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Friday February 27,1998
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
The Kansas House approved a bill to reserve the Kansas River between Lawrence and Topeka for recreational use. In the STATE
On CAMPUS
A sorority house at Fort Hays State University is vandalized.
A college student wins the right to leave a hospital so he can seek Jack Kevorklan's help in killing himself.
The massive federal tax code would expire by 2002 under legislation introduced this week in the Senate.
Legal challenges on the Lewinsky trial threaten to tie up investigation.
CAMPUS
Section of Kansas River reserved for recreation
The Kansas House approved a bill yesterday to reserve the Kansas River between Lawrence and Topeka for recreational use.
The bill, introduced by Rep. Tom Sloan, R-Lawrence, and Rep. Laura McClure, D-Dosborne, prohibits沙dredging in the recreational portion of the river but permits dredging in other portions.
Sen. Sandy Praeger, R-Lawrence, hopes to lead the bill through the Senate. She said she expected the bill to pass.
"It's one of those great compromises that everybody hates," she said. "The canoeists don't think they got enough, and the dredgers think they gave up too much."
The House rejected companion legislation that requires a boating fee for use of canoes and kayaks on the river. The boating fee would help with the cost of constructing access points.
Brandon Copple
STATE
Fort Hays State sorority vandalized with eggs, oil
HAYS — Vandals used eggs, spray paint, toilet paper, fish bail, motor oil and trash to vandalize an off-campus sorority house at Fort Hays State University.
Police Capt. Don Deines said yesterday authorities had made no arrests.
The 20 members living in the Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority house woke up Tues day morning to find toilet paper and trash in their yard, fish bait in the keyholes to the outside doors and obscene words and names spray painted on the brick and cement house.
Ketchup, eggs, motor oil, chocolate
syrup and hay also were used to deface the sorority's sign, house and several members' cars.
Authorities believe the vandalism was a college prank that got out of hand, Deines said.
NATION
Oakland University student wins right to seek suicide
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — A college student paralyzed by a virus has won the right to leave a hospital so he can seek Jack Kevorkian's help in killing himself.
Roosevelt Dawson, a 21-year-old Oakland University student from Southfield, would become the youngest person known to have committed suicide with the help of Kevorkian.
"I hope to leave Saturday and go back to my mom's home," Dawson said. "From there, I'll probably be disconnected."
Dawson has been unable to use his arms and legs and has depended on a ventilator to breathe since a viral infection attacked his spinal cord 13 months ago.
On Wednesday, a court psychiatrist denied a request by Metropolitan Hospital in Grand Rapids that Dawson be declared incompetent and held involuntarily, hospital spokesman Jim Childress said.
The hospital sought a commitment order after attorney Geoffrey Fieger, who represents both Kevorkian and Dawson, said he intended to seek his release.
Dawson's mother, Brenda Garner, said she is resigned to her son's wish to die.
"He gave me the keys to his Neon," she said. "That meant he had given up. There is no quality of life. And his keys were something that he cherished. He bought the car on his own. It's time to take it home."
The youngest person thought to have died with Kevorkian's help is 27-year-old Heidi Aseltine, an AIDS patient whose body was discovered in a suburban Detroit motel last April.
New tax code proposed by Kansas, Missouri senators
WASHINGTON — The massive federal tax code would expire by 2002 under legislation introduced this week in the Senate.
Sponsored by Sens, Sam Brownback, R-Kan., John Ashcroft, R-Mo., and other lawmakers, the measure would force Congress to come up with a new system of taxation by July 4, 2001.
"We need to run down the clock on today's tax code — and start the process of providing Americans with a fairer, simpler tax code." Brownback said.
Brownback: Introduced legislation to end tax code.
The bill leaves in place funding mechanisms for Social Security and Medicare.
At a news conference, Ashcroft called for tax cuts now. A presidential hopeful, Ashcroft is pushing a $1 trillion plan for tax cuts aimed at the middle class.
"We must reduce taxes right now," Ashcroft said. "As we
begin building long-term consensus for a 21st-century tax code, let us embrace immediate relief for the forbidden middle class."
Also sponsored by Sen. Tim Hutchinson, R-Rark., the legislation is similar to proposals introduced last year backed by 1996 presidential candidate Steve Forbes and the National Federation of Independent Businesses.
WASHINGTON — Independent Counsel Kenneth Star said he still hoped for a
speedy resolution to the Monica Lewinsky matter, but legal challenges posed by White House and defense lawyers threaten to tie up his investigation for months, or even years.
Legal challenges threaten to slow down Lewinsky trial
The challenges could delay or stop prosecutors from questioning White House aides, Secret Service agents or Lewinsky herself.
Indeed, the challenges may be part of a concerted defense strategy in Starr's investigation of allegations of a presidential affair and cover-up, experts say.
"Throwing as much sand in the eye as you can get is going to be helpful for the defense." said Jane Sherburne, a former
Lewinsky: Prosecutor
lawyers will
delay questioning.
White House lawyer who negotiated with the prosecutor on sensitive executive privilege and attorney-client matters earlier in the investigation. If negotiations to end a stalemate over presidential confident Bruce Lindsay's testimony fail, the White House is prepared to go to court to stop prosecutors from asking Lindsay certain
questions on the grounds that his answering would violate executive privilege.
Starr said yesterday his experience was that issues of great moment could be litigated very quickly.
However, the last executive privilege fight the White House waged — in a criminal investigation of former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy — lasted two years.
The administration also has said it would go to court to block Secret Service agents from having to testify about what they observed and heard from the president — an untested legal area that could also take time to sort out.
The Associated Press
Senate forced to tighten up purse strings
By Melissa Ngo
By Meissa NgO
mngo@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The Student Senate Finance Committee is running out of money.
Tom Preheim, Senate treasurer, said this was a learning experience for the committee.
The committee finances University of Kansas student organization activities from the Senate unallocated account, which had $54,000 at the beginning of the year. If all the bills that passed at Wednesday's committee meeting are passed by Senate next week, there will be $1,285.36 to finance organization activities for the rest of the year.
Atlanta-Louisville's student body president Grey Montgomery and Senate treasurer Jade Shopp decided to cut the Student senate fee from $23 to $22 out of the $210 campus fee, Prebium said. That led to cutting the unallocated account from $44 000 to $54 000.
"This is the first year that they've had to deal with the fee decrease," he said. "They should look at groups more closely to see what the money is being used for. Finance Committee is not doing its job if it's funding things that most students wouldn't want to go to."
Kelly Huffman, Student Executive Committee chair and last year's Finance Committee chair, said account was cut as an incentive for the committee to scrutinize groups more carefully, but such scrutiny has not taken place.
Huffman said the lack of funds now might push the committee to examine the bills more.
"There were probably things that were cut out of bills last night that would not have been cut out earlier," Huffman said. "I think this means that those things should have been cut out of bills earlier in the year."
Matt Bachand, Liberal Arts and Sciences senator, said money from the Senate reserve account should be moved to the unallocated account.
"It's the students' money. I think this is when we should spend the money for the students." he said.
Bachard said not increasing the unallocated account would be foolish.
Preheim said he would not endorse taking money from the reserve account to fund the unallocated account.
"The reserve account is for emergency situations. It is not there for general funding purposes," he said. "I think it would set a bad precedent to take money from the reserve account."
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ON THE RECORD
A KU student's checkbook was taken between 5 p.m. Feb. 18 and 3:36 p.m. Sunday from Oliver Hall, KU police said. The item was valued at $4.
A KU student's purse was taken between 6:45 and 7:45 p.m. Tuesday from a Robinson Center women's locker room , KU police said. The items were valued at $60.
A KU student's backpack, wallet and tape player were taken between 10:20 and 11:20 p.m. Tuesday from Robinson Center outside Room 103, KU police said. The items were valued at $135.
A KU student's vehicle was damaged between 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and 10:55 a.m. Wednesday in the South Jayhawker Towers lot, KU police said. The damage was estimated at $200.
A KU student's vehicle was damaged between 11:30 p.m. Tuesday and 10:55 a.m. Wednesday in the South Jayhawer Towers lot, KU police said. The dam-
age was estimated at $300.
A KU student's vehicle was damaged between 10:30 p.m. Tuesday and 1:39 p.m. Wednesday in the Oliver Hall lot, KU police said. The damage was estimated at $250.