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FRIDAY,OCTOBER 9,2009
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Early morning blaze at Aberdeen South leaves building uninhabitable
BY BETH BEAVERS bbeavers@kansan.com
A fire broke out at Aberdeen South apartments, 4700 W. 27th Street, Thursday morning before 6 a.m., leaving building JJ of the apartment complex uninhabitable. Division chief for the Lawrence-Douglas County Fire and Medical Department Eve Toleflee said dispatchers received a call at 5:52 a.m. and the first crew arrived on the scene at 5:57 a.m. Toleflee said all occupants exited safely and no injuries were reported.
Tolefree said the investigation
The Lawrence Journal-World reported fire crews were still fighting remaining hot spots as of 9:30 a.m.
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was ongoing and it would be a while until crews could determine the cause or the estimated damages of the fire.
"Fire crews are trying to dig that out." Toilefree said.
Jessica Goode, Shawnee senior, said she lived in the building with her sister, Jennifer, who attended Washburn University in Topeka. Jessica was not home when the fire broke out, but said neighbors told her lightning had struck the complex around midnight and smol-
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Check out a photo gallery of the damage at building JJ of Aberdeen South apartments.
dered in the insulation until neighbors noticed and woke up occupants in the building.
"It doesn't look like too much damage inside," Goode said. "All the walls are still white."
Goode said the residents had been receiving help from the community. The American Red Cross gave the building occupants money for clothes and food for the next
week. A University representative brought replacement textbooks and offered clothing. Aberdeen set the sisters up with a two-bedroom apartment, furnished with a couch and an entertainment center. The apartment complex provided all JJ building residents with apartments equivalent to their previous ones.
Goode said she had lived in her previous apartment for three years.
"It is the little things like my pictures, my TV, my laptop," she said. "It sucks because I have midterms and papers due next week and it was all on my laptop."
Haley Jones contributed to the reporting of this story.
— Edited by Lauren Cunningham
A fire damaged the roof of an apartment at Aberdeen South shortly before 6 a.m. Thursday morning. The building's residents received aid from the American Red Cross.
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DIARY OF A THIEF
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Black bubble cameras and a system of concave mirrors are popular implements used in stores to deter shoplifting. Matt Reineman, a securities and IT specialist at Weaver's Department store on Massachusetts St., said the store has seen an increase in shoplifting because of the economic recession. Not present at this store, however, are the metal detectors or ink-release counter measures popular with other deep attentive stores.
Stealing provides natural high
Much shoplifting is done for a thrill, not out of actual need
BY ANNA ARCHIBALD
archibald@koncon.com
Willey never expected to be caught.
He said he went to Wal-Mart, 3300 Iowa St., in summer 2008 with a friend to get house painting supplies. After shopping around for a while, Willey stuffed a can of bug spray in his jeans pocket.
"I didn't want to pay for the shit," said Willey, a 20-year-old Lawrence native who did not want to disclose his last name. "I bought something and walked
out, but since my pants were a little tight, they noticed."
"I ran," Willey said. "Security followed me into the wetlands, but I knew as soon as I heard they were bringing dogs out to search that I was fucked, so I turned myself in."
He denied the claim, but after a few minutes, he decided to return the bug spray. But, as he was handling the Wal-Mart employee his driver's license, he became nervous.
Willey said Wal-Mart employees followed him out of the store, saying, "Excuse me, sir, can we talk to you? We know you have stuff under your shirt."
Willey said he hadn't thought twice about shoplifting. He said he had been stealing since he was
According to a study by the National Association of Shoplifting Prevention, 89 percent of teenagers reported knowing someone who shoplifts. NASP studies also said 55 percent of people who shoplift regularly started when they were teenagers.
a high school freshman, even though monetarily it had never been necessary.
"It's kind of a rush to know that you could get caught, I guess," he said.
According to a National Retail Security Survey, shoplifting costs retailers an estimated $10 billion every year. The rate of retail theft rose from 1.44 percent in 2007 to
MOTIVES FOR SHOPLIFTING
CLASSIFICATION OF KLEPTOMANIA:
1. Recurrent failure to resist impulses to steal objects that are not needed for personal use or their monetary value.
2. Increasing sense of tension immediately before committing the theft.
3. Pleasure or relief at the time of committing the theft.
4. Stealing is not committed to express anger or vengeance and is not in response to a delusion or hallucination.
1. 52 percent in 2008, which turned out to be a $36.5 billion loss for retailers and in turn, will also cost taxpayers and consumers.
5. The stealing is not better accounted for by Conduct Disorder, a Manic Episode, or Antisocial Personality Disorder.
Jerry Little, Lawrence city prosecutor, said there was a range of
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders'
possible ramifications for shoplifting.
“it's usually considered a misdean, but the maximum penalty
EDUCATION
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Professor receives grant for research
BY JUSTIN LEVERETT jleverett@kansan.com
Professor Yo Jackson received a $1.7 million grant from the National Institute of Health last week for a research project that will study resiliency in children who have been exposed to abuse or trauma. Resiliency, she said, is the ability of children to survive traumatic events and still live relatively normal lives.
The grant will fund Jackson's SPARK project, Studying Pathways of Adaptation and Resilience in Kids, for the next five years. Researchers will have unprecedented access to Jackson County, Mo., foster children who have endured abuse. To secure permission to include the foster children in the research project, researchers had to work closely with the Missouri state government.
The nature of the children's abuse is strictly protected by confidentiality laws. Jackson, a professor of applied behavioral science and clinical child psychology for 15 years, said she had noticed that all children react differently to trauma.
The children will visit Jackson's lab in two-hour sessions once every three months. The children will sit at computers and answer questions asked to them through headphones about what strategies they use to cope with difficult situations.
"It became a question to me," she said. "Why do some kids respond differently? Why do some kids have something horrible happen to them and fall apart, as we would expect, and why are some fine?"
Sarah Beals-Erickson, Olathe graduate student and research assistant for the project, said the researchers wanted to make the lab atmosphere as welcoming as possible.
"Because we're asking so many questions, we're gonna have snacks. We're gonna try to have games and breaks for them to play," she said.
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