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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
CAMPUS BRIEF
Students camp out to buy Dylan tickets; gone within hours
Kansan staff report
All of the about 2,000 available tickets to the April 9 Bob Dylan concert were purchased by 1 p.m. yesterday.
Desey Tidartzia, live music coordinator for Student Union Activities, said the 657 tickets that had gone on sale at 8 a.m. at the SUA box office in the Kansas Union were gone by 10 a.m.
The Lied Center and Murphy Hall box offices began selling tickets at 11 a.m. and reported selling out within two hours. Ticketmaster outlets sold out within 45 minutes.
Tziortzis said that about 18 students had camped out in front of the Union last night to be first in line. Those students were asked to sign up on a list and were given the first opportunities to purchase tickets when the SUA box office opened yesterday morning.
Tziortis said she could not remember any other SUA concert selling out so quickly.
The tickets cost $24.50 for general admission and $35
for preferred seating.
The last time Dylan was in Kansas was when he played at the Spirit Festival in Kansas City, Mo., two years ago. That show attracted more than 30,000.
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Girlfriend of murder victim testifies
By Liz Chadwick Kansan staff writer
The murder trial of a Topeka teen-ager charged with murdering Edward Lees of Lawrence in September began yesterday at Douglas County District Court in Lawrence.
Abraham Orr, 18, faces a felony murder and an attempted aggravated robbery charge.
Police say that Orr and his companion, Courtney Crockett, 18, attempted to rob Lees of an Iszuo Trooper while Lees was parked at the entrance of Riverfront Park with his girlfriend and her two children. When Lees refused to turn the vehicle over to him, Orr allegedly shot him. Orr and three companions then ran to the toll booth at the East Lawrence entrance to
Interstate 70 Turnpike, where they were arrested minutes after the shooting, Lawrence police said.
Lawrence police officer James Wold, who assisted in arresting Orr and the other suspects, testified that Orr had been surprisingly calm and tranquil at the time of his arrest.
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"It was weird. Usually when someone is pulled over by a policeman, they are upset and concerned, and their first question is, 'What did I do officer?' Wold said. "There was none of that with him. His mood was calm as if nothing had happened. No questions."
Lees' girlfriend, Dana Chang, gave an emotional account of the events of Sept. 18.
During Chang's testimony, Orr continually looked away from her.
She said she remembered noticing two men about 8 feet away from where she and Lees had been parked.
"After I first saw the men, I felt danger," Chang said.
"I said to Ed, 'Give them what they want. I have two children in the car,' she said. "But Ed didn't respond. He just looked at them."
When Assistant District Attorney Shelley White asked Chang why, Chang said she thought that the men had bad intentions.
Chang testified that Orr and Crockett had motioned to Lees to roll down his car window. When Lees shook his head, the men appeared to be walking away. But Orr then came back with a gun and pointed it at Lees. Chang said.
"He banged the side of the car with the
gun and pointed it at Ed," she said. "I yelled at him, 'Give them what they want,' but Ed never said anything. He put the car in gear and tried to back away, and then he shot him."
"I felt that if the murders came back there was less chance they would hurt an infant. So I took my son and hailed down door car," she said.
Chang and her 15-month-old son were sitting in the front seat. Her infant daughter was sitting in a child-safety seat in the back seat. She said she could carry only one of her children with her to the main road to get help.
Chang said she had tried to stop three cars before she could persuade someone to accompany her back to the scene of the murder to get her daughter.
The trial will continue Friday.
Senate warned of cost of 'Three Strikes' bill
The Associated Press
TOPEKA - The state would spend a lot of money keeping enfeebled criminals behind bars if the Legislature passes a "Three Strikes, You're Out" measure, lawmakers were warned yesterday.
The bill would mandate life sentences without parole for those who are convicted of three violent felonies.
David Orr, a lobbyist for the American Civil Liberties Union, cautioned the committee that the bill could result in elderly inmates being maintained on kidney machines in prison.
blocks would be turned into geriatric wards if the bill becomes law. The House already has passed the measure.
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee were told that some prison cell
The committee also is considering a bill that would double the penalty for crimes if a person has been convicted of two felonies.
The committee took no action on either measure.
"Please ask yourself if the money spent on keeping elderly people incarcerated in their 70s, 80s, and 90s couldn't better be spent on the root causes of crime," Orr said.
He also said a person with two felonies
Orr said that placing people in prison forever would not only cost more money than the state could afford but could increase the homicide rate.
had no reason not to kill a store clerk duri-
ing an robbery. Or pointed out that either
way, the robber would receive a life sen-
tence.
"He has absolutely no reason in the" world not to blow away that cashier," Orr said. "He will get life if he does, he will get life if he doesn't."
He also said the measure could place police officers in jeopardy if people decided to resist arrest rather than go to prison until they died.
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