THE UNIVERSITY JARY KANSAN
MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2006
NEWS
5A
Contributed photo
protestors hold signs along 23rd and Iowa streets during a silent anti-abortion protest Sunday afternoon. Protesters walked from St. Lawrence Catholic Center to the protest site where they stayed from about 12:30 to 2 p.m. The protest was organized by Life Chain, an anti-abortion organization.
》 ACTIVISM
Students stand silent for life
65 people show support for annual protest against abortion
BY ANNA FALTERMEIER
About 65 people stood silently, holding signs Sunday afternoon from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. at the corner of 23rd and Iowa streets on West Campus in an annual protest against abortion.
The group walked from the St. Lawrence Catholic Center, 1631 Crescent Road, to the protest site holding signs that said phrases such as "Abortion Kills Children," "Lord, Forgive Us and Our Nation" and "Abortion Hurts Women."
The anti-abortion organization Life Chain organizes a protest every year on Oct. 1. This protest was one of more than 1,200 nationwide and in Canada, according to Life Chain's Web site, www.lifechain.net.
Katy Cortese, co-president of KU Students for Life, participated in the protest. She said she thought about half of the participants were KU students.
Cortese, Des Moines, Iowa,
sophomore, said her Catholic faith
taught her to value human life from
conception to natural death. She said she really wanted to get involved after listening to a woman talk about her experience with having an abortion.
"She talked about the emotional damage she had felt," Cortese said.
Life Chain believed some of the problems America faces today are related to legal abortion in America.
he said. Poulin said he hoped being involved in Students for Life and participating in activities would educate people about abortion.
"We want people to respect life. Life is the very first gift that God gives us."
Andrew Poulin, St. Louis sophomore, participated in the March for Life abortion protest in Washington D.C. last year as well as the protest Sunday.
REV. ZACHARY SHALLOW St. Lawrence Catholic Center
The organization associated legalized abortion with terrorist threats America faces, according to a press release.
"Right now it's politically a big issue that needs to be taken care of,"
Cortese said KU Students for Life is planning a protest in Topeka in November but hasn't set a date.
The Rev. Zachary Shallow of St. Lawrence Catholic Center said the protest was a way to manifest God's love in a peaceful way.
"We want people to respect life," he said. "Life is the very first gift
that God gives us."
Kansan staff writer Anna Faltermeier can be contacted at afaltermeier@kansan.com.
- Edited by Catherine Odson
NATION
NATION FBI digs for connections between mob, terrorists
WASHINGTON — The FBI's top counterterrorism official harbors lots of concerns: weapons of mass destruction, undetected homegrown terrorists and the possibility that old-fashioned mobsters will team up with al-Qaida for the right price.
Though there is no direct evidence yet of organized crime collaborating with terrorists, the first hints of a connection surfaced in a recent undercover FBI operation. Agents stopped a man with alleged mob ties from selling missiles to an informant posing as a terrorist middleman.
That case and other factors are heightening concerns about a real-life episode of the Sopranos teaming with Osama bin Laden's followers.
PROFILE
"We are continuing to look for a nexus," said Joseph Billy Jr., the FBI's top counterterrorism official. "We are looking at this very aggressively."
KU grad finds career writing 'Star Trek' books, short stories
The new strategy involves an analysis of nationwide criminal investigations, particularly white collar crime, side by side with intelligence and terrorist activity.
Associated Press
BY DARLA SLIPKE
Now an adult, Dilmore uses that same imagination to write "Star Trek" books.
As children, Kevin Dilmore and his friends used to play "Star Trek" in his backyard with their own "Star Trek" paraphernalia, using flashlights as phagers and tape recorders as tricorders.
Dilmore, a 1988 KU graduate and Prairie Village resident, enjoyed "Star Trek" from a young age. In addition to inventing science-fiction scenarios in his yard, as a boy, he watched the cartoon version of "Star Trek." He was unaware that a show with live actors existed until a neighbor broke the news to him.
Dilmore aspired to make movies like "Star Wars" and studied film at the University of Kansas,
"The big kid that lived across the street was the one that said, hey dummy, that's a real show too," Dilmore said.
but abandoned these ambitions after graduating because of the difficulty of finding a job in the film industry. Instead, he came back to the University to study journalism and worked as a reporter for 15 years.
"Kevin basically hung up the phone with John and immediately dialed me up for help because he thought he had dug himself into a hole." Ward said.
Ward had previously written "Star Trek" stories and agreed to help Dilmore write the book. Their first collaboration, "Interphase," was published electronically in 2001 and printed in 2002.
The pair has written 11 Star Trek novellas, three full-length books and a handful of short stories, which Dilmore said they usually plan over chicken wings and beer. Dilmore quit his reporting job when the first book was published and now works as a senior card writer at Hallmark cards.
He and Ward signed copies of their books at the Free State FreeCon comic book and toy convention at the Douglas County Fairgrounds in Lawrence Saturday.
Dave Bohanon, KU graduate and Lawrence resident, has know
"His stories are easy to read because you can tell he has a big grounding in what he writes."
DAVE BOHANON KU graduate
Dilmore's passion for "Star Trek" didn't extend beyond the loyalty and enthusiasm of a fan until 1996 when he started working as a freelance writer for Star Trek Communicator magazine. In 2002, Dilmore interviewed John Ordover of Pocket Books about a new electronic book series, "Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers." Dilmore suggested a story idea for the series that Ordover liked. It launched Dilmore's career as a fiction writer. Dilmore said he panicked after actually getting the OK and called his friend Dayton Ward.
Dilmore since their time in college and said Dilmore's writing is "natural."
Dilmore said it's challenging
"His stories are easy to read because you can tell he has a big grounding in what he writes," Bohanon said.
to write "Star Trek" books because there is a limited set of characters and fans have expectations of what they will do and say. Dilmore said that requires them to do a lot of research, which isn't so bad.
"Our homework is watching space shows and reading comic books," he said.
Kansan staff writer Darla Slipke can be contacted at dslipke@kansan.com.
- Edited by Kate Shipley
HIT AND RUN (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
The car was driven in a "reckless and careless" manner, according to the report.
Kanost had left one party and was walking to another with his friends when the incident occurred.
No charges or arrests have been made in connection to the incident.
Walton's phone number, listed
on the police report, is no longer in service as of Sept. 29. Walton's family did not return calls for comment.
Kansan staff writer David Linhardt can be contacted at dlinhardt@kansan.com.
— Edited by Catherine Odson