2A - THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS IN BRIEF
THURSDAY,OCT.25,2001
CORRECTIONS
The Hilltopics story in Monday's Kansan contained errors. Mike Carper is a graduate student in exercise physiology. The number to call for information about an athletic ability performance evaluation is 864-0773.
A story in Tuesday's Kansan contained an error. Proceeds from the nontraditional student organization's Halloween festival will not go to Rachel Magario. However, donations to benefit Magaria will be accepted at the festival.
CAMPUS
Bill to fund Republicans faces another Student Senate delay
The KU College Republicans experienced another setback last night at the full Student Senate meeting when a bill to give the group $382 was put on hold until the next full Senate meeting.
Senate voted to delay hearing the bill for the second consecutive meeting so that it could await a final report from a committee task force that will present a report on whether the bill is eligible for Senate money at the next meeting.
A change to Senate rules and regulations last year allowed Senate to grant money to religious and partisan groups, but some members of Senate have questioned whether the partisan group should be eligible for the money, despite the rules change.
Erin Blocher, chairwoman of the KU College Republicans, said that she thought there was a strong number of senators who would support the bill.
"We're kind of fighting for student rights and that proper rules and regulations are followed by Student Senate," said Blocher, a Colorado Springs, Colo. junior.
In other business, Senate:
in other business, Senate
Passed a bill allocating $813 to the
Passed a bin allocating s41 to the Chinese Student Scholar Friendship Association for special events.
Passed a bill to add a definition of gender expression and identity within Senate rules and regulations.
Passed a petition requesting the itemization of fees on University billing.
STATE
— Luke Daley
Frustrated Topekans ask city to restrict Phelps' picketing
TOPEKA — Topeka residents let the city council know that they've had more than enough of the anti-gay message from the Rev. Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church Tuesday night.
"It's very clear that this town is reaching its limits," said Dr. Roy Menninger, one of 16 people to address the council.
Nearly 100 people attended the council meeting, asking the city to take steps to curb Phelps' picketing. Phelps and his followers have regularly picked funerals for gays, city halls and other sites. The group has also said the Sept. 11 attacks were a punishment from God.
Phelps and his daughter Margie Phelps were the only two people to speak on behalf of Westboro Baptist Church.
Phelps recited the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution regarding the separation of church and state as vindication for his picketing activities. He said the latest efforts to curtail his activities were a "hysterical milieu."
NATION&WORLD
Simpson stays free man after Florida road rage acquital
The Associated Press
MIAMI — O.J. Simpson was acquitted yesterday of grabbing another driver's glasses and scratching the man's face in a road-rage argument that the former football star insisted was started by the other guy.
After the verdict, Simpson put his hand to his chest and mouthed, "Thank you" as he nodded toward the jury. He then hugged his lawyers.
The 54-year-old Simpson faced up to 16 years in jail had he been convicted of auto burglary and battery for last year's dispute with Jeffrey Pattinson in their suburban Miami neighborhood. The jury deliberated for about 90 minutes.
Pattinson was not in the courtroom. He did not immediately return a telephone message.
The two men offered vastly different accounts of what happened. Pattinson said Simpson ran a stop sign, then acted like "a
Simpson accused the other man of "sitting on his horn." He said he thought Pattinson was seeking an autograph or was trying to tell him about a problem with his car, which was also carrying Simpson's two young children.
madman" after Pattinson got him to pull over by flashing his lights and honking his horn.
He denied reaching inside Pattinson's car to take the glasses and said the two men confronted each other outside their vehicles.
Simpson said Pattinson lied about staying in his car. But Simpson offered no explanation for the scratch on Pattinson's face but explained his thumbprint on the glasses by saying it must have happened when he brushed the glasses away as he broke off the 30-second, profanity-laced confrontation.
During closing arguments, prosecutor Abbe Rifkin did everything but call Simpson a liar, saying the actor came out in him as he testified.
DNA matched to attack victims
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Medical officials have identified the first victims from the World Trade Center attacks based solely on DNA matches, a process that has involved toothbrushes, hairbrushes and other belongings of those lost in the wreckage.
Eight people were identified after DNA evidence was compared with samples gathered from victims' families after the Sept. 11 attacks, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Tuesday.
Marion DeBlase, 44, whose husband James DeBlase, 45, was lost in the attack, gave officials his hairbrush and toothbrush. The family also submitted cheek swabs from their three sons, and from James DeBlase's parents in hopes there would be a match if his remains are found.
"You have to come to some kind of closure somehow as each day goes by, but it's very difficult to come to terms with it when you have nothing to hold on to," Marion DeBlase said.
She last spoke to her husband just after a
njacked airliner smashed into Tower One of the trade center, where he worked on the 105th floor as a bond broker for Cantor Fitzgerald. The company lost nearly 700 employees in the attack.
DeBlase said her recent visit to the smoldering pile of debris did not give her hope that her husband's remains would be found.
City officials said Tuesday the number of missing stands at 4,339. Of the 478 people whose remains had been recovered, 425 had been identified. Seven more bodies were pulled from the rubble early yesterday.
DNA is used when no matches are made from other methods, such as fingerprints, dental records and surgical scars.
Giuliani urged more relatives to submit DNA samples.
"We've gotten 2,600 samples, but we know that the numbers of people missing are closer to 5,000, so there are many more people that could submit DNA samples, if that's what they wanted to do," Giuliani said.
STATE Economy, lowered jet fuel use cause drop in gasoline prices
HUTCHINSON—A recent drop in gasoline prices is probably over, but prices likely will not increase soon, according to officials with the American Automobile Association of Kansas.
The average regular gas price across the state yesterday was $1.18. That's down 43 cents from a month ago and 31 cents from a year ago, said Cherie Sage, of AAA Kansas.
The national average yesterday was $1.28 a gallon,the lowest since January 2000.
Another factor in price declines was the effects of the Sept. 11 attacks. With air travel down, oil used for jet fuel was converted to automobile fuel, flooding the market with even more gas, Hogan said.
Price drops in the last five weeks were fueled by a sagging crude-oil market and the sluggish worldwide economy, said Bronwyn Hogan of AAA.
This has contributed to the more than 20-cent drop in gas prices nationally since Sept. 11, when prices were hovering around $1.55, Hogan said.
NATION
Residents caught off guard by early North Dakota blizzard
FARGO, N.D. — A freakishly early blizzard piled snowdrifts up to 2 feet high in North Dakota yesterday, closing schools and stranding drivers several weeks before people expected to break out the shovels and snowmobiles.
Grand Forks had a record-breaking 10 inches of snow;the city's previous record for October was 8.2 inches in 1926.
Authorities said 400 vehicles were stuck on Interstate 29 north of Fargo, and at least two snowplows were hit by trucks. A driver was killed in a mini van rollover on I-29.
"The plows have been out, but I tell you what, it's blowing so much out here that the roads — it's just like driving down a prairie trail. It's just very rough, it rutted," North Dakota Highway Patrol Capt. Mark Nelson said. "It's near white-out conditions at times."
In Grand Forks, city and county offices and the University of North Dakota closed. Winds gusted near 40 mph and the wind chill factor was around 7 below zero.
Associated Press
ON THE RECORD
- Possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia in a Lewis Hall room was reported at 6:58 p.m. Oct. 16, the KU Public Safety Office said. Eleven bags of vegetation, assorted drug paraphernalia and 289 empty bags were seized. The seized goods were valued at $33.
unknown individual.
A 21-year-old KU student reported theft of another student's parking permit at 9:05 a.m. tuesday the KU Public Safety Office said. The parking permit was valued at $85. A 19-year-old student was arrested for the theft at 9:37 a.m. he said he had bought the permit for $10 from an
A 23-year-old KU student reported damage to and a theft from a vehicle between 9 p.m. Saturday and 8.40 a.m. Sunday in the 2700 block of Crestline Drive, Lawrence police said. Damage to the driver's side door lock was estimated at $300. A Pioneer CD player was valued at $210.
A 20-year-old KU student reported a theft between 4 and 9 p.m. Monday in the 700 block of Massachusetts Street, Lawrence police said. The Northface backpack and textbooks were valued at $400. All items were recovered.
ON CAMPUS
Pre-Journalism Club will discuss their journalism peer mentors program at 5:30 p.m. today on the third floor of Templin Residence Hall. Contact Julie Jantzer at ku_pre_j@hotmail.com or Janice Davis at 864-4768.
Ecumenical Christian Ministries and ENVIROS will serve a vegetarian lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today at the ECM building, of 1204 Oread Ave., one block north of the Kansas Union. The lunch is prepared by student volunteers and non-vegetarians are welcome. Contact Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
■ KU Men's and Women's Ultimate Frisbee Clubs will meet at 4:30 p.m. today at the Shenk Sport Complex at 23rd and 1rd streets. Contact Clay or Tony at 843-7099 or at claved@ku.edu.
Engineering Student Council will meet at 5:30 p.m. today in 1046 Learned Hall.
Contact Marcus Ducuran at 830-0302.
Campus Crusade for Christ will meet at 8 tonight in 1004 Haworth. Contact John Iliff at 979-6488.
KU Karate Kobudo Club will have practice from 8:30 to 10:30tonight at racquet ball court No. 15 in Robinson Gymnasium. Contact Hannah Reynolds at 312-3419.
McCollim Hall Government will sponsor Club Mac, a party recognizing Alcohol Awareness week from 8 to 11 tonight in the McCollim Residence Hall main lobby. Contact Jason Ranard at 312-2342 or 766-5978.
- freshman-Sophomore Advising will hold an advising-permit-enroll session for all freshmen and transfer students in all majors from 2:30 to 3:20 p.m. today in 100 Stauffer-Flint and 3140 Wescow and from 4:00 to 4:50 p.m. today in the Kansas Room at the Kansas Union. Contact Gloria Flores at 864-2897.
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Excel: Charting Prerequisite: Excel: Introduction. Requires registration for all and a $25 fee for non-KU, Wed., Oct. 30, 9 a.m.-Noon, Budig PC Lab
Digital Audio Editing Prerequisite: None. Requires registration for all and a $75 fee for non-KU.Mon., Oct. 29, 1:30-3:30 p.m., Budig Media Lab
Outlook: Message Management Prerequisites: A KU Exchange account and
Outlook: Introduction. No registration or fee. Mon., Oct. 29, 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Budig PC Lab
Web Authoring: Cascading Style Sheets Intermediate Prerequisite: Web Authoring: Cascading Style Sheets Introduction. No registration or fee. Tues., Oct. 30, 9 a.m.-Noon, Computer Center South Lab
UNIX Prerequisite: None. No registration or fee. Tues., Oct. 30, 5:30-8:30 p.m.
Computer Center South Lab
Access: Introduction Prerequisite: None. Requires registration for all and a $75 fee for non-KU. Wed., Oct. 31, 9 a.m.-Noon, Computer Center South Lab
Graphics: Foundations Prerequisite: None. No registration or fee . Wed., Oct. 31, 10:30 a.m.-Noon, Computer Center Auditorium
Web Authoring: Foundations Prerequisite: None. No registration or fee. Wed., Oct. 31, 1:30-2:30 p.m., Computer Center South Lab
Acrobat: Creating PDF Files Prerequisite: None. Requires registration for all and a $75 fee for non-KU. Thurs., Nov. 1, 9 a.m.-Noon, Computer Center South Lab
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Word: Introduction Prerequisite: None. Requires registration for all and a $75 fee for non-KU. Thurs., Nov. 1, 1:30-4:30 p.m., Computer Center South Lab
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