THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL. 116 ISSUE 8
ACTIVISM
FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 2005
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ROTC Air Force student Nick Mallare, Leawood sophomore, left, talks with Kansas Mutual Aid member Dave Strano, right, about the choices involved with military recruitment as Sara Camiscioni, West Palm Beach, Fla., sophomore, looks for students to sign a petition to remove military recruiters from campus. The Lawrence Counter-Recruitment group held a rally yesterday afternoon in front of Wescoe Hall. About 30 minutes after the rally began, Lawrence Counter-Recruitment members estimated more than 100 signatures had been collected.
Protestors storm Beach
Students, faculty and Lawrence residents oppose military recruitment on campus
BY LOUIS MORA
lmora@kansan.com
KANSAN SCORE WRITER
A Lawrence-based group took over Wescoe Beach yesterday to protest against military recruitment on campus.
With police in attendance for security, Lawrence Counter-Recruitment members held up signs reading "We will not fight your wars" and "Military recruiters off campus." Members young and old gave speeches broadcasting their intent to end military recruitment on campus
and calling for an end to the wars overseas as a petition circulated through the crowd,
According to the petition, University of Kansas students and faculty and Lawrence residents, feel the military's presence on campus takes away from the learning experience and allows the war to continue.
The petition also says the military's policy of "Don't ask, don't tell" discriminates based on sexual orientation and goes against the University's discrimination policy.
Katy Andrus, Lenexa sopho
more and LRC member, said military recruiters demonstrate a military presence on campus.
Erica Goddard, Lawrence sophomore, said she felt her rights as a homosexual were being violated.
"Even if they change their 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy to allow queer students to fight for them, it's not going to change my opinion," she said. "I want them off my campus."
One student didn't agree with the group's arguments.
"I think their logic is flawed simply because this is a University funded mainly by the government," said Sean Collins, Garden City senior.
Collins said he believed the military recruiters represented the government and had a right to be on campus.
For Army officer Donald Hughes, the protest provided an opportunity to see other opinions concerning military issues.
He said he didn't agree with the group, but he said he understood that the demonstration was just a credit to his duty.
"I totally respect their opinions. That's what I fight for: So that people can have the opportunity to voice their opinions and speak about what they are against." Huehes said.
Hughes is stationed at Fort
It hurts to see them call us murderers and violent. It's not the soldiers' fault we're fighting a war..."
Donald Hughes Army officer
Leonard Wood in central Missouri, and travelled to Lawrence because he heard about the protest.
He said the group members should realize the soldiers did
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FRAUD
Credit card hoax ended
BY GABY SOUZA
gouza@kansan.com
KANSA STAFF WRITER
The truth has been told about the apparent credit card scam that began in Lawrence on August 18.
The two apparent scammers were working through Elite Marketing Group, which was hired by Commerce Bank, N.E. The two employees were fired for failing to comply with regulations set by the bank company, bank sources said Thursday.
Kyle Ossiander, manager at Cici's Pizza in Lawrence, said that everything the two employees gave to him appeared credible.
"All the proper documentation was there for us to see." Ossiander said
The individuals were known to have been in Lawrence and Emporia. Mark Heider, president of Commerce Bank in Lawrence, said the individuals were no longer connected with Commerce Bank and that the bank itself would never be associated with scamming.
"We would never do this to KU students." Heider said.
Both Jeanne Howard, regional director of marketing for Commerce, and Carl Bradbury, director of student services for Commerce, said they had been concerned about a possible identity theft scare, but were not worried anymore.
"This is no longer an identity theft scare — we're no longer concerned about that," Howard said.
Elite Marketing Group could not be reached for comment.
Neither Howard nor Bradbury could say what would become of the applications that were filled out, although Howard indicated she believed they would be processed routinely.
◆ Ken Easthouse of the Emporia State Bulletin contributed to this story.
HEALTH
Woman gyno joins Watkins staff
BY TRAVIS ROBINETT
trobinett@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
When Dr. Henry Buck decided to retire after working since 1987 as the only gynecologist at Watkins Student Health Center, Dr. Carolyn Johnson said he called her and asked whether she was interested in taking over his duties.
"For a long time I had said when he retired, I would be interested, because I thought it would allow me to spend more time with my children," she said.
When Buck retired, Watkins put out notices in various professional magazines for the open position of gynecology. Also, local gynecologists whom the staff had known professionally were notified.
Johnson worked in private practice at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, 325 Maine St., for the last 13 years, she said.
"For a long time I had said when he retired,I would be interested,because I thought it would allow me to spend more time with my children."
Carolyn Johnson Watkins Gynecologist
Working at Watkins, Johnson's hours are more controlled than when she worked at LMH,
Johnson said her duties as a gynecologist included seeing women for physicals, health education, abnormal bleeding, sexually transmitted diseases or any kind of problems with the reproductive system.
CAMPUS
Rieger women to benefit from cutting-edge system
Heating and cooling system eco-friendly
SEE WATKINS ON PAGE 4A
BY LOUIS MORA
lmora@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
"When it gets very hot outside it's nice to have a space where you can actually sit and breathe
A new geothermal heating and cooling system at Rieger Hall, 1300 block of Ohio, uses the power of Mother Nature by taking energy from the earth to keep the women of Rieger Hall cool.
For residents of Dennis E. Rieger Scholarship Hall, chances of a freezing bedroom in summer or stuffy common room in winter are complaints of the past.
without being terribly uncomfortable," said Michelle Tran, Derby junior.
A state-of-the-art geothermal system keeps residents comfortable because it allows residents to control their own room with individual thermostats.
This system doesn't require a big, noisy box that sits next to the house. Instead, it uses energy from the earth to transfer cool or hot air into the building. Eighteen wells, buried 400 feet beneath the ground, sit on the south side of the residence pumping air into the building. The pipes transfer the energy from the ground.
The pipes, which are filled with a solution that prevents them from freezing transfer energy from the ground to the building to provide hot and
Joshua Bickel/KANSAN
Geothermal heating systems are more cost-effective to operate because it takes only the energy needed from the earth. The pipes used are buried 400 feet below the building.
SEE RIEGER ON PAGE 4A
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Index
OPINION 5A
SPORTS 1B
CROSSWORD 4B
CLASSIFIEDS 5B
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