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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2007
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VOL.117 ISSUE 92
THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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The young Jayhawk team opens its season tonight against University California Santa Barbara.
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Eve Ensler's popular play returns to the University tonight, and will include performances from KU students.
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>> BOARDWALK TRIAL
Intense start for murder trial
BY ERICK R. SCHMIDT
Nearly 16 months to the day of the Boardwalk Apartments fire, the murder trial
Nearly 16 m of the Boardwalk the murder trial of the accused Jason Allen Rose began Wednesday.
Rose is charged with three counts of murder against the victims who died in an early-
Former KU student Nicole Bingham was among those killed in the fire
"There was no turning back, by the grace of God, I took a deep breath and ran."
LEIGH MCHATTON Former Boardwalk resident
ace officers, friends of victims, former residents and the
complex manager all took the stand in the first day of testimony. A nine-minute video tape during the fire showed the gritty details of a night that one
morning fire on Oct. 8, 2005 that witness called "pretty shocking,
injured an additional 18 people. Leigh McMahon now lives
Denver, but lived at Boardwalk Apartments at the time of the fire. She said that she woke up because her apartment was hot, and she knew something was wrong. The stairs were blocked by flames, but she knew she had to act.
"There was no turning back, by the grace of God," McHatton said. "I took a deep breath and ran."
McHatton was able to escape, but was flown to KU Medical Center in Kansas City and is still recovering from second degree burns.
David Allen Thomas lived at Boardwalk Apartments across the street from the building that burned.
He said screams from across the street were what brought his attention outside.
"They are screaming, 'Fire! Fire! Get out!" Thomas said.
Thomas described the scene in detail, saying that he saw people jumping from their third floor balconies. Thomas said when he first stepped out onto his third-floor balcony, he saw 75 percent of the building engulfed in flames. He said he saw a woman directly across from him on the third floor take three steps, then collapse to her
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BACK ON TRACK
KANSAS 97, KANSAS STATE 70
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The Kansas bench explodes late in the second half after sophomore walk on Matt Kleinmann scores a basket. Kansas newer trailed during the game.
BIG GUYS, BIG PLAY
Kansas' post players stepped up against the Wildcats. After struggling in the past few games, both Darrell Arthur and Darnell Jackson scored in double-figures, Julian Wright chipped in a team-high 11 rebounds.
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HUGGINS' DEBUT
K-State coach Bob Huggins' Allen Fieldhouse debut ended in his second worst loss as a Wildcat. After the game, Huggins said Kansas was one of the most talented basketball teams in the country.
TEAM FOUND
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In one of its best performances in Big 12 play, the Jayhawks finally put together a solid 40 minute performance looking like the team that upset No. 1 Florida and Oklahoma State earlier this season.
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》 WOMEN'S HEALTH
State congress looks at HPV
Legislature may require vaccination
BY DANAE DESHAZER
Kansas joined a list of almost a dozen other states that are considering legislation that would require all 11- and 12-year-olds to receive vaccination against the human papilloma virus.
A sexually transmitted disease. HPV is known to cause cervical cancer and genital warts.
House bill No. 2227, which would require girls to receive the HPV vaccination in Kansas, was introduced Jan. 25. A second hearing was presented at the Health and Human Services Committee Wednesday afternoon. Opposing testimonies will be heard today at 1:30 p.m.
The University of Kansas was one of the original test sites for the HPV vaccine Gardasil in 1999. Watkins Memorial Health Center began distributing the vaccine in August 2006.
Patricia Denning, chief of staff at Watkins, said that since last August they had vaccinated more than 150 patients.
Although the bill in question would require girls to be vaccinated before they start middle school, Carolyn Johnson, a gynecologist at Watkins, said HPV was also a common problem in college-aged women.
"I am in favor of requiring the vaccine, because this is such a widespread disease with devastating consequences," Johnson said.
Studies showed that at least 50 percent of sexually active men and women will contract the virus.
Some critics of the bill said that the vaccine requirement would encourage young girls to engage in early sexual activity. Johnson disagreed.
HPV can be spread through genital contact, not just penetrative intercourse.
Johnson said the virus was so widespread that complete abstinence would be necessary to avoid infection. She said that even if an eventual life-partner ever had skin-to-skin contact, both parties would potentially be at risk.
"I still run into patients all the time who have never heard of HPV." Johnson said. "So education is important."
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UNIVERSITY FINANCE
State funding doesn't meet schools' education, upkeep needs
BY NATHAN GILL
If trends in state funding for Kansas universities continue, by 2010 students' tuition could pay more for higher education than the state does. This projection is from a Kansas Board of Regents report that said state support was at an all-time low.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway testified to the state's House Education Budget Committee on Jan. 31. He told the committee that while state spending grew 54 percent since 1985, state university support grew by only 5 percent.
According to data compiled by the Office of Institutional Research and Planning, full-time undergraduate
on average about $2,000 more from the state in 1985 than they did in 2006. In that same period, full-time, undergraduate tuition at the University rose 436 percent.
on the Lawrence campus received Hemenway
"it's clear that there has been a disinvestment in KU." Hemenway
"I no longer refer to this university as a state university. It's a state-supported research institution, most of the money we come up with on our own."
IAN STAPLES Student Senate legislative director
said. He later added, "There's nothing that will affect your education more than insufficient funding."
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"We're not investing enough in our education."
aid insufficient funding had far-ranging effects. For example, it makes attracting and retaining faculty more difficult, leaves facilities to deteriorate and forces the libraries to purchase fewer books.
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