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KD HOUSE FLOODS The Kappa Delta sorority house sustained rain damage, causing the roof of the building to cave in and 30 women to seek housing elsewhere.
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After the heavy rainfall in Oxford last week, nearly half of Kappa Delta house residents have been forced to move out because of flooding.
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Nearly half of the 64 Kappa Delta house residents cannot live in their sorority house for the rest of the semester, as the ceilings caved in when the house flooded after five days of heavy rain fell in Oxford last week. Kappa Delta residents shared pictures of the damage to the house on social media. In the pictures, trash cans were scattered around the house to collect water leaking through the roof. There was also significant damage to the flooring. The wood floor was warped, and the ceilings in some rooms were also beginning to cave in. In an email released to Kappa Delta members on Sunday, the housing corps president Margaret Anne Alias said the flooding was because of clogged drains on the building’s roof. “Three of the drains on
the roof were, unbeknownst to anyone, almost stopped up due to sand from the shingles,” Alias said. As of now, the only residents who are affected are those living in the left side of the house, she said. Junior biology major and Kappa Delta member Anna Holt Shaw said the sorority has offered displaced residents rooms in The Inn at Ole Miss, but this is only a temporary solution. “Moving out was very stressful, considering I was not expecting to have to do so at all,” Holt said. “I was packing hectically, so nothing is in order, and it is hard to sort through all my things.” Servpro, a company dealing with the water damage, will be testing the air quality in the Kappa Delta house in the coming days to determine whether it is safe for those on the right side of the house to remain living there. “What is important for
you to know is that there is no danger in staying in that portion of the house right now,” Alias said in her email to the chapter. “The question is whether the moisture level can be maintained at a safe level, and Servpro will determine this soon. If they determine that the rest of the girls should move out as well, we will offer the same assistance in finding alternate housing.” Alias said the chapter is trying to deal with the situation as soon as possible. “The fact this happened on a weekend has not helped the situation,” Alias said. “It did not hinder our ability to immediately address the problem and begin cleanup, but it has hindered our ability to quickly find alternate housing for these girls.” A building restoration company started the cleanup process Saturday around 3 p.m., and the process will take around two weeks, Alias said.
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Cohen calls Trump ‘con man’ before Congress WASHINGTON (AP) — In a damning depiction of Donald Trump, the president’s former lawyer cast him on Wednesday as a racist and a con man who used his inner circle to cover up politically damaging allegations about sex and lied, throughout the 2016 election campaign, about his business interests in Russia. Michael Cohen, who previously pleaded guilty to lying to Congress, told lawmakers that Trump had advance knowledge, and embraced the news, that emails damaging to Hillary Clinton would be released during the campaign. But he also said he had no “direct evidence” that Trump or his aides colluded with Russia to get him elected, the primary question of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Cohen, shaking off incessant criticism from Republicans anxious to paint him as a felon and liar, became the first Trump insider to pull back the curtain on a version of the inner workings of Trump’s political and business operations. He likened the president to a “mobster” who demanded blind loyalty from underlings and expected them to lie on his behalf to conceal information and protect him — even if it meant breaking the law. “I am not protecting Mr. Trump anymore,” Cohen declared. Offering stark TV counterprogramming to the president’s official duties, Cohen’s matter-of-fact testimony about secret payments and lies unfolded as Trump met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. At a Vietnam hotel and unable to ignore the drama thousands of miles away, Trump lashed out on Twitter, saying Cohen “did bad things unrelated to Trump” and “is lying in order to reduce his prison time.” In testimony that cut to the heart of federal investigations encircling the White House, Cohen said he arranged hush
money payments to women on Trump’s behalf and lied about them to the public and the first lady at the president’s behest. He agreed to say Trump was “not knowledgeable” about the transactions, even though the president directly reimbursed him, and said he was left with the unmistakable impression Trump wanted him to lie to Congress about a Moscow real estate project, even if the president never directly told him so. In one revelation, Cohen said prosecutors in New York were investigating conversations Trump or his advisers had with him after his office and hotel room was raided by the FBI last April. Cohen said he could not discuss that conversation, the last contact he said he has had with the president or anyone acting on his behalf, because it remains under investigation. The appearance marked the latest step in Cohen’s evolution from legal fixer for the president — he once boasted he’d “take a bullet” for Trump — to a foe who has implicated him in federal campaign finance violations. The hearing proceeded along parallel tracks, with Democrats focusing on allegations against Trump while Republicans sought to undermine Cohen’s credibility and the proceeding itself. As Republicans blasted him as a convicted liar, a mostly unrattled Cohen sought to blunt the attacks by repeatedly acknowledging his own failings. He called himself a “fool,” warned lawmakers of the perils of blind loyalty to a leader undeserving of it and pronounced himself ashamed of what he’d done to protect Trump. Cohen will soon report to prison for a three-year sentence. At the same time, he is seen as a vital witness for federal prosecutors because of his decade-long professional relationship with the president and his proximity to the president during key episodes under investigation.