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MONDAY,OCTOBER 14,2002
News briefs
from the state,the nation and the world
STATE
No punishment set for law-breaking officer
TOPEKA — A Topeka police officer did not follow department policies and procedures when he sped through a red light without his lights or siren activated and struck a pickup truck, a police review board said.
A punishment has not been determined for officer Mark Meier, who was hurt in the Oct. 6 crash, along with the truck's driver and passenger. None of their injuries were considered life threatening.
Meier was found to be at fault because the department prohibits officers from violating traffic laws when their sirens are off.
The board's determination comes one month after a judge ordered that a fired Topeka officer should stand trial on a charge of involuntary manslaughter after the officer went through a stop sign and hit a truck, killing its driver.
NATION
Murder-suicide hits North Carolina State
RALEIGH, N.C. — Two graduate students were killed on North Carolina State University's campus in an apparent murder-suicide, school officials said.
The pair, a 31-year-old woman and a 49-year-old man, were found on the tennis courts near Carmichael Gym about 15.p.m. Saturday. Public Safety.Director Thomas Younce said.
Their names were not released pending notification of their families.
Police have recovered a handgun and a note that indicated the pair knew each other, Younce said.
A university police officer was jump-starting a car in a nearby parking lot when he heard multiple gunshots, he said.
Officials do not believe the shootings were related to a recent crime spree on campus, Younce said.
Police refuse to give sniper's ID to media
ROCKVILLE, Md. — Investigators hunting an increasingly brazen sniper defended their meager release of information and said yesterday they don't want the killer to know what they know.
Authorities pointed to the dangerous balance between pleading for public help and revealing too much.
"We don't want to release anything that may cause ... anyone to think they're a suspect," said Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent Mike Bouchard.
Montgomery County police Chief Charles Moose, meanwhile, has cut back on his news briefings while saying he wishes there was more he could reveal.
"I wish we could give you a name, a mug shot and an address but we're not at that point," he said in one of four appearances he made yesterday on national TV talk shows.
Seven die in bombing at large Finnish mall
WORLD
HELSINKI, Finland — Police sited through evidence yesterday to find out why a 19-year-old college student apparently built and then detonated a bomb in one of Finland's biggest shopping malls, killing himself and six others.
The bomb shattered the shopping mall Friday evening in Vantaa, nine miles north of the capital, Helsinki. Thirty-three people were being treated in hospitals yesterday but none of them were in critical condition, officials said.Eighty people were injured.
The suspect lived in Vantaa and studied chemistry at a technical college, police said. He was not identified pending the result of the investigation.
Chief Superintendent Tero Haapala of the National Bureau of Investigation would not speculate on a motive.
The Associated Press
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Native-American artist Cliff Joseph Thomas sculpts a Jayhawk from a tree stump at 10th and Tennessee streets yesterday afternoon. Thomas recently moved to Lawrence, and he was commissioned to carve the piece by Framewoods, 819 Massachusetts St., where it will be sold.
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ON CAMPUS — For more events, go to kucalendar.com
■ Ecumenical Christian Ministries will offer a four week course of Swing Dance Lessons with Cats Corner beginning at 8:30 tomorrow night in the ECM building. The course is $20. Contact Ed Schlittenhardt to register at 913-634-3750.
Hall Center for the Humanities will host the British Seminar: "Paving & Policing" at 3:30 today at the conference room in the Hall Center. Contact the center at 864-4798.
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.
■ Lied Center will host the concert Jazz Ensembles I, II and III at 7:30 tonight in the Lied Center. Contact the center box office at 864-2787.
Rock Chalk Bridge Club will meet at 3 p.m. tomorrow at the lobby in the Kansas Union. Contact Don Brennan man at 550-9001 or cardpotato@hotmail.com.
Sexuality Education Committee will host the second part of its seminar "Appreciating Diversity and Understanding Our Fears: How Homophobia Hurts Us All" from 6:30 to 10 tonight at the basement in the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building. Contact Megan Carter at 842-3118.
Student Union Activities will host the skateboarding documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys 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-SHOW.
'Crossfire' co-host Novak to give lecture next month
CNN commentator Robert Novak will discuss the political ramifications of recent corporate scandals in a lecture on campus next month.
Novak will be the guest speaker at the annual Anderson Chandler Lecture Series sponsored by the School of Business, the school announced Friday.
Novak co-hosts Evans, Novak, Hunt and Shields and Crossfire on CNN. He also appears on The Capital Gang and NBC's Meet the Press.
The free lecture, "A Washington Overview: The Political Fallout from Enron and WorldCom," will be presented at 7:30 p.m. on Nov.14 in the Lied Center.
— Kansan staff report
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