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City parking prices raised Lawrence City Commission voted last night to increase parking fees downtown. The new meter fines will begin in January 2004 as a way to increase the city's budget. PAGE 2A
Blogs become popular Some University groups are beginning to put blogs, or daily online diarys, on their websites to facilitate communication among members. PAGE 3A
No new seats for students
Looking for ways to increase revenue, Lew Perkins, athletics director,
said a new student seating plan would not be considered in the near future. PAGE 1B
Working out the kinks
Freshman longsnapper Zack Hood is working on conquering his game-time jitters, which showed up last weekend. PAG
Runners ranked
Both the men and women's cross country teams were ranked in the top 10 in the region after their meets this weekend. PAGE1B
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KANSAN
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
The Student Newspaper of the University of Kansas
By Abby Mills almills@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Two students fainted and one fell ill in an unexplained incident at about 8:30 a.m. yesterday in a Malott Hall chemistry lab. All three students declined medical treatment.
Adam Yarnell, Wichita junior, and Megan Weatherly, Overland Park junior, were at the front of room 2028 Malott taking notes for their introductory chemistry class.
Chemistry students fall ill
Two faint in Malott lab yesterday; investigators find no cause
Yarnell got up from his desk and began to leave the room as if he were feeling sick, said Andrew Miller, Swansea, Ill., junior, who was near Yarnell at the time. Miller said Yarnell fell face forward on the floor.
"I started getting sick, so I got up and left the room," Miller said. "When I came back everyone was in the hall."
John Nowak/Kansan
Miller went to help Yarnell and felt nauseated.
After Yarnell fainted, the lab's teaching assistant, Jason Sanders, Derby senior, made sure he was all right. He then went to get the lab director for help.
"I started feeling really hot and took off my sweatshirt. Then I just passed out."
Sanders said when he and the director came back, Weatherly fainted as well.
Megan Weatherberry
Overland Park junior
Chemistry students on their way out of 2028 Malott collected their belongings as Mike Russell, at right, who is University of Kansas director of environmental health and safety, examined the room. Two students fainted and one fell ill for unknown reasons, resulting in an investigation at about 9 a.m. yesterday.
Weatherly said she was writing when Yarnell fell. When she looked up to see what had happened, she began to feel ill.
"I don't know if I was scared for him or if I brought my head up too fast, but I started to feel really dizzy," she said.
"I started feeling really hot and took off my sweatshirt," she said. "Then I just passed out."
When the dizziness didn't fade, Weatherly said she went back to her seat to sit down but didn't feel any better.
Weatherly fell into her lab partner's lap.
Sanders said that at first he thought the problem was exclusive to Yarnell.
"But when Megan went down and Andrew felt sick, I realized it was something wrong with the room," he said.
thing wrong with the room," he said. Sanders said that was when he decided to evacuate the room.
Chalking up 'Hawks
Student groups decorate campus for homecoming
Douglas County Fire and Medical and
By Kevin Kampwirth
kkampwirth@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The chalk outlines turned out only to be entries in the 2003 homecoming week Chalk 'n Rock drawing contest. No Jay-hawks were actually injured.
From above, Wescoe Beach might have resembled a crime scene yesterday as outlines of jawhawk mascots dotted the length of the sidewalk.
Fifteen different teams competed in this year's Chalk 'n Rock contest. Each team had to make a chalk drawing that coincided with this year's homecoming theme, "Jayhawk Generations: Bringing Back the Classics."
Twelve of the groups were fraternities and sororities, but groups such as the Black Student Union, Lewis Hall and Student Union Activities were also represented.
The SUA team's drawing was noticeably different from the rest because it didn't contain a Jayhawk mascot. Instead it depicted the University of Kansas campus and then, outlined around it, the various events the group had been involved with.
Lauren Stewart, Wichita junior and SUA president, said SUA had programmed at least one homecoming event every year for the past 65 years.
our drawing is trying to incorporate everything that SUA and the homecoming committee has done together over the years," Stewart said. "Plus, none of us could draw a Jayhawk."
Each group was given two sidewalk squares to work with, and the teams had about four hours to complete their drawings before the judges picked the best one.
Entries were judged based on adherence to theme, creativity and appearance
SEE MALOTT ON PAGE 8A
SEE CHALKING ON PAGE 8A
Lindsey Gold/Kansan
Krissy Buck, St. Louis, Mo., freshman and Intermural Chair for Alpha Delta Pi checked her group's design before judges inspected the drawings for 2003 Homecoming Week Chalk'n Rock drawing contest Tuesday afternoon on Wescoe Beach. Fifteen groups chalked their designs in hopes of winning the favor of the three faculty and administration judges.
Crime statistics similar to last year's
By Joe Hartigan
jhartigan@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer*
Jordan Rainey is afraid to walk alone at night.
She said she sprinted to her car from Anschutz Library last week because of the violent incidents that have happened in Lawrence in the last month.
"It makes me scared," Rainey, a Dallas senior, said. "I have to be more aware of what's going on around me."
Statistics for aggravated robberies, which are robberies where a gun, knife or other weapon is involved, are about the same as this time last year.
In the past month there have been three incidents of aggravated robbery reported in Lawrence.
Last year in September there were two aggravated robberies in Lawrence. There were four in October 2002.
Lt. David Cobb of the Lawrence police department said he didn't think violent crimes were happening any more than usual. But Cobb said the incident at It's Brothers, 1105 Massachusetts St., might have made people more tense.
"The reason it's drawn so much attention is because so many people were injured," Cobb said.
Jonathan Brown, McLouth resident, was the victim of this year's Oct. 1 robbery. Brown said he was hit with a Taser and shot at, and had $450 stolen from him. Brown said he was driving away from a gas station with his girlfriend that night when he noticed someone following
SEE CRIMES ON PAGE 7A
Jared Soares/Kansas
University of Kansas Provost David Shulenburger and Dr.M.B. Marwa listened to Garth Myers, master of ceremonies, during the 2003 Outstanding Leadership Award Ceremony. Marwa, the founder of Albarka Airlines and chairman of the Nigarian Defense Corporation was this year's recipient of the award. The ceremony was last night at the Kansas Ballroom in the Kansas Union.
By Johanna M. Maska
jmaska@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Nigerian man wins leadership award
Before his guest of honor could approach the podium, Ainuu Gusau asked him to wait.
"That's how we do it," said Gusau. But Cusua's guest had a surprise too.
As the crowd turned to look at the door, a group of six women — student volunteers from one of Gusau's classes — dressed in traditional African garb walked in to escort the award winner.
"That's how we do it," said Gusau.
Dr. Mohammed Buba Marwa, the Center for Multicultural Leadership's 2003 honor for Outstanding Leadership, announced a gift for the University — $25,000 for a new lecture series. The lecture series, entitled "Marwa African Lecture Series" will critically examine African leadership, he said.
The Center for Multicultural Leadership has honored accomplished people with an emphasis in multicultural leadership for 10 years, said Dr. Jacob Gordon,
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SEE AWARD ON PAGE 7A