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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1997
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SECTION A VOL.103, NO.103
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Two men sentenced for Black church fires
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Two former Ku Klux Klansmen were sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison yesterday for burning down two Black churches.
U. S. District Judge David Norton sentenced Gary Christopher Cox, 23, to 19 1/2 years and Timothy Adron Welch, 24, to 18 years in prison. The two pleaded guilty to civil rights violations in connection with the June 1995 fires.
The men used a cigarette lighter to set wicker baskets, hymnals and wooden chairs on fire at the Mount Zion AME Church in Greeleyville. They ignited gasoline and oil on the floor of the century-old Macedonia Baptist Church in Bloomville the next day.
Two other Klausmen, who admitted supplying the flammable liquids in the Macedonia Baptist fire and telling Cox and Welch how to use them, await sentencing.
Surgery successful on Liz Taylor's tumor
LOS ANGELES — A brain tumor was removed from behind Elizabeth Taylor's left ear yesterday in a three-hour operation.
The Hollywood legend, who turns 65 next week, was taken to the oper ating room about 8:15 a.m., and
surgery began about an hour later, it was completed shortly after noon.
A neurosurgeon who successfully treated George Burns was leading the team of
doctors in removing the lobe in the lining of the left parietal lobe. The area is over and behind the left ear.
The Oscar-winning actress (Butterfield 8 in 1960 and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1966) learned of the tumor after a magnetic resonance imaging brain scan during an annual physical exam on Feb. 3, pubicist Mary Pignataro said.
Prior to the surgery, Cooper said he expected full recovery without complications, according to Pignarato.
Martin Cooper, the hospital's clinical chief of neurosurgery, led the surgical team using a computerized probe for a three-dimensional view of the growth, which Taylor's representatives has described as benign.
New test could bring James Earl Ray to trial
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — New technology exists that could determine whether James Earl Ray's rifle killed the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, a judge said yesterday.
Judge Joe Brown's decision must now be reviewed by the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals before Brown can rule on Ray's request for a new test of the weapon. Ray is asking for the test in an attempt to take back his guilty plea and go to trial.
Brown could not say when the appeals court would make its review.
Ray, 68, pleaded guilty to murder in 1969 but reversed his plea almost immediately. He has been requesting a trial since. He says he was set up to be a fall guy for the real killers. He says the hunting rifle found at the murder scene with his fingerprints on it was put there by conspirators trying to frame him.
To have new tests, Ray's lawyers must convince the courts that improved technology can determine if the riffle found at the scene killed King. They then would have to show that test results in Ray's favor help prove his innocence.
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Ray has drawn support in his bid for a trial from civil rights leaders and from the family of King.
State may allocate more money to KU
Credit-hour drop decreased income
By Kevin Bates
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas could receive about $1.2 million from the state because of a drop in credit-hour enrollments.
In his budget submitted to the Legislature, Gov. Bill Graves recommended funding for the University and Kansas State University.
it's tuition that we didn't collect because of lower credit-hour enrollments," said Marlin Rein, director of budget and governmental relations.
Rein said last semester's enrollment had
decreased about 6,500 credit hours from the previous semester.
Rein said the University had seen a gradual decline in credit-hour enrollment during the previous four or five years. Students enrolled in an average of 13.49 hours last semester, a
Provost David Shulenburger said the University had received more money than expected.
.34 decrease from a year before.
"We only get to spend the amount that the state legislates," Shulenburger said. "Some years we collect more, and that money has gone back to the state treasury. The governor recommended this year that we keep the money."
David Shulenburger
The linear-tuition schedule implemented last year lowered the credit hour total, Shulenburger said.
Obviously we're trying to keep the money, "Shulenburger said. 'We're optimistic that the case is pretty clear we need it."
Shulenburger said he did not know specifically how the extra money would be used.
The University, K-State and Wichita State University are the only three Regents schools that have linear-tuition schedules, but Graves allocated funding only for the University and K-State.
The Regents said they would recommend to the governor that Wichita State receive $375,000 to finance any drop in enrollment.
Overcrowded
Understaffed
Right: Because of a lack of security personnel to monitor the lab during open hours, the computers in Fraser Hall sit unused.
Left: The labs at the Computer Center many times are filled to capacity, causing students to wait or to try to find open computers elsewhere.
Students turned away from an overcrowded computer center attempting to use the new lab in Fraser Hall are finding themselves
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Students hoping to check their e-mail or type a paper at the Fraser Hall computer lab are still being turned away.
The multi-departmental lab in 4 Fraser Hall opened to classes last November, but it still is closed to the public, said Beverly Davenport-Sypher, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Individual users have been kept away from the computers while security equipment is installed.
Now, the only thing stopping the lab from opening is the need for monitors to supervise the computers during open hours. The college placed an ad for the positions and is expected to begin hiring soon, said Joe Van Zandt, CLAS computing coordinator.
"As soon as we can get them hired, and we hope it will be in the next few weeks, we can get the doors open," Davenport-Syner said.
However, she wasn't ready to guarantee a tee.
Brian Dufner, Overland Park sophomore, was frustrated by delays in the opening of the lab, which had been expected to be available to the public last semester.
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Several problems slowed the lab's opening, starting with a lack of funds for equipment. The search for a space to put the lab followed. Nearly a year was spent finding a usable classroom and renovating it, Davenport-Sypher said.
Davenport-Sypher, who has supervised the lab's planning for the past two years, said she was tired of the delays.
"I've been trying to use those computers since the beginning of last semester," Duffer said. "I thought it was going to be opened a long time ago."
"It must sound like a broken record," she said. "The chemistry department built a lab in six months, but we've taken over two years."
During the process, one of the new computers was stolen out of its box, making the lab's planners cautious about security issues, Davenport-Sypher said.
The computers already were purchased before the fall semester began, but they waited while tables and networking equipment were installed.
Since November, the lab has been operational but closed to the public while Networking and Telecommunications Services worked on security measures, bolting computers to tables and attaching security cables. This was completed about three weeks ago, Van Zandt said.
"I've been trying to use those computers since the beginning of last semester."
Brian Dufner
Overland Parks sophomore
Finally, special screws preventing the removal of the computers' cases were installed earlier this week to prevent the theft of internal parts.
Davenport-Sypher said she learned a lot about dealing with bureaucratic problems as a result of her work on the lab. Only one thing would have been able to help avoid the difficulties, though.
"I would have had to have magic at my fingertips," she said.
New garage spells trouble for residents
Four buildings may be razed to add more parking space
By Dave Morantz
Kansan staff writer
The building since has been painted a light pink and holds a maze of offices and hallways for the Division of Continuing Education. But the department will have to leave soon.
In 1961, the last Pi Beta Phi class to live in the sorority house at 1246 Mississippi St. walked out its doors. Despite the charm of the "Pea Green Lodge," years of housing more than 60 residents had deteriorated its condition, forcing the sorority to move to a safer structure.
This time, progress and expansion have forced another group to vacate the 82-year-old building.
"I probably suffer from all the mold I'm breathing, but I love the building," said Donna Butler, managing editor of independent study at Continuing Education. "It's the opposite of a sterile, modern workplace."
To make room for a proposed parking garage, the Continuing Education building as well as three
I PARKING: A view of where the garage would be and how it would look. Page 8A
old houses could be demolished as early as next year. And residents have yet to receive information about the future of their homes from the University of Kansas.
The garage is part of the University's master plan to improve parking and campus access. The structure would cost about $10.03 million and would hold about 1,000 cars.
Tom Waechter, planning coordinator for design and construction management, said the garage would allow visitors quick and easy access to the Kansas Union and nearby museums. The garage also would provide 500 parking spaces for faculty and staff.
Waechter is presenting the master plan to the public in three open forums. After receiving feedback, Chancellor Robert Hemenway and Provost David Shulenburger probably will approve the plan, Waechter said. He said the plan could be approved next month, and construction on the garage could begin as early as next spring.
But residents of the houses slated for demolition question sacrificing the charm and character of old buildings for a monstrous concrete structure. In addition to the Continuing Education building, residences at 1231 Oread Ave., 1222 Mississippi St. and 1224 Mississippi St. would come down.
"Some of these places have just as much character and history as campus buildings," said Tyler Macmillan, a Lawrence senior who lives at 1231 Oread Ave. "To knock out some of the historical part of our campus for a parking garage doesn't make much sense."
When he and his roommate moved into the house in August, Macmillan said, their landlord had mentioned the possibility that the house could be raided in the next couple of years.
Mike Canning, a Prairie Village junior living at 1222 Mississippi St., said he had received no word from his landlord that he may be unable to live in his house next year.
"I'd hear plans about a parking garage, but I had no idea that it would be right here," he said.
nad no idea that it would be right here," he said. Canning's house and the house at 1224 Mississippi St. were purchased by the Kansas University Endowment Association two years ago for the long-range use of the University, said Daryl Beene, senior vice president of the Endowment Association.
Deene said he thought the garage still was in the planning phase. He added that the Endowment Association would not renew leases next year for houses that could be torn down six or seven months after the lease began.
Macmillan and his roommate, Lauren Bone, Lawrence resident, will move out of their home for reasons other than the proposed demolition. But they said the University did not communicate with neighborhood residents about the plan
"It's not like the University cares about how the people in the Oread neighborhood feel about development," Bone said. "Why do we need something else that will look like Wescoe?"
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