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NEWS / FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Cabbage served twice is death."
— Greek Proverb
FACT OF THE DAY
The ancient Greeks were fond of eating thistles, which they imported from Sicily.
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FRIDAY September 17
Student Union Activities will host "Tunes at Noon," a free concert with DJ Luis from noon to 1 p.m. outside the Kansas Union.
What's going on?
Student Union Activities will host free cosmic bowling from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. in the Jaybowl on the first floor of the Kansas Union.
SATURDAY September 18
She Audio-Reader Network will host "For Your Ears Only," a fundraiser, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Douglas County Fairgrounds, 2120 Harper St. Entrance is free.
Student Union Activities will host free cosmic bowling from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. in the Jaybowl on the first floor of the Kansas Union.
September 21
TUESDAY
SUNDAY September 19
The Kansas Swing Society will host Tuesday Nite
Swim at the Kansas Student Union. Lessons for beginners run from 8 to 8:45 p.m. and dancing is open until
11 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
September 22
The Audio-Reader Network will host "For Your Ears Only", a fundraiser, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Douglas County Fairgrounds, 2120 Harper St. Entrance is free.
The University Career Center will host an internship and summer camp fair from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union Lobby.
MONDAY September 20
The theatre department will host a free workshop featuring the original production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" from 7 to 8 p.m. in Murphy Hall, room 209.
THURSDAY September 23
Ecumenical Christian Ministries will be hosting a "Veggie Lunch" from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the ECM center, 1204 Oread Ave.
ADMINISTRATION
Regents approve KAN-HELP program
A $50 million initiative was approved Wednesday by the Board of Regents. The board will request a 2.73 percent inflationary increase for all public colleges and universities for fiscal year 2012. The Board also will request to re-coup the state sales taxes collected on Kansas' six state universities. With this money, the Board will create a need-based financial aid program named KAN-HELP. Students whose families are at or below the statewide median family income level would be eligible for a loan applicable to tuition and fee costs.
Gene Budig named Chancellor Emeritus
The Board of Regents named Gene Budig, Chancellor from 1980 to 1994, Chancellor Emeritus Thursday.
"We're pleased with the opportunity to give Gene Budig Chancellor Emeritus status," Regents Chair Gary Scherrer said. "He certainly earned it."
University CEO Salaries Frozen
State university chief executive officers saw their salaries frozen by
the Kansas Board of Regents for the second straight year Thursday
The board sets salaries of the CEOs, which is paid for by the state. A cap on compensation of private money used to supplement salaries is also set.
Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little's salary is $267,177 with a cap of $425,000.
Funds for campus upgrades approved
The University will receive more than 5 million for projects on campus for the current fiscal year.
Improvements to Strong Hall ($2,867,000), Art & Design (S1,601,415) and Lindley Hall ($600,000) were approved. More than $2 million in proposed improvements to the Medical Center were also approved.
Distance learning program adjusted
The Board of Regents adjusted the current definition of the state's distance education program to "one in which the proportion of content delivered via distance learning is 50 percent or more." Previously, that definition required a curriculum comprised entirely of distance education courses.
— Stephen Montemayor
NATIONAL
Distraught man kills mother,self
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BALTIMORE — A man who became distraught as he was being briefed on his mother's condition by a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital pulled a gun and shot the doctor Thursday, then killed his mother and himself in her room at the world-famous medical center, police said.
The doctor, who was wounded in the abdomen, was expected to survive.
The gunman, 50-year-old Paul Warren Pardus, had been listening to the surgeon around midday when he "became emotionally distraught and reacted
... and was overwhelmed by the news of his mother's condition." Police Commissioner Frederick H. Boyd will be
Pardus then holed up in the room in a more than two-hour standoff that led authorities to lock down a small section of the Nelson Building while allowing the rest of the sprawling red-brick medical complex — a cluster of hospital, research and education buildings — to remain open.
H. Bealefeld III said.
When officers made their way to the room, they found Pardus and his mother shot to death, he on the floor, she in her bed.
Parduspulled a semiautomatic gun from his waistband and shot the doctor once, the commissioner said. The doctor, identified by colleagues as orthopedic surgeon David B. Cohen, collapsed outside the eighth-floor room where Pardus' mother, Jean Davis, was being treated.
Bealefield said he did not know what the woman was being treated for at Hopkins, a world-class institution widely known for its cancer research and treatment. It is part of Johns Hopkins University, which has one of the foremost medical schools in the world.
Michelle Burrell, who
"The doctor will be OK. He's in the best place in the world Johns Hopkins Hospital."
ANTHONY GUGLIELMI Police spokesman
Pardus was from Arlington, Va., and had a handgun permit in that state, police said. The gunman was initially identified as Warren Davis, but police later said that was an alias.
The wounded doctor, an assistant professor at the medical school, underwent surgery.
"The doctor will be OK," police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. "He's in the best place in the world — at Johns Hopkins Hospital."
doctor was shot that the gunman was angry with the doctor's treatment of his mother. "It's crazy" she said.
where the
As the standoff dragged on, people with appointments in other parts of the hospital were encouraged to keep them.
With more than 30,000 employees, the Johns Hopkins medical system is Baltimore's biggest private employer. The hospital has more than 1,000 beds and more than 1,700 full-time doctors.
Hopkins said it informed its employees about the gunman in an e-mail at 11:30 a.m., about a half-hour after the doctor was shot. They were told to remain in their offices or rooms with the doors locked and to stay away from the windows. At 1:30 p.m., another e-mail went out advising employees that police "are in control of the situation."
The Nelson Building is the main hospital tower. The eighth floor is home to orthopedic, spine, trauma and thoracic services.
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