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TUESDAY,APRIL 8,2003
News briefs
STATE
School administrators ask about four-day school week
SALINA — Interest in a four-day school week among school administrators looking for ways to save money is on the rise, according to a pair of superintendents whose districts already use the shorter week.
Usually, Cheylin Superintendent David Zumbahlen gets about five calls each year from administrators wondering about the district's schedule which includes longer days to compensate for the shorter weeks. This year, at least 15 administrators have called Zumbahlen.
Weskan Superintendent Dave DuBois, who was in his first year in the district, said he, just like Zumbahlen, had received several phone calls and e-mails inquiring about his district's four-day weeks.
He guessed he had been contacted by at least a dozen districts from Kansas and Colorado. The interest prompted Weskan administrators to put together a packet to send to districts that asked about the short week, DuBois said.
Most savings came from transportation reductions, Zumbahlen covers. The district of 176 students covers 688 square miles. Fewer school days also mean lower heating and cooling costs and smaller payroll for hourly work
WORLD
Disease kills again in China experts look for animal link
GUANGZHOU, China—China reported another death from severe acute respiratory syndrome and revealed yesterday that fatalities in recent weeks have been more widespread than previously reported.
In the country's south, international experts were researching whether the mystery disease might have come from animals on farms or in the wild. The country's death toll was 53, state television reported, citing the Health Ministry. That included 43 deaths in the southern province of Guangdong, where experts suspected severe acute respiratory syndrome originated, it said. More than 2,300 people have
been sickened worldwide
State television reported one SARS death each in the provinces of Shanxi in the north, Sichuan in the west and Hunan in central China — the first reported fatalities in those areas and an indication the disease was more widespread than previously acknowledged.
China's government has faced mounting criticism at home and abroad that it has released information about SARS too slowly.
WHO experts searching Guangdong for clues to how SARS spreads and why it kills it were studying whether it might have come from animals.
U.S.forces enter Baghdad stay overnight for first time
BAGHDAD, Iraq — More than 100 U.S. armored vehicles rumbled through downtown Baghdad with unstoppable force yesterday, seizing one of Saddam Hussein's opulent palaces, toppling a 40-foot statue of the Iraqi ruler and pushing his regime to the brink of irrelevance.
Some Iraqi soldiers jumped into the Tigris River to flee the advancing Americans. More than a dozen others were captured and placed inside a hastily erected POW pen on the grounds of the bombed-out, blue-and-gold-domed New Presidential Palace.
An estimated 600 to 1,000 Iraqi troops were killed during the operation, said Col. David Perkins."We had a lot of suicide attackers today," he said. "These guys are going to die in droves. They keep trying to ram the tanks with car bombs."
Tank-killing A-10 Warthogs and pilotless drones provided air cover as Americans briefly surrounded another prominent symbol of Saddam's power, the Information Ministry, as well as the city's best-known hotel, the Al-Rashid.
It was the third straight day the Army penetrated Saddam's seat of power. This time, though, there were plans to stay. Rather than withdrawing at night-fall, as units did over the weekend, members of the 2nd Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division hunkered down for the night at the New Presidential Palace where Saddam once slept.
The Associated Press
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Kansas Highway Patrol Vehicles time the back road behind Wescoe Hall. Security on campus was increased to prevent rioting on Jayhawk Boulevard.
Phi Beta Delta International Honor Society will sponsor the international photography show "Picture the World" from 6 to 9 tonight at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont. Call 864-6161.
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Ecumenical Christian Ministries and the Society of Open Minded Agnostics and Atheists will present "Religiously Incorrect," a religious discussion covering a wide range of topics, at 6:30 p.m. tonight on the ECM building, 1204 Oread Ave. Call 812-1063.
University Christian Fellowship will meet at 7 tonight in the ECM building,1204 Oread Ave. Contact Rick Clock at 841-3148.
The Multicultural Resource Center will sponsor Tunnel of Oppression, an event to create awareness of different types of oppression and its effects on society, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. today in the basement at Hashinger Hall.Call 864-4530.
The KU Karate Kobudo Club will practice from 7:30 to 9:30 tonight in the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center. Contact Hannah Reynolds at 812-3422.
The KU Ki Aikido Sports Club will practice from 5:30 to 7 tonight in 207 Robinson. Contact Andrew Wolff at 843-4732.
The Men's Glee Club will perform
at 7:30 p.m. tonight at Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall. Call 864-3436.
Ecumenical Christian Ministries is sponsoring a University Forum at noon tomorrow in the ECM building, 1204 Oread Ave.
Hall Center for the Humanities presents, "American Seminar" from 3 to 5 p.m. tomorrow in the Hall Center.
The Humanities and Western Civilization department presents the lecture, "The Israeli Peace Movement in Dark Times," at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union.
ON THE RECORD
A 20-year-old KU student told Lawrence police that someone took his Sony portable CD player and CDs between 11:30 p.m. Wednesday and 8:45 a.m. Thursday in the 3700 block of Clinton Parkway, according to reports. The items were valued at $470.
A 20-year-old KU student told Lawrence police that someone took his Toshiba laptop between 10 a.m. Tuesday and 3 a.m. Wednesday in the 1600 block of Edgehill Road, according to reports. The computer was valued at $2,700.
A 23-year-old KU student told Lawrence police that someone took CDs and a portfolio, valued at $1,475, between 10:30 p.m. Wednesday and 9:30 a.m. Thursday in the 2200 block of west 26th Street, according to reports.
A 22-year-old KU student told Lawrence police that someone took her portable radio and CD player between 3 and 3:30 a.m. Saturday in the 1700 block of Ohio Street, according to reports. The items were valued at $300.
A 21-year-old KU student told Lawrence police that someone took her purse and its contents between 1 and 9 a.m. Saturday in the 1700 block of Vermont Street, according to reports. The loss was estimated at $150.
A 22-year-old KU student told Lawrence police that someone took his silver Samsung cell phone between 9:25 and 9:30 p.m. Saturday in the 1300 block of Tennessee Street, according to reports. The phone was valued at $100.
Et Cetera
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