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A 19-year-old KU student reported damage to her vehicle Sunday. At 2:50 p.m. on the crosswalk at 11th and Massachusetts streets, a 52-year-old man hit her car with his bicycle.
The man was arrested later that day for disorderly conduct.
GOP endorses anti-gay policy
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NEW YORK — Republicans endorsed an uncompromising position against gay unions yesterday in a manifesto that contrasts with Vice President Dick Cheney's supportive comments about gay rights and the moderate face the party will show at next week's
national convention.
A panel made up largely of conservative delegates approved platform language that calls for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and opposes legal recognition of any sort for gay civil unions.
The party's full platform committee was taking up the marriage plank and other
planks late last night, meantime seeking ways to appease Republicans who support gay or abortion rights without embracing their positions.
from swing voters and more liberal Republicans.
Activists who support gay and abortion rights said they felt shut out, and sharply criticized their party for adopting a hard line in advance of a convention next week that will seek support
Christopher Barron of Log Cabin Republicans, a GOP gay-rights group, was livid after the panel endorsed the first-ever call for a constitutional gay-marriage ban in a GOP platform and went beyond that to oppose legal recognition of any same-sex unions.
Walking Strong
Students stream into Strong Hall from Jayhawk Boulevard yesterday afternoon. Strong Hall is built of limestone and is named for Frank Strong, the sixth chancellor of the University of Kansas.
New report sheds light on military
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WASHINGTON — More than two dozen soldiers and contractors attached to a military intelligence unit at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq approved or took part in abuses of Iraqi detainees, an Army investigation has found in one of the most comprehensive looks to date at the scandal that damaged America's image around the world.
"T there were failures of leadership, of people seeing things and not correcting them."
Paul Kern U.S. General
A few of the abuses amounted to torture, Maj.
Gen. George Fay, one of the chief investigators, said yesterday.
"This is clearly a deviation from everything we've taught people on how to behave," said Gen. Paul Kern, who oversaw the investigation. "There were failures of leadership, of people seeing these things and not correcting them."
Officers in charge of the prison were negligent in the
training and management of their troops, and some may face criminal charges, Army officials said. Until now, just seven lower-ranking military police soldiers have been charged.
The new report identifies 27 people attached to the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade, which oversaw interrogations at Abu Ghraib, who are accused of complicity in the abuses.
Investigators look for crash clues
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BUCHALKI, Russia — Russian investigators labored yesterday to determine whether terrorism caused the near-simultaneous crashes of two jetliners, killing all 89 people aboard and spreading anxieties about a possible bloody escalation of the Chechen conflict.
Officials stressed that no evidence of a terrorist attack
had yet been found among charred wreckage and said they were looking at other possibilities like bad fuel, equipment malfunction and human error.
The planes plunged just days before a Kremlin-called presidential election in Chechnya, whose rebels
The planes' data recorders were recovered, but experts were only just starting to retrieve information from them.
Russian authorities had expressed concern the separatists might stage new attacks before the Sunday vote, but there was no rush to tie the crashes to Chechnya — a determination that would underline the government's failure to
have staged suicide bombings and other attacks across Russia in recent years, including the 2002 seizure of hundreds of hostages at a Moscow theater.
quelf the decade-old insurgency.
"Several versions are being examined, including a terrorist attack, and other possibilities — the human and technical factor," Russia's top prosecutor, Vladimir, Ustinov, told President Vladimir Putin during a televised meeting about the Tuesday night crashes.
Putin didn't publicly address the terror question.
CORRECTIONS
Wednesday's University Daily Kansan contained an error. The article, "Lightning kills sirens," stated that two of Lawrence's sirens were silent during Monday night's storm. The sirens were not struck by lightning until after they sounded at 8:45 p.m. It said that there are three sirens in Lawrence. There are 17 in the area.
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The Williamsons had twin boys who died from cerebral palsy in 1968. Barbara said some of the special education teachers at the school were there for the couple during their time of need.
School of Education to receive $500,000 professorship
Delbert "Del" and Barbara Williamson received help from the University of Kansas School of Education long before they pledged $250,000 to the Kansas University Endowment Association.
The donation will be used to establish a professorship in the School of Education; it is their second professorship. They previously established one as part of the KU First fund.
The Williamsons' pledge is expected to be matched by General Electric Co., which Del worked for as an engineer for 45 years. The matching funds will bring the total of the pledge to $500,000.
Angela Lumpkin, dean of the School of Education, said the pledge will help to recruit a nationally known professor. The fund, Lumpkin said, will help raise the school's stature by attracting the best across the nation.
U. S. News & World Report, which ranks graduate programs annually, ranked the Department of Special Education's graduate program number one in public universities across the nation in the 2005 edition of "America's Best Graduate Schools." The department is a part of the School of Education. This is the eighth time the school has received this rank. Stephenin Farley
Stephanie Farley
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