MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2004
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
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MRC: Center could open as soon as May or June of 2006
Eakin said the University waited as long as it could to find another donor. The University was in the midst of the major fundraising plan, KU First, when the idea for a new MRC was conceived.
He said some students working with the Endowment Association came close to finding donors, but the state of the economy didn't help the cause.
"We have thought there was a pretty good chance," Eakin said.
The committee is currently working on a contract with Gould Evans, which will be the architecture firm to design the center. Gould Evans has designed many other projects on campus, such as the Underground, Eaton Hall and the Kansas Union.
Warren Corman, the University architect, sketched out a schedule for the new MRC. He said the contract negotiations with the architecture firm would be finished in the next few weeks.
The design process would
take about eight months to complete, and construction would take another year. If construction goes well, the center could open as early as May or June of 2006.
The new center will have an entrance on the fourth floor of the Union. The MRC will be about 7,000 square feet, which is 180 percent larger than the current building located between the Military Science Building and Anschutz Library.
StandingBear said she hoped the new center would bring in students who hadn't used it before.
The building, as it stands now, is insufficient, said Dominique Crain, Olathe freshman. She said unless students were involved with the center's programs, they wouldn't realize it was there. She hoped the new building would be different.
"People think they have to be a minority to be multicultural," she said. "It's open to everyone."
"I hope people will notice it more." Crain said.
— Edited by Ryan Greene
BAGHDAD, Iraq — In their boldest and deadliest ambush yet, insurgents waylaid three minibuses carrying U.S.-trained Iraqi soldiers heading home on leave and massacred about 50 of them — forcing many to lie down on the ground and shooting them in the head, officials said yesterday.
Some accounts by police said the rebels were dressed in Iraqi military uniforms.
ed on an Islamist Web site attributed the attack to followers of Jordanian-bornb terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
The killing of so many Iraqi soldiers — unarmed and in civilian clothes — in such an apparently sure-footed operation reinforced American and Iraqi suspicions that the country's security services have been infiltrated by insurgents.
Insurgents attack Iraqi soldiers
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A claim of responsibility post-
Embassy announced.
Elsewhere, a U.S. diplomat was killed yesterday morning when a rebel-fired rocket or mortar shell crashed into the trailer where he was sleeping at an American base near the Baghdad airport, the U.S.
Edward Seitz, 41, an agent with the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security, was believed to be the first U.S. diplomat killed in Iraq since the war began in March 2003. Al-Jaazeera television reported yesterday that the militant Islamic Army of Iraq claimed responsibility for the attack.
FLU: More vaccine should be ready in January
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Roderick Bremby, KDHE secretary, said there is a common misconception that there would not be enough vaccination units for all people in the high risk priority group.
Though there may not have been enough for everyone in Lawrence on Saturday, more vaccine would become available in January, Bremby said.
"We urge people to be patient," he said. "We hope that everyone in the risk group will get one. There is no need to panic."
And health authorities are still
In doing this, local clinics and pharmacies wanted to be relieved of daily phone calls regarding the vaccine. Risk group members can call 843-0721. According to a news release from the health department, the line will be open
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
learning, he said. It's only been 19 days since the Food and Drug Administration announced that no influenza vaccinations would be distributed from Chiron, one of the two influenza vaccine providers for the United States.
The KDHE has set up a phone number for high risk group members to call to find out where more vaccines are available, Martin said.
"All Douglas County has to do is make one phone call," Martin said.
Bremby said information acquired from the clinics would be evaluated later today by the state and county health departments.
Douglas County's Flu-X clinic was one of ten originally scheduled throughout the state. Six were canceled because of the shortage. Other clinics were held in Shawnee, Saline and Crawford counties.
The clinics were originally scheduled to be a state-wide
exercise for mass immunization. Bremby said the flu immunizations were to imitate crisis of disease outbreaks or situations like biochemical warfare.
Loree Cordova, Lawrence-Douglas County medical consultant and health officer, said in case of a crisis situation, clinics like the one at Free State High School would happen throughout the city.
Martin said sites for immunization would be at location with large gymnasiums like both Free State and Lawrence high schools and at the University of Kansas and Haskell Indian Nations University.
— Edited by Steve Schmidt
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