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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2005
INSIDENEWS
KII buses to run on biodiesel fuel tomorrow
10 buses to run on biodiesel fuel
The University of Kansas will test the use of biodiesel fuel on its older buses tomorrow to determine its effect on the engines. The University, specifically KU on Wheels, is looking for a more environmentally friendly fuel. PAGE 1A
Printing service closure leads to early retirement
The director of the University of Kansas Printing Service will retire early because of the University's decision to close the service. KU officials have found positions at the University and elsewhere for 19 of the 22 employees. The service is closing because of decreased business, though no exact date has been set. PAGE 1A
Coalition still battling
KII Public Safety Office plans to make a move
The third party from this year's Student Senate elections, Student Voice, has been charged with 10 election violations. After being found guilty of the latest one, which stemmed from an unsanctioned soft drink distribution, the coalition is firing back. Two members said an appeal was in the works and said the elections commission was biased and "out to get them." PAGE 1A
Lecturer fears Minutemen will set bad precedent
KU Public Safety Office plans to make a move.
The KU Public Safety Office will soon find a new home on West Campus that should give it some more space. The office now occupies one wing on one floor of Carruth-O'Leary where space is tight. PAGE 2A
Chris White, a graduate teaching assistant in the history department, said having civilians patrol the borders was not the answer to the immigration problem. He said the group's goal was to deceive the public into thinking it was a nonviolent organization during his speech at the Multicultural Resource Center. PAGE 3A
INSIDEOPINION
Bad design is what's wrong with campus.
Poorly planned expansion of the KU campus over its 138 year history has done present day campus no big favors. Ph.D. candidates Mark Hersey and Robb Campbell offer up their take on how it can get better. PAGE 5A
INSIDESPORTS
Apartment M dominates intramural championships
One team, Apartment M, crushed the competition at the intramural softball championships Sunday to take home the T-shirts in both the men's and CoRec tournaments. Apartment M won 18-6 in the CoRec title game, and the mercy rule was invoked in its 19-6 victory in the men's championship game. **MAGE 12A**
Column: Kansas football is fighting history as it tries to improve
The last Kansas football coach to leave the football program with a winning record was J.V. Sikes. He last coached in 1953. Since that time, even the famed Don Fambrough and Glen Mason have accumulated losing records at the helm of the football squad. Jack Weinstein says that very few football programs have been able to rewrite their history, and Kansas won't be one that can. PAGE 12A
St. Mary's game allows more team members to play
Kansas will face a different kind of opponent tonight in its baseball game with St. Mary's, a small school that competes at the NAIA level. Coach Ritch Price called it a "teammate game" that would give playing opportunities to Jayhawks who don't normally get them. The game will be played at Hoglund Ballpark. PAGE 12A
Golf course reopens in time for NCAA practice
The public golf course and driving range at Alvamar Golf Club are ready for the men's golf team to practice on. The driving range opened during the weekend, and the home course will open tomorrow. The team will use the renovated course and range to practice for the upcoming NCAA Central Regionals. PAGE 8A
Student athletic trainers gain real-world experience
More than 30 students are majoring in athletic training at the University of Kansas. Throughout their education, the students get the opportunity to work alongside real trainers. Apart from gaining real-world experience every day, students also can say they helped get injured KU players back to competition quickly. PAGE 7A
AGRICULTURE
Cold could hurt wheat
WICHITA — Kansas farmers who had recently savored the prospects of an abundant winter wheat harvest are now fearful late spring freezes may have severely damaged the crop.
BY ROXANA HEGEMAN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
At his farm near Colby in the state's northwestern corner, Mike Brown was out yesterday checking his fields after temperatures dipped into the 20s in recent days. But it has not warmed up enough to see how bad the crop was damaged.
"Hopefully, it didn't hurt us." Brown said in a phone interview from his fields.
The tips on the wheat leaves have turned brown on Brown's farm. On Friday, he cut open a wheat plant and was pleased to discover that the seed head inside still looked yellow and viable.
Agricultural Statistics Service reported yesterday. About 19 percent of the crop showed light freeze damage, while 7 percent had moderate damage and 1 percent severe damage.
Preliminary wheat freeze damage reports indicate 73 percent of the wheat has not been damaged, Kansas
It has been three years since Brown has harvested a wheat crop, and his wheat four years ago was nothing to brag about. Hall destroyed his crop the day before harvest one year, and a long drought has decimated the other recent crops.
"I always have hope until it's too late," Brown said. "Wheat looks better out here than it has in four to six years. It is a question now of whether we are going to have anything or not."
But many farmers have yet to determine how much of their crop was hurt by the snow and frost that hit parts of Kansas this week.
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He is not alone. It has been as bad, or worse, for many of his neighbors in the drought-plagued corner of Kansas.
Statewide, about 12 percent of the wheat had already headed, KASS reported yesterday.
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RELOCATION
West Campus to become safety office's new home
The collections will be moved out of Snow Hall, which will open space in that building for the department of economics. Steeples said.
when collections belonging to the Natural History Museum are moved into other parts of the building for storage.
Kansas basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain once lived in the room that is now the KU Public Safety Office in Carruth-O'Leary Hall. But the room will find yet another purpose after the office moves to the vacated Printing Services building, 1501 Crestline Drive.
BY JOSHUA BICKEL
jbichel@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Right now, the office occupies the north wing on the third floor of Carruth-O'Leary Hall, located southwest of Memorial Stadium
It's unknown what will be done with the space in Carruth-O'Leary Hall once the KU Public Safety Office moves out. Steeples said.
"We know they're making space for us," Maj. Chris Keary, assistant chief, said. "But we don't have a lot of other information other than that."
Details still need to be finalized, and no specific date for a move-in has been set, but the office is expected to move into the building sometime either late this year or in the first three months of 2006, said Don Steeples, vice provost for scholarly support.
The space is often cramped, and rooms have multiple purposes.
"There's several groups under discussion," he added. "But we don't have a final decision about who's going to move into that space."
The move might quicken officer response time to residence halls on Daisy Hill, said Liz Stuewe, Lawrence freshman.
"But students won't stop illegal behavior because the police are closer," she said.
Between now and then, design work, renovation and some construction on the building will take place, which should take about six months. Steeples said.
"It's like moving into an apartment," Keary said. "You have to wait until the people before you get out."
The office wasn't forced to move and was eager to acquire the open building space for themselves, Steeples said.
"We offered them the option to move and they said they were interested," he said. "It really became a winwin situation for both of us."
The office will also have new neighbors in the Printing Services building
within a few hours of announcing the vacancy, Chief Ralph Oliver called and said he was interested in the building located on West Campus, Steeples said.
— Edited by Laura Francoviglia
ABU GHRAIB PRISON ABUSE
Soldier pleads guilty to charges
BY T.A. BADGER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FORT HOOD, Texas — Pfc. Lyndie England, the young woman pictured grinning, giving a thumbs-up and holding a naked Iraqi by a leash in some of the most notorious photos to come out of the Abu Ghraib scandal, pleaded guilty yesterday to mistreating prisoners.
Wearing her dress green Army uniform and speaking somberly in a soft voice, the 22-year-old Army reservist told the judge that she initially resisted taking part in the abuse at the Baghdad prison, but ultimately caved in to pressure from her comrades
in to present She entering her pleas a day before the start of her trial as part of a plea bargain.
The charges carry up to 11 years in prison, but prosecutors and the defense reached an agreement for a lesser sentence. A military jury will convene today to determine her punishment
The plea bargain settles one of the most prominent cases to come out of the Abu Ghraib scandal.
England became a central figure in the scandal after photos emerged last year showing her and others sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners.
One of the photos showed her holding a hooded, naked prisoner on a leash. Another showed her smiling and giving a thumbs-up next to a nude prisoners stacked in a pyramid. A third depicted England pointing at the prisoner's genitals as a cigarette dangled from her lips.
England's lawyers have argued that she and others in her military police unit were acting on orders from military intelligence to "soften up" prisoners for interrogation. But Army investigators testified during hearings last summer that England said the reservists took the photos while "they were joking around, having some fun."
Army Pfc. Lynndie R. England arrives flanked by her defense team for a hearing in her court martial at Fort Hood, Texas, yesterday. From right is Rick Hernandez, Lori Hernandez and Kristine Didonato, her defense lawyers, who are hoping a plea deal by England will be accepted by an Army judge.
L. M. Otero/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SCIENCE
No need to defend evolution
Supporters say it's inappropriate to debate supernatural viewpoints
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BY JOHN HANNA
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The attorney, Pedro Rigonegaray, also predicted that the board would face litigation if it revised the state's science testing standards to include elements of intelligent design, which he claimed some members of the board were trying to do.
He is working with a coalition of science and education groups that have bowcotted the hearings.
"We determined that it would be inappropriate to debate an issue such as evolution with individuals who are merely bringing to table a supernatural answer," Irigonegaray said during an interview.
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TOPEKA — Evolution supporters will present no witnesses and won't debate the theory's merits during hearings before a State Board of Education subcommittee, their attorney said yesterday.
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But John Calvert, a retired Lake Quivira attorney organizing the case for intelligent design advocates and evolution critics, called Irigonegaray's tactics "silly" and "all bluff."
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"Pedro doesn't have a case. He knows he doesn't have a case, so he's not putting one on," said Calvert, who helped found the Intelligent Design Network. "His client is on trial and he's not going to have him testify because he can't afford to put his client in the dock."
Intelligent design says some features of the natural world are best explained by an intelligent cause. Evolution says species change over time, and that's how different species can emerge from common ancestors, including man and apes.
Though the state board has sought to avoid comparisons with the 1925 "Monkey Trial" of a Dayton, Tenn., where a teacher was convicted of illegally teaching evolution, the hearings will in some ways resemble a trial, with witnesses being questioned. A three-member board subcommittee will preside, and six days of hearings are set to begin Thursday in Topeka.
Irigonegaray said he was defending a draft of science standards presented earlier this month to the board by a majority of a committee of educators reviewing them. The draft would continue the present policy of describing evolution as a key concept for students to learn before graduating high school.
But the board also accepted a minority report with changes designed to expose students to more criticism of evolution. That proposal has the backing of intelligent design advocates.
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