TUESDAY, APRIL 26. 2005
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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STATE
Funding helps pass gay marriage ban
TOPEKA — Supporters of a measure banning gay marriage outspent opponents by more than 2-to-1 in a successful effort to add the proposal to the Kansas Constitution, campaign finance records show.
Those records showed eight groups favoring the amendment spent a total of nearly $182,000, while two groups and an individual opposing the measure spent almost $81,000.
Groups and individuals were required to file reports last week with the secretary of state's office, listing contributors and their expenditures.
The proposed amendment not only bans gay marriage but declares that only unions of one man and one woman are entitled to the "rights or incidents" or marriage. The provision prevents the state from recognizing civil unions or domestic partnerships for same-sex couples.
Seventy percent of the voters supported the amendment in an April 5 election.
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius,
Attorney General Phill Kline and
Secretary of State Ron
Thornburgh plan to meet tomorrow
to certify the election results
Spending for the amendment, from Feb. 2, when legislators put the amendment on the statewide ballot, through April 20:
- DOMA Inc., Johnson County $137.888
◆ Focus on the Family Action,
Colorado Springs, Colo.
$24.449
♦ Central Christian Church,
Wichita $8,148
◆ Kansas Republican Victory
Fund, Toneka $4.352
♦ One Voice of Kansas, Topeka
$4.316
♦ Immanuel Baptist Church,
Wichita $1,809
- Truth in Love Outreach $500
- Citizens for Traditional
Citizens for Traditional Marriage, Clay Center $479 TOTAL $181,941
DOMA typically stands for Defense of Marriage Amendment or Act.
DOMA Inc, received a $100,000 contribution from the Knights of Columbus, headquartered in New Haven. Conn., the largest group for lay Catholics.
Spending against the amendment:
♦ Kansens for Fairness, Topeka
$66.901
♦ Flint Hills Human Rights ⦇
District, Manhattan $12,922
+ Jonathan Wimer, Mayetta $128
TOTAL $80,962
71 dead, cause of crash still unknown
JAPANESE TRAIN WRECK
BY MARI YAMAGUCHI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AMAGASAKI, Japan — The death toll jumped to 71 yesterday as crews pulled more victims from the wreckage of Japan's deadliest rail crash in decades. Investigators focused on whether excessive speed or the driver's inexperience caused the train to derail and slam into a building.
The seven-car commuter train carrying 580 passengers left the rails Sunday near Amagasaki, a suburb of Osaka about 250 miles west of Tokyo. It hit an automobile and then a nine-story apartment complex. More than 440 people were injured.
Rescuers working under floodlights pulled out a conscious but seriously injured 46-year-old woman then reached a 19-year-old man passenger, also in serious condition.
Two of the five derailed cars were shoved inside and flattened against the wall of the building's first-floor parking garage.
Distraught relatives rushed to hospitals looking for loved ones who might have been injured or killed in the crash. They struggled to comprehend their loss.
But most of the work was grim as crews pulled 14 more bodies from the twisted rail carriages, pushing the death toll from 57 to 71.
"I only saw him the night before," said Hiroko Kuki, whose son died in the crash. "I
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wish he were alive somewhere
I wish it were only a nightmare."
Takamichi Hayashi said his elder brother, 19-year-old Hiroki, might have been among those still in the wreck. He said Hiroki had called their mother twice on a mobile phone from inside one of the train cars hours after the crash but remained unaccounted for.
Workers of Aircraft and Railway Accidents Investigation Commission, or ARAIC inspect a train accident site in front of a derailed commuter train in Amagasaki, in western Japan yesterday. The packed commuter train jumped the tracks Sunday and hurtled into an apartment complex, killing at least 73 people and injuring more than 440 others in the deadliest Japanese rail accident in four decades.
"He told my mother: 'I'm in pain. I'm not going to make it,'" Havashi said.
Officials said no cause had been ruled out but added that investigators suspected speed and the driver's less than a year on the job.
The driver — identified as Ryujiro Takami, 23 — was unaccounted for.
He got his train operator's license last May. A month later, he overshot a station and was issued a warning, railway officials and police said. Passengers said he also stopped too far past a station platform Sunday just before the crash.
Tsunemi Murakami, safety director for train operator West Japan Railway Co., said it had not been determined how fast the train was traveling.
A surviving crew member told police he "felt the train was going faster than usual," public broadcaster NHK said.
That echoed comments from passengers who speculated the driver might have been speeding to make up for time lost when he overshot the previous station by 25 feet and had to
back up. The train was nearly two minutes behind schedule media reports said.
The crash occurred on a curve with a speed limit of 43 mph. Murakami estimated the train would have had to be traveling at 82 mph to have jumped the track purely because of excessive speed.
Some stretches of track in Japan have safety systems designed to stop trains at any
sign of trouble without requiring drivers to take emergency action. But transport ministry officials said the automatic braking system along the stretch of track where the train crashed is among the oldest in Japan and can't halt trains traveling at high speeds.
Outside experts predicted investigators would find a combination of factors to blame.
dents in Japan in which a train has flipped just because it was going too fast. There might have been several conditions at work
— speed, winds, poor train maintenance or aging rails," Kazuhiko Nagase, a train expert who is a professor at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology said.
"For the train to flip, it had to be traveling at an extremely high speed," Nagase said.
HEALTH
Teenage girls lose weight on steroids
BY LINDA A. JOHNSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TRENTON, N.J. — An alarming number of American girls, some as young as 9, are using bodybuilding steroids — not necessarily to get an edge on the playing field, but to get the toned, sculpted look of models and movie stars, experts say.
Girls are taking the same dangerous testosterone pills, shots and creams that have created a scandal in major league baseball and other sports. Often, these are the same girls who have eating disorders, according to some research.
"There's been a substantial increase for girls during the 1990s, and it's at an all-time
high right now." said Charles Yesalis, a professor of health and human development at Pennsylvania State University.
Lloyd Johnston, a University of Michigan professor who heads an annual government-sponsored survey on risky behavior by young people, said:
Overall, up to about 5 percent of high school girls and 7 percent of middle-school girls admit trying anabolic steroids at least once, with use of rising steadily since 1991, various government and university studies have shown.
Researchers say that most girls are using steroids to get bigger and stronger on the playing field, and they attribute some of the increase in steroid
use to girls' rising participation in sports. But plenty of other girls are using steroids to give themselves a slightly muscular look, they say.
"With young women, you see them using it more as a weight control and body fat reduction method," said Jeff Hoerger, who runs the staff counseling program at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
In the past couple of years, he has helped two girls using steroids — one an 11th-grader with "an average figure" whose swimmer friend suggested steroids to help with weight loss.
"She was just looking for quick results." Hoerger said.
The sports medicine division at the Oregon Health and
Science University found that two-thirds of Oregon high school girls who admitted using steroids were not athletes and that girls who were considering taking steroids had tried other, risky ways to get thin.
"They were more likely to have eating disorders and to abuse diuretics, amphetamines and laxatives," said Dr. Linn Goldberg, head of the division.
In teenage girls, the side effects from taking male sex hormones can include severe acne, smaller breasts, deeper voice, irregular periods, excess facial and body hair, depression, paranoia and the fits of anger dubbed "roid rage." Steroids also carry higher risks of heart attack, stroke and some forms of cancer.
Anchorman
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A
Finding a lot of angles to a story is something that Cooper is good at, Paul Cranagle, Lincoln, Kan., junior, said, especially in his coverage of the Iraq war.
"He did a story about families back home," Crangle said. "There was a story about people who lost their jobs when they came back."
Cooper addressed balancing stories that held the public interest and ones that were under the radar.
His obligation is to find a way to tell those stories in a compelling manner, he said.
"When we fail is when we can't figure out how to tell a compelling story that may not be on its face compelling," he said.
- Edited by Lisa Coble-Krings
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