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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN • 3A
MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2002
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CAMPUS
Fire damages native grass cause of flames unknown
Flames damaged a plot of native prairie grass near the intersection of Sunnyside Avenue and Sunflower Road last night.
Lawrence-Douglas County Fire and Medical firefighters responded to the fire at 8 p.m. and extinguished the flames within 20 minutes, Battalion Chief Bill Stark said. He said the fire damaged less than an acre at the northeast corner of the intersection, south of the Hall Center for the Humanities.
The cause of the fire and damage estimate was undetermined yesterday, Stark said. The department doesn't estimate damage when only grass is harmed, he said.
— Michelle Burhenn
STATE
Three die on Kansas roads during Thanksgiving weekend
At least three people have died on Kansas roads during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, authorities said.
A 12-year-old girl who was a passenger in a truck died in a one-vehicle accident Saturday morning in Pawnee County.
Her name had not been released because the accident was still being investigated, a dispatcher for the Kansas Highway patrol said.
Tina Catlin, of Oxford, 31. was thrown f.from her car when it overturned Friday on U.S. 77 south of Arkansas City, Cowley County authorities said.
A Missouri woman was killed Wednesday in a two-car collision in Dickinson County. Diana Whitaker, 50, of Nixa, Mo., was driving east on Kansas 18 about 6:30 p.m. when another vehicle ran a stop sign on Kansas 15 and struck her car.
NATION
Drug offenders may get
treatment instead of prison
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A joint legislative committee that oversees corr
rections plans to introduce a bill aimed at easing prison overcrowding by putting nonviolent drug users in a treatment program instead of lock up.
The proposal is in response to the growing prison population in Kansas, which is bulging to 99 percent of capacity and is nearing 9,000. Officials said the upward trend was expected to continue for at least the next decade.
The Kansas Sentencing Commission proposed the program to lawmakers as the best way to open prison space without sacrificing public safety.
The proposal calls for assessing and treating a limited number of drug offenders. Johnson County District Attorney Paul Morrison, vice chairman of the commission, said the proposal called for a conservative approach.
To be effective, the treatment program would have to be used statewide, the commission says.
Some areas of the state have treatment programs now, while others do not.
Men suspected of murdering KU student released
WORLD
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — A judge ruled Friday there wasn't enough evidence to hold two men accused of killing a University of Kansas student in Costa Rica, a prosecutor said in a newspaper article published yesterday.
The ruling freed one man, and the other suspect, a 50-year-old man, was being held on separate drug smuggling charges, prosecutor Erick Ramirez told A! Dia.
The two men had been charged in the stabbing death of Shannon Martin, who was in Costa Rica finishing a research project. She was killed May 13,2001.
Ramirez told the newspaper that a female suspect's statement was the only evidence prosecutors had against the men. It was unclear whether prosecutors would appeal the judge's ruling.
The Associated Press
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Aaron Chilen, Leawood sophomore, rides the nose of his skateboard down a sidewalk in downtown Lawrence on Thanksgiving Day.
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ON CAMPUS — For more events, go to kucalendar.com
Department of art and design will host the Hallmark Symposium with the department of design's new faculty at 6 tonight at the auditorium in the Spencer Museum of Art. Contact the department at 864-4401.
864-4798.
Geospatial Technologies Club will present a lecture with Tina Carey at 3 p.m. today at Room 412 in Lindley Hall. Contact L. Monika Moskal at 864-7728.
Hall Center for the Humanities will host the Gender Seminar with Ann Schofield from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. today at the Conference Room in the Hall Center. Contact the Hall Center at
KU Marketing Club will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union. Contact Aaron Mesmer at 856-0839.
■ KU Greens will meet at 8 tonight at the Sunflower Room in the Kansas Union. Contact Jessica Cook at jska7@ku.edu.
KU Tae Kwon Do Club will meet from 7-30 to 9 tonight at Room 207 in Robinson Center. Contact Samantha Nondorf at 218-3544.
Rock Chalk Bridge Club will meet at 3 p.m. tomorrow at the Lobby in the
Kansas Union. Contact Don Brennan at 550-9001 or cardpotato@hotmail.com.
Spencer Museum of Art will host a World AIDS Day commemorative service from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. today at the Central Court in the Museum. Contact the museum at 864-4710.
Et Cetera
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Student Union Activities will present the film Les Blessures Assassines at 8 tonight at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Tickets are $2 or free with an SUA movie card. Contact the SUA at 864-7469.
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