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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2009
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Medical Center after suffering a brain aneurysm that left her on life support for four days. A brain aneurysm is an abnormal bulging of one of the arteries in the brain, according to brainaneurysm.com. Mirespasi's mother, Shaheen Mirsepasi, said her daughter's aneurysm was unrelated to any other health issues.
Friends and family were invited to a visitation for Mirsepasi last night at the Penwell-Gabel Funeral Home in Olathe. A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. today at the funeral home. The burial will be in Oaklawn Memorial Gardens.
Shaheen Mirsepasi said Ashley would be remembered as a happy, fun and caring person.
"All her pictures were just laughing, laughing, laughing." her mother said. "You just looked at her and
knew she was happy, having fun and looking forward in life"
Her mother said Mirsepasi was a good student who cared about her education. Before her first semester at the University in fall 2008, Mirsepasi earned an associates degree from Johnson County Community College. She graduated from Olathe North High School in 2005.
Fulton said Mirsepasi celebrated her acceptance to the School of Journalism a little more than a week before her death.
"She was so excited to be in the J-school," Fulton said. "She said she would get all As."
Her mother said Mirsepasi was pursuing a degree in journalism because she thought the media was filled with biased reporting.
According to her mother, Mirsepasi decided she also wanted to pursue a law degree after a car
accident in 2007.
While recovering from a broken femur, Mirsepasi watched countless hours of court TV shows.
"After the accident, she got excited about law," her mother said. "I
think it was all the Judge Judy and People's Court she watched."
Fulton said that because Mirsepasi was an only child, she highly valued both her family and friends. She said Mirsepasi called or texted her parents every day, and was a reliable friend.
"She always wanted to have fun. I don't remember her ever being negative."
JUSTINE LIESE Overland Park senior
"She was pretty much a sister to me," Fulton said.
I she knew something was strange when Mirsepasi didn't immediately answer a text she sent on Sunday, the night Mirsepasi suffered the aneurysm. She said that the two had made plans for the night and that Mirsepasi always responded to her texts
Fulton said she knew something
"She had just updated her Facebook saying what a great game day she had on Saturday," Fulton said. "When she didn't text back I knew something was wrong."
quickly.
Fulton said the two had spent most of the weekend together before
Mirsepasi collapsed at her parents' home in Olathe on Sept. 6. The two ate lunch together at Milton's Cafe in Lawrence less than three hours before she collapsed.
"She was in such a good mood," Fulton said. "Nobody could have seen this coming."
Justine Liese, Overland Park senior, said she had been friends with Mirsepasi since Mirsepasi came to the University last year. Liese saw Mirsepati that Sunday and had made plans to study with her.
"She always wanted to have fun," Liese said. "I don't remember her ever being negative."
Liese recalled her friend's signature positive attitude.
HEALTH
Edited by Abby Olcese
HEALTH Annual breast cancer fundraiser begins today
Salon Hawk and Sun of a Beach Tanning, located in the Kansas Union, are kicking off their third annual breast cancer awareness fundraiser today.
Emily Willis, owner of Salon Hawk and Sun of a Beach, began the fundraiser two years ago after a close friend found a lump on her breast.
Lower Saucon Township police allege that 29-year-old Timothy Peare, of Whitehouse Station, N.J., was spotted at 7:40 p.m. Sunday inside a tow truck at Saucon Collision, which was closed.
"At the time, there was nothing for girls our age, so we began doing the pink hair extensions," Willis said. "After that we began to get more involved and now it's taken on a life of its own."
This year, Willis said the goal was to raise at least $10,000 by the end of October.
All of the proceeds from the fundraiser will go to the Lawrence Memorial Hospital Breast Center.
To reach the goal, they are accepting donations, selling T-shirts for $20 and selling pink hair extensions for $10.
Police say he acknowledged that he was trying to start the truck to remove his vehicle.
A fishing boat sails to catch whales off Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan. The Japanese town, which is chronicled in the award-winning film "The Cove" for its dolphin hunt, will free much of the season's first catch, following an international outcry over the annual slaughter
The salon is also collecting used bras from students and faculty through the duration of the fundraiser. On Oct. 15, the bras will be strung across the Kansas River as a "public display of activism."
"It's a fun cause." Willis said. "It really raises awareness and brings the student body together."
BETHELHEM, Pa. — Police in eastern Pennsylvania said a man charged with drunken driving faces more charges after allegedly trying to steal a tow truck a few hours later to retrieve his impounded vehicle.
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But Stacey Burton, Overland Park graduate student and member of the Commission on the Status of Women, said she did not think the anti-abortion display told the whole story.
"It's explicitly one-tracked," she said. "It's very scary. Scaring people into making decisions doesn't help them make the right decisions."
Joe Haschke, senior from the University of Nebraska Lincoln, came with Justice for All to help set up the display. He said he thought the group was concerned for the women who made decisions about abortion.
CRIME Drunk driver tries to steal tow truck to retrieve car
Haschke said he hoped people could discuss their opinions in a civil manner and said nothing was accomplished when people yelled at each other.
"Mostly what I'm asking you to do is think about it," he said.
"We're 100 percent about women's rights," he said. "The debates center around the baby, but people often forget about the women who are injured in abortion."
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Film exposes brutal dolphin hunting
TOKYO — A Japanese fishing town that holds a well-known annual hunt to kill and sell dolphins for meat has released 70 of the animals from its first catch of the season following an international outcry, a conservationist group said Tuesday.
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The outcry has been growing against the hunt in Taiji, western Japan, since an award-winning American documentary "The Cove" this year showed dolphins being herded into an inlet and killed by fishermen with spears.
The Save Japan Dolphins Coalition, led by Rie O'Barry, the dolphin trainer for the 1960s "Flipper" TV series, said Tuesday that group representatives witnessed and filmed 70 bottlenose dolphins — the same kind as Flipper — being released Sunday.
Taiji and its fishing association declined comment. The hunt kills
about 2,000 dolphins a year, and residents say it is part of their tradition and a way of getting food
The released dolphins were part of a catch of about 100 on Sept. 9. The Taji fishing association had said it would sell about half to aquariums and set the rest free.
The town has said it is unclear if it will continue to release dolphins.
"The world is watching," said O'Barry, who visited Taiji earlier this month. "Stopping the slaughter and sale of dolphins would be a major victory for the people of Japan."
He said dolphin meat was con taminated with dangerous level of mercury.
The Japanese government has issued warnings about pregnant women eating dolphin meat, but says it is safe in small quantities.
Taiji fishermen on Sept. 9 also caught 50 pilot whales, which were killed and sold as meat.
David Phillips, director of the Earth Island Institute, a California-based environmental group, said a member is in Japan to watch whether Tajiji kills any dolphins.
"We will expand vigilance in Taiji and bring greater world attention to ensure that the dolphins are released and that the slaughter does not resume," he said.
"The Cove" has won more than a dozen awards, including the audience award at the Sundance Film Festival.
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