2 • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS IN BRIEF
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 2004
CORRECTIONS
Perception vs. Reality
Last Wednesday's University Daily Kansan contained an error. The article, "Perception vs. Reality" stated crime statistics for all of Lawrence rather than for downtown Lawrence.
The correct crime statistics for downtown Lawrence are:
Down Lawrence are:
Murders .0
Rapes .0
Robberies .2
Aggravated assaults .7
Non-aggravated assaults .17
Burglaries .2
Theft from motor vehicle .8
Theft of motor vehicle .2
Property damage .20
Narcotics possessions .2
Source: The Lawrence Police Department
What's happening
Last Wednesday's University Daily Kansan contained an error. The "What's happening" section stated the show Romance Romance: A Romantic Musical runs from June 25 to July 3 with nightly showings at 5:00 p.m.The shows are on June 25, 26, 29, 30 and July 1 to 3. They start at 7:00 p.m. The June 27 show starts at 5:00 p.m.
Kevin Kane, Parkville, Mo., junior, connects with the ball during a casual game with friends in front of Memorial Stadium. Kane was out yesterday afternoon shagging baseballs. He said he and most of the guys he was with live across the street from the stadium and try to play as often as they can.
CAMPUS
Courtney Kuhlen/Kansan
University community mourns death of associate professor
Members of the University of Kansas community mourned the loss of Paul Rehak, associate professor of classics, last week.
Rehak died June 5 of complications from a heart attack that he suffered during the Spring semester. He was 50.
Rehak's primary professional interests were in the Bronze Age and Greek and Roman sculpture. He presented a wellreceived paper on Roman art in April.
Classics department chairwoman, Pam Gordon, said Rehak's students had helped their professor in the weeks following his heart attack.
"Paul's passing is a terrible loss to the department and to the profession," said Michael Shaw, associate professor of classics. "He left us just at the height of his career."
"Students showed up at his house every day to visit, help around the house or to walk his four dogs," she said. "The loss has been rough on all of us, but the students' response really made a difference."
Erik Johnson
Vice provost returns to work after nearly fatal car accident
Associate vice provost for student success, Richard Morrell, has returned to work six months after a car wreck
Just a friendly game
that nearly took his life.
Morrell and his wife were driving on 27th Street on Christmas Eve when a sport utility vehicle broadsided them. Morrell's wife, Kerry, suffered minor injuries and was quickly released from the hospital, but Morrell suffered substantial injuries that kept him in the hospital for one month.
Though he has recovered significantly, Morrell does have permanent damage to his hearing, and senses of taste and smell.
He returned to work this week on a part-time schedule, and will work his way back up to full-time duties.
Before being appointed to his current position, Morrell had worked in the registrar's office and as an assistant director of admissions.
— Jay Senter
LAWRENCE
Local residents display their art for public at local gallery
The Ad Astra Galleria, 205 W.8th St., will open a new show, TIME AND MEMORY: Infinitus et Finitus at 7 p.m. on Saturday.
The show will be open for two weeks and will feature art by two local artists, Sara Rich and Dessie Orear.
"I'm excited because this is my first professional show outside of the University," Orear said. "But I'm moving to New York so it will be my last one in Kansas."
President's death impacts University's hours of operation
— Marc Ingber
To honor the federal declaration of a National Day of Mourning for former President Ronald Reagan, Governor Kathleen Sebelius announced that state offices would be closed last Friday.
Lynn Bretz, director of University
Relations, said the University did not want to interfere with the first week of summer classes but also wanted to pay respects to the former President. So while many faculty and staff members were given the day off, offices and departments central to the University's academic mission remained open and support services such as residence halls, dining halls and Watkins Memorial Health Center also remained open.
Summer classes, summer institutes and summer camps on the Lawrence and Edwards campuses held sessions as usual Friday. Faculty members scheduled to teach were allowed to be absent for personal reasons, but were expected to ensure that class material would be covered. Students were also allowed to be absent but were still responsible for missed material.
The University's Lawrence campus honored former President Reagan by sounding the bells of the World War II Memorial Carillon on Friday from 10:30 until 11:30 a.m. The ROTC Honor Guard stood watch at the Dole Institute of Politics on West Campus as members of the University community and the public expressed condolences to the Reagan family in a remembrance book.
Richard Konzem, interim associate director of the Dole Institute, said the week-long remembrance saw a steady flow of visitors. Nearly 700 visitors signed the book, which will be sent to the Reagan Presidential Library this week.
The nation's 40th President, Ronald Wilson Reagan, was laid to rest in a horseshoe-shaped burial site on a Southern California hilltop Friday after a funeral at the Washington National Cathedral attended by world leaders past and present. National and state flags on both KU campuses will remain flying at half-mast during the 30-day mourning period for Reagan.
Erik Johnson
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