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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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INSECTS
Wasps plague Strong Hall
Paper wasps have become familiar sights at administration building
BY PATRICK ROSS editor@kansan.com SPECIAL TO THE KANSAN
Expansive construction, longer, laid-back classes and high temperatures are to be expected on campus during the summer. Something else students and staff should expect during the summer - at least if they have to enter Strong Hall - is the everpresent paper wasp.
Paper wasps nest in the eaves of Strong Hall in droves and sometimes the wasps wander into the building and get trapped, disrupting the office or classroom.
"We used to have one who came around so often we named it 'Rover'," said Molly Tucker, Prairie Village senior. Tucker is a student assistant in New Student Orientation, 213 Strong Hall.
Paper wasps are social insects, according to James Stephen Ashe, professor of entomology and senior curator the Natural History Museum. Ashe said they are aggressive.
"They are major predators, controlling the population of the insects they eat." Ashe said.
He said paper wasps eat caterpillars almost exclusively and only the female wasps have stingers.
The wasps tend to nest in the eaves of buildings, and sometimes in bushes, and have nests that look like upside-down umbrellas marked with many holes. Each nest of paper wasps has a queen who nurtures her larvae
in the nest. Other females serve as ranging workers who search for pollen to eat and caterpillars to feed the larvae.
"There's a whole nest of them outside my window and they fly around it all the time," said Tammara Durham, director of the Freshman-Sophomore Advising Center, 156 Strong Hall. "There's one at the southwest door every morning at 7:30 and he'll say 'hi' to you."
The wasps come every year, according to Hollyce Morris, office manager for New Student Orientation. She said she has seen a few wasps in the office every year, but more now that the office has moved from the first floor to the second floor.
Durham said she would call Facilities Operations if there was an infestation, but that was not usually necessary.
Shannon Draper, senior administrative assistant for the Freshman-Sophomore Advising Center, said if it's just one wasp, a shoe works.
Morris said she had called Facilities Operations about the wasps, but had not heard back.
Mike Lang, Landscape Manager for Facilities Operations, said his staff deals with outside insect problems. But he said the paper wasps weren't a concern.
"We usually leave them alone unless there's a problem," Lang said.
— Edited by Erin M. Droste
LECTURES
New lecture series premiering this summer at Dole Institute
The Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, 704 W.12th St.,will try a new lecture series this summer said Bill Lacy, director of the Dole Institute. The summer lectures will serve as a test market for the Dole Institute.The possibility of future summer lectures could depend on the attendance for this series.
The summer lecture series will begin at the Dole Institute on July 21.
The three-part lecture series will be the first held at the Dole Institute during the summer semester.
"The goal of this series is to help accomplish our mission of encouraging civic and political participation. These speakers
will tell stories that reflect that mission," said Bill Lacy, director of the Dole Institute.
Hal Wert, author of "Hoover. The Fishing President," is the first speaker of the summer. Wert's book focuses on the human aspect of Herbert Hoover.
The second speaker of the summer is Craig Shirley. He wrote "Reagan's Revolution," which looks at the 1976 presidential campaign of Reagan. Shirley will speak on July 28.
Donna Moreau rounds out the speakers on Aug. 4, with a discussion of her book "Waiting Wives." The book is about families of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam who lived on military bases while the soldiers fought.
Lacy said the Dole Institute did not choose these speakers for a specific theme, but were chosen for their differences. He said the variety of topics could draw all types of people.
The summer lectures will be held in the Simons Media Room at the Dole Institute with chairs set up in a semi-circular fashion to encourage an open discussion.
All of the lectures will be held at 7:30 p.m. and will feature question and answer sessions After the lectures, the authors will sign copies of their books The lectures are free and open to the public.
— Aaron Whallon
TRIAL
Eric Rudolph sentenced to serve two life terms; defends use of deadly force to end abortion
BY JAY REEVES THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — An unrepentant Eric Rudolph declared July 18 that abortion must be fought with "deadly force" as a judge sentenced him to life in prison for setting off a remote-controlled bomb at an abortion clinic that killed an off-duty police officer and maimed a nurse.
of the innocents."
"Children are disposed of at will," the 38-year-old Rudolph said, jabbing the air in a speech that echoed a rambling manifesto he issued in April when he pleaded guilty to four bombings in all, including the blast at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. "The state is no longer the protector
Rudolph's fiery statement came as his victims confronted him in court, branding the antiabortion extremist a cowardly "monster" and recalling how their lives were devastated by the 1998 clinic bombing in Birmingham.
"It gives me great delight to know you are going to spend the rest of your life sitting in an 8-by-12 box," said the clinic's director, Diane Derzis.
Under a plea bargain that spared him a death sentence, Rudolph received two life sentences without parole for the Birmingham bombing.
Rudolph spent more than five years on the run in the North Carolina wilderness,
employing the survivalist techniques he learned as a soldier. He was captured in 2003 while scavenging for food behind a grocery store.
When it was his turn to speak July 18, Rudolph angrily lashed out at abortion and the Birmingham clinic.
"What they did was participate in the murder of 50 children a week," he said. "Abortion is murder and because it is murder I believe deadly force is needed to stop it."
Rudolph faces sentencing Aug. 22 in Atlanta for the Olympic bombing, which killed one woman and injured more than 100 other people, and for 1997 bombings at an abortion clinic and a gay bar in Atlanta.
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