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Wednesday March 18,1998
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Musical instruments belonging to two students were stolen from Murphy Hall this weekend.
On CAMPUS:
The Great American Meatout will attempt tomorrow to show the advantages of a vegetarian life.
In the NATION:
Two men arrested for allegedly kidnapping two Douglas County residents in January attempted to escape from jail.
The Census Bureau says Americans on the move are raising population totals in Arizona, California, Nevada and Texas.
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Queers and Allies will play host to a self-defense demonstration called "The Full Power Foundation" at 7:30 tomorrow night at the Big 12 room in the Kansas Union.
Students play sad songs after oboes are stolen
A Murphy Hall theft this weekend left two University of Kansas students without their musical instruments.
The students' oboes, cases, a tuner, a metronome and other items were stolen from 541 Murphy Hall between 2 p.m. Saturday and 8:30 a.m. Monday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The items were valued at $10,100.
Officer Burdel Welsh said that there was no sign of forced entry and that a key may have been used to enter the room. The room was unlocked when the thefts were discovered.
Kelly Fishel, Derby sophomore, said she had kept her oboe in the room for the past two years and never had any problems.
She is borrowing an oboe to play in the Symphonic Band.
"I'm holding out hope that it will be found," Fishel said.
— Laura Roddy
Great American Meatout to honor vegetarianism
The Great American Meatout will attempt tomorrow to show the advantages of a vegetarian life.
The annual national observance will be celebrated locally at 7 tonight at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. The event, sponsored by Proponents of Animal Liberation, will include a vegetarian meal and a discussion about vegetarianism.
Michael Schmitt, PAL president and Lawrence graduate student, said the event's purpose was to celebrate and raise awareness about vegetarianism.
"We hope to have everyone come out and have a nice vegetarian meal and learn about vegetarianism." Schmitt said.
Although PAL will be taking donations to cover the cost of the event, Schmitt said that the dinner was open to the public and that the meal would be free. Community Mercantile and several other local businesses have donated food for the event.
-Graham Johnson
Convicts attempt escape through jail shower area
Two men arrested for allegedly kidnapping two Douglases County residents in Janu
arried attempt to escape from Douglas County Jail, Sheriff Loren C. Anderson said
Anderson said David Cox's and Kipling Johnson's escape attempt was discovered at 10:30 a.m. Monday when the Sheriff's Department checked their cells and showered.
He said Cox and Johnson tried to file through sheet metal plates in the ceiling of the shower area in their cell block with an angle iron from a shower stall. He said they had succeeded only in loosening a few of the plates.
The department had not determined when the escape attempt began. When the inmates finished with the angle iron, they were able to put it back in its place, Anderson said.
"After cutting through a plate in the ceiling, they would hold it in place with toothpaste and hair gel," Anderson said.
"You couldn't see that it was missing," he said.
Anderson said both men had histories of attempted escapes from other Kansas jails, and the Douglas County Jail had been paying special attention to them.
"We knew they had that in mind." Anderson said, "so we knew we'd better stay on our toes or we'd be in trouble."
Anderson said the space above the shower's ceiling was empty and would not have been a possible route of escape.
"They could have gotten out through the
ceiling, but they still would have been in the secure area of the jail." Anders said.
—Ronnie Wachter
He said the only possible escape route was through the jail's front door.
Americans moving South, Census Bureau report says
WASHINGTON—Still heading toward the sun, Americans on the move and new immigrants are raising population totals in Arizona, California, Nevada and Texas, the Census Bureau says. The count, focusing on the nation's counties, also shows people moving in increasing numbers into the rings of suburbs surrounding big cities.
Mirroring conclusions reached at kitchen tables and in the boardrooms of corporate America, the historic trek continued last year from East and North to South and West. Nationwide, the largest county increase occurred near Denver in Douglas County, which experienced 12.9 percent growth from 1996 to 1997.
The moves left demographic maps of counties in many metropolitan areas looking like doughnuts, thinner in the central core and denser in surrounding counties. The Census Bureau cited Minneapolis-St. Paul, Atlanta, Nashville, Dallas-Fort Worth, and San Antonio as examples of this suburban migration.
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Execution debate raises questions after capital trial
By Gerry Doyle and Brandon Copley
gdoyle@kansan.com
bcopley@kansan.com
Kansan staff writers
Gary Kleypas has been sentenced to die, but the debate surrounding his execution has not.
Holcombe said his objections to capital punishment centered on three points: whether the state had a right to kill someone, whether the death penalty would demean or enhance society and whether the death penalty was the best way to express condemnation of murder.
Kleypas, who was convicted of the 1996 murder of Pittsburg State University student Carrie Williams, was sentenced to death March 11 in a Crawford county courtroom. He would be the first person executed in Kansas in 33 years.
But Thad Holcombe, a member of the Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice, said that although Kleypas was found guilty of murder, the death penalty would not make up for his crime.
"I had hoped they wouldn't, but it didn't surprise me," he said. "There's value in all of human life. We shouldn't demean ourselves and say that there are those that are less than human by exterminating them. Because that's what we're doing—exterminating them."
Holcombe said that the sentence was not unexpected.
Bryan Larkin, Lyndon Junior, disagreed. Larkin said that the act of killing someone warranted special punishment.
Larkin said that giving Kleypas the death penalty was the right thing to do.
"I't an eye for an eye," he said. "It's the only fair punishment for someone who killed somebody."
David Gottlieb, professor of law, said that the jury decided the sentence and that the judge only approved it. Gottlieb said that once a sentence was handed down by the jury, it was unusual for a judge to overrule it.
"If the jury recommended it, the likelihood to overturn is very remote," he said. "There's no specific standard for overturning a sentence. It could be something like a jury misreading evidence."
Jeff Moots, one of Kleypas' trial lawyers and a part of the State of Kansas Death Penalty Defense Unit, said that his client qualified for the death penalty because it was a premeditated homicide that involved a violent sex crime. Moots said that the ruling probably would be challenged on multiple points.
"The appeals all are linked to a violation of constitutional rights," he said. "There are questions about his mental abilities, about jury instructions, about a blank search warrant being issued. There are 170 to 180 legal issues to be considered here."
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