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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2005
CAMPUS
KU School of Medicine ready to celebrate 100th anniversary
The University of Kansas School of Medicine will celebrate its centennial Friday.
To commemorate the event, school officials arranged festivities for students and staff.
More than 150 invitations were sent to area business and community leaders for the event, Barbara Jaekel, school spokeswoman, said.
An exhibit on the school's history will be on display in the Clendening Library on the medical center campus. The exhibit will feature artifacts connected to Kansas physicians.
"This is the first time we've done a full display of the school's history." Jaekel said.
Harvey Fineberg, president of the Institute of Medicine, will speak at 9:30 a.m. Friday in the School of Nursing Auditorium for the occasion
He will discuss American health care systems for the 21st century, Jeekel said.
— Ty Beaver
Alumnus to donate $2 million to establish professorship
University of Kansas alumnus Sir Robert Worcester is donating $2 million to the political science department.
The money is expected to establish a distinguished professorship in political science.
"We will begin a search process in the fall," Sharp said. "Sometimes searches will take years."
It isn't known who will be the distinguished professor, Elaine Sharp, political science chairwoman, said.
This donation will also fund professional travel, graduate student researchers, public lectures and equipment for the faculty member given the distinguished professorship.
Worcester graduated from the University with a business degree in 1955 and moved to Great Britain in 1969.
He is a governor of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Stepping it up
— Neil Mulka
Stephanie Farley/KANSAN
Clayton Holmes (left), Wichita freshman, and Serrigo Wilson, Wichita sophomore, work the crowd in front of Wescoe Hall as they show off some dance moves yesterday afternoon. Holmes and Wilson are members of the fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha, which will participate in the KU Greek Step Show on April 23. Alpha Phi Alpha has won the show four of the last five years. The Step Show starts at 7 p.m. at the Lied Center. Tickets are $12.
HOMELAND SECURITY
Explosives cache rattles KS town
Nichols is serving a life sentence for his role in the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. Timothy McVeigh, convicted of federal conspiracy and murder charges, was executed in 2001.
She sold the two-bedroom pale blue frame house to Nichols, who she remembers as "out in left field and a little bizarre."
Larry Byers, publisher of The Hertington Times, a weekly newspaper
BY CARL MANNING
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HERINGTON — Ten years after this small town was thrust into an unwanted spotlight because Terry Nichols briefly lived here, life had returned to normal. The six weeks the Oklahoma City bombing conspirator spent here was a fading memory.
Last month, however, memories were revived when FBI agents found blasting caps and other explosive materials buried in a crawl space beneath the living room floor of the home where Nichols lived at the time of the bombing, which killed 168 people. The FBI believes Nichols hid the items, but it is still analyzing them for fingerprints and other clues.
"We really put it behind us, until the FBI showed up again. It's like we can't get out of the attention," real estate agent Georgia Rucker said Monday on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the bombing of the federal building.
in this town of 2,600 about 140 miles southwest of Kansas City, said interest in Nichols died down after his 1997 federal conviction, and talk around town returned to such topics as the weather, cattle prices and commodities.
Even when the FBI returned March 31 to Herington, the agents numbered fewer than a decade ago and a long line of reporter didn't follow.
Those living near the house were evacuated for about 24 hours until the search was completed.
"I was very upset. I was hoping it was all over with," said Etta Mae Hartke, who lived next door to Nichols.
Rucker now owns the house and has been trying to sell it since last fall. She said she lost a few potential buyers when she told them who once lived there.
She said people used to bring up the bombing when they found out she was from Herington. But that's changed.
"Some remember, but not all. It's not like it use to be." Rucker said. "It's like they remember the name, but not why they remember the name."
Margie Schlesener runs the soda fountain at the corner drug store where a cup of coffee still sells for 27 cents. People gather there daily to swap stories and visit.
"We've got better things to talk about; the weather, farm prices, sick friends and well friends. That's more important," Schlesener said, adding that Nichols was considered an outsider.
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