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$6,500 stolen from Ecumenical Christian Ministries
By Nikki Nugent
nugent@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The Rev. Thad Holcombe, director of Ecumenical Christian Ministries, said he felt violated by a theft that took place between Wednesday afternoon and Thursday afternoon.
Holcombe said a safe key, $500 cash and seven personal checks worth a combined $6.000 were stolen from the building.
The money supported services such as the Veggie Lunch program and meals for the University
Forum. The checks were private contributions.
"That's the way we survive," Holcombe said. "Amazingly, we've been breaking even, but that's going to throw us behind unless we somehow catch up."
Holcombe said the burglar had to have been familiar with the building. The safe key, which was on a board in the administrative offices, was used to open the safe.
Items were taken from the safe before the safe was closed and locked. There was no damage physical damage.
"We're probably going to be much more vigilant and rigid in procedures that we have."
Thad Holcombe ECM director
"We were damaged in terms of feeling a kind of violation," Holcombe said.
Thursday afternoon. When she learned Holcombe didn't have the key, the safe was taken to a locksmith. It was then that Holcombe discovered that the items were missing.
Jolinda Matthews, administrative assistant for ECM, could not find the safe key about 2:30 p.m.
According to police reports, the checks and cash were stolen between 4 p.m. Wednesday and 2 p.m. Thursday.
"Interesting enough, they didn't take all the cash; they didn't take all the checks," Holcombe said. "But they took a large amount of them."
amount of alice Holcombe said that parts of the burglary were still a mystery.
The office door could have been left open accidentally or the thief could have taken the key while an employee stepped out of the office for a moment, Holcombe said.
said,
"It must have been somebody who knew where we kept the kev." Holcombe said.
ECM has had a new safe key made and will likely place the safe elsewhere in the building, Holcombe said.
"We're probably going to be much more vigilant and rigid in procedures that we have," he said.
Holcombe said Matthews intended to deposit the money in the bank as she did every week but had gotten too busy. A quicker turnaround in depositing money could be necessary, he said.
Chairs and a Navajo weaving have been stolen from the ECM before, but last week's incident was the ECM's first major theft, Holcombe said.
"There's just so much going on here," he said. "That's probably the best security."
— Edited by Doyle Murphy
Homecoming floats show Jayhawks throughout University's history
By Abby Mills almills@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Hundreds of Jayhawk fans lined Jayhawk Boulevard Saturday to see chicken wire and tissue paper representations of their favorite bird.
Spectators watched 15 floats compete in this year's homecoming parade under the theme of "Jayhawk Generations: Bringing Back the Classics."
"I thought it was well put together," said Lindsey Berwald, Bloomington, Minn., junior. "There was a lot of variety."
Assembling all those floats was no easy task.
Members of four student housing groups, the Association of University Residence Halls, Stouffer Neighborhood Association, All Scholarship Hall Council and Jayhawker Towers Tenants Association, worked on their float for more than a week. They stayed up all night Friday to work on the float after Late Night in the Phog so it would be ready for Saturday morning.
The float was a first for residence
halls, which had never participated in that homecoming tradition. It depicted different Jayhawk used to represent the University in their respective time periods. The progression started with a red and blue egg and included a '20s Jayhawk swinging to a big band, a '40s Jayhawk in military garb and ended with the current mascot talking on a cell phone.
Getting that final, and largest, Jayhawk finished and standing was the hardest part of construction, said Adam Sechrist, Overland Park sophomore, who helped with assembling the float.
Some floats took on an additional challenge by competing in the moving category.
the moving player.
Alpha Delta Pi sorority and Triangle fraternity spent three weeks constructing their float, which showed a Baylor Bear approaching a Jayhawk on a football field. After reaching the Jayhawk, the Bear bent down and backed away.
To represent the theme, all parts of the float except the Jayhawk were in black and white.
"We thought a black-and-white field would be like classic TV," said Steve Everley, Eudora junior.
WINNERS FROM THE 2003 HOMECOMING PARADE:
Decorated vehicle: Asian American Student Union and Hispanic American Leadership Organization
Banner: Alpha Gamma Delta and Phi Kappa Teu
Non-moving float: Kappa Alpha Theta and Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Moving float: Kappa Kappa Gamma and Theta Chi
"But we wanted the Jayhawk to stand out, so we put him in color."
Getting the moving parts to work at the correct time was the hardest part of putting the float together, Everley said. He said the parts were driven by "pulleys and pledges." Younger members of the fraternity sat under the football field and made the parts move.
After the Bear's final retreat, the float's goal posts blew steam out of the upright bars.
Pacha,4, who said it was his favorite part of the parade.
of the upright
The float impressed Kyle
Jeff Pacha, Kyle's father, said the family came to Lawrence from Wichita to see Late Night in the Phog. He said he liked that the University offered the basketball event on the same weekend as Homecoming activities to provide entertainment for the whole weekend.
Jay Pacha, 7, said he enjoyed the parade, but preferred the craziest fan display over the floats.
The craziest fan did not have his own float, but painted his entire body crimson and blue and donned a spandex wrestling suit with red fishnet stockings for the event. He did jump roping tricks and ran through the parade interacting with spectators.
Other non-float displays included a donkey with a group from KU Young Democrats, a van hauling a display for KU Habitat for Humanity, cars from the Topeka Corvette Club and a display of international flags to represent the diversity of the University of Kansas.
endowment association Chancellors Club honors members of University
Jan Roskam, Deane E. Ackers distinguished professor of aerospace engineering, received the Chancellors Club Career Teaching award.
Students and faculty were honored for their accomplishments at the 2003 Chancellors Club award ceremony Friday night at the Kansas Union ballroom.
Edited by Shane Mettlen
Roskam, a world-renowned aircraft designer, has guided his students to more than 35 first and second place finishes at national design competitions.
Roskam published his collection of personal stories of aircraft design in 2002 titled, Roskam's Airplane War Stories.
Roskam said he had received many awards from his students for his teaching,but this award was also special.
"This is probably the best you can hope for in a teaching career, to be recognized by the Cancellors Club," Roskam said.
Orsita School Opendra "Bill" Narayan was named the Chancellors Club Research winner.
Narayan is the Merrion Merrell Dow distinguished professor and chair of the department of microbiology, molecular genetics and immunology at the University of Kansas School of Medicine.
Narayan has been supported for more than 30 years by research grants and received a $10.5 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological disorders and Stroke in 2001
Narayan is most well-known for his AIDS research, which successfully developed an HIV vaccine for macaque monkeys.
Sixteen University of Kansas students were named Chancellors Club Scholars.
The students were Andrew Campbell, Alex Chavez, Abbie Gilmore, Lucas Thompson, Amanda Ellwood, Daniel Hogan, Mark Mettione, Paul Shipley, Justin Klinger, Mackenzie Hanson, Audra Jenkins, Abigail East, Jill Koehler, Sarah Bueltmann, Emily Moisan and Paul Karrer. They all received renewable scholarships.
Chavez, one of the recipients said he thought the University did well to recognize scholarship.
"I think its awesome that KU recognizes academics as well as sports and that they encourage learning as much as other things," the Wichita freshman said.
The Chancellors Club has awarded 212 scholarship since it began giving them out in 1979.
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