4 = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
LOCAL NEWS
MONDAY, FEB. 11, 2002
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Sports: Dale Ziegler
Anchors: Kelsey Head and
Michelle Sherwood
Weather: Matt Laubhan
TODAY'S POLL
Today's Poll: Do you think GTAs deserve more pay and benefits?
- yes
- no
- no opinion
Go to www.kansan.com to cast your vote. The results will be broadcast at 5:30 p.m. on KUJH-TV, channel 14, cable 62. Retwatch the newcast every hour on the half-hour.
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CAMERA ON KU
Lawrence residents (left to right) Ruilong Hu, 13, Myron Liu, 11, and Steven Peng, 11 are excited and distracted before their performance at the Chinese New Year celebration. Each of the boys has played the violin for several years.
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Doctor saves depression led to deaths
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City man who has confessed to killing five men over four days wouldn't have done it if he hadn't been depressed, a psychiatrist testified.
Psychiatrist William Logan said Thursday that Gary Beach, 59, who is charged with first-degree murder, suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression before and during the 1999 slayings.
Logan's testimony came during pretrial arguments in which Beach's attorneys want the judge to suppress
their client's confession during his trial, scheduled to start March 11.
"How can he make a complete and knowing waiver [of his rights] when he was an incompetent human being?" defense lawyer Thomas Jacquinot asked.
Michael Hunt, assistant Jackson County prosecutor, said that Beach insisted on confessing after police read him his rights. It may be bad judgment to confess, Hunt said, "but people do it all the time."
Circuit Judge Charles E. Atwell said he would rule on the issue later this month. Atwell on Wednesday watched the videotaped confession,
in which Beach described the five killings.
Beach faces the death penalty if convicted. Defense attorneys contend that Beach's mental condition prevented him from having the "cool reflection" the law requires for first-degree murder.
Two state experts agreed with Logan that Beach suffered from the disorders when he killed the men in late March and early April 1999.
Those killed were Beach's stepson, Michael Davis, 32, Davis' friend, Mark Nelson, 28. Christopher Conrad, 27, Jerry Nickerson, 61, and Kenneth Gulley, 45.
ONTHERECORD
A 21-year-old KU student's U.S. savings bond, tan shoulder bag and its contents and money were taken between 6:10 p.m. and 6:20 p.m. Tuesday from the fourth floor of Watson Library, 1425 Jayhawk Blvd., the KU Public Safety Office reported. The items were valued at $10,032.
A 21-year-old KU student's freshman architecture kit, aluminum ruler and plastic French curve ruler were taken between p.m. Dec. 20 and noon Tuesday from Lindley Annex, 1480 Hoch Auditoria Drive, the KU Public Safety Office reported. The items were valued at $130.
A 20-year-old KU student's blue KU jacket was taken between 8:30 p.m. Friday and 2:05 a.m. Saturday from a vehicle in the 700 block of New Hampshire Street, Lawrence police reported. The item was valued at $50.
ON CAMPUS
Black Student Union will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Pioneer room in the Burge Union. Contact Mark Dupree at 864-3984.
Tae Kwon Do club will meet from 6:30 to 8 tonight at 207 Robinson.
Contact Greg Isaac at 749-4649.
OAKS, the nontraditional students organization, will have a brown bag lunch from noon to 1:30 p.m. today in the Burge Union. Contact Joan Winston at 864-7317.
off campus. Contact Sarah Hoskinson at 838-9063.
The department of English is sponsoring a conversation with Ishmael Read, author, at 1:30 p.m. today at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Reed will also read from his own work at 4:30 p.m. Reed has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a two-time finalist for the National Book Award. The event is free and open to the public. Contact Maryemega Graham at 864-2557 or mgraham@ukans.edu.
KU Greens will meet at 8 tonight
STATE
Five Newton residents fined for violating city recycling law
NEWTON — Jill Rowland admits her crime
— she threw away baby formula cans and a
shampoo bottle.
Rowland, 26, a mother of one, was fine $50.
She just can't believe that she and four other Newton residents were hauled into municipal court and fined Thursday for violating the city's mandatory recycling law.
All pleaded no contest and will be fined $25 per violation, with warnings that they face stiffer fines or possibly five days in jail if they are caught with recyclables in their trash during the next six months.
Only seven communities in Kansas require residents to recycle. All are in Harvey County, where the County Commission passed a resolution two years ago banning certain recyclables from the trash transfer station.
Senate committee proposes cuts to senior care program
TOPEKA — The Senate Ways and Means Committee reluctantly approved Thursday a proposed budget for the Department on Aging that dramatically cuts a program providing home health aides for about 7,300 older Kansans.
Targeted for the big cut is the Senior Care Act program. Financed only with state dollars, it provides aides who help seniors with chores, preparing meals and personal care, such as bathing.
Graves doesn't want to cut the program and has proposed to preserve it with part of $228 million in tax increases. But Republican committee members said they cannot assume any tax increases will pass.
But Democrats said the committee should include the extra spending,to show the entire Senate that the Senior Care Act program is a high priority.
Couple receives new letters from son held in Phillipines
ROSE HILL — Her face expressionless, Oreta Burnham silently read Thursday the eight pages of letters sent from her son and his wife, held captive for more than eight months by Muslim extremists in the Philippines.
Since the letters first surfaced at a Philippine television station a day earlier, much of their contents have been broadcast and reprinted in media outlets across the globe.
But Thursday was the first time anyone in the family had actually seen a copy of the handwritten letters, obtained for them by The Associated Press. The last letter they got from Martin and Gracia Burnham was in November, when a group of hostages were released.
One letter asks for a secure satellite phone and money to buy some personal items. It gives the names of two men who may contact them from the Abu Sayaf and the name of another man who has agreed to act as go-between for them. The couple said they have not been contacted by anyone.
The Associated Press
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