2A = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN The Inside Front MONDAY,MARCH 10,2003 News briefs STATE Unassuming millionaire leaves estate to community SCOTT CITY — Few people in this small western Kansas town suspected that Loyal Hoffman was a millionaire. It's no secret now. It's no secret. Hoffman, a retired farmer, lived modestly and quietly. But when he died Feb. 1 at the age of 84, he left the bulk of his estate — more than $2.5 million — to the Scott Community Foundation. Part of the money will help graduates of Scott County High School who plan to attend college in Kansas. Each year, one boy and one girl will receive a $5,000 scholarship. Other funds would go to the VIPs, a local senior citizen group, said Greg Unruh, the community foundation's president and chief operating officer of Scott County Hospital. "This is a tremendous start to the foundation," Unruh said. "This is a truly wonderful opportunity for our community. One of the things Loyal had in mind was that this would be an example for others to follow." Hoffman had made anonymous donations to the foundation in the past, and wanted his life savings to go to help the community, as well as to young scholars, said Charlene Unruh, Hoffman's neighbor and the trustee of his estate. "He was just one of the most unselfish people we ever met," she said. "He was a true friend. He also was very quiet and unassuming." Hoffman's parents moved to Scott County in the 1930s. He was a veteran of World War II, and came home after the war to farm. His donation was established as an endowment in the names of both Hoffman and his brother, Woodrow, who died in 1988. He is survived by two sisters. NATION lowa fraternity loses charter after alleged harassment AMES, Iowa — An Iowa State University fraternity has been stripped of its charter because of pranks after a Kansas State football game last fall. Two Delta Sigma Phi fraternity members and a pledge of the fraternity harassed Kansas State sorority members on the telephone after the football game in Manhattan, students said. The telephone conversation included "a rude way of asking them to come over to their chapter house to party," said Andy Klobnock, an ISU senior and president of the Delta Sigma Phi chapter. "It wasn't anything sexual," Klobnock said. University officials described the incident as more serious. Klobnock and university officials would not elaborate or identify the fraternity members. The men also sprayed a fire extinguisher and stole several items from the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity's Kansas State chapter house. LINCOLN, Neb. --- General Motors and the National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition are on a quest to get the 16,000 Nebraska vehicles capable of running on gasoline blend of 85 percent ethanol. Use of high-alcohol gasoline encouraged in Nebraska The problem is, only one gas station in the state offers the high-alcohol blend for consumers, commonly called E-85. In fact, the Cubby's convenience store in downtown Omaha has the state's only E-85 pump. "Our first step will be to get more stations," said Todd Sneller of the Nebraska Ethanol Board. E-85 vehicles appeared on the market in the early 1990s as the federal government enlisted automobile manufacturers to use a cleaner-burning, grain-based fuel to clean up the air and cut dependence on foreign oil. According to ethanol experts, there are now more than 3 million "flex fuel" cars, trucks and vans on the road that can use either E-85, a 10 percent ethanol blend fuel, offered at many gas stations, or regular unleaded. -The Associated Press NEWS AFFILIATES KUJH-TV News Lack of male volunteers can create a problem for children in Lawrence. KUJH TV's Robyn Floor reports tonight at 5:30, 7:00, 9:00, and 11:00. 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ON CAMPUS — For more events, go to kucalendar.com Richard Jenkyns of Oxford University will give a lecture on "A Park with a View: Jane Austen's Mansfield" at 4 p.m. today at the Centennial Room in the Kansas Union. Call 864-2570. Mizuki Miyashita of the Linguistics department will lecture on "Tohono O'odham as a Quantity Sensitive Language" at 3:30 p.m. today at room 206 in Blake Hall. Call 864-2384. Lew Cocke of Kansas State University speak on "Blowing Molecules Apart with Photons: Two Ways to Do It" at 4 p.m. today at room 3005 in Malot Hall. Contact the Physics and Astronomy Department at 864-4626. Timothy Scholl of Oberlin College will give a lecture on "The Dancing Tsar: Music, Dance and Peter's 'Window to Europe'" from 7 to 8 tonight at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union. Call 864-4236. 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. Student Union Activities will screen the French film Le Placard at 8 tonight at Woolruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Tickets are free with an SUA movie card or $2 at the Hawk Shop in the Kansas Union. Call 864-7469. ON THE RECORD A 19-year-old KU student told the KU Public Safety Office that someone took her purse, which contained a cell phone and identification, from a KU on Wheels bus between 9:20 and 9:30 a.m. Thursday, according to reports. The items were valued at $195. A 22-year-old KU student told Lawrence police that someone damaged the rear window of her car between 10 a.m. Thursday and 2 a.m. Friday in the 200 block of North Crestline Drive, according to reports. Damage was estimated at $200. A 23-year-old KU student told Lawrence police that someone damaged the dashboard, door and windows of his car and took his Alpine CD stereo between 12:15 a.m. and 9 a.m. Et Cetera Thursday in the 5000 block of Clinton Parkway, according to reports. The loss was estimated at $980. 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