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TUESDAY,AUG.28,2001
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ANTHONY REYES/KANSAN
The Archaeological Discovery class listens outside Strong Hall as professor Paul Rehak instructs the class on how to properly lay out the gridwork for an archaeological dig. Rehak had students lay the grids to exacting measurements with plenty of orange string yesterday.
The Associated Press
LAWRENCE — After years of resistance, Kansas transportation officials said they would consider building part of the Lawrence bypass along a route preferred by environmentalists and Haskell Indian Nations University.
Alternate trafficway routes offered
But the state is also offering Haskell officials a package worth more than $5 million if they will support an alternative plan for the South Lawrence Trafficway near the southern edge of the university's property.
The Kansas Department of Transportation will present the two new routes at a public hearing on Thursday.
The state wants to hear everyone's concerns before it begins a new environmental impact study, said Mike Rees, chief counsel for the department and leader of the effort.
The trafficway has been debated for more than 15 years. The western half was completed several years ago, but the eastern
lawsuits.
In the previous discussions, "a significant portion of the community faulted us for our failure to study south of the (Wakarusa) river," Rees said.
The state's willingness to examine the route is a response to those concerns, he said.
The 14.5-mile trafficway was designed to loop around the west and southern sides of the city, connecting Kansas Highway 10 to Interstate 70 and speeding commutes between Johnson County, Lawrence and Topeka.
half was abandoned last year after being stalled by protests and lawsuits.
The state originally wanted to build the four-lane road along a route that abuts the Haskell campus.
State officials said that route would hurt wetlands least and would ease congestion on 23rd Street, which is Kansas Highway 10 as it runs through the city.
However, the Wetlands Preservation Organization, an umbrella group of environmental organizations and
Haskell students and alumni blocked the project in court. They said the route would needlessly destroy wetlands and distur sacred grounds where American Indians prayed.
An attorney for the Haskell Board of Regents said on Friday that the state's new willingness to consider a route south of the Wakarua River was of "monumental importance."
"It means that the highway doesn't have to be built right at the back door of Haskell and that it doesn't have to go through sacred wetlands," lawyer Ron Manka said. "It just seems like it is time to bring this project to a conclusion by building south of the Wakarusa."
Athletic center renovations may be day late, dollar short for some ex-patrons
A south-of-the-river route would swing the road a half-mile to three-fourths of a mile farther south, Manka said, putting it out of the wetlands and far from campus.
It would add only a minute to the drive of motorists going 60 miles per hour, he said.
By Courtney Craigmile Kansan staff writer
Total Fitness Athletic Center has found a new home at 2339 Iowa St., but not all of the center's members may be returning.
The center, which burnt down on March 5 at its original location, 925 Iowa St, moved into the Plaza 6 Theaters after the theaters closed Aug. 9.
Lori Johnson, club manager for the center, said some parts of the club, including the cardio rooms, weight rooms, lobby and offices, would open by Oct. 1.
The rest of the center, including the locker rooms, child-care facilities and group exercise studios used for cycling and conditioning, would not open until Nov. 1.
Crystal Swearingen, Wichita junior, said she probably would not join the center again because child-care facilities would not be readily available.
Her 1-year-old daughter Brittany often accompanies Swearingen to the gym when she works out.
She said she was now working out at Sixth Street Fitness, 2500 W. 6th St, where she didn't have
"I probably will not go back to Total Fitness because child care is the most important to me," Swearingen said.
Swearingen began her two year membership last August and had 18 months left on her contract when the center burnt down.
to pay for child care as she did at Total Fitness.
Carly Chandler, Shawnee senior, was also a member of Total Fitness. She had six months left on her two-year contract when the center burnt down.
She said the balance of her membership was not refunded, so she usually worked out at Robinson Center for free.
"I'm going to see if I can pick up my membership where I left off first before I rejoin," Chandler said.
Johnson said she was not sure what the new membership rates would be because the center usually offered a semester rate, but it would not be open during the fall semester.
She said rates would be determined closer to the center's opening.
Marty Tuley, owner of the center, was unavailable for comment.
Crews are working at the old Plaza 6 Theaters to remove movie screens, seats, concession stand equipment and video equipment.
equipment The floors of the building will have to be leveled before workout equipment can be installed. The new building will have about 24,000 square feet for the health club.
Contact Craigmile at 864-4810
Construction worker Dan Belles removes dry wall from the old Plaza 6 Theaters to make room for Total Fitness Athletic Club. Total Fitness is moving into the old Plaza 6 building because its building burnt down on March 5. It expects most areas of the center to be open for operation by October 1.
The Associated Press
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Raising the stakes in the Mideast conflict, Israeli helicopters fired a pair of rockets through office windows yesterday and killed a senior PLO leader, the highest-ranking Palestinian slain in years.
thousands of angry Palestinian protesters poured into the streets and a rededeyed Yasser Arafat declared three days of mourning for Mustafa Zibri, 63, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. In immediate retaliation, PFLP gunmen killed an Israeli in an ambush on a car in the West Bank.
Killing of Palestinian leader further ignites Mideast conflict
The Palestinians said Israel was waging an "all-out war," while Israel said Zibri was involved in bombing attacks and was planning more.
Throughout the months of conflict, Israel has targeted Palestinians thought responsible for attacks against its soldiers and civilians, but most were considered midlevel operatives, such as bombmakers. Zibri was one of the top five figures in the PLO, headed by Arafat, the Palestinian leader. The killing took place barely 200 yards from Arafat's West
Bank headquarters in Ramallah.
Before the Palestinian uprising began, Arafat's security forces had jailed Shami on several occasions and cracked down on group members.
But Arafat's security forces have refused Israeli requests to arrest Islamic militants during the uprising, which has brought together Palestinian groups previously at odds.
The Palestinian Authority said in a statement that "with its latest criminal act, the Israeli government confirms that it has
Zibri, widely known as Abu Ali Mustafa, headed "an active and deadly terrorist organization," said Ephraim Sneh, Israel's transportation minister and a retired general. Zibri was involved in seven bomb attacks in the past six months, including a blast last week in central Jerusalem, Sneh said.
Zibri's group had claimed responsibility for the attacks shortly after they took place. The army said no one was killed in those attacks.
Upon hearing the news of Zibri's death, Arafat, who was in Gaza City, withdrew to his office for about half an hour, his aides said.
decided to open the doors to an all-out war."
Nabil Aburdeneh, an Arafat adviser, accused President Bush of a pro-Israeli bias that, Aburdeneh said, encouraged Israel to carry out the killing.
"This policy of assassinations which is being conducted with a green light from the United States will push the area into a new cycle of violence and danger," Aburdeneh said.
Dore Gold, an Israeli government spokesman, said Zibri "may himself not have been an operative in the field, but was directly involved in an overall effort by the PFLP to engage in bombings in Jerusalem."
Jerusalem.
In an outpouring of anger, Palestinians marched in the streets of West Bank towns in the hours after the killing. In Arabe, Zibir's home village in the northern West Bank, about 5,000 people marched, led by gunmen firing in the air.
In a first retaliation, the PFLP claimed responsibility for killing an Israeli in an ambush near the Jewish settlement of
The United States has condemned the targeted killings. However, Bush has been sharply critical of Arafat, saying he could do more to rein in militants.
Elon Moreh in the West Bank.
Shots were also fired Monday evening from the West Bank town of Beit Jalla at the Jewish neighborhood of Gilo, built on land Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war and annexed to Jerusalem. Gilo has been a frequent target of Palestinian shooting attacks. One Israeli resident was moderately wounded, police said. Israeli troops returned rifle fire.
In yesterday's morning helicopter attack, Zibri was sitting at his desk in his second-floor Ramallah apartment, which doubled as PFLP headquarters. Rockets came through two windows of his corner office, decapitating Zibri and scorching the walls. No one else was hurt.
Zibri's chair and the pockmarked walls of the office were stained with blood. Smoke blackened the facade of the building. The windows of other apartments were shattered, but no one was seriously hurt.
Three American-Palestinian families live in the building, including the al-Quaddumis, who lived directly beneath Zibri's office and moved to the West Bank three years ago from Manassas, Va.
Zibri returned to the West Bank from exile in 1999 and became leader of the PFLP last year, taking charge after the retirement of the group's founder, George Habash, who lives in Damascus, Syria.
The PFLP has opposed the strategy of the past decade's peace talks with Israel. But it does not insist on the elimination of the Jewish state, as Islamic militants do.
According to Palestinian human rights activists, about 50 Palestinians have been killed in targeted Israeli attacks in the last 11 months. While most were militants, the victims have included women and children who were bewanders.
Zibri was the most prominent Palestinian to be killed in recent years. In 1988, Israeli commandos shot and killed Khalil Al Wazir, the PLO military chief, in a raid of his Tunis, Tunisia, home.
In 1995, Fathi Shakaki, leader of Islamic Jihad, was gunned down outside a Malta hotel in an attack widely attributed to Israel.
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(a safe alliance of glbt persons & straight allies)
Every Wednesday at 7pm Starting Aug.29th EGM Building
ACTIF is a group of glbt people of faith and straight allies. ACTIF is a safe place to come and explore your own questions and issues of spirituality and belief. A good place to come if you're exploring/questioning or have been hurt by your church or faith tradition. You'll never be pressured or put on the spot! Support is what we're all about!
For more information:
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Welcome New and Returning J-School Students
You are invited to attend an Open House for all Journalism Student Organizations on:
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Tuesday, August 28
4-6 pm
Alderson Auditorium
Kansas Union, 4th Floor
Members of Amanzaa, Copy & Layout Club, KU Advertising Club, Pre-Journalism Club and PRSSA (Public Relations Student Society of America) will be on hand to talk about the clubs and how to get involved.
Refreshments will be provided See you there!
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