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Students perform a flash-mob style dance on Wescoe Beach Wednesday afternoon to promote the KU Dance Marathon's fundraiser April 10. The fundraiser will benefit KU Pediatrics and Children's Mercy Hospital.
Review of ticket office continues
ATHLETICS
The University has hired Foulston-Siefkin LLP, a Wichita-based law firm, to run the independent review of the Athletics Department following concerns surrounding the ticket office and the Williams Educational Fund. The investigation comes three weeks after Athletics Director Lew Perkins put Rodney Jones, associate director of the Williams Fund, on administrative leave.
The law firm has hired BKD LLP, a national accounting firm with an office in Wichita, to assist in the investigation, University spokesman Jack Martin said in an e-mail.
"The cost of the review will be paid by Kansas Athletics, and no taxpayer or tuition dollars will be used," Martin said in an e-mail.
ENTERTAINMENT
Martin said the review would be thorough and exhaustive, but he did not speculate on how long it would take.
"We want to complete it as quickly as possible, but we want to be absolutely thorough." Martin said. "Therefore, we have no specific timetable."
— Elliot Metz
Cheerleaders set for TV appearance
The squad will appear on the game show along with squads from Duke, Michigan State and Butler, Cindy Marshall, spokeswoman for the show, said the
Jayhawk fans can enjoy one more Kansas appearance on TV this season when the KU cheerleading squad appears on "The Price Is Right."
squads will read lines for the prize showcase at the end of the show, which includes Final Four tickets.
Marshall said the show's coordinators chose from schools with basketball programs ranked in the top 25 and picked Kansas.
Samantha Foster
The show will air 10 a.m.
Friday on CBS, Channel 5 KCTV
in Lawrence.
WICHTA — The man who gunned down one of the nation's few providers of late-term abortions could be sent to prison Thursday for the rest of his life, but he may have gotten what he wanted all along: It is markedly harder in Kansas to get an abortion.
Carhart said Wednesday he had not given up on opening a practice in Kansas where women can have a late-term procedure.
Tiller's death limits abortion options
But even as Scott Roeder faces a mandatory life sentence for killing Tiller, many ponder the conflicting legacies of his actions. Outside Kansas, abortion rights supporters say there's been a surge in lateterm abortion practices by doctors emboldened to pick up where Tiller left off.
George Tiller's clinic is closed, leaving the state with no facility where women can have the procedure after the 21st week of pregnancy.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Some people on the other side of the abortion debate aren't taking comfort in the fate of Roeder, 52, of Kansas City, Mo., who was
"What he really did was murder a doctor in church, and the effect on abortion is negligible," said LeRoy Carhart, a Nebraska doctor who worked part-time for Tiller.
convicted in january of first-degree murder for fatally shooting Tiller last May.
"Mr. Roeder was a setback to the pro-life movement — and to give him any sort of credit for reducing or stopping abortion is well beyond reason," said Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue.
Roeder's militant sympathizers disagree.
"He went ahead and laid down
He went ahead and his life to save unborn children and to me that is the definition of a hero — he gave up his life to save someone else," said Rev. Don Spitz, of Chesapeake, Va.
In Kansas, Tiller's killing has practically erased later term procedures and forced women to Albuquerque, N.M., and Boulder, Colo.
among other places, to have them. Just three clinics in the state — all located in or near the Kansas City metro area — offer limited abortion services for women up to their 21st week of pregnancy.
Beyond the state, however, abortion rights advocates say doctors are increasingly offering the procedure to ensure women have access.
Among them is Megan Evans, a third-year medical student at George Washington University who said she hopes to include abortion services as part of a larger obstetrics and gynecology practice.
"After he was killed, for me it assured me this was the right field to go into," she said.
In the wake of Tiller's murder, Curtis Boyd of Albuquerque decided to provide third-trimester abortions on a case-by case basis and hired two physicians who had worked at Tiller's clinic.
"What he really did is murder a doctor in a church, and the effect on abortion is negligible."
LEROY CARHART
Nebraska doctor
of legislative efforts coupled with political and social pressures.
Saporta contends there are now more doctors across the nation providing late abortions than there were before Tiller was killed, but she refuses to say how many or identify them for fear of making them instant targets.
Kansas law permits an abortion
on a viable fetus after the 21st week of
"We need more abortion clinics," she said. "We need more physicians who aren't afraid to practice abortion procedures because of fear of legal repercussions."
State lawmakers who oppose abortion want to further restrict the law. They passed a bill that would require doctors' reports to the state include the exact medical diagnosis justifying a late-term abortion. It also would allow a doctor to be sued if the mother or her family had evidence that a late-term abortion violated Kansas law. But the Republican-controlled Legislature doesn't yet have the two-thirds majorities it needs to override a potential veto by Democratic Gov. Mark Parkinson, an abortion rights supporter.
The state Department of Health and Environment reported last week that the number of late-term abortions of viable fetuses dropped dramatically last year, from 192 in 2008 to 67 in 2009. The total number of abortions declined 11 percent, from about 10,600 in 2008 to about 9,500 in 2009.
But Rinker, the NOW lobbyist, said Roeder accomplished what the state's conservative lawmakers could not.
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EDUCATION
Night club at school closed by officials
PHILADELPHIA — A charter school cafeteria will no longer double as a nightclub on nights and weekends, city education officials announced Wednesday after inspecting the facility.
Philadelphia district officials had demanded an end to the school's arrangement with Club Damani, which had been operating on the premises during off-hours despite an expired liquor license.
Officials toured the school Wednesday to ensure there were no "traces of anything that was unacceptable in a learning environment," district spokeswoman Evelyn Sample-Oates said.
Harambee's facility in West Philadelphia was once an Italian-American social club that had held a liquor license since 1936.
Associated Press