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The Inside Front
THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2003
News briefs
STATE
Woodlands general manager faces charges of embezzlement
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - A judge has ordered the former general manager of The Woodlands to face trial on charges that he stole money from the pari-mutual track through a purchasing and expense account scheme.
Wyandotte County District Judge Robert L. Serra ruled Tuesday that the nearly eight hours of testimony he heard over two days at a preliminary hearing established probable cause to try August J. Masciotra, 53, formerly of Spring Hill.
No date was set for the trial on three felony theft counts. Masciotra remains free on $5,000 bond and his attorney, Tom Bath, said, "This thing is not over."
Details of the alleged scheme involving Masciotra and others were disclosed last summer by the Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission. Evidence of phony purchasing and expense account transactions appeared to cover up at least $180,376 in track funds stolen over two years.
The allegations led to the firing of Masciotra and five other employees, including his son-in-law Eugene Brundige, 36, now of San Antonio, Texas. Among the others were Brundige's brother, Mike Brundige, and Masciotra's daughter, Antoinette Brundige.
Last month Eugene Brundige pleaded guilty to one count of theft and agreed to repay the money.
NATION
Grocery chains race lawsuit regarding pink salmon dye
YAKIMA, Wash. - A law firm is suing the country's three largest grocery chains, contending they should tell shoppers that the farm-raised salmon they sell has been dyed pink.
The three lawsuits, proposed as class actions, were filed Wednesday against the Kroger Co., Safeway Inc. and Albertsons Inc., said lawyer Paul Kampmeier of Smith & Lowney of Seattle.
"Pink sells salmon," he said. "To artificially color salmon without giving
that information to consumers, we believe that's unfair and deceptive, and it's also against federal law."
The flesh of farmed salmon is naturally grayish. Wild salmon's brightly colored flesh is the result of pigment the fish get from eating krill or other small crustaceans, says the British Columbia Salmon Farmers Association, a trade group. The same pigments are added to the diets of farmed fish to give them the same color, it says.
A spokesman for Cincinnati-based Kroger said the company had not seen the lawsuit and declined to comment. Representatives of Boise, Idaho-based Albertsons and Pleasanton, Calif.-based Safeway did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
The lawsuits, filed in King County Superior Court in Seattle, seek unspecified damages and a court order requiring the chains to inform shoppers that the salmon are artificially colored.
Civil liberties group protests Shippensburg speech policy
PHILADELPHIA - Civil liberties group has filed suit against Shippensburg University, saying the state school's policy on speech is among the most unconstitutionally restrictive in the nation.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education filed the lawsuit Tuesday in federal court, said Thor Halvorssen, the group's chief executive. The nonprofit group, which focuses on civil liberties issues on college campuses, said the suit was the first of many it would file across the country.
"Too many colleges and universities attempt to outlaw free speech and expression that does not conform to a specific orthodoxy," he said.
The complaint cites what it alleges is unconstitutionally vague or overly broad language in the school's racism and cultural diversity policy, which cautions among other things against "unconscious attitudes toward individuals which surface through the use of discriminatory semantics."
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Melissa Hunt of the anthropology department will give a Merienda Brown Bag Lecture on "Women and Resistance: A Cross-Border Response to the Maquiladora Industry of Mexico's Northern Border" today at noon at room 318 in Bailey Hall. Call 864-4213.
Susan Earle will give a Tour du Jour lecture on "Defining Craft I: Collecting for the New Millennium" at 12:15 p.m. today in the Spencer Museum of Art.Call 864-4710.
Queers and Allies will sponsor a religious panel on "What Does the Bible Say about Homosexuality?" at 3 p.m. today at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Call 864-3091.
Cameron Currie of ecology and evolutionary biology will give a lecture on "Diversity and Habitat Relationships of Hypogeous Fungi in Southeastern Australia: Factors Contributing to the Occurrence and Number of Taxa" at
3:30 p.m. today at room 1005 in
Haworth Hall, Call 864-5887
John Goodge of the University of Minnesota will give a lecture on "Detrital Mineral Geochronology: Record of Sedimentary Provenance, Changes in Tectonic Setting and Rates of Denudation, Ross Orogen, Antarctica" at 4 p.m. today at room 103 in Lindley Hall. Call 864-4974.
Jeff Werner of the University of Gotland in Sweden will lecture on "The Motorways of Modernism and Sweden's Blind Alleys" at 5:15 p.m. today at room 211 in the Spencer Museum of Art. Call 864-4713.
Glen Brown of Kansas State University will give an art lecture on "The Condition of Craft" at 7 tonight at room 211 in the Spencer Museum of Art. Call 864-4710.
KU Greens will sponsor "Perspectives of Free and Fair Trade" from 6 p.m. to 9 tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave, Dinner provided by Food not Bombs. Contact Sam Hopkins at 913-634-6127.
■ Mary Robinson, the first female president of Ireland and the former U.N. high commissioner for human rights, will lecture on "Human Rights and Ethical Globalization" at 7 tonight at room 120 in Budig Hall. Call 864-4550.
Student Union Activities will screen the film Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers at 7 and 10:30 tonight at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Tickets are free with an SUA movie card or $2 at the Hawk Shop in the Kansas Union. Call 864-7469.
The University Dance Company will perform at 7:30 tonight at the Lied Center. Call 864-4264.
Queers and Allies will sponsor a lecture and workshop on "Bisexuality 101" at 7:30 tonight at the Malott Room in the Kansas Union. Call 864-3091.
ON THE RECORD
A 33-year-old KU student told Lawrence police that someone damaged his 1994 Jeep Cherokee between 8 p.m. April 15 and 8 a.m. April 16 in the 700 block of Connecticut Street, according to reports. Damage was estimated at $265.
Et Cetera
A 22-year-old KU student told Lawrence police that someone took her Samsung cell phone between 12:30 a.m. and 1:45 a.m. Saturday in the 800 block of East Sixth Street, according to reports. The phone was valued at $100.
A 20-year-old KU student told Lawrence police that someone took his Samsung cell phone between 10:30 p.m. Sunday and 8:30 a.m. Monday in the 3500 block of Clinton Parkway, according to reports. The phone was valued at $90.
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