2A - THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWSINBRIEF
THURSDAY,AUG.30 2001
CAMPUS Three journalism students receive scholarship money
Three University of Kansas journalism students won awards and scholarship money in the Roy W. Howard National Competition.
Kursten Phelps, Manhattan senior, and Jay Krall, Bartlett, III., junior, each won one of four first-place awards. Leita Schultes, Rolfe, Iowa junior, received one of four runner-up awards.
First-place winners received a $3,000 scholarship, and runners-up received a $2,000 scholarship.
Each university can enter up to four in-depth articles published between March 1.2000 and February 28,2001.
The articles must be researched and written by freshmen, sophomores or juniors majoring in journalism.
Krall, sports editor for the University Daily Kansan, wrote an article examining the University's exclusive contract with Coca-Cola and the distribution of funds from this contract.
Phelps, editor of the Kansan, won for a ten-year retrospective of the election of KU's first black student body president and campus civil rights issues.
Schultes, managing editor of the Kansan, wrote about dog fights held by Lawrence youth.
The students wrote the articles as part of Professor Ted Frederickson's Newspaper Reporting class.
Jimmy Gentry, dean of journalism, said a combination of having talented students, good instructors, and opportunities for publication contributed to the success of these students.
"It's good for the school's reputation, and I'm pleased with the students' ability to demonstrate their skill," Gentry said.
Eve Lamboorn
37 states run checkpoints but seldom routinely
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Thirty-seven states use sobriety checkpoints to fight drunken driving, but fewer than a third of them do so routinely, according to a study released yesterday.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study said sobriety checkpoints may be the best way for police to fight drunken driving.
The latest study found 11 states Arkansas, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana Kentucky, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia conducted checkpoints at least once a week.
The study said the 26 other states that conduct checkpoints set them up about once a month, at major holidays or when money and personnel were available.
Civil liberties advocates argue that checkpoints violate the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable search and seizure.
Yet the Supreme Court has held that protecting the public outweighs the brief intrusion of the checkpoints.
Law enforcement officials in states that do not conduct checkpoints often said they were too expensive and yield too few arrests to be worth the time, energy and resources, the study found.
NATION&WORLD
Archbishop leaves wife at request of the Vatican
The Associated Press
ROME — The wife of a Roman Catholic archbishop said yesterday she had accepted his decision to leave her after the two met for the first time in three weeks, ending a saga that had embarrassed the Vatican and capitvated Italy.
"For the great love for my husband, I'll respect his decision," Maria Sung told reporters late yesterday. "But that doesn't change the feeling I have for him in my heart."
She said she would never be with another man and would try to support the archbishop in his work throughout her life. She said she hoped they would be reunited "in the after-life."
Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo and Sung met for three hours at the Arcangelo Hotel in Rome, where he delivered a letter to her explaining his reasons for leaving her.
"My commitments in the life of the church, with celibacy, don't allow me to be married." Milingo said in the handwritten letter, a copy of which was sent by the Vatican to news organizations. "The call from my church to my first commitment is just."
Sung's spokesman, the Rev. Phillip Schanker, called it a "wonderful meeting."
"Both of them expressed a lot of love for each other." Schanker told reporters outside
"For the great love for my husband, I'll respect his decision. But that doesn't change the feeling I have for him in my heart."
Maria Sung Wife of a Roman Catholic archbishop
The two were married May 27 by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon in a group wedding at a New York hotel that outraged the Vatican.
the hotel.
The case not only embarrassed the Vatican but also raised concerns that Milingo, once the head of the Lusaka, Zambia diocese, might break from the church and consecrate his own noncelibate bishops. Before announcing his return to the church, Milingo had said celibacy was poisoning the priesthood.
Last week in a prime-time television interview, Milingo announced he had left Sung, saying he had embraced Pope John Paul II's appeal to return to the Catholic Church and keep his vow of priestly celibacy.
Prison escapee guilty in officer's death
The Associated Press
DALLAS The ringleader of one of the biggest prison escapes in Texas history was sentenced to death yesterday for killing a police officer.
George Rivas is the first of the seven escapees to be tried in the Dec. 24 shooting death of Irving police Officer Aubrey Hawkins.
As the penalty phase wrapped up yesterday, Rivas urged jurors to give him a death sentence.
"What you call the death penalty, I call freedom," he said. "I can finally be free. I'm telling you right now I don't want another life sentence."
Both the prosecution and defense cited Rivas' wish to die in closing arguments.
During the escape, which touched off a national manhunt, the gang from the Connally Unit in Kenedy allegedly committed three armed robberies, including the fatal one at an Irving sporting goods store.
Jurors found Rivas guilty of capital murder Aug. 21. They had two punishment choices: lethal injection or life imprisonment with the possibility of parole in 40 years.
In a written statement, Rivas said he shot Hawkins because he thought the officer was reaching for his service revolver.
When others joined in the shooting, Rivas himself was shot twice by his own men.
Patients concerned after deaths linked to Baycol
BOSTON — When the cholesterol-lowering drug Baycol was pulled off the market three weeks ago, Joan Gedies' doctor prescribed another, similar medication. But Gedies hasn't filled her prescription yet.
Like many other patients, Gedies is suddenly nervous about taking any of the popular medications in the family of drugs called statins, even though they have been shown to dramatically lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart attack.
Doctors say they have been deluged by calls from patients since Bayer Pharmaceutical recalled Baycol after it was linked to deadly muscle destruction.
Bayer recalled the drug Aug. 8 after it was linked to 31 U.S. deaths and at least nine more abroad. About 700,000 Americans were taking the drug.
Baycol was tied to rhabdomyolysis, a life-threatening condition which can cause extreme muscle pain as it kills muscle tissue.
The condition is so severe that patients sometimes develop kidney failure.
Arafat calls off gunmen as Israel seizes town
BEIT JALLA, West Bank — Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat ordered gunmen to stop firing at Israeli forces who have seized parts of this West Bank town, and Israel said yesterday that it would withdraw if calm was restored.
The tentative agreement was reached with U.S. and European help, but did not appear to be taking hold. There were fresh exchanges of fire after 8 p.m. yesterday when Palestinian officials said the truce was to begin.
cars and sharks Israel sent forces into Beit Jalla early Tuesday to try to quell Palestinian shooting from there at the nearby Jewish neighborhood of Gilo, built on warwon land Israel annexed to Jerusalem
The Israeli incursion led to use of heavier weapons by the Palestinians. For the first time, 50-caliber machine gun bullets hit Gilo, and five mortar bombs landed overnight, causing damage but no casualties.
In Washington, U.S. State Department officials said Secretary of State Colin Powell assured Arafat in a telephone conversation yesterday that the Bush administration was pressing Israel to withdraw from Beit Jalla, just south of Jerusalem.
Powell also asked Arafat to help restore calm to the region, the officials said.
The Associated Press
ON THE RECORD
accelerator for the brake. Damage to the car was valued at $2,500. The guardrail was also damaged, value unknown.
A 26-year-old KU student reported a single-car accident in North Summerfield Hall parking lot at 4:40 p.m. Saturday. The student was southbound in the lot attempting to park when the vehicle jumped a curb, crossed a sidewalk, hit a guard rail and lodged itself within the guardrail when the driver mistook the
A 20-year-old KU student's car was stolen between 9:30 p.m. Monday and 2:30 p.m. Tuesday from a residence in the 1000 block of Maine, Lawrence police said. The car was valued at $10,000.
also was also damaged. A 20-year-old KU student and a 27-year-old KU graduate teaching assistant collided when the student backed into the other vehicle in the West Memorial Stadium parking lot at 11:08 a.m. Tuesday. The GTA said he honked when he saw the student reversing into his path. Minor damages to the student's rear bumper and the GTA's front left fender resulted.
ON CAMPUS
The Office of Student Financial Aid is awarding federal work-study funds for the 2001-02 academic year. Apply online at www.ku.edu/~osfa, visit the office at 50 Strong Hall or call 864-4700.
Queers and Allies will meet tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Parors in the Kansan Union. Call John Roth at 218-4530.
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