MONDAY, MAY 1, 2006
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 3A
CAMPUS University will receive first peace pole today
Instead of a maypole, the University of Kansas will receive a peace pole today from Kazuki Nakayama of Japan.
The peace pole will be the University's first, but one of many all over the United States. This pole will be located on the lawn between Summerfield and Malott Halls.
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The peace pole dedication ceremony will be held 5:30 p.m. on May 1 at the pole's
location. The International Student Association, Student Senate and Phi Beta Delta will play host.
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The ceremony will include speakers, a maypole dance and Silverstar, a world-recognized Native American singer.
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She said that it was ready to begin the new phase of construction.
Despite some setbacks, such as funding for the new house, Heck said she was confident the new house would be completed in time.
In the meantime, Rula Andriessen, Sioux City, Iowa, sophomore and vice president of member development for the sorority, said she was very excited to move to the Sigma Nu house and to live on campus after she had lived in the Legends.
"It's always a positive thing, living on campus, being able to walk to class together," Andriessen said.
Amy Dippel, Leawood freshman, is living in Ellsworth Hall but is looking forward to the upcoming move. She especially likes the layout of the Sigma Nu place.
"There are a lot of different two, three and four-person rooms, plus it has a nice big basement," Dippel said.
Save for some minor cosmetic work left to be done to the Sigma Nu house, Alpha Gamma Delta members are expected to start moving in to the house sometime during the summer, well before recruitment, according to Heck.
- Edited by Hayley Travis
Mumps
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Diana Robertson, interim director of the department of student housing, said the residence halls' isolation system was initially designed for the nine-day period.
Infected students were encouraged to return home if possible or take precautions, such as wearing a mask to community restrooms and having meals delivered, she said.
Both Tuttle and Robertson said they hadn't received any reports from faculty or residence hall staff that students weren't remaining isolated, but said they would deal with those problems on a case-by-case basis, if necessary.
To curb the disease's spread, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and
MUMPS COUNT
Here are the number of mumps cases as of last Friday afternoon. Those numbers include probable and confirmed cases.
Total cases in Douglas County: 143
Total cases among KU students: 107
Source: University Relations
the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department, 200 Maine, provided 500 MMR vaccines to Watkins. Healthfee paid students can get these vaccines for $10. The pricing for non-health fee paid patients is $11, plus the price of a nurse's visit.
- Edited by Lindsey Gold
Gas
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The tour, making its fifth collegiate stop, enjoyed its largest turnout to date in Lawrence as nearly 250 people showed up for the free event. The next scheduled stop is in mid-July in Washington, D.C.
Ann Shabshab, El Dorado senior, said she was drawn to the event because, as an ecology major, she was interested in the topic of reducing oil consumption and finding other alternatives.
"I'm impressed with the presentations. It's nice to see people trying to learn instead of
doing nothing," Shabshab said.
A major attraction of the event was "Oil Shockwave," an oil crisis executive simulation. The simulation depicted a series of meetings designed to advise the president on devastating events that are affecting the world's supply of oil.
Nuss, speaking after the conclusion of the conference, said the turnout exceeded expectations and that he was "very pleased" with the quality of information provided and the enthusiasm and willingness of people ready to take action on the issue.
Edited by Janiece Gatson
NATION
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/CBS Face the Nation, Karin Cooper
In this photo provided by CBS, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appears on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington D.C., on Sunday, Rice defended the Bush administration's planning against comments made by former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Rice defends Iraq plan
BY LIBBY QUAID
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Just back from Baghdad and eager to discuss promising developments, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice found herself knocked off message Sunday, forced to defend prewar planning and troop levels against an unlikely critic — Colin Powell, her predecessor at the State Department.
For the Bush administration, it was a rare instance of an inhouse dissenter going public.
On Rice's mind was the political breakthrough that had brought her and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to Iraq last week and cleared the way for formation of a national unity government.
Yet Powell sidedwipe her by revisiting the question of whether the U.S. had a large enough force to oust Saddam Hussein and then secure the peace.
Powell said he advised Bush before the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003 to send more troops to Iraq.
He said he advised Bush before the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003 to send more troops to Iraq, but that the administration did not follow his recommendation.
Rice, Bush's national security adviser during the run-up to the war, neither confirmed nor denied Powell's assertion. But she spent a good part of her appearances on three Sunday talk shows reaching into the past to defend the White House, which is trying to highlight the positive to a public increasingly skeptical in this election year of the president's conduct of the war and concerned about the large U.S. military presence.
Powell, in an interview broadcast Sunday in London, said he gave the advice to now retired Gen. Tommy Franks, who developed and executed the Iraq invasion plan, and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld while the president was present.
"I made the case to General Frankis and Secretary Rumsfeld before the president that I was not sure we had enough troops," Powell said in an interview on Britain's ITV television. "The case was made, it was listened to, it was considered. ... A judgment was made by those responsible that the troop strength was adequate."
Rice said Bush "listened to the advice of his advisers and ultimately, he listened to the advice of his commanders."
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