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expected to refile those charges today at Carpenter's preliminary hearing.
Police were dispatched to Lawrence Memorial Hospital after one of the three women tested positive for the date-rape drug while being treated after an injury accident.
The women told police that they thought they had been drugged sometime between 2 and 3 a.m. Thursday, and a man at a Lawrence residence tried to rape one of the women. Police were still waiting for the other two tests results Friday, said Sgt. Mike Pattrick of the Lawrence Police Department.
Lawrence police arrested Carpenter Thursday as he was leaving his residence. Police found liquid forms of GHB in Carpenter's vehicle.
GHB, which is typically known as the date-rape drug, comes in both a liquid and a powder form, said Cathy Thrasher, pharmacist at Watkins Memorial Health Center. The drug is commonly slipped into alcohol because the victim often becomes incapable of resisting sexual advances. Mixing GHB with alcohol also increases its effects.
Gamma Hydroxybutryic Acid (GHB)
GHB is most commonly known as the date-rape drug because it can be slipped into a drink without someone knowing. Mixing the drink with alcohol increases the effects of the drug and decreases the victims ability to resist sexual advances.
GHB is manufactured both as a white liquid.
In lower doses, GHB causes drowsiness, dizziness, nausea and visual disturbances. At higher doses, the drug can cause unconsciousness, seizures, severe respiratory problems or comas.
Source: U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
"It works just like alcohol." Thrasher said
"It's hard for them to know what's going on."
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The offender will be referred to Jane Turtle, assistant to the dean of students.
"A student using a forged bus pass is the same as a student who shoplifts from Target. $125 is a lot of money to me and probably to students, so I hope this is an effective deterrent," she said.
A forged bus pass can come in a variety of fashions, Appleby said. He has seen passes doctored with nail polish and made from scratch out of foil to give it the illusion of having the holographic sticker.
More times than not, he said people got caught when they would leave their pass on a bus, at which point a bus driver would turn it in.
Ernie Housworth, manager for the Lawrence Bus Company who provides KU buses, said the drivers would take the pass from the student as they boarded the bus.
"It's just a frustrating issue," he said.
"There is only a certain amount of time to get kids to class. One person causing a problem delays the rest. We just don't have the time."
Students who ride the bus have little sympathy for pass forgers. Shannon Craft, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, sophomore thought it was inconsiderate to other students who paid for a real pass.
"The number of bus passes sold tells the drivers how many people use the bus, so if they sell fewer and more people make fakes, they might cut back on the number of routes available," she said.
Appleby has confidence in the new fine. He thinks word of the new policy will be enough to deter would-be forgers.
"We want to maintain a certain level of security," he said. "We're not happy with the high prices, but that's what we have to do."
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really having all of this pain," Kuawogai said. "I really didn't think something was wrong because bad cramps run in my family, so I thought it was okay."
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FACES
In fall 2001, Vivian Kuawogai and her husband drove their daughter to work every day.
But according to Kuawogal's mother, Vivian, it was not okay.
One morning in November, Vivian looked in the rear-view mirror and saw her daughter doubled over in the back-seat.
"She was crying, so we knew that something was wrong." Vivian Kua
She turned the car around and rushed her daughter to the emergency room. The doctor finally recommended that Korbalagae Kuawogai undergo surgery to find out what was wrong.
In January, she went into surgery. Although the surgery was supposed to last an hour, it took four hours. The doctor found that Kuawogal had endometriosis and that it had spread to her appendix, which he had to remove.
wogai said.
Kuawagai said the doctor's discovery both comforted and disappointed her
"I was relieved because I finally had an answer for all of those years of pain," Kuawogai said. "But I was devastated because my mom researched all of the
possibilities of what it could mean on my life."
The possibilities included not being able to have children, one of her biggest worries.
"I love children. I plan on having at least four kids," she said.
She said the disease had shaped who she was today.
Kuawogai is not cured and has to take hormone shots every six months to help break up the lining of her uterus.
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"I'm more understanding and sympathetic when people are in pain, because I know what it's like," she said.
Illegal immigrant students targeted
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TOPEKA — Superintendent Milt Pippenger knows some of the children in his Garden City school district are the children of illegal or undocumented immigrants.
The Associated Press
If one State Board of Education candidate got her wish, that wouldn't be the case, even though a 20-year-old U.S. Supreme Court ruling prohibits public schools from denying immigrant students access to a public education.
Connie Morris of St. Francis proposed barring the children of illegal immigrants from attending public schools, saying the cost of educating them was draining away state tax dollars. The Republican candidate has no Democratic challenger in the general election.
Morris, a teacher, said she was aware of the court ruling on the subject.
"We'll cross that bridge when we get to it," she said.
Differing responses to the proposal came from candidates in the governor's race.
Republican Tim Shallenburger said, "Ask me in a week. I have to think about it."
Democrat Kathleen Sebelius said
Kansas should provide an education to undocumented immigrant children.
"We have an obligation to educate every child living in Kansas, period," said Sebelius spokeswoman Nicole Corcoran-Basso.
School officials like Pippenger are caught in the middle of the debate. More than half of his 7,900 students are Hispanic, with other students from southeast Asia, Africa and Europe.
Many of the families were attracted to high-paying jobs at the ConAgra meat packing plant in Garden City. They stayed in the southwest Kansas town even after the plant was destroyed in a December 2000 fire.
Pippenger said he would continue teaching the children of illegal immigrants, even if federal law didn't require it.
"From a moral standpoint, I owe it to educate every youngster living in my district," he said. "They have no control over what their circumstances are."
He's backed by people like Joseph Berra, an attorney with the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in San Antonio.
Berra said the question of providing public school education to immigrants had been resolved with the 1982 Supreme Court decision. He suggested
that the only reason it may become a question in Kansas is because of the increasing number of immigrants.
"It's an indication how some irrational fears and prejudices against immigrants have come back into our culture to the point that issues that have been settled for 20 years are now live issues." Berra said.
The Hispanic population in the state has exploded, more than doubling between 1990 and 2000. Hispanics now make up 7 percent of Kansas' population.
Supporters of educating the children of undocumented workers argue that their parents pay taxes. Many of the parents and their children eventually become citizens, they say, and with their education improve the labor force.
Groups that want restrictions on immigration side with Morris.
"The country should focus on giving the best education to the children who are here legally; the children whose families have a stake in the United States," said David Ray, a spokesman for the Washington, D.C.-based Federation for American Immigration Reform. "People who can be deported tomorrow and have no ties to this country, it's debatable whether taxpayers should spend a dime on them."
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