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Independent voice A Student Senate candidate is going to try to run for CLAS Senator as an independent. In a two party system, it is often tough to run as a third party. PAGE 3A
Healing performance
Two KU graduates have organized abused women into a Latin-American theater group. The group will be on campus tomorrow to perform plays based on their experiences. PAGE 5A
Love of the game
From an early age, sophomore Destiny Frankenstein has loved the game of softball. Both fans and teammates have made Kansas a good place to play.PAGE1B
KUAC lacks students
Andy Knopp is continuing his fight to add a student vote to the restructured KUAC Board of Directors. The board, which will become an advisory committee at the end of June, currently has three student members. There are no plans to add a student member. PAGE 1B
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IN ITS 100TH YEAR AS THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Vol.114 Issue No.125
KANSAN
University detects hacking
FBI investigating intrusion into student records at Watkins pharmacy
By Joe Bant
jbant@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The FBI and University of Kansas Public Safety Office are investigating a hacking into electronic pharmacy records at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
University officials reported the incident to the FBI on Friday after intrusion detection software alerted them to the hacking. Once the server where the
intrusion occurred was identified, technicians disabled it.
The server was used to store student prescription records from July 1994 to January 2004.
January 2004 The records contained personal information of some students, including KUID numbers, social-security numbers, names, addresses and dates of birth.
The University would not comment on how many records the server contained or if it contained all prescription records from that time frame. Lynn Bretz, director of University Relations, said specific information about the records was being kept quiet to aid the investigation.
"We don't have any idea of the extent of the intrusion."
Lynn Brenz
Director of University Relations
Marilu Goodyear, vice provost for information services, said officials weren't sure yet if any of the records had been copied or tampered with. Students who had information on the database were notified by e-mail as a precaution at approximately 4:15 p.m. yesterday.
"We don't have any idea of the extent
of the intrusion," Bretz said.
The e-mail explained the situation and what kind of information could
Photos Courtesy of Comedy Central Viewer Services
By Marc Ingber
mingber@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Serious comedy
SEE HACKING ON PAGE 8A
"I'm Rick James, bitch!"
It has become hard to make it through the day without hearing someone doing a Dave Chappelle impression. Whether it be his impression of Rick James, Prince or P. Diddy, it's a good bet that someone on campus is quoting Chappelle the very second you are reading this.
Chappelle's Show, which airs at 9:30 Wednesday nights on Comedy Central, features Chappelle's distinctive brand of comedy dealing with a range of issues, from white supremacy to sexually transmitted diseases. Although some fans may tune in each week just to get a laugh or pick up a new celebrity impression, there are others who say it's possible to learn something from Chappelle's social and political commentaries.
"A lot of it is college-type humor," said Kellen Duryea, Omaha, Neb. sophomore, who tunes into the show whenever he can. "It's a little more racy. It's a little more on the edge than other shows."
He said the reason the show was funny was because it took serious subjects and put them in situations that
weren't serious at all.
weren't serious in it.
One of the show's more controversial sketches portrayed Chappelle as a blind white supremacist, who did not know he was black.
"I'm not going to lie to you. I think it's extremely funny," Mark Dupree, Kansas City, Kan., senior and president of the Big 12 council for the Black Student Union, said of the sketch.
He said Chappelle wanted his audience to see how ridiculous the issue of white supremacy was by having them laugh at it.
"If we can face reality, we can laugh at it and make sure it doesn't happen again." Dupree said.
again. Duplicate said "People like to laugh at what makes them uncomfortable," said Ernesto Cruz, an American Studies graduate teaching assistant who studies popular culture and television.
The success of the program shows us that race relations aren't as great as we would like to think. he said.
He said Chappelle's comedy dealt with issues that were touchy and that oftentimes people laughed because they didn't know what else to do.
"There is a great desire to think we live
in a colorblind society, and Chappelle calls that into question," he said.
Murphy and john didn't necessarily think Cruz said he didn't necessarily think Chappelle provided solutions to the issues he brought up, though.
cans that into question He compared Chappelle to other comedians who tackled touchy issues such as Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy and John Leguizamo.
"He starts discussions really well. I don't know if he ends them well," he said.
Chappelle's tendency to go after touchy issues might rub some people the wrong way, but it's important not to think he represents a whole race, said Kriston Guillot, Shawnee sophomore and programs co-chairman for the Black Student Union.
"One of the biggest misconceptions is that he represents every African American," Guillot said.
"I may have problems with something Bill O'Reilly says, but he still has a right to be on the air," he said.
Guillot, who is a fan of the show, said if someone had a problem with Chappelle's comedy, all they had to do was change the channel.
— Edited by Robert Perkine
Alumnus takes home Pulitzer
By Ron Knox
rknox@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Inspired by his own medical condition and the reporting of a co-worker, University of Kansas graduate Kevin Helliker wrote a series of articles he
Helinker wrote a sem hoped would help people understand an often mysterious illness.
Now, The Wall Street Journal Chicago bureau chief's articles have garnered a much different reward: the Pulitzer Prize.
Helliker
Helliker won the
award for a series of stories he and Journal reporter Thomas Burton wrote on aneurysms, the bulging of arteries that kills more than 15,000 Americans each year.
He and Burton won the award for explanatory reporting, a category that "illuminates a significant and complex subject," according to the Pulitzer Board's description.
For the eighth time in University history, a graduate has won a Pulitzer. This time it was won by a former student who worked through four years as an English major before finding his calling in The University Daily Kansan's newsroom.
Who needs a Pulitzer?'
Last year, while Helliker was working on a different heath care story, he got the arteries in his chest screened for plaque and calcium build-ups.
The doctors found something significant.
Doctors told Helliker he had an aneurysm, a bulge in an artery just behind his heart.
"I hadn't realized a living person
SEE PULITZER ON PAGE 10 A
Court assigns bail at $750,000 for Lawrence murder suspect
Lafayette Cosby had his first appearance in Douglas County court yesterday. Cosby is being charged with first-degree murder for the homicide of Robert Tyrone Martin on Sunday at Jefferson Commons.
Cosby, who was in the Douglas County jail, appeared in court via closed-circuit television. District Attorney Christine Kenney asked for bond to be set at $750,000 because of the severity of the crime and Cosby's history. Cosby was charged with voluntary manslaughter in relation to a stabbing death in Lawrence in 1997. Cosby's only objection was to Kenny classifying the act as "unprovoked," which he said has yet to be proven.
Judge Peggy Kittel agreed to the bail and said that if bail was made, Cosby could not have contact with the witnesses listed on the complaint.
Cosby was arrested Monday night in Topeka by the Topeka Police Department and was then transported back to Lawrence by Lawrence Police Department detectives.
Cosby will be assigned representation by the court within the next 24 hours. His next appearance is 2:00 p.m. Monday in District II Court.
Vote brings controversy
— Neeley J. Spellmeyer
Committee member calls Knopp's vote 'shady'
By Andy Marso
amarso@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Some members of the university affairs committee are calling into question a vote that Student Body President Andy Knopn cast in the committee last week.
Knopp cast the deciding vote in favor of a bill he co-wrote to add a student fee for study abroad scholarships.
Any student may vote in committees after attending one meeting. But, according to Article 2.2.5 of the Senate rules and regulations the student body president, vice president and student executive committee chairperson "shall be ex officio, non-voting members of the Student Senate standing committees," which include university affairs.
The last two student body presidents, Jonathan Ng and Justin Mills, both said they never voted in committees or in full Senate.
Jack Henry-Rhoads, university affairs committee member, said Knopp broke rule 2.2.5 when he voted on the bill.
Henry-Rhoads plans to appeal to the Student Executive Committee to get the bill sent back to University Affairs for another vote.
"I thought it was pretty shady," Henry-Rhoads said. "He's never done that before in UA despite the fact that it's kind of the committee he comes to the most."
Knopp said that the rules automatically made him a non-voting member of all five committees but didn't prevent him from being a voting member of one committee.
Knopp
"Just by being president I don't give up the right, just as any student, to vote on a committee." Knopn said.
The study abroad bill had to pass university affairs by a two-thirds vote. When the verbal vote was too close to determine, committee chairman Josh Kaplan asked for a show of hands. The count was 21-11 in favor, one short of two-thirds.
One of the study abroad administrators who had come with Knopp to support the bill urged him to vote. Knopp was initially hesitant, but then asked Kaplan if he could step out of his role as president and vote on the bill as a committee member.
Kaplan appeared uncertain, but Catherine Bell, student body vice president, and Leo Khayet, CLAS senator, both said Knopp should be able to vote because he had attended most university affairs meetings.
Kaplan allowed the vote and declared that the bill had passed.
"If there was a question as to the ruling, it could have been appealed then," Kaplan said.
Murmurs of discontent and confusion rippled through Alderson Auditorium but no formal complaint was given.
But Henry-Rhoads and Brian Thomas, university affairs committee member, said they weren't given time to make a formal appeal.
SEE KNOPP ON PAGE 10A
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