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The Inside Front
Monday
February 26, 2001
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Former football player sentenced to probation
A former KU football player was sentenced to one year of probation Friday for coordinating the robbery of a KU student last June.
Dion Johnson, whose senior season was 1999, pleaded no contest in January to charges of attempted robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery
Johnson will play football in Canada, his attorney said. He argued that the team's drug policy and code of conduct would be stricter than court services' policy and that Johnson had not committed any of the acts of violence in June.
Judge Michael Malone said Johnson had not been the one to hold a gun to the student's head in the robbery but said, "It was pretty apparent in court you were the ringleader. I don't believe the crime would have been committed had you not planned it."
Johnson said he had learned his lesson through the process and would not commit any more crimes.
— Lauren Brandenburg
Professor's father suffers heart attack in classroom
A 63-year-old man died Friday morning after suffering a heart attack in a Wesco Hall classroom where his daughter teaches.
John Keefe and his daughter, professor Leann Keefe, arrived at 8:32 a.m. to her classroom on the third floor when he suffered a heart attack and collapsed, according to Sgt. Troy Mailen, KU Public Safety Office.
The Lawrence-Douglas County Fire and Medical Department received a call at 8:34 a.m. from Leann and were at the scene by 8:39 a.m., said Rob Kort, battalion chief. Medics initiated CPR in the classroom and transported Keefe to Lawrence Memorial Hospital at 9:06 a.m., Kort said. Doctors were unable to resuscitate him.
Keefe accompanied his daughter, a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, to her class so he could observe her teaching. The Keefes walked 0.7 miles from her residence at 14th and Illinois streets to campus, Mailen said.
Leann Keefe could not be reached Sunday for comment.
A nursing supervisor at Lawrence Memorial Hospital was unable to say if Keefe had previous heart complications. Leann Keefe could not be reached
Amanda Beglin
STATE
T-Rex replica makes way to Fort Hays museum
HAYS — About 200 people attended the opening of the traveling
exhibit, "A T-Rex Named Sue" on Saturday at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History.
The exhibit, which includes a replica of the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossil ever found, was opened to museum members and the public Saturday morning.
"She waited 67 million years for this morning," said Fort Hays State University spokesman Kent Steward. "The rest of us haven't waited that long. It just seems like it."
The 45-foot long fossil at the university's museum is an exact replica of the original fossil, which remains on permanent display at the Field Museum in Chicago.
Hundreds of people also waited in line to get memorabilia signed by Sue Hendrickson, the fossil collector who found the dinosaur fossils.
NATION
Seven dead, dozens hurt in Mississippi tornado
PONTOTOC, Miss. — A tornado killed seven people, injured dozens and destroyed or damaged hundreds of homes around the city as violent storms swept through the region, authorities said Sunday.
A 2-year-old boy was killed by a tornado in Arkansas.
The storms struck the region late Saturday, but the full extent of damage in rural northern Mississippi was not known until daylight Sunday.
The National Weather Service said the twister cut a 23-mile path across Pontotoc County.
The vast storm system that swept across the eastern half of the nation also dumped more than 20 inches of snow on northern Minnesota. Blowing snow closed hundreds of miles of highways in Minnesota and South Dakota.
Pontococ County Sheriff Leo Mask said his office confirmed two deaths in addition to five people who were dead on arrival at Pontoc Hospital, including a 10-year-old boy. Mask said it was unlikely the death toll would increase.
Mardi Gras riots erupt for second straight day
SEATLITE  — Police in riot gear used pepper spray, rubber bullets and concussion bombs to break up Mardi Gras festivities early Sunday in the second straight day of violence linked to the celebration.
Police said several people in a crowd of about 2,000 threw bottles, rocks and firecrackers at officers soon after bars closed at about 1:30 a.m.
A half-dozen people were arrested,
most on assault charges. One person
was injured in a stabbing, and a
police officer suffered a broken arm.
Some in the crowd smashed cars and store windows and tried to turn over a bus, police said. Police said the violence grew worse after they arrested a man suspected of armed robbery.
Suspected drunk driver kills four in college town
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — A drunk driver killed four people walking the streets of a small college town, police said.
David Edward Attias, an 18-year-old student at the University of California Santa Barbara, was arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter and felony drunken driving.
The pedestrians were struck late Friday night in Isla Vista, an oceanside hamlet near the university.
Attias was going at least twice the 25 mph speed limit and hit nine parked cars before running over the pedestrians, California Highway Patrol Officer Mike Muell said.
"It went out of control from there and got ugly." Muell said.
Three males and one female were pronounced dead at the scene. Their names were withheld pending notification of relatives, but one victim was described as a 20-year-old UCSB student and another as a 27-year-old visitor from San Francisco.
A 27-year-old San Francisco man was hospitalized in serious condition, Muell said.
Attias suffered minor cuts and scratches.
Bush prepared to pitch budget plan to Congress
WASHINGTON — President Bush is ready to ship Congress an outline of his $1.9 trillion federal budget for next year, which he says would prove there was room for a big tax cut and other priorities.
Democrats beg to differ.
Democratic sg. Bush's fiscal plan would launch a 10-year, $1.6 trillion cut in income-tax rates, the estate tax and other levies, the centerpiece of his domestic agenda.
It would increase spending for schools, defense and biomedical research while paying down a huge chunk of the publicly held national debt.
In addition, it would propose temporary subsidies for prescription drug purchases by low-income elderly people, a near $1 trillion multi-year reserve that could be used to shore up Social Security or for other purposes, and a $5 billion-a-year fund for natural disasters and other emergencies.
- The Associated Press
Allergies spring up in winter
By Sarah Warren
writer@kanson.com
Kansas staff writer
Josh Ayers claims to be allergic to everything.
"I'm allergic to trees, grasses, weeds, cats, dust," said Ayers, a Colorado Springs, Colo., junior, "everything but food and medicine."
He already spends $20 a month on weekly shots for those allergies, so he considers himself lucky not to be allergic to mold.
Mold is an allergen that recently has been an annoyance for many people, said Randall Rock, physician at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
"We have lots of complaints and concerns about allergies," Rock said. "There have been some people given antihistamine already for allergies."
Rock said that anyone suffering from congestion, either from allergies or from an actual cold, should make sure to check their medicine for a drug
called Phenylpropanolamine Hydrochloride, or PPA. The drug was pulled off the shelves by the Food and Drug Administration in October, and, up until then, had been prescribed by physicians at Watkins. Rock cautioned that the drug was dangerous — causing strokes and seizures — and that a student should not use a medicine that they might have received earlier in the year that contained the drug.
"If someone finds that they have a medicine with PPA, they should throw it out and make an appointment to find another, better-suited medicine," he said.
As far as the recent rash of allergies among students were concerned, Rock said that recent erratic weather conditions were to blame for these early allergy symptoms.
"We've had some cold weather and then some warm weather," Rock said. "And when there's a thaw, there may be some proliferation of some
molds."
For Dale Ziegler, Lenexa Junior, a return to near-freezing temperatures last week posed some relief to early allergy annoyances.
"When stuff kind of thawed this week and last week, I was having some slight problems," Ziegler said. "But then everything refroze and hasn't bothered me since then."
Ziegler said, however, that he had been sick recently, something that Rock said was common among people with seasonal allergies, especially those whose allergies flared up in late winter or early spring.
"When people with allergies are having difficulty, their airways become inflamed," Rock said. "And they may more easily become infected with an upper-respiratory infection. Then, again, it's more difficult to sort things out to know what's an allergy and what's something else on your own right now."
Edited by Melinda Weaver
ON THE RECORD
A towel dispenser in Anschutz Science Library was damaged between 1:50 a.m. and 10:30 p.m. Mon, Feb. 19, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damages were estimated at $800.
- Two cars collided in the Quigley Field parking lot at 3:35 p.m. Tuesday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A driver was backing a car out of a parking stall and hit an approaching car, damaging its front passenger side. Damages were not listed.
- Two cars collided in front of Dole Human Development Center at 2:54 p.m. Wednesday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A driver pulled his car away from where he had illegally parked and struck another car that was moving toward a parking spot. Damages were not listed.
- Two cars collided in the Robinson Center parking lot at 10:50 a.m. Thursday, the KU Public Safety
Office said. A driver was backing a car out of a parking stall and hit an approaching car, causing more than $500 damage between both cars.
A KU employee's back car window was damaged between 10 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. Saturday in the 200 block of Wagonwheel Road, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $300.
A KU student's passenger window was smashed and his JVC compact disc player was stolen between 12:30 and 9:30 a.m. Mon., Feb. 19, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $250, and the CD player was valued at $250.
A KU student's door, doorframe, window and window frame were damaged at 2:35 a.m. Saturday in the 2700 block of Grand Circle, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $600.
ON CAMPUS
- The department of art and design will present the Hallmark Symposium Series from 6 to 8 tonight at the Spencer Museum of Art. Call the department at 864-4401.
The KU Student Auxiliary of Vietnam Veterans for Academic Reform will present, The University Under Fire, an interview with Rev. Heather Hensartling from 7:30 to 8 tonight on channel 19.
KU Bahi'i Club will meet from 7 to 9 tonight at the Regionalist厅 on the fifth-floor of the Kansas Union. Call Justin Herrmann at 830-8912
Black Student Union will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Pioneer Room in the Kansas Union. Call Courtney Bates or Cassandra Young at 864-398.
Kansas Union, Call Justin Herrmann at 830-8912
KU Greens will meet at 8 tonight at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. Call Sarah Hoskinson at 838 9063 or Galen Turner at 838-3498.
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