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Doctoral student pleads guilty but mentally ill
By Laura Pelner Zhan Yin told the court Friday that he killed a Purdue student last summer because he both feared and hated her and was under the delusion she wanted to hurt him. Yin, 28, a doctoral student in biology, pleaded guilty to murdering Yeunkyung Woo, 31, a fellow biology doctoral student, and her sister, Hyo Kyung Woo, 29, of Chicago, and he accepted an agreement to plead guilty but mentally ill and receive life in prison without parole instead of the death penalty. Contrary to the road rage motive he told police in August, Yin said he went to Yeunkyung's Purdue Village apartment Aug. 2 with the intent to harm her. "I was under the illusion (she and my other lab partners) wanted to hurt myself," he told Judge Donald Johnson. Yin said he "wanted to kill" Yeunkyung and that he had a hammer with him he intended to use to harm her when he approached her apartment. He said he'd never met Hyo Kyung before that afternoon, but after he knocked on the door and she answered he hit her with the hammer immediately. He said that after he killed her he realized she was not his target so he moved her body to a bedroom and stayed in the apartment for several hours waiting for Yeunkyung. When Yeunkyung returned home he killed her in a similar manner, with the hammer and a knife. Priests' actions don't harm faithRecent national reports of child molestation in the Roman Catholic Church have left many Catholics around the world searching for answers and finding comfort in their personal faith. For Ted Mauch, a Catholic and a junior in the University Studies Program, the recent news reports were another sad reminder of a problem that has continued to pervade the Catholic Church. "My first reaction was sadness that this problem affects our church and those people who minister most intimately with people in the church," Mauch said. "I was also sad the media chose to, and continues to choose, to dwell on it so heavily with so many things going on." Mauch, who has considered becoming a priest himself, does not believe these few cases are a true reflection of the majority of the work priests do in the Catholic Church. "I still believe it is a noble life because God has called these men through the priesthood to serve in the name of his son for his people," he said. "There are challenges in that, and one challenge right now is that sick individuals have entered the priesthood and abused the people of God, but it doesn’t change the fact that there are hundreds of thousands of priests who are doing good on a day-to-day basis." Like many Catholics, Mauch agrees child molestation is a problem in the Catholic Church. According to a new Gallup poll, 72 percent of Catholics say the church has done a bad job in handling the problems of sexual abuse by priests. No Doubt rocks Elliott Hall
Elliott Hall belonged to Gwen Stefani Sunday even before she strolled on stage. Shouts of "Bring Out Gwen" and "I want Gwen" carried over No Doubt's openers, The Faint, who's style was obviously put together in the "Making the Band" sort of way. No, they weren't O-Town, but they all had different hairstyles and the vocalist tried too hard to convince the audience that The Faint was somehow a code name for Orgy. The Faint plagued the stage for 45 minutes and left fans screaming for No Doubt while stage hands began to set up for the real talent — Stefani and the boys. No Doubt opened with "Hella Good," the latest release off of their new album, "Rock Steady," and then jumped right into "Sunday Morning." Hyping it up with a good mix of new and old, every fan held one hand in the air and obeyed Stefani's every command. |
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