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MONDAY NOVEMBER 9, 2009
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Garret Petty, Topeka sophomore, poses in his car with his cell phone. Petty said he texts while driving on a regular basis.
person who crashes into them says,
"That person was texting while they
were driving and pulled out right
in front of me."
Andrew Hoxey/KANSAN
Monroe said when Lawrence officers discovered that a driver involved in an accident has been texting, they issued a ticket for inattentive driving. He said officers also noted on the citation that the driver was texting when the crash occurred.
Last spring, then-Gov. Kathleen Sebelius approved a bill that prohibits those with learner's permits or other restricted licenses from operating cell phones or text-messaging devices while driving until six months until after they turn sixteen. The law will go into effect January 2010.
Until a more comprehensive ban is passed in Kansas, Monroe said he hoped that the new PSA would reduce the number of Lawrence
"No doubt it's going to be a topic that's going to be addressed," he said.
Eighteen states, including Colorado and Iowa, have implemented laws that prohibit texting-while-driving, according to Trombley. In the 2008 Kansas legislative session, representatives of the Transportation Committee considered crafting such a law, said Rep. Dan Kerschen (R-Garden Plain), a member of the committee. He said when the legislature reconvenes in January, however, budget issues would likely postpone further discussion about a texting-while-driving law until February.
accidents from texting-while-driving
"A lot of people think they can drive safely while texting," Monroe said. "And that's simply not the truth. Even if it's just for a few seconds, those few seconds can make it unsafe for everyone around you."
Petty said even if a law eventually prohibited texting and driving, drivers would still probably ignore it. He admitted that he, too, would probably still text and drive at times. He said the law would force him to revise his method, however.
"Obviously mine would be pretty blatant with my cell phone out up over the steering wheel." Petty said.
SEE FOR YOURSELF
— Edited by Brenna M. T. Daldorph
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British PSA:
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spanned from floor to ceiling of the stage.
At times, the screen filled with 30-foot tall projections of the dancers who were simultaneously performing the same dance on stage. The real-life dancers moved on cue with their giant projected counterparts.
Rachel Gray, Overland Park senior, said although she didn't always understand the show's message, she was impressed by the visual production.
"The screen was a constantly evolving set," Gray said. "It was like watching a movie."
The performance was the finale of a week's worth of workshops and events the company organized while in Lawrence. The group held performances for children's groups, met with University dance classes and attended seminars with the University physics department, among other activities.
Alice Bean, University physics professor, met with Lerman and another dancer from the company during a high-energy physics seminar Tuesday.
Bean said the group discussed the ways in which science and art worked off one another. Lerman also worked with the group to brainstorm ideas for a coming performance on the origins of matter.
"Anything we can do to get the
The Lix Lerman Dance Exchange performs a dance titled "Ferocious Beauty: Genome" Saturday evening at the Lied Center. The performance featured film and narration to investigate genetic research and its impact on culture.
public to think about science is great," Bean said.
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fictional, their tragic stories were based on actual events.
"I know a lot of people who have actually lived this story," Noriega said. "It hit me really big because it felt like home. I felt it had to be told because a lot of people don't want to look at this side of immigration, the actual personal stories."
Sani Brosig, Loredo, Texas, is a junior at Cornell and stage manager of the show.
Brosig's parents are immigrants and she grew up by the border. She said she had held past positions with Teatrotaller but her personal history made her want a more prominent leadership role in "Desiertos."
"A lot of people in my hometown are immigrants," Brosig said. "There were a couple of scenes where the moms of the men who went to find work didn't know where they were. I know a lot of people who had that experience growing up."
Debra Castillo, professor of comparative literature and romance studies and adviser of the group, said Teatrotaller had performed more than 50 plays
She said this play in particular had the most profound tie to an ongoing struggle in the modern world.
Austin Robinson, Overland Park junior, said the powerful effect of the show was what he appreciated most.
since its origin in 1993.
He said the part he found most moving was the portrayal of the only English-speaking person: the southern border-patrol agent.
"This play is really powerful," Castillo said. "It's a very serious play."
Robinson said, as a double major in theater and Spanish, seeing the example of Tetratroller gave him an interest in possibly starting a similar group at the University.
of immigrants and don't respect the lives of immigrants." Robinson said. "The play gave a good counter viewpoint to that kind of thought."
"It kind of captured, in an exaggerated version, what people feel who are opposed to rights
"I think it definitely can be done at KU," Robinson said. "It's just a matter of getting organized and enough people behind it. I think a lot of other students I know would definitely be involved as well."
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CRIME
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Anthony Sowell, right, stands behind public defender Kathleen DeMetz during his court appearance Wednesday in Cleveland. Sowell, 50, has been charged with five counts of aggravated murder and held without bond after 10 bodies were discovered in his home over the past few days. Sowell was ordered held without bond.
Cleveland serial killer lured women into home
BY ANDREW WELSH-
HUGGINS AND JOHN SEEWER
CLEVELAND — Authorities say Anthony Sowell lured women into his home in a busy neighborhood, killed them — most by strangulation — and scattered their remains throughout the inside and buried some in the backyard.
"These types are so rare that you can't make a summary estimation as to why or what went wrong or anything," said Robert Keppel, a national serial-killer expert who investigated serial killer Ted Bundy in Washington state in the 1970s.
Associated Press
Such brazenness defies logic, but experts identify a narrow subcategory of serial killers, including the 1893 Chicago Fair killer, Dr. H.H. Holmes, and Milwaukee cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer, who hunt from home.
"There's just not a whole lot of these folks running around the world" he said.
Sowell had the perfect lair.
His home and backyard — a burial site for five victims — were shielded by an empty home to the left and the windowless brick wall of a sausage company on the right.
Anytime the stench of decaying bodies blew over the street, neighbors blamed the meat processing next door.
His house stood out only because it was one of the nicest on a block dotted by homes with peeling paint and broken windows, some of them vacant.
It looked safe
Sowell often sat on the front steps, sipping beer out of a bottle and greeting residents passing by on their way to the corner store that was just steps away for alcohol, snacks and cigarettes.
Neighbors say he'd offer a
few the chance to get high
Sowell's alleged approach reflects an obvious point, said forensic psychologist N.G. Berrill: the potential role of mental illness in such unusual behavior.
"The fact that they would dirty their own nest, as it were, is peculiar to me and suggests a level of mental illness or sickness," said Berrill, director of the New York Center for Neuropsychology and Forensic Behavioral
Forensic Behavioral Science.
Tanja Doss told The Associated Press that when she went up to Sowell's third-floor bedroom for a drink last April, he attacked her. "I'm sitting on the corner of the bed and he just leaped
up and came over and started choking me," she said
She said she escaped the next morning when he left for the store.
Green River killer, who pleaded guilty to the deaths of 48 women, many of them found in or near Washington State's Green River.
When people think of serial killers, they imagine predators like Bundy, who stalked women and killed women in Washington, Oregon, Utah, Idaho, Colorado and finally Florida.
"These types are so rare that you can't make a summary estimation as to why or what went wrong or anything."
But some of history's most notorious serial killers literally worked close to home.
Holmes, born Herman Webster Mudgett, built a "World's Fair Hotel" he used to lure women to their death during the 1893 World's Fair, a series of crimes
Or Gary Ridgway, dubbed the
ROBERT KEPPEL
Serial killer expert
While Holmes confessed at one point to killing 27 people, the true number of victims is unknown; some authorities placed it as high as 200.
recounted in the 2004 best-seller, "Devil in the White City."
In Houston, Dean Corll, Elmer Wayne Henley and David Owen Brooks killed 27 boys and young men in a torture-murder ring in Houston from 1969 to 1971. Police found a plywood "torture board" in Corll's home used to torment many of his victims before they were killed.
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