FRIDAY,JANUARY 17,2003
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 5A
Hawk Nights' alcohol-free activities pay off
By Kelley Weiss
kweiss@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The Coors Brewing Company awarded the University of Kansas Hawk Nights committee $1,500 for winning the National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week competition. Hawk Nights won the award on Dec. 12 for the alcohol-free activities they offered in the 2001-2002 school year.
Hawk Nights entered the competition with 521 other universities. The organization selected 10 of those schools to win the prize money based on the plans student committees implemented to offer alcohol-free activities to students
Aaron Quisenberry, associate director of the Organizations and Leadership Development Center, is the adviser of Hawk Nights. He
said the time and thought the students put into improving the program made Hawk Nights one of the best on-campus activities offered in the nation.
"We want to give the student body something to do on campus that is fun and exciting and in a safe environment," Quisenberry said.
To enter the competition, Hawk Nights submitted a more than 20-page proposal to the organization, videos of events it had done, publicity examples and promotion materials such as T-shirts and cups.
The University is using the prize money from The Coors Brewing Company to reward the committee members of Hawk Nights for their hard work. Aramis Watson, Wichita senior and president of Hawk Nights for
2001-2002, received a portion of the prize money. The current president, Paige Isaacson, Salina senior, also received some of the money.
Isaacson said she was pleasantly surprised when she received the reward.
"It's always nice to get money as a student and it was not expected at all," Isaacson said. "I plan to use the money to pay for school and other small things."
Quisenberry is supervising the prize money and plans to give monetary awards to one committee member each year.
Hawk Nights is funded by the City of Lawrence and Student Senate. The City of Lawrence gave the University $20,000 this year from money generated from the liquor and alcohol tax in Lawrence. Student Senate gave
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Feb. : "Into the Streets Week"
kick-off
March : Talent Show
April : Casino Night
Hawk Nights approximately $5,500 this year and local businesses contributed by donating gift certificates and free dinners.
Barbara Ballard, associate vice chancellor of student affairs, founded Hawk Nights four years ago. She said she was pleased with the success of Hawk Nights and what the students had accomplished.
"Hawk Nights is a marvelous program with lots of student help and that's what's extremely important," Ballard said.
Edited by Ryan Wood
State files response in Robinson case
The Associated Press
OLATHE — A juror in the multiple murder trial of John E. Robinson Sr. did not commit misconduct by bringing a Bible to deliberations, prosecutors said in court documents.
The prosecutors' statements filed Wednesday were in response to defense requests that Robinson be granted a new trial or his convictions be thrown out.
Johnson County District Judge John Anderson III is scheduled to take up the issues at a hearing on Tuesday.
If he denies the defense requests,he will sentence
Robinson. Jurors who convicted him recommended the death penalty.
Robinson was convicted of capital murder in the deaths of two women whose bodies were found in barrels on his rural property in Linn County as well as first-degree murder in the death of another woman who disappeared in 1985 and has never been found.
He faces trial in Cass County, Mo., in the deaths of two other women and a girl whose bodies were found in barrels inside a storage locker he rented.
Volunteers build home for Burnham family
The Associated Press
ROSE HILL — Missionary Gracia Burnham and her children will soon move into a 1,700-square-foot home valued at more than $200,000 and she won't even have a mortgage to pay.
The home is a gift from more than 300 people and nearly 100 companies to Burnham, who survived a hostage ordeal last year in the Philippines that killed her husband, Martin.
Burnham and her three chil
dren are expected to begin moving in Monday. But she said she doesn't know when they will start living in the home because they are waiting for appliances and furniture.
The home features oak floors, two fireplaces, a built-in curio cabinet and a stained-glass window depicting a cross, praying hands and a Bible.
Martin Burnham's parents were from Rose Hill and they cared for their three grandchildren while the Burnhams were held in the Philippines.
Church members charged with child abuse
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Seven members of a church have been charged with abusing four children, including one who was tied to a bunk bed in a crucifixion pose. That child, the adoptive son of the church's leaders, died last month as a result of later abuse, prosecutors said.
Neil and Christy Edgar, pastors of God's Creation Outreach Ministry in Kansas City, Kan., and baby sitter Chasity Boyd, were charged last week in Johnson County with first-degree felony murder in the death of 9-year-old Brian Edgar.
They also are charged in
Johnson County with two counts of felony child abuse involving the couple's adopted 9-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son.
At a press conference yesterday in neighboring Wyandotte County, District Attorney Nick A. Tomasic said new child abuse charges were filed late Wednesday against seven members of the church, including Boyd, 19, who is charged with six counts, and Christy Edgar, 46, who is charged with one count.
Tomasic said members of the church disciplined children for disrespecting adults and not paying attention at church by hogying them and leaving them in that
position overnight.
Extension cords, belts and black plastic ties were used to bind the children and tape was placed over their mouths, Tomasic said.
He also said one child was left bound in a bathtub overnight. And a 12-year-old child who knew the Edgars was bound and locked in a closet in the church on New Year's Eve several years ago.
When asked what the surviving children think of their parents, Tomasic said: "Without exception, when the children first were talked to, they didn't want to talk. They said their parents in effect weren't doing anything
wrong. They were just following the teachings of the church."
The other church members charged with abuse in Wyandotte County are Renita D. Allen-Jackson, 40, and Barbara Clark, 45, both of Kansas City, Kan., are charged with two counts each. Also charged with one count Wednesday were Neil Edgar's sister, Julia Edgar-Montgomery, 54; Idella A. Horton, 22; and Patricia A. Walker, 44, all of Kansas City, Kan.
The church members are accused of abusing the Edgar's three adopted children, including Brian, and the 12-year-old boy who knew the family, between December 1999 and Jan.3.
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