2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2005
top10
BY COURTNEY HAGEN
editor@kansan.com
KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
The top 10 selling albums at Kief's Downtown Music
10. The New Pornographers
"Twin Cinema"
9. The Danny Pound Band
"Surer Days"
8. Hot Hot Heat
"Elevator"
7. Dungen
"Ta Det Lugnt"
6. Sufjan Stevens
"Illinoise"
5. Bob Dylan
"No Direction Home:The Soundtrack"
4. Rolling Stones
"A Bigger Bang"
3. Ghosty
"Grow Up Or Sleep In"
2. Kanye West
"Late Registration"
1. Death Cab For Cutie
"Plans"
Source: Kief's Downtown Music,
823 Massachusetts St.
ON CAMPUS
♦ Sigma Lambda Gamma sorority is sponsoring four events this week:
1. "Much More Than a Beautiful Tan on the Beach," a showcase of the accomplishments of Latinas, 10:30 a.m. to i.m. index on Weson Beach
2. Informational session on the Latina-
based multicultural sorority, 7:30 p.m.
tomorrow at the Centennial Room in
the Kansas Union
3. Breast cancer awareness program, 8:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Centennial Room in the Kansas Union
4. Showing of an episode from the PBS series "American Family" followed by a discussion, 8:30 p.m. Thursday at the Walnut Room in the Kansas Union
Merrill Gilfillan, poet, essayist and fiction writer, is scheduled to read from his recent work at 4 p.m. Thursday at Oread Books, Level 2 of the Kansas Union.
- Ken Carter, the California basketball coach whom the movie "Coach Carter" is based on, will deliver a free lecture at 8 tonight at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Note: The University Daily Kansan prints campus events that are free and open to the public. Submission forms are available in the Kansan newsroom, 110 Staffer-Flair Hall. Items must be turned in two days in advance of the desired publication date.
On Campus is printed on a space available basis.
ON THE BOULEVARD
A new case of family law at KU
Father and daughter attend the School of Law together
It was the first day of the semester, and Aimee Richardson walked into her first law school class through the back entrance.
She spotted a gray-haired man, one of the few people in the room without a laptop, and she faced the question: Do I sit with him, or not?
OK, she thought, I'll sit with Dad. If I don't, Mom will kill me.
Earl and Aimee Richardson, Lawrence father and daughter, venture onward in their first year of law school at the University. They both attended KU for their undergraduate degrees.
Kim Andrews/KANSAN
This fall, Earl and Aimee Richardson of Lawrence began classes in the School of Law together at the University of Kansas. They are the first parent-child pair to enter the school in the same year that Mike Davis, interim dean and faculty member since 1971, can remember.
"I'd spent about 20 years working in newspapers, and I kind of felt it," Earl, 44, said. "I decided I wanted to make a change."
"I've been around here a long time, and that's new to me," Davis said.
He said he first became interested in law when he served as a juror in a fraud case in the late '80s. But he was too busy working 70- to 80-hour weeks as a photojournalist to switch gears.
When Aimee was born, Earl was starting his senior school studying journalism at the University of Kansas. After 23 years of working in the fast-paced newspaper business as a photographer, he's back at school with his firstborn child.
Things changed in 2003 when
"On the first day, she said, 'What would you do if I didn't sit with you? I said, 'Well, I'd have to go to the professor and ask him to change the seating assignment because my daughter has to sit with her dad."
Earl Richardson KU Law student
he left his position as director of photography of the Topeka Capital-Journal and concentrated on his photography business he'd started a couple of years earlier. Then, when a cousin his age enrolled in law school, he decided to give law school a try.
He said that he was probably the oldest person in the room when he had taken the Law School Admission Test.
"It was the first test I'd taken other than the driver's license open-book exam since 1983," he said. "It was hard to sit still for five hours."
"You reach a certain age where if you want to do something, you just have to do it." Earl said.
For Aimee, the decision to enroll in law school was more ordinary. She was starting her
last semester double-majoring in English and sociology when the realization that she would soon be joining the workforce sunk in.
"I freaked out and thought I needed a backup plan other than living in my parents' attic," she said.
Earl had already taken the LSAT by then and had been urging her to apply to law school for a year. So she went online one day, during winter break, to see when sign ups were for the LSAT. The deadline was that very day.
So she enrolled for the test at the last minute and passed it a few weeks later. Now she's in the School of Law with Dad.
"You come to grad school and
Teresa Richardson is now the only member of the family who's not a student, now that her husband and eldest daughter are in law school, another daughter is a junior at the University and the youngest is in high school.
your old man's there." Earl said, "it's to be a total buzzkill for her."
She said she's getting used to finding her husband studying law books when she comes home from work.
"I get control of the remote now," she said.
"He's more diligent about homework than I am," she said.
And he's willing to help, just so long as she sits with him.
"On the first day, she said, 'What would you do if I didn't sit with you?' Earl said. "I said, 'Well, I'd have to go to the professor and ask him to change the seating assignment, because my daughter has to sit with her dad."
Editor's note: University Daily Kansan reporter Frank Tankard writes a regular feature on a KU student, faculty or staff member who has a story to tell. If you have an interesting story or know someone who does, e-mail Frank at ftkankard@kansan.com.
Edited by Theresa Montaño
CAMPUS
Four students injured in car accident
The driver, Chuan-Li Chang,
and the passengers, Kuo-Lin
Lien, Thomas K. Peng, Kuance
Hung, all KU students, and
Hisin-yen Ou were driving east on E. 1750 Road when the driver lost control of the vehicle,
Wempe said.
Four KU students and a fifth person were hospitalized after their vehicle crashed into a median and rolled Saturday, said Kari Wempe, spokeswoman for the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.
that the victims were at the hospital.
Some of the victims were transported to KU Medical Center by helicopter, though Dennis Minich, spokesman for KU Medical Center, could neither confirm nor deny
Hisin-yen and Peng were treated and released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital, said Michele Berendsen, spokeswoman at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Steve Lynn
LAWRENCE
Gunshot wound to face leads to an arrest
Lawrence police arrested Domonic A. Shepherd, 25, in connection with an attempted second-degree murder and local drug warrants at 1 p.m. Sept. 18, said Capt. Dan Afalter of the Lawrence Police Department. Shepherd was booked into Douglas County Jail, Afalter said.
Kelley Johnson, 23-year-old Lawrence resident, was shot in the face at 6:24 a.m. Sept. 18 in an apartment complex at the 700 block of Comet Lane in west Lawrence, Af-falter said.
Johnson was transported by Lawrence/Douglas County Fire and Medical to Lawrence Memorial Hospital and was later transferred to a Kansas City area hospital for further treatment, Affalter said. The victim's injuries are not thought to be life-threatening, he said.
The victim and a female friend met two men at a local night club, Affalter said. The four left the club and went to an apartment in the 700 block of Comet Lane, he said.
stayed with the two women, he said.
After a short time, one of the men left and the other
The two women tried to get the second man to leave, and he refused, Affalter said. An argument broke out that led to a man shooting the victim in the face before fleeing on foot, Affalter said.
Officers and detectives are still attempting to locate the weapon used in the shooting, Affalter said. Anyone with information leading to the recovery of the weapon is eligible for a $100 cash reward from the Gun Stoppers program, he said.
Anyone with information on the location of the weapon is encouraged to call the Lawrence Police Department Investigations Division at 830-7430 or the Crime Stoppers at 843-TIPS, Affalter said.
Manure-fueled plant comes to Kansas
Steve Lynn
STATE
WICHITA — A Dallas-based energy company announced yesterday that it will build an ethanol plant in southwest Kansas that will be powered with cattle manure.
Panda Energy's $120 million ethanol facility - the third manure-fueled plant the company has announced this year - would refine about 100 million gallons of ethanol from corn and milo that will be blended with gasoline to make fuel, the company said.
The other two are in Hereford, Texas and in Yuma, Colo.
The plant would use a billion pounds of manure each year. — The Associated Press
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