Volume 124 Issue 31
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Monday, October 3, 2011
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Additional insurance needed for abortions
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Women seeking abortions in Kansas will have to pay for the procedure or get extra insurance after a judge refused to block a new law that restricts insurance coverage for abortions.
The law prohibits insurance companies from offering abortion coverage as part of general health plans, except when a woman's life is at risk. Women who want abortion coverage must buy supplemental policies.
NATION
The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the state, arguing that lawmakers' true intent was to create obstacles for woman seeking abortions. It was seeking a temporary injunction, but a judge ruled Thursday that the group failed to prove its claims.
College bullying laws examined,compared
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The law is among several major anti-abortion initiatives approved this year in Kansas. Two have been temporarily blocked, including one that would impose stricter regulations on abortion clinics.
— Arkansas: Requires school districts to train staff members about bullying and investigate credible reports. A second law bans cyberbullying.
A look at laws passed or updated by state legislatures in the year since the suicide of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi brought renewed attention to the problem of bullying:
- California: First state requiring public schools to teach in social studies about the contributions of gays and lesbians. A conservative group is pushing to overturn the law by public vote.
Colorado: Outaws bullying by electronic means and requires training for teachers on how bullying can affect students and is often based on
minority status.
— Connecticut: Requires anti-bullying training for all school employees, sets deadlines for administrators to investigate reports and requires publicly available statistics.
— New Jersey; Requires antibullying policies in schools; passage was expedited after Clement's death in September 2010.
— Rhode Island: Requires state Education Department to develop policies banning bullying by Internet or text message to be adopted by every district by the end of June next year. Also would ban student Facebook use during school hours.
— Washington State: Requires school staff members to intervene in bullying situations and requires districts to respond in writing to bullying complaints within five days.
WORLD
Fort Riley soldier dies in Afghanistan
Army officials say a Fort Riley soldier from California has died of his wounds from an attack with a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.
Fort Riley said Thursday that 21-year-old Spc. Garrett A. Fant of American Canyon, Calif., died Monday after his unit was attacked by enemy forces in Helmand province. Fant died of his injuries after he
To date, 181 soldiers assigned to Fort Riley have died in either Iraq or Afghanistan, including 139 soldiers assigned to the 1st Infantry Division.
Fant was a member of the 4th Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment of the 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Team of the Army's 1st Infantry Division. This was his first deployment.
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was taken to Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan.
Associated Press
Spanish storytime success
LOCAL
BRITTANY CLAMPITT bclampitt@kansan.com
As restless toddlers spin chairs, chew on nametags and wander around the children's section of the Lawrence Public Library, Marita Nelson prepares for storytime.
Volunteers, including Nelson, rotate leadership of the children's
Spanish storytime called "Hora De Cuentos," at the library every Saturday morning.
Nelson said the table is not just for Spanish-speaking children, but also for those whose
"We wanted to our daughter to speak Spanish outside of our home, with different environments with different kids," Abel said.
Hora De Cuentos, meaning "hour of stories" in English, is structured much like children's storytimes in English. Learning tools catered to the different senses making the meaning of the
"We wanted to try and do outreach to families to let them know what's available in the community, how they can be involved."
parents wish to expose their children to the language early.
University of Kansas alumni Abel and Lydia Leon took over the program last year. As the parents of 2-year-old Alia, they have the same interests for their daughter as many of the other parents at Spanish storytime.
Spanish words clearer.
LYDIA LEON
Hora De Cuentos co-head
"Buenos días, a todos como están?" a song to the tune of "If You're Happy and You Know It" introduced each child, followed by more songs and stories with puppets and felt board animals to practice numbers and vocabulary.
"They start getting a little bit of the basics of the language," said Abel.
Lydia, the current coordinator for the storytime, has been a part of the program from early on,
and has helped shape the program into what it is today, reaching the growing Spanish-speaking community in Lawrence.
"We thought one of the resources in the community is the library," Lydia said. "We wanted to try and do outreach to families to let them know what's available in the community, how they can be involved, what they might have access to."
These thoughts formulated Hora De Cuentos.
"We get to celebrate Spanish and we also have other people learn Spanish," Lydia said.
Although he realizes it would be difficult for a non-Spanish-speaking family to build on and continue with the language elements learned at the storytime, Abel still finds value in Hora De Cuentos.
"What you end up having is either one of the parents speaks Spanish or some connection to the language," Abel said. "Otherwise, it's harder. But we still have fun."
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Student autnors offer insight, advice on amateur publishing
KELSEY CIPOLLA
kcipolla@kansan.com
While some students refused to shave or looked forward to celebrating the holidays last November, Jason Held, a senior from Minneapolis, wrote a novel. For writers across the country November is National Novel Writing Month, an online contest that challenges participants to write 50,000 words in 30 days.
Held initially had no intention of participating, but other members of the Jayhawk-Writers on Campus group, or J-WOC, convinced him to participate in the arduous contest.
His book, "The Write Message," follows a 15-year-old boy who hires a literary agent and pursues a publishing deal while trying to balance high school, the challenges of the industry and familial loss. Select chapters of the protagonist's own writing are also included.
"You have to go in there knowing what your book is going to be about," Held said. "I didn't have a complete outline for it, but I knew what it was about."
J-WOC teamed up with KU
"We teamed up with Hewlett-Packard a year ago to start this project and they gave us grant money to come up with ideas to encourage printing on campus," said Rachel Barnes, the KU Bookstores custom material specialist. "What we came up with was the book contest."
After months of editing and revising. Held's book was finally ready for publication. The Print-
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Bookstores to incentivize competing in the contest. Participants who met the 50,000 word minimum would have a chance to publish their book.
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OPINION 5
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SUDOKU 4
On-Demand center, which allows students, faculty, and community members to print and bind their own works, helped produce "The Write Message."
"We were serving as a small scale publisher for him," said Barnes. The bookstore also coordinated selling the book in the store and through Amazon.
Julie Honn, outreach and communications officer for J-WOC and a senior from Lenexa, said Held's success is encouraging to other student writers.
"It shows that it's achievable, to achieve that balance and achieve
Although the novel was published last April, Held is still shocked to have actually published a book.
"It's a really strange feeling," he said. "I almost couldn't believe it, but I knew it was my story, I knew I wrote it. I had spent months on it."
that dream," Honn said. "That's what everybody who writes does it for, that 'I hope somebody reads this someday.'"
Held will discuss his book today at 5 p.m. at Jayhawk Ink inside the Kansas Union. There will also be a panel discussion with other
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Don't forget
Student Author Reading Jason Weld will read from and discuss his new novel "The Write Message."
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student writers about students writing experiences.
Monday October 3, 201
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Ticket Cost: Free
Don't forget to floss! October is National Dental Hygiene Month.
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Forecasts done by University students. For a more detailed forecast, see page 2A
HI: 85
L0: 43
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