jobs. And several districts were reducing the number of days some employees worked, so the district could pay them less.
Jim Morris, a state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education spokesman, said districts are dealing with the proposed cuts differently. Some have reserves to fall back on. Others —
particularly poorer districts that are more dependent on state funding — are looking at cutting staff.
In Kansas City, the school board has discussed cutting $418,980 worth of administrative jobs and $4 million worth of classroom teaching positions. The teaching cuts would come from not filling vacancies, said Jan Toliver, director of accounting and investments for the Kansas City district.
In Hickman Mills, the district has proposed cutting about 70 teaching positions through attrition and not renewing the contracts of about 40 first-year teachers.
"The hardest part is there is nowhere for these folks to go." said Terry Murphy-Latta, a spokeswoman for the district. "Everyone is in the same boat."
In Nixa, the Springfield-area district has hired 20 to 30 new teachers for each of the past five years as its population grows by an average of 200 students each year, said Superintendent Stephen Kleinsmith.
He said the district will be able to add only one or two new teachers in the fall, and its likely class sizes will increase as a result.
The district also plans to cut several positions, including the jobs of six coaches. Some bus drivers will lose their jobs as the district stops transporting students living "anywhere reasonably" close to their school. Base pay increases will be frozen, and principals won't be paid extra to run summer school programs.
In the Hazelwood school district in northern St. Louis County, the district has come up with a budget-reduction plan that would cut at least a dozen teaching positions, a bus mechanic, three security officers and two curriculum coordinators.
Gene Oakley, the presiding Carter County commissioner and a retired school superintendent, said the small districts in his area are cutting everything from a high school English teacher to the band and industrial arts programs. The former legislator was part of a group that successfully challenged the state's old education funding formula in court, leading lawmakers to rewrite it in 1993.
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