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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS IN BRIEF
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2004
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KU info exists to answer all your questions about KU and life as a student. Check out KU Info's web site at kufuinfo.libku.edu. call it 864-3508 or visit it in person at Akunzi Library.
What happens if I've got a conflict between academic obligations and a religious holiday?
The first and best step to take is to consult your professor, so that you can work out a solution together. If you can't work out a mutually acceptable agreement, you can always consult the University Ombudsman (785) 684-3506. The official rules about holidays are as follows:
University Senate Rules and Regulations, Article I. Section 4. (1.43);
Chalk Walk
"Examinations and tests other than final examinations should not be scheduled in conflict with mandated religious observances. In order to ascertain in a given class if a scheduled examination conflicts with a mandated religious observance, at the beginning of the semester the instructor shall ask students who may be affected to identify themselves privately so that a make-up examination may be scheduled at a mutually acceptable time."
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Tina Schulz, Overland Park senior, chalks in front of Wescoe Hall for an upcoming recruiting event for Disney. The event will take place at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Man lived life adventurously
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From his roots in rural Michigan, Eugene Armstrong became a modernday swashbuckler whose work in construction took him to war zones in Bosnia, Angola and, finally, Iraq.
"He was a guy who went out and looked at a plot of land and said we're going to build something this big and this is how we're going to do it," said Armstrong's cousin, Rick Gamber.
Armstrong, 52, who was taken hostage last week, was shown being executed on a video posted Monday on an Islamic Web site. A posting on yesterday purported to show the beheading of Armstrong's colleague and Baadhid housemate, lack Hensley.
In Georgia, Hensley's wife said the construction worker's family was holding out hope that reports of his killing were false. Hensley would have marked his 49th birthday today.
"We are still hopeful at this time that
Jack Hensley is still with us," Pati Hensley said in a statement Tuesday.
Hensley said in a statement. A third man who lived with Armstrong in a house in a Baghdad neighborhood, British citizen Kenneth Bigley, also was taken captive. The three men worked for Gulf Services Co., based in the United Arab Emirates.
Armstrong, a field engineer, spent some of his childhood in Hillsdale County. He ended up moving around to such locations as Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Germany with his mother and her second husband, who was in the military.
The travel bug apparently stuck with him. Armstrong came back to Michigan, but left around 1990.
In recent years, Armstrong had been living with his wife in Thailand.
Armstrong had written memoirs about his adventures, which he hoped to have published.
Gamber speculated that "a fairly lucrative compensation package" combined with Armstrong's sense of
adventure and confidence that he knew how to survive in war zones — lured him to Iraq.
Armstrong's manuscript "told some pretty interesting tales of what it's like to go to a job where every day people are firing at you," Gamber said. "He talked about how in Bosnia no one would ride in a pickup truck with him toward the end because he had so many bullet holes in his truck and he'd had so many windshields blown out that he was considered to be bad luck."
In Georgia, Hensley family spokesman Jake Haley said that a Web site has been set up by the family to share information about Hensley. The site included information on where donations could be sent for a college fund set up in the name of Hensley's daughter, Sara.
"Jack is the friend that everybody wants to have," Haley said. "He's always there for you. The world has lost a great human being."
Murderer contrite before death
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A murderer apologized to his victim's family before being executed Tuesday for fatally shooting a San Antonio convenience store clerk during a $45 robbery 11 years ago.
"I am real sorry," Andrew Flores said, looking at the wife of his victim. "I took a family member's life and I shouldn't have. I hope that you can move on. I won't ask for your forgiveness. God will be my judge."
turned and expressed his love to his friends and relatives, including his sobbing mother and sister.
The one-time gang leader then
"Be strong and I will see you all, hopefully not soon," he said.
Flores, 32, was given a lethal injection and pronounced dead at 6:20 p.m.
The Supreme Court in April refuses to review his case. On Friday, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected a commutation request.
Flores pleaded guilty to gunning down John Moreno, 23, whose 1993 murder was recorded by a surveillance camera at the store where he worked.
Jurors also were shown the video, which shows Moreno emptying the cash register, but balking at surrendering his keys. Moreno gets on his knees begging for his life and Flores shoots him in the head and runs from the store. Then he returns moments later to go through the victim's pockets.
Flores and a companion were arrested within hours of the shooting after the videotape was aired on San Antonio television stations. Flores confessed and gave authorities cash taken in the robbery and the handgun used in the slaying.
CORRECTIONS
Yesterday's edition of The University Daily Kansan contained an error. The article "AFTERDark falls on Lied Center" stated the event began at 10 p.m. The event started at 9 p.m. Also, Campus Crusade for Christ was listed as the sponsor of the event. More than five different Christian groups on campus were involved in bringing the event here.
Yesterday's edition of The University Daily Kansan contained several errors. In the article, "Accident renews victim's outlook," Kerry Morrell was referred to as Kelly several times. Also, Richard Morrell is a member of the University of Kansas administration, not the faculty.
ON CAMPUS
Ecumenical Christian Ministries will hold a University forum, "The Possible Effect of Global Warming on Plant Species," today. It will be hosted by Bruce Chladny, horticultural agent for Kansas State University Research and Extension Service. The forum will be from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. at ECM, 1204 Oread Ave.
ON THE RECORD
A 20-year-old KU student reported a Jim Beam-shaped neon light, a 3-foot tall Jagermeister neon light, a black folding lawn chair and a black duffel bag stolen from his garage in the 1400 block of Marilee Drive on Sunday night. Sgt. Dan Ward, Lawrence Police Department, said the garage door was left open. The loss was reported as more than $2,000.
STATE
Police suspect link between six KC deaths,ask for charges
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Police announced Tuesday they were investigating a possible link between a body found in an alley and the slayings of six women whose remains were found more than two miles away.
Terry Blair, 43, has been charged with killing Sheliah McKinzie, 38, one of the six women whose bodies were found east of downtown.
Police have asked prosecutors to charge Blair, 43, with the other five killings as well as in three assault and rape cases.
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