2A • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS IN BRIEF
TUESDAY,OCT.2,2001
CORRECTION
A caption in yesterday's Kansan was incorrect. The picture showed a Wichita State volleyball player, who was actually identified as a Colorado defender. Kansas played Colorado on Saturday.
CAMPUS
Student assaulted at gas station by two unidentified males
A 20-year-old KU student was the victim of an attempted robbery and a battery yesterday morning at Conoco Break Place, 2330 Iowa St., said Sgt. Mike Pattrick.
The student filled her car with gasoline and went into the building to pay when she realized she didn't have any money. As she returned to her car to retrieve money, she was approached by two unidentified males who asked her for change, Patrick said. She told the men she didn't have any change. The men then physically assaulted her.
physical. The victim said she was hit in the face a couple of times. She suffered bruises on the chin and lip and got a black right eye.
She said she went to the hospital where she was treated and released.
Patrick said the police were still looking for the suspects.
— Courtney Craigmile
Jaywalker damages police car and challenges officers to duel
A 25-year-old male was arrested Saturday morning after damaging a police vehicle in the 1000 block of Massachusetts Street, said Sgt. Mike Pattrick.
Asa Collier and some friends were jay walking across Massachusetts Street in front of an unmarked police vehicle around 2 a.m. Saturday, Patrick said. The officers in the vehicle were not in uniform. Collier slapped the vehicle and taunted the officers, calling them to step of the vehicle to fight.
to fight. Patrick said the officers requested Collier take his hands off the vehicle. At that time, Collier assumed a fighting stance, and one officer stepped out the vehicle, identifying himself to Collier.
Collier pushed the officer. He was placed in handcuffs and continued to kick the vehicle.
He was on charges of disorderly conduct, criminal damage and interference with police duties.
Damage to the vehicle was estimated at $499.
Courtney Craigmile
Students arrested for charging for cups at two weekend parties
Thirteen KU students were issued citations for operating an open saloon this weekend.
weekend.
Plainclothes police officers attended two parties, one in the 2700 block of Grand Circle Saturday morning and one in the 800 block of Ohio Street Sunday morning. They found that party-goers were charged for cups that could be used to consume a cereal malt beverage, said Sgt. Mike Patrick. According to city code, it is illegal to charge for alcohol or containers to consume alcohol without a proper license.
About 200 people were at the party Saturday. Fifty were at the party Sunday.
Police seized four kegs Saturday and five kegs Sunday, Patrick said.
Plainclothes officers spent the weekend enforcing city alcohol codes, Patrick said.
Courtney Craigmile
New York police to return to testifying in trials
NEW YORK—Few criminal trials have taken place in the city since the attack on the World Trade Center because the Police Department, stretched to maintain high security, could not free up officers to testify.
That should change this week.
The Associated Press
In a sign that the city is inching toward business as usual, the department was ordered to make its officers available to the courts starting yesterday.
Judge Jonathan Lippman, New York state's chief administrative judge, said some criminal trials that were underway at the time of the Sept. 11 attacks had proceeded, but only a very few had begun since then. Court officials had no firm statistics but estimated that only 10 percent of the normal number of cases had been heard since the attack.
In a typical week, court officials say, felony trials would number in the low hundreds citywide.
Prosecutors said the suspension of criminal trials had created slight backlogs, and defense lawyers said it had forced some defendants to stay in jail much longer than they would have otherwise.
"Obviously it's a problem in that we do have cases that have to be tried right now."
without the system being damaged. The day after the terrorist attacks, Gov. George Pataki issued an executive order suspending speedy-trial rules that compel prosecutors to bring a case by a certain deadline. Unless the governor renews or modifies the order, it will expire Friday, Oct. 12.
Lippman said. "The cases languish. They back up other cases. We couldn't go too long without the system buckling."
The suspension of criminal trials was just one aspect of an unprecedented citywide crisis after the attacks left more than 5,500 dead or missing.
"I don't think in the 20th century there was any total disruption to municipal government such as there has been as a result of the World Trade Center," said Thomas Repetto, an author and expert on New York City police and criminal justice.
The attacks on the trade center have crippled the criminal justice system in many ways.
Many lawyers who were based in the trade center or the immediate area lost their offices and files. Nearly one in five lawyers in the city was displaced by the blast.
In Manhattan, the courts and the district attorney's office, situated just blocks from the twin towers, are still without full phone service.
CAMPUS
Professors debate government reaction to Auschwitz Report
Carl Strikwerda, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences, and Louis Frydman, professor emeritus, debated the relevance of a report concerning Auschwitz and how Hungary reacted to the activities taking place at the camp.
The focus of the debate was the Auschwitz Report written by Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzel, two men who escaped Auschwitz after almost two years.
The report explained the workings and operations of the camp. A copy was released to the ally governments and the Hungarian government, a government that supplied many of the Jews in the camp.
Strikwerda and Frydman came to the conclusions that once the report was released, not enough preventative action was taken by any government.
The debate was sponsored by the Max Kade Center for German-American studies, 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, the Hillel Foundation and the Hall Center for the Humanities. It is the first in a series of three presentations on Vrba and Auschwitz.
Courtney Craigmile
ON THE RECORD
A21-year-old Kansas City, Mo., resident was arrested for possession of cocaine and driving under the influence at 19th Terrace and Nai-smith Road between 4:43 and 4:44 a.m. Sunday, according to a KU Public Safety Office report. A public safety officer observed the subject nearly collide with a vehicle stopped at a stop sign. He then drove around the vehicle and made an illegal right turn. After being stopped, the subject passed out, and the officer had difficulty waking him. He failed his preliminary drug tests, and 2.5 grams of cocaine was found and seized. He was then arrested and transported to Douglas County Jail.
A 20-year-old KU student reported possession of a fake driver's license in Grace Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall at 2:30 a.m. Sunday, according to a KU Public Safety Office report. An 18-year-old KU student was cited for unlawful use of a driver's license.
A 19-year-old KU student reported criminal damage to a vehicle in the Lewis Hall parking lot between 8 and 11 a.m. Friday, according to a KU Public Safety Office report. Two small scratches were on the right side of the vehicle. The damages were estimated at $400.
A 20-year-old KU student reported criminal damage to a vehicle in the Burge Union parking lot between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Friday, according to a KU Public Safety Office report. Two tail lights were destroyed. The damage was estimated at $100.
An 18-year-old KU student reported criminal damage and burglary in the Oliver Hall parking lot between 11:30 a.m. Sept. 24 and 8:35 a.m. Thursday, according to a KU Public Safety Office report. The driver's window was destroyed. The damages were estimated at $200.
An 18-year-old KU student reported burglary and theft from his vehicle in Oliver Hall parking lot between 8 p.m. Sept. 25 and 12:15 p.m. Thursday, according to a KU Public Safety Office report. A compact disc player was taken from the car. The stolen item was valued at $250.
A 21-year-old KU student reported battery in the Corbin Hall parking lot between 3:20 and 3:30 a.m. Friday, according to a KU Public Safety Office report. Two female family members got into a fight in the parking, and one drove off under the influence of alcohol. She then struck a parked car. There were minor injuries. The female was cited for battery, driving under the influence and duty upon striking a vehicle.
ence and duty upon striking a vehicle.
A 25-year-old KU student reported domestic battery at Stouffer Place between 3 and 3:10 a.m. Friday, according to a KU Public Safety Office report. There were no injuries.
A 19-year-old KU student reported three forged personal checks and the theft of miscellaneous items on Sept. 9, according to a Lawrence police report. The value of the checks was unknown. The items were valued at $85.95.
A 23-year-old KU student reported damage to and theft from his vehicle between 8 p.m. Tuesday and 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in the 2400 block of West 25th Street, according to a Lawrence police report. The CD player was valued at $300. Damage to the vehicle console was estimated at $150.
22-year old KU student reported damage to the side mirror of a 2000 Pontiac Grand Prix between Friday night and Saturday morning in the 800 block of Illinois Street, according to a Lawrence police report. Damage was estimated at $100.
A 24-year-old KU student reported damage to the windshield of a limousine between 3 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday in the west alley of the 1100 block of Tennessee Street, according to a Lawrence police report. Damage was unknown.
A21-year-old KU student reported damage to the driver's side mirror of a 1989 Honda between 5 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m. Saturday in the 800 block of Ohio Street, according to a Lawrence police report. Damage was estimated at $100.
A 21-year-old KU student reported damage to a 1994 Ford Explorer Sunday morning in the 500 block of Wisconsin Street, according to a Lawrence police report. Damage was estimated at $100.
A 22-year-old KU student reported damage to a vehicle between 2 and 8 a.m. Saturday in the 2000 block of West Sixth Street, according to a Lawrence police report. Damage to the door frame and lock was estimated at $200.
Name and Job Number
A 20-year-old KU student was arrested
Saturday on charges of operating under
the influence and a minor in possession of
alcohol, according to a Lawrence police
report. He was released on $600 bail.
report. He was released on sick- **A 20-year-old KU student was arrested** Saturday on charges of interference with police duties, according to a Lawrence police report. He was released on $150 bail.
ON CAMPUS
Hispanic-American Leadership Organization will have its weekly meeting at 6 p.m. today at the Frontier Room in the Burge Union. Contact Michael Luna at 760-4852 or Sarah Zaragoza at 312-2134.
Asian American Student Union will meet at 4:30 p.m. today on the fourth-floor lobby at the Kansas University. Contact Jerry Wang at 550-5061 or asu@ku.edu.
KU Men's and Women's Ultimate Frisbee Clubs will meet at 4:30 p.m. today at the Shenk Sports Complex, 23rd and Iowa streets. Contact Clay or Tony at 843-7099 or at clayed@ku.edu.
SUA committees will meet tonight at the Kansas Union. Live Music meets at 6 p.m. in the Walnut room; Forums meets at 8:30 p.m. in the Oread room; Feature Films meets at 6 p.m. in Alcove D; Fine Arts meets at 6 p.m. in Alcove B; Spectrum Films meets at 7 p.m. in Alcove B; Recreation meets at 7 p.m. in the Walnut room; Public Relations meets at 7 p.m. in the Oread room; Special Events meets at 7:30 p.m. in Alcove D. Contact SUA at 864-7469.
The Freshmen-Sophomore Advising Center will have an informational advising session required for new freshmen and transfer students in prebusiness from 2:30 to 3:20 p.m. today in 100 Stauffer-Flint Hall. Contact Gloria Flores at 864-2834.
Freshmen-Sophomore Advising Center will have an informational advising session required for new freshmen and transfer students for all majors from 4 to 4:50 p.m. today in the Big 12 Room at the Kansas Union, Contact Gloria Flores at 864-2834.
There will be a blood drive benefiting the American Red Cross and the Community Blood Center each day this week. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today in the Kansas Union Ballroom and from noon to 6 p.m. today in McColllum Hall; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union Ballroom and noon to 6 p.m. tomorrow at McColllum Hall; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday at Allen Fieldhouse and noon to 6 p.m. Thursday at McColllum Hall; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday in Allen Fieldhouse and from noon to 6 p.m. Friday at Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall. Contact Amanda Storm at 786-0130.
The Hall Center will have a Gender Seminar today from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Hall Center Conference room. The seminar, "Deformed Desires," will be presented by Anita Superson from the University of Kentucky. Contact the center at 864-4798.
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The2001 Takeru Higuchi Memorial Lectures
Scientific Lecture
Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Genetics and Aging Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital
Scientific Lecture "Alzheimer's Disease: From Genes to Drugs in This Decade"
9:30 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 4
130 Budig Hall
The University of Kansas
Public Lecture and Award Presentation "Decoding Darkness:
The Search for the Genetic Causes of Alzheimer's Disease"
5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4
Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
The University of Kansas
Sponsored by the Takeru Higuchi Memorial Lecture Fund
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