2A - THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS IN BRIEF
WEDNESDAY,OCT.17,2001
CLARIFICATION
A story in Monday's Kansan needs clarification. In a story about the College Republicans, it was reported that the task force would make a decision about funding today. It will not. The task force itself will be decided today.
CAMPUS More than $4,000 stolen from Sigma Nu fraternity
The Douglas County Sheriff's Department and Lawrence Police Department are investigating the theft and forgery of three checks, for a total of $4,150, from the Nu chapter of Sigma Nu fraternity, said Lt. Kathy Tate of the sheriff's department.
Tate said Grant Eichhorn, board president of the Nu chapter, reported the theft of the check after noticing three suspicious entries on the account's bank statement.
The checks were believed to have been stolen between Sept. 4 and Monday, when the theft and forgery was reported, Tate said.
Tate said the sheriff's department had a suspect, but no arrests had been made.
Meade Kelley, president of Sigma Nu deferred all comment to Eichorn.
Eichorn also refused to comment.
Courtney Craigmile
Newspaper correspondent to speak at law school today
Pultzer Prize winner and New York Times Supreme Court correspondent Linda Greenhouse will give a lecture at 3:30 p.m. today in room 104 of Green Hall.
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The Judge Nelson Timothy Stephens Lecture, "The Supreme Court After Bush v. Gore," is open to the public.
Bush v. Gore Greenhouse has worked for the Times since 1968, and she started covering the Supreme Court in 1978. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for beat reporting for her coverage of the Supreme Court. She appears regularly on the PBS television show *Washington Week in Review*.
— Eve Lamborn
Jazz ensemble to perform tonight at the Lied Center
The University of Kansas Jazz Ensemble ble bands will perform a concert at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Lied Center.
Jazz Ensemble II, under the direction of Gary Holmes, will open the concert by performing pieces by artists Bob Brookmeyer, John Coltrane, David Springfield, Herbie Hancock and Rob McConnell.
McConnel. Jazz Ensemble I, directed by Dan Gailey, will perform with guest soloist Michael Hall, assistant professor of music, who plays the trombone. The group, composed of saxophones, trumpets, trombones and a rhythm section, will play selections by composers including Jim McNeely, Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins, J.J. Johnson and Clare Fischer.
General admission to the concert is $7,or $5 for students and senior citizens.
Eve Lamborn
NATION&WORLD
U.S., Pakistan pressures group to discuss replacing Taliban
The Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Afghan politicians, fighters from the hills, the elderly exking's men and even some dissident Taliban are meeting this weekend, under pressure from Pakistan and the United States, to try to agree on a broad-based, multiethnic government to replace the Taliban regime.
The fear in Washington, Islamabad and other capitals is that the U.S.-led military campaign might topple the Taliban before the opposition can agree on the makeup of a new government. That, in turn, could plunge the country into even deeper anarchy.
the country into ever deeper The political process needs to be placed on a fast track in order to forestall the possibility of a political vacuum," Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf warned yesterday after a meeting with Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Colm Power. "It should not lag behind the fast-moving events in the military field, nor should any attempt be made by any warring faction to impose itself on Afghanistan in the wake of the military strikes against the Taliban," he said.
If the air campaign is not curtailed, the Taliban may be weakened to the point that the front line north of Kabul will collapse with the alliance overrunning the city with or without international support.
"I hope they don't take Kabul," said Hedayat Amin Arsala, the king's representative who is in talks in Pakistan.
Pakistan, which maintained close ties to the Taliban until the Sept. 11 attacks, has urged Washington not to allow the northern alliance to take control, arguing that the largely ethnic minority movement would never be accepted by the Pashtun majority, which now are represented by the Taliban.
Ishaq Gailani, head of the Solidarity Movement of Afghanistan based in Peshawar, wants a future government in Afghanistan that includes neither Taliban nor northern alliance.
"Any government that includes either warring groups will fail," he said.
FBI says anthrax came by mail
The Associated Press
BOCA RATON, Fla. — The anthrax that contaminated a supermarket tabloid building in Florida probably arrived in a letter that was tossed in the trash and burned before investigators looked at it, the FBI said yesterday.
yesterday. FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela said investigators reached the conclusion after finding anthrax Monday in a Boca Raton postal building that handled mail for tabloid publishing company American Media Inc.
The inhaled form of anthrax killed Sun tabloid photo editor Robert Stevens, 63 earlier this month and is believed to have infected a co-worker from the American Media mailroom.
taining anthrax were sent from Trenton, N.J., on Sept. 18 — one to NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw in New York, the other to the Washington office of Sen. Tom Daschle, D.S.D. Brokaw's assistant has become infected with the skin form of anthrax, a less serious condition than the Florida cases.
serious condition and Postal inspectors say the letters could have started at any of 46 mail facilities before arriving at the Trenton post office, where two employees were cleared of having anthrax by health authorities yesterday.
Authorities said two other letters con
Postal workers who had come in contact with American Media mail have been given nasal swabs that came back negative for anthrax, postal inspectors said. Thirty-one are taking antibiotics as a precaution.
CAMPUS
Grant for Web site to help KU celebrate Langston Hughes
Activities related to the centennial birthday celebration of writer Langston Hughes this February have been extended by recent grants.
The University of Kansas received a $40,500 planning grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant will provide money to develop a Web site, www.kuce.org/hughes, which will help organize activities for the celebration.
Maryemma Graham, professor of English, will co-direct the planning grant project, "Speaking of Rivers: Taking poetry to the People," with Bill Tuttle, professor of American Studies.
In addition to the planning grant, the city of Lawrence made a grant of $7,000 for the Langston Hughes Symposium, scheduled for Jan. 31 and Feb. 7-10, 2002.
The symposium will celebrate the life and the works of Hughes, who died in 1967 and grew up in Lawrence.
Jeremy Clarkson
NATION
Deputies on leave after shooting man with knife up to 11 times
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - Six sheriff's deputies have been placed on administrative leave after the shooting death of a man with a knife.
Thomas Patton, 56, was killed outside his home Saturday as he approached Ventura County deputies with a knife. Deputies tried to subdue Patton with pepper spray and knock the fire from his hand before they fired as many as 11 bullets, authorities said.
the deputies were placed on leave Monday for at least three days. The district attorney's office is investigating allegations that the deputies overreacted and used excessive force.
sive force. "If the department is going to be criticized for protecting one of their own, then, I'm sorry, but I don't agree with that," sheriff's attorney Alan Wisotsky said.
Deputies responded to a domestic-violence call and found Patton's wife covered with bruises at a neighbor's home. She told authorities Patton hit her in the head with a remote control.
ON THE RECORD
A 21-year-old KU student reported the theft of a bicycle between 4:30 and 8:30 p.m. yesterday in the 700 block of Massachusetts Street, Lawrence police said. The bicycle was valued at $380.
A 20-year-old KU student was arrested Monday on charges of writing a worthless check for less than $500, Lawrence police said. He was released on $100 bond.
A 22-year-old KU student was arrested Monday on charges of possession of marijuana, first offense, and possession of drug paraphernalia, Lawrence police said. He was released on $500 bond.
A KU employee reported a theft of KU parking department property between 3 p.m. Oct. 5 and 8:30 a.m. Oct. 10 in Robinson Center parking lot, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A parking meter head was stolen. The meter was valued at $2000
A KU employee reported burglary and theft of another employee's property between 11 a.m. Oct. 10 and 9:30 a.m. Friday at Hiltop Child Development Center, the KU Public Safety Office said. A personal check and $10 were stolen. The stolen items were valued at $18.25.
A 21-year-old student reported theft, burglary and criminal damage to property in Grace Sellards Pearson-Corbion Hall parking lot between 4 p.m. Saturday and 12 p.m. Sunday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A detachable face compact disc player was stolen, and the keyhole and lock of the vehicle were damaged. The stolen item was valued at $200. The damaged property was valued at $250.
ON CAMPUS
Ecumenical Christian Ministries (ECM) will have a University forum from noon to 1 p.m. today at the ECM building, located at 1204 Oread, one block north of the Kansas Union. Contact Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
Ichthus will meet at 8 tonight at the big 12 room in the Kansas Union. Contact Marietta Liebengood at 979-1353.
OAKS Non-Traditional Students will have a brown bag lunch from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. today at Alcove C in the Kansas Union. Contact Joan Winston at 864-7317.
KU Chess Club will meet at 7 tonight at the Frontier Room in the Burge Union. Contact
Ateshi Shellove at 749-3834.
Environmental Studies Student Association will meet at 8 tonight at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union. Contact Clare Fuchs at clfuchs@ku.edu or visit www.ku.edu/-kuesp and click on the link, ESSA.
The Tae Tween Do club will meet from 6:30 to 8 ontight at 207 Robinson. Contact Greg Isaac at 749-4649.
The Office of Student Financial Aid is awarding federal work-study money for the 2001-2002 academic year. Stop by the OSFA from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 50 Strong Hall, apply online at wwwku.edu/~osfa or contact Stephanie Covington at 864-5492.
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