2A • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWSINBRIEF
MONDAY, SEPT. 10, 2001
CAMPUS
Homeless woman's body found in Clinton Park
Lawrence police found the dead body of Rachelle Conrad Friday morning in Clinton Park, 901 W. Fifth St. Police were responding to a 911 call that came in around 7:30 a.m., Sgt. Mike Patrick said.
An autopsy report was inconclusive, and police are awaiting results of a toxicology report and blood and tissue samples to determine the cause of her death. Patrick said.
Police interviewed four people Friday who were thought to be in or around the park when Conrad was found. No arrests have been made. Conrad, believed to be in her thirties, was living on the streets at the time of her death, Patrick said.
Multicultural sorority looks for new recruits
Female KU students are invited to attend an informational meeting sponsored by the TIARA Interest Group of Mu Sigma Upsilon sorority.
"We're inviting ladies to come out to get an idea of what the sorority is about and what we're trying to do," said Sarah Zaragoza, member of the interest group.
The group is trying to start a chapter of Mu Sigma Upsilon, a multicultural sorority, at the University of Kansas. Zaragoza said it took five members to start a sorority. There are currently four.
The meeting will be at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Sunflower Room at the Burge Union.
A sister from the national chapter will be present to answer questions. Information will also be available about the sorority's mission.
— Courtney Craigmile
NATION
Cajun chef, humorist dies after spicy career
NEW ORLEANS — Justin Wilson, the Cajun humorist and chef whose gumb厚 accent and zesty recipes delighted viewers of Cookin' Cajun and his other public TV shows, has died. He was 87.
Wilson, who died Wednesday in Baton Rouge, became known for the expression: "la-gon-teeel" (guarantee), from the Cajun "J'vous garantis."
He pronounced his name JOOS-tain and had white hair, a floppy bow tie and bright red suspenders.
He released five cookbooks, 27 albums of short stories and an album of Christmas songs, and was host of several cooking programs, including Louisiana Cookin' and Easy Cooking.
Wilson worked without a script, taping in front of audiences and refusing to let mistakes be edited out or canned laughter edited in, said Carl Fry, who produced all of his Louisiana Public Broadcasting shows.
"He would say, 'I'll tell a joke. If they like it, like it,' Fry recalled.
Some Cajuns found Wilson's accent annoying and his jokes demeaning.
"He speaks in broken English and with a lot of malaprops," Trent Angers, author of The Truth About Cajuns, said in 1989. "To hear him you'd think all Cajuns are barely literate and not very bright. He is not a Cajun, but this is the only image of a live Cajun many people have.
He called himself a "half-bleed" Cajun. His father was Louisiana's commissioner of agriculture for 32 years, and his mother was Louisiana French.
The Associated Press
NATION&WORLD
Exhibit unveiled in Berlin depicts Jewish history
The Associated Press
BERLIN — Germany celebrated the gala opening of a national Jewish Museum, a dramatic zinc-clad building that even empty has drawn hundreds of thousands of visitors, unveiling for the first time exhibits spanning two millennia of Jewish history.
The museum — which opened yesterday to some 850 invited guests including German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, President Johannes Rau and Henry Kissinger — emphasizes leishish contributions to German culture.
The building has itself been celebrated as a memorial to Jews in Germany. Its jagged structure evokes a deconstructed Star of David, suggesting structurally the dramatic break in history wrought by the Holocaust.
It was open to the public for two years before the exhibition was installed. Some 350,000 people have toured the building since then.
"I think it is just the beginning of the real life of the museum," said Daniel Libeskind, architect of the building. "Architecture is one thing.
but as the institution opens its doors to the public, that is the birth of the museum as a public institution."
The exhibition is broken down into 13 sections — starting with two artifacts that establish a Jewish presence in present-day Germany nearly 2,000 years ago: a Roman-era Jewish oil lamp depicting a menorah found in Trier and a decree from the Vatican that indicates a Jewish settlement in Cologne in the year 321.
"Today many young people only know one thing about the history of Jews in Germany and Europe: the Holocaust," he said. "We must keep the memory of this catastrophe alive. But it must not lead to the false conclusion that this is the sum of German Jewish history."
"It's an extraordinary collection and a demonstration of the continuity of Jewish history in Germany," said guest Kissinger, who was born in the German city of Fuero and moved to the United States as a teenager.
It also includes a section on the Nazi-era, but ends with postwar Jewish history in Germany.
Dog owners protest new law
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — In the city named after the patron saint of animals, an uneasy peace had long prevailed between dog lovers and people who see canines as threats in the city's well-groomed parks.
That changed after two large dogs mauled a woman to death in her apartment building hallway. Now officials are planning a leashlaw crackdown that would corral loose dogs inside fenced-in areas in public parks.
Parks director Elizabeth Goldstein's draft proposal would create "dog play areas" where dogs would be allowed off-leash, and would encourage police to strictly enforce the existing law, which mandates $27 fines for having a loose dog outside a designated off-leash area.
Goldstein, who has two dogs herself, hopes more people will follow the policy once it's clearly defined and more dog enclosures are created.
Irate dogs owners are irate and say the plan is out of character in a city that tolerates a wide variety of behavior.
"We knew this issue was one that was extremely emotional to people," said parks director Elizabeth Goldstein, who plans to impose a new dog policy by the end of September. "We're essentially responding to a problem that's been out for years."
There are currently 19.
After the draft policy was announced, hundreds of people protested outside City Hall with their dogs, and angry letters appeared in newspapers, mostly pitting dog lovers against parents who fear loose dogs will bite their young children.
Mayor Willie Brown hasn't taken a position on the enclosures, but said the problem had been the lack of a clearly defined dog policy.
Quake shakes Los Angeles, no deaths or injuries reported
LOS ANGELES — An earthquake shook the greater Los Angeles area yesterday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
The quake had a preliminary magnitude of 4.2 and was centered about one mile southeast of West Hollywood, said Lucy Jones of the U.S. Geological Survey.
The quake was felt in downtown Los Angeles where it rumbled for about four seconds and also shook in the suburban areas of Van Nuys. Whittier and Glendale
The quake was felt as far away as Lancaster, which is about 70 miles north of downtown Los Angeles.
The quake struck at 4:59 p.m. and was followed by another temblor of magnitude 2.8 that struck at 5:01 p.m.The second quake was centered nine miles west of downtown Los Angeles in the Beverly Hills area, according to a preliminary report from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
Officials with the county and city fire departments said there were no immediate reports of damage or injury.
The temblor that struck yesterday had a depth of 2.3 miles and was the first 4.0 plus quake in the Los Angeles basin since the 1994 Northridge quake, Jones said.
Former policy director pleads guilty to homicide
HELENA, Mont. — Shane Hedges, former policy director for Gov. Judy Martz, pleaded guilty to negligent homicide Thursday in the car crash death of the Montana House majority leader, Paul Sliter.
a test of Hedges' blood alcohol level showed that he was legally intoxicated.
Sentencing was scheduled for Oct. 11, with the maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $50,000 fine.Hedges lawyer Gregory Jackson, said he would ask the court not to put the former adviser in prison.
Lewis and Clark County Attorney Leo Gallagher said he would recommend prison time but did not say how much.
Hedges and Sliter were returning to Helena from a supper club at the old mining community of Marysville shortly after 11 p.m., Aug. 15, when Hedges' sport-utility vehicle went off the road and rolled down an embankment.
Sliter, 32, was not wearing a seat belt and was thrown from the vehicle. Hedges, who was wearing a seat belt, had minor injuries.
The Associated Press
ON THE RECORD
A 21-year-old KU student reported burglary and theft between noon Sept. 3 and 3 p.m.
Tuesday from Marvin Hall, according to a KU Public Safety Office report. Two compact discs were stolen, valued at $28.
A 22-year-old KU student reported burglary and theft between 2 p.m. Aug. 31 and 9 p.m. Tuesday from Marvin Hall, according to a KU Public Safety Office report. The stolen goods included a Minolta manual camera, an extra lens, camera accessories, a camera bag and a roll of film. The stolen goods were valued at $540.
A KU staff member reported burglary and theft between 3:30 and 5:30 p.m. Tuesday from Fraser Hall, according to a KU Public Safety Office report. A brown suede briefcase containing a personal check and cell phone was stolen. The stolen goods were valued at $122.
A 22-year-old KU student reported burglary and theft between 7 p.m. Sunday and 1 p.m. Tuesday at Marvin Hall, according to a KU Public Safety Office report. A brass lamp, headphones and a portable compact disc player were stolen. They were valued at $170.
An 18-year-old KU student reported a theft between 11:30 a.m. and 12:25 p.m. Wednesday
A KU employee reported theft of English department property between noon June 20 and noon June 29 from Wescoe Hall, according to a KU Public Safety Office report. A telephone was stolen, valued at $110.
from Wescrose Hall, according to a KU Public Safety Office report. A purse was stolen, containing $40, a social security card and several credit cards. The stolen goods were valued at $87.
■ A KU staff member reported burglary and theft between 8:16 a.m. Tuesday and 9:11 a.m. Wednesday from her vehicle in southeast Memorial Stadium parking lot, according to a KU Public Safety Office report. A parking permit was stolen, valued at $115.
A 19-year-old KU student's cell phone was stolen between 5 p.m. Aug. 31 and 12:10 a.m. Sept. 1 from a residence in the 1300 block of West Campus Road, Lawrence police said. The Nokia 8290 cell phone was valued at $200. The Prada nylon case the phone was in was valued at $100.
ON CAMPUS
Hispanic American Leadership Organization (HALO) will hold its weekly meeting at 6 p.m. tomorrow in the Parlor room of the Kansas Union. Contact Michael Luna at 760-4852 or Sarah Zaragoza at 312-2134.
- Vietnam Veterans for Academic Reform (VVAR) will air a program at 7:30 p.m. tonight on Cable Channel 19.
- Contact Leonard Magruder at 843-3737.
The Tae Kwon Do Club will meet from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. tonight in 207 Robinson. Contact Greg Isaac lsat 749-4649.
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