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University Daily Kansan / Friday, March 20, 1997
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Support through Caring 17TH ANNUAL KEITH R.WORTHINGTON MEMORIAL BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
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House postmaster resigns
WASHINGTON — House Postmaster Robert V. Rota resigned yesterday. He became the second Office official in a week to quit after allegations arose of mismanagement in House banking.
The Associated Press
Rota's resignation, made on his 57th birthday, came after three of his former employees pleaded guilty to embezzlement. A fourth employee is awaiting trial on the same charge.
use by employees of the post office. The U.S. attorney's office said its criminal investigation was continuing while a House Administration Committee taskforce probed allegations of mismanagement.
U. S. postal inspectors also have received statements from at least one employee of drug dealing and illicit
The Washington Times reported yesterday that there was an illegal check-cashing operation at the post office. It said congressional and law-enforcement officials found that members reportedly cashed personal checks and campaign checks at the postalfacility.
Arms Jack Russ, who ran the chamber's former bank, was the first House official to resign after disclosure of the House check-cashing scandal.
Last Thursday, House Sergeant at
The House ethics committee found that Russ cashed 19 bad checks at the bank and failed to make promised reforms to end the facility's liberal overdraft policies.
Speaker Thomas S. Foley, D-Wash., told reporters that Rota had been talking for some time about retiring. Foley said he thought Rota's resignation had nothing to do with the latest news reports.
More females in fatal driving wrecks
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — The number of female drivers involved in fatal traffic accidents is steadily rising, prompting federal authorities yesterday to call for specialized safety programs and intensive study of women drivers.
"It is very clear from our analysis that the patterns of driving are different for women than they are for men," said Mike Brownele of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administra-
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control published a study yesterday by Brownlee's agency that said the number of female drivers involved in fatal crashes was on the rise. The number caught driving drunk is declining only slightly.
However, the total number of traffic fatalities in 1990 — 44,529 — is the lowest since 1985. The number of men killed has dropped some, and the num
ber of drunken male drivers is decliningly the study said.
*Information may need to be targeted toward women about the effects of alcohol on performance and the differ- ences between young and older women in alcohol (metabol) ism, the study said.
NHITSA's Maria Vegega, who conducted the study, said the increases in female statistics may simply be due to the increase in women drivers on the road.
The Schools of Business and Law are pleased to present a public lecture by the winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Economics:
RONALD H. COASE
Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Economics,
University of Chicago
"ON RECEIVING THE NOBEL PRIZE"
Tuesday, March 24, 1992
6:00 p.m.
Alderson Auditorium
Kansas Union, University of Kansas
Ronald Coase is one of three eminent scholars to visit the University of Kansas during the 1991-92 academic year under the auspices of the Koch Distinguished Professorship in Law and Economics. The Koch Professorship is made possible by a gift to the University from the Fred C. Koch Foundation of Wichita.