in other words
"It is offensive, it is despicable the way these individuals have been treated."
White House press secretary Scott McClellan on the burned, mutilated bodies of four American contractors, which Iraqi crowds dragged through the streets of a town west of Baghdad yesterday
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news in brief
thursday april 1,2004
CAMPUS
Four more seniors receive Chancellor's Student Awards
Four more graduating seniors received Chancellor's Student Awards yesterday.
The awards recognize seniors who have excelled in academics, volunteering and leadership.
Catherine Bell, Coffeyville, and Mark DuPree, Kansas City, Kan., were given the Rusty Leffel Concerned Student Award.
Fallon Farokhi, Lawrence, received the Donald K. Alderson Memorial Award. Andrew Knopp, Manhattan, received the Agnes Wright Strickland Award.
Nine total students were recognized with five students receiving awards Tuesday.
The winners received cash prizes, except the winner of the Agnes Wright Strickland Award, who received a lifetime membership in the Kansas Alumni Association.
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Women's Club to award four with scholarships at Union
A luncheon will honor four KU women with scholarships and six others with honorariums today. The awards are being given by the University Women's Club at its regular meeting at 11:30 a.m. at the Malott Room in the Kansas Union.
Brooke Barrett, Overland Park junior; Jessica Kimple, Beloit junior; Michelle Moran, Overland Park freshman; and Michelle Tran, Derby freshman, were selected for scholarships of $1,250 each. Alexis Bannwarth, Independence sophomore; April Bradshaw, Lawrence senior; Jamie Labrier, Billings, Mont., sophomore; Justina Patterson, Pittsburg freshman; Shannon Snapp, Belleville senior; and Maya Tuylieva, Independence senior, will receive $250 for books.
The Women's Club usually gives away four scholarships per year, said Janis Hutchison, scholarship chair for the club. This year the club was so impressed with the pool of candidates that it awarded the six smaller scholarships, she said.
The scholarships are open every year to any full-time female student who has been at the University for at least a semester. The Women's Club chooses 10 finalists from the candidates and interviews them, and then the winners from that group.
— Neeley J. Spellmeier
STATE
Fee will improve emergency calls on wireless phones
TOPEKA—A bill imposing a 50-cent monthly fee on wireless phones to fund improvements in county 911 systems cleared the Legislature yesterday.
It could generate $7.8 million a year for upgrading emergency communications systems, making it easier to locate people who make emergency calls on wireless phones.
Personnel in most counties' dispatch centers are not shown the location of a cell phone on which a 911 call is made information that is provided on calls made from traditional phones.
Under the bill, the fee would be collected starting July 1, with 25 cents remaining in a user's home county and 25 cents going to rural counties with relatively few wireless users.
WORLD
Attacks mark bloodiest day since end of combat in Iraq
FALLUJAH, Iraq — In a scene reminiscent of Somalia, crowds dragged the burned, mutilated bodies of four Americans through the streets of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, yesterday after a rebel ambush.
Residents in Fallujah said insurgents attacked the contractors with small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades. After the attack, a jubilant crowd of civilians gathered to celebrate, dragging the bodies through the street and hanging two of them from the bridge.
Five U.S. soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division also were killed when a bomb exploded under their M-113 armored personnel carrier in Malahma, north of Fallujah, making it the bloodiest day for Americans in Iraq since Jan. 8.
U. S. officials did not identify the dead because the next of kin had not yet been notified.
Power drills
In all, at least 597 U.S. troops have died in Iraq since the war began March 20, 2003. Of the total, 459 have died since May 1 when Bush declared the end of major combat.
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Bravo Company executive officer Will Nuse, Fayett, Mo., senior, instructed members of the Navy ROTC Bravo Company in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall yesterday. The group was performing static drills.
100TH ANNIVERSARY
FROM THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN ARCHIVES
APR.1
130 years ago
Dr. Frederick Kester, 81, professor of physics, died after a long illness. He had been with the University of Kansas for more than 30 years.
50 years ago
The Observer of Nature, the University's first student publication, issued its premiere edition.
A feature photo on the front page of the Kansan displayed the Campanile exploding and crumbling to the ground. The accompanying caption read, near the bottom, "this didn't really happen - APRIL FOOLS!"
25 years ago
Shouting and obsenities interrupted a meeting intended to answer questions ater a nuclear meltdown on Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania a week earlier. "People came to vent their anger and frustration," a student said.
A 19-year-old KU student reported a burglary and theft at 9:03 p.m. Monday from Delta Gamma. A Gateway laptop computer, valued at $1,500, was stolen.
ONTHERECORD
A KU employee reported criminal damage at 4:15 p.m. Monday in the 2700 block of Winterbrook Drive. A door frame and telephone and cable lines were damaged. The damage was estimated at $240.
ON CAMPUS— KUCALENDAR.COM
ECM,1204 Oread Ave., is having a Veggie Lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. today. Optional donation for meal. Contact Laura Adams at 843-4933.
The KU Ballroom Dance Club is sponsoring ballroom, salsa and swing practice from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. tomorrow at the Hashinger Dance room for beginners and for those looking to learn new moves. Contact kubde@ku.edu.
■ SUA is sponsoring Afternoon Tea from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Kansas Union Lobby, Free tea, cookies and music.
The School of Fine Arts is sponsoring a free Music Colloquium at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow at 123 Murphy Hall. Contact the Music & Dance Office at 864-3436.
Ecumenical Christian Ministries is sponsoring Feminists United at 9 tonight in the ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. This is open to men and women for discussion of issues on gender and concerns of feminism. Contact Sarah Shay at 843-4933.
SUA is sponsoring Open Mic Night at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Hawks Nest of the Kansas Union. Students can compete for a $50.00 prize.
SUA is sponsoring Amateur Comedy Night at 7 p.m. at the Hawks Nest in the Kansas Union. Students can compete for a first place prize of $50 and second and third place prizes of a comedy CD and DVD.
SUA is sponsoring Tunes at Noon tomorrow at the Kansas Union Plaza. This event is free.
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