University Daily Kansan, December 1985
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports
Inmate uses knife to take female worker as hostage
LEAVENWORTH — An male inmate at the federal penitentiary took a female prison employee hostage at knife-point yesterday and released her unarmed two hours later, a prison spokesman said.
An employee of the prison's hospital records department was taken hostage by the unidentified inmate at 10:16 a.m. Prison officials talked the man into releasing the woman at 12:20 p.m., said Mark Luttrell, executive assistant to the warden.
He said the inmate was armed with a homemade knife.
He said the inmate was a friend when it happened. "He never verbalized any demands," Luttrell said. "Toward the end of the situation he did say he wanted to be transferred" to another prison.
prison.
Luttrell said the FBI and prison officials were investigating the incident, which could lead to federal charges being filed against the inmate. He also said that the inmate was placed in special detention.
Gillespie endorses K.C. as jazz site
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Be-bop pioneer Dizzy Gillespie yesterday endorsed a Kansas City site as the spot for an International Jazz Hall of Fame and promised to call on other commercially famous musicians to help get the center operating.
help get the center operating.
"You wouldn't believe it," Gillespie said of the proposed 20-acre site in south Kansas City. "You wouldn't believe what they have out there.
It's a dream."
Gillespie was here to support an idea that Kansas City be the home of an International Jazz Hall of Fame. He toured a building now being negotiated as the location of the hall of fame.
negotiated as the location of the concert. The proposed hall would honor jazz greats and be used as a jazz musician institute where internationally known entertainers could conduct classes in jazz.
Gillespie said he planned to immediately ask Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Quincy Jones, Bill Cosby and Marvin Gaye to donate their time and money toward establishing the hall of fame.
Legislators from area to hear advice
Four representatives and two senators who represent Douglas County in the Kansas Legislature will hear advice from 28 groups this weekend about the next legislative session, which begins Jan. 9 in Topeka.
State Rep. Jessie Branson. D Lawrence, is the organizer of the meetings, which will be from 9:40 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and from 1:30 to 5 p.m. Sunday in the Gallery Room of the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. The Lawrence League of Women Voters will assist at the meeting.
The other legislators who plan to attend are Democratic State Reps. Betty Jo Charlton and John Sobach of Lawrence, State Rep. David Miller, R-Eudora; and State Sens. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, and Jim Allen, R-Ottawa.
Early enrollment to end tomorrow
Tomorrow is the last day to enroll, drop or add a class for the spring semester until January.
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Students who have not enrolled or who want to change their schedules for the spring semester may do so from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in 111 Strong Hall.
ON THE RECORD
A 10-INCH television worth $125 and a camera worth $300 were stolen between 1:30 p.m. Nov. 22 and 3 a.m. Tuesday from an apartment on the 1400 block of Tennessee Street, police said. Entry was made through an open window. The police have no suspects.
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Problems persist in new payroll system
Although some problems with KU's switch to a statewide computerized payroll system have been worked out, about 100 employees will not be paid
By DONNA WOODS Staff Reporter
Today is the second payday since the inroad has moveover to the new payment system.
r ac t u r e y employees who do not receive paychecks today can get no-interest loans from the Kansas University Endowment Association, Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday.
STUDENTS WHO DO not receive paycheeks may apply for short-term loans through the student financial aid and Endowment Association official said.
Last month, 300 employees did not receive their paychecks on time because of problems with the change-ware system, yet those employees still had not been paid.
The Endowment Association will lend up to 60 percent of an employee's gross income, he said.
During yesterday's University Senate Executive Committee meeting, Cobb said he thought that employees who had not received November or
Employees who will not be paid today are not necessarily the same employees who encountered problems in November, Cobb said. He also said that the problem was not limited to one group of employees, Classified, unclassified, student and administrative employees have all had problems.
December paychecks would be paid within 10 days to three weeks.
"There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it," Cobb said.
SOME OF THE problems were caused by human error, he said, and others could be traced to problems in computer programming.
KU payroll workers and state payroll workers have been working overtime to
correct the barrage of problems created by the switch but. Cobb said, the workers' efforts have been hampered by an overloaded computer system with a slow response time.
"Everyone in our payroll office has performed in an absolutely superhuman way," he said. "We have a team of strained group of people over there."
Cobb noted that more than two thirds of the problems that surfaced last month had been taken care of. But he said knew that those efforts were a small consolation for employees who wouldn't be paid today, or for those who didn't yet received their November paychecks.
FBI report suggests personality of Osbornes' killer
By Staff and Wire Reports
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A neighborhood oddball who gets out mostly at night committed a sloppy crime in a rage directed mainly at Jane Osborne of an abandoned his husband and their son, according to an FBI rep released yesterday.
FBI behavioral experts gave Fort Wayne police a personality profile of the possible killer of Dan Osborne. The FBI determined that newsman News-Sentinel; his wife, Jane; 34, and
their son, Ben. 11. The three were beaten to death in their home. The crime was discovered Sept. 19.
Both of the Osbornes were KU graduates. Dan Osborne worked as assistant business editor of the Kansas State Journal and his family moved to Fort Wayne in May.
The analysis presumably is based on police information sent to the FBI. The report places the deaths on Sept. 16 or 17.
The FBI analysis carries the dis claimers that it is no substitute for a thorough investigation.
POLICE SAID THEY had questioned people in the case but had no firm suspicion.
Evaluating the crime scene, the report says:
The report says the information is based on analysis of similar criminal
"This offense is an extremely disorganized and sloppy crime. The crime scene also reflects a great amount of rage, anger and hostility on the part of the offender, directed primarily at Jane Osborne."
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Madrigal Dinner
Come with us to Merrie Old England of the 16th Century and enjoy the charming dinner traditions of the Wassail Bowl, strolling minstrels, and the madrigal singers.
Dressed in authentic costumes the members of the Lawrence Voci di Camera bring you song and tradition of medieval times.
We hope you will join us in this festive Christmas celebration.
The evening will begin at 6:30, December 3,
and at 12:30, December 4, Kansas Union
Ballroom. Cost is $11.25. For additional ticket
information please contact the SUA office at
864-3477.
YOU DESERVE A BREAK FROM FINALS
Kansas Jayhawks
VS
Kentucky Wildcats
Sat., Dec. 10 7:30 p.m. Allen Field House
Banners to be judged by Coach Brown
Bring your banners to the Wheel Friday, Dec. 9 between 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. and meet Coach Larry Brown and his staff for lunch.
Prize
Pre-Game Warm Up
Winner receives a free keg to be drank at the Wheel.
Rules
Come to the Wheel Sat., Dec. 10 and Drink 50c draws from 3:00-6:00
2) Please, no obscene language or profanity.
3) We reserve the right to reject any banners.
1) Banners must be less than 6 feet long and 2 feet wide.
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WHEEL
"The perceived chronology of events is not of vital significance in analyzing the lives of our elders."
a police analysis that indicated she became the victim of a load and prolonged attack when she surprised an employee who already had killed her husband and son.
"The offender appears to have had no single specific motive . . . robbery can be ruled out, nor was this a planned, intentional and precisely executed homicide.
Under 'Offender Profile,' the experts described the slayer as an inadequate white man works with comfortable walking distance of the crime scene.
"He is of average to slightly below average intelligence, and has not progressed educationally beyond high school. He is a white male, 21 to 27 years old, average in stature, his appearance is sloppy.
"He is a looner, introverted, with dragon, with solitary interests, and has an interest in politics."
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