2A - THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS IN BRIEF
MONDAY, NOV.19, 2001
CAMPUS
Trial-setting date scheduled for man charged with assault
Huntae Lim, South Korea visiting scholar, will meet with attorneys at 1:30 p.m. Nov. 27, to discuss if a trial date will be set or a plea agreement reached on assault charges, said Brad Burke, assistant district attorney.
Lim was arrested and charged with aggravated assault, a misdemeanor, after he threatened his roommate, Ansu Rogers, Olathe senior, at Jayhawker Towers between 8:32 and 8:35 a.m. Thursday, said Lt. Schuyler Bailey.
The verbal dispute was the first incident between the roommates reported to the KU Public Safety Office, Bailey said.
Rogers declined to comment.
Lim pointed a kitchen knife at Rogers and said "Do you want to die? I'll kill you. You think about it."
Roger said Lim was released on a $500 own-recognizance bond, which meant that if Lim failed to make his court appearances, a warrant would be issued for his arrest.
Lim is not allowed to have contact with Rogers or return to Jayhawker Towers.
Michelle Burhenn
STATE
'What Would Jesus do?' author honored by road stretch
TOPEKA — A mile stretch of U.S. 24 in Topeka's city limits was dedicated Saturday to a local minister whose 1896 book asked readers "What Would Jesus Do?"
The Rev. Charles Shieldon was minister of Topeka's Central Congregational Church and wrote "In His Steps."
The dedication was the result of action taken by the 2001 Legislature.
Sheldon based "In His Steps" on a series of sermons about a man dressed in rags who interrupts a Midwestern church service after people ignore his pleas for help.
Just before he dies, the man tells the congregation, "There's an awful lot of trouble in the world that somehow wouldn't exist if all the people who sing such songs went and lived them out."
such songs went out in the book, the congregation then promises to spend a year asking "What would Jesus do?" when confronted with issues in daily life.
NATION
Proposal to abolish main SAT debated at college conference
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — A proposal to ditch the SATI college entry exam was debated this weekend at a University of California-sponsored conference.
UC President Richard Atkinson shocked higher education circles earlier this year with the proposal to discard the test.
Critics say the test is biased against disadvantaged students and devalues high school grades, which are a better predictor of students' future college success.
UC started requiring the SAT for admissions in 1968, becoming the biggest user of the test and helping to turn it into a national standard.
The university also requires students to take three of the lesser-known SAT II tests. Faculty are considering Atkinson's proposal to go exclusively with the SAT II while looking for a better alternative. A decision could come next spring.
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NATION&WORLD
Forty taken into custody after military school protest
The Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ga. — Thousands of demonstrators marched outside Fort Benning yesterday to protest a former Army school they blame for alleged human rights violations against Latin American civilians. About 40 people were taken into custody.
During the annual funeral march to the front gate of the post, protesters carried signs reading "Imperialist Assassins" and created a memorial to the alleged victims of graduates of the School of the Americas, which was a training center for Latin American soldiers.
American schools "i wanted to bear witness to these deeds by SOA graduates — to take a stand against terrorism wherever it happens to be," said Ralph Armbruster, a social science teacher from Santa Barbara, Calif.
About 40 people were taken into custody after they slipped through an opening in a fence and onto base property. Fort Benning spokesman Rich McDowell said they were given letters barring them from the post for five years and released.
the post for five years. "At least eight are second offenders," he said. "They could be prosecuted in federal court."
court. The crowd, estimated by police at 6,000 to 7,000, included senior citizens and veterans. The annual demonstration at the gates of Fort Benning commemorates the Nov. 16, 1989, killings in El Salvador of six Jesuit priests, to which some of the school's graduates have been linked.
With the United States at war against terrorists and Americans riding a patriotic wave, organizers said it was more important than ever to protest the former school.
Al-Qaida leader confirmed dead
The Associated Press
QUETTA, Pakistan — A Taliban official confirmed Saturday that terrorist leader Mohammed Atef was killed along with seven other al-Qaida members in a U.S. attack three days ago.
days ago.
Mullah Najibullah, a Taliban official in the southern Afghan town of Spinboldak, told The Associated Press of Atef's death but would not identify the other al-Qaida members who died with him.
Najibullah also said al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden was alive.
bill Laden was alive.
It was the first time a senior Taliban official had confirmed the claim by U.S. authorities that Atef was dead.
Atter was dead.
Atef, known as al-Qaida's military chief, is
suspected of helping to plan the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon that killed thousands. He directly planned the embassy bombings in Africa in 1998 that killed 224 people, according to a U.S. indictment that charged him with murder.
18 U.S. soldiers.
Attef reportedly directed the training of al-Qaida terrorists and also supposedly wrote a 180-page training manual called "Military Studies in the Holy Struggle against Tyrants."
He is also accused of helping plan a 1993 helicopter shootdown in Somalia that killed 18 U.S. soldiers.
He was often seen beside bin Laden in photographs and videotapes taken in Afghanistan in the last three years. Atef also was related to bin Laden by marriage — his daughter married bin Laden's son in January.
ONTHERECORD
A 19-year-old KU student was arrested at North College Drive at 2:01 a.m. Friday after a KU Public Safety officer noticed the student driving south on North College Drive, a one-way street, the KU Public Safety Office said. He was transported to Douglas County jail, where his blood was tested. The student had a blood alcohol content of 0.086
A 23-year-old Gumby's Pizza employee reported burglary and theft in the McColum and Ellsworth Halls parking lot between 1:25 and 1:35 day morning, the KU Public Safety Office said. The employee went inside Ellsworth Hall to deliver a pizza and when he returned, his car had been moved to the intersection of Engel and Irving Hill roads and a 20-inch pizza had been stolen, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A 21-year-old KU student was arrested Thursday evening on charges of theft of lost property and criminal use of a financial card, Lawrence police said. He was released on $500 bond.
arrested Friday morning on charges of failure to appear in
A 21-year-old KU student was
court, Lawrence police said.
A 20-year-old KU student reported theft of a vehicle between 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and 10 a.m. Thursday in the 1900 block of Massachusetts Street, Lawrence police said. The 1983 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme was valued at $3,500
A 21-year-old KU student reported damage to a vehicle between 9 p.m. Nov. 11 and 10 a.m. Nov. 12 in the 1600 block of Edgehill Road, Lawrence police said. Damage to the spoiler of a 1989 Infinity DX4 was estimated at $80.
A 19-year-old KU student reported criminal damage to a vehicle between 3:20 a.m. and 3:22 a.m. in the 2500 block of West 31st Street, Lawrence police said. Damage to four tires was estimated at $500.
dies was worked.
A 21-year-old KU student reported criminal damage to a vehicle between 2 a.m. Nov. 12 and 10.15 p.m. Nov. 13 in the 1200 block of Louisiana Street, Lawrence police said. Damage to the driver's side mirror of a 1993 Buick LeSabre was estimated at $400.
ON CAMPUS
The Black Student Union will meet at 7:30 onnight at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. Contact Mark Dupree at 864-3984.
Tae Kwon Do Club will meet from 6:30 to 8:00 at 207 Robinson Center. Contact Greg Isaac at 749-4649.
U. A.K.S. Non-Traditional Students will have a brown bag lunch from 12 noon to 1:30 p.m. today in the Burge Union. Contact Joan Winston at 864-7317.
KU Green Party will meet at 8 tonight at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union. Contact Sarah Hoskinson at 838-9063 or Dalyn Cook at 312-2090.
KU Karate Kobudo Club will practice from 8:30 to 10:30 tonight at racquetball court No. 15 in Robinson Center. Contact Hannah Reynolds at 312-3419
Vietnam Veterans for Academic Reform will renn John Frydman, a criminal defense attorney, speaking on drug laws. It airs tonight from 7:30 to 8 on Cable Channel 19.
Lutheran congregation installs the first gay pastor in Florida
NATION
KEYWEST, Fla. — A congregation has installed the first noncelibate, gay Lutheran pastor in Florida, adding fuel to a national debate on the role sexually active homosexuals play in Protestant churches.
Arlo David Peterson was named pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church on Nov. 11, although unmarried people, including gay men and women, are only allowed to be Lutheran pastors if they wom to remain celibate.
"I've lived in the closet most of my life, but I came to Key West for the sake of my relationship," said Peterson, who was a Lutheran pastor for more than 20 years in New York and named adjunct pastor at Holy Trinity in August 1999.
With his installation, Peterson joined more than a dozen gay or lesbian Lutheran pastors nationwide who are serving in defiance of church rules, said Greg Egertson, a board member of the Lutheran Lesbian and Gay Ministry.
Meteor show dazzles watchers from the east to the west coast
MOUNTWILSON, Calif. - Thousands of shooting stars provided a dazzling light show yesterday that amazed veteran and novice stargazers alike as the Leonid meteor show made the moonless sky appear to rain light.
At the peak of the early morning shower, as many as 1,250 meteors per hour streaked overhead, according to NASA estimates.
Atop Mount Wilson, hundreds of cars clogged the road leading to the observatory high above the Los Angeles basin as stargazers sought out dark spots to watch the display.
Patty Ronney, 49, said she had never seen a single meteor before leaving her El Segundo home late Saturday. Hours later she had seen countless numbers.
Streak after streak of light shot across the sky as tiny bits of comet debris burned up harmlessly in the atmosphere.
The best viewing in the United States was between 4 and 6 a.m. EST, but people on the East Coast reported seeing meteors fly even after dawn broke at 6:46.
WORLD
University awards the family of fallen war correspondent
PAMPLONA, Spain — A Spanish university has presented an award to the family of Miguel Gil Morena de Mora, the 32-year-old Associated Press Television News cameraman killed in Sierra Leone during a rebel ambush.
The ambush on May 24, 2000, also took the lives of Washington native Kurt Schork, 53, a correspondent for Reuters, and four members of the Sierra Leone army. Gil had reported since 1993 in Chechnya, Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Congo and other war zones.
"Miguel was a war correspondent who gave a service to his professional colleagues, to the truth, and to the innocent people that suffer the consequences of war," Lorenzo Mila, a news chief for Spanish National Television, said at the presentation of the Luka Brajovic Journalist Prize on behalf of the University of Navarra on Saturday
University of Navarra in Spain. The award takes its name from the much admired Croat law professor and journalist Luka Brajnovic who began teaching journalism at the Navarra university in 1958. He died in February at the age of 82.
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