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The Inside Front
MONDAY,APRIL 21,2003
News briefs
CAMPUS
Medical marijuana patient to speak about drug policies
George McMahon, legal medical mar jiana patient, will speak tonight at 7 in room 330 Strong Hall. The program is part of a week of events sponsored by Students for Sensible Drug Policy.
Controversy rose as to whether McMahon would be able to legally smoke his medication on his visit. Originally, law enforcement officials said McMahon would not be able to transport marijuana into the state.
Christopher Largen, McMahon's co-author of the upcoming book Prescription Pot: One Man's Personal Mission and Public Crusade to Legalize Medical Marijuana, said they received a verbal agreement from Lt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office that McMahon would not be bothered if he could produce proper documentation. Largen said they had not heard from the state district attorney's office.
Largen said McMahon had not run into this problem before.
"Usually officials are good about doing their homework." Lergen said.
McMahon smokes marijuana in order to treat the pain and nausea associated with Nail Patella Syndrome. The syndrome is a hereditary condition that causes abnormalities in the arms and legs, kidney disease and glaucoma. He was granted this right through the Food and Drug Administration's Compassionate Investigational New Drug Program, which studies the long term use of medicinal marijuana.
Jessica Palimenio
NATION
Laci Peterson's husband had $10,000 when arrested
MODESTO, Calif. — Scott Peterson was carrying $10,000 when detectives, fearing he might try to flee the country, pulled him over about 30 miles from the Mexico border and arrested him.
Hours later, authorities would announce that DNA tests identified two bodies found on the shore near San Fran cisco as his pregnant wife, Laci, missing since Dec. 23, and their unborn son.
Peterson had repeatedly denied any role in his wife's disappearance, and
police had avoided labeling him a suspect. But authorities say he knew he was being tracked.
Modesto Police Chief Roy Wasden sought the arrest warrant for Peterson a day before the bodies were identified because he feared Peterson might flee to Mexico, where law forbids extradition of anyone facing the death penalty. Prosecutors in Stanislaus County plan to charge Peterson, 30, with capital murder for the deaths of his 27-year-old wife and their unborn son.
Peterson, now jailed, is expected to be arraigned as early as Monday.
He has been segregated from other inmates, who know he's there and "definitely have some unfavorable opinions of him." Stanislaus County Sheriff's spokesman Kelly Huston said
When detectives arrested him Friday, Scott Peterson's dark hair had been dyed reddish-blond and he had grown a goatee.
POWs return to the U.S., celebrate Easter with Bush
FORT HOOD, Texas—An upbeat President Bush celebrated Easter Sunday with two prisoners of war rescued in Iraq a week earlier.
Bush flew to Fort Hood, 50 miles south of his Crawford ranch, to mark Christianity's highest holiday. Hours before he arrived, Chief Warrant Officers David S. Williams and Ronald D. Young Jr. had returned to their Army base.
Inside the 4th Infantry Division Memorial Chapel, the two helicopter pilots sat across the aisle from Bush, his wife, parents, mother-in-law and twin daughters.
Sunshine streamed through the stained glass as Chaplain Lt. Col. Bill Phillips told an audience of 200 the story of Christ's resurrection.
There were reminders of war and loss on this base that has sent some 20,000 troops, about half its personnel, to the Iraq region. Most people in the chapel were women and children, their husbands and fathers off fighting the war.
After the service, Bush spent about 10 minutes with the former POWs and their families. Then Bush, Williams and Young met with reporters outside the church.
The Associated Press
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Bryan Kluger, Garland, Texas, junior, shields his eyes from the sun Saturday as he checks out the Kansas Relays in Memorial Stadium. "I had a great time," Kluger said. "I saw great athletes and a lot of hot girls."
ON CAMPUS — For more events, go to kucalendar.com
The Hall Center for the Humanities presents the Poetics and Philosophy & Literature seminar, "Postmodernisms; Session I" with Ormofolabo Ajayi, theatre and film; Daniel Breslauer, religious studies; and Thomas Heilke, political science, from 3:30 p.m to 5 p.m. at the conference room in the Hall Center. Call 864-4798.
Call 864-4401.
The department of design presents a Hallmark Symposium featuring, Paul Greenhalgh, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, at 6 p.m. at the auditorium in the Spencer Museum of Art.
Queers and Allies presents a forum on queer issues at 7:30 p.m. at the Walnut Room in the Kansas Union. An open question session will follow a short presentation. Call 864-3091.
The department of linguistics presents "Relativizer 'illi' in Arabic Dialects with Mohamed Galal at 3:30 p.m. at room 206 in Blake Hall. Call 864-2384.
Carlip, University of California-Davis at 4 p.m. at room 3005 in Malott Hall. Refreshments will be served at 1089 Malott at 3:30 p.m. Call 864-4626.
The department of physics and astronomy presents "What Can the Black Hole Thermodynamics Tell Us about Quantum Gravity" with Steve
Russian and East European Studies presents "Life and Politics in 2003 St. Petersburg" with Alan Holiman, William Jewell College, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union. Call 864-4236.
The KU Tae Kwon Do Club will practice from 7 p.m.to 8:30 p.m.at room 207 in Robinson Center. Contact Tim Forthman at 865-3913.
ON THE RECORD
A 20-year-old KU student told Lawrence police that someone damaged the retractable sunroof on his car sometime between 7 p.m. and 9:05 p.m. April 14 in the 4500 block of Overland Drive, according to reports. Damage was estimated at $1,500.
A 23-year-old KU student told
Lawrence police that someone damaged the front passenger door of his car and stole his backpack containing two textbooks and a CD case with CDs in it sometime between 12:30 a.m. and 9 a.m. Tuesday in the 2500 block of Redbud Lane, according to reports. The loss was estimated at $2,279.
A 19-year-old KU student told the KU Public Safety Office that someone damaged her 2000 Chevrolet Cavalier and took her Pioneer CD stereo from her car sometime between 11:50 p.m. April 13 and 10 p.m. Wednesday in the Oliver Hall parking lot, according to reports. The loss was estimated at $600.
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