THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2007
NEWS
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A bowl of food sits under the protection of a bush behind Wescole Hall. Mitchell brings an assortment of wet and dry food along with fresh water for the cats.
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Carol Mitchell lifts back the plastic tarp covering one shelter another couple made to house stray cats on campus. She has taken home six stray cats through the years, each with a unique personal-
She took the cat to a veterinarian, who had the leg removed. She then rehabilitated it at her home.
"They're interesting and every one is different," she said of the eight felines that reside in her "shelter for homeless cats."
Mitchell feeds her beloved animals a steady diet of dry and wet cat food and fresh water, all discreetly placed in bowls around Wescoe Hall. She said that she hid the food from the other animals on campus, including skunks and oposums, and that she keeps her feeding areas free of trash.
Mitchell is not the only animal lover on campus. She said she often found food tins that she didn't leave in her feeding areas, and that someone had recently been leaving a half-eaten barbecue sandwich face-open near her food. After the cats and other campus animals eat the sandwich's toppings, Mitchell said she gathered the untouched hoagie bun and fed it to birds.
"I think it's cute," Mitchell said of the other cat feeders. "I'm glad people care."
Liliana Merubia, assistant in the office of the provost, said that there were no policies against feeding animals on campus and Capt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office said the office of public safety did not remove animals from campus unless they posed a threat or were the subject of a complaint.
However, Midge Grinstean, executive director of the Lawrence Humane Society, said that she would
prefer that people not feed wild cats. She said wild cats lived dangerous lives, made shorter by disease, harsh weather and attacks by other animals, humans and cars. Feeding cats allows them to breed more and exacerbates the wild population problem, Grinstead said.
"Two cars in 10 years can make 80 million offspring." Grinstein said.
Rather than feed the cats, Grinstead suggests people call animal control, which brings stray animals to the humane society. There the animals will have access to healthcare and a home.
"Providing we can touch the cat, it will be adopted," Grinstead said.
However, if the cat is suffering from an untreatable disease or is too wild to touch, the society cannot
adopt it out and is required by law to euthanize it, Grinstead said.
"I applaud her for being a kind person," Grinstead said. "So many walk by and don't even notice."
Mitchell said that she had not encountered any dangerous cats, but was aware that feeding them could be contributing to the stray cat population. But she said she couldn't stop feeding them.
"When I go on vacation I hire someone to leave food because they are dependent on it," Mitchell said. "I care about the cats."
Kansan staff writer Nathan Gill can be contacted at ngill@kansan. com.
Edited by Trevan McGee
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contributed to the confession, and that the interrogators talked to Rose "like he was seven."
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Closing statements ended at 4:12 p.m. Wednesday and the jurors entered deliberation soon after. They deliberated until 5:20 p.m. before Judge Jack A. Murphy dismissed them for the day. Deliberation is set to begin this morning at 9.
Evans' closing statements refuted Rose's history of fire, calling into question the severity of the incidents that had been documented in a 7,500-page report about Rose done by Social Rehabilitation Services.
— Edited by Lisa Tilson
Kansan staff writer Erick R. Schmidt can be contacted at eschmidt@kansan.com.
Evans reminded the jury of testimony that Rose had a history of confessing to offenses he had not committed while living in group housing. He maintained that the confession was the only evidence against his client.
"I submit to you that that's unfair," Evans said. "That's unfair to Jason. They're trying to make up some case that he's a pyromaniac."
"They have no evidence that anything connected to Jason was used to start this fire. Nothing," Evans said.
Evans said the legitimacy of Rose's tape confession had to be called into question. He said his client's limited mental capabilities
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Other methods for contacting students in an emergency could range from e-mail to P.A. systems to patrol cars driving down Jayhawk Boulevard with megaphones.
The text messaging service was partly born out of a deal to sell Sprint cell phones at KU Bookstores.
"After the microburst, we were thinking about how we could apply
this deal into a text messaging service to inform students about things going on," said Tim Norris, director of KU Bookstores.
"It's like thinking about buying
flood insurance and then having some really heavy rain," Roney said.
With the University now selling cell phones and familiarizing itself with the technology, it was a natural step to create an emergency text messaging system.
Kansan staff writer Joe Hunt can be contacted at jhunt@kansan. com.
— Edited by Lisa Tilson
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