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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2007
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a few examples," de Vries said.
"The conclusion became 'I'm going to have to figure this out myself.'"
The department tried to encourage students and staff to car pool two years ago when it signed up with AlterNetBides.com. The department paid a $200 flat rate fee this year to have the University included on the site and paid the
same annual fee last year. The site, which is linked with the department's site, allows users to list details about possible rides in hopes of matching up with a yellow
most of the sites users were students and staff of colleges and universities. By connecting with transit departments at the individual institutions, Evanoff said he hoped to give students a feeling of familiarity in making the move to car pool.
"You feel a little more comfortable with your university's info at
"We know where you want to go, and you don't have to look for other people."
MARK EVANOFF AlterNetRides.com founder
The results have been mixed. Twenty-seven rides are currently listed.
user. The details range from the most important — such as pickup locations — to the most miniscule — like radio preference.
the top of the page." Evanoff said. "We know where you want to go, and you don't have look to other people."
Mark Evanoff, founder and president of AlterNetRides, said
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Olathe senior,
occasionally
The University is ranked second among Big 12 Conference schools, behind the University of Texas at Austin, who has 31 listings.
drives to campus with his girlfriend, Carol Lowman, Topeka sophomore. The pair doesn't always drive to campus together, but they still trade driving duties occasionally. They said they each drive their own car to campus in the morning most of the time.
Kansan staff writer Erick R. Schmidt can be contacted at eschmidt@kansan.com.
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selling almost anything along the bustling streets, from blenders to stuffed animals. T-shirts to fruit. Smiley said roaming vendors sold bags of vegetables outside her apartment.
"People do whatever they need to get by," she said. "Whether it's
The two-lane city streets were filled with taxis and aged cars imported from Asia, she said. The cheapest mode of transportation was small 14-passenger buses, which were overcrowded with passengers hanging out the doors and windows. This lead to frequent traffic jams.
selling used clothes or working at a formal job, you see a little bit of everything."
Smiley also studied urban segregation, which was rigid during Tanzania's colonization in the nineteenth century, she said. Smiley said present-day segregation was largely based on economics and social class rather than skin color.
Kansan staff writer Brian Lewis Jones can be contacted at bljones@kansan.com.
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He said Army ROTC life is more focused on meeting a standard.
As far as recruitment into the Army ROTC program. Farley said neither the troop increase nor the Iraq war have had any effect on getting cadets to join.
The number of graduated cadets has stayed at a steady level since the war began, Farley said.
More than anything, the Army
ROTC program is not going to send out cadets unprepared for whatever may lie ahead. Farley said.
"We want critical thinkers to lead our troops," he said.
Kansan staff writer Tyler Harbert can be contacted at tharbert@ kansan.com.
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New contract process benefits returnees
》 STUDENT HOUSING
BY KATY BLAIR
New this semester, students residing in campus housing will receive first priority in reserving a room, in any hall, for their return next fall.
All hall residents received a housing contract on Monday for the 2007-2008 school year.
"We're trying to step up our customer service for the students to
The previous process required students to obtain a contract on their own and return it before deadline. Now, students have the necessary paperwork at their door, ready and waiting.
"It's more convenient for the students," said Eric Snow, Wheaton, Ill., senior, and assistant for the department of student housing. "They can begin making preparations earlier for where they want to live."
The department urged all students interested in residence-hall living to take advantage of this new process, which offers students easier access and reassurance for the upcoming school year.
"I think it would be really helpful to students," said Sadie Robb Lawrence graduate student. "They
so busy at the end of the semester, it would serve as a good reminder."
The deadline for housing contracts is Feb. 16. All contracts can be returned to Corbin Hall, Hashinger Hall or Jayhawker Towers.
Kansan staff writer Katy Blair can be contacted at kblair@kansan. com.
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NATION
Family members of Willie "O." Petrie" Williams talk about Pete's return to Atlanta after wrongly serving time for a 1985 rape case. From left, his mother, Juglar Begal, cousin, Billy Gaines, Lisa George, communications director with the Georgia Innocence Project, and his sister, Tracy Williams, right, gather after the Georgia Innocence Project used DNA evidence to prove Willie's innocence.
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DNA clears charges against two men
BY JOHN KEKIS ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUBURN, N.Y. — Two inmates—a convicted rapist in Georgia and a man who was unjustly convicted of murder in New York but helped find the real killer from his prison cell—were granted their freedom Tuesday after DNA tests proved their innocence.
Innocence Project co-director
Peter Neufeld said he had never seen a case like that of Roy Brown, whose 1992 murder conviction was thrown out by a judge.
"Armed only with a notebook, stamps and a copy of the state's Freedom of Information Law, Roy Brown identified the true perpetrator from a prison cell," said Nina Morrison, an attorney at the Innocence Project.
Frail from severe liver disease.
Brown said bitterly at a news conference after his release: "This was an abortion, an abortion of justice. They could have saved me all this bell."
Brown, 46, was convicted of stabbing and strangling Sabina Kulakowski. He was found guilty mostly on the strength of bite marks on her nude body that a prosecution witness linked to Brown.
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said new tests showed that Bench's DNA was on the red T-shirt investigators believe Kulakowski was wearing the night she was killed in 1991.
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In Georgia, Willie O. "Pete" Williams, 44, awaited release from prison after spending nearly half his life in prison for rape.
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After numerous appeals were rejected, Brown filed a Freedom of Information request four years ago and paid $28.50 for copies of all the documents in his case. He found four affidavits relating to Barry Bench, the brother of Kulakowski's ex-boyfriend.
Neither Brown nor his lawyers had previously seen the afidavits, which convinced Brown that Bench was the killer. Brown sent a letter from prison to Bench in 2003, accusing him of the murder. Several days later, Bench committed suicide by stepping in front of a train.
Williams was convicted in a 1985 attack on a woman at an apartment complex parking lot. The woman identified him as her attacker. But DNA tests on genetic material from a rape kit examination cleared Williams.
"We are convinced today Mr. Williams was not responsible for this," Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard said.
Cayuga County District Attorney James B. Vargason ordered Bench's body exhumed to extract DNA, and
"I just think it's absolutely phene-
nial for Pete," Bruce Harvey said. "It's redemption for him."
His attorney said he plans to take Williams and his family out for a steak dinner.
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Williams and Brown become the 193rd and 194th convicts nationwide exonerated through DNA testing, according to the Innocence Project.
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