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Martin trial to start
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Kansas football trampled The Jayhawks lost senior quarterback Bill Whittemore and Saturday's game to the Kansas State Wildcats in Manhattan. PAGE1B
Sliding for success
The Kansas women's soccer team defeated Oklahoma Friday and then defeated Michigan yesterday. PAGE 1B
Volleyball tied for fifth
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KANSAN
Vol. 114 Issue No.46
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Monday, October 27, 2003
The Student Newspaper of the University of Kansas
Stickers to seal windows
To ensure safety, student housing will charge $125 for tampering with window screens.
By Abby Mills
almills@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
The Department of Student Housing is putting bite behind its residence hall window screen policy.
Within the next two months, residents who remove window screens will be charged a $125 fine.
"Hopefully $125 means enough to students that they will notice," said Ken Stoner, director of the Department of Student Housing.
Each window screen will have two stickers attached to it. One warns students that removing screens is dangerous and that a fine will be levied. The other will be attached to both the screen and the window sill. The sticker will break when the screen is removed, proving it was tampered
with, even if the screen is replaced later.
Stoner said the stickers would be installed after they are received, which he expected to be later this week or in early November. He said residents will receive a notice in their mailboxes two to three days before staff members enter to install stickers.
The policy change is in response to the death of Eric Wellhausen, Mt. Prospect, Ill., freshman, who fell off a ledge on the seventh floor of Oliver Hall Sept. 12.
Some students don't think the screen policy will affect such accidents.
"It was a freak accident," said Joe Franklin, Chicago sophomore. "There's nothing that can be done to prevent that."
Stoner said he thought the new policy would work under normal circumstances.
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Kit Leffler/Kansan
Warning stickers will soon be implemented to discourage students from removing the screens in their residence hall rooms. If the screens are tampered with, a $125 fee will be charged to the student.
John Nowak/Kansan
Muslims kneeled during prayer in front of the Holy Quran at the Islamic Center of Lawrence. Yesterday marked the beginning of Ramadan, the ninth month in the Muslim calendar. During this time, Muslims concentrate on their faith and fast from sunrise to sunset.
Islamic month of fasting increased prayer celebrated
Abby Mills almills@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Sunrise yesterday signaled the beginning of one of the most holy times in the Islamic calendar. Ramadan.
Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, when Muslims are required to fast from sunrise to sunset each day. It is the month the angel Gabriel revealed the Quran to the Prophet Muhammad, according to Islamic beliefs.
The month gives Muslims the opportunity to focus less on everyday concerns and more on faith and worship.
"It's the idea of self-discipline," said Moussa Elbayoumy, director of the Islamic Center of Lawrence. "It's being able to control desires, not only eating and drinking, but things related to physical pleasure."
Besides eating and drinking, Muslims are not supposed to smoke or have sexual relations during the fast. They also refrain from acting on offensive emotions, such as anger or greed, and
avoid telling lies.
Elbayoumy said avoiding human vices during the month of Ramadan allowed Muslims to increase their worship of God. Muslims say a special prayer, the Taraweeh, in addition to the five daily prayers during the holy month. The Taraweeh is almost three times longer than the daily prayers and covers more of the Quran. Many Muslims try to read the entire Quran during the month, Elbayoumy said.
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Colors adorn new $20
By Abby Mills
almills@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
New $20 bills that were released Oct. 9 are inching their way into the city and across the country and appearing in ATMs, stores and wallets.
"I like them," said Jenna Brooks, Sioux City, Iowa, sophomore and cashier at the Market in the Kansas Union. "Customers get excited when they get one back."
When it comes to new currency, Lawrence residents see 20/20.
Part of the novelty of the new bills is the colors — peach, blue and green — printed in the background. It is the first U.S. paper currency to have a color other than green since 1905, when the $20 Gold Certificate was tinted gold.
Features on the new $20 bill
The color was added to make the bills more complex, and thus harder to counterfeit, but are not primarily a security feature, said Tracy Hale, manager of the
cash services department at the Kansas would reduce the number of counting City Federal Reserve in Kansas City, Mo. errors because bills could easily be told For holding color she said apart.
A side benefit of adding color, she said is that the bills would be easily distinguishable for the visually impaired and
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Chess king entertains young fans at Union
By Amanda Kim Stairrett
astairrett@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Josh Waitzkin is something of a celebrity, but prefers his position as a role model.
As an International Master and subject of the 1993 movie Searching For Bobby Fischer, chess and life are intertwined for the 26-year-old Waitzkin.
As a student at Columbia University in New York City. Waitzkin doesn't tell his classmates about his accomplishments. In his free time, he travels to chess tournaments and teachers children how to play.
Waitzkin came to the Kansas Union Saturday for the Josh Waitzkin Scholastic Chess Tournament. The event was sponsored by the Quail Run Chess Club and drew more than 150 students between kindergarten and 12th grade from Kansas and Missouri.
John Conard, Quail Run representative, said the club brought Waitzkin to the tournament because it got the kids excited about chess.
"It's a big deal he's here," said Conard. "He's the best known scholastic chess player in the United States."
Waitzkin said he felt a responsibility to come to events like this because he loved meeting kids.
Although a chess celebrity, Waitzkin dismissed his fame.
"Someone could make a movie about anybody — a window washer — and it would be brilliant with a good filmmaker." he said.
Watzkin said the most difficult part of his celebrity status came when he was a teenager, after Searching For Bobby Fischer was released. He said there were 100 groupies asking for autographs after each match and it initially hurt him as a competitor.
Waitzkin said he enjoyed the attention he got as a role model to aspiring chess players. He spent Saturday speaking to kids and offering tips to improve their games.
"Chess is a private art," he said. "The attention complicated my life quite a bit."
At the end of the event, Waitzkin played 25 simultaneous games with kids at the tournament. He walked around quietly with the clack of chess pieces meeting him at each board.
"I've never had such an aggressive group of kids," he commented early in the evening.
Harrison Helmick, Quail Run fifth grader, was the first player to be eliminated by Waitzkin.
Katie Conrad, was Quail Run third grader, said Wat锌in was "very nice."
"He's really good," he said with a laugh while shaking his head. "He had really good structure that I couldn't get past."
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