THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SECTION TWO
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1997
Super quakes become West Coast possibility
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Last weekend's violent earthquakes were weak compared to the super quake, with a magnitude of 8 to 9, that someday may ravage northern California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, Canada, scientists said yesterday.
Saturday's northern California quake measured 6.9 on the Richter scale. Its two biggest aftershocks, which struck Sunday, measured 0.9 and 6.5.
The epicenters of all three were near the southern end of the 1,000-mile-long Cascadia subduction zone, which stretches north into British Columbia.
The zone is the boundary between the gigantic North American plate of Earth's crust and three crustal plates beneath the Pacific Ocean.
The Gorda plate is diving, or subducting, eastward beneath northern California. Farther north, the Juan de Fuca
plate is wedging beneath Oregon, Washington and southern Vancouver Island,
The Explorer plate is being pushed beneath northern Vancouver Island.
In recent years, scientists found evidence indicating up to 13 super quakes with magnitudes up to 9 shook the Cascadia subduction zone during the past 7.000 years.
"What happened last weekend was a series of small earthquakes compared with what the subduction zone seems capable of," said Brian Atwater, a Seattle-based U.S. Geological Survey geologist.
The most recent super quake happen-
ed about 300 years ago, rupturing the Cascade zone from southern Washington to northern California and sending 30- to 40-foot-tall tsunamis, or sea waves, crashing onto the coast.
It measured 8 to 9 in magnitude, said
USGS geologist Samuel Clarke Jr.
A similar magnitude-8 quake today would probably cause heavy damage in at least one highly populated metropolitan area incoastal California, Oregon or Washington, Atwater said.
"A magnitude 9 would likely cause severe damage in many large metropolitan areas, perhaps ranging from Vancouver, British Columbia, down through Seattle, Portland, Ore., and perhaps Eureka, Calif.," said Atwater, who in 1986 found some of the first evidence of past Cascadia super quakes
USGS seismologist David Oppenheimer said, "It would be a major disaster. You would see catastrophic damage."
"It would not surprise me if it happened tomorrow, but it could happen in another 150 or 200 years or longer," said Lori Dengler, a geophysicist at Humboldt State University in Arcata, Calif.
Anita Hill's influence hits '92 political, social arenas
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — She's not on any ballot, but Anita Hill seems to have become a force in the politics of 1992.
Her treatment by the Senate Judiciary Committee last October during hearings on Clarence Thomas' nomination to the Supreme Court still resonates. As a result, in Pennsylvania, Illinois and Iowa, women are seeking seats in the Senate.
Anita Hill
Political scientist James Foster thinks the hearings soon may be regarded as pivotal as the 1950s' Supreme Court decision on civil rights mission and the 1960s' civil rights struggle.
"I saw a group of pampered, privileged white men closing ranks against a black woman," said Foster, who teacheth the girls to talk on a symbolic signif-
iance for issues of race and gender that cut to the heart of American society."
Harriett Woods, president of the National Women's Political Caucus, called the hearings a moment of truth between private lives and public policy
in the three months following Hill's testimony, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received, 2,444 charges of sexual harassment — a 70 percent increase over the same period a year earlier.
Organizations that raise money for women candidates report a surge in contributions.
"We've raised half a million dollars," said Jane Danowitz of Women's Campaign Fund. "We expected half of that if we were lucky."
Emily's List, which gives money to Democratic women, anticipates tripling the $1.5 million collected in 1990.
Three women seeking Senate seats said the treatment accorded Hill during the hearings was the stimulus for their candidacies.
Lynn Yeakel, who entered the Pennsylvania Senate race as an unknown, is in a neck-and-neck campaign for the
Democratic nomination in Tuesday's primary, seeking the right to oppose Republican Sen. Arlen Specter.
During the hearings, Specter questioned Hill aggressively and accused him of lying.
In campaign commercials, Yeakel ignored her primary opponent, showed Specter's questioning of Hill, then asked voters: "Did this make you as angry as it made me?"
Some women's leaders said the committee's reaction to Hill's charge of sexual harassment and, before that, the panel's inclination not to investigate transcended the issue of Thomas' fitness to serve on the Supreme Court.
What burned into women's consciousness, said Ruth Mandel, director of the Center for the American Woman and Politics at Rutgers University, was the image of a woman bringing to the highest lawmaking body an experience which no one on the panel seemed to have any sensitivity about.
Anger over Hill's treatment has some real political teeth, especially among highly educated women, said pollster Andrew Kohut.
A studv in anatomy
Surrounded by a semester's worth of notes, Michelle Hudson, Olathe junior, studies in Anschutz Science Library for an anatomy final.
Nightlife: Lawrence police and underage drinkers
Policies governing alcohol consumption pit students against law
Lawrence police officers D. Hummel, left, R. Neff, center, and Z. Thomas walk along New Hampshire Street to a bar where they plan to check for fake IDs.
By Ranjit Arab
Kansan staff writer
Nineteen-year-old Jennifer Shreve did not bring her jacket to the Mad Hatter, even though the temperature outside was a chilly 40 degrees and falling.
After all, she thought she would spend the entire night inside the crowded bar at 704 New Hampshire St.
By 10.07 p.m., dressed in a blue denim shirt and black jeans, she was shivering with her hands in her pockets as she answered the questions of Officer Kurt Fultz of the Lawrence police.
Shreve was one of seven people served with citations on a recent Thursday night as Lawrence police patrolled bars in search of underage drinkers.
As soon as the four officers entered the Mad Hatter at 10:04 p.m. Shreve put down the white plastic cup of beer and turned to talk to the man on her left.
Fultz approached her. His black padded shoes squeaked on the sticky beer-covered
The officer tapped Shreve on the shoulder and shined his flashlight on her face.
"No," she said. The woman on the license was 25 years old. Why even pretend?
She fished it out from her back pocket
"This isn’t you, is it?" he asked
Shreve had been busted and served with a police arrest in court.
"Can I see your ID?" Fultz asked.
Fultz escorted her out of the bar to his patrol car in the alley around the corner.
As Fultz sat in the driver's seat, he examined the license and filled out the citation.
"Yeah," Fultz said as he filled out the citation. "Also when you turn away and talked to her, she was very shy."
"What was your first clue?" Shreve asked.
"Was it when I set down my beer?"
"Was it
After Fultz handed the citation to Shreve, she
Although Shreve is likely to hear several interpretations of the law from friends who overdosed on summer reruns of "Perry Mason," the state statutes are fairly clear.
walked off, not sure of how much she would have to pay, if she would have a police record and whether she should call a lawyer.
n Any person between the ages of 18 and 20 caught possessing, consuming, obtaining or purchasing alcohol can face imprisonment of up to six months and/or a fine up to $2,500.
According to state statutes:
n Possessing false identification is punishable by imprisonment of up to six months
and/or a fine up to $1.000.
nLoaning a driver's license to purchase alcoholic beverages is punishable by imprisonment of up to one year and/or a fine up to $2,500.
Although these three violations are misdemeanors, making and selling false identification is a felony punishable by imprisonment of one to five years and/or a fine up to $5,000.
After serving Shrew with the citation, the officer returned to the bar and showed the citation.
Officer Max Miller told the owner that a report would be filed with the Alcoholic Beverage Control division in Topeka.
Some people, including Lawrence attorney Donald Strole, argue that methods similar to the ones used by the officers at the Mad Hatter are illegal.
"Bar checks, per se, are illegal," he said.
"Just putting down your beer is not reasonable in the first place."
Minors' most powerful right is to cite the Fifth Amendment, which protects against self-crimination. Strobe said.
The Lawrence attorney is no newcomer to fighting the system.
In 1989, Strole represented then-KU student Abbie Bernstein, who was singled out and questioned by ABC officers while at the Free State Brewery, 636 Massachusetts St.
Although no false identification was found on Bernstein, she admitted to being underage after the officers frisked her and threatened her with arrest.
Bernstein filed suit against the ABC, claiming her constitutional rights had been violated.
However, the state took the case to a Court of Appeals and the decision was overturned. Although the appeals court agreed that the Miranda warning was neglected, it ruled that other factors, such as possessing the alcoholic beverage, had to be taken into consideration.
The District Court ruled in her favor, stating that the officer neglected to administer the Mirror.
She could have petitioned for review before the Kansas State Supreme Court but decided
Bernstein may have ended her battle with the ABC, but Stroile marches on. He said he represented five to 10 students a month with similar cases.
Strole said underage drinkers were not the responsibility of the police but ultimately with
Because appearances do not warrant suspicion, Strobe said the best protection any drinker had against inquiring officers was silence.
"All a person has to say is, 'I would prefer not to answer your question,'" he said. "If the officer does not leave you alone and threatens you falsely with arrest, legal action can be taken."
"A bar owner can always check and demand an ID as a condition of service," he said. "They are not governmental entities and, therefore,
do not have to worry about violating constitutional rights."
Stroke claims to have found a loophole in the questioning tactics by using the Fifth Amendment, but Lawrence police disagree.
LT. David Cobb of Lawrence police said he questioned Stole's motives in offering the
"They are probably going to end up in trouble," Cobb said about students who decide to try citing the Fifth Amendment. "And that means he will probably end up defending them."
Cobb said officers could detain a person for questioning if there was reasonable suspicion of underage drinking.
And although Strole may suggest that responsibility lies with the bar owners, not everyone is quick to release police officers and AB officers from their bar checking duties. Kathy Greenlee, assistant attorney general for the state of Kansas, said checking for underage drinkers was only one of the ABC's legal obligations.
Greenlee refused to comment about the method used by ABC officers in questioning possible underage drinkers.
Though the methods used by ABC and police officers looking for underage drinkers are questioned by some people, the four Lawrence police officers on patrol that Thursday see them as just part of their jobs.
For three nights every week, they spend a four-hour shift checking for underage drinkers
As officers Fultz and Miller drove down Massachusetts Street in patrol car 128, they passed Quinton's, 615 Massachusetts St., a newly opened bar and beli.
The bar is a new hot spot for college students — to the officers it was almost a guarantee that underage drinkers would be inside.
The place is so popular that a line of about 25 people stretched outside the front door. The officers paid no attention to heckles and comments from the people waiting to get in.
"Hey cap, check out my ID," someone in the line shouted. The crowd laughed.
"Can I buy you a beer if I ever get in?" someone else joked.
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