2A • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS IN BRIEF
THURSDAY, NOV.15, 2001
CORRECTION
An editorial in yesterday's Kansan contained an error. The editorial suggested recreation services send emails to various campus groups to improve communication and participation. Recreation services already does so.
CAMPUS
Two 22-year-old KU students were arrested yesterday in connection with furniture that was stolen from Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave., and Nunemaker Hall, said Sgt. Mike Patrick of the Lawrence Police Department.
A representative from the KU Public Safety Office said the furniture stolen from Nunemaker Hall was recovered.
Patrick said police received a tip from an anonymous Crime Stoppers call that led to the arrests.
Most of the stolen furniture from ECM was returned on Sunday night, Thad Holcombe, pastor at ECM, said Monday.
Barbara Schowen, director of the University Honors Program, said that almost everything had been recovered
Brooke Hesler
STATE
Florida woman pleads guilty to defrauding Kansas banks
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A Florida woman has admitted she defrauded two Kansas banks of more than $100,000.
Bonnie Baker, of Clearwater Beach,
pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of
bank fraud, said U.S. Attorney Jim Flory.
Baker, 54, faces a maximum of 30 years in federal prison without parole. Sentencing is Feb. 4.
Baker wrote more than 750 checks from accounts at Metcalf Bank and Capitol Federal Savings, both of Overland Park, Flory said.
Baker deposited the checks into the accounts to artificially inflate their balances, causing the banks to honor checks for which she had insufficient funds, Flory said.
Capital Federal Savings lost about $119,342, he said.
NATION
Desegregation case settled after 32 years of court battle
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia will give $10 million to two historically African-American universities as part of a settlement to end a 30-year desegregation battle with the federal government.
Under the agreement with the U.S. Department of Education that was announced Tuesday, the money will be used to improve buildings and finance six new academic degrees each at Norfolk State University and Virginia State University.
Both schools are to get the money by Sept, 30, 2004.
The settlement comes 32 years after the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights informed Virginia it was operating a public system of higher education segregated by race. In response, Virginia developed a plan to dismantle the system and attract African-American students to predominantly Caucasian colleges.
In the settlement, the department acknowledged that a three-year review of Virginia's system found no lingering signs of historical discrimination.
NATION&WORLD
Northern alliance fighters move into Taliban bases
Associated Press
The Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban's enemies took over the military and police headquarters in the Afghan capital yesterday and wrested control of the eastern city of Jalalabad. In the south, there were the first signs that tribes once aligned with the hardline Islamic regime were joining the revolt.
A day after seizing the capital, elements of the northern alliance consolidated their power by taking over the defense and interior ministries—temporary measures, the alliance insisted, until a U.N.-supervised political settlement representing all ethnic groups.
representing an exciting change.
In the south, many of Afghanistan's 23 or more Pashtun groups appeared to have risen up against the Taliban, Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Stufflebeem said. "Whether or not they're working in concert, we don't know," he told reporters in Washington.
The tribal leaders were Pashtun—members of Afghanistan's largest ethnic group, which served as the backbone of the Taliban's
There were even reports — although impossible to confirm — of fighting in the streets of Kandahar, the Taliban's birthplace.
"It is time for the rest of Afghanistan — particularly the ethnic groups in the south — to join up the uprising against the Taliban and throw off their oppressive rule," British Prime Minister Tony Blair said in London. "The sooner they act, the greater the benefit for all the people of Afghanistan."
harsh five-year regime.
ple of Afghanistan.
The Taliban is "in retreat virtually all over the country." Vice President Dick Cheney said in Washington. This, he said, was "a very good beginning to what's likely to be a long struggle" which will end only with the capture of Osama bin Laden and the destruction of his al-Qaida terrorist network.
President Bush launched airstrikes against Afghanistan on Oct. 7 after the Taliban refused to surrender bin Laden, sought in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Data obtained from flight box
The Associated Press
NEW YORK—Crash investigators said yesterday that they were managing to get information from the flight data recorder of American Flight 587, despite damage to the black box
Marion Blakey, chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said the manufacturer was able to repair the device and data was being looked at by investigators.
The flight data recorder that could provide clues to Monday's mysterious crash, including why the tail fin tore away shortly after takeoff.
Both of the plane's engines have been recovered and taken to a hangar at Kennedy International Airport, where the plane took off Monday morning.
The data recorder monitors nearly 200 separate functions in the european-made jetliner,
Three minutes after takeoff, the plane began shedding parts and nose-dived into a Queens neighborhood, killing 265 people. Authorities have not ruled out any cause, but say all signs point to a mechanical failure.
The scorched and battered data recorder, one of the plane's two "black boxes," was recovered Tuesday. It was repaired by L-3 Communications, its manufacturer in Sarasota, Fla.
including rudder movements.
In particular, investigators hope the flight data will shed light on why the vertical stabilizer, or tail fin, sheared away.
The tail fin was fished out of Jamaica Bay on Monday, a short distance from the crash site; the rudder was found nearby on Tuesday. The rudder, which is supported by the tail fin, controls the plane's turns from side to side.
The 27-foot-tall tail fin was ripped off the fuselage cleanly, as if it had been sliced by a knife. David Stempler, president of the Air Travelers Association, said he and several pilots he spoke to were struck by the sight.
One possibility investigators are considering is that the Airbus A300 broke apart after hitting turbulence from a plane taking off before it. The pilots on Flight 587 mentioned hitting wake turbulence, which is believed to have contributed to other deadly airline crashes.
photograph. "It's as if you had a model of an airplane and you just snapped the stabilizer off." he said. "It's really shocking and surprising."
Blakey said Flight 587 apparently took off one minute and 45 seconds after a Japan Airlines jumbo jet — less than the two-minute window that is the standard amount of time between takeoffs.
NATION
Tobacco companies won't have to pay for medical tests
WHEELING, W.Va. - Jurors rejected a lawsuit yesterday that sought to force four tobacco companies to pay for annual medical tests for 250,000 healthy West Virginia smokers.
St. Vincent
The six-person jury, nearly all of them former smokers, said people with a five-year, pack-a-day habit had an increased risk of disease but didn't need medical monitoring.
Jurors also concluded that cigarettes were not a defective product and manufacturers were not negligent in designing, making or selling them.
the lawsuit was the first of its kind to be tried in the United States.
R. J. Reynolds attorney Jeff Furr said he believed the verdict showed that jurors were impressed with the research tobacco companies had done to try to reduce the hazards of smoking.
reduce the risky "It a recognition by this jury that cigarettes are risky, but everyone knows they are risky, and the companies have done all they can to make them less risky." Furr said.
Scott Segal, an attorney representing the smokers, said jurors might have been swayed by the fact that the monitoring technology was relatively new.
Segaal also said no decision had been made whether to appeal.
WORLD
Steamy sex scenes excavated at ancient city bathhouse site
ROME — Archaeologists have unveiled another corner of ancient Pompeii, and this time it is an eyeful: a bathhouse with a unisex dressing room whose lockers sport erotic sex scenes.
Italian officials inaugurated the new addition to the sprawling ancient city yesterday. Pompelli was buried by ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79, and the archaeological site near Naples is one of Italy's biggest tourist attractions.
Much of ancient Pompeii is still being excavated. Nearly a half-century ago archaeologists uncovered the remains of the thermal bathhouse, which featured a marvel of plumbing for those times: a swimming pool heated to a constant temperature.
Starting next month, the new discovery will be open to the public. In addition to a sauna room and pools for washing in hot and cold water, tourists will be able to see an ancient version of lockers — chests to store their clothes while dipping in the pools.
Archaeologists said there was only one changing room, likely used by both sexes.
Associated Press
ON THE RECORD
ON CAMPUS
A 28-year-old KU student reported damage to a vehicle between 6:50 p.m. Monday and 7:45 a.m. Tuesday in the 2400 block Lawrence Street, Lawrence police said. Damage to the front passenger window was estimated at $200.
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 Iowa streets. Contact Clay or Tony at 843-7099 or at claveng@ku.edu.
Campus Crusade for Christ will meet at tonight in UMW Hawkway, Contact John litty at 979-6488.
- Ecumenical Christian Ministries and ENIWIROs will serve a vegetarian lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today in the ECM building, located at 1204 Dread Ave, one block north of the Kansas Union. The lunch is prepared by student volunteers and non-vegarians are welcome. Contact Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
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KU Karate Kobudo Club will have practice from 8:30 to
10:30 tonight in racquetball court No. 15 in Robinson
Gymnasium. Contact Hannah Reynolds at 312-3419.
A 20-year-old KU student reported the theft of two Hubble-Micro lighters between 4 a.m. and 4 p.m. Sunday from a residence in the 1500 block of Sigma Nu Place, Lawrence police said. The spotlights were valued at $1,000.
KJ Young Democrats will meet and hear from guest speaker Barbara Ballard at 8:30 tonight at the Walnut Room in the Kansas Union. Contact Nora Bielat at 393-1784.
University Career and Employment services will sponsor an Education Career Fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today at the Kansas Union Ballroom. Contact Kent McAnally at 864-767-767.
The Multicultural Resource Center and First Nation Student Association will sponsor a discussion entitled "The Value of the Wetlands" at 8 tonight at the Centennial Room in the Kansas Union.
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