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THURSDAY, FERRUARY 21, 2013
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Emily Taylor Center promotes self-defense
The Emily Taylor Center for Women & Gender Equity will be sponsoring free self-defense classes for students, faculty and staff.
Kathy Rose-Mockry, program director at the Emily Taylor Center, said the program has both positive physical and mental benefits.
“(Participants) can learn some effective and easy techniques to increase their safety and self-protection,” she said. “They also will find ways to increase their self-confidence about handling difficult situations.”
The workshops for students are held from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday
and Thursdays at the Ambler Recreation Fitness Center. Students need their KU ID to participate.
Workshops for students, faculty and staff will be from 10 a.m. to noon on Feb. 23. March 9 and April 13.
All workshops are taught by instructors from Premier Martial Arts.
"KU is not any less safe than any other college campus, but being prepared is important for everybody." Rose-Mockry said. "We encourage everybody in the campus community to take advantage, it's a wonderful opportunity and it would be very difficult to find this opportunity once they leave campus."
To sign up or for more information,
email ewtrc@ku.edu.
Emma LeGault
CRIME
Professor suspected of domestic battery
Stephen Ware, professor of law at the University, was arrested on one charge of domestic battery early Monday morning, according to the
Ware
Douglas County Sheriff's Office
"By default, that's a no bond situation before he sees a judge," said Sgt. Trent
McKinley for the Lawrence Police Department in reference to the domestic battery charges. Details regarding victims are not publicly disclosed in domestic battery charges. McKinley said.
Ware made a first appearance in court before a judge Tuesday, said McKinley, and bond was set at $500. McKinley said Ware's arraignment is set for next week.
The University offered no comment on the matter.
"The University cannot comment on the legal matter involving Professor Stephen Ware," said Jill Jess, spokesperson for the University.
Marshall Schmidt
EDUCATION
School suspends teacher for anti-gay comments
ASSOCIATED PRESS
FARMERSBURG, Ind. — An Indiana school district reeling from the uproar over a teacher's comments that she believes gays have no purpose in life suspended the woman Wednesday.
received "aggressive email messages."
Superintendent Mark Baker of the Northeast School Corp. in western Indiana's Sullivan County issued a statement saying the teacher has been placed on administrative leave out of
"We are turning over to law enforcement all such communications," Baker said.
The superintendent did not identify the teacher, but special education teacher Diana Medley's
"We have conveyed our dissapointment and our disagreement with these statements."
MARK BAKER
Northeast School Corp. Superintendent
He said the "administration and one school employee in particular" at the school have
concern "for the safety and security of everyone in our buildings." He added that "as a precaution" the Sullivan County Sheriff's Department and Indiana State Police "have deemed it necessary to station an officer" at North Central Junior-Senior High School in Farmersburg, about 75 miles southwest of Indianapolis.
students. Sullivan, a city of about 4.200, is near the Illinois border.
"I just ... I don't understand it," Medley said when asked whether homosexuals have a purpose in life. She was speaking to WTWOTV of Terre Haute at a planning meeting earlier this month for the anti-gay dance.
Medley, who has no published telephone number, couldn't be reached for comment Wednesday. She didn't immediately respond
to a message that The Associated Press sent to her school email account.
"As many of you know and appreciate, our school corporation is continuing to manage as responsibly and respectfully as possible the fallout from comments made by an employee as she attended a meeting outside of school or a school activity," Baker said. "We have conveyed our disappointment and our disagreement with these statements and have emphasized her comments do not reflect our schools' views or opinions."
As of Wednesday, a petition on Change.org calling for Medley's dismissal had generated more than 19,500 signatures from as far away as the United Kingdom, and a Facebook page supporting a prom that includes all students had more than 28,000 likes. Meanwhile, some gay rights groups are trying to bolster the confidence of gay teens with a Facebook page that will collect supportive videos.
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The record amount of snowfall in one day for the city of Lawrence is eleven inches, set back in 1942
POLICE REPORTS
- A 21-year-old male was arrested yesterday on the 2100 block of Clinton Parkway under suspicion of operating a vehicle under the influence. A $500 bond was paid.
Emily Donovan
- A 39-year-old male was arrested Tuesday on the 3300 block of Iowa Street under suspicion of domestic battery. No bond was posted.
CORRECTION
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Tuesday's article about the University's Genuine Imitation a capella team incorrectly stated the date of the semifinal tournament as March 20. The competition will take place March 30.
In Wednesday's paper, the subhead for "Getting better with age" was misleading. Spooner Hall has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1974.
TRADITION FROM PAGE 2
Richard was offered tickets and
coyly offered to take Jeanie with
him, the two rushed to Kemper
Arena to cheer on the lajahwks in
an unexpected 83-79 upset victory.
The win—the game, the season,
the team—felt like nothing short of a miracle to be a part of.
The Schiefelbuschs have witnessed more than just winning seasons. In the mid-1960s, they would spot Jo Jo White's family in
"It was a once in a lifetime basketball game" Richard said.
Richard remembered how Wilt the Stilt opened Lawrence up.
"He would casually take a newspaper and go into a restaurant and sit down to read and order coffee and if they didn't bring it, he was ... patient," Richard said. "Someone would say, 'Why don't you serve this guy? He's famous!' He became integrated in his own pattern. He
the stands at the Fieldhouse. Black players had only begun to emerge on the national basketball scene but the Jayhawks already had role models like White and Wilt Chamberlain to lead the way.
was always liked. He had a knack for being social, confident."
Allen Fieldhouse acted as a sanctuary; nothing could foll the rush
Racial conflict in Lawrence could not interfere with enjoying Jayhawk basketball. Despite tensions in Lawrence when she was in middle school, Jeanie found that all strain disintegrated during games.
"It seemed like basketball was someplace you could go where you didn't feel that; it was just people enjoying basketball and you didn't feel that racial strife inside the Fieldhouse," Jeanie said.
of adrenaline as the Jayhawks swatted down opposing shots, piloted a breakaway layup or drilled shot after shot like a well-oiled machine. Basketball games became a hobby, a ritual, a sacred bonding time as the two returned to the Fieldhouse year after year.
"Almost exactly four years ago, my mom died." Jeanie said. "The next day, we had tickets to the game and we went. We just felt like we needed to do that. We needed the energy from the Fieldhouse and to just be together doing something that we always do. It felt right."
In years past, Jeanie and Richard drove a recently-widowed friend of Richard who would take a picture of his deceased wife with him to sit with at the games so he would feel like he was still there with her.
Considering Richard's age, the two have a talk every year and weigh the decision to buy season tickets again. Without saying a word, jeanie tips the scales in the positive.
"I can't imagine KU basketball without you," Jeanie said. "I just cherish every game that we're there together."
The tradition continues. Jeanie and Richard will root on the team against TCU Saturday and all other home games this year in the front row above the visiting team entrance, in seats five and six, row eight of section K1, where they've sat for nearly the past decade.
"It been 50 years and I hope every year won't be the last," Jeanie said. She turned to Richard and added laughing "We'll take you in a wheelchair, Dad. We'll get you in there."
Edited by Hayley Jozwiak