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The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, October 19, 1999
Delegates from Lawrence and her sister city Eutin, Germany, prepare for a lunchon yesterday in the Centennial Room at the Kansas Union. Eutin delegates are spending the week in Lawrence in honor of the 10-year sisterhood between the cities. Photo by Chad Cummings/KANSAN
Lawrence and German city celebrate their sisterhood
By Derek Prater
writer@kansan.com
kansas staff writer
A delegation from Eutin, Germany, is touring Lawrence this week to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the sister city relationship between the two communities.
Heinrich Raethjien, a member of the 11-person delegation, said this was his first visit to Lawrence and that the trip had been excellent so far.
The delegation arrived Friday and has been entertained at various functions including a luncheon at the Centennial Room in the Kansas Union yesterday afternoon.
William Keel, professor of Germanic languages and literature and member of Friends of Eutin, said the sister city program provided residents of both cities with opportunities.
"It gives people from both cities the opportunity to visit another
country, culture and language and know that they are already welcome." Keel said.
Both Keel and Raethjen said the program centered on the influence it would have on young people.
"Exchange programs of this sort are very important because young people meet each other and work together at school and live together in each others' homes," Raethjen said.
That kind of interaction can create an understanding that lasts a lifetime, he said.
Keel said the people involved in the program were idealists who thought that such a relationship could promote international understanding.
KU students have been studying abroad at the Summer Language Institute in Eutin since 1966, and high school exchange programs between the two cities have existed since 1980. Keel said.
1988, and the relationship with Eutin formally was adopted in October 1989.
Eutin, population 17,000, is in northern Germany east of Hamburg.
Audrey Roberts, Leawood sophomore, studied in Eutin last summer and said she enjoyed the experience.
The City of Lawrence established the Sister City Advisory Board in
"I loved it," Roberts said. "I would describe the town as quaint and real friendly."
Roberts said that a Lawrence delegation visited Eutin while she was studying there and that students and Lawrence residents joined for a boat trip on a nearby lake.
In addition to students and community leaders, a variety of people including bank interns and musicians have traveled between Lawrence and Eutin, Keel said.
Lawrence also has a sister city relationship with Hiratsuka, Japan.
Edited by Jamie Knodel
Student art show could benefit homeless shelter in Lawrence
Plans are under way for a student art show that would benefit a yearround Salvation Army homeless shelter in Lawrence.
By Erinn R. Barbom
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Josh Boots, Plano, Texas, sophmore, initiated the project because he wanted to display student artwork and have the show's proceeds benefit a charity.
Although the show won't happen until next spring, about 20 students
— many of them scholarship hall residents — already are planning fundraisers and generating ideas. But Boots said the show would not be limited to scholarship hall students.
"The support behind it is amazing." he said. "I wanted to do to last year, but I didn't think of it until last semester. I'm trying to generate interest in the scholarship halls and get a strong following here."
Boots said he also would like to ask
Last Tuesday, about 20 students attended a preliminary meeting to outline the format of the show and decide how to acquire funding.
greek organizations and the Association of University Residence Halls to work on the project.
Boots said one idea was to sell baked goods, clothing and other items people no longer needed.
He said the students at the meeting decided they wanted the show to be more than just a gallery gathering. Instead, they wanted the show to consist of entertainment, food and children's activities, similar to the Plaza Art Show in Kansas City, Mo.
Susan Tusa, Omaha, Neb., sophmore, attended the first planning meeting. She said she didn't think there would be a problem finding students with artwork to display. Many other options for showing student artwork had restrictions, she said.
For example, the Basic Studies Scholarship Art Show sponsored by the art and design department is
open only to art students who have completed four basic art classes. Tusa said the spring arts week at Hashinger Hall last semester only was displayed for two hours, and not many people attended.
Most of the details — such as the show's location, the sale of the art and other activities — have not been decided. But it is certain, Boots said, that the proceeds would go toward a new homeless shelter to be built by the Salvation Army in Lawrence.
Phil McKnight, professor of teaching and leadership and member of the Salvation Army's advisory board, said the board still was deciding on a location for the new shelter, which is scheduled to be built within the next three years.
He said the board was considering either renovating Salvation Army offices at 946 New Hampshire St. or constructing a new site.
The next planning meeting for the art show will be Oct. 26.
Man charged with kidnapping of area girl
-Edited by Jennifer Roush
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The man suspected of abducting a 10-year-old girl was clean-shaven and using a wheelchair yesterday during his initial court appearance in the case.
Keith D. Nelson, 24, was wheeled into a federal courtroom in Kansas City, Kan., for a brief hearing to hear a kidnapping charge read against him in the death of Pamela Butler.
Nelson, who suffered leg and knee injuries last week as authorities searched for him, responded "Yes, sir," three times after U.S. Magistrate David Waxse read the charge and asked him if he understood.
The hearing was held under tight security, with armed guards accompanying Nelson from the University of Kansas Medical Center to the federal courthouse. Several guards were in the courtroom for the five-minute hearing.
FBI spokesman Jeff Lanza said the security was necessary because of the intense media attention the case
had received. He said, however, that he was unaware of any threats against Nelson.
Nelson currently is charged only with kidnapping Pamela from her home in Kansas City, Kan., on Oct. 12. After an intense search that captured the attention of the Kansas City area, her body was found Friday in Grain Valley, Mo.
The case will be transferred from federal court in Kansas to the Western District of Missouri. A detention hearing is scheduled for Thursday in Missouri.
Because Pamela was abducted in Kansas but found dead in Missouri, federal courts in both states had jurisdiction. Lanza said the case was moved to Missouri after consultation between U.S. Attorney Stephen Hill of Missouri and court officials in Kansas.
Hill will decide when or if to file further charges against Nelson, Lanza said. A federal kidnapping charge can carry the death penalty.
Lanza said it was up to U.S.
Marshals to determine where
Nelson would be held in Missouri, and the location probably would not be made public.
Nelson's mother, Nancy Nelson,
attended the hearing, but was ushered
out of the courtroom and did not say anything. She has called
local media to say that her son is innocent.
No members of Pamela Butler's family were present.
Pamela will be buried tomorrow at 11 a.m. at The CrossRoads Church in Kansas City, Kan., with visitation there from 4 to 8 p.m. today. Burial will be in the Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, also in Kansas City, Kan.
On Sunday, a special service was held in her memory at the Grain Valley Christian Church, near where Pamela's body was found.
Paul Butler, Pamela's father, was grateful for the support.
"If it hadn't have been for everybody pitching in to help us, and all their prayers and love, I know we couldn't have gotten through this," he said. "In fact, I would have wanted to join her myself."
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