4A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 18. 2005
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IMMIGRATION
A sign and mangled wire fence mark the border between Mexico and the United States, May 10, 2004, in southern Arizona. Brent Anderson, an assistant U.S. attorney in Kansas, said 90 illegal immigrants have been prosecuted in federal felony cases in Kansas.
Immigrant felonies up
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TOPEKA — Hardly a day passes without illegal immigrants, mainly from Mexico, arriving in Kansas hoping to do better than they had back home.
If lucky, they'll blend into the state's growing Hispanic population, find work, prosper and live unnoticed by authorities. Others, however, get caught for a crime, find themselves behind bars and later deported. Still others come back, get caught and face felony charges for simply being here again.
These days, the chances of illegal immigrants returning and being caught in Kansas are greater because federal prosecutors increasingly are focused on those re-entering the United States.
Brent Anderson, an assistant U.S. attorney in Kansas, said such cases wouldn't have been a priority for prosecution in the past, but the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks changed that.
"As a result of 9-11, one of the things the government has to do is be on the lookout for dangerous people who aren't supposed to be in the United States," he
said. "We focus on these cases more than we have before because of national security implications."
So far this year, 90 people have been prosecuted in federal felony cases in Kansas where the most serious offense was a criminal immigration violation, mainly illegal re-entry.
Anderson said this year would exceed last year's total of 109, an 18.4 percent increase over 2003. In 1994, there were only five such prosecutions in Kansas.
"This is going to increase as years go by and there is no way around it," he said. "Every day there are more and more illegal aliens in the state."
Nationally, 18,525 people were charged with some immigration violation last year, a 12.8 percent increase over 2003, according to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
Being caught for the first time illegally in the United States is a misdeanor. If immigration officials get involved, immigrants often agree to return home. They also can ask for a civil hearing before immigration officials but Anderson said they rarely were allowed to stay.
rather than doing research, and what some called poorly trained front desk employees.
Library
The hour-and-a-half meeting held at the Centennial Room in the Kansas Union grew heated at times. When Janet Shar什曼ian, associate professor of English, said; "This is a Research One University, and it is behaving as if it is a community college." Several people broke into applause and one faculty member shouted "Amen."
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Bentley countered some of the complaints, saying that, while many serial journals have recently been cut because of rising prices, the libraries have seen an overall increase of 9,000 journals in the past three years.
She admitted that the libraries had problems in other areas, including desk attendants who are often unable to answer researchers' questions. She said the libraries were "just beginning to look at changing training considerably."
Some raised concerns over the hundreds of thousands of library materials that will be moved to the new storage facility on West Campus, which is set to be completed in April. Storage materials will not be browsable by researchers; librarians will retrieve them upon request.
Bentley said that when people ask for materials from the 200,000 that are now kept in various storage facilities, requests are usually filled within 24 hours, and she expected a similarly quick response after the new storage facility was completed.
Others complained that more library
computers needed to be reserved for serious research and searching the library catalogue, saying that many computers were used by students wasting time playing games between class, using www.facebook.com and even looking at pornography.
"It seems to me we ought to be able to reserve an adequate number of computers for those that wish to perform legitimate library inquiries at a given time." James Carothers, professor of English, said after the meeting.
Bentley agreed that computers should be used for academic purposes, but said it would be nearly impossible for library staff members to monitor what Web sites people visited.
Bill Tsutsui, associate professor of history, said many of the problems that brought about the meeting could have been avoided if faculty members had a better dialogue with library staff. He and other professors suggested a "faculty liaison council," which would be made up of representatives from across University departments and would advise library staff administrators on a regular basis. Tsutsui said he'd like to see the council created before Bentley retires from the libraries at the end of the school year.
"The fact that no consultation beforehand took place is causing some frustration among the faculty." Tsutsui said after the meeting.
Bentley said she would look into creating a faculty advisory council, and that he would be interested in the possibility of a student advisory council.
Edited by Erick R. Schmidt
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Jazz, popular favorites and light classics will be performed by the Men's Basketball Band, Wind Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble I and Marching Iavhawks.
Special guest artist Steve Houghton, world-renowned drummer from Los Angeles, will perform solos with the Wind Ensemble, the Jazz Ensemble I and the KU Athletic Bands. KU faculty Vince Gnojek (alto saxophone) and Steve Leisring (trumpet) will also be soloing with the University of Kansas bands. Because it is the first time for an event like this, Lynch said he wasn't entirely sure what to expect. He does plan
to present the event every other year and possibly add a second venue in Johnson County in the future. Lynch hopes that the program will bring in more than 500 people and bring in more than $3,000.
Goals Lynch has already achieved for the program include taking the bands on more international excursions (the Marching Jayhawks are going to Ireland this Spring) and putting out a professional recording, which the band did recently. The recording was picked up by the Naxos record label. He would also like to increase the number of Marching Jayhawks (now at 190) to 300 within two years.
— Edited by Jayme Wiley
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