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Adil Saleem, a second-year law student from Houston, works in an empty quiet zone just before the men's basketball game on Saturday. Each area of the library is now clearly marked with what kind of noise level is allowed.
Libraries implements plan to limit noise in study areas
BY KIRSTEN KWON kkwon@kansan.com
LIBRARY HOURS AND STUDY AREA LOCATIONS
Anschutz Library Regular Circulation Hours - Spring 2010
Students in search of a peaceful study environment won't have to venture outside the library. KU Libraries has created a quiet study area and a group study area in both Watson and Anschutz Libraries.
Monday - Thursday 8 am - midnight
Friday 8 am - 8 pm
Saturday 10 am - 8 pm
Sunday 10 am - midnight
Anschutz
Opens 24 hours per weekday as a study facility
Quiet study areas: 1st and 2nd floor, North side
Group study areas: 3rd and 4th floor, entire South side
Watson Library Regular Circulation Hours - Spring 2010
Monday - Thursday 8 am - midnight
Friday 8 am - 8 pm
Saturday 10 am - 8 pm
Sunday 10 am - midnight
In group areas, phone usage and talking is allowed, but in areas that are meant for quiet study, students are asked to move to a cell zone for phone conversations.
Watson Quiet study areas: West end of 4th floor and entire 5th floor Group study areas: 3rd floor and 4th floor
Jennifer Church-Duran, assistant dean for user services, said she hoped adding these areas would keep the noise level low.
"We're hoping to really encourage students to move into those areas when they need to have louder conversations," she said.
Signs were posted at the two libraries before finals last fall to inform students about the new designated study areas.
Previously, no signs indicated quiet areas from group study areas. Church-Duran said adding these signs helped mark the specific regions.
"We came up with a noise management plan. We clearly marked the group areas and where the quiet study areas are," Church-Duran said. "There was nothing that told them before, but now there's signage."
Zach Muskin, a senior from Omaha Neb., said he liked the separation of areas because it
allowed him to accomplish more at the library.
"I really do like it because the less talking in the library, the more I can get done." Muskin said.
Library staff developed the new areas after studying results from a student survey.
The results indicated students wanted the changes to be made.
"We received a lot of feedback from students saying that they needed two separate areas," Church-Duran said. "One place they could study with a group and
a quieter space to study alone."
Olivia Betzen, a senior from Lenexa, said that she liked the division between the two but that she wondered how effective it would be.
"I personally like to study in the quiet so I think it's good," she said. "But it's human nature to make noise so I don't know if it will be followed."
Edited by Drew Anderson
Witnesses give testimony in case
COURT
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jeanne Tiller, left, listens to testimony by Gaye Hoepern during the murder trial of Scott Roeder on Monday in Wichita. Roeder is charged with the fatal shooting of Dr. George Tiller.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WICHITA — Prosecutors have presented more than 100 pieces of evidence in the trial of the man accused of killing Kansas abortion provider George Tiller. But the weapon used to kill Tiller has not been among them because it was never found.
On Tuesday, however, prosecutors drilled a series of law enforcement officials and gun shop and pawn shop employees who testified about how defendant Scott Roeder bought a 22-caliber handgun and ammunition at a Lawrence pawn shop the week before the shooting and test fired the weapon with his brother the day before Tiller was killed.
Prosecutors showed videos of Roeder buying the handgun and ammunition and picking up the weapon at the shop after his background check cleared.
A pawn shop employee testified that when Roeder's background check was submitted, he initially received a "delayed" status, which meant Roeder couldn't take the gun with him. Roeder was approved a day later.
Roeder, 51, of Kansas City, Mo., has publicly admitted he shot and killed Tiller but pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and aggrivated assault charges.
A Kansas highway patrol trooper also testified that Roeder's brother, David Roeder, had contacted the patrol to say Scott Roeder had been to his brother's property outside Topeka the Saturday before the shooting
Prosecutors may wrap up their case as soon as Wednesday, with the defense set to begin Thursday.
Defense attorneys have been expected to try for a voluntary manslaughter conviction, which carries considerably less jail time, by arguing Roeder believed Tiller's killing would save unborn children.
So far the defense team has cross-examined several witnesses, though only briefly on Tuesday's testimony about Roeder's purchase of a weapon.
because he wanted to test fire a gun,he had recently bought
FBI special agent Michael Miller said David Roeder "feared his fingerprints were on the weapon."
Also Tuesday, prosecutors showed a video of Roeder's arrest
The video from the Johnson County Sheriff's Department showed
as he hed on Interstate 35, about an hour and a half north of Wichita.
department, testified that Tiller sustained a contact wound, meaning the gun used to kill him was put up against his head.
Prosecutors again showed jurors graphic crime scene photos, including of Tiller laying on the floor of the church after he
cooperative Roeder.
Prosecutors showed videos of Roeder buying the handgun and ammunition and picking up the weapon at the shop after his background check cleared.
had been shot,
his face largely
obscured by
blood.
Roeder's arrest photos and photos of apparent blood stains on his black athletic shoes and pants leg also were shown.
In other testimony Tuesday,
Lt. Ken Landwehr, a homicide
detective for the Wichita police
NATIONAL
A crime scene investigator detailed finding ammunition and a 7-inch dagger in Roeder's car
hours after the shooting.
A Wichita motel clerk testified that Roeder checked in the evening before the shooting and checked out about 9:30 the next morning.
CRIME
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A former Kansas coach who posed as a woman on Facebook and persuaded boys to send him nude pictures has been sentenced to
Man found guilty of child pornography
Lane and lawyer Lee Christian, who represents Mayumi Heene, have requested a hearing to make their arguments.
Lane said they might also meet
down online after receiving a tip that an Overland Park girl had exchanged nude photos with a 13-year-old boy in Vancouver, Wash.
Defense attorneys in Balloon Boy case argue for reduced restitution
The motion filed Friday and first reported by the Coloradoan claims prosecutors have never before sought to recover the costs of an investigation.
Richard Heene's attorney David Lane said the amount makes it appear authorities want to make money on the episode.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Associated Press
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- - -
- - acting as police officers? Sorry,
"what not the law says."
DENVER — Attorneys for the parents who pleaded guilty in the balloon boy hoax said the couple should pay only a small portion of the $48,000 in restitution sought by authorities.
Lawyers for Richard and Mayumi Heene filed a joint motion challenging the amount sought by the Larimer County Sheriff's office and other agencies that responded to the Oct. 15 event.
Included in the resituation is about $20,000 for efforts the day of the event, $16,000 for two National Guard helicopters and $12,000 spent on the investigation.
Richard Heene faces an $11,000 civil penalty from the Federal Aviation Administration after the balloon episode shut down a runway at Denver International Airport.
with prosecutors to work out their differences and submit the results to the court. No court date has been set.
Larimer County district attorney's spokeswoman Linda Jensen said she couldn't comment because she hadn't seen the court filing.
Thirty-nine-year-old Michael Cowley of Shawnee was sentenced Tuesday. He pleaded guilty in October to one count of producing child pornography.
Lane said the Heenes shouldn't have to pay
Larimer County sheriff's officials didn't immediately return phone calls.
Investigators tracked him
Overtime amounts need to be closely examined, and the costs of people to handle a rush of media calls shouldn't be included, he said.
"They don't get to make money on this case, which is exactly what the sheriff is trying to do."
the salaries and wages of officers who chased the balloon or the cost of the investigation, insisting the amount sought amounts to a windfall for authorities.
DAVID LANE Attorney
"They don't get to make money on this case, which is exactly what the sheriff is trying to do." Lane said. "Pay the cost of police officers
Richard Heene pleaded guilty to a felony charge of falsely influencing the sheriff and began serving a 90-days sentence on Jan.11.
more than 17 years in federal prison.
M ay u m i
Heene, who
Restitution was part of a plea deal, though both sides couldn't agree on an amount.
pleaded guilty to filing a fake report, must serve a 20-day jail term once her husband is out.
In interviews, Richard Heene now maintains his innocence and said that he pleaded guilty to save his wife from deportation.
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