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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
THURSDAY, MAY 5.2005
INSIDENEWS
"West Wing" writer visits Institute
Best Wing Writer Visitation
Ell Attie, a producer and writer for NBC's "The West Wing," spoke at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics last night. Altie, a speech writer for the Clinton administration, talked about the similarities and differences between the show and real life, and how Al Gore really is as boring as he seems. **Page 1A**
Former KU student saves lives through death
After former KU student Connor Meigs died in a car accident last year, he gave the gift of life — his organs — to four candidates on the waiting list because he had signed up as an organ donor when he renewed his license. Though some KU students don't sign up for organ donations because of various myths, donations are necessary throughout the United States. More than 87,000 people await organs that will match with their bodies. Otherwise they, too, will die. PAGE 1A
MRC, HALO use Mexican holiday to inform
Today the Multicultural Resource Center and the Hispanic American Leadership Organization will be at Mrs. E's to make sure students know why Cinco de Mayo is celebrated, instead of just using it as another excuse to drink. Carrie Warner, St. Louis junior, said the holiday was the busiest day of the year for Mexican restaurants. PAGE 1A
Renovated buildings become unique new homes
Lawrence landlords are using everything they can - old churches and even retail malls - to create unique buildings to attract new clients and an influx of students. These old buildings are not restricted to individual renters, either. At least one renovated ed church is home to a small business, which appreciates its proximity to downtown. PAGE 2A
Comfort at a cost
Designer jeans — some costing as much as $250 a pair — have been flying off the shelves at local stores. Some say shoppers wear the jeans just for the labels. Other insist the higher the price, the higher the comfort. PAGE 4A
Column: Childhood's lessons take on new meaning as we grow old
Sara Zafar reiterates all those old rules we used to hear as children and explains how they still mean something in our everyday adult lives. PAGE 9A
INSIDEOPINION
Column: Big Religion plus Big Politics equals less free speech Ron Knox says the political atmosphere in the United States doesn't do any favors for one of the biggest inalienable rights this country has: freedom of speech. This instance comes in the form of banning books that offend conservative sensibilities. PAGE 9A
Editorial: Exclusion of convict from society a dangerous precedent Leroy Hendricks is not a good man. He has a frightening history of molesting children. He even admitted that his death was the only way he could be sure he'd stop molesting children. But he's served his time and now needs somewhere to live. He has the right to live in Lawrence, whether we like it or not. PAGE 9A
INSIDESPORTS
Baseball team defeats Wichita State Shockers
The Jayhawks earned a split in the season series against the Shockers with a 5-3 victory in Wichita last night. Jared Schweitzer extended his hitting streak to 20 games, just one game behind Ryan Baty's record of 21 straight games. PAGE 1B
Three-run Tiger homer dooms Jayhawks
Missouri's Janessa Roening, right fielder, was named USA Softball National Player of the Week last week. It showed during yesterday's loss to the Tigers, when Roening scored a three-run home run. Despite four jayhawk hits in the first innning, the jayhawks never scored a run and the Tigers defeated them in the latest Border Showdown game, 3-0. PAGE 1B
Column: Softball loss likely decides Border Showdown
Column: Softball loss likely decides Basketball.
Colonist Jonathan Kealing says last night's softball game probably gave Missouri the Border Showdown title for this year. In front of its largest crowd of the season and on senior night, the softball team was shut out by Missouri. PAGE 1B
Kansas triple jumper wants to set record again
this triple jumper wants to set record eagles.
Before Brooklyn Hann leaves the University of Kansas this month, she wants to beat the Kansas woman's triple jump record she set in April. As a top triple jumper in the Big 12 Conference, Hann wants to leave with a bang PAGE 2B
Hall of fame, university to recognize Perkins
Athletics Director Lew Perkins has been elected to the Board of Trustees for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He will also receive an honorary degree and deliver the commencement address tonight at the University of South Carolina Aiken. PAGE 3B
Senior swimmer kicked soccer goodbye for a successful career Becca Zarazan started out playing soccer. And she started college at Colorado State But, for the past three years she has been one of the staples of Kansas' swimming team. PAGE 3B
Where fans of Shocker baseball and beer revel in bot
Where fans of Shocker Baseball and Beer fever lure Jayhawk baseball fans, look to Wichita State's "The Hill" and lust. Simultaneous BYOB tailgating and game watching make for cheap college student fun. PAGE 48
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Lindsey Stinson, Bixby, Okla., junior, and Samantha Key, Sabetha junior, lounge and watch TV yesterday under their gazebo-like living room at the Four Wheel Drive Townhouses located behind Sears. Stinson first discovered them in a classified advertisement in The Kansan. When asked about the oddly-shaped houses, Key replied, "When you walk in you laugh, and then you fall in love with it."
Building unique homes
BY ADAM LAND
aland@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Former churches and even retail malls in Lawrence are quickly becoming apartments and townhomes, all in an effort by landlords to use unique structures to draw students and other new clients to their properties.
All 14 units are circular in shape, both inside and out. This unique style was not initially attractive to Key, but she grew to like it.
Interesting buildings can bring in a variety of people, including students, Samantha Key, Sabeth junior, said. Key lives in the Four Wheel Drive Townhouses, located at 2859 Four Wheel Drive Road.
"When I first saw them, I though
they were weird," Key said, after having been a tenant for almost a year. "But they are so beautiful and different."
they are so beautiful. The apartment setup also provides her amenities that would be hard to find elsewhere.
"I have a gazebo in my apartment," she said.
The townhomes, located in southern Lawrence, were built as a retail shopping mall in the early 1990's, said Kathryn Franklin, office manager for the townhomes. But after the River Front Mall was built, the property owners decided to transform the mall into rentals.
to transform the mall.
A church, which was built in the late 1800s and is now located at 1001 Kentucky St., also has been transformed. It is now a home for students and even a small business, Little Springs Design, said Aspen Junge,
network operations professional for the company.
"I remember when we looked at it, thinking how cool it was." Junge said.
thinking how cool it was, Junge said. The small business operates out of the location because of its close proximity to downtown, Junge said. The cost for their apartment, which Junge said was more than $600 per month, is cheaper than if the business were on Massachusetts Street.
"It's cool, but you pay for the 'cool factor,' Junge said.
Each property has its own quirks, though. Tenants living at 1001 Kentucky St. battle for parking spaces as much as those in the residence halls. The lot was not designed to have a big parking lot, Junge said.
- Edited by Ross Fitch
NATION
Nichols writes about accusations
BY RICHARD GREEN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OKLAHOMA CITY — Terry Nichols has written a letter to a woman who lost two grandchildren in the Oklahoma City bombing and accused a man never charged in the attack of providing some of the explosives used to bring down the building a decade ago.
Nichols, serving a life sentence for his role in the blast, said in the four-page handwritten letter that he "felt the record should be set straight." He claims Arkansas gun collector Roger Moore gave the explosives to Timothy McVeigh and also provided additional bomb components recently found in Nichols' former Kansas home.
He sent the letter to Kathy Sanders, who has written a book about her own investigation of the bombing and corresponds with Nichols. A copy of the letter, first disclosed by the Los Angeles Times, was obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press from Sanders' literary agent, Jim Baird.
An FBI spokesman in Kansas City said the letter will not lead to a new investigation and that there is no indication Moore provided explosives to Nichols and McVeigh. Prosecutors say Nichols stole an estimated $63,000 in weapons and other items from Moore's home that were then sold to help finance the terror plot.
"We believe the information that came out of the original investigation and we stand by the results of that investigation," FBI spokesman Jeff Lanza said.
In the early stages of the bombing investigation, the FBI took a hard look at Moore because of his anti-government views and close relationship with McVeigh.
Nichols said in the letter that FBI tests, including fingerprinting, on a "case of little tubes of nitromethane" found about a month ago at his former home in Herington, Kan., would support his claim that they came from Moore and Moore's girlfriend.
with Meveigh.
Moore was never charged and has denied any involvement in the bombing and he testified against Nichols about the robbery. He could not be immediately reached for comment; he has an unpublished phone number.
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"The Fed Gov't knows of Roger
Moore's corrupt activities and they are protecting him and covering up his involvement with McVeigh at the OKC bombing!" Nichols wrote.
The FBI searched the home after getting a tip from an inmate who said he learned of the explosives cache from Nichols in the maximum-security federal prison in Colorado.
Oklahoma County District Attorney Wes Lane, whose office prosecuted Nichols in state court last year, said that in attempts to solve the case through plea negotiations before trial, Nichols was asked to discuss the involvement of others in the bombing. He had no relevant information, and never mentioned Moore, Lane said.
never mentioned it.
"It disgusts me that Terry Nichols would further victimize the innocent by his prison cell ramblings." Lane said.
his prisoner Nichols, 50, has been convicted twice — in federal court and in an Oklahoma court — and is imprisoned for life without parole. McVeigh was executed in 2001.
The letter was dated April 18, the day before the 10-year anniversary of the federal building bombing that killed 168 people.
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