2A - THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWSINBRIEF
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MONDAY, SEPT. 17, 2001
CAMPUS
KU student reports assault in multicultural bias offense
A KU student reported assault and battery in a parking garage on 15th St. and Irving Hill Road between 7:30 and 8 p.m. Wednesday, a KU Public Safety Office report said.
The student was walking to his car when two males behind him began talking loudly about the terrorist attacks, according to the report.
The two males then said, "They should know when they're not welcome. They should know when to go home." Then one of the males nudged the student and said, "If I were you, I would watch myself." The student was not struck. The report was filed as a multicultural bias offense.
— Michelle Burhenn
Student Senate taking applications to fill jobs
Student Senate is taking applications to fill vacant senator positions. Open positions in Senate include Graduate, Off-Campus, Nunemaker, and Business
Anyone applying for a spot as a Nunemaker Senator must be a freshman or sophomore in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences with less than 60 credit hours. Students interested in becoming a Graduate or Business Senator must be currently enrolled in the school, and Off-Campus Senator applicants must live off campus. Applications are available in the Senate office this week.
Ben Burton, Student Senate Executive Chairman, said he would like to have the positions filled by the next full Senate meeting on Wednesday, September 27.
LAWRENCE Luke Date
Luke Daley
LAWRENCE Groups catching, tagging Mexico-bound butterflies
Monarch butterflies will be on the move in coming days, providing a welcome distraction from the news of the past week.
The monarch migration will peak tomorrow and Wednesday, according to Orley "Chip" Taylor, professor of entomology at the University of Kansas. He said people should see one of the largest migrations in several years.
Taylor attributed the larger population to good spring conditions and fewer fire ants. He said the ants liked to prey on the monarch eggs and larvae.
KU's Monarch Watch, a 10-year-old program, aids researchers in monitoring the butterflies' migration patterns. The butterflies travel to the mountains in Mexico for the winter, where researchers track them.
The Jayhawk Audubon Society has helped sponsor the event for two years.
"It's particularly important with the events this past week to do something fun and rewarding," said Alison Reber, the society's president.
On Saturday, a large group of students from Olathe East High School spent 30 minutes tagging 400 butterfly wings with a circular sticker with an identification number.
Alison Palermo, 15, an Olathe East 10th-grader, said she caught about 10 monarchs in her net.
"They're so high in the trees, and it's hard to catch them,"she said. "I've never seen so many butterflies in my life."
The Associated Press
NATION&WORLD
Macedonian government to test a shaky peace
The Associated Press
TEARCE, Macedonia — Putting peace efforts to the test, Defense Minister Vlado Buckovski yesterday said his government planned to start returning Macedonians who fled real or feared violence to ethnic-Albanian populated regions next week.
An outbreak of violence, however, reflected continued ethnic tensions. Police reported a 45-minute firefight between the villages of Semsevo and Zilce.northeast of Tetovo.
Yesterday's battle came just hours after Defense Minister Vlado Buckovski visited nearby villages northeast of Tetovo to outline plans for the return of people displaced from the area.
Despite occasional violence, Macedonia's peace plan appears on track. NATO is on
Buckovski said efforts should begin Tuesday, with the first group returning to the village of Tearce, just north of Tetovo and an area of repeated clashes during the six-month ethnic Albanian insurrection.
schedule in its mission to collect weapons the rebels are willing to surrender.
But the peace process could still be derailed. Brankan Crvenkovski, leader of the pro-western Social Democratic Alliance of Macedonia, warned Saturday that his party could pull out of the fragile government coalition if parliament approves a proposal to hold a referendum on whether to approve constitutional concessions to the ethnic Albanians.
A discussion of the referendum proposal is set for Monday. The motion by the small New Democracy Party needs a simple majority of 61 votes in the 120-seat parliament to pass.
Bridge rescue work delayed
The Associated Press
PORT ISABEL, Texas — Safety concerns yesterday delayed the work to recover victims missing since barges smashed a section out of a major bridge and dropped cars 85 feet into a shipping channel, killing at least five people.
The impact of the barges hitting a piling knocked two adjacent 80-foot segments of the Queen Isabella Causeway into the Laguna Madre channel early Saturday.
A third 80-foot section of the bridge collapsed Saturday afternoon, suspending recovery work indefinitely, said Adrian Rivera, spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety.
The 2.37-mile-long span, the state's longest, is the only bridge leading to South Padre, a Spring Break beach destination that draws crowds of up to 200,000 students.
"[The collapse] just cuts the island off from
everywhere," South Padre Island Mayor Ed Cyganlewicz said. "Tourism is our only industry."
Tourists were being taken to the mainland by ferry, leaving their cars behind. A car ferry was brought in early yesterday from Port Aransas, but it was not expected to be in service until today because a dock had to be built to accommodate vehicles, said Adrian Rivera, spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety.
An unknown number of people were missing in the 50-foot-deep Laguna Madre, officials said. Thirteen people were rescued.
Gov. Rick Perry told reporters that crews were working first to stabilize the bridge and secondly to reopen shipping on the Intracoastal Waterway.
"We don't want to lose another life because we moved too fast to recover," the governor said.
Topeka man convicted of involuntary manslaughter
STATE
TOPEKA, Kan. — A Topeka man was convicted of felony involuntary manslaughter in a traffic accident that killed a Nebraska couple.
Jarrel Lantz Hafner, 25, was also convicted by a Shawnee County District Court jury of driving on a revoked driver's license, a misdemeanor.
Hafner's sentencing was set for Oct. 26.
Jurors deliberated for more than eight hours on Thursday and Friday before convicting Hafner for the Sept. 1, 2000 deaths of Daniel Livingston, 40, and his wife, Morella, 42, both of Omaha, Neb.
Hafner remains free on bond but he was ordered to appear in Shawnee County District Court tomorrow for a hearing to decide whether bond will be revoked.
He had a history of diabetes-related traffic accidents before the collision on Interstate 70.
NATION
LINCOLN, Neb. — University of Nebraska-Lincoln has been the stage of a conflict between faculty and the university's athletic department.
Rescheduled game stirs clash at University of Nebraska
Evening class students and teachers and football fans will be scrambling for scarce parking during the rescheduled Nebraska-Rice football game Thursday night.
The 6:30 p.m. CDT game will not only cause parking difficulties, it will also create a security dilemma, because campus buildings are normally locked during football games to keep fans from wandering in. Because of evening classes, those building will have to remain open.
UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman said he expected the university to have an announcement on the matter today. He said administrators were also working with individual faculty to find alternative locations or times for classes and other solutions.
The Associated Press
ON THE RECORD
An 18-year-old KU student was arrested for driving under the influence in the Lied Center parking lot at 2:30 a.m. Friday, according to a KU Public Safety Office report. A public safety officer saw the student slumped over the driver's seat of his vehicle. The student was transferred to Douglas County Jail.
A 20-year-old KU student was arrested for failure to appear in court at Engel Road and Irving Hill Road, at 4.37 a.m. Friday, according to a KU Public Safety Office report. The student was stopped by a public safety officer for not stopping at a stop sign. When the officer checked for the student's name, a warrant was found and confirmed. He was transferred to Douglas County Jail.
A KU employee reported three suspicious young males near her apartment on Ellis Road, at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to a KU Public Safety Office report. The employee was at the cluster mailbox when she saw the three young males in front of her apartment. She went inside, locked
her door and heard someone try to enter her residence. The employee then saw a pair of legs run by a window toward the back of her apartment. She was concerned about her safety, because she is of Indian descent
A KU employee reported criminal damage to property and fireworks use in Jayhawker Towers between 3 and 3:05 a.m. Thursday, according to a KU Public Safety Office report. Burns on the floor and walls of an elevator were reported. The damages were valued at $150.
An 18-year-old KU student reported theft, burglary and criminal damage to property in an alley between Louisiana and Ohio streets, between midnight and 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to a KU Public Safety Office report. A vehicle's dome light and tinted window were damaged, valued at $350. A stereo and its installation kit were stolen, valued at $400.
ON CAMPUS
The Tae Kwon Do club will meet from 6:30 to 8 p.m. tonight in 207 Robinson. Contact Greg Isaac at 749-4649.
O. A.K.S. Nontraditional Students will have a brown bag lunch from 12 to 1:30 p.m.today at the Burge Union, Contact Joan Winston at 864-7317.
KU Green Party will meet at 8 p.m. tonight in the Regionalist Room at the Kansas Union. Contact Sarah Hoskinson at 838-9063.
Vietnam Veterans for Academic Reform will air a program at 7:30 p.m. tonight on cable channel 19. Contact Leonard Magruder at 843-3737.
Medical Ethics Club will have
their first meeting of the year at 6:30 p.m. tonight in the first floor conference room of Watkins Health Center. Contact Katherine at 842-6724.
iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. will play host to a variety of events each day this week. Contact Dion Jones at 841-2168 or 979-2209 or atjonedi@ncs.com for more information.
The Delta Upson Greg Wilkerson Memorial Football Tournament will take place Tuesday through Friday from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. and Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. at the YSI Athletic Fields. Contact Grant Thompson at (913) 579-5753 or Mike Metz at 218-4170 for more information.
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