MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 2005 WEST CAMPUS NEWS Sharing space BY GABY SOUZA gouza@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER The KU Public Safety Office, the department of mammalogy and a portion of the department of entomology have found a new home in the former KU Printing Services building, 2425 W.15th St. The public safety office, currently located inside CarruthO'Leary Hall, southwest of Memorial Stadium, plans to move in the spring of 2006. Mammalogy, the study of mammals, and entomology, the study of insects, hope to move from their current location in Snow Hall in the fall of 2006. "We hope to optimize the benefits of the building space for the benefits of the institutions," said Brad Kemp, assistant director of public affairs for the Natural History Museum. An increased amount of space in the new building is the main reason for the re-locations. The science departments combined will take up about 25,000 of the 35,000 square feet in the new building located at 15th and Crestline. Entomology currently occupies between 7,000 and 8,000 square feet in Snow Hall. Mammalogy plans to move all of its offices and its collection to the new location; entomology wants to move only a part of its collection. The public safety office plans to have a dispatch room, offices, a training room and locker rooms in the new building, and will occupy about 7,500 square feet in the new location. It currently has 3,500 square feet in Carruth-O'Leary Hall. The departments will request funding from the National Science Foundation. Kemp said they could receive funding at any time, but physically moving the collections would take up to a Moving the mammalogy and the entomology departments is a complex process that requires time and funding. Kemp said. "We haven't had any additional space since we moved into Carruth-O'Leary in 1984, and that was supposed to be temporary," said Chief Ralph Oliver of the Public Safety Office. "Right now, we've just done an assessment of the state of things," Kemp said. year. Some of the space in Snow Hall that is currently used by entomology will be occupied for the department of economics when it moves from its current location in Summerfield Hall. But the date of this re-location is still uncertain, said Teri Chambers, a graduate secretary in economics. "The University says a year to a year and a half, but if there are bumps in the road it will probably be two," Chambers said. The soon-to-be vacant space in Carruth O'Leary Hall is still up for grabs, Oliver said. THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 13A MURDER Edited by Nate Karlin Slayer sentenced THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LUVERNE, Ala. - A judge ordered a death sentence Friday for a man convicted of gunning down six members of his girlfriend's family at their rural home, a ruling that rejected the jury's recommendation of life in prison without parole. Westley Devon Harris, 25, was convicted of capital murder in the 2002 slayings, which one prosecutor called an "unspeakable horror." "This was not an easy decision because of my personal beliefs," said Circuit Judge Ed McFerrin, who had never imposed the death penalty before. Prosecutor Troy King had urged McFerrin not to feel bound by the jury's 7-5 vote recommending life without parole. Harris was convicted of gunning down six members of Janice Ball's family at their south Alabama farm during a daylong killing spreie on Aug. 26, 2002, leaving dead her grandmother, mother, father and three teenage brothers. Authorities said Harris then fled for three days with Ball and their 1-year-old daughter. Ball, who was 16 at the time, later became the government's key witness. West Robinson said his son remained calm and was looking hopefully toward the appeals process. But relatives of the victims said they felt satisfied after hearing McFerrin ordered Harris be put to death. Prosecutors said during the trial that Harris killed the victims because he was angry that they had tried to keep him away from Ball and their daughter. HONORS Scholarship jumpstarts path to law Justin O'Neal/KANSAN Lawrence freshman Caitlin Shanks receives the John Foster Memorial College Scholarship Thursday at the Lawrence Police Department. The scholarship is awarded to children of active full-time Kansas law enforcement officers. BY STEPHEN LYNN slynn@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER People were always afraid of Caitlin Shanks' dad during high school. Now it pays to be a police officer's child. Representatives of three law enforcement associations presented the John Foster Memorial College Scholarship for 2005 to Shanks, Lawrence freshman, last Thursday during a special ceremony in the Lawrence Police Department's Investigation and Training Center, 4820 Bob Billings Parkway. Shanks is the second recipient of the scholarship, presented annually to a child of an active full-time Kansas law enforcement officer for use at an accredited Kansas college. The $2,100 scholarship honors the late John Foster, Lenexa chief of police until 1991 and sheriff of Johnson County at the time of his death on March 6, 2003. Foster was a member of Kansas law enforcement agencies for almost 40 years. Shanks plans to apply the scholarship to tuition at the University of Kansas, where she will study English and political science, she said. Shanks said she hoped to attend law school and become a human rights lawyer, she said. "I don't want to be one of those lawyers who deals with Botox," Shanks said. Larry Welch, director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, required the six finalists to submit a letter of recommendation from a law enforcement official. After an interview, Ron Olin, Lawrence chief of police, endorsed her. Acceptance of the scholarship does not obligate Shanks to pursue a career related to law enforcement. Olin said. "I'm really excited," Shanks said. "This is a huge honor." Kansas Association of Chiefs of Police, the Kansas Peace Officers Association and the Kansas Sheriff's Association, all of which raised the scholarship funds internally and without public funding, said Sgt. Dan Ward, Lawrence Police Department spokesman. Foster was a member of the Shanks earned a cumulative 4.0 grade point average from Lawrence High School in 2005. She received three other scholarships: the Bob and Marlene Whittaker Leadership Scholarship, the Lawrence Education Association Scholarship and a Fraternal Order of Police scholarship. Edited by Patrick Ross Welcome Back Students... We Missed You! Stop in and see our New Look! We've Re-Modeled our restaurant on 6th Street! Having a "Big Mac Attack" at Midnight? 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