2A • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
FRIDAY.MARCH 8,2002
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Today's Poll:
Today's Poll:
Did you go/are you going to Rock Chalk this year?
yes
no
To cast your vote, log on to www.kansan.com. Check out results to this poll tonight on KUJH-TV news.
ADINDEX
Altitude ...5A
Americana Music Academy ...5A
Army ROTC ...6A
Bada Bing ...2B
Brazilian Student Assoc ...2A
Campus Place Apts ...5A
Cedarwood Apts ...6B
Chicago Public Schools ...6A
Coca-Cola ...3A
Delta Gamma ...3B
Emerson Biggins ...3B
English Alternative Theater ...6B
Eye Doctors ...5A
Hall Center ...6B
Hanover Place Apts ...6A
Holiday Inn Express ...4B
Jack Flanigans ...4B
Kentucky Place Apt. ...6A
Kief's ...2A
KUAC ...4B
Liberty Hall ...6A
Liberty Hall Video ...6B
Lied Center ...5A,6A
Meadowbrook Apts ...6A
Orchard Corners Apt. ...3B
Pipeline ...4B
Pizza Shuttie ...6B
Raoul's ...6A
Recreational Services ...6A
Regents Court Apts ...3B
Social Norms ...6B
Study Abroad ...2B
SUA ...2A
Summit House Apts ...6A
Sundance Apts ...3A
Tanglewood Apts ...3A
Time Machine (movie) ...5A
UPS ...4B
World's of Fun ...2A
CAMERA ONKU
Jenny Lang, Lawrence resident and lab technician in a microbiology lab in Haworth Hall, innoculates E.coli cultures with a strain of soil nematoads. After incubation, the culture will yield a large volume of the tiny worms that will be used in various experiments.
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Officer convicted of brutality awaits retrial
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — After nearly three years behind bars, a white former police officer whose conviction in the torture of Abner Louima was thrown out on appeal was freed on $1 million bail yesterday to await a new trial.
U. S. District Judge Reena Raggi agreed to release 36-year-old Charles Schwarz but restricted him to New York City.
Today's a great day. I've
been waiting for this day for 33 months," a smiling Schwarz said as he left the courthouse to applause from supporters and jeers from a smattering of protesters.
His retrial in one of the city's most notorious police brutality cases is set for June.
Schwarz denied he was in the bathroom. But after Volpe pleaded guilty, a jury convicted Schwarz in 1999 of violating Louima's civil rights.
U. S. Attorney Alan Vinegrad tried unsuccessfully to have Schwarz placed under house arrest.
senwarz was one of four white officers sentenced to
court ordered a new trial for Schwarz.
Last week, a federal appeals
prison in connection with the attack on Louima, a Haitian immigrant who was sodomized with a broken broomstick in a Brooklyn police station bathroom in 1997. Schwarz was accused of holding down Louima while Officer Justin Volbe brutalized him.
Louima, who suffered severe internal injuries, criticized the appeals court decision Thursday at a Miami news conference held before the bail hearing.
"I had hoped, after all these years, I would be able to go on with my life," Louima said.
The appeals court last week also threw out the obstruction-of-justice convictions of Schwarz and two other officers.
ON THE RECORD
Ki Aikido Sports Club has practice from 10 a.m. to noon tomorrow at room 207 in Robinson. Contact Jason Ziegler 843-4732.
ON CAMPUS
A KU student turned himself in and was arrested on a charge of theft at 4:08 p.m. Tuesday, Lawrence police reported.
Lawrence Chinese Evangelical Church (LCEE) will meet for fellowship at 7:30 tonight at Free Methodist Church, 3001 Lawrence Ave. Contact Agena Lim at 864-4391 or 832-9439.
A KU student's Sprint PCS cell phone was taken or lost between 9 and 11:59 p.m. Saturday at The Hawk, 1340 Ohio St., Lawrence police reported.
Rock Chalk Bridge Club will meet at 6 p.m. tomorrow at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union. Lessons begin at 6, games begin at 6:30. Contact Don Brenaman at 550-9001.
- AKU student's US Bank debit card and money were taken between 1 and 3
a. m. Feb. 26 from a house in the 800 block of Mississippi Street, Lawrence police reported. The items were valued at $33.31.
A KU associate professor's gold KU parking permit was taken between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Feb. 22 from KU parking lot 41, west of Learned Hall, the KU Public Safety Office reported. The item was valued at $175.
CAMPUS Battenfeld director leaves prematurely
The director of Battenfeld Scholarship Hall will be leaving by spring break, a Department of Student Housing official told hall residents before dinner last night.
Kevin Bates, a Tecumseh graduate student in business, became the hall's director last fall. He will be succeeded by Kevin Hinegardner, Omaha, Neb., junior, who is the hall's proctor. Hall residents will form a committee to help select a new director for next fall.
Hinegardner and Bates both declined to comment.
Dan Suitor, complex director for scholarship halls, made the announcement to residents yesterday. Residents said Suitor was unclear about whether Bates had quit or had been fired. Suitor did not return phone calls last night.
Matt Seger, Newton sophomore, said he and other residents learned last night that Bates was leaving. He said Bates had told residents that he would not return next fall, but he was expected to finish the semester. Residents were surprised to see Suitor at dinner, Seger said.
"I didn't really see it coming. I figured the only thing he would be coming to tell us about was that we would have a new director next year," Seger said.
year. Bates is a Topeka native who graduated from the University of Kansas in 1997 with a degree in journalism. He then worked as a police reporter at the Topeka Capital Journal and at the Lawrence Journal World. This year, Bates serves as the graduate teaching assistant for the School of Journalism's Newspaper Reporting class, in which all University Daily Kansan reporters are enrolled.
Jav Krail
NATION
Food companies settle on genetically modified corn
CHICAGO—A federal judge approved a $9 million settlement yesterday in a class-action lawsuit by consumers who complained of allergic reactions to genetically modified corn in supermarket products.
Under the settlement approved by U.S. District Judge James Moran, a group of food companies will attach $6 million in coupons, each good for a dollar off, to packages of their products.
Any portion of the $6 million not used by consumers through the coupons will be paid into a fund that will be used to support as-yet-undetermined charities or food research groups.
Associated Press
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