tuesday,november 11,2003
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Lights out for energy awareness
By Abby Mills
almills@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
It could be a dark November for members of the KU greek community.
Each chapter will be encouraged to turn off unnecessary lights and appliances during the Greek Environmental Board's annual power-saving contest.
"You get pretty used to walking in the dark," said Ashley Smith, Tulsa, Okla., sophomore and University Daily Kansan opinion columnist, who organized the contest.
Fraternities and sororites will be challenged to reduce their energy bills throughout November. At the end of the month, they will turn in their November and October bills to the board. The house with the biggest energy
reduction wins.
The winner will receive a trophy at Greek Recognition Night in February, and Smith, a member of Alpha Chi Omega, said she was trying to find a local restaurant to sponsor a victory party for the winners. The last day of classes before Thanksgiving break, Nov. 25, will bring special attention to the issue of energy conservation with Blackout Day, Smith said.
Fraternity and sorority members will be encouraged to wear all black with green ribbons that day to remind students about energy conservation. The environmental board is planning to hand out green ribbons on Wescoe Beach to increase energy consciousness all over campus.
Blackout Day and the contest are intended to increase energy awareness throughout the year, Smith said.
"It adds an element of competition to get people into habits that last past the month," she said.
People often don't realize how much electricity they actually consume, said David Armstrong, Overland Park sophomore and member of the environmental board.
Energy is taken for granted in that people use more than they need without thinking about it, Armstrong, a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, said. He said he wanted the contest to raise awareness about little things people could do to make a difference in energy conservation.
"Ifeveryone actually cared and really went the extra mile, I'm sure thousands of dollars could be saved amongst the houses," he said.
While one group of KU students probably won't make a significant dent in overall energy consumption, conservation measures can lower consumption, said Tim Carr, co-director of the Energy Research Center. More consumers need to be more conscious of energy usage all the time, he said.
Armstrong said his house was not normally energy-conscious. The television in his house, for example, was usually on all the time, he said. This month, Armstrong will post signs around the house, possibly including on the television, to help members remember to keep energy usage down.
Smith said her house had appointed members to walk through the house and make sure community lights and appliances were turned off when not in use.
Edited by Cate Batchelder
Nation Bond set for suspects in theater beatings cases
CHICAGO — Bond was set yesterday for five members of a movie projectionists union charged with trying to settle labor disputes by setting fires and carrying out beatings at theaters in 10 states, including Kansas.
U. S. District Judge Sidney Schenkier set bond at $100,000 for Albin C. Brenkus, 60, and Carl A. Covelli, Jr., 48. Brenkus is the business manager of Chicago-based Local 110 of the movie projectionists union.
Schenkier also set bond at $50,000 for Keith J. Dutton, 48, of Chicago; Peter C. Lipa, 48, of Wonder Lake; and Gregory J. Tortorello for Fort Stewart, Ga.
Federal prosecutors said the crimes were intended to scare officials of three major theater chains into giving in during contract negotiations.
In two cases, theater managers were beaten — with a pipe in one case, with a bat in another.
The fires and assaults occurred at theaters owned by AMC Entertainment, Cinemark U.S.A. and Loews Cineplex Entertainment in Illinois, Indiana Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Texas and Wisconsin.
Fifteen fires were set using bags or cups filled with chlorine and brake fluid, prosecutors said. In five other attempts, the combination caused smoke but no fire.
The Associated Press
President touts trade as fuel for recovery
GREER, S.C. — President Bush touted global trade as fuel for the economic recovery yesterday, a day when the World Trade Organization declared the administration had illegally hindered trade by slapping tariffs on imported steel.
Bush spoke at a BMW plant here that manufactures Z-4 Roadster convertibles and X-5 sport-utility
vehicles, Unpainted, partially finished steel cars displayed behind Bush stood as reminders of a dispute that moved one step closer to a trade war yesterday.
The appearance came between two fund-raisers that pushed his re-election war chest close to $100 million. The president made no mention of the steel debate in his travels to Arkansas and South Carolina, instead reiterating his support for "free and fair trade."
Bush spoke at what the White House billed as a "conversation on the economy with employers and employees."The president announced when he imposed the tariffs in March 2002 that he would revisit them this fall, and he must now decide whether to rescind them, as many advisers have urged him to do.
The Associated Press
The European Union is threatening to retaliate with $2.2 billion in sanctions unless Washington lifts the tariffs swiftly. American critics said the tariffs represented an abandonment of Bush's freetrade principles.
LUBBOCK, Texas — A professor who reported vials of deadly plague missing from his university lab admitted he had accidentally destroyed the samples, but only after he was told that was what investigators believed, an FBI agent testified yesterday.
Texas Tech professor faces felony charges
Dr. Thomas Butler faces 69 felony charges in connection with the incident.
His report that disgruntled employees at Texas Tech or terrorists could have taken the missing vials caused a bio-terrorism scare and sent federal agents on a frantic search. FBI agent Miles Burden testified Monday "the disgruntled employee might indeed be Butler."
Burden said Butler's wife Elisabeth told another agent her husband was dissatisfied with the university and that he was not receiving enough recognition.
The Associated Press
Death penalty forum tonight
By Meghan Brune
mbrune@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Tonight, a death penalty forum will bring together opponents of capital punishment.
The event, the first of its kind for the University of Kansas, will begin at 7 p.m. at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union. Student organizations Concerned Active and Aware Students, or CAAS, KU Greens, Amnesty International and the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center are co-sponsoring the event.
Travis Weller, CAAS co-coordinator, said the death penalty was an issue that all students should be concerned about.
"This is an issue of human rights," Weller, Garden City senior, said. "Students need to know it is happening and it is happening with their tax dollars."
Death penalty cases are expensive, costing approximately $1 million for each case. The state of Kansas uses the death penalty in murder cases when the crime is proven to be intentional and premeditated.
The four panelists for the forum are from Kansas, and all have different reasons to speak out against the death penalty.
Sister Therese Bangert is a member of the Sisters of Charity in Leavenworth and the Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty. The coalition is a Topeka-based organization that tries to educate people on capital punishment and its effects.
Bill Lucero, whose father was murdered in 1972, will speak as a representative for Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation, or MVFR. The national organization focuses on rebuilding the lives of victims' families and finding other forms of justice rather than taking another life.
The third panelist is Jessica R. Kunen, the Lawrence attorney who defended Gary Kleypas.
Kleypas was the first to be sentenced to die after the death penalty law was reinstated in Kansas in 1994. He was convicted of the 1996 killing of Carrie Williams in Pittsburg.
Weller will be the fourth panelist. He said he wanted to represent the student opinion and give other students an idea of how to help end capital punishment.
Weller who interned with the Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty last summer, said he had a personal interest in opposing the death penalty.
"It is very personal to me that the money I pay the government is used to kill people," he said.
The forum consists of only death penalty challengers, but Sara Zafar, University Daily Kansan columnist and KU Greens co-coordinator, said she wanted the audience to bring diverse opinions.
The death penalty was something KU Greens had fought against because it infringes on civil rights, she said.
Last year KU Greens supported the death penalty moratorium, a temporary hold on the death penalty until the state of Kansas could ensure its fairness.
For some people, the death penalty seemed like a fitting punishment, said Josh Steward, College Republicans vice-chair. Steward, Hays junior, said he used to see the death penalty as a way to deter crime, but no longer supported it because the justice system is not perfect. He said while the punishment might be just, perfection could not be ensured.
"You can always let someone out of prison," Steward said. "But if someone innocent is killed, you are pretty much out of luck."
CAAS planned to have a death penalty lobby day sometime in the spring. Weller said.
Edited by Joey Berlin
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