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The Inside Front
Tuesday March 31, 1998
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
On CAMPUS
Two more gunshots were reported Saturday night at Sixth and Louisiana streets.
A Lawrence man was arrested Saturday after leaving Super Target with more than $600 in unpaid for items.
Lawrence police arrested a man Saturday for the manufacturing of methamphetamines.
The chief executive officer of NationsBank will answer.
The chief executive officer of NationsBank will speak tonight at the Lied Center.
In the NATION
- The two boys accused of killing five people in Arkansas can own guns the day they get out of the juvenile justice system.
- The American Cancer Society steered $30,000 of this year's proceeds to the Democratic and Republican parties.
CAMPUS
No suspects, evidence found in gunshot report
Two more gunshots were reported Saturday night in the neighborhood of Sixth and Louisiana streets. Lawrence police said.
"He described them to be pistol shots," Wheeler said. The shots were heard coming from the north end of the block, Wheeler said.
Sgt. George Wheeler said the fifth gunshot report this month in the area was made at 10:54 p.m. by a resident of the 600 block of Louisiana Street.
Police searched the area, but no evidence was found, he said.
The last report of gunfire in the area came March 11, when officers arrested a Lawrence man for firing a handgun into King Pharm. 1112 W. Sixth St.
Wheeler said police did not have a suspect in Saturday's incident.
Lawrence man arrested for stealing cart of items
A Lawrence man was arrested Saturday after pushing a shopping cart containing more than $600 in items out of Super Target, 3201 Iowa St., Lawrence police said.
The items were valued at $619.36. Sgt.
George Wheeler said the man was arrested
at 4:15 p.m. on a felony theft charge.
"He said he just got greedy," Wheeler said. The man had taken an undisclosed number of items into the parking lot without paying and was confronted by store security officers, Wheeler said.
"He had everything from a TV to KC steaks in there," Wheeler said.
The manager of Super Target said he could not comment about the incident.
Lawrence resident to face methamphetamine charge
Lawrence police arrested a man Saturday for the manufacturing of methamphat amines, said Sgt. George Wheeler.
The man, a 29-year-old Lawrence resident, was arrested at 6:39 p.m. in his apartment in the 1700 block of W. Sixth St., Wheeler said.
Police responded to a report of a medical emergency in the man's apartment building, he said. He could not confirm the nature of the emergency, but said that police entered the apartment from which the report originated.
"The man said there was nothing going on in his apartment," Wheeler said.
Wright, Wright. "Wheeler said."
Police investigated the apartment anyway, he said.
"They found a hot plate, and they were cooking up something," Wheeler said.
He said the officers became suspicious of the man and checked his name for warrants. The man had a Leavenworth County warrant for failure to comply with a court order and manufacturing methamphetamines. Wheeler said.
Police arrested the man, searched his apartment and found drug paraphermalia, including empty packets of cocaine, Wheeler said.
— briefs by Ronnie Wachter
The chief executive officer of NationsBank will address the building of better communities when he speaks tonight at the Lied Center.
Hugh McColl Jr.'s presentation, which will begin at 7 p.m., is part of the Vickers Lecture Series, sponsored by the school of business. McColl will address Nations-Bank's efforts to improve the communities in which the company conducts business. The event is free.
McColl, who was named banker of the year in 1993, has led NationsBank through times of aggressive growth, including the purchase of Bank IV and Boatmen's Banc-shares Inc., both of which had a major presence in Kansas. The company's recent merger with Barnett Banks Inc. is the largest bank merger in U.S. history.
Tom Sarowski, dean of the School of Business, spoke highly of McColl.
"Not only is he a corporate chieftain who is at the helm of an extraordinarily complex business conglomerate, he is a deeply caroused person who walks the walk in building the communities within the NationsBank system," Sarowski said.
In an era of "bigger is better" in banking, McColl led NationsBank to become a leader in employee and community relations.
In Kansas, the company has promoted employee volunteerism in public and private Wichita schools, has presented a gift of $25,000 to help restore the historic Fox Theatre in Hutchinson and has given financial support to Hospice of Reno County and the Kansas Cosmosphere, among others.
David Harris
NATION
Legislators try to change gun laws after Jonesboro
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — As Arkansas law now stands, the two boys accused of killing five people at their school will be able to own guns the day they get out of the juvenile justice system.
Under state law, adults convicted of felonies can never again possess a gun. But Arkansas youths convicted as juveniles of similar crimes can buy and possess guns the moment they are released from state supervision at age 18.
"As far as I'm concerned, when you murder five people you've forfeited your rights to guns forever," said state Sen. Gene Roebuck, a Democrat from Jonesboro.
The disparity has incensed many Arkansas legislators, who already are rallying to change the state's juvenile laws after the slayings of four girls and a teacher last week at Jonesboro's West-side Middle School.
Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden.
11, face five counts of murder as juveniles. State law prohibits youths younger than 14 from being charged as adults, and lawmakers cannot change that retroactively.
Charity's contributions raise donation questions
WASHINGTON — The American Cancer Society steered $30,000 of this year's proceeds to the Democratic and Republican parties.
The contributions represent a tiny fraction of the society's $378 million annual budget. But the contributions still trouble tax experts because charities may not make political donations.
Cancer Society officials content the contributions to the Democratic and Republican governors' associations are acceptable because the contributions went to nonpolitical accounts held by the organizations.
Officials said they donated the money to ensure that their arguments about smoking and other health issues are heard.
But the same part of federal tax law that allows the cancer society to receive deductible donations also prohibits the society from making political contributions.
The National Charities Information Bureau, a New York-based organization that tracks charitable organizations, does not know of any other charity that makes contributions to political parties, representative Dan Langan said.
The $15,000 contributions allow cancer society representatives to attend forums and dinners.
CORRECTION
The Associated Press
On March 20, the Kansan misidentified an author of the editorial Rock Chalk Revue skit creators tell their side as Mike Haverkamp. The correct name is Matt Haverkamp.
Multipurpose recycling bins to be installed
By Graham K. Johnson gjohnson@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Fifty new multipurpose recycling bins arrived from Oregon yesterday to enhance the University of Kansas' recycling program.
The bins will be placed inside campus buildings during the next few weeks, said Victoria Silva, environmental specialist with the Office of Resource Conservation and Recycling.
"It will help alleviate the problem people were having of stacking boxes and boxes of paper in their office." Silva said.
Silva said the success of the program depended on the consistent depositing of office paper and bottles in the bins.
Catherine Sembajwe, Uganda junior, is a student assistant in the Latin American Studies department in Lippincott Hall. Among Sembajwe's duties is the recycling of all the waste paper in her office.
"We do a lot of mass mailings, and when we mess up, everything has to go. So we prefer to recycle," Sembajwe said. "This would make it more convenient. It definitely would make it neater around here."
Theresa Klinkenberg, University director, said the bids were paid for with money provided by various administrative funds, including the Coca-Cola contract.
Each bin costs $400 and will have slots for recycling newspapers, pop bottles and cans, as well as two grades of office paper. Silva said the bins were Jayhawk blue and were designed for the University by DeWald of Oregon to meet fire safety specifications.
The multipurpose feature of the bin is what makes it different from most recycling bins, but that facet also may cause problems for the recycling teams. Silva said.
"Contamination will be our biggest concern," she said. "It wouldn't take a whole lot of colored paper put in the wrong slot to contaminate a whole 23-gallon container of white paper."
Silva said it was important to separate recyclable items according to the guidelines that were specified on the bins and on the recycling office's web page: www.eks.ukans.edu/recycling/.
The bins are being stored on West Campus, Silva said. She said the Provost's office had to approve the proposed sites before the bins could be distributed.
Lindy Eakin, associate provost, said most sites posed no problems but the office wanted to make sure that everyone was happy with the bins' locations.
"Aesthetics is a big piece of it," Eakin said. Eakin said the Provost's office and the recycling office were expected to start working with Facilities and Operations to install the bins as early as next week.
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ON THE RECORD
A KU student's tires were punctured between 9:30 p.m. Friday and 12:23 a.m. Saturday in the lot east of Nichols Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage was estimated at $250.
A KU student's tire was punctured between 7:30 p.m. Friday and 12:23 a.m. Saturday in the lot east of Nichols Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage was estimated at $50.
A KU student's tire was punctured between 9:30 and 11 p.m. Friday in the lot east of Nichols Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage was estimated at $85.
A KU staff member's tire was punctured between 8:30 p.m. Friday and 12:05 a.m Saturday in the lot east of Nichols Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage was estimated at $50.
A window was shattered between 5 p.m. Friday and 3:52 p.m. Saturday on Trailer A of the Bridewell Annex, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage was estimated at $100.
A Lawrence resident was arrested for operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol at 2:37 a.m. Sunday at the intersection of 22nd Street and Ousdahl Road, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A Lawrence resident was arrested for operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol at 2:11 a.m. yesterday at the intersection of Clinton Parkway and Atchison Avenue, the KU Public Safety Office said.
- The owner's manual and vehicle registration of a KU employee's car were stolen between noon Saturday and 12:30 p.m. Sunday in the 700 block of Indiana Street, Lawrence police said. The items did not have a dollar value.
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