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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 4, 1992
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The Office of Study Abroad will sponsor an informational meeting about Fulbright grants and other awards for graduate study aboard at 3:30 p.m. today at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union.
The Office of Study Abroad will sponsor an informational meeting about studying in Spanish-speaking countries at 4 p.m. today at 4039 Wescoe Hall. An informational meeting about studying in French-speaking countries will be at 4 p.m. today at the French department library.
Two men entered the Westminster Inn, 2252 W. Sixth St., at12:15 a.m. yesterday and pulled out two semi-auto pistols and demanded money from the clerk at the desk, Lawrence police reported. The clerk gave the men $199.04, and they left on foot, police said.
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A man was arrested yesterday for an aggravated robbery of the Seven-Eleven Food Store, 1909 W. 25th St. At 3:43 a.m. yesterday, the man entered
PARTY, an alcohol awareness group, will meet at 4:30 p.m. today at
Academic Computing Services will sponsor a seminar, "Introduction to UNIX," at 7 onight at the PC Lab in the computer center.
Support Group for Individuals with Eating Problems will meet at 7:30 tonight at the conference room in Watkins Memorial Health Center.
KUP Pro-Choice Coalition will meet at 7 tonight at the International Room in the Kansas Union.
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Ecumenical Christian Ministries will sponsor an Ash Wednesday Worship Service at 8 tonight at the ECM building, 1204 Oread Ave.
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the store and gave the store clerk a note demanding money, police said. The clerk did not see a weapon. A few minutes later, a man fitting the robber's description drove through the toll booth at the West Lawrence gate on the Turnpike. Kansas Highway Patrol officers stopped the man at the junction of Interstates 70 and 435 and turned him over to Lawrence police, Lawrence police reported.
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The Douglas County coroner testified that a Lawrence toddler who died from a ruptured liver last month had 182 bruises on his body when she examined him.
Carol Moddrell, Douglas County coroner, was one of seven witnesses for the prosecution who testified in the joint preliminary hearing for Donald Bruce and Wendy Brewer.
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Brewer, 25, was the mother of 23-month-old Eric Brewer, who was found dead in a bedroom of a trailer home Feb. 5. She has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the child's death.
Bruce, 29, the mother's boyfriend, has been charged with first-degree murder and child abuse.
The hearing is scheduled to continue today in Douglas County District Court.
Through witnesses' testimony yesterday, the prosecution attempted to piece together what happened the
night of Feb. 4, the last night Eric was alive.
Scott Brewer, Eric's father, testified that he babysat for his son at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 4.
Scott Brewer said that when his wife, from whom he is separated, brought Ericto his house, the boyhada bruise and a lump on his forehead.
When the boy's mother came back to get her son about midnight, she was with Bruce and she seemed intoxicated, he testified.
Brewer said that he offered to take care of Eric that night but that Wendy Brewer insisted on taking him with her.
Bruce, Wendy Brewer and Eric were staying at the trailer temporarily.
Bronica Aden, Bruce's half-sister who lives in the trailer at 1045 W. 23rd St. where the incident occurred, testified that he was wrestling with Eric in her trailer.
"He was playing a little rough with him," she said.
Aden testified that Eric eventually started to cry and that Bruce took him into the back bedroom to put him in bed.
She said she heard a pounding noise and Eric crying.
Aden said that after Bruce came out of the bedroom, he sat down and bit his pen.
"He does it when he's nervous, or something's bothering him," she said.
During cross-examination, defense attorney Harry Warren cited a report Aden had given to Lawrence police the day Eric was found dead.
Warren said she told police that her husband, Robert, who was also in the trailer Feb. 4, threatened her.
Aden did not deny that she had told police her husband threatened her.
Eric showed signs of rigor mortis, or stiffening, when he arrived at 9:20 a.m. Feb. 5, at the trailer.
"Didn't your husband say, 'If you say anything about anyone else committing this crime other than Donnie You know?' What a threat from ear to ear?" Warren asked.
Bruce told David that he had known at 4 a.m. Feb. 5 that Eric was dead because he checked on him, but Bruce was too scared to react, Davis said.
He said the boy had been dead for a minimum of four hours before he and his partner arrived.
Bruce also told him that he knelt on Eric's chest and stomach and pressed his knees into Eric's body twice to stop his crying, Davis said.
Davis said Bruce attributed the bruises on Eric's body to mishaps on a trip Feb. 1 and 2 a friend's farm in Scranton, south of Topeka.
He said Bruce told him Eric fell off a pony, was burgled in the head by a goat and tacked by Bruce's doberman pinscher while he was at the farm.
Patrick Mayo, an emergency medical technician with the Douglas County ambulance service, testified that
Detective David Davis of Lawrence
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"He told me. 'I want it understood he didn't want to hurt him," he said.
Michigan Supreme Court boos 'racist' judge
LANSING, Mich. — Michigan's highest court yesterday censured a judge who said he would let a minor get an abortion only in such cases as when a white girl was raped by a black man.
Mason County Probate Judge Francis Bourseuse made the remarks in a newspaper interview last spring about a new parental-consent abortion law that lets girls get a waiver from a probate judge.
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The 72-year-old judge, who is white, later apogored and said he could rule impartially on such
cases and follow the law in granting waivers.
Michigan's Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Bourisseau's comments were offensive, improper, constituted misconduct in office, eroded confidence in the impartiality of the judiciary and exposed the system to contempt and ridicule.
Bouriseau's office said he had indicated he would not comment on the censure.
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The Michigan chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union filed a complaint against Bourisseau. It also has challenged the parental-consent law, which took effect last March.
State Rep. Floyd Clack, a Democrat who heads the state Legislature's African-American Caucus, said Bourisseau should be suspended or removed from the bench.
"I commend the courts for censuring him, but I think the punishment could have and should have been a lot stiffer for such a comment coming from a judge." Clack said.
Carol King, executive director of the Michigan Abortion Rights Action League, said: "His comments were insulting and clearly showed that he was not impartial in his administration of justice."
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Get involved with the University and the Football program by participating in the 1992-93Crimson Crew.
This is a great experience for anyone interested in Public Relations, Communications, Marketing, or other related fields.
All interested freshmen, sophomores, and juniors are asked to attend an informational meeting in room 135 Parrott Athletic Center:
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18 AT 5 P.M. Any questions? Call the Football Office at 864-3393
Any questions? Call the Football Office at 864-3393
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