2A - THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS IN BRIEF
MONDAY,OCT.15,2001
CORRECTION
A story in Thursday's Kansan contained an error because of misinformation from a source. The Campus All-Stars, who campaigned Wednesday for freshman class officer positions, have greek sponsorship from Chi Omega, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Delta Theta and Pi Beta Phi.
CAMPUS
Auschwitz escapee to speak of time in Nazi death camp
Rudolph Vrba, an escape from Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II, will visit the University of Kansas today and tomorrow.
He will be part of a discussion about his escape and report at 3:30 today at the Max Kade Center for German-American studies. Vrba will give a lecture called "War, Morality, and Deception: An Auschwitz Perspective with Rudolph Vrba" at 8 p.m. tomorrow at the Spencer Museum of Art.
Vrba, born in Czechoslovakia, was sent to Auschwitz in 1942 and remained there for almost two years. He wrote a report after his escape detailing the conditions inside Auschwitz and the mass murders in the gas chambers. Co-written with Alfred Wetzel, the report was the earliest account of the Holocaust to reach the Allies.
Both events are co-sponsored by the Max Kade Center, the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, the center for European Studies, the Humanities and Western Civilization Program, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Hillel Foundation.
— Eve Lamborn
STATE
Church pays property taxes on Rev. Fred Phelps' truck
TOPEKA—Westboro Baptist Church, where the Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. is pastor, paid $1,594.76 in back property taxes on Phelps' 1995 pickup truck Friday for the first time, as courts ruled the truck should not be tax exempt.
The church claimed that the truck was an extension of its property and should be exempt from taxes.
The truck's tax-exempt status has been stripped by the Kansas Board of Tax Appeal, and that decision was upheld by the Kansas Supreme Court when it denied review of the case in May 2000.
Shawnee County Treasurer Rita Cline had ordered her staff not to renew the blue truck's vehicle tags until the sum was paid.
was paid.
The taxes were paid "to follow the scriptural admonition to obey the rules and laws of man," church officials said in statement. The statement said the church is preparing civil rights litigation against the governmental agencies and officials involved in the case.
officials involved the truck, often seen around Topeka carrying the pastor's picket signs — most notably those making clear the church's stance against homosexuality.
nonsexuality. Cline, a Republican candidate for governor, had said a tax warrant would be issued against the church if it did not pay by Oct.16.
pay by Oct. 10.
The church has said Cline was targeting them only to win support for her political career.
The Associated Press
NATION&WORLD
Three more New Yorkers exposed to anthrax
The Associated Press
NEW YORK—A police officer and two lab technicians involved in detecting the case of anthrax in an NBC employee are being treated with antibiotics for exposure to the bacteria, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said yesterday.
"When they were tested, minuscule spores were found." Giuliani said at a news conference.
The mayor emphasized that exposure to the spores does not necessarily mean infection and said the three are expected to be fine. Their identities were not released.
"They are being treated," he said. "This does not mean they have anthrax."
Giuliani said the police officer who retrieved an envelope containing anthrax at NBC on Friday was found to have the bacteria in his nose, as did one lab technician. Another
her face, Grumian said. The three New York anthrax exposures bring to 12 the number of people around the nation who either have anthrax or have been exposed to the bacteria.
lab technician was found to have a spore on her face, Giuliani said.
The three in New York were exposed to the disease while working on the anthrax case in which the assistant to NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, Erin O'Connor, 38, was exposed. O'Connor's condition was diagnosed as an anthrax infection in the skin. She is expected to fully recover.
to fully recover.
The anthrax scare began last week when a photo editor for The Sun, a supermarket tabloid in Boca Raton, Fla., died of the inhaled form of the bacteria, the first death caused by pulmonary anthrax in the United States in 25 years.
Bus crash leaves three dead
The Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. — A school bus that crashed while returning from a high school band competition, killing three people and injuring more than 30, had veered off the road to avoid a swerving tour bus, students on board told police.
People aboard the tour bus may not have known there was an accident, Dunning said.
known there was the school bus was in critical condition and had not spoken with investigators.
The school bus crashed through a guard rail and plunged 60 feet into a creek on Saturday, killing Benjamin Prescott and Ian Koehler, both 14, and Tracy Kohlmeier, 40, the mother
of another band member. Two people were in critical condition yesterday. Eight were in serious condition, and 22 others were treated at hospitals and released.
of another band member.
others were treated a better Paul Matulka, 14, who plays the cymbals, said he was listening to his compact disc player when the bus began to go off the road. The next thing he knew, the bus was on the ground and filling with water, he said.
"My foot was caught under the seat, so I freed that and stood there for five seconds, the wind was knocked out of me," Matulka said.
Despite three fractured vertebrae, he climbed through an emergency exit, Matulka said.
Thirty-six people were on the bus, which was the first of three taking the Seward High School band home after a competition at Burke High School. Seward is about 60 miles southwest of Omaha.
Escaped Texas convict caught authorities search for two more
NATION
DALLAS — The third of five inmates who escaped from a Texas jail was apprehended Saturday night. Authorities were still searching for the other two, who were believed to have a hostage with them.
believed to have Brian Riley, 27, was arrested at a home in Fannin County, about 30 miles east of the jail, Grayson County Sheriff Keith Gary said. Two others were caught Friday at a horse stable.
horse stab:
"There were some folks there who were harboring Riley, and they may face charges themselves," Gary said.
and child tape, authorized by The men jimmed the locks on their cell doors at the Grayson County Jail, crawled through the ventilation system and tunneled their way out through a dirt floor in the basement, leaving behind wadded-up sheets and newspapers in their bunks.
these services.
All five inmates had been jailed on various charges including assault, kidnapping and child rape, authorities said.
China to establish air police in response to terror attacks
BEIJING — China is creating a 2,000-member police force to fly aboard its airlines, prompted by terror attacks in the United States, a state newspaper reported yesterday.
yesterday. The aviation police will replace the private security guards who fly on many Chinese carriers, the Beijing Youth Daily said. Citing unidentified sources, it said the new force was being formed by the Civil Aviation Authority of China, the country's airline regulator.
A man who answered the phone at CAAC yesterday couldn't confirm the report and said no one else was available.
The measure, if confirmed, would be among a series of steps taken by China after terrorists on Sept. 11 hijacked jetliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Center and the Foreign Office Chinese airline offices in Hong Kong were ordered earlier this month not to sell tickets to passengers from the Middle East and Pakistan. Chinese carriers have canceled their flights to Pakistan and the Middle East.
The Associated Press
■ The Black Student Union will meet at 7:30 on tour at the Pioneer room in the Burge Union. Contact Mark Dunnea at 864-3984.
ON CAMPUS
Tae Kwon Do club will meet from 6:30 to 8tonight in 207 Robinson. Contact Greg Isaac at 749-4649.
O. 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 812-2090.
KU Karate Kobudo Club will have practice from 8:30 to 10:30 tonight at racquetball court No.15 in Robinson Gymnasium. Contact Hannah Reynolds at 312-3419.
Vietnam Veterans for Academic Reform is sponsoring a television
show from 7:30 to 8 tonight on cable channel 19. Contact Leonard Magruder at 843-3737.
Freshman-Sophomore Advising Center will have an informational advising session today for new freshmen and transfer students in pre-medicine from 3:30 to 4:20 p.m. at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union and for new freshmen and transfer students in all majors from 5:30 to 6:20 p.m. in 4019 Wescoe.
Contact Gloria Flores at 864-2834.
The Office of Student Financial Aid is awarding federal work-study funds for the 2001-2002 academic year. Stop by the OSFA from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in 50 Strong Hall, apply online at www.ku.edu/~ofasa or contact Stephanie Covington at 864-5492.
ON THE RECORD
A witness reported a hit-and-run accident in the Ellsworth parking lot at about midnight Friday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A witness saw a black sports car hit a parked vehicle and leave the scene. The Public Safety Office located the car by its license plate, in the Lied Center parking lot. The transfer paint that was found on the vehicle was consistent with that of the damaged car. The Public Safety Office contacted the suspect, a KU student, and he admitted to hitting the car previously. The student was cited for failure to report
an accident and for failure to report striking an unattended vehicle.
A 19-year-old KU student was arrested Thursday on charges of possession of marijuana, first offense, and possession of drug paraphernalia, Lawrence police said. He was released on $1,000 bail
said. He was released on $10,000 in a A20-year-old KU student reported damage to a theft from a vehicle between 11:11 p.m. Thursday and 11:54 a.m. Friday in the 900 block of West 23rd Street, Lawrence police said. Damage to the rear passenger window was valued at $150. Items
taken were valued at $455.
taken were valued at $435.
A 22-year-old KU student reported the theft of a lost or mislaid cell phone Thursday around the 400 and 600 blocks of West 14th Street, Lawrence police said. The Samsung phone was estimated at $200.
prince was a student.
A 20-year-old KU student reported a theft from a vehicle between Oct. 7 and 4 p.m. Wednesday in the 1200 block of West Campus Road, Lawrence police said. A compact disc player and other items stolen were estimated at $2,424.
A 22-year-old KU student reported damage to and theft from a 1997 Jeep Cherokee between 1:30 and 8 a.m. Oct. 4 in the 3100 block of West 22nd Street, Lawrence police said. Damage to a window was estimated at $280. A radar detector was valued at $80.
A 21-year-old KU student reported a theft from a vehicle between 11:30 p.m. Oct.7 and 8 a.m. Oct.8 in the 1300 block of West 23rd Street, Lawrence police said. An Aiwa stereo and CDs were estimated at $920.
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