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THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Firefighters put away their fire hoses after putting out a fire at Southpointe apartments, 2136 W. 28th St., Friday evening.
MONDAY, MAY 1, 2006
VOL. 116 ISSUE 143
LAWRENCE
Fire sends one to hospital
Victim airlifted; no other injuries reported in fire
Meagan True/KANSAN
BY FRANK TANKARD
flankard@kansan.com
KANSAN SENIOR STAFF WRITER
A fire at Southpointe Apartments Friday evening sent a man, who neighbors identified as a KU student, to the hospital with burns.
The fire started between 6 and 6:30 p.m. in a second-floor apartment at 2136 W. 26th St., just west of 26th and Iowa streets. Rich Barr, prevention division chief for Lawrence-Douglas County Fire and Medical, said the injured man was airlifted to Lawrence Memorial Hospital after a police officer had pulled him out of his burning second-floor apartment.
Barr didn't comment on the degree of the man's burns, but said that fire victims generally weren't flown to the hospital unless major burns were sustained.
"Based just on that, I would say the inturies are serious," he said.
night to determine the cause.
Four fire trucks responded and the firefighters contained the fire to the apartment it had started in. Barr said the fire hadn't caused major structural damage but the contents of the apartment were destroyed. Investigators were working Friday
Tanner Willbanks, a Lawrence freshman who lives in the third-floor apartment directly above the one that burned, woke from a nap to the sound of his smoke detector. With the help of a firefighter, he made it
down his smoke-filled enclosed stairway with his laptop. After the smoke cleared, he went back up with a firefighter and found his cat, Katsumi.
Lawrence resident Christine Anderson lives in the building next to the one that caught fire.
As a few residents stood together in front of the building, talking in the light rain about what had happened, she stood alone with her arms crossed, looking at the balcony of the second-floor apartment as firefighters shone flashlights inside.
"Oh, God," she said. "That's my friend."
Check Kansan.com or pick up a copy of Tuesday's The University Daily Kansan for updates on this story.
Edited by Janiece Gatson
GREEK LIFE
Carlv Pearson/KANSAN
The vacant Sigma Nu house, 1501 Sigma Nu Place, will soon have new residents. Alpha Gamma Delta will temporarily live in the Sigma Nu house while construction of its new house continues. The sorority currently resides at the Legends apartments, 4101 W. 24th Place, in West Lawrence.
BY FRED A. DAVIS III
ldavis@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Sorority moves again
Goodbye Legends apartments, hello Sigma Nu house.
That's the scenario for Alpha Gamma Delta sorority as the women prepare to take up new digs for the 2006-2007 school year while they wait for construction on their new house across the street to be completed.
The former Sigma Nu house, soon-to-be Alpha-Gamma-Delta house, 1501 Sigma Nu Place, has been vacant since late September 2005. The fraternity had
its charter revoked by the National Siigma Nu Chapter.
"The ladies are thrilled to be moving into the house," said Kim Heck, president of the House Association for Alpha Gamma Delta.
The sorority has been living in the Legends apartments, 4101 W. 24th Place, for the last year after it vacated its previous house, which was located near the new fire station at 19th and Iowa Streets, now home to Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
"Several years ago, that area was a thriving Greek community," Heck said. "But now with the fire station and apartments popping up, the environment is changing and we started looking for property favorable to the Greek living arrangement."
It's always a positive thing, living on campus.
Rula Andriessen
Sioux City, Iowa, sophomore
The sorority's new house, 1510 Sigma Nu Place, is being built across the street from the current Sigma Nu house. The new house is expected to be completed by the fall 2007 semester.
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WWW.KANSAN.COM HEALTH
Stay in your room longer
BY CATHERINE ODSON
codson@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
The isolation period for mumps has been stretched back to its original nine days.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment returned to its original recommendation of a nine-day isolation period in an attempt to control the disease, said Patricia Denning, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center. That recommendation reversed an April 7 announcement to adopt a shorter isolation period based on information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Denning said the disease was most infectious during the first four days after symptoms onset, but could still be transmitted during the full nine days. She said the various health organizations had been evolving their views on the isolation period as more has been learned about the outbreak.
Kathryn Nemeth Tuttle, associate vice provost for student success, oversees student health services and works with the Academic Achievement & Access Center. That center contacts faculty when students are kept home by long-lasting injuries and illnesses.
The center has contacted professors of contagious students to inform them of the students' status, but Tuttle said students should contact their teachers directly to make course-specific arrangements.
The mumps outbreak has prompted the center to release why the students were absent, she said.
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ACTIVISM
Tour offers solutions to gas dependency
BY FRED A. DAVIS III
ldavis@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
America has an addiction to oil. Trouble is, most of the country is still in denial.
But after the 2006 PowerShif National Tour stop in Lawrence Saturday, the problem that has contributed to high gas prices, global
The eight-hour long conference, sponsored by the 20/20 Vision non-profit group, was held predominately at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union and featured guest speakers such as
gional director for 20/20 Vision.
warming and dependence on the Middle East has viable solutions to curb the costly issue.
Ethan Nuss Regional director for 20/20 Vision
"There are green alternatives and they are very attainable."
"There are green alternatives and they are very attainable," said Ethan Nuss, Salina senior and re-
U. S. Congressman Dennis Moore (D-Kansas) and Kansas Secretary of Agriculture Adrian Polanskyi
The speakers' message was
clear: To find and provide solutions for both Kansas and the United States to help the economy and the environment by drastically reducing the need for oil.
Some of the solutions mentioned were increased fuel economy for new cars, increased usage of public transportation and using and developing more renewable fuels like ethanol and biodiesel.
The importance of educating people was a serious point.
"This is not a left or right issue, this is an American issue," said Moore, the morning's keynote speaker.
for the Vehicle and Fuel Choices for American Security Act, legislation introduced by senator Sam Brownback (R-Kansas), which
Moore was adamant in touting his support
intends to reduce oil consumption by 2.5 million barrels per day from projected 2016 levels.
"There are a lot of things Senator Brownback and I disagree on, but this is something we do agree on," Moore said about the importance of the legislation.
was extremely important to find more efficient fuel alternatives.
He added that he thought Kansas was moving in the right direction in trying to foster alternative fuel development like ethanol and
biodiesel production. Polankys said the biggest hurdle facing alternative fuels was people's indifference to change and the lack of infrastructure, but said he remained optimistic that change
was under way.
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A Honda ethanol race car is displayed in front of the Kansas Union as a part of the PowerShift tour. The tour stopped in Lawrence on Saturday, with its next stop in Washington, D.C., in mid-July.
David Noffsinger/KANSAN
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