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NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 3A
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2005
ON THE RECORI
A 21-year-old KU student reported $120 stolen sometime between 5:15 p.m. and 10 p.m. Aug. 21 on the 200 block of Michigan Street.
♦A 21-year-old KU student reported a $100 fire extinguisher stolen and an estimated $500 in damage inflicted with the fire extinguisher about 3:50 a.m. Aug. 21 on the 1000 block of Emery Road.
♠ A 35-year-old KU employee reported $600 in damage to the door and window of a Saturn L200 in lot 62.
♦A KU employee reported $150 in damage from eggs sometime between 5 p.m. Aug. 14 and 2:30 p.m. Aug. 15 at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics.
♦A 21-year-old KU student reported $200 in damage to a Schwinn bicycle sometime between 10 p.m. Aug. 18 and 9:30 a.m. Aug 19 at Jayhawker Towers.
$ \◆ $ An 18-year-old KU student is suspected of stealing a stop sign, a street sign and a pole at the intersection of 17th and Illinois streets about 12:50 a.m.
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than an increase in the price of the textbook us- self.
"Regrettably, there has been an increase in tendency by publishers and instructors to buy books with bundles that students find they don't need," Bill Muggy, Jayhawk Bookstore owner. said.
Publishers decide the rising prices, and Jayhawk Bookstore adjusts accordingly, Muggy said. He said the bookstore charged the customer an average of 22.5 percent more than what it paid to a particular publisher.
Muggy said customers who needed books showed a greater resistance to buy them. He said instructors seemed to be oblivious about the cost of textbooks and did not care about the end cost to the students.
"If the instructor orders a book, we expect them to use it," he said. "The hope is it will have a life afterwards."
Robert Goldstein, professor of geology, said he was conscientious of students' textbook prices. Two courses he teaches, one being a prerequisite of the other, require the same textbook. That way students taking both classes have to buy only one book.
Mitchell said that in his four previous years at KU, he used supplemental material in only one class. It was a CD-ROM that came with the textbook, and he said he did not find it that useful.
- Edited by Alison Peterson
NATION
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — Prosecutor will seek the death penalty when Joseph Edward Duncan III goes to trial on charges that he bound and killed three people in northern Idaho.
Prosecutors will seek death penalty for alleged murderer
Kootenai County Prosecuting Attorney Bill Douglas made the announcement yesterday after Duncan's arraignment. Not-guilty pleas were entered on Duncan's behalf to charges of murder and kidnapping.
Douglas said he would seek the death penalty on all six charges against Duncan: three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of first-degree kidnapping.
First District Judge Fred Gibler set a trial date of Jan. 17, 2006.
Clad in red jail overalls, with scruffy hair and a beard, Duncan did not speak during the 30-minute hearing in the Kootenai County Iail courtroom.
When Gibler asked for a plea, Public Defender John Adams said, "We stand silent on that."
Duncan, 42, is accused of binding and killing three people in a scheme authorities say was designed to enable him to abduct two children for sex.
— The Associated Press
The judge entered not-guilty pleas to the charges.
Recreation center sports new TVs
FITNESS
$6.3 million in improvements to be made
BY ALY BARLAND
abarland@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
This summer, the closing of one student fitness center resulted in the upgrading of another. At the Student Recreation Fitness Center, students can now work out on treadmills, stationary bicycles and elliptical machines equipped with TVs
When the Burge Union Fitness Center closed last semester, Recreation Services traded in 21 pieces of old equipment in exchange for the advanced machines. Mary Chappell, director of Recreation Services, said the goal of adding the televisions was to give students an individualized workout.
"We already had televisions in place, but it seemed that we could never have them on the right channels or the right stations," Chappell said.
Rachelle Saathoff, Lawrence sophomore, finds the new technology unnecessary and prefers not to watch TV while exercising.
"I'd rather just listen to music. For me it's too hard to concentrate on TV when you're working out," Saathoff said.
Other summer improvements included rescreening the basketball court and fixing the roof leaks that had plagued the recreation center for almost two years.
Plans are also under way to expand the recreation center in the spring. Expansion plans include adding four more basketball
courts north of the existing courts, and expanding the track to the size of all eight courts. Free weight and racquetball space will also increase. The University of Kansas is working with the Ken Ebert Design Group, the Manhattan-based architectural firm that designed the original recreation center. Chappell said they plan to begin construction in early spring.
Pat Tefft, Omaha, Neb., sophomore and student employee of the recreation center, said he approved of the upcoming changes. He frequents the recreation center to work out and play intramural basketball.
"It gets really busy around 4 o'clock in the evenings, so all the extra room is definitely needed." Tefft said.
The estimated cost for these additions is $6.3 million, which will not come from student fees. To fund improvements, the KU Athletics Department converted unused upper-level student seating into general public sales seating in Allen Fieldhouse, which will generate more money, said Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director.
The recreation center will expand its hours beginning Oct. 17 to accommodate more students. Its new hours will be Monday through Thursday from 5 a.m. to 2 a.m., and Friday from 6 a.m. until midnight. Saturday hours will be 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sunday hours will be 9 a.m. to midnight.
— Edited by Becca Evanhoe
Christina Staab, Kansas City junior, watches one of the television sets while using the elliptical machine at the Student Recreation Fitness Center yesterday. Staab said that although she enjoys the new additions, she still prefers to listen to her IPod while exercising.
Taylor Miller/KANSAN
Wal-Mart employees slain in parking lot
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Two Wal-Mart employees were shot to death yesterday as they gathered shopping carts in the parking lot of one of the retail stores in suburban Phoenix, and police later arrested the suspected gunman.
The shootings occurred in the middle of the parking lot, about 75 yards from the store entrance. At one point, a body could be seen in one of the corrals used for collecting shopping carts.
Hours later, police spokesman Mike Pena said a suspect had been arrested without incident in
a retirement community in nearby Peoria.
Investigators initially sent a robot to the man's door to make contact, fearing that he could still be armed. The man came out with his hands up, Pena said.
"We don't know how this happened or what led up to it," Pena
The suspect, described as being in his 50s or 60s, still needed to put through a lineup and questioned by detectives. His name was not released yesterday evening.
said. He would not say whether the man knew the victims, who were also men.
There was no immediate word on what might have motivated the attacks.
Delia Garcia, a Wal-Mart spokeswoman on the scene, said the two victims were collecting shopping carts when the gunfire broke out. She said the store would be closed at least until today.
"This is an extremely tragic situation," company spokeswoman Sharon Weber said from Wal-Mart headquarters in Bentonville, Ark
Authorities initially kept customers inside the store, but they were later allowed to leave.
Lisa Crider said the store was
filled with screaming people who were trying to get out. "It was just pure chaos," she told The Arizona Republic. Crider said she initially tried to stay inside the store but later fled.
Some of the store's 450 employees could be seen leaving the business yesterday evening. The company was working to get help for other employees upset by the shootings, Garcia said.
Police cordoned off much of the parking lot, telling anyone whose car was within a perimeter that they would have to leave their vehicles there.
Glendale is about eight miles northwest of downtown Phoenix.
CRIME
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Accomplice in shooting convicted of murder
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — An accomplice in a shooting spree that left five people dead — one of them a pregnant woman — has been convicted of three counts of capital murder, prosecutors announced yesterday.
Prosecutors said Errik Harris, 29, helped Darrell Lamont Stallings, 35, in the June 2002 rampage in Kansas City, Kan., that began as retaliation for a crime committed against Stallings' mother. Stallings avoided the death penalty in January and was sentenced to five consecutive life terms in prison.
District Judge Thomas L. Boeding found Harris guilty Friday after an agreement was reached with prosecutors. Harris also was found
guilty of attempted first-degree murder convicted of der and criminal possession of a Gorman said firearm
Because Harris didn't plead guilty but is agreed to what is called "stipulated facts," he retains the right to appeal.
The defense agreed to the arrangement because District Attorney Jerome Gorman said he wouldn't pursue the death penalty.
"We believe that he will have a sufficiently long enough sentence so that he will never step out of prison again."
"If you looked
"If you looked at Stallings and Harris side by side, Stallings certainly looked to be the more evil of the two — let's face it, he had been previously
Jerome Gorman
Attorney
murder before, Tuesday. "If Stallings didn't get it, it would be difficult for 12 different jurors to return with a death penalty verdict for Harris given what they knew" about Stallings' sentence.
Gorman said he would seek consecutive "hard 50" life terms for Harris, which he would have to serve 150 years in prison
100 years in prison before the chance of parole.
"We are happy with it," Gorman said. "We believe that he will have a sufficiently long enough sentence so
that he will never step out of prison again."
Stallings' killing spree began as retaliation for the attempted robbery and beating of his mother in April 2002. Two people were caught and convicted for those crimes, but Stallings thought Anthony and Trina Jennings played a role, too.
Trina Jennings, 26, who was seven months pregnant, was killed; her 29-year-old brother, Anthony, was wounded.
Prosecutors have said none of the victims was involved in the attack on Stallings' mother. Also killed were Samantha Sigler, 24; Destiny Wiles, 23; Tameika Jackson, 24; and Melvin Montague, 34, all of whom prosecutors said died because they were witnesses to Jennings' killing.
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