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The Inside Front
WEDNESDAY,APRIL 16,2003
News briefs
CAMPUS
Student Senate positions open; applications are due on Friday
Applications for Student Senate executive staff and transportation coordinator are available and due at 5 p.m. Friday at the Senate office, 410 Kansas Union.
Any student may apply for positions of student executive chairman treasurer, assistant treasurer, executive secretary. Student Legislative Awareness Board director and community affairs director and transportation coordinator.
Anyone applying for the treasurer position is encouraged to have an accounting background, said Diana Rhodes, staff secretary.
Positions are paid. Interviews will be held next week.
For more information, stop by the Senate office or call 864-3710.
Cate Batchelder
STATE
Kansas woman may have SARS after recently traveling to Asia
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 said yesterday. The woman was not 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. Symptoms of SARS include fever, shortness of breath, coughing, chills and body aches.
A south-central Kansas man was previously identified as the first suspected case of SARS in the state. He was hospitalized but has recovered.
More than 150 deaths have been reported by health officials worldwide There have been more than 190 suspected cases in the United States but no known deaths.
NATION
Fatal house fire at Ohio college
caused by arson, authorities say
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A weekend fire that killed five college students in a house near Ohio State University was arson and the deaths are being treated as homicides, investigators said yesterday.
Authorities had not determined a motive and have no suspects, Detective Mike McCann said. A $15,000 reward was being offered for information leading to an arrest.
Investigators wouldn't comment on what evidence was gathered.
The fire began early Sunday during a birthday celebration. Witnesses said there was an argument during the party, but McCann said authorities did not believe it "had a huge amount" to do with the fire.
The fire in the three-story brick house near campus killed two Ohio State students and three students from Ohio University. Two more students remained hospitalized Tuesday. one in critical condition.
Investigators ruled out an accident after scrutinizing a charcoal grill, kerosene tiki torches that had been on the wooden front porch, and gas and electrical lines leading to the house.
High school boy gunned down, found with loaded gun on body
NEW ORLEANS - A loaded handgun was found yesterday on the body of a 15-year-old boy who was gunned down in a high school gym, according to police who say they believe the attack was retaliation for an earlier slaving.
Police did not know how Jonathan Williams got the gun past metal detectors into John McDonogh High School, where four young men burst into the gym Monday and opened fire with an AK-47 rifle and at least one handgun.
Capt. Marlon Defillo said the 9mm pistol was found in the coroner's office, when Williams' body was undressed for the autopsy. It will be tested to learn if it had been used in any crimes.
The Associated Press
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Camera on KU
To submit photos to Camera on KU, bring your photo to 111 Stauffer-Flint Hall. Place it in the On Campus mailbox and fill out a photo information sheet to identify your picture.
Students walk by the recently planted red and yellow tulips in front of Smith Hall on April 9.
Kelley Weiss/Kansan
Kansas bill to extend gambling delayed
TOPEKA—Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said yesterday she has not given up on her proposal to expand legal gambling in Kansas, a key element of her plan for balancing the state budget.
Dodge City, with local voter approval.
Sebelius has proposed allowing slot machines and other electronic gambling devices at the state's five dog and horse tracks and permitting a casino in
But the Dodge City provision was not included in a bill endorsed by a Senate committee to permit slot machines at tracks where voters in the surrounding county and adjacent counties approved.
The bill remains in limbo during an extended recess that ends April 30. Before the break, Republican legislative
leaders unsuccessfully sought a promise from gambling proponents to agree to put the issue to a single Senate vote this year.
Expanding gambling was part of Secius' $405 million package for balancing the budget and averting a projected $225 million deficit in the state's $10 billion budget at the end of the next fiscal year.
- The Associated Press
ON CAMPUS — For more events, go to kucalendar.com
Watkins Memorial Health Center will sponsor a free runners' clinic from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.today at the south entrance of the center.Wear shorts and usual running shoes for a free evaluation of problems experienced by running, walking and aerobic exercise.Call 864-9592.
Kansas Relays will begin at noon
today at Memorial Stadium. Contact KU Athletics at 864-3355.
Ecumenical Christian Ministries will sponsor University Forum at noon today at the ECM building, 1204 Oread Ave. C. Shaffia Laue will lecture on "High Drug Costs: What Can a Consumer Do?" Contact Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
The KU Tae Kwon Do Club will meet from 7 to 8:30 tonight at room 207 in Robinson Center. Contact Tim Forthman at 865-3913.
Et Cetera
English Alternative Theatre and Lawrence Arts Center will present the play The Glass Menagerie at 8 tonight at Lawrence Arts Center,940 New Hampshire St.
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