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The University Daily Kansan
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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Tuesday, October 31, 2000
Sports: Senior outside hitter Amy Myatt follows a simple philosophy — walk softly and carry a big stick.
SEE PAGE 1B
Inside: Investment-savvy students wait out the recent stock market plunge.
SEE PAGE 3A
For comments, contact Nathan Willis or Chris Borniger at 864-4810 or e-mail editor@kansan.com
The KU Medical Center will open a brain research imaging center in Fall 2002 at the corner of Eaton and 38th streets in Kansas City, Kan. Artist's rendering provided to the Kansas
Med school receives gift to construct center for brain research
By Melissa Davis
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas Medical Center will be building a brain research imaging center, thanks to a large gift from KU alumni yesterday.
The Med Center received $7 million, with $4 million from Forrest and Sally Hoglund going to build and equip a brain research imaging center
This is the largest donation of private money in the Med Center's history.
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The Hoglunds said they decided to help the Med Center because Forrest Hoglund was the chairman of a fundraising campaign for the University.
In addition to the donation, the center will receive $1 million in state funding for equipment.
Since I am the paign,
there were thoughts in my mind of,
'How can we help KU?' he said.
"Sally and I thought the brain research center really fit."
"This facility will benefit children and adults throughout the
will be located at the corner of Eaton and 38th streets in Kansas City, Kan.
The center is expected to open in fall 2002 and
Robert Hemenway Chancellor
region for years to come."
and 38th streets in Kansas City, Kan. Michael Welch, Vice Chancellor for research, said the center would use new brain imaging equipment to research problems such as developmental disabilities, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and stroke.
New equipment will include two machines for conducting magnetic resonance imaging, commonly known as MRIs, and one for magneto encephalography.
Welch said the Hoglund Brain Imaging Center would be one of only three facilities of brain imaging in the nation.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway said he thought the advanced brain imaging center would have a positive effect on the Med Center's enrollment.
He also said the new center would demonstrate that the University had one of the best brain imaging programs in the country.
"I think more students will enroll because I think students want to be somewhere where they can get a good, quality education," he said.
The new center also will be able to research and detect the earliest signs of disease in the human genome.
Welch said the new center would be beneficial to children because the new equipment would not use x-rays, chemicals or high magnetic fields.
riemenway said this donation would benefit not only the university but also have an impact on Kansas City and the surrounding area.
"This facility will benefit children and adults throughout the region for years to come," he said.
— Edited by Clay McCuistion
SUBURBAN SHOWDOWN
The planning commission will hear complaints tomorrow about a proposed ordinance that will reduce from four to two the number of unrelated people permitted to live in a home in single-family neighborhoods. Residents cite problems ranging from parking to loud parties to a lock of children enrolling at city-center elementary schools as reasons to reduce the number of unrelated people who can live in single-family neighborhoods. Photo illustration by Melissa Carr/KANSAN
Students, home owners and landlords face off about how many unrelated people can live in single-family neighborhoods
By Matt Merkel-Hess Kansan staff writer
Mary-Elizabeth Debicki knows all too well how to throw a college party.
Thumping music, crowds of people, cars lining both sides of the street, firecrackers after midnight. And don't forget the red beers cows dotting the lawn.
When there's a party on her street, she doesn't sleep until the music stops.
But Debicki isn't a student — she's a retired resident in a single-family neighborhood she's lived in since 1987.
Debicki is among Lawrence residents who support a proposed city ordinance that would reduce from four to two the number of unrelated people who could live in a home in single-family neighborhoods.
The proposal has pitted residents against student-renters in a battle of the neighborhoods — with different lifestyles at the heart of the conflict.
Home owners say their quality of life is declining because renters have no pride of ownership and don't care how their actions affect other residents.
"We bought into what we were told was a single-family neighborhood."
Mary-Elizabeth 'Debicki
resident on Applegate Court
They say landlords are buying property to make money off students who should be living in student housing, apartments or other high-density areas of town.
The home owners say groups of students can pay more for rent, raising the cost of homes. This forces young families to the edges of town and decreases enrollment at city-center elementary schools.
Students say the ordinance unfairly targets them and is the result of a few party houses. Many say they choose single-family neighborhoods because they like the quality of life and the lower cost.
Landlords say proper enforcement of city noise and litter codes would solve the problem. They also say that they are simply filling the gap as neighborhoods and long-term residents age, and that young families with children are moving to suburbia because they want newer, larger homes.
In the middle are city commissioners who want to preserve older neighborhoods and encourage growth. These five men will ultimately decide the fate of the proposal.
THE NEIGHBORS
Debicki and her husband bought their house at Lawrence Avenue and Applegate Court thinking they had found a home they could retire in. Debicki, and her husband, Andy, a professor of humanities and western civilization, and Spanish and Portuguese, found a neighborhood that was a quiet mix of families and older residents.
See NEIGHBORS on page 7A
PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING
6:30 p.m., tomorrow City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St.
The hearing will end at 11 p.m. unless the Planning Commission moves to extend the meeting.
Groups already have signed up for comment through 9:30 p.m., after which anyone can comment. Student Senate has nine speakers scheduled for 7:30 to 8 p.m.
Buses will leave from the Kansas Union at 7 and 7:15 p.m., returning at 8:15 p.m.
- Once public comment is complete, the Planning Commission will discuss the issue and make a recommendation to the City Commission. Planning Commission action may be deferred until the next Planning Commission meeting on Wednesday. Nov. 15, depending on the length of tomorrow night's hearing.
Filmmakers document Stull hauntings
By Meghan Bainum
writer@kanson.com
Kanson staff writer
A group of three women have video equipment set up. They are investigating paranormal activity. Suddenly, they hear howling. It comes closer ... and closer. They begin to run. The only sound audible, besides the howling, is their frantic breathing and muffled sobs.
This isn't a scene from the new Blair Witch movie or MTV's FEAR. It's a scene from Investigation Stull, a documentary being produced by a group of KU students about the possible hauntings in the abandoned church and cemetery in Stull.
Five sophomores clockwise from left: Krissy Martin, Overland Park; Chris Martin, Prairie Village; Quinn Gorges, Wichita; David Utter, Minneapolis, Kan., and Sarah Homan, Overland Park, put together an investigative documentary about legends of paranormal activity in an abandoned church and cemetery in Stull, Kau. For years, KU students have made the journey out to Stull to try to find what some say is one of the seven entrances to hell. Portrait by Nick Krua/KANSAN
They have gone there several times late at night during the past few weeks. They heard the noises and had strange experiences each time, and now they have the video to prove it.
Quinn Gorges, Wichita sophomore, said she realized that some people would think the incidents were made up or in the minds of the people involved, but that the fear shown on the video was very real.
"I've sat around the campfire and told ghost stories before and heard bumps in the night before," Gorges said. "But this is something else. This is something different and wicked."
The legend of Stull has been passed down through generations of KU students. The legend says that Stull church was the site of several grisly hangings and murders and now is one of the seven entrances to hell. The legend also says the church and graveyard are haunted by devil spawn, including werewolves.
The legend of Stull was spread even further when the band Urge Overkill released its song "Stull
Part one" in 1992. Stull also was featured in the book *Haunted Kansas* by Lisa Hefner Heitz.
The students decided to undertake the project after an initial visit to Stull.
They describe hearing howling on several different occasions
that, at first, sounded like coyotes. However, the longer they stayed in the church and the cemetery at Stull, the louder the howling got—and it began coming from every direction. When they left the grounds of the church, they said the howling ceased.
"With these at Stull, they were constantly getting closer to us," he said. "They were surrounding us, too, which was definitely nothing I've ever heard of before. It was like we were in the middle of the circle. We were the hunted."
Though being in the church and the cemetery at night is considered trespassing by police, Homan said the group was going to try to get permission from the Douglas County Police Department to investigate the haunting further.
Vandalism has been a constant problem for the cemetery in the past few years. Criminal trespassing in the cemetery can carry fines up to $100, and Douglas County Sheriff officials keep a close eye on the area during the Halloween season.
David Utter, Minneapolis, Kan., sophomore, visited the church with the group the night before the filming took place. Utter said he didn't think the noise came from normal coyotes.
Homan said she was not sure if the experiences in Stull were actual hauntings or some leftover energy from a time passed. Though many think of the cemetery as an ordinary place enlivened by cheap thrills and pranks, Homan said there was something more.
"I would honestly say there is an energy there that cannot be explained," she said. "It's uncomfortable, and it's an utterly lonely feeling of doom. I want to know what exactly it is that makes me afraid of Stull."
— Edited by Clay McCusition