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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2003
Student helps area teenagers
By Megan Hickerson mhickerson@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Matthew Corti knows how to listen.
Corti, Overland Park sophomore, volunteers for the Young Life Program. Young Life is a volunteer organization that provides a mentorship between University of Kansas students and Lawrence high schoolers.
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He said sometimes the teens just needed someone to talk to.
Corti spends about 10 hours a week hanging out with high schoolers.
Corti became involved with Young Life after participating in his church's youth group in high school. He wanted to continue to be involved with mentorship in college.
Corti said by spending time with the kids, he was setting an example for them to live by.
"You can't just talk the talk, you have to live it everyday," Corti said.
Although Corti has mentored younger children, he prefers working with area teenagers.
"I enjoy the energy and enthusiasm that these kids have," Corti said. "Our society makes life
"You can't just talk the talk, you have to live it everyday."
Matthew Corti
Overland Park sophomore
tough on these kids and high school is a rough time."
It's not surprising to Brad Torgler, Overland Park sophomore and Corti's best friend, that Corti donates so much of himself to the Lawrence community.
Matthew Corti. Overland Park sophomore, enjoys being a mentor for teenagers in the Lawrence area. Corti believes volunteering will help him succeed in the future.
"I know that he wants to give himself to others to grow in character," Torgler said. "His compassion and love for people help him reach out to the kids."
Although Corti donates his time to help others, he admits that this program is doing as much for him as he is doing for the kids.
"I moved around quite a bit as a kid," Corti said. "As soon as I'd make new friends, I was on the move again. Young life has helped me form strong, solid attachments to others."
After graduating, Corti wants to attend medical school and become a neurologist or a pediatrician. He plans to use the skills he has learned from Young Life in
the workplace
"We live in a diverse community," Corti said. "Even in the business world, if you can't
understand others, you can't begin to help them."
Edited by Andrew Ward
"But this was the first ever Israeli person to go up. It gave the whole country pride," she said.
Chawla had just been on the cover of the India Times in January and named Outstanding Indian American. She was discouraged by her parents to go into such a dangerous and masculine profession.
"Women are way behind in India," Kapur said. "To be so educated, it's inspiring because not many minorities get to do this stuff."
According to newindpress.com, Sudhakar Shenoy, co-chairman of the Indian American Republican Council, said: "She came here from a distant land when it was not so common for a single woman to leave a conservative country like India. She worked hard and achieved the highest
"Women are way behind in India."
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Paval Kapu
Payal Kapur
Overland Park junior
of academic goals and then joined a line of work she knew would be dangerous and risky"
Kapur said she hoped the crew's death wasn't in vain.
"she died doing something she loved, and along the way she helped the cause of women
in India and throughout the world" she said. "Maybe some of the research they were doing will help mankind and NASA will fix whatever went wrong."
Rosenstein said she didn't think the incident would discourage more Israeli people from going on future missions.
and it just dawned on me that it was back to normal. So you don't notice the normal," she said.
"We're tough and we've been through a lot," she said. "We shouldn't be afraid to try again."
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Pogge said she didn't understand why someone wrote the accusatory statement on a public building.
James Truscello, general manager at Teller's, said he didn't understand either.
"Whoever did that, they were angry." he said.
Truscello said the situation was sad, but he was most interested in painting over it quickly. He said that Teller's was one of the places hit because it was visible and had good wall space. ABRING BY THE CODE
ABIDING BY THE CODE
If the Tellers' owner hadn't removed the graffiti, declared a public nuisance 14 days after a Notice to Remove Graffiti was served to him by a public officer, he would have been subject to the same punishments as the graffiti writer.
Sue Vance, manager of The Children's Book Shop, 937 Massachusetts St., was unaware of the city ordinance.
"I think they probably need to let us know that, but I don't think they'd be too strict about it," she said. "Obviously, they haven't been."
She said graffiti writers hit the bookshop consistently. Vance and other employees have had to paint over it five or six times. Vance can also call Douglas County Community Corrections to have their workers repaint.
"I pull up behind it and think,
"Oh gosh, have to do something
about that again." Vance said.
Across the alley, the First United Methodist Church, 946 Vermont St., was hit last semester with graffiti for the first time. Vance said she was impressed graffiti writers chose to stay away from the church for so long, even though her store is tagged over and over again. Vance said she didn'tthink the bookshop was targeted, but said it was frustrating.
"And I'm sure they get a thrill out of walking down the alley, and it's still there above the
poster shop or on the back of Jayhawk Spirit or something, and obviously it's still on our door," Vance said.
Half the time, Vance said she couldn't even read the illegible graffiti. She said she didn't let the hieroglyphics affect her or the shop's business. Most of the customers enter through the front door anyway.
But although having convicted graffiti writers paint over her tagged door would not solve the problem, Vance said, she didn't mind having writers come to repaint.
Nate Vormehr, Lawrence resident, had to paint over the catwalks under the I-70 bridge over the Kansas River after police caught him writing there in February 2001. Getting caught and convicted of writing graffiti is punishable by a fine of between $250 and $1,000, or by imprisonment for no longer than six months or by fines and imprisonment. The municipal court judge can also order the convicted to pay restitution to the property owner.
Vance said the problem with Vormehr's illegal hobby ran deeper than that. Painting over graffiti may be the city's responsibility, she said, but it's more society's responsibility.
CLEANING IT UP
Paul Gray, senior pastor of Heartland Community Church, 619 Vermont St., collected 50 people from his congregation to clean up graffiti and shrubs at Well's Overlook south of Lawrence on June 30.
"We're not on an anti-graffiti campaign or anything," he said. "It was just one area where we could help."
He said the graffiti at the overlook was obscene and offended some of the congregation.
"I could see how families would not want to go out there and have their 8-year-old or 9-year-old kids say. 'Hey mom, what does that mean?'" he said.
Unless you have somebody stationed there 24 hours,you just can't control it,Gray said. He said the congregation was thinking of going back next summer.
— Edited by Melissa Hermreck
The Associated Press
NASA rejects idea that launch debris caused Columbia disintegration
SPACE CENTER Houston After days of analysis, NASA backed away yesterday from the theory that a piece of foam that struck Columbia during liftoff was the root cause of the space
shuttle's disintegration over Texas.
Shuttle program manager Ron Dittenmore said investigators now are focusing more closely on the desperate effort of Columbia's automatic control system to hold the speed of the spacecraft stable
despite an increasing level of wind resistance, or drag, on the left wing.
Dittemore said that after a careful study of the damage possible from the fall of a chunk of foam insulation that was believed to be 20 inches and 21/2 pounds,
investigators were "looking somewhere else."
"Right now, it just does not make sense to us that a piece of debris would be the root cause for the loss of Columbia and its crew," he said. "There's got to be another reason."
Dittemore said investigators were now asking if there was "another event that escaped our attention" that might have caused Columbia to break up minutes before the end of its 16-day mission, killing all seven astronauts.
Investigators have been looking at the possibility that the piece of foam that fell off the shuttle's external fuel tank after liftoff Jan. 16 caused damage to the thermal tiles under the left wing that doomed the flight. The tiles keep the ship from burning up during re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.
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