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SenEx favors tailgating plan
By Paul Smith Kansan staff writer
Senate Executive Committee members expressed concerns, but were generally supportive yesterday of allowing alcohol during tailgating before Kansas football games.
Reggie Robinson, counselor to Chancellor Robert Hemenway, solicited advice yesterday from SenEx during its first meeting of the semester.The committee is comprised of students, faculty and staff.
Hemenway and his staff are gathering opinions from University and city law enforcement about how he should decide the recent alcohol policy discussion.
He is expected to announce this week whether alcohol will be allowed outside Memorial Stadium before games.
Robinson said input had already been gathered from the Lawrence Police Department and City Manager Mike Wildgen, as well as from the KU Public Safety Office. All three organizations will be consulted further. Robinson said.
Dallas Rakesstraw, Student Senate representative to SenEx and Wichita junior, predicted that permitting alcohol would boost game attendance.
"Behind online enrollment, this is the issue the students want the most," he said.
Bud Hirsch, professor of English and SenEx member, said he was in favor of allowing alcohol, noting that he did not drink.
"I don't see anything wrong with fun," Hirsch said. "I don't think there's anything wrong with increasing attendance at football games."
Morris Faiman, professor of pharmacology and toxicology, did not come down on either side of the
Faculty discuss allowing alcohol
What happened: A representative of Chancellor Robert Hemenway yesterday heard the concerns of the Senate Executive Committee about allowing alcohol during tailgating at home football games. The committee supported the idea.
- What it means: Advocates of allowing alcohol at games say it would increase attendance. Hemenway wants to consult SenEx to gauge students, faculty and staff opinions.
What's next: Hemenway is expected to announce a decision before the end of the week.
issue, but encouraged a thorough examination of safety and control issues that would arise if alcohol were permitted.
"Some folks think it's a no-brainer," Robinson said. "Then, of course, I've heard some people say any consideration of this suggests we don't have a brain."
Robinson carried a notebook into the SenEx meeting to record concerns, which he said were wide-ranging.
"Every candidate we interviewed indicated they would have some interest in revisiting our current policy," said Robinson. "I'm sure this request is not peculiar to Al Bohl," he said.
Robinson said the alcohol issue was also brought up during the search for a new athletics director.
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Killed racer's case still open
The Associated Press
IRVINE, Calif. — Together they appeared to be an unbeatable team — the drag racing legend and the father of supercross dirt-bike competitions.
But when the partnership of Mickey Thompson, dubbed the Speed King, and Michael Goodwin, the rock n' roll promoterturned-bike racing enthusiast, failed, it set the stage for murder, authorities believe.
Thirteen years after Thompson and his wife were slain in the driveway of their suburban Los Angeles home, police say Goodwin remains a suspect.
The investigation intensified in recent months when the district attorney convened a grand jury, and police arrested Goodwin but released him hours after he appeared in a lineup.
Goodwin has long denied any involvement in the murders and said he was being pursued by police and prosecutors who had ties to Thompson's politically connected sister, a victims' rights advocate.
"They will say and do anything to get me," Goodwin said in a recent interview. "I believe they will probably indict me. But they are never going to prove it. I didn't do it."
Thompson, 59, and his wife, Trudy, 41, were found shot to death at their Bradbury home 15 miles east of Los Angeles in 1988.
From the beginning, investigators believed the slayings were part of a murder-for-hire plot because the killers left behind
$4,000 in cash and the thousands of dollars in jewelry that Trudy Thompson was wearing. Witnesses said they saw two men fleeing the area on bicycles.
"Mrs. Thompson was killed first. Mr. Thompson was pleading with the killers not to harm her. It was apparently obvious to a lot of people that it was somewhat a message sent to him," said sherri's Detective Mark Lillienfeld.
Investigators began focusing on the broken business relationship between Goodwin and Thompson.
It was in the 1950s that Thompson set the first of his nearly 500 auto speed and endurance records.
In 1960 he became the first person to travel more than 400 mph on land when he drove a four-engine car 406.6 mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
Thompson was a drag racing innovator, building and driving the first "slingshot" dragster. He worked in the 1950s to take the sport off the streets and onto sanctioned strips.
Racing accidents put him in the hospital 27 times. He was paralyzed from the waist down after a boat racing accident, and it was two years before he walked again.
As for Goodwin, he earned the title "Father of Supercross" in the 1970s when he moved outdoor motorcross shows into stadiums and arenas. Before that, he promoted concerts for the Doors, the Moody Blues, Joe Cocker and Janis Joplin.
Goodwin was Thompson's
partner in promoting off-road racing before a bitter breakup that led to a series of lawsuits between the two and a $514,000 judgment in Thompson's favor. That judgment helped force Goodwin into bankruptcy.
After the slayings, Goodwin refused to submit to police questioning and the case went cold until several years ago, when sheriff's homicide detectives were assigned to take a fresh look at it.
In 1997, the case was featured on America's Most Wanted. Investigators said a rebroadcast earlier this year generated new evidence. Lillienfeld would not give details, but prosecutors convened a grand jury in March.
Investigators then moved to put Goodwin in a police lineup, but he refused and challenged a court order directing him to appear. An appeals court ruled in June that he did not have to take part unless he was under arrest.
Jeffrey Benice, Goodwin's lawyer, said that is what prompted police to arrest Goodwin on Aug. 12. He was released the next day after new witnesses identified him as the man they saw shortly before the murders watching the Thompson home with binoculars from a Chevy Malibu, according to Benice.
Goodwin, 56, conceded there were hard feelings between him and Thompson but said they settled their financial differences weeks before Thompson was killed. "I had nothing to gain. It was over," Goodwin said.
Federal furniture costs cause stir
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Would you pay $250 for a shower curtain? How about $1,000 for a coat rack?
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office says it won't go on a shopping spree when it builds a new office complex, but taxpayer groups and lawmakers are criticizing agency plans to spend $64 million on furniture.
Complaints from the National Taxpayers Union and Citizens Against Government Waste come as construction is set to begin on new office space that will be leased to the patent agency for $1.3 billion for two decades.
But the analysis was a worst-case scenario, Maulsby said: "The point was to show we were going to be able to save money."
Sixteen House members are asking White House Budget Director Mitch Daniels to review the arrangement.
"The concrete may be pouring soon, and it's up to the administration to try and take a hard look at this," said Pete Sepp, spokesman for the NTU. "Whatever they do here is quite likely to be repeated as a model for a whole lot of other federal agencies."
New furniture is part of the plan for new space, which would
consolidate in a five-building complex an agency now spread throughout 18 buildings in Arlington, Va.
The agency also is seeking to be freed from government requirements that its furniture be built by federal prisoners.
Costly furniture purchase plans cited by critics — including $309 ash cans and $562 stools — come from a three-year-old analysis prepared for the agency.
Foes warn the project could generate more controversy than the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center, which was supposed to cost $362 million but exceeded $800 million.
The initial proposal included a dozen pages listing furniture expenditures, including 18 shower curtains for a new fitness center, nine coat racks for training rooms, 71 smoking-room ash cans and more than four dozen stools for various rooms.
"We've not spent a penny on furniture, and obviously, when we do, we will stay within the budget that Congress has authorized," said agency spokesman Richard Maulsby. "We are not going to spend $250 on a shower curtain."
The project already has been reviewed by the Commerce Department's inspector general, in federal court litigation and by the General Accounting Office, which reported in June, "None of these reviews resulted in a conclusion that the procurement activities had been conducted improperly."
Congressional foes point out that despite the agency's re assurances, an official justified the pricey shower curtain during a 1998 hearing, explaining that the $250 cost included a heavy-duty shower rod, mildew resistance and installation.
Furthermore, this worst-case scenario "has become the actual scenario," Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan., wrote the White House.
The agency "still plans on spending $64 million for furniture unless you can do something about it." Tihart wrote in a letter signed by 15 colleagues.
He added that new estimates show the space may be too small to house a growing agency.
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