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Eight years ago, Bobbie-Frances McDonald left Lawrence and traveled to Africa. A retired nurse, she wanted to help bring medical assistance to Sudan. When she returned, she felt her efforts had done little good.
McDonald then founded Sudan Advocacy Action Forum, and she has given lectures at elementary schools and campuses across the country. She has also attended meetings at the United Nations and in Washington, D.C. McDonald will give a lecture on Sudan at 12:00 p.m. today at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center.
McDonald said she wants to focus college students'attentions on all of the issues facing the region.
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》 FILM FESTIVAL
Film series shows benefits of organic food
Liberty Hall will play host to a different kind of veggie tale as it explores the cinema of sustainability Thursday night.
Sustainable Table, a group dedicated to teaching about organic farming and consumption, will stop in Lawrence as part of a cross-country tour. They will join Local Burger and Films for Action to show "Go Organci!" four short films documenting various aspects of organic farming and sustainability. The show is at 7 p.m. Thursday.
Simran Sethi, Lacy Haynes Professional Chair at the School of Journalism, has written extensively about sustainability and will deliver a speech before the films.
Local Burger will also provide free food from its all-organic and locally grown menu.
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》 HEALTH
Stephan backs medical marijuana
Bob Stephan, the state's longest-serving attorney general, announced his advocacy for the legalization of medical marijuana Friday. Stephan suffers from stage four lymphocytic lymphoma. Although he denies using the drug himself, Stephan wants Kansans to have the right to do so. The Kansas Compassionate Care Coalition, with support from Stephan, plans to lobby for a bill in the upcoming legislative session. The coalition reports that 12 states allow medical marijuana.
Rep. Tom Sloan (R-Lawrence) said the topic would be popular because of the controversy surrounding the drug.
Sixty-two percent of Kansas residents would not be opposed to a new law allowing medical marijuana according to a 2006 poll by Jayhawk Consulting Services.
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KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA BURGLARIES
Betsy Proffitt, Lyons senior, walks down the hallway of her home at 1121 Ohio St. Tuesday evening. Shortly after the house was robbed Aug. 14 Proffitt's roommate posted a message on the home's refrigerator. The home houses 12 Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority women.
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Live-outs target of thefts
BY MARK DENT mdent@kansan.com
Jenny Ries had good reason to be excited for last week. She was moved into a new house, participated in Kappa Kappa Gamma's formal recruitment and saw friends for the first time since before summer.
Last week was thrilling - just not in the way Ries, Apple Valley, Minn., senior, expected.
According to police reports, burglaries broke into Ries' house at 1121 Ohio St. Aug. 14 and Aug. 18. During the burglaries two laptops were stolen. Ries lives with 11 of her sorority sisters.
"We've lived in Kappa Kappa Gamma for years," Ries said, "and had been excited to move out for our senior year. But this has been a disaster."
The burglary on Ries' house wasn't an isolated incident. Thieves also reportedly stole a flat-screen TV from the house next door, 1115 Ohio St., on Aug. 15. The connections between the houses went deeper than the location: Eight Kappa Kappa Gamma members live at 1115 Ohio St.
Ries said that during Rush Week no one was at the house or the house next door from about 7 a.m. until midnight.
She said the police expected the perpetrators knew that they'd be gone most of the day and thought the houses would be easy targets.
The Lawrence Police Department would not identify any suspects, but Kim Murphree, the department's spokeswoman, said police always consider common perpetrators when
location and time of break-ins are close.
at sorority functions.
Allie Chalfant, an Overland Park senior, and her housemates at 1115 Ohio St. were gone most of the day Aug. 15 to do activities for Rush Week. Chalfant said they locked the doors, but work-
"It's very scary. It's the last thing you want to be dealing with right now.The last thing you want to be worried about."
location and time of break-ins are close.
The first burglary at 1121 Ohio St. occurred early on Aug. 14 while everyone in Ries' house was sleeping. The other two burglaries occured while the women were
ALLIE CHALFANT Overland Park senior
ers were renovating the house. When they returned later that night, their flat-screen TV was gone. Chalfant said she thought the workers might have accidentally left a door unlocked.
ble because when we left the doors were locked and when we came back they were unlocked."
"The workers had been in and out," she said. "Our landlord felt like she was lia-
The burglars who came to Ries' house Saturday night, around 9:30, broke
through a window and kicked down four doors before stealing a laptop. Ries said she and her housemates arrived home early from their sorority house, and she thinks they may have scared the burglar's away.
To prevent something like this from happening again, Ries said they are getting bars put over windows, motion lights, extra blinds and a security system courtesy of their landlord, Serina Hearn.
Chalfant, who has the same landlord, said she gave them a new TV and planned to install a security system as well. Even with the added security, Chalfant said she would never feel as safe as she did before the burglary.
"Our house is a scary house now," Ries said, "but we don't care."
"It's very scary," she said. "It's the last thing you want to be dealing with right now. The last thing you want to be worrying about."
- Edited by Ashlee Kieler
Filmmaker Ken Spurgeon talks about Bloody Dawn: The Lawrence Massacre, a film he's working on about Quantrill's Raid during the Civil War, Tuesday night at Watkins Community Museum of History.
Community remembers raid
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>> LAWRENCE HISTORY
The Watkins Community Museum of History celebrated the 144th anniversary of the Lawrence Massacre and Ouantrilla's raid.
The 12 day event ended Tuesday night with a teaser of the documentary "Bloody Dawn: The Lawrence Massacre." Film maker Ken Spurgeon recently finished the 'docum-drama'.
The film focuses on William C. Quantrill's
raid on Lawrence during the Civil War. The raid is considered to be the bloodiest civilian attack of the war.
The night ended with a candlelight vigil commemorating victims of the raid in South Park.
The Watkins Community Museum of History has held "The Civil War on the Western Frontier" for the past 12 years.
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