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Monday
February 22,1999
News
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CAMPUS
Class of 198 to dedicate plaque today at Hoch
The class of 1998 will dedicate a plaque commemorating 100 years of basketball at the University of
Kansas at 9 a.m. today at Hoch Auditorium in Budig Hall.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway, Rep. Barbara Ballard, assistant vice chancellor of
student affairs, and Max Falkenstien, radio announcer for KU men's basketball games, will accept the class gift from the 1998 class officers.
The plaque will be in Hoch Auditorium because KU basketball games originally were played there, said Joy Benedict, former class president.
Dan Curry
An African-American resident of McCollum Hall discovered that a note containing a racial slur had been slid under his door between 11:30 p.m. and midnight Feb. 16, the KU Public Safety Office said.
McCollum resident reports racial slurs
The same resident reported to police in November 1998 that his checkbook had been stolen. The checkbook was later found in the residence hall bathroom with one of the checks taped to a mirror with a racial slur written on it, said Sgt. Troy Mailen of the KU Public Safety Office.
It is not clear whether there is a relationship between the two events, Malen said. The Public Safety Office is investigating the matter with the Department of Student Housing.
KU student struck by car Friday night
A KU student was struck by a car in the 1300 block of West Seventh Street at midnight Friday, said Peter Houston, battalion chief with the Lawrence Douglas County Fire and Medical Department.
The student was walking when she was hit. Medical personnel transported her to Lawrence Memorial Hospital were she was treated Saturday afternoon, a hospital spokesperson said.
The Lawrence Police department did not have further accident details available yesterday.
Katie Burford
NATION
Plane crashes by Kansas City's Downtown Airport
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A single-engine plane went down near the Missouri River as it lost power on approach to the Downtown Airport last night, authorities said.
There were no serious injuries, said Joseph McBride, a spokesman for the Kansas City Aviation Department.
The Beechcraft Sundowner had three people on board when it went down at about 7 p.m., McBride said.
"They're all walking around," he said. "I don't know the extent of their injuries."
McBride said the pilot gave this account of the crash:
He was trying to glide into the airport after experiencing engine failure, but fell short, McBride said.
According to the pilot, the plane hit some power lines, cartwheeled over a 10-foot wall wall and went down the river embankment.
The aircraft came to rest with its wheels in the water across the river from the airport. McBride said.
Brothers choose chamber in try to avoid execution
PHOENIX — Given the option of a fatal but relatively painless injection, convicted killers Karl and Walter LaGrand have chosen slower, more agonizing deaths in a cloud of cyanide fumes.
It's a calculated move designed to keep the brothers from becoming the first German citizens to be executed in the United States. Karl LaGrand is scheduled to die Wednesday, Walter on March 3.
The LaGrands and their attorneys are gambling that an appeals court will buy their argument that lethal
gas is cruel and unusual punishment — and therefore unconstitutional. The brothers, condemned to die for killing a bank manager in 1982, also hope U.S. officials will bow to international pressure and commute their sentences
Clinton: Wants to trace guns used in crimes by juvenile.
to life in prison. Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and other German leaders have asked President Clinton, Attorney General Janet Reno, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Arizona Gov. Jane Hull to intervene.
Youth gun activity figures spur Clinton to take action
WASHINGTON — The Clinton administration wants to bring more cities under a program that traces guns used by juvenile criminals in light of a report that showed at least half the guns were bought illegally from licensed dealers.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms released an analysis Sunday of its Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative. The program traced 76,260 guns used in crimes by 18- to 24-year-olds in 27 cities during the past three years.
President Clinton is asking Congress in his new budget proposal for money to pay for expanding the initiative to 10 more cities across the country.
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms found 51 percent of the traced guns were purchased from licensed dealers by people acting as "straw" intermediaries for the real owners, and only 35 percent were stolen. The remainder came from private sellers not required to obtain identification or subject their customers to background checks.
With impeachment over Clinton focuses on nation
WASHINGTON — A week after President Clinton's impeachment trial ended, the nation's governors are urging the president and Congress to put the enmity behind them and get on with the nation's business.
That, they said Saturday at the start of the National Governors' Association winter meeting, includes environment, transportation, education and health care.
"Americans are hungry for consent sus-building," said Delaware Gov. Thomas Carper, who is association's chairman. "We will certainly use our influence to encourage it."
They introduced four issues they will take to the president and to Congress.
take to the president and to Congress:
—Fewer federal mandates on programs such as welfare, children's health care and job training.
—More flexibility for more states in using federal education funding.
—Greater progress on environmental reform for cleaner water, cleanup of contaminated lands and endangered species.
The Associated Press
—Protection of the state tobacco settlement funds from any federal seizure.
Republican leader DeLay under investigation spotlight
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—Rep. Tom DeLay, the House Republican leader who led the drive to impeach President Clinton for statements he made under oath, now finds himself at the center of his own controversy over truthfulness.
DeLay got a lot of media attention as he kept up a steady stream of invective against Clinton. But now the spotlight has turned and is focused on the Texan. DeLay is being asked about discrepancies between statements he made in a legal proceeding and in financial disclosure forms he is required to file as a member of Congress.
"Frankly, it's my opinion he lied to me under oath," said Gerald DeNisco, the Houston lawyer who questioned DeLay for a 1994 deposition in a civil lawsuit filed against the congressman by a business partner.
The former pest exterminator, whose profile rose after the former speaker, Rep. Newt Gingrich, resigned blames Democrats for critical media coverage.
"I am the most investigated man in America. They're trying to bring me down," DeLay, the No. 3 GOP House leader, said this month.
Yet the man who repeatedly exhorted Clinton to provide facts is not rushing to talk.
Generally loquacious, the majority whip is brushing off inquiries regarding the lawsuit filed against him by a business partner who claimed DeLay and a third partner were trying to oust him from a pest control firm.
"We have answers to all of that," DeLay said. "It ain't worth talking about."
Aides have been equally tightlipped. Questions about DeLay's business dealings were first raised by an alternative Houston weekly in 1995 and were resurrected recently by The New Republic, a liberal-oriented magazine. "These stories are being forwarded by political enemies of Tom DeLay, and we choose not to fight them out in the press," said spokesman Michael Scanlon.
The roots of DeLay's current
troubles reach back to that 1994 deposition, taken 10 months before he got the GOP leadership post.
DeLay, who owned a third of Albo Pest Control, testified that he had not been an officer of the company for two or three years. But on congressional financial disclosure forms filed for several years preceding the deposition — and one filed three months afterward — he listed himself as chairman of Albo's board of directors. He dropped the title on his 1995 report.
DeNisco said he thought DeLay was attempting to limit financial liability by denying he was a corporate officer. DeLay later retreated somewhat from his claim, saying he couldn't remember when he resigned.
The spat with former Albo partner Robert Blankenship, ultimately settled with an undisclosed payment to Blankenship.
A court also imposed a $32,000 judgment against DeLay in 1984 after he stopped making payments to Robert Bartnett for the purchase of Bartnett's pest control company.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's VCR, CD player and other property were stolen from her residence between 7 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the 2100 block of West 26th Street, a Lawrence Police report said. The stolen property was valued at $2,350.
A KU student was arrested on suspicion of possessing drug paraphernalia and driving while under the influence at 2:04 a.m. Friday, a Lawrence Police report said. He was released at
5:22 a.m. on $750 bond.
A KU student's car was struck by an unidentified vehicle at around 4:40 p.m. Thursday in lot 104 near Ellsworth Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage to the car was minor.
A computer monitor was stolen between 5 p.m.
Jan. 31 and 2 p.m. Feb. 3 from room 203 in Summerfield Hall, the KU Public, Safety Office said.
The monitor was valued at $700.
■ KU Veterans Association will have its spring lecture at 3 p.m. today at the Malott Room in the Kansas Union. The event will feature Donald Hagen, executive vice chancellor of the KU Medical Center. The event is free. Call Russ Stutz at 865-5158 for more information.
Ecumenical Christian Ministries will have an information table about Alternative Spring Break to New Mexico from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. today at the Kansas Union. Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933 for more information.
International Student Association will have a pizza social at 6 p.m. at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. Call Vladimir Sinkov at 841-5092 for more information.
The St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will have daily Mass at 4:40 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Center, 1631 Crescent Road. Call Father Vince Kraschel at 843-0357 for more
information. There also will be daily Mass at 12:30 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday at Danforth Chapel. Call Father Roy May at 843-0357 for more information.
The SUA Recreation Committee will meet at 5 p.m. today at Alcove B in the Kansas Union. Call the SUA box office at 864-3477 for more information.
■ KU Enviros will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Kansas Union. Call Matt Dunbar at 864-7325 for more information.
- Writer's Roosts, sponsored by Writing Consulting: Student Resources will be open today at the following times and locations:
  9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Sunflower Room in the Burge Union and 4003 Wescoe; noon to 4 p.m. at 4006 Wescoe; 1 to 4 p.m. at Alcove C in the Kansas Union. Call 864-2399 for more information.
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