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THURSDAY, OCT. 24, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 44 (USPS 650-640)
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Breach of contract suit filed by softball pitcher
By Liz Maggaru Of the Kansan staff
A breach of contract suit was filed Friday in Douglas County District Court by a former KU women's softball pitcher against the University of Kansas and Bob Stanclift, women's softball coach.
The suit asks for more than $10,000 in actual damages, more than $10,000 in punitive damages and $8,982 and the accrued interest for damages under contract for Colette Seitz-Crenshaw, Toneka junior.
The suit alleges that the University breached its contract with Seitz-Crenshaw when it terminated her athletic scholarship on Feb. 6, 1984, because of an injury she suffered while playing for the KU women's softball team.
Edwin P. Carpenter, one of two Topeka attorneys representing Seitz-Crenshaw, said yesterday that the University and Stancill persuaded Seitz-Crenshaw to finish high school one semester early by promising her a scholarship. She neglected on that promise after she suffered injuries to her arm and elbow.
The suit also alleges that the University negligently contributed to her injury by requiring her to pitch after she had been told by a physician that she risked permanent injury if she continued to do so.
The University and Stancill negligently breached their duty to protect Seitz-Crenshaw while she was participating in softball under their supervision by "forcing her to pitch against sound medical advice." according to the suit.
Carpenter said the suit was filed because repeated attempts by Seitz-Crenshaw and her attorneys to get the University to reinstate her scholarship had failed.
Neither Seitz-Crenshaw nor Donald Barry, the other attorney representing her, could be reached for comment yesterday.
Carpenter said the terms of Seitz-Crenshaw's scholarship prohibited the University from canceling it because of injury. He said the University said it was justified in cancelling the contract because Seitz-Crenshaw had quit the team.
"She was willing to do everything she needed to, short of pitching, to keep her scholarship," he said. "She
Italian police move hijacker
See SUIT, p. 5, col. 1
United Press International
GENOA, Italy — Police transferred one of the Achille Lauro hijackers to a secret location yesterday amid reports that he confessed that Palestinian leader Mohammed Abul Abbas masterminded the hijacking, police sources said.
Officers moved the man, who is said to be the killer of American Leon Klinghoffer, from a jail in Spoleta in central Italy to the northern port of Genoa for interrogation, then took him to a maximum-security penitentiary in the northern region of Liguria, the sources said.
The sources did not identify the Palestinian, but Italian state-run television RAI quoted semi-official sources as saying he the gunman who shot ard killed Klinghofofer, a disabled American, during the hijacking. Investigators were examining the evidence carefully, the RAI report said.
Several leading newspapers, including the Corriere
della Sera of Milan, the left-wing La Repubblica of Rome and the Communist Party organ L'Unita, reported the hijacker was thought to have asked to turn state's evidence. The newspapers quoted information that apparently came from sources close to the case.
The question whether Abbas was in charge of the hijackers was the main issue in a diplomatic dispute between the United States and Italy, which released Abbas on September 14, petitioned, and led to the collapse of the Italian government.
The Rome newspaper La Repubblica told the hijacker had told Genoa investigators that Abbas "was our military chief and it was he who directed our group." The hijacker said what the hijacker "is reported to have said in essence."
There was no official confirmation of the reports, which the newspapers stressed were unconfirmed and
See HIJACKER, p. 5, col. 1
Mike Horton/KANSAN
Class in the grass
ROTC to test for AIDS next year
Graduate teaching assistant John Gardner, Lincoln, Neb., explains the use of possessive adjectives to Kara Olson, Lawrence freshman, left, Kelly McCarthy, Chicago freshman, Steve Hogan, Chicago freshman, front, and Patrick Ramsey, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, in Garder's Spanish 104 class. The class met behind Hoch Auditorium yesterday afternoon.
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
All members of the KU Reserve Officers Training Corps will be tested for exposure to the AIDS virus in the next year as a result of a decision announced Friday by the U.S. Department of Defense.
The spokesman, Glenn Flood, said the actual policy regarding the testing would be released in the next few days.
The test, now limited to U.S. military recruits, will be introduced in stages and will check all 2.1 million members of the U.S. military, a spokesman for the Department of Defense said yesterday.
unanswered questions as to where, why and when the tests will occur. We hope to announce the plans by Monday."
AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is a fatal disease that destroys the body's immune system, leaving it defenseless against infection.
Several cadets and officers in the KU Army, Air Force and Navy ROTC are aware that they will be tested for AIDS and think the test is a good idea.
"It's nothing new," said Lt. Col.
James Laster, professor of military
science. "We get tested for
everything. It's part of the military."
physical that all active duty personnel are required to pass. Laster said.
Bruce Willett, Kansas City, Kan., senior and cadet in the Air Force ROTC, said that he and several other cadets had not been officially informed that they would have to be tested but that he learned about the testing through reading newspapers and information sent to him by the U.S. Air Force.
"We've heard it through the grapevine," Willett said. "I really haven't heard anyone complain. We just think of it as another test."
Julie Farrrell, Lawrence junior and
admiral in the Air Force ROTC, agreed.
Explosion verdict appealed
United Press International
TOPEKA — In the last of 13 lawsuits stemming from a Dec. 15, 1977, explosion in Lawrence that killed two people, the Kansas Public Service Co. yesterday asked the Kansas Supreme Court to overturn a damage award levied against the gas company.
The gas company asked the high court to reject a Douglas County jury verdict awarding $103,000 in actual damages and $100,000 in punitive damages. The judge asked the doctoral candidate. McDermott lived in an apartment that was among the
draft doctoral dissertation and
years of research accompanying it.
The gas company contested the
matter in a federal lawsuit,
$95,000 for his academic materials.
Topeka attorney Justice B. King, representing Kansas Public Service, said Douglas County District Judge James Paddock should not have found the company to be liable in the case simply because the Supreme Court had already declared the gas company liable in an earlier case won by Edgar Dale and Helen C. Kearney, whose business, Pier 1, was destroyed in the blast.
jurors after the trial indicated some jurors had been reading about the case in the newspaper during the trial, which would constitute juror misconduct. He complained that Paddock did not allow him to question the jurors on the issue.
King also challenged the jury
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McDermott's attorney, Pedro Irigonegaray, Topeka, said the explosion had been caused by the separation of a plastic gas pipe joined to a metal pipe by a coupling that was not made to bear the weight of the plastic pipe.
He said Kansas Public Service had been warned by the maker of the tool to be used as
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