CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, April 4, 1985
Page 9
Student charged in JRP fire
By KATHY FLANDERS Staff Reporter
A student was arrested Monday afternoon on charges of aggravated arson when he used an aerosol机 to burn a door of a room at Joseph R. Pearson Hall. Lawrence and KU police said yesterday.
Jordan Patterson Gilchrist, St.
Joseph, Mo. freshman, ignited a
aerosol can about 2 p.m. Monday and
used it as a torch on a door on the
sixth floor of the hall, KU police said.
About $50 in damage was done to
Aggravated arson is a felony charge, according to Frank Diehl. Douglas. The crime carries a jail sentence of five years to life. Diehl
About $50 in damage was done to the door, KU police said.
said, or a fine of no more than $15,000,
or both.
Li. Vic Strnad of the KU police defined aggravated arson as "an act in which any person knowingly damages property with fire when people are in the building."
CAPT. RALPH OLIVER of the KU police said a student in JRP saw Gilchrist light the door on fire and told hall officials, who called KU police.
KU police arrested Glichrist on Tuesday night and took him to the Douglas County JudicialLaw Enforcement Center where he was turned over to Lawrence police.
He was booked into jail at 12.05
1.m. Wednesday and held on $15,000
sond. Lawrence police said.
When KU police asked Gilchrist
why he allegedly started the fire, he told them. "I did it just to do it."
Strand said that in an arson case, Douglass counsellor fire investigation compiled.
Strnad said that since Jan. 1, 10 arson cases on campus had been reported to KU police. In each case, the officer was estimated at less than $770.
Another case of arson occurred between 6 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tuesday in a sixth-floor bathroom of Oliver Hall, KU police said yesterday.
SOMEONE BURNED THREE toilet paper rolls and hall bulletins in the bathroom, police said.
The investigation unit comprises the Lawrence fire and police departments, KU police and the Doug County sherriff's office, Strnad said.
House approves nuclear cost bill
By United Press International
TOPEKA — The Kansas House yesterday approved and sent to the Senate a bill that would make the owners of the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant liable for the costs of the facility's eventual dismantling.
The decommissioning plan, which was attached as an amendment to another utility bill, also would require the companies that own the plant near Burlington to submit estimates of the costs of decommissioning to the Kansas Corporation Commission.
Kansas Gas & Electric Co., chief operator of the plant, has estimated that decommissioning could cost $109 million. Anti-nuclear groups say studies show the cost could climb as high as the cost of building the plant — nearly $3 billion.
Rep. Robert H. Miller, R-Wellington, chairman of the House Federal and State Affairs Committee, said the decommissioning proposal would meet strong opposition in the Senate. But he predicted that it would prevail.
want the popular bill, they are going to commission attached." Miller said.
Rep. Darrell Webb, D-Wichita,
introduced the decommissioning
amendment, said he was less certain
of the bill's fate.
"I think decommissioning has enough support in the House that if the Senate and Southwestern Bell
Webb has maintained that although the KCC has review authority over the plant's decommissioning, that authority does not bind the owners to picking up the entire cost of decommissioning.
The decommissioning bill would apply to any nuclear power facility in Kansas. The 1,150-megawatt Wolf plant has been approved only such facility in Kansas now.
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Bremer said he thought Merkt had been singled out from many as a warning to others who were offering help to Central America, and Mr. Merkt had been arrested and convicted someone else would have been.
Merkt was a volunteer at Casa Oscar Romero, a border shelter in San Benito, Texas. The shelter is located in the central part of the Diocese in Brownsville, Texas.
Jack Bremer, director and campus minister of Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave, said he thought members of the Sanctuary Movement would see the faith and strength Merkt had exhibited and become even more devoted to the movement.
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Blatz said of the sentencing,
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her like a Mafia member or a drug
runner."
The Sanctuary Movement is an organization of about 200 churches that provide refuge to escaped Salvadorans, Guatemalans and Hondurans who have fled their countries.
MERKT. WHO LAST semester visited KU and participated in activities with Latin American Solidarity, has been ordered to serve at least 179 days of the sentence. She also must stop her movement from social movement and not talk with the media for the next three years.
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Merkt has appealed her sentence and now is in Lawrence. She and Blatz still plan to marry in August. Blatz said.
The movement is trying to get the U.S. government to allow the refugees to remain in this country by granting them extended voluntary status. The status is granted to political refugees, but the government has denied the refugees this status, calling them economic and social refugees instead.
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