THURSDAY,APRIL17,2003
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THURSDAY,APRIL17,2003
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CAMPUS
Community outreach group hiring for several positions
Applications for positions at the Center for Community Outreach are available at the CCO office, room 405, in the Kansas Union. They are due at noon Monday in the same office.
The co-directors have already been selected for next year. The co-directors are Kevin Hager, Shawnee sophomore, and Kaelyn Fox, Pittsburgh junior. Open paid positions include financial and communications directors. Open positions which include a $300 scholarship include all of CCO's project coordinators for projects such as Jubilee Cafe, Into the Streets and Concerned, Active and Aware Students. Each project has two coordinators.
Interviews will be next week. For more information call 864-4073.
Cate Batchelder
STATE
TOPEKA—Despite the lowering of the national terror alert status, Kansans should not let their guard down, the state's homeland security director said yesterday.
Kansas security director tells citizens to stay alert
Maj. Gen. Greg Gardner said that even with the success of U.S. forces in toppling Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and detecting terrorists, conditions at home still merited monitoring.
As Gardner spoke yesterday, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius was studying whether to relax security measures around the capital complex in downtown Topeka based on new information she had received. Currently, only one Statehouse door is open to the public.
"What we're likely to do is reopen all the doors at the Capitol," Sebelius said. "We'd go back to a more open process, but encourage people to remain alert and observant of what they see around them."
Sebelius vetoes tourism bill
that would bar injury lawsuits
TOPEKA—Gov. Kathleen Sebelius announced Tuesday she had sevetoed a
bill shielding operators of farm tourism and horseback ventures from personal injury lawsuits.
In a statement about her action Monday, Sebelius said she supported more tourism in Kansas but that protecting agricultural tourism operators against liability lawsuits would expose the public to unsafe equipment and conditions.
The bill would bar members of the paying public from suing over injuries suffered while riding horses or taking part in farm or ranch activities, unless there were "willful or malicious failure to guard or warn against a dangerous condition."
Current law immunizes property owners who allow their land to be used for recreational purposes, such as hunting, camping and fishing. The bill expands the definition of "recreational purposes" to include recreational farming and ranching activities.
KDHE suspects second case of SARS in Kansas woman
TOPEKA — A second suspected case of a contagious respiratory illness has been identified in Kansas.
The latest case involves a woman in northeast Kansas who recently traveled to Asia, the state Department of Health and Environment announced Tuesday.
The woman was never hospitalized and has apparently recovered, KDHE said. SARS — severe acute respiratory syndrome — was recently discovered in southeast Asia. It is thought to be caused by a previously unrecognized coronavirus, the same type of virus that causes common colds. It is most likely spread the same way colds are spread:
More than 150 deaths have been reported worldwide. There have been more than 190 suspected cases in the United States but no known deaths.
A south-central Kansas man was previously identified as the first suspected case of SARS in the state. He was hospitalized but has recovered.
Symptoms of SARS include fever, shortness of breath, coughing, chills and body aches.
Samples from both people have been sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for testing. KDHE said.
The Associated Press
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Dustin Peterson, Denver senior, tosses balls at a target held by Ben Neis, Chipotle marketing coordinator, to win coupons for free burritos. The restaurant at Sixth Street and Monterey Way offered free burritos yesterday to the long lines of customers to give itself a test run before officially opening tomorrow.
ON CAMPUS — For more events, go to kucalendar.com
Kansas Relays will begin at noon today at Memorial Stadium. Contact KU Athletics at 864-3355.
Ecumenical Christian Ministries and Environs will host a Veggie Lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at the ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. Contact Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
The Student Development Center will host a Nontrad Brown Bag Lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today in Alcove E at the Kansas Union. Contact Laura Morgan at 864-4064.
Elizabeth MacGonagle of the African and African-American Studies Department, Ken Lehrentz of KU Libraries, and Ragan Buck, student, will discuss "Digitizing Popular Nigerian Literature" at noon today at Alcove A in the Kansas Union, Call 864-1064.
Judith Williams of the African and African-American Studies Department
will give a Merienda Brown Bag Lecture on "Teatro Experimental do Negro Performance, Political Power and Racial Identity in Brazil" at noon today at room 318 in Bailey Hall, Call 864-4213.
Karen Gerety of the art museum will give a Tour du Jour lecture on "Modern Portraits" at 12:15 p.m. today on the fourth floor of the Spencer Museum of Art. Call 864-4710.
Adorian Ardelean, ecology and evolutionary biology student, will lecture on "Morphology, Variability and Systematics of the Sea Anemone Family Actinodendronidae" at 3:30 p.m. today at room 1005 in Haworth Hall. Call 864-5887.
John Bridge of SUNY-Binghamton will give a geology lecture on "Depositional Models of Braided Rivers" at 4 p.m. today at room 103 in Lindley Hall.
Call 864-4974.
Reid Ewing of Rutgers University will lecture on "Taming Traffic and Sprawl" from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. today at room 412 in Lindley Hall.Call 864- 4281.
Sarah Blake McHam of Rutgers University will give an art history lecture on "A New Reading of the Italian Renaissance: Pliny's Natural History and Its Influence on Artists, Patrons and Theorists" at 5 p.m. today at room 211 in the art museum. Call 864-4713.
The KU Ki Aikido Sports Club will practice from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.; today at room 207 in Robinson Center. Contact Andrew Wolff at 843-4732.
The KU Karate Kobudo Club will practice from 7:30 to 9:30 tonight at St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center, 1631 Crescent Road. Contact Hannah Reynolds at 812-3422.
STATE
Wife of former POW awaits husband's arrival back home
WICHITA — Two days after her husband was found alive in Iraq, Jessa Miller carries a cell phone with her constantly.
This time, though, she is waiting for a call from the military telling her when she will be reunited with her husband, Army Pfc. Patrick Miller, one of seven former prisoners of war in Iraq.
Tuesday. "She said it was like a bad dream and now it is over. It seems like a long three weeks of not doing anything but sitting by the TV watching and waiting for some word."
"She doesn't mind this waiting. It was the other waiting that was hard on her," her cousin, Cheryl Phipps said
Et Cetera
The seven POWs were rescued Sunday by U.S. forces on the road to Tikrit, Iraq, and are now in Kuwait.
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