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presence of the display on campus, but Danny Kaiser, director of Organizations and Leadership, said the University events committee could make judgments based on time, place and manner but not on content.
"One thing the University events committee will always strive to do is to protect free speech while at the same time helping planners work within University policy." Kaiser said.
The display sparked abortion-rights advocates to inform students of their viewpoint. Jessica St. Clair, Valley Center senior, and about eight others stood at the corner of Sunflower Road and Jayhawk Boulevard holding poster boards of their own. One of the signs read "Prochoice is not anti-life."
Jana Mackey, Haysville junior, was holding the sign and said she was there because she thought the display was tasteless.
"I have a huge problem with this because it's based on shock value," she said.
Mackey said many of the pictures showed late-term abortions, which were not the time most abortions were performed.
St. Clair and others offended by the anti-abortion display were particularly upset by abortion opponents' use of the terms "genocide" and "Holocaust" as synonyms for abortion. She said the group that gathered to support abortion rights was there to let women know there were other options and that abortion was not genocide.
Rachel Leland, Wichita junior and president of the Justice For All group at the University, said abortion was an important issue to confront students with. She said it was difficult to stand behind an opinion that could come under attack, but she thought the issue was worth standing up for.
"Abortion is a horrible thing, but I don't necessarily like to think about it, and I think that's the case with a lot of people," she said. "If we save even one life, it's worth it."
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Members of Hillel knew the Justice for All display would be on campus today. Rather than confront the display with a counter protest and draw more attention to it, Lewis said the group decided to walk on the other side of the street.
"There's no winning an argument with zealots like these." Lewis said.
The Rev. Vince Krische of the St. Lawrence Catholic campus center was more supportive of the display.
Krische said although St. Lawrence didn't have an official position on the display he thought it was necessary for people to face the reality of abortion
"Iw as a culture and a society, if we want to promote abortion then we have to face the consequences," Krische said. "It's not pretty."
Muslim perspectives on campus were a little more divisive than other religious perspectives.
"Islam respects life in all
Ariful Huq, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, junior and president of the Muslim Student Association saw the display when he was on campus yesterday. Huq said as a Muslim he agreed that abortion was inappropriate, but he thought the display was explicit.
forms in all stages. No one has a right to take a life without reason," said Moussa Elbayoumy, director of the board for the Islamic Center of Lawrence.
"Nobody should promote something like that." Huq said.
something like that. Tqa said.
The display was met by a group of counter protesters, one of whom was Stephanie Kirmer, Topeka freshman and president of the Society of Open-Minded Atheists and Agnostics.
"I think they're using graphic photographs because their argumentation is so weak," she said.
Kirmer said she protested the display not as a member of SOMA but as an individual. She said that the humanist perspective considered the wellbeing of the pregnant woman before anything else.
Edited by Julie Jantzer
Investigators find U.S.money in Iraq
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Piles of U.S. currency, hundreds of millions of dollars so far, are being found in Iraq, even though the country has been under economic sanctions for nearly 13 years.
Investigators — on the ground in Iraq and in the United States — are trying to track the money back to where it came from, a Herculean task, both officials and outside experts say.
The experts said there are plenty of possibilities, including oil and cash smuggling schemes, illegal trade deals, sham businesses and a web of middlemen located outside the country to conceal the true destination of the funds.
"Identifying a money trail can be very difficult to do," said Jimmy Gurule, a law professor at
the University of Notre Dame. "That's why it is so essential that some documentation of financial records is discovered. Then investigators can go backward and trace the movements of the funds."
Gurule recently served as the Treasury Department's undersecretary for enforcement in charge of the government's efforts to catch terrorists' financiers. He left the job in early February.
"We are working with the military to authenticate the seized currency," said John Gill, a spokesman for the Secret Service, which handles counterfeiting investigations.
Investigators also are looking into whether any of the cash found in Iraq was counterfeited.
tightly wrapped packets of new $100 dollar bills hidden behind a false wall, U.S. military officials said yesterday. The $100 bill is the most counterfeited U.S. note outside the United States.
In Baghdad, U.S. soldiers — trying to stop looting — discovered more than $600 million in
In a neighborhood along the Tigris River, where senior Baath Party and Republican Guard officials lived, U.S. forces found some $656 million in U.S. currency, the Los Angeles Times reported last week.
It was not clear if the find described by the military officials was the same as the one reported by the Times.
"When you discover such a huge amount of U.S. currency, you know you are not dealing with Boy Scouts," said Robert Bonner, commissioner of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection.
The Bush administration
wants any genuine, U.S. currency found in Iraq to be used to help the people of the country, Treasury Department officials said
Tracing the movement of cash is difficult. Serial numbers on U.S. currency are sometimes useful, but their help is limited, experts said.
Information is kept allowing people to track bills' movements from the Federal Reserve to their first destination point, but not beyond that, a Treasury official explained.
Separately, roughly $1.2 billion in illicit Iraqi assets have been recently uncovered abroad, said Treasury Department officials, who wouldn't disclose details.
U. S. officials believe there is more Iraqi money that hasn't been found, a major focus of investigators.
Seal gap may have caused shuttle crash
The Associated Press
HOUSTON — Columbia investigators said yesterday they were growing more certain of what brought down the shuttle: A seal on the left wing was struck by foam during liftoff and fell off the next day, creating a gap that let in enough scratching gases during re-entry to rip the ship apart.
A seal from Columbia's left wing is now believed to be the mystery object that floated away in orbit and it was almost certainly struck by something — like a chunk of foam — before it came off, the accident investigators said.
ticular scenarios, any favorite scenarios," said retired Navy Adm. Harold Gehman Jr., chairman of the investigation board. "But I think 11 weeks into this, it's time that we attempted to see where the evidence was pointing us," and so the board will meet with NASA officials later this week to begin reaching a hypothesis.
"For 11 weeks, we have been saying that we don't have any par-
At their weekly news conference, the investigators also said numerous defects had been found in insulating foam on a fuel tank practically identical to the one on Columbia.
A chunk of the foam peeled away from Columbia's fuel tank
begin receiving a reply.
The final report is not expected until midsummer.
shortly after liftoff and slammed into the leading edge of the left wing, believed to be a key element of the Feb. 1 disaster that killed all seven astronauts.
The investigators said the long narrow gap from a broken or missing seal on the left wing probably expanded during Columbia's descent two weeks later because of the intense heat of re-entry.
The resulting breach would have been large enough for atmospheric gases to burn their way through the wing and lead to the spaceship's disintegration over Texas.
Navy Rear Adm. Stephen Turcotte, a board member, said it was still too soon to say that was
exactly what happened, but the evidence was pointing strongly in that direction.
"To say it was, in fact, a T-seal 100 percent, we suspect that," Turcotte said. "I mean, we're up there. We're up there near the 70s and 80s percent."
Radar and other tests indicate a so-called T-seal is what was seen floating away from Columbia on its second day in orbit; the object was not noticed during the flight but only in analysis after the accident.
More work is planned to ascertain whether it may have been a complete seal or just a fragment of one, or possibly a blanket insulator or part of an actual wing panel.
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Jeff Jensen, owner of Jensen Retail Liquor, 620 W. Ninth St., said he thought there was
bordering Missouri have a vested interest in allowing Sunday liquor sales because they lose revenue across the state line, said Rundle. Rundle thought there was no such revenue loss in Lawrence.
enough of a buffer zone between here and Kansas City.
It wasn't as big an issue in Lawrewnce as it was in border communities, he said.
"People here have been conditioned long enough to buy on Saturday nights for picnics on Sunday or whatever," Jensen said. "I have a feeling you'd end up doing six days worth of sales in seven days."
Edited by Christy Dendurent
Court won't postpone Terry Nichols' trial
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Supreme Court denied a request yesterday to postpone bombing conspirator Terry Nichols' preliminary hearing, the second straight day Nichols sought a stay in a dispute over payment of legal bills.
The ruling, signed by Chief Justice Joseph M. Watt, was
praised by about a dozen bombing survivors and members of victims' families who attended a hearing before Supreme Court Referee Greg Albert.
Diane Leonard, whose husband, Donald R. Leonard, was among the bombing's victims, said the decision indicated the state would bear the financial burden of prosecuting Nichols in spite of a revenue shortfall.
The Associated Press