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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19,2004
VOL.115 ISSUE 65
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A car crashed through the window of the J. Gladman Gallery after a police chase early yesterday morning.
Car hits building after police chase
BY AUSTIN CASTER AND AMANDA O'TOOLE editor@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITERS
A 30-year-old KU student drove his car through the front entrance of the J. Gladman Gallery at the corner of 14th and Massachusetts streets after a car chase gave awry just before 1 a.m. yesterday, police said.
Sarah Heath was driving home from a friend's house when she saw the crash. Police cars blocked off her street so she had to find another route home.
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"This is the best installation piece I've ever seen at the J. Gladman Gallery," Heath, Wichita senior and art major said.
The crash was the result of a pursuit between the driver and Lawrence police, Sgt. Dan Ward said.
He said patrons of The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., called police after they said they saw a man throw a rock through a window of the bar. The man then drove south on New Hampshire Street without using his headlights. Ward said an officer on duty tried to pull him over on New Hampshire and Ninth streets when the
SEE CAR ON PAGE 7A
Tip-off tonight for season opener
BY MIRANDA LENNING
mlenning@kansan.com
KANGAS STAFF WRITER
Kansas plays Vermont; 'Hawks have 6-0 exhibition record
The Jayhawks, who are ranked No. 1 in the Associated Press poll, will open their season against the Vermont Catamounts, the back-to-back America East Conference champions.
The No. 1 team in the country will tip off at 7 tonight in Allen Fieldhouse.
Kansas has won 32 straight home openers, but this year there is some added pressure. Kansas hasn't been the preseason No.1 in the Associated Press poll since the 1956-57 season.
Coach Bill Self said the ranking didn't mean much, but it was a credit to the veteran players.
"Do we deserve it? No. I don't know who does. And the only reason that we're preseason ranked where we are is because we have experience returning that are really good players." Self said. "We don't deserve it, but I think that puts some pressure on us to try to play to it."
The season started earlier than usual when the Jayhawks participated in a preseason exhibition tournament in Canada during Labor Day weekend.
The Jayhawks went 4-0 on the tour.
Since then, they have defeated Emporia State and Washburn in exhibition games, making their exhibition season record 6-0.
The players said that after an unusually long exhibition season, they were more than ready to play in a regular season game.
The wins start to count now." Keith Langford, senior guard, said.
For Langford and the other three seniors, Aaron Miles, Mike Lee and Wayne Simien, this is the beginning of the end and they want to go all the way this year.
SEE TIP-OFF ON PAGE 7A
Cup quest
Sean Macmillan, Pittsburgh, Pa., graduate student, reacts to Allie Andrews, Overland Park senior, over a coffee cup at the ceramics holiday sale in the gallery in the Art and Design Building yesterday. Macmillan said he was looking for a "lumpy and squatty coffee cup" but could not find one.
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Regents approve Rec Center expansion
BY ROSE FITCH
rfitch@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Students will soon be able to enjoy an expansion of the Student Fitness Recreation Center. The Kansas Board of Regents approved the plan yesterday.
The addition to the center will include four basketball courts, three racquetball courts, a running track extension and a free weight area.
The estimated cost of the addition is $6,132,750. The Kansas Development Finance Agency will issue revenue bonds that will provide the financing for the addition, according to the Regents agenda. The bonds will be secured with a pledge of the center fee and revenues from the operation of the facility.
Steve Munch, student body president, said the addition would not increase center fees for students.
Board members did not give a date for when they planned to approve or deny the proposal.
The Regents also accepted a report for future examination that proposed increasing student housing fees at all six Regents schools.
By proposing the increase, the universities were indicating the increases were necessary to offset expected operating cost increases and to provide for repair and renovation, the agenda stated.
University officials also indicated the increases had been reviewed by the appropriate campus groups with student representation.
The Regens also approved an update in English language competency in universities' and the Board's policy manuals.
In the current policy, faculty members and graduate teaching assistants needed to score either a 50 on the Test of Spoken English or score a 240 on the Speaking Proficiency English Assessment Kit. The tests determine whether faculty members and GTAs whose first language is not English are able to speak English well enough to teach.
SEE EXPANSION ON PAGE 7A
Brain tumor research donations asked for
BY AMANDA O'TOLE
aotole@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Parents of the former University of Kansas student who died more than a week ago are asking for donations to be made to organizations benefiting brain tumor research.
The family of Dusty Maimer is accepting, donations through the American Cancer Society's Heartland Hope Lodge of Kansas City at www.cancer.org and the American Brain Tumor Association at http://hope.abta.org.
Malmer, who attended the University from 2001 to 2002, died Nov. 8 when a blood clot flowed to his heart.
brain hemorrhage during finals week in Fall 2002.
The hemorrhage left Maimer without the use of his left side.
Even after his left the University, one of his goals was still to graduate college. Maimer said her son was excited about two advanced writing classes he took from Central Missouri State, but a second brain tumor this summer thwarted
He was a sophomore living in Stephenson Scholarship Hall studying journalism and music when he left the University.
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His mother, Cheri Maimer, said he battled back and regained the ability to walk, type on the computer and write.
Maimer said her son had asked doctors to help him find a way to live after successive chemotherapy treatments failed.
In the months leading to his death, at least three separate tumors were removed from his brain, two of which were the size of softballs.
"Dusty looked at the doctors and said 'I'm not ready to die, I don't want to die.'" she said.
his efforts.
Maimer said it was then they decided to take a more aggressive approach with the tumors.
After an intense radiation session that involved using catheters in his brain, Cheri and Mark Maimer, Dusty's father, thought they had beaten the cancer.
Maimer said the blood clot was probably caused by the position her son was
His family described him as an outgoing, intelligent man who had a calming effect on children and babies.
Mainer said her son had sustained his witty personality throughout his illness. For this she was amazed and thankful.
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"They were just drawn to him," Maimer said.
He would miss hugging people every day the most, Maimer said he told her. Mark Maimer enjoyed the philosophical discussions he and his son had.
He enjoyed watching his son build a life, and a big part of that was being at the University. He said one the craziest things his son told him about college was when his son and some hallmates
lying in the days before he died. He was scheduled to leave the hospital to go home two days earlier.
"Dustin touched a number of lives. There was a reason he lived through the hemorrhage and the first tumor," she said. "If God says it's your time, it's your time."
Maimer said she and her family were taking things day by day. His parents live at Whitman Air Force Base in Missouri. They had asked donations go to the Hope Lodge, a free-lodging place for cancer patients and caretakers, because that is where Maimer and her son had stayed for a lot of his treatment and the American Brain Tumor Association so research and publicity can continue about brain cancer.
Mainer was buried at Osawatomie Cemetery Nov. 12.
- Edited by Ashley Doyle
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sledded down 14th Street during a bad freeze in 2001.
Legal Services for Students has been providing free legal service to students for 25 years. Alcohol offenses and taxes are two of the services it covers.PAGE 5A
Technoloav
Even with tight budgets University of Kansas students are buying expensive electronics such as DVD players, MP3 players and liquid crystal display televisions. PAGE 6A
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