2A • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS IN BRIEF
THURSDAY, DEC. 13, 2001
CAMPUS NAACP to offer a night of diversity for women
The women of the University of Kansas chapter of the NAACP are playing host to a "Woman to Woman" night at 6:30 tonight at Room 107 in Green Hall.
Kristin Lambert, vice president of the organization and Overland Park senior, said the event would be a night to break barriers between minority women on campus and a chance for freshmen to ask upperclass women about dating, friendships and academics at KU.
She said some male guests also would speak later in the program to give male perspective on issues.
Some food also will be served. The event is free and open to all women at KU. For more information contact Lambert at 312-2137 or at Kristin@cs.com.
J. R. Mendoza
K-State graduate donates $5 million to KU First
An alumn of Kansas State University gave $5 million to the University of Kansas, Chancellor Hemenway announced yesterday.
The $5 million given to the Kansas University Endowment Association will be deposited in unrestricted accounts, which are funds given without a specific purpose attached.
More than half of the donation will be used for resources, such as materials for faculty and equipment. The remaining $1.8 million will be used for unrestricted scholarships, which are allotted by the chancellor.
James L. Sharp graduated from KState in 1933 with a degree in business administration and went to work for Boeing in Wichita until retirement. He died in 1999, and left the gift to the endowment in his will.
The $5 million gift count toward the $500 million-dollar goal of the KU First fundraising campaign, and is the third largest bequest received.
-Paul Smith
Family of murder victim sues killer's employer
STATE
WICHITA, Kan. — The family of a murdered teacher has filed a lawsuit against her killer's former employer, claiming the company didn't do enough to protect the public from "dangerous, convicfied felons."
The lawsuit by Janice Vredenburg's relatives seeks at least $75,000 from National Catastrophe Restoration Inc.
Tanner Green was working for the company in February 2000 when he and several employees were sent to repair a water pipe at Vredenburg's home in Wichita. He returned weeks later and beat and slashed her to death.
At the time, Green was on parole for robbing a woman at knifepoint and attacking a fellow inmate in prison.
In January, Green was convicted of first-degree murder in Vredenburg's death. He is serving a life sentence with no possibility of parole for 50 years.
Vredenburg's family members filed the lawsuit in hopes of preventing similar tragedies, their attorney said.
NATION&WORLD
Leaders still waiting on al-Qaida to yield
The Associated Press
TORA BORA, Afghanistan — Afghan tribal commanders set a new deadline yesterday for the surrender of a group of al-Qaida fighters cornered in a mountain canyon and under heavy U.S. attack, demanding that top terrorist suspects, possibly including Osama bin Laden, also turn themselves in.
U. S. air strikes sent smoke and debris billowing into the air as they pounded the desolate canyon where the al-Qaida fighters were boxed in after being forced out of their caves in the Tora Bora region of eastern Afghanistan. An earlier deadline yesterday morning passed without the men's surrender.
Claiming they wanted to end the carriage, tribal eastern alliance leaders gave a new ultimatum, giving the men from bin Laden's terror network until noon today (1:30 a.m CST) to surrender. But the alliance said it would not
accept the surrender unless leaders with them also turned themselves in.
This would include bin Laden and others on Washington's list of most wanted terrorist suspects if they were at Tora Bora, said Ghafar, the mayor of the nearby city of Jalalabad.
"But we don't know where Osama is," said Ghafar, who like some Afghans goes by one name only. He said the alleged terrorist chief might be hiding in thick alpine forest along the nearby border with Pakistan. Other leaders might have escaped during a failed cease-fire overnight, he said.
Gen. Peter Pace, vice chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Pentagon did not know whether the al-Qaida leadership was in the Tora Bora area. He said it would be "great" if they were. He told reporters in Washington that he was "not aware" of any direct contact between U.S. forces on the ground and al-Qaida.
Frenchman failed flight school
The Associated Press
NORMAN, Okla. — During the months he spent at Airman Flight School, Zacarias Moussaoui became known for three things: his chattiness, his linebacker looks and his stubborn refusal to repeat lessons when he failed.
Even after 57 hours of flight lessons at the Oklahoma school between February and May, he still wasn't able to fly solo — something most students can do in a third of that time.
But although Moussaoui could be frustrating, he never gave the slightest hint he intended to harm anyone. Airman admission director Brenda Keene said Tuesday after learning he had just been indicted in the Sept. 11 attacks.
"To think I helped this guy come into this country, talked to him for five months, helping him with stuff and he tried to kill us," Keene said Tuesday.
Moussaoui, a 33-year-old Frenchman of
Moroccan descent, was indicted on a federal conspiracy charge, accused of plotting the attacks with Osama bin Laden and others. He has been in jail since mid-August and faces arraignment Ian. 2 in Alexandria, Va.
Although he could be exasperating, Moussaoui was polite, Keene said, often calling her Miss Brenda. She said Moussaoui never did anything that seemed suspicious.
After a few months at the school, he got a ride with a University of Oklahoma student to Minnesota, where he intended to train on Boeing flight simulators. But on Aug. 17, Moussaoui was detained there on immigration charges after he aroused suspicions by saying he wanted to learn how to fly jetliners but wasn't interested in knowing how to take off or land.
Moussaoui was still locked up when terrorists crashed hijacked jetliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Pilot who died in attack allowed burial in cemetery
ARLINGTON, Va. — Funeral services were held yesterday at Arlington National Cemetery at the pilot of the hijacked jet that terrorists crashed into the Pentagon.
Charles Frank Burlingame III was "a true American patriot who paid the ultimate sacrifice as one of our nations first warriors to perish in the war on terrorism," said Sen. George Allen, R-Va., in prepared remarks.
Burlingame, 51, a former Navy pilot and 17-year Naval reservist, was initially denied his own grave at Arlington because he died before age 60, the eligibility age for reservists. Allen asked President Bush to grant an exemption.
Army officials said he was eligible to have his cremated remains placed in the cemetery's Columbarium, or share his parents' plot. Burlingame's family protested, saying his long military history and the fact that he died in the Sept. 11 attacks should have been taken into account.
Army Secretary Thomas White reversed the decision and allowed Burlingame to have his own plot.
Taped bin Laden videos held by Arab news station
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The Arabic-language AI Jazeera news station acknowledged yesterday that it refrained from broadcasting several videos of Osama bin Laden, taken before and after Sept. 11, for editorial or technical reasons.
Ibrahim Helal, the station's editor-in-chief, said the collection may include a videotape that was referred to in a dossier released by the office of British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
"We decide not to run tapes if there is nothing newsy in them," he said, adding that the station has not been subject to any government pressure to pull the bin Laden tapes.
In Washington yesterday, the White House prepared to release a videotape, apparently meant for internal al-Qaida use.
Numerous U.S. officials have already seen the tape and translations of what's on it. They say it proves bin Laden is behind the attacks.
ON THE RECORD
A 31-year-old KU student reported a theft in the Stouffer Place parking lot between 5 p.m. Nov. 15 and 2 p.m. Dec. 1, the KU Public Safety Office said. A Kansas license plate was stolen. The stolen item was valued at $50.
A 23-year-old KU student reported a theft of a 1904 Acura between 11 a.m. and 11:05 a.m. in the 100 block of Pinecone Drive, Lawrence police said. The car was valued at $10,000.
A 22-year-old KU student reported damage to and theft from a vehicle between 10 p.m. Friday and 3:30 a.m. Saturday in the 1000 block of Massachusetts Street, Lawrence police said. Damage to the top of the Jeep was estimated at $200. A jacket and watch were valued at $275.
A 21-year-old KU student reported an aggravated battery Saturday morning in the 3100 block of West 22nd Street, Lawrence police said. The victim was bitten in the face but refused medical treatment. The police are looking for a 20-year-old Hispanic female.
A 30-year-old KU student reported a theft between 6 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday in the 1400 block of West Seventh Street,
Lawrence police said. Two bags and their contents were valued at $353.
A 20-year-old KU student reported a theft between 10:30 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. in the 1300 block of West Campus Road, Lawrence police said. A Gucci diamond watch was estimated at $995.
A 21-year-old KU student reported the theft and forgery of six personal checks between Oct. 28 and Sunday, Lawrence police said. Total loss was estimated at $402.04.
A 20-year-old KU student reported a theft between 4:15 p.m. and 5 p.m. Thursday in the 2700 block of West 27th Street, Lawrence police said. A wallet and its contents were valued at $45.
An 18-year-old KU student reported criminal damage to a fraternity house between 3:30 a.m. and 3:45 a.m. Friday in the 1000 block of Emery Road, Lawrence police said. Damage to a wall and window was estimated at $200.
A 21-year-old KU student reported a theft between 12:01 a.m. and 1:30 a.m. Friday in the 600 block of Florida Street, Lawrence police said. A cell phone was valued at $35.
ON CAMPUS
- Ecumenical Christian Ministries and ENVIRONS will serve a vegetarian lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today at the ECM building, located at 1204 Oread Ave., one block north of the Kansas Union. The lunch is being prepared by student volunteers. Non-vegetarians are welcome. Contact Thad Holcomba at 843-4933.
KU Men's and Women's Ultimate Frisbee Clubs will meet at 4:30 p.m. today at the Shenk Sports Complex at 23rd and lowa streets. Contact Clay
or Tony at 843-7099 or at claved@ku.edu.
Campus Crusade for
Christ will meet at 8
tonight in 1004
Haworth. Contact
John Illiff at 979-6488.
KU Karate Kobudo Club will have practice from 8:30 to 10:30 tonight in racquetball court No. 15 at Robinson Gymnasium.
Contact Hannah Reynolds at 312-3419.
KU Young Democrats will meet and hear from guest speaker, Barbara Ballard, at 8:30 on the night in the Walnut Room at the Kansas Union. Contact Nora Bielat at 393-1784.
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