THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 2007
NEWS
3A
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*Students feed a three-foot foot doll slipph in the Underground. The doll is on campus as part of a sweepstakes and contest that asks students to take creative pictures with Stewie.*
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the entrant and Stewie. Sweepstakes rules state each person can post only one photo per e-mail address. The photo can not contain logos, signs or trademarked or copyrighted material. Pictures deemed by the sponsor to be defamatory abusive, pornographic, violent or discriminatory are subject to disqualification.
According to the sweepstakes and contest rules, the grand-prize winner of the sweepstakes will be
The winner of the sweepstakes will receive a sketch of him or herself in a Family Guy likeness.
announced the week of May 7 and the contest winner will be notified on or around May 14.
Kansan staff writer Ashlee Kieler can be contacted at akieler@kansan.com.
The "Pass the Stewie" contest begins on May 7, after all eligible sweepstakes photos have been submitted. During the contest, the Student Body President from each school will pick his or her top five favorite pictures of Stewie from his or her campus. The pictures will then be judged on creativity, humor, originality and photo quality.
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The grand-prize winner of the contest will receive an on-air mention of his or her University during a "Family Guy" episode. The winning University's Student Body president, the managing editor of the University's newspaper and two guests, win a trip to Los Angeles in November to attend the 100th episode of "Family Guy."
"We had the bulk of our work done, so taking pictures was something fun to do." Horen said.
Melissa Horen, Leawood senior
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and student body vice president, said receiving Stewie at the end of the year was nice.
An artist's rendition depicts the first proposal for a Wal-Mart at Sixth Street and Wakara Drive. The first proposal was rejected in October 2006, but a new proposal is pending.
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spoke against the Wal-Mart proposal. But Scott Henderson, a former zoning appeals board member, said his board had been unfair in denying Wal-Mart a building permit. He said he wanted the city to settle the lawsuit with Wal-Mart and move on to avoid the cost of further legal fees.
"You're wasting our money," Henderson said. "Those tax dollars could go to a lot of different issues."
Opponents of the Wal-Mart proposal raised concerns about Lawrence's retail supply outstripping its retail demand, "big box" national chains taking money away from locally owned businesses, and the possible creation of traffic problems that could be compounded by inexperienced teenage drivers coming from nearby Free State High School,
also near Sixth and Wakarusa.
Kirk McClure, professor of urban planning, spoke about a study he had conducted about Lawrence's retail market.
McClure said that the city's retail supply had grown at more than three times the rate of the city's demand since 1995.
"We need to come to fairly clear decisions about whether or not the market can absorb the space that is being built," he said.
An unusual demonstration took place while Richard Heckler, Lawrence resident, spoke to the commission about his view that Wal-Mart and other "big box" retailers did not attract money to the city's economy.
Several attendees wearing T-shirts
Meanwhile, a woman wearing a hat, sunglasses and a sign that said "Uncle Sam Walton" — referring to the founder of Wal-Mart — walked around the commission room, snatching the bills from the people representing the "locally owned" businesses and stuffing the bills into a plastic bag.
with phrases like "locally owned hardware store" stood up and began passing around oversized dollar bills.
This prompted Hack to ask the woman to sit down because of the noise she was creating.
Kansan staff writer Matt Erickson can be contacted at merickson@ kansan.com.
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SCHOOLS
Teacher cleared of forcing student to urinate in class
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — School officials on Tuesday cleared a science teacher who was accused of forcing a 14-year-old boy to urinate into a bottle during class, saying the eighth grader acted on his own.
The district cited rules that instruct teachers not to let students out of class during the first and last 10 minutes of a period. Goethe Middle School teacher Peter Stanzler
"Less than five minutes into the class period, the student urinated into a bottle and discarded it in a trash can," the statement said. "Shocked at the student's actions, the teacher told the student to dispose of the bottle in the restroom and wash his hands."
told the boy, Michael Patterson, to wait until the class had settled down before going to the bathroom, the district said in a statement.
The student claims he repeatedly asked to use the bathroom and was told to relieve himself into a bottle about 20 to 30 minutes into the
period. He said the teacher threatened him with suspension if he left the classroom, although the district disputed that in its statement.
Principal Harriet Young on Monday suspended Michael until May 8 for disrupting school activities. The district has placed teacher Peter Stanzler on paid leave and transferred him to another school.
"If this case is so cut and dry, why is the teacher being disciplined?" said Michael's mother, Kelly Jacko.
Associated Press
Judge Jack A. Murphy adjourned the court just after 4 p.m. Tuesday and said it would reconvene at 9 a.m. Wednesday. The trial is expected to last up to two weeks.
"They were very slow getting here," he said, almost two minutes after the camera began taping.
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He said that the "$64,000 question" was for the jury not to make conclusions about whether Rose was treated fairly in questioning.
Dobson, a New Zealand native, testified that before shooting the video, he had tried to call police. A cultural difference — the emergency number in New Zealand is 1-1-1 instead of 9-1-1 — kept Dobson from connecting with emergency dispatch, so he said he picked up his newly purchased video camera instead.
"I submit that you'll have a reasonable doubt," Evans said. "And we'll be asking you to find him not guilty."
"I think the community is open to them and liking them," she said of the house, the third structure the studio has brought to the area. "It's not a cookie-cutter neighborhood where everything looks the same."
Kansan staff writer Erick R. Schmidt can be contacted at eschmidt@kansan.com.
The tape showed the middle portion of the Boardwalk building engulfed in flames, as well as fire trucks responding to the scene. Dobson's voice commented on the response time on the video.
During the afternoon session of Tuesday's hearings, the prosecution called on Andrew Dobson, who lived across the street from the burned building. Dobson shot a nine-minute video of the fire, which was shown in court Tuesday.
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But not everyone has been open to the studio's novel homes, Cole said. Jeff Fendorf, vice president of operations and community development for El Centro, a Kansas City social organization that helped finance the project, said the studio had problems finding a place for last year's house.
Fendorf said last year's site, in Westheight, another historic neighborhood near Rosedale, had to be moved because of objections from the community and the Kansas State Historical Society. He said El Centro bought this year's site directly from the Rosedale Development Association, which knew what it was getting into.
"We wanted to support the neighborhood it was going to go in," Fendorf said.
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Cole said, "It's kind of a risk, because it's so different. Part of the success is having a buyer."
Zack Cole, Joplin, Mo., graduate student, saws wood for the garage of the house that KU architecture students are building in Kansas City, Kan., for Studio 804 Inc., a graduate class in the School of Architecture and Urban Design. Most of the students drive to Kansas City daily to work on completing the house.
Fendorf said El Centro was managing the sale of the house, and said they were looking for buyers. He said the final price for the house had not been set, but said it would be around $200,000 and that the profits would be split between the
studio and El Centro.
"There's a pretty good demand for these things," Fendorf said. "People like the houses."
Kansan staff writer Nathan Gill can be contacted at ngll@kansan.com.
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Free hot dogs and prizes for graduating students!
Today!
1 I a.m. - 1 p.m. at Wescoe Beach
Congratulations Class of 2007!
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