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VOL.116 ISSUE 14
Rehnquist's role on the high court
After months of battling thyroid cancer, Chief Justice WilliamH. Rehnquist passed away at his home Saturday evening.
Jan. 7, 1972 — Took seat on Supreme Court after nomination by President Nixon.
President Ronald Reagan announced Rehnquist would replace the retiring
Rehnquist served 33 years and through seven Presidents on the Supreme Court
Chief Justice Warren Burger, right, on June 17, 1986.
Jan.1999
Jan. 1999
Presided over President Clinton's impeachment trial in the Senate that eventually acquitted him. Rehnquist's court had ruled in May 1997 that Paula Jones could sue Clinton for sexual harassment.
Dec. 12, 2000
Dec. 12, 2000 Joined four other Republican-nominated justices in Bush v. Gore ruling that stopped presidential ballot recounts in Florida, making Republican George W. Bush the winner.
June 27, 2002
June 27, 2002
Wrote major opinion declaring that an Ohio tax payer-funded voucher program was not a violation of the separation of church and state; 96 percent of the students using vouchers in that case attended religious schools.
Oct. 1, 2004 Turned 80 to
become the second-oldest chief justice. Only Roger Taney, who presided in the mid-1800s until his death at 87, served longer.
Oct. 25
Disclosed he has thyroid cancer,
prompting speculation about an imminent retirement one week before the presidential election.
Jan. 22, 1973 One of two dissenters in Roe v. Wade, which overturned individual states' laws against abortion and recognized the practice as a constitutional right.
April 26.1995
June 29, 1988
Wrote major opinion upholding Independent Counsel Act, which was
passed in post-
Watergate era to help
prevent abuses in the
executive branch.
April 26, 1985 Wrote major opinion striking down a federal law mandating a "gunfree zone" around public schools, in a landmark decision preserving
states' rights.
A tracheostomy tube was seen in Reinhquist's throat as he administered the oath of office to President Bush on Jan. 20, 2005.
Nation awaits chief appointment
Sept. 3
Dies at home surrounded by his children at age 80, after a rapid decline in his heath
Law students, faculty analyze landmark moment in court
BY FRANK TANKARD
flankard@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
President George W. Bush nominated John G. Roberts Jr., yesterday to replace William Rehnquist as Chief Justice of the
United States Supreme Court. Rehnquist, 80, died of thyroid cancer Saturday, after 33 years on the bench.
Students and faculty at the KU School of Law are waiting in anticipation of the next few days and weeks, in which the
Senate will hold Roberts' confirmation hearing, and Bush will nominate another member to the Court.
"We're witnessing history before our eyes," said Jeff Garrett, Houston first-year law student. "This is a very, very important time."
Roberts' Senate confirmation hearing was set to begin today but has been delayed until after Rehnquist's funeral tomorrow.
Bush is now charged with nominating another person to fill Sandra Day O'Connor's vacancy. O'Connor, a moderate appointed in 1981, announced her retirement July 1. She said she would return to the court when it resumed session Oct. 3 if two justices hadn't been appointed.
Robbers' hearing will now begin between Thursday and Monday
Stephen McAllister, law professor and former dean, had no doubt the next two justices would make a lasting impact.
"We're witnessing history before our eyes. This is a very,very, important time."
"In the modern era, you can be pretty sure all of the hot-but
Jeff Garrett Houston first-year law student
ton topics will come up in one form or another within a few years," he said.
SEE AWAITS ON PAGE 2A
HURRICANE KATRINA
Justin O'Neal/KANSAN
Joe Lantz directs traffic into the Tau Kappa Epsilon parking lot Saturday before the football game. The fraternity is donating the profits from the parking to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Students lend a hand to disaster victims
Campus groups work together to raise funds
BY JOHN JORDAN
BY JOHN JORDAN
jjordan@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Kansas may be far from the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, but that hasn't stopped University of Kansas students from contributing to the relief effort.
At Saturday's football game, the Athletics Department donated $10,000 dollars and collected donations, and two fraternities sold parking spaces to raise money for hurricane relief.
The game marked the beginning of "Jayhawks Band Together: Katrina Relief," an effort by the Center for Community Outreach to coordinate relief efforts
at the University.
at the University. Anton Bentpson, Salina junior and co-director of the Center for Community Outreach, said the center is sponsoring donation sites on campus, care packages for Gulf Coast students transferring to the University, and a benefit concert a week from today to raise money for the American Red Cross. Bentpson said the center was organizing the relief efforts of all campus groups.
Bengtson said donation sites would be set up at Wescoe beach, the Kansas Union, next to Allen Fieldhouse and at all residence halls and scholarship halls for the next few weeks.
Sarah Gietschier, St. Louis Mo., junior and Lewis Hall resident assistant, is organizing donations at Lewis and Templin halls.
SEE VICTIMS ON PAGE 2A
Relief efforts this week
HOW TO HELP
Relief efforts this week:
♦ Donation sites will be on Wescoe Beach, at the Kansas Union and at the intersection of Sunyside Drive and Irving Hill Road.
Donations will be taken at all residence and scholarship halls.
KU Bookstores will donate 10 percent of pre-tax sales to pay for books of transfer students.
The Student Involvement and Leadership Center is making care packages with school supplies and gift certificates to Lawrence businesses
Source: Center for Community Outreach
University student, city collaborate to offer aid for evacuees
BY TRAVIS ROBINETT trobinett@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Thousands of refugees from Hurricane Katrina may be heading to Houston, Dallas or Baton Rouge, La., but University of Kansas students and Lawrence residents are also playing host.
residents are also able to help Joining in the effort to help victims of Hurricane Katrina is Monique Waters, Kansas City, Mo., junior. Waters said she and her sister decided to help some people they knew in Louisiana. Twenty eight people, including five children, traveled from Louisiana to Kansas City, Mo., to stay with Waters and her extended family. The refugees will stay in five separate houses.
Waters is taking donations and said she has received plenty of clothing, but she still needs food and money. She said she might sit in front of the Kansas Union sometime soon to ask for donations and try to get the word out.
Waters said the victims have nothing because they came to Kansas City after the hurricane hit. She said eight people arrived by bus on Friday, and the rest came Sunday night.
"I guess they will start over, stay here and get jobs," Waters said. "Nobody has any plans right now."
place by Harriet.
Higherger said he wished the idea was his, but he credited Lawrence resident Sara St. John for the inspiration. St. John called Higherger and said she thought if every community made an effort to adopt a family, it could help a lot.
Highberger agreed, and he decided to call on Lawrence for any kind of help it could offer. Landlords, shoe stores, job placement agencies, hotels and dozens of citizens have all come forward, he said.
Mayor Dennis "Boog" Highberger announced that the city of Lawrence was planning to host at least one family displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
A family has already been chosen, Highberger said. He said that family, D.J. and Ursula Markey, should arrive in Lawrence sometime early next week.
The Markeys are veterans of the civil rights movement in New Orleans, and they worked toward the disability rights movement in Louisiana, said Rud Turnbull, co-director of the Beach Center on Disability of the University of Kansas.
"They got out with two changes of underclothes and the shirts on their backs, and they were lucky," Turnbull said.
SEE EVACUEES ON PAGE 2A
Picture contributed by Beach Center on Disability
Picture contributed by beach Center of Louisiana Ursula and D.J. Markey will move to Lawrence early next week because their home in New Orleans was ruined by Hurricane Katrina. The Markeys have beavid disability activists, running the Pyramid-Parent Training Program of Louisiana.
New student section draws mixed reviews From ease of entry to visibility and auditory issues, the seating switch has some KU fans cheering and others jeering at the move. PAGE 1B
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Rank 'em!
There were clear victories and surprising losses in the first games for the Big 12 Conference. Texas toasted Louisiana-Lafayette while Oklahoma stumbled against Texas Christian. PAGE 5B
Close call at Memorial
Close call at Hawks The Jayhawks had ruffled feathers in the first half of their first home game of the season against the Florida Atlantic Owls. Senior quarterback Brian Luke helped Kansas soar past FAU in the second half. PAGE1B
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