2A • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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NEWS IN BRIEF
WEDNESDAY, NOV.14, 2001
CORRECTIONS
A story in Monday's Kansan contained several misspelled names. Participants in the Brunswick Great Lakes Collegiate Team Classic bowling tournament included, but were not limited to, Alan Emmons, Tiffany McBurney and Marc D'Errico.
A story in Monday's Kansan contained misinformation from a source. Diwali, an Indian festival, commemorates the killing of the demon Ravan, not the god Ram.
CAMPUS
ECM reclaims chairs,table after secret drop-off mission
Six chairs and one of two tables taken from Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave., were returned after a secret drop late Sunday night.
Thad Holcombe, pastor at ECM, said a friend of the person who took the tables and chairs Oct. 21 called the ECM and said his friend was having second thoughts about stealing the chairs and wanted to return them.
After four or five calls, Holcombe said an arrangement was made to have the tables and chairs dropped off at the water tower between Adams Alumni Center and the ECM.
"It was like something out of a soap opera," Holcombe said.
He picked the items up around midnight Sunday.
night Sunday.
Holcombe said the chairs and tables,
valued at $1,850, were not damaged,
but one table was not returned.
Thief steals car CD player, leaves behind knife, handgun
The person who broke into the car of a 19-year-old KU student took the faceplate of her Sony CD player, but left a 6-inch folding knife and a 380-caliber handgun in return, Lawrence police Sgt Mike Patrick said.
Mike Patrick said.
Patrick said the gun was reported
stolen in Topeka, but he was not certain
when it was stolen.
The canvas top of the 1989 Jeep Wrangler was slashed between 2 p.m. Saturday and 1:50 p.m. Sunday in the 1300 block of Ohio. Damage to the canvas top and the dashboard was $1,200. The CD player faceplate was valued at $250.
Police have no suspects.
Bailey Hall makes history, added to national register
Courtney Craigmile
Bailey Hall has been entered into the National Register of Historic Places by the Kansas Historic Sites Board of Review. The building was entered into the register Oct. 22.
Martha Hagedom-Krass, architectural historian for that State Historical Society, said that Carolyn Bailey-Bernenkening, granddaughter of Edgar Henry Summerfield Bailey, for whom the building is named, contacted the board in the mid-1990s.
"She has pursued a very active interest in preserving the history that her grandfather made," Hagedom-Krass said.
The building was nominated to the state register in 1995.
To be named to the state or national registers, the building needs to retain its original appearance in general terms and be at least 50 years old.
The listing of the building assures review of federal projects that might affect the character of Bailey Hall. It also provides recognition of the community's historical importance.
Michelle Burhenn
NATION&WORLD
Black boxes giving few clues to cause of Flight 587 crash
NEW YORK — The cockpit voice recorder from American Flight 587 indicates the pilots struggled to control the plane after a rattling was heard less than two minutes into takeoff, investigators reported yesterday.
The Associated Prgse
George Black Jr. of the National Transportation Safety Board gave no indication of what caused the "airframe rattling noise."
From takeoff to the end of the tape lasts less than 2 minutes, 24 seconds. Black said at a news conference.
The first portion of the flight to the Dominican Republic appeared normal, with the copilot at the controls. But 107 seconds after the plane had started its takeoff roll, a rattling was heard; 14 seconds later, a second rattle was audible. Black said.
Twenty-three seconds later — after "several comments suggesting loss of control" — the cockpit voice recording ends, he said.
The plane's second black box, the flight data recorder, was recovered yesterday after a 24 hour hunt through a Queens neighborhood staggered by a double dose of tragedy. At least 262 people were killed when the plane crashed.
crashed.
A source close to the investigation said the NTSB was looking at whether the plane's engines failed after sucking in birds, a phenomenon that has caused severe damage to airliners in the past.
But Black said an initial inspection of the engines found no evidence of a collision with bird. He said a more detailed analysis still needed to be done.
needed to be done All 260 people aboard the twin-engine Air bus A300 were killed, and five others were reported missing on the ground after the fier crash Monday in the beachfront Rockaway section of Queens.
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said 262 bodies had been recovered, along with dozens of body parts. Authorities were working wi family members to identify remains throuh DNA.
Holiday season excites video game fan___s
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Let the console game wars begin.
With Microsoft's much anticipated Xbox due in stores tomorrow, followed by Nintendo's GameCube three days later, this holiday season is looking to become a hardcore gamer's dream.
gamer's dream.
In a slumping economy, the nation's retailers are counting on the new consoles to drive overall traffic into their stores and hoping a sizzling video game market will fuel holiday sales.
The two hot new entries, their near simultaneous launch a first for the $20 billion video game industry, enter a free-for-all competition for consumers' dollars with the reigning leader, Sony Corp.'s year-old PlayStation2.
Microsoft and Nintendo are set to release more than a million consoles each this holiday, and clearly there are not enough to go around for everyone who wants an Xbox or GameCube.
"It's one of the few situations for holiday where demand will far exceed supply," said Kurt Barnard, a retail consultant. "For those
who want one, you are going to have to get ___ up very early."
very early.
Brian Nugent, a 22-year-old game ad list from Hackensack, N.J., tried and failed to reorder an Xbox online.
order an XBox online:
"At first, I wasn't sure what I wanted. But now I'm going for Xbox first," he said.
Nugent still plans to buy GameCube — at a later date — once the game portfolio is ad-
ened.
Retailers are carefully trying to avoid the consumer frustration and lost sales 15 months ago, when Sony ended up halving its original PlayStation2 allotment, leaving many stores in a tough spot.
stores in a tough spot. "Merchants are trying to strike a balance between creating hype and meeting customer demand," said P.J. McNealy, senior analyst at Gartner G2.
Gartner G2.
Some retailers, such as Toys R Us, have done very few pre-sales so as not to isap point walk-in customers, said company president John Eyler. And Toysrus.com is being "extra vigilant" in keeping custmers informed about the availability of consoles on its Web site, said company spokeswoman Jeanne Meyer.
Balloon, hanger get stuck in Wichita man's throat
STATE
WICHITA — A Wichita man underwent surgery yesterday after getting a clothes hangar stuck in his throat while trying to hook and pull out a small balloon, police said.
loop, bounce, and said they believed the grape-sized balloon was filled with narcotics. They were analyzing it to decide whether to file drug charges.
to file drug charges.
"We had trouble communicating with him," police Lt. Dennis Wilson said, "Of course he couldn't communicate very well with a balloon down his throat and a hanger."
"He is going to be OK," Wilson said.
nanger.
The man, 33, walked into Via Christi-St. St. Joe hospital, and was taken to Via Christi-St. Francis for surgery. Hospital personnel called police because it was "something suspicious," Wilson said.
NATION
Michigan teen kills himself after breakup, police say
CARO, Mich. — A 17-year-old gunman who killed himself after a three-hour hostage standoff in his classroom was a somber, polite student who showed no warning signs of violence, his principal said yesterday.
"It was a kid who never popped up on my radar," said Earl Nordstrom, princi pal of the Caro Learning Center, an alternative high school for troubled students
Chris Buschbacher was upset about a breakup with his girlfriend two days before Monday's standoff, Tuscola County Undersherriff Jim Jasinkse said. The teen hid a .22-caliber rifle, a 20-gauge shotgun and a tube of gunpowder in a locker room shower stall sometime Monday.
Audrea Jackson, 15, and Joseph Gotter, a science teacher, were taken hostage.
After negotiations with sheriff's Lt. James Giroux, Buschbacher released Jackson and freed Gottler about an hour and a half later. Neither was injured.
The teen's mother came to the scene, but he refused to speak with her, Jashinske said.
Jabiriuskoff bachelor shot himself in the head in the classroom while a state police emergency response team was preparing to enter the building.
The teen brought the guns from his Caro home where he lived with his mother and stepfather, authorities said. Jashinske said Buschbacher had no criminal record.
"He was very low-key. To be honest with you, I don't think I ever saw the kid smile. He was respectful. He always said, 'Hi,' Nordstrom said.
The Associated Press
ON THE RECORD
An 18-year-old KU student and a 19-year-old student were involved in a car crash at 2:50 p.m. Thursday in the Military Science building parking lot, the KU Public Safety Office said. The 19-year-old student backed her vehicle into the other student's vehicle, causing damage to its passenger rear quarter panel. The other car
sustained damages to the passenger side rear bumper. The value of the damages is unknown.
DIRECTORY
A22-year-old KU student reported a theft between 145 a.m. and 2 a.m.
Monday in the 800 block of New Hampshire Street, Lawrence police said. A Motorola cell phone was valued at $70.
0. A.K.S. Nontraditional Students will have a brown bag
Ecumenical Christian Ministries will have a University forum from noon to 1 p.m. today at the ECM building, 1204 Oread, one block north of the Kansas Union. The forum will be about "Barriers to Recruitment and the Retention of Minority Students, Faculty and Staff." Contact Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
iIchthus will meet at 8 tonight at the Big 12 room in the Kansas Union. Contact Marietta Liebenwood at 979-1353.
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How It Feels to Be Tied To Dated Technology
In this age, having to work with an ancient computer or a bogged-down information system can make you feel all bound up. Take a hint from the University of Kansas: Get loose.
Government Techology magazine has ranked Kansas first in the nation for effective use of information technology in higher education Much of the credit for this success
lies with KU's S school of Engineering, which leads the country in the field of informatics n technology.
INVEST IN EXCELLENCE
Information technology as designed and applied by KU scholars is transforming research and study on all KU campuses. University faculty in fields ranging from English to economics to entomology now can confront and quickly solve problems today that might have taken whole careers in the past. As part of KU Fire the University seeks to raise $500 million by 2004,
As part of KU Fir the University seeks to raise $500 million by 2004, support information-technology initiatives.
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