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NEWS
FRIDAY,OCT.12,2001
Police department displaying new digs to public
By Courtney Craigmile Kansan staff writer
The Lawrence Police' Department is showing off its new home, the Investigations and Training Center, 4820 W.15th St., from 4 to 6 p.m. today.
The center opened the first week of June, said Sgt. Mike Pattrick. It is the home of 40 full-time officers.
The building is about 14,000 square feet, twice the size of the police department at the Law Enforcement Center, 111 E 11th St. It houses the department's new training facility, detectives, the criminal analysis unit and the drug enforcement unit, all of which were in the original building.
Professional Service Industries, based in Lombard, Ill., owned the property until the city purchased it in October 1999.
Penny Construction renovated the building for the department
The Law Enforcement Center downtown also is under renovation.
Champion Builders, of Topeka, is the general contractor for that project.
Kenny Hartter, project manager, said construction began Feb. 5 and completion was expected around June 1, 2002.
The renovations include a two story addition with a basement to add more office space for the Lawrence Police Department.
Patrick said the new office space would be given to patrol supervisors. In the past, all supervisors shared one office. After renovation is complete, each supervisor will have a separate office.
Patrick said that the relocation of certain departments
opened up existing space within the building that would be used to expand the divisions that remain downtown: the records office, the patrol unit, the evidence division and inquiries/complaints/internal affairs.
Patrick said that having the department housed in two separate buildings shouldn't create any problems.
any project.
"There will be logistic challenges to it," he said. "But the added benefits of more workspace far outweigh the challenges."
Citizens can go to either building to file a report, Pattrick said, but the downtown center is the only one open 24 hours a day.
Contact Craigmile at 864-4810
The Law Enforcement Center, 111 E. 11th St., is under renovations for a two-story and basement addition that will add more office space for the Lawrence Police Department. An open house is from 4 to 6 p.m. today at the department's new building, the Investigations and Training Center, 4820 W. 15th St., which opened the first week of June.
OLIVIA SARI/KANSAN
Speaker urges understanding
By Luke Daley
Kansan staff writer
Two University of Kansas alumni are adjusting to life after witnessing the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. David Wilson and Carlos Tejada, 1996 and 1997 graduates, had moved to New York City to pursue their careers.
Wilson, a defense attorney for the New York City Law Department, said that he was supposed to get his picture taken with New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani two blocks from the World Trade Center on Sept. 11.
He said he had just gotten off the subway that morning when he heard the first plane hit the World Trade Center.
"I thought it was a subway crashing into another subway," said Wilson, a former reporter and editor for The University Daily Kansan.
When he reached the street across from the WTC towers, he
saw the result of the first airplane collision.
"I saw a smoking black object lodged in the building." Wilson said.
He realized the severity of what was happening after he had left his office building with other co-workers and heard a second "muffled boom."
Carlos Tejada, a former Kansan staff reporter, said that it was a good thing he didn't have to be at the Wall Street Journal that day. Instead he was packing for a vacation with his fiancée. His office building at the One World Financial Center, a building that he said would be quarantined until January because of excessive ash and other damage, is located caddy-corner to the WTC complex.
Tejada and his fiancée, Nora Sommers, looked outside his Brooklyn, N.Y., apartment window on Sept. 11 when he heard that the World Trade Center had
been hit by an airliner. From there, he said he witnessed both buildings engulfed in smoke and flames.
Sommers, who graduated from the University in 1997 from the School of Fine Arts, said that the attack took place only two miles from her and Tejada.
"All we had to do was look out of our bedroom window and see the two buildings on fire," Sommers said.
Since the attacks, Tejada said he and other Wall Street Journal employees had worked out of their homes and in a back-up newsroom in New Jersey.
Tejada said that a constant reminder of the terrorist attacks can be felt in New York whenever the wind shifts.
the white man.
"It smells like burnt plastic," Tejada said. "I don't think that people outside of New York are aware of that."
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By Eve Lamborn
Kansan staff writer
Jose Ramos-Horta, 1996 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, told about 500 people last night at the Kansas Union Ballroom that no country can stand by itself.
"We are all one humanity, one human race," he said. "Some have a nicer tan than others. That's the only difference between human beings."
He said this applied to the United States' role in international politics, especially in light of the Sept. 11 attacks.
right of the people
A native of East Timor, Ramos-Horta spoke out for his country's freedom, first from Portugal and then Indonesia. Despite being exiled from East Timor before Indonesia invaded the country in 1975, he continued to act as a spokesman for human rights and self-determination.
Likewise, Ramos-Horta said he supported limited intervention by the United States in Afghanistan, but he admitted he was uncomfortable.
"When we are confronted with the dilemma of war and peace, of freedom and tyranny, it is always disturbing to us," he said. "But we must always ask, 'What is the alternative?'"
Karen Keith, Tulsa, Okla., junior, said she admired Ramos-Horta's attitude.
"I thought he was very practical, completely unpretentious," she said.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Center for European Studies sponsored the event with today's announcement of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
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JOHN NOWAK/KANSAN
1996 Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta speaks to students and faculty last night in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Ramos-Horta became a human rights activist for East Timor after he was exiled from the country in 1975.
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English Alternative Theatre & Card Table Theatre present Two Death-Defying Acts By KU Playwrights!
Directed by Jeremy Auman Designed by Kaye Miller
and "Mourning Glorie" by Kirby Fields
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8 PM Oct. 12-13
11 PM Oct. 13
2:30 PM Oct. 14
Lawrence Arts Center Ninth & Vermont $5 General Admission at the Door
Participating Entries in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival