2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, AUGUST 25. 2005
HOUSING
Students upset by ordinance
BY TRAVIS ROBINETT
trobinett@kansan.com
KANSMAN STAFF WRITER
Megan Hollenbeck, Prairie Village senior, and her three roommates were shocked to learn of a complaint made against them by a neighbor.
Around March she and her roommates, who live in a house on the 1700 block of Indiana Street, went to their landlord to discuss renewing their lease. Their landlord told them someone had complained too many people were living in their house, Hollenbeck said.
Hollenbeck said the landlord explained that although they were good tenants, they would be taken to court if one of them did not move out.
Because more than three non-related people were living in the same house in a single-family district, the four women were violating the occupancy ordinance 7323.
Www.lawrenceplanning.org defines a family as a person living alone; two or more people related by blood, marriage or legal adoption living together; or a group of three or fewer people not related by blood or marriage living together.
The Web site also contains a color-coded map showing where single family districts are located.
"We never even had one party," Hollenbeck said. "We were really quiet, kept the house clean and paid on time. The neighbors all seemed to like us. I'm still pretty upset about it."
The number of residents allowed in a house isn't the only ordinance that affects students; they should also be aware of noise and parking ordinances.
If a house makes excessive noise constituting disturbance of peace, the residents are in violation of noise ordinance 14-413. According to law.lawrencepolice.org, each year the Lawrence Police Department responds to more than 2,500 noise-related phone calls. First time offenders may receive only a warning. Additional calls result in a citation.
"The neighbors all seemed to like us. I'm still pretty upset about it."
Megan Hollenbeck Prairie Village senior
One citation results in a fine, Sgt. Dan Ward of the Lawrence Police Department said. If the residents receive two or more citations, they could be evicted.
Ward said for a resident's first violation of a noise ordinance, it is the officer's decision whether the resident receives a warning or a citation. Officers are more likely to give a citation when the situation is out of control and the resident is uncooperative, he said.
Although penalties for parking ordinance violations are not as serious, violators do receive fines from the city. People are not allowed to park cars in front or side yards or stay in the same spot on the street for more than 48 hours.
According to www.lawrencepolice.org, it is illegal to park within 30 feet of a traffic control device, within 20 feet of a crosswalk, within 15 feet of a fire hydrant or more than one foot from a curb. It is also illegal to block a private drive.
- Edited by Erin Wisdom
Timberlake takes apology for cheating accusations
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LONDON — Justin Timberlake has accepted an apology and damages from a tabloid newspaper that falsely accused him of cheating on girlfriend Cameron Diaz with a British model.
Timberlake had filed a libel lawsuit at London's High Court over a July 2004 claim in the News of the World that he had a fling with model Lucy Clarkson.
Clarkson's lawyer, David Griffiths, said the model acknowledged that the story was "an entire fabrication on her part."
NEWS
Benjamin Beabey, lawyer for the tabloid's publisher, News Group Newspapers Ltd., said yesterday that the News of the World apologized "for the distress and embarrassment caused by this article. It entirely accepts that the allegations are without foundation."
"Yet again, a tabloid has been caught lying," said Timlakeberg's publicist, Ken
Sunshine, in a statement. "Thankfully the judicial process worked, but how many cases like this will it take before these tabloids feel obligated to print the truth?"
Timberlake's lawyer, Simon Smith, said the allegations had caused damage to the singer's "personal and professional reputations."
He said the publisher had agreed to pay "a substantial undisclosed sum as damages." Clarkson had agreed to pay "a sum equal to that which she agreed to receive from the News of the World" for her story.
The defendants also had agreed to pay Timberlake's legal costs, Smith said.
"In the light of these developments, Mr.Timberlake has decided not to pursue these proceedings and considers that his reputation has been fully vindicated," Smith said.
Sunshine added that Timberlake planned to donate the damages money to charity.
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Volunteers share dream, garden
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BY FRANK TANKARD
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KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Thousands of people may have walked through the field of weeds, seeing the dilapidated playground equipment and rusting tricycles.
It took five years of decay before a student walked by and saw something different.
That day, Aaron Olsen, Overland Park sophomore, looked across the sloping lot between the Wesley Building and Margaret Amini Scholarship Hall, east of the Kansas Union, and envisioned a garden on the land the Hilltop Child Development Center left five years ago. Tomatoes, green beans, carrots, parsley, garlic and onions interspersed with colorful flowers ... "It's kinda just a dream, but ..." he shrugged.
Olsen, a biochemistry and cellular biology major, wants to transform the unused, 2,000-plus-square-foot parcel of University of Kansas land into a large garden and donate the produce to local soup kitchens.
Aaron Olsen, Overland Park sophomore, breaks ground on a site he has secured to build a garden for an organization he started, called Campus Garden. He plans on donating all produce to local soup kitchens.
He put the plan into motion during finals week in the spring when he approached the University with his request.
"I was excited by the idea," Lynn Bretz, director of University Relations, said. "But I knew we had some hurdles."
The first test for Olsen's idea came before he even picked up a shovel. He needed to write a detailed proposal, so he spent the summer learning every inch of the land: collecting soil samples, counting the number of trees on the plot and deciding how he would turn this unwanted parcel of land into a garden.
Olsen then lined up a few volunteers and gained 20 more at the club and organization fair during Hawk Week. He named the project Campus Garden and has created a Web site, www.ku.edu/~cgarden.
After completing liability forms and other legal paperwork with the help of the Center for Community Outreach and University officials. Olsen gained permission to grow a garden and received $500 for soil and equipment from Student Senate.
Olsen first sunk his shovel into the
soil Aug. 11. He planted a row of irises, rosemary and chives in a small triangle of weeds bordered by a building, a sidewalk and a wooden fence, with a stone ashtray filled with Marlboro butts at its vertex.
It took him 10 hours to mix the soil and plant the 8-by-2 feet row.
"The garden's not really what's most efficient. What supports the community most, what drives volunteering and gets students involved is really more important."
"It's kind of my experimentation ground," he said. He knows it will take at least a year and thousands of sweaty hours before all the land resembles a garden.
On Tuesday, Olsen picked up a power drill delivered by a volunteer and crouched down on a dilapidated deck that sits on the northeast corner of the lot.
"The way I think about it, it would maybe be more efficient to have a fund-raising event and take the money to Costco or Sam's Club and buy some cans of beans or something." he said.
As the dark, gray sky threatened to rain, Olsen pressed the drum into a rusty screw and drew it out of the soggy wood. Step by step, he's building his garden.
Edited by Tricia Masenthin
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Gotti admits having 'precancerous cells'
Gotti. "They refer to it as noninvasive cancer."
"What I have is considered by most to be cancer. Noninvasive cancer," Gotti said in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."
"If you look it up on the Internet, it is cancer," added the daughter of late mob boss John
NEWYORK — Victoria Gotti denied yesterday she lied about having breast cancer but acknowledged her diagnosis showed she had "precancerous cells"
The NewYork Post, which carried a front-page headline declaring "Gotti's sick cancer scam," reported yesterday that Gotti never had breast cancer as she had told the rival Daily News.
"I could leave it alone and watch it, or get surgery," Gotti told the Post. "I chose to be aggressive and get the surgery."
She made similar comments Monday night on CNBC, according to the Post. The News had reported Sunday that Gotti, 42, kept the news to herself - hiding her
treatments from her three sons and the producers of their reality show, "Growing Up Gotti," on the A&E network.
Gotti told ABC the News article "was for the most part accurate."
"The reporter was not lying," she said. "She was not embellishing."
"Every day since this happened, people have been asking me, Well, do you have cancer? Or is it not?" Gotti said. "There's no easy way to explain that. It is the illness. You have to look it up to understand it."
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