2A - THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS IN BRIEF
TUESDAY, JULY 3, 2001
LAWRENCE Second man convicted in death of KU graduate
A second man was convicted of second-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of former University of Kansas student Amy Watkins, Felix Rodriguez, 21, was found guilty after acting as a lookout in the March 8, 1999, killing in Brooklyn.
The jury deliberated for one day before handing down the verdict. Rodriguez faces 25 years to life in prison.
Earlier this month, David Jamison, 28, was sentenced to 25 years to life for stabbing Watkins with a kitchen knife.
Watkins, 26, was killed while walking home from work. She was a 1996 graduate of the School of Social Welfare.
— Dawn North
The AP wire contributed to this report
The Merc makes way for liquor store in Oread
Residents of the Oread neighborhood said goodbye to one business but would be greeting another by the beginning of the fall semester.
Cork & Barrel plans to move its store at Clinton Parkway and Kasold Drive to the intersection of Ninth and Mississippi streets, the former site of The Community Mercantile Co-op.
In early June, The Merc moved to Ninth and Iowa streets.
Dan Blomgren, manager of Cork & Barrel, said he hoped to move by August but it might be delayed until September.
Though some residents of the neighborhood said they would miss The Merc, they were relieved that a business other than a bar would be filling the vacant building.
Marci Francisco, board member for the Oread Neighborhood Association, said most residents thought they were lucky to have had The Merc in their neighborhood.
She said past experiences with The Power Plant, a bar which occupied the building before The Merc were not as positive.
"At least a liquor store will close at a more appropriate hour," Francis said.
—Laurie Sisk
STATE
Kansas driver's license to receive a makeover
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas driver's licenses are getting a new look.
The new design is similar to the new license plates that motorists are being issued this year. Both feature an image of the state Capitol under a blue sky with golden stalks of wheat waving in the foreground.
The Department of Revenue also notes two other subtle changes.
First, "Kansas" will be in black block letters, rather than in blue script. Second, the secretary of revenue's signature has been updated to reflect the appointment of Stephen Richards last year.
Sheila Walker, director of vehicles, said her division didn't want merchants who ask to see driver's licenses as an identification check, such as liquor retailers, to be surprised by the new look.
"We just want to make sure Kansas merchants are aware of the change," Walker said.
NATION&WORLD
Rebels say U.S. hostage may not have been killed
The Associated Press
ZAMBOANGA, Philippines — A Muslim separatist group said yesterday it was looking into an unconfirmed report that its rebels saw members of the extremist group Abu Sayyaf moving hostages, including an American the abductors said they had beheaded.
Despite the Abu Sayaf's repeated claims to have killed Guillermo Sobero of Corona, Calif., three weeks ago, soldiers scouring Basilian island in the southern Philippines for kidnappers and captives have not found his body.
Eid Kabalu, a representative for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), said yesterday that its rebels reported seeing the Abu Sayyaf marching hostages through the jungle about 10 days ago, including all three Americans seized at a beach resort May 27.
Kabalu said the Americans were recognizable "by the color of their skin and the shape of their noses."
He stressed the information could not immediately be verified, and MILF leaders were seeking a better explanation from rebels in the field.
Verifying that might take days, he said.
Military chief of staff Diomedio Villanueva said he did not know whether the report was credible.
"I don't have any confirmation from our ground troops," Villanueva told Associated Press Television News. "It will be better if (the MILF) can help us in this matter by bringing out the body or the person of Mr. Sobero."
Lt. Col. Danilo Servando, a representative for the military's Southern Command, said officials had not given up trying to find Sobero alive.
The Philippine Daily Inquirer quoted the MILF yesterday as saying Sobero might still be alive.
The MILF has helped in the past with hostage releases and recently signed a ceasefire with the government.
The two other American hostages are Martin and Gracia Burnham, a Christian missionary couple from Wichita who has lived for years in the impoverished Southeast Asian island nation.
The Abu Sayafay says it is fighting for an independent Muslim state.
Professor tests AIDS vaccine
By Brandy Straw
Kansan staff writer
A University of Kansas professor is so confident about his new AIDS vaccine that he said he would take it himself.
Bill Narayan, professor and chairman of microbiology, molecular genetics and immunology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, is currently testing a vaccine that contains a modified form of the AIDS virus that breaks down in the body.
Narayan said he would have no problem taking the vaccine.
"It cannot make you sick because it self-destructs," he said.
The vaccine is a therapeutic vaccine, Narayan said. It is intended to help people who already are infected. The vaccine would suppress the virus, so patients could quit taking the expensive drugs.
Dan Hinthorn, professor of internal medicine and infectious disease at the Med Center, said the normal treatment for HIV can cost up to $1,000 a month. He said HIV-infected people take an average of 10 to 15 pills a day and cannot miss a single dose.
Narayan said he plans to approach the Federal Drug Administration in the fall to get approval for the vaccine. He hopes to have approval in less than a year so he can start testing the vaccine on people infected with HIV.
Narayan said he is optimistic about the vaccine because it is patterned after and works like the measles or chicken pox vaccine.
It is designed to prevent healthy people from getting HIV. It has been tested on 20 monkevs, and after four years all are healthy.
Randall Rock, associate director of health education at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said an AIDS vaccine would be important because even though people have been educated, they still are getting the virus.
"An effective vaccine creates a great opportunity to bring HIV under control," Rock said.
When a vaccine is approved, he said he would make it available at Watkins.
Straw can be reached at 864-4810 or writer@kansan.com
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Juvenile charged with murder of Fort Riley soldier
STATE
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — A 17-year-old boy, Skylar Cole Alexander, has been charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Fort Riley soldier, Pfc. Randall S. Lindsey, 21, of Fort Riley, B Company, 79th Engineering Battalion.
Alexander, a juvenile, is at the North Central Kansas Regional Juvenile Detention Facility in Junction City without bond until his first court appearance which is scheduled for today.
According to police reports, a Riley County police officer on patrol in the Aggieville district was alerted that a person, who police discovered was Lindsay, had been stabbed in the abdomen Saturday. Police believe the stabbing happened after an argument between the two parties.
NATION
Dumb and dumber: teens ignorant about U.S. history
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — One in five American teenagers doesn't know the answer to this grade-school history question: From what country did America declare its independence?
Twenty-two percent of those who responded to the survey commissioned by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation did not know that the answer was England
"When you look at these numbers, it means that more than 5 million U.S. teen-agers don't understand the true meaning of Independence Day," said Colin Campbell, president of the foundation that runs Colonial Williamsburg, the restored 18th-century capital.
the nationwide telephone survey of 1,020 youngsters ages 12 to 17 was conducted May 31 to June 5 and has a margin of error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Nearly all those surveyed knew that Washington, D.C., is the U.S. capital and that George W. Bush is president. However:
One in 10 did not know George Washington was the first president.
17 percent did not know there were 13 original colonies.
15 percent did not know the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
Nearly one in four did not know who fought in the Civil War; 13 percent thought it was the United States and England.
Housing policy might discriminate,court says
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A medical school's policy of allowing married students — but not homosexual partners — to share college housing may violate New York City anti-discrimination statutes, the state's highest court ruled yesterday.
The Court of Appeals ruled that a lesbian couple should be allowed to sue Yeshiva University for bias based on sexual orientation. The decision overturned two lower courts, which found that the college's policy was not discriminatory because it applied to not only homosexual couples but also to unmarried heterosexual couples. The Court of Appeals sent the case back to a trial court.
The lesbian students, Sara Levin and Maggie Jones, have graduated from Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx.
The case is being pursued by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and other anti-discrimination groups.
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