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What's the weather, Jay?
MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2013
Tuesday
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Mostly cloudy, 20% chance of rain.
uesday
HI: 52
LO: 30
Wednesday
HI: 36
LO: 18
Thursday
Mostly sunny.
Ah, sun.
ursday
HI: 30
LO: 12
Flurries, 30%
chance of snow
What? It's still January?
Monday, January 28
CALENDAR
**WHAT:** Last day for 90 percent refund of dropped classes
**WHERE:** Strong Hall
**WHEN:** All day
**ABOUT:** Today is the last day to receive 90 percent refund for the classes you dropped for the spring semester.
WHAT: Union Programs Poster Sale
WHERE: Kansas Union
Tuesday, January 29
WHEN: Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. - 5
n.m.
ABOUT: in the mood to redecorate? Choose from a wide variety of posters in this sale hosted by Student Union Activities.
WHAT: Back to the Burge Open House
WHERE: Burge Union
WHEN: 10:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.
ABOUT: KU Memorial Unions invites
students and staff to enjoy giveaways
and prizes at this free event. SUA will
provide cookie decorating, hot chocolate
and other activities, beginning at
2:30 p.m.
**WHAT:** Tuesday Nite Swing
**WHERE:** Kansas Union
**WHEN:** 8 p.m. - 11 p.m.
**ABOUT:** The KU Swing Society offers free dance lessons to the public. Improve your East Coast, Lindy Hop, Hizzop Lindy and Balboa舞 skills. Dance partner not required.
WHAT:Tuesday Nite Swing
Wednesday, January 30
**WHAT:** Dollar Bowling
**WHERE:** Royal Crest Lanes
**WHEN:** 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.
**ABOUT:** Take a break from the library and enjoy a game of bowling for only $1. Prepare your game by watching the Disney Channel original movie, "Alley Cats Strike."
WHAT: Student Senate committee meeting
WHERE: Kansas Union
WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m.
ABOUT. The University Affairs, Students Rights, Finance and Multicultural Affairs committees convene for the first time this semester. Students are welcome to sit in on meetings and voice their opinions.
Thursday, January 31
**WHAT:** At three
**WHERE:** Kansas Union, 4th floor
**WHEN:** 3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
**ABOUT:** Enjoy free tea and cookies,
compliments of SUA. It's bgood good.
WHAT: The Junkyard Jazz Band
WHERE: American Legion
WHEN: 7 p.m.
ABOUT: Listen to traditional jazz from the '30s and 40s. Musicians welcome.
CAMPUS
Alum gifts $500,000 to debate team
EMMA LEGAULT
elegault@kansan.com
Support and stability go hand in hand when talking about the potential success of a program. Recently, the University debate team got a little help to ensure both of those critical needs will be met.
In partnership with KU Endowment, David Pittaway, a 1972 University graduate and former member of the debate team, gave a $500,000 gift to the debate program.
BRITTANY THIESING/KANSAN
The debate team has its meetings to discuss its upcoming competitions, and the topics each team member will debate about. The team is looking forward to using funds to offer scholarships, have long-term caoches and help with traveling expenses.
"KU's debate team has long been important to David Pittaway. He realized that the skills he learned in debate helped further his career," said KU Endowment media relations manager Lisa Scheller.
interest could be available to the program in March of this year.
Dale Seuferling, president of KU Endowment, said Pittaway's gift will have an impact in many aspects of the University as well as the debate program.
["Pittaway"] recognizes the importance strong academic program have on the University's reputation," he said. "The professorship fund he has endowed will provide essential resources to sustain KU's legacy of stellar debate coaches for many generations. Moreover, his gift will help us reach one of the Far Above campaign's main goals, to develop future leaders."
Scheller said the gift applies toward KU Endowment's Far Above campaign, which she said "seeks support to educate future leaders, advance medicine, accelerate discovery and drive economic growth to seize the opportunities of the future." The $500,000 will count toward the campaign's $1.2 billion goal.
The focus of the endowed fund created by Pittaway's gift is to provide support for the head coach, including salary, travel and recruitment expenses, as well as any other related needs. According to Scheller, a portion of the fund's
Current debate coach Scott Harris said there are three specific needs that debate has targeted that he hopes endowment fundraising will alleviate: support for longterm coaching stability, generating additional scholarship revenue, and the ongoing costs of travel to competitions.
"When debate programs have come and gone at universities around the country, it's largely been a product of lack of support for a coaching position," Harris said.
"We compete with other schools, many of them offer full scholarships for debate, and we currently do not have the ability to do that, so it sometimes puts us in a non-competitive position," he said.
The ability to offer full scholarships for debate is also something that Harris believes is a setback for debate at the University.
This year, Harris said the team is about twice the size of most other years, traveling 30 students to approximately 20 tournaments all over the country, more students than the program has traveled in the past 25 years. The team is
currently fourth in the country in the National Debate Tournament Varsity rankings.
For Harris, the gift has a special meaning to KU debate. Donn Parson held the title of debate coach for 25 years and was the coach Pittaway debated for. At the end of last fall, Parsen retired after 49 years as a professor at KU.
"I have called him the 'Phog
Allen' of the debate program," Harris said. "The fact that one of his former debaters was committed to the support for coaching I think is a tribute to all that Dr. Parson meant to the debate program."
Edited by Elise Reuter
LEGAL
Lawsuit reveals support from anti-abortion activists
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WICHITA, Kan. — A lawsuit against a Kansas woman who publicly proclaimed her admiration for the man who gunned down one of the country's few late-term abortion providers is revealing the unwavering support a small group of radical anti-abortion activists has for the imprisoned killer despite an ongoing federal investigation into the 2009 slaying.
Though no federal indictments have been handed down by a grand jury investigating whether Dr. George Tiller's death was connected to a broader case involving extreme anti-abortion activists, the lawsuit against Angel Dillard is one indication the Justice Department is taking a more heavy handed approach to perceived threats to abortion providers. In addition to alleging Dillard, of Valley Center, sent a threatening letter in 2011 to another Wichita
doctor who was training to offer abortions, the lawsuit also highlights Dillard's relationship with Scott Roeder, the man convicted of fatally shooting Tiller at the physician's church.
When Roeder opened fire on Tiller, he propelled himself to icon status among abortion opponent extremists — a status that hasn't wavered since he was sentenced to life in prison. A leader in the Army of God, which supports violence against abortion doctors, notes Roeder gets more correspondence than other imprisoned anti-abortion activists.
Hailed by militant anti-abortion forces as a "prisoner of Christ," Roeder has been spreading his radical views from a Kansas prison. Other extremists have gravitated to Roeder, visiting him in prison, sending him money and offering legal advice, court documents show.
Abortion rights supporters fear a disturbing pattern whereby
imprisoned abortion opponents inspire others to commit further acts of violence against abortion providers and clinics. But radical anti-abortion activists contend the government is trying to suppress "serious opposition" to abortion by targeting Dillard.
"We are always concerned when extremists are getting together and spreading hate and encouraging others to engage in criminal activity," said Vicki Saporta, executive director of the National Abortion Federation, the professional association representing abortion providers.
A federal grand jury began investigating in 2010 whether Tiller's murder was connected to a larger case involving radical anti- abortion activists. Though no public charges have been filed, a spokeswoman for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, Dena Iverson, said the investigation is still open.
The lawsuit against Dillard
was filed in April 2011 under a federal law aimed at protecting access to reproductive services. It seeks a court order keeping her from coming within 250 feet of the doctor, along with damages of $5,000 and a civil penalty of $15,000. The case is scheduled for trial in October.
Dillard had been under government scrutiny even before she mailed the letter to the Wichita doctor, and the FBI had interviewed her several times after she first wrote Roeder in prison.
Dillard is now claiming "ministerial privilege" in refusing to answer the government's questions about that relationship. Her attorney, Donald McKinney, argued his client's religious ministry is protected by the First Amendment. But defense filings in her case made public jail records detailing more than a dozen visits and deposits totalling $373 she made to Roeder's inmate fund between April 2010 and March 2012. Those documents showed contributions from others.
"I think they just wanted to check us out and make sure that we weren't nuts who were planning to pick up where they think Roeder left off," Dillard told The Associated Press in 2009, adding that she and her husband had no plans to "do anything of violence to anyone" and wanted to minister to Roeder. Dillard also said she admired Roeder and developed a friendship with him.
The ongoing support for Roeder also is apparent in the appeal of his murder conviction. Seven abortion opponents who asked in 2010 and 2011 to file friend-of-the-court briefs were spurned without comment by the Kansas Supreme Court. Other activists are now writing legal briefs for Roeder to file himself, arguing Tiller's death was necessary, to defend the unborn. No oral arguments are scheduled in his appeal.
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