2A • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Inside Front
TUESDAY, MAY 6.2003
News briefs
STATE
Suspect captured after 12-hour search
JUNCTION CITY — A man on the Kansas Most Wanted list was captured yesterday after a 12-hour hount.
Geary County deputies captured Mark A. Lair around 10:15 a.m. when they responded to a call reporting a suspicious person in the area. Lair had eluded deputies and exchanged gunfire late Sunday night after a traffic stop.
Lair, 30, was wanted in Wilson County on charges of aggravated escape from custody and in Butler County on warrants for crimes including vehicle theft and production of methamphetamine.
Deputies learned Lair was in the area around 10 p.m. Sunday when a deputy stopped a vehicle that did not have a license plate clearly displayed. The deputy became suspicious when the car's occupants had differing stories, Sheriff Jim Jensen said.
Upon questioning, Lair fled from the deputy on foot. The deputy pursued Lair through a field and returned fire after Lair began shooting.
Lair eventually returned to his vehicle and fled, leaving his wife in the deputy's custody. An ensuing vehicle chase ended when Lair crashed his vehicle on U.S. 77 near Kansas 18 and fled on foot.
After receiving a tip, Geary County deputies found Lair yesterday morning near a one-room schoolhouse about a half-mile from the intersection of the two highways.
Sprint Corp. announces 575 more cut positions
OVERLAND PARK — Sprint Corp. told 575 employees yesterday they would be laid off in the next few weeks, the company said.
The company, which has cut more than 17,000 jobs since October 2001, said the latest job cuts were caused by increased competition and "lowered business volume."
Spokeswoman Melinda Tiemeyer said employees to be laid off worked primarily in the business and mass markets divisions of the company's global markets group, the consumer markets group, and the corporate
finance group.
The finance jobs being cut are mostly because of the closing of a receivables management center in Tarboro, N.C., she said.
About 100 of the 575 employees being laid off are in the Kansas City area, she said. Sprint employs about 18,000 people in the region.
"The main reason we're doing this is to strengthen our competitive position and operate more cost effectively," Tiemeyer said.
NATION
University to refuse students from SARS-infected areas
BERKELEY, Calif. — The University of California at Berkeley will refuse to admit new students from SARS-infected China, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong this summer in what is believed to be the first such move by a major U.S. university to prevent the spread of the virus.
The decision, announced on the campus Web site Friday, affects several hundred students who were planning to attend Berkeley for summer school, which begins May 27. Instead, those students will get their money back.
There have been no cases of SARS at Berkeley, which has a very large enrollment from the Asian regions hit hard by the potentially deadly virus.
"After close consultation with several public health officials and campus experts, and based on the strong recommendation of the City of Berkeley Health Officer, I deeply regret that we will not be accepting enrollments of students from these areas," campus Chancellor Robert Berdahl said in an message on the Web site.
While many American universities have wrestled with how to deal with severe acute respiratory syndrome, the flu-like illness that has killed at least 449 people and sickened more than 6,300, mostly in Asia, Berkeley's outright ban on incoming students is unusual.
Victor Johnson, executive director of the Association of International Educators in Washington, which promotes the exchange of scholars to and from the United States, had not heard of any other school taking such a step.
The Associated Press
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Lindsey Gold/Kansar
University Christian Fellowship will meet at 7:00 tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Contact Rick Clock at 841-3148.
Ecumenical Christian Ministries will present "Faith Forum: A Liberal Take on Christianity" from 8:30-9:30 tonight at the ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. Contact Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
Jehan Mohammed, Kansas City, Kan., graduate student, (right) congratulates Yana Delkhak, Lawrence sophomore, after Delkhak finished performing in the "Probate Show" for Delta Sigma Theta on Wescoe Beach. The five "neos", or newly-inducted members of the sorority, decorated tank tops and visors in the sorority's colors, crimson and cream, for the dance yesterday.
Lawrence Catholic Campus Center.
Contact Hannah Reynolds at 812-3422
The KU Karate Kobudo Club will practice from 7:30-9:30 onight at St.
ON CAMPUS — For more events, go to kucalendar.com
■ Lindsey Collier, winner of the 2003 Laird Essay Competition, will give a Laird Brown Bag lecture on "An International Dilemma: Russia vs. Chechnya" from 12-1 p.m. today in Room 318 at Bailey Hall, Call 864-4236.
The KU Ki Aikido Sports Club will meet from 5:30-7 p.m. today in 207
Robinson. Contact Andrew Wolff at 843-4732.
ON THE RECORD
A 19-year-old KU student told Lawrence police that someone damaged his 1996 Ford Ranger at about 4:15 a.m. Wednesday in the 1400 block of Tennessee Street, according to reports. Damage was estimated at $150.
A 36-year-old KU employee told Lawrence police that someone took his bicycle and cable lock between 7 p.m. April 29 and 8 a.m. Wednesday from the 1000 block of West 24th Street, according to reports. The items were valued at $65.
A 22-year-old KU student told Lawrence police that someone damaged the passenger window of his Honda and took his Sony cd stereo between 2 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. Wednesday in the 1400 block of Tennessee
Street, according to reports. The loss was estimated at $900.
A 21-year-old KU student told Lawrence police that someone took her Alpine cd stereo and subwoofer and damaged her vehicle between 11 p.m. April 29 and 5 a.m. Wednesday in the 1400 block of Tennessee Street, according to reports. The loss was estimated at $845.
A 24-year-old KU student told Lawrence police that someone took her cell phone between 11:10 p.m. Saturday and 4:06 a.m. Sunday in the 1700 block of Tennessee Street, according to reports. The phone was valued at $150
A 25-year-old KU student told Lawrence police that someone took hand tools, a chainsaw and tool belt from his residence between 1 a.m. and
9 a.m. Saturday in the 900 block of Vermont, according to reports. The items were valued at $440.
A 23-year-old KU student told Lawrence police that someone took shorts, underwear and a wooden container from her residence between 1:20 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Friday in the 600 block of Gateway Court, according to reports. The items were valued at $45.
A 21-year-old KU student told Lawrence police that someone stole his 1994 Lincoln, which had a bag of golf clubs in it, between 9 p.m. Wednesday and 7 p.m. Thursday in the 1000 block of Mississippi Street, according to reports. The car and golf clubs were valued at $10,200.
Et Cetera
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HOW TO STUDY FOR FINALS
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Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union
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The same workshop scheduled for Thursday, May 8, is cancelled.
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