2A • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Inside Front
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2002
News briefs
from campus,the state,the nation and the world
CAMPUS
CAMPUS 19,000 KU First T-shirts distributed to students
Officials from the Kansas University Endowment Association finished distributing all of its 19,000 KU First T-shirts to students yesterday.
John Scarffe, director of communications for the association, said officials had 2,000 additional shirts printed Wednesday after the initial 17,000 shirts had been distributed. Scarfe said those shirts had been handed out by 4 p.m. yesterday, but they had no plans to print more.
The T-shirts will give students free admission to tomorrow's football game against Southwest Missouri State and qualify students in attendance with a KUID for a chance at one of 25 scholarships for $1,000.
The scholarship winners will be randomly selected both by predetermined seat number in Memorial Stadium and by head count among those entering the stadium.
Scholarship money was donated by Dick and Jeanne Tinberg of Leawood.
The T-shirts were financed in part by Intrust Bank.
The KU First campaign is the largest fund-raising effort in University history. Its goal is to raise $500 million in private donations for the University by fall 2004. Scarfe said the campaign had raised $337 million since it began last fall.
— Jenna Goepfert
STATE
Court rules media, public can attend jury selection
TOPEKA — The public can attend jury selection in the trial of serial murder suspect John E. Robinson, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled yesterday
The order reverses a lower court decision. Johnson County District Court Judge John Anderson III had barred media from jury selection, which begins Monday in Olathe, because he was concerned that potential jurors might be influenced by coverage.
Kansas City-area media outlets had appealed the order.
Robinson, 58, is accused in Kansas of killing three women — Suzette Trouten and Izabela Lewicka, whose bodies were found in barrels on land he owned in Linn County, and Lisa Stasi, who disappeared in 1985. He is also charged with three killings in Missouri.
As the justices handed down yesterday's ruling, Robinson's attorneys were before Anderson arguing that the entire panel of 1,000 prospective jurors should be discharged because of pretrial publicity. Johnson County has not had a capital murder trial in more than 30 years.
Yesterday's ruling did not cover other decisions by Anderson, including his ban on cameras and recording devices in the courtroom during any portion of the trial or jury selection.
Controversial N.C contestant America chance
loses Miss America chance
WILMINGTON, N.C. —A federal judge yesterday refused to force the Miss America Pageant to recognize Rebekah Revels as Miss North Carolina, the title she gave up over topless photos taken by a boyfriend.
Immediately after the ruling, the Miss America Organization said it would instead recognize Misty Clymer as the only Miss North Carolina.
"Misty Clymer is the contestant. Rebekah will not be competing in the finals," said George Bauer, interim president of the Miss America Organization. "Rebekah will be our guest in Atlantic City. We'd like to continue her status as a VIP guest."
Revels has been participating in rehearsals and preliminary events along with Clymer, her successor as Miss North Carolina, under a temporary order issued by a state judge last week, while she pursued a federal judge's ruling compelling the pageant to let her compete for the crown.
The Associated Press
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Camera on KU
Elizabeth Gray, Blue Rapids sophomore, picks up a KU First T-shirt in the tent in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall.Free admission to the KU -SMSU is guaranteed when students wear their KU First T-shirts to the game.
Jared Soares/Kansan
ON THE RECORD
A 22-year-old Watson Library employee reported that a man was masturbating between 5:59 and 6:09 p.m. Tuesday near a computer terminal in Watson Library, Lt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office said. Bailey said the man was arrested and taken to Douglas County Jail. However, a Douglas County Jail official said he it had no record of his booking.
A 54-year-old Anschutz Library reported the someone criminally damaged items between 3 p.m. Sunday and 9:30 a.m. Monday in Aschutz Library, according to KU Public Safety Office reports. Someone cut the cords of a computer mouse and keyboard. The items were valued at $57.20.
ON CAMPUS
Ecumenical Christian Ministries will have a March Against Unprovoked Attack on Iraq at 11 a.m. tomorrow in front of the ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. The march will proceed to the courthouse and Massachusetts Street. Contact Thad Holcomb at 843-4933.
KU Ki Aikido Club will meet from 10 a.m. to noon tomorrow at Room 207 in Robinson Center. Contact Jason Ziegler at 843-4732.
KU Tae Kwon Do Club will meet from 1 p.m.to 3 p.m.Sunday at Room 207 in Robinson Center. Contact Samantha Nondorf at 218-3544.
Student Alumni Association will have a Tradition Keepers Tailgate from 4
Et Cetera
KU Women's Lacrosse will have a New Player Clinic from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. tomorrow at the field between Robinson and the Computer Center. Get more information at www.ku.edu/~lax.
to 6 p.m. tomorrow at the Adams Alumni Center. Contact the SAA at 864-4760.
Religious Studies will have two lectures, Teaching about Islam after September 11 and The Axis of Hope for Millennial Order, for the Islam Symposium from 8:30 a.m. at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. A third lecture, How Islam Does It, will be at 2 today at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Contact Religious Studies at 864-7259.
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