2A - THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS IN BRIEF
MONDAY, NOV. 5, 2001
CAMPUS
Fraternity, sorority members to raise money through lock up
Members of Sigma Lambda Beta fraternity and Sigma Lambda Gamma sorority are locking themselves in the Multicultural Resource Center this week to raise money for charity.
The goal is to raise $1,000, said Irad Orduna, Pomona, Calif., senior and secretary for the fraternity. He said the only time the members would be allowed out of the building would be for class or work
Felicia Orozco, Kanopolis senior and sorority member, said money raised would go to the East Central Kansas Opportunity Corp., 1600 Haskell. She said program helped needy families and children in Douglas County.
Orozco said people could donate money to the members who would have a table in front of Wescoe Hall this week.
J. R. Mendoza
Breakup turns violent, man arrested after resisting police
LAWRENCE
A Lawrence resident was arrested Thursday afternoon after stealing his girlfriend's car keys, tearing a police officer's pants and damaging the officer's whistle. Lawrence police Sgt. Mark Warren said.
Randy Dyke, 41, and his girlfriend were sitting in her car in the parking lot of his mobile home park in the 1000 block of East 23rd Street. The two were discussing breaking up. Warren said.
He said that Dyke was angered about the situation and grabbed the keys out of the ignition and started to become violent with his girlfriend.
The girlfriend saw a police car parked in the Phillips 66 gas station across 23rd Street, and ran to it.
When the officers arrived on the scene, Dyke denied having the keys and became agitated. Warren said as the officers tried to detain him, Dyke swung, hit and kicked one officer, tearing the officer's pants and breaking the officer's whistle in the process. The officer suffered a sprained wrist.
Dyke was arrested on two charges of battery of a law enforcement officer, one charge of obstructing legal procedure for resisting arrest, one charge of theft and one charge of criminal damage.
— Courtney Craigmile
STATE
Shawnee man asks for delay in sex trial for his castration
OLATHE —In an effort to avoid spending the rest of his life behind bars, a 65-year-old man has asked that his sexual predator trial be delayed so he can be surgically crasped.
surgically cast bars.
The request came Friday from Herbert L. Fox in Johnson County Court. Fox's attorney, Bob L. Thomas, said Fox saw castration as the only alternative to spending the rest of his life behind bars.
Fox, who lived in Shawnee, has been in custody since 1990 when he pleaded guilty to a felony charge of sodomizing 7 and 11-year-old boys. He was convicted of similar crimes in 1974 and 1981.
He was scheduled to be released from prison last October, but prosecutors filed the sexual predator case against him.
District Judge James Franklin Davis granted the delay request but told Thomas he wanted information on the procedure, research on its effectiveness and a plan on when the surgery would take place and how it would be paid for.
- The Associated Press
NATION&WORLD
Dry nose important clue in diagnosing anthrax
The Associated Press
Doctors have a new clue to help sort out whether people with aches and coughs have the ominous first signs of inhaled anthrax or ordinary colds and flu: Anthrax victims don't have runny noses.
have really boosted.
In general, the first symptoms of inhaled anthrax are the same as the flu and other wintertime viruses — fever, ache, cough, no energy. As a result, some worry that doctors will prescribe lots of anthrax-killing antibiotics — which do nothing for colds and flu — just to make sure they don't miss a case of anthrax in its early, treatable stage.
But none of the 10 cases of inhaled anthrax so far have started with nasal congestion or runny nose. Those symptoms, of course, are common in flu and many other viruses that cause wintertime respiratory ills. So asking about it can help doctors rule out anthrax.
The possible overuse of antibiotics worries officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which on Thursday offered some guidance for doctors who wonder how to tell
"We will do everything we can to help clinicians sort this out," promised Dr. Julie Gerberding.
which is which.
No test will reveal anthrax exposure or predict who might develop anthrax in the near future. Nasal swabs, if given soon enough, can help show whether anthrax was present in a particular location, but they do not tell doctors anything about an individual's risk.
So far, the single most important information is the patient's job.
"I can't emphasize enough the importance of the clinical history of the occupation and the environment in which the person works," Gerberding said.
Dr. Frederick Hayden, a flu specialist at the University of Virginia, estimated that 60 percent of flu cases involve runny noses, and the figures are even higher for most other common respiratory viruses.
"The dilemma will be sorting out the extremely rare case of inhalation anthrax from this massive background of respiratory viral infections," he said.
KC plans for anthrax clean-up
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A contractor met with postal officials Saturday to begin planning the clean-up of an anthrax-contaminated mail facility.
Cleanup will probably begin late today, said Gary Stone, the manager of Stamp Fulfillment Services, where anthrax spores were found.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed Friday that small amounts of anthrax were present at the Kansas City postal facility, located in an underground cave complex near the Worlds of Fun theme park.
No one has contracted anthrax from the spores, and officials have stressed that the public was in no danger from the contamination.
Stone said the clean-up method had not been decided.
"You've got water and bleach on the one hand, and a chlorine bomb on the other hand" as the range of methods that could be used, he said.
In Washington, authorities were finalizing plans to decontaminate the Senate Hart Office Building, where an anthrax-laced letter to Sen. Tom Daschle was opened. They planned to announce final approval yesterday of a plan to fill the nine-story building with bacteriakilling chlorine dioxide gas.
Stone thought lesser measures would suffice in Kansas City. But he added that the cleanup could take a few days, pointing out that the Kansas City facility covered 300,000 square feet.
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Dr. Rex Archer, the Kansas City health director, said additional tests were being considered to make sure authorities had found all the anthrax there was to be found. But even if those tests weren't done. Archer said there was almost no chance anyone outside the facility could be sickened by the tiny amount of anthrax found at Stamp Fulfillment Services.
"It helps reassure us that we're not talking about huge amounts" of anthrax, Archer said. "In fact, we're talking about trace amounts."
ON THE RECORD
A KU staff member reported a burglary and theft between 9 p.m. Oct. 30 and 9 a.m. Oct. 31 at Nunemaker Center, the KU Public Safety Office said. A leather sofa, black chair and matching ottoman were stolen. The stolen goods were valued at $5,500.
A 19-year-old KU student reported a theft between noon Sunday and 5:15 p.m. Thursday in Oliver Hall parking lot, the KU Public Safety Office said. A license plate was stolen. It was valued at $52.50.
A 20-year-old KU student reported deprivation of property at 11:05 p.m. Thursday in the 1100 block of Louisiana Street, Lawrence police said. A tow truck was attempting to tow the student's car, making him unable to use the car.
ON CAMPUS
Black Student Union will meet at 7:30tonight at the Pioneer room in the Burge Alum. Contact Mark Dupree at 864-3984.
The Tae Kwon Do club will meet from 6:30 to 8tonight in 207 Robinson Center. Contact Greg Isaac at 794-4649.
O. A.K.S. the nontraditional students association, will have a brown bag lunch from noon to 1:30 p.m. today in the Burge Union. Contact Joan Winston at 864-7317.
KU Green Party will meet at 8 tonight at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union. Contact Sarah Hoskinson at 838-9063 or Dalyn Cook at 312-2090.
KU Karate Kobudo Club will have practice from 8:30 to 10:30 tonight in racquetball court No. 15 at Robinson Center. Contact Hannah Reynolds at 312-3419.
The Student Development Center will hold a seminar entitled "Academic Assistance Programs" from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. today at the Daisy Hill room in the Burge Union.
University Career and Employment Services will hold a "Career Q & A" from 12.30 to 1.30 p.m. today at the Daisy Hill room in the Burge Union.
STATE
Kansas gets new area code, with 316 facing depletion
HUTCHINSON — It's now official. Anyone making long-distance calls to much of southwest and south-central Kansas has to dial 620 to connect.
The exception is the Wichita-Newton- Butler County metro area, which retains the 316 code.
The code actually changed nine months ago, but Saturday marked the end of a "permissive dialing" period in which both the 316 and 620 codes worked for long-distance calls.
worked for long absences.
Now callers who dial the old code get a recording telling them it's changed and directing them to reidal. That recording will be used through Jan. 5, said Kansas Corporation Commission spokeswoman Rosemary Foreman.
Only two Sedgwick County communities Clearwater and Viola, will be part of the 620 area code.
Clearwater fought hard to try to stay in 316 with Wichita. However, the townspeople and their telephone company expect a reasonably smooth transition.
"We've been planning for it for a while," said pharmacist Bales. "We've contacted all of our doctors to let them know so there shouldn't be a problem [with phoned-in prescriptions]."
The change in area code will not change the cost to call into or out of 316 or 620. All calls that were local before will stay that way.
The main reason for the area code change is the proliferation of phone companies entering the local market. With more than 70 phone companies competing in hundreds of towns,the 316 area code was facing depletion by early next year.
NATION
African athletes set records at New York City marathon
NEW YORK — Tesfaye Jifar of Ethiopia ran the New York City Marathon in 2:07:43 yesterday, setting a record and becoming the first Ethiopian to win the race.
The old men's record of 2.08:01 by Juma ikanga of Tanzania has stood since 1989
Jifar built a lead of more than 20 seconds over Kenya's Japhet Kosgiei, the runner-up for the second straight year. Kosgiei clocked 2:09:19 unofficially. Another Kenyan, Rodgers Rop, was third, another 33 seconds back.
Jifar, whose first competitive race was only three years ago, was making his debut in New York. He pulled away from his lone challenger just before entering Central Park.
Jifar showed impressive closing speed. His older brother, Habte, is a world-class 10,000-meter runner and persuaded Tasfay to try the sport.
Margaret Okayo of Kenya also set a race record as the women's winner.
Okayo broke away from the top women not far past the halfway mark, when she took her wool gloves off as the temperature neared 60 in nearly windless conditions. She was third last year.
The 32nd running of the 26.2-mile race adopted the motto "United We Run."
The Associated Press
Another Kenyan, Susan Chepkemei,
was second yesterday in 2:25:12,
followed by Svetlana Zakharova of Russia,
who was one second behind.
Okayo trimmed 19 seconds off the mark set by Australia's Lisa Ondieki in 1992 with her time of 2:24:21.
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