NEWS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28. 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
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GREEK LIFE
Finals week turns competitive to promote recycling
BY BRENNA LONG blong@kansan.com
Greeks Going Green is focusing its efforts on making finals week a week of competitive recycling.
The organization will pass out recycling bins to fraternities and sororites at its meeting Sunday to promote recycling in greek housing during finals. Brisa Izagurri, co-coordinator of Greeks Going Green and a junior from Overland Park, said.
"We all know that after a final is over the best feeling of relief is to just get rid of all that unneeded paperwork," Izaguirre said.
All of the recycled materials collected during finals week will be returned.
collected during he gathered and recorded so the greek committee can get an idea of who wants to participate in Greeks Going Green, Izaquirre said.
a tracking system for the points that is based on the amount of
All the houses participating in this activity ...
"Every chapter is competing for their house across the country..."
BEN MORGAN
Co-coordinator of Greeks Going
Green
will also earn points for next year. The group has been working with Jeff Severn, director for the Center of Sustainability, to make
recycling and the number of green activities in which the houses participate.
Izaguirre said the group was going to talk to the greek awards committee to
try to incorporate a green award next year for the greenest fraternity or sorority.
"Every chapter is competing for
their house across the country, so this would give them one more thing to put on their list," Ben Morgan, co-coordinator of Greeks Going Green and a senior from Lenexa, said.
Another way houses could earn points was by turning off the lights and participating in a Black Out event last week.
For an hour on Earth Day, nine houses turned off all the lights to conserve energy and raise awareness.
Alpha Delta Pi, Chi Omega,
Delta Upsilon, Gamma Phi Beta,
Kappa Sigma, Pi Beta Phi, Sigma
Chi, Sigma Delta Tau and Sigma
Kappa all participated.
Morgan said the Black Out was the first tangible thing Greeks Going Green had done so far since the group started two years ago.
"The Black Out was successful here," Mike Lucy, the Delta Upsilon representative and a junior from Leawood, said. "There were very few complaints."
Aside from the planned events, the representatives started recycling initiatives in their own houses.
Lucy and Elliott Lockwood, the Kappa Sigma representative and a sophomore from Houston, talked to members of their houses and
have added more recycling bins.
Lockwood placed a box next to the printer for paper and bins for cans and bottles around the Kappa Sigma house.
During the course of two weeks, the house collected 60 pounds in cans and earned $23 by selling its recyclables.
"I feel like it is worthwhile to promote and helps the houses save some money," Lockwood said. "I'm not sure if we have had an effect on other houses, but I hope we have."
- Edited by Drew Anderson
NATIONAL
Texas governor shoots a coyote to protect his puppy
ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN, TX — Pistol-packing Texas Gov. Rick Perry has a message for wily coyotes out there: Don't mess with my dog.
Perry told The Associated Press Tuesday that he needed just one shot from the laser-sighted pistol he sometimes carries while jogging to take down a coyote that menaced his puppy during a February run in an undeveloped area near Austin.
Perry said he would carry his .380 Ruger pistol — loaded with hollow-point bullets — when jogging on trails because he was afraid of snakes. He'd also seen coyotes in the area.
"Don't attack my dog or you might get shot — if you're a coyote," he said Tuesday.
When one came out of the brush toward his daughter's Labrador retriever, Perry charged.
Perry, a Republican running for a third full term against Democrat Bill White, is living in a private house in a hilly area southwest of downtown Austin while the Governor's Mansion is being repaired after a
2008 fire. A concealed handgun permit holder. Perry carries the gun in a belt.
"I knew there were a lot of predators out there. You'll hear a pack of coyotes. People are losing small cats and dogs all the time out there in that community," Perry said.
nent danger. I did the appropriate thing and sent it to where coyotes go," he said.
"Don't attack my dog or you might get shot — if you're a coyote."
"They're very wily creatures."
RICK PERRY
Texas Governor
Perry said the laser-pointer helped make a quick, clean kill.
On this particular morning, Perry said, he had been jogging without his security detail shortly after sunrise.
"I'm enjoying the run when something catches my eye and it's this coyote. I know he knows I'm there. He never looks at me, he is laser-locked on that dog." Perry said.
"I holler and the coyote stopped.
I holler again. By this time I had taken my weapon out and charged it. It is now staring dead at me.
Either me or the dog are in immi-
"It was not in a lot of pain," he said. "It pretty much went down at that particular juncture."
Texas state
law allows people to shoot coyotes if they are threatening livestock or domestic animals. The coyote never reached the dog, which was unharmed, Perry said.
Perry's security detail was not required to file a report on the governor discharging a weapon, said Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Tela Mange.
"People shoot coyotes all the time, snakes all the time," Mange said. "We don't write reports."
As for the coyote, Perry left it where it fell.
"He became mulch," Perry said.
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Will Taylor, a sophomore from Lawrence, leaps off a drop behind Wescoe Hall Tuesday night. Taylor and friend Kid Nickelow, a senior from Lawrence, often tackle drops around the University on their mountain bikes after school hours.
NATIONAL
Malcolm X's assassin on parole from prison
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hagan, 69, has repeatedly expressed sorrow for being one of the gunmen who fired on Malcolm X, killing one of the civil rights eras most polarizing and compelling figures. One of the groups dedicated to Malcolm X's memory condemned Hagan's parole.
Thomas Hagan was the last man still serving time in the 1965 killing, part of the string of violence that wound through the cultural and political upheaval of the 1960s. He was freed from a Manhattan prison where he spent two days a week under a work-release program.
NEW YORK — The only man ever to admit involvement in the assassination of Malcolm X was freed on parole Tuesday, 45 years after he helped gun down the civil rights leader.
Hagan declined to comment after his release.
Hagan acknowledged that he was one of three men who shot Malcolm X in front of a crowd of hundreds — including several of his young children — as the
"I really haven't had any time to gather my thoughts on anything," he told The Associated Press by telephone.
civil rights leader began a speech at Harlem's Audubon Ballroom on Feb. 21, 1965. Two other accomplices created a distraction in the audience, Hagan said.
But he said the two men convicted with him were not involved. They, too, maintained their innocence and were paroled in the 1980s. No one else has ever been charged, a fact that has perpetuated debate and theories surrounding the slaving.
The Manhattan District Attorney's office, which prosecuted Hagan and his co-defendants, declined to comment on Hagans release or his account of the killing.
Hagan tried 17 times before being approved last month for parole. He had been sentenced to up to life in prison for what he described in a, 2008 court filing as the deed of a, young man who "acted out of rage, on impulse and loyalty" to religious leaders.
The assassins gunned down Malcolm X out of anger at his split with the leadership of the Nation of Islam, the black Muslim movement for which he had once served as a prominent spokesman, said Hagan. Malcolm X was 39 years old when he was killed.
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