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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
TUESDAY, MAY 10.2005
INSIDENEWS
Student attacked at GSP-Corbin parking lot
An 18-year-old female student was talking on her cell phone early yesterday morning in the GSP-Corbin parking lot when a man, described as a 5-foot-11-inch, 190-pound white male, pushed her to the ground. The female was able to fight off the suspect, who KU Public Safety Office officials are seeking. PAGE 1A
Women share stories of unreported rape
More than 50 rapes have been reported in the past year to Lawrence Police and the KU Public Safety Office. But according to National statistics, only 40 percent of rapes are reported to authorities. Two KU women share their stories of unreported rape.
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Possible drug overdose reported at GSP-Corbin
KU sophomore Breann Whisney has a passion: community service. She is using that passion this week to help collect books on campus for Books for Africa. Some of the books collected are sold to raise money, and the remaining are donated to 23 different African countries. PAGE 2A
Greeks donate to annual clothing drive
Students bring African book drive to campus
Two women were transported from GSP-Corbin Hall to Lawrence Memorial Hospital Thursday. One was said to be incoherent and the other was reported to be unresponsive. The KU Public Safety Office is investigating the incident as a possible overdose of GHB, the so-called "date rape" drug. PAGE 1A
The Kaw Bioregional Council is sponsoring a clothing drive that will benefit the council's fall and spring conferences and a shelter for battered women and children. Greek organizations, such as Pi Beta Phi sorority, donate everything from clothing to furniture to wigs. PAGE 2A
INSIDEOPINION
Column: Sensibilities crossed by anatomic reference Marissa Stephenson says if a high school student loving her vagina is wrong, then who wants to be right? A Minnesota high school, apparently. A school infringed upon a student's free speech rights by suspending her for using a vaguely offensive word. PAGE 7A
Column: Don't tell gay soldiers not to be asked or told
Column: Don't tell gay soldiers not to be human Matt Sevick says it's unprofessional for a soldier to feel as though he must keep his sexuality under wraps. It flies in the face of fundamental human rights and freedoms. PAGE 7A
INSIDEKULTURE
KU's collection of lost items goes unclaimed
Capt. Schuyler Bailey says that most items in the University's 33 lost and found offices never find their owners, so they are eventually either donated or destroyed.
Hundreds of items are left each semester and then taken to the KU Public Safety Office. PAGE 8A
INSIDESPORTS
Uncertainty paves road to Big 12 tournament
The baseball team has earned the eighth and final spot in the Big 12 Conference tournament, but it has two series remaining against top five-ranked opponents. Coach Ritch Price wants the players to build off the momentum from their series victory against Texas last weekend. PAGE 18
Column: Senior athletes gave everything
Though usually in the spotlight, senior athletes will blend with the crowd of thousands walking down the hill. Many of the these athletes have seen their teams improve during their four years, while also attaining a number of individual goals. Jack Weinstein says they have given their lives to the University and will be missed. PAGE 18
Kansas didn't suffer after team leader's injury
Senior golfer Andrew Price was the leader of the Jayhawks this season, but a hand injury forced him to sit out during most of March. Junior Luke Trammell assumed the role and the Jayhawks didn't miss a beat. Now Trammell can keep his confidence and his starting role. PAGE 1B
NATION
Air Force wearing thin from intensive service
Wear and tear on their specialized helicopters and sirplanes is mounting, as is the human toll in lives lost and families separated.
HURLBURT FIELD, Flia. — In the shadow of their better-known Army and Navy counterparts, Air Force commandoos have been sent into Iraq and Afghanistan so frequently that strains are showing.
At their Hurlburt Field headquarters on Santa Rosa Sound, air commandos point with pride to the furious pace of their service in the war on terror since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
"We are going just full throttle" to get air commandos trained, said Col. Thomas Hull, vice director of operations for Air Force Special Operations Command.
"We're wearing 'em down," says Lt. Col. Don Timpson of the 19th Special Operations Squadron, which trains air crews. He was referring to pilots who fly airlifters and other specialized airplanes and helicopters that require extensive
training.
One unit, the 8th Special Operations Squadron, was the most-deployed squadron in the entire active-duty Air Force in 2002 and 2003. It files the MC-130E Combat Talon I, now in its fifth decade of use to deliver and retrieve forces behind enemy lines.
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COMMUNITY SERVICE
BY ERIC SORRENTINO
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Greek students going home for the summer are also making their car loads lighter for a good cause.
Pi Beta Phi sorority, 1612 W. 15th St., gave the most donations last year. Stewart said she made trips to the chapter every day during finals last year. The sorority's donations box was full every time.
"There were dumpsters that were full all over town at the end of the year, and it seemed wasteful," Stewart said. "So why not organize recycling?"
The Kaw Bioregional Council, a community sustainability and recycling organization, will collect donations from the greek community from Friday until commencement. Past donations ranged from clothing to furniture to wigs, said Mary Ann Stewart, co-organizer of the annual clothing drive. Even items such as electronic car keys, food, bedding and refrigerators have been donated, Stewart said.
The council has organized recycling at the end of the year with the greek community for five years. Sororities and fraternities that wanted to participate received a box for their donations. About one-third of the greek community has participated in years past, Stewart said.
"In a house full of girls, it's easy to find extra clothing," Katy Ibsen, Pi Beta Phi president, said.
Many of the Pi Beta Phi women donate because the food and bedding goes toward the Women's Transitional Care Center, 2518 Ridge Court, the Boulder, Colo. junior said. The center is a refuge for battered women and their children.
Money will go toward survivors of domestic violence.
The center houses 19 survivors, said Shay O'Brien, director of the volunteer program for the center.
"Any time someone donates, it's wonderful because we don't have a lot of money." O'Brien said.
The council has collected donations from Pi Beta Phi in the past, Ibsen said.
She said that it would have been beneficial to collect donations earlier in the year as well because some members have moved out by stop day. But she said that many of the members still around gave what they could.
"When they realize it is for other women that have been hurt, it makes it easier to donate," Ibsen said. "Part of our mission statement is forming women's morals in their daily lives, and Women's Transitional Care falls under that."
Clothing will be cleaned, sorted and sold at a garage sale in west Lawrence. The council raised $500 to $600 from the garage sale last year. Stewart said. The money will go toward the fall and spring bioregional conference.
Residence halls began donating to KU Recycling in 2001, said Jeff Severin, environmental services manager. Because the greeks seemed to be the second largest community on campus, the council began accepting donations from them, Stewart said.
The council has collected donations at the University since 1990, Stewart said. It used to be called "Dorm Pickup," when the council collected donations from the residence halls on campus.
Edited by Kendall Dix
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Campus joins book drive
BY DANI LITT
dlitti@kansan.com
kANSIN WRITE WRITER
Brenna Whisney always enjoyed community service. In fact, the Edina, Minn., sophomore lettered in it during her junior and senior years of high school.
This week, she has expanded her services to help an entire continent.
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Brenna Whisney, Edina, Minn., sophomore, has started a book drive at the University of Kansas this week for Books for Africa, a non-profit organization. The University is one of 200 colleges and universities to participate in the drive. Textbooks that cannot be bought back can be donated.
With the help of Alpha Phi Omega fraternity, Whisney has coordinated a book drive for Books for Africa, a non-profit organization.
The University of Kansas is one of 200 college campuses to participate in a textbook drive for the organization this semester.
Whisney stumbled across the idea in an article she read about volunteers who delivered the donated books to Africa. After learning that her two best friends had donated books at their campuses, Marquette University and Macalester College, she decided to bring the drive to Lawrence.
Students are encouraged to donate any textbooks that the bookstores cannot buy back due to edition or class changes.
"There are 25,000 students at KU and if half donated a book, that's still a lot of books," she said. "It just seemed logical to do it at KU."
Lab manuals, handbooks or other workbooks that contain hand-written notes in them cannot be donated.
Better World Books, an organization partnered with Books for Africa, collects the books and sells as many as possible to raise money for shipping, boxes and advertisements.
"I think it's like we have a social responsibility to each other," Whisney said. "If I have a book I'm not using, why not try to find a place that someone else can use it?"
The loftover books are then donat ed to 23 different African countries.
Frank Lynn, former Peace Corps volunteer, already has collected two thousand books for Zambia, the country he served in during his time in the Corps. He decided to donate them to Whisney's drive for Books for Africa because he had been unable to send them due to shipping costs.
Book drive boxes have been placed in fraternity and sorority houses, scholarship halls, at the Student Involvement and Leadership Center and at the Jayhawk Bookstore. The drive will continue through May 20.
Any books collected in the recycling bins at the residence halls or at the Jayhawker Towers also will be donated to the collection.
Whisney plans to volunteer for Books for Africa this summer. In the future, she said she hoped to be able to travel to Africa and personally deliver the books.
Edited by Ross Fitch
ACCIDENT
Bus crash kills two in Missouri
BY BILL DRAPER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LIBERTY. Mo. — A school bus carrying 53 elementary school children crashed into two vehicles at a busy Liberty intersection yesterday morning, killing two people in the vehicles and sending at least three children to area hospitals with life-threatening injuries.
Liberty Police Chief Craig Knouse said police didn't know why the southbound bus, which was trying to turn west, slammed into the two eastbound vehicles, which were stopped next to each other while waiting for a stoplight to change in the community about 15 miles north of Kansas City. He said the bus' normal route was to continue south on 291 to Ridgeview.
BY BILL DISPER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Knouse identified the victims as David Gleason, Liberty, and David Sandweiss, whose hometown was not immediately available. Their ages were not released. They were the only people in the vehicles.
Police said 23 students were taken to three area hospitals with injuries, and the other 15 were released to their parents.
"Obviously it's a worst nightmare,
Laura Fitzmaurice, head of the emergency department at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, said 10 children were taken there, including two in critical condition and five hospitalized in serious condition.
basically," Liberty School Superintendent Scott Taveau said. "This is a community that cares about kids and cares about education. This is a tragedy for this community."
Cinderella's bus driver, whose name was not released, was being treated at a hospital yesterday afternoon. Taveau said the driver was a seven-year veteran driver who had "an impeccable record."
He also defended the district's bus safety record. He said there had been only minor school bus bender-benders in the six years he had led the district.
At Liberty Hospital, spokeswoman Denise Seley said one child underwent emergency surgery and another three had been airlifted from there to Children's Mercy.
The children, who ranged in age from 6-11, suffered head injuries, cuts, scrapes, broken bones and neck injuries, she said.
Immediately after the crash, dozens of workers at nearby businesses rushed to the scene to help the children off the bus.
"Many people from the community in the area simply were doing everything they possibly could to comfort the children," Knouse said. "It's something that made you feel so good in such a bad situation."
"Our bus drivers, we have a great safety record, accident free," Tavaau said. "I would put our school bus drivers against any school bus drivers in the state."
"We were standing outside on a break when we heard a loud boom and saw a big cloud of dust," said Vickie Whattoff, one of about 20 Hy-Vee workers who responded. "We saw that it was a bus and ran over and started helping kids out."
She said many of the children on the bus, which was carrying kindergarteners through fifth-graders, were bleeding and crying for their parents.
"One little boy had his teeth knocked out and he asked me if he was going to be deformed," Whattoff said, her voice quivering as she struggled with her emotions.
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