2A * THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Inside Front
FRIDAY,AUGUST 30,2002
News
from campus, the state the nation and the world
CORRECTIONS
An editorial in yesterday's Kansan incorrectly stated that Jonathan Ng was Student Senate president. Ng is student body president.
An article in yesterday's Kansan, "Cuts leave students shut out of classes," misquoted Student Body President Jonathan Ng as saying the elections were in September. They are in November.
LAWRENCE
Suspect to take evaluation before his trial
Raymond Boothe was charged yesterday with first-degree murder in Leavenworth County District Court.
Boothe — the 34-year-old Cameron, Mo., man who is accused of stabbing his son, Levi Boothe, and leaving him on the Kansas Turnpike Tuesday will undergo a mental evaluation, said Frank Kohl, Leavenworth County attorney.
Judge Frederick Stewart approved an evaluation at Larned State Hospital to determine Boothe's mental state and whether he is competent to stand trial
Booth the attempted to kill himself and his three children shortly after midnight Wednesday when he crashed his car in the 2700 block of Lawrence Avenue, Sgt. Mike Pattrick of the Lawrence Police Department said. When Lawrence police contacted the children's mother, they learned there was a fourth child.
Police then contacted the Kansas Highway Patrol and learned that the agency and Leavenworth County officials were investigating the death of Boothe's son, who was found dead about three hours earlier on the Kansas Turnpike about 3 miles east of Lawrence.
—Michelle Burhenn
NATION
Youth smoking rates up world wide according to CDC
CDC
ATLANTA — Health officials are taking a snapshot of child smoking rates around the world, and they say the preliminary findings are alarming.
In Buenos Aires, Argentina, one in four children ages 13 to 15 smokes cigarettes.
In Moscow, it's one in three, and, in
the northern Mariana Islands, nearly 40 percent of children in that age bracket smoke.
The figures, released yesterday by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, are part of an ongoing survey of global youth smoking rates that the CDC hopes to complete by the end of the year.
"This is the first time we've had numbers to show (youth) smoking really is a major world health problem," said Dr. Terry Pechacek of the CDC.
Organizers say the initial findings already point to the growing problem of youth smoking worldwide.
"In many parts of the world, youths can easily get cigarettes," Pechacek said.
Airline asks workers to help save the company
CHICAGO United Airlines is asking its machinists union to give up $450 million in pay and benefits annually as part of an overhauled financial recovery plan aimed at keeping the struggling carrier out of bankruptcy, the union said yesterday.
The proposal calls for mechanics, ramp workers and other employees represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers to take 10 percent pay cuts and forgo raises negotiated earlier this year for 2003 and 2004, IAM officials said.
United spokesman Joe Hopkins said the airline had no immediate comment.
The proposed machinists' cuts are part of a company-wide push to sharply reduce high costs in hopes of receiving a $1.8 billion federal loan guarantee and helping it end its long financial slide.
The union said the company made clear that the total annual savings figures are non-negotiable, although its proposal could be modified to achieve the reductions in different ways.
United's interim chief executive officer, Jack Creighton, announced Aug. 14 that the nation's No.2 airline might have to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this fall if it didn't reach major cost-saving agreements with its employees, vendors and lessors.
PHILADELPHIA — A state court yesterday struck down a 1998 Philadelphia city ordinance that recognized same-sex "life partnerships," saying the law usurped the power of the state to regulate marriage.
Court strikes down law recognizing life partnerships
recognizing life partnerships
The law had amended the definition of the term "marital status" to include "life partner," thereby granting benefits to same-sex partners of city employees who signed a partnership affidavit.
A group of seven city taxpayers sued, charging that the city did not have the power to create a new marital status.
A Commonwealth Court panel agreed yesterday, saying in its ruling that the law ran counter to what the General Assembly intended the definition of marriage to be.
"It could not be clearer that, by enacting the Marriage Law, as well as the Divorce Code, and by providing uniform laws in domestic relations throughout the State, the General Assembly tacitly but thoroughly demonstrated its intent to pre-empt this field of legislation," the court ruled.
County prosecutor takes over city police department
KEANSBURG, N.J. — The county prosecutor's office has taken over daily operations of the police department after the acting chief made a racial slur over the police radio, authorities said yesterday.
The slur, captured on audiotape, occurred May 4 when Acting Chief Michael Kennedy called headquarters looking for a patrolman to disperse a group of African Americans near an ATM before they committed a crime.
"Pursuant to discussions with First Assistant Attorney General Peter C. Harvey, on behalf of Attorney General David Samson, the Monmouth County Prosecutor's office has superseded Acting Police Chief Michael Kennedy and taken control of the daily operations of the Keansburg Police Department," Samson's office said in a statement.
Kaye, as the top law enforcement officer in the county, has the authority to do so, according to Samson.
In addition to taking over Kennedy's department, the county has also suspended him and ordered him to issue a formal apology.
The NAACP said it was not satisfied and demanded Kennedy be fired.
"Anything short of that, we're not going to be pleased with," said the Rev. William Rutherford, president of the NAACP's state chapter.
-The Associated Press
ON THE RECORD
A 19-year-old KU student reported to Lawrence police that a Canon XL-1 mini-digital video camera and extra lenses were taken between 1 and 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 1100 block of Ohio Street, according to Lawrence police reports. The items were valued at $5,500.
Murry and Sons Construction reported that a green Johnny on the Spot, a fire extinguisher and a 60-foot-tall tree were damaged between 5:30 p.m. Monday and 6 a.m. Tuesday at Ellsworth Hall, according to KU Public Safety Office reports. The damage was valued at $315.
ON CAMPUS
The Hall Center for Humanities will hold the lecture The Need for a Taxonomy of Boundaries with speakers Wes Jackson and Jerry Glover of The Land Institute from 3:30 to 5 today at the conference room in the Hall Center. Contact the center at 864-4798.
KU KI Aikido Club will meet from 10
a. m. to noon tomorrow at Room 207 in Robinson Center, Contact Jason Ziegler at 843-4732.
The Department of Music and Dance will have a Carillon Concert at 5 p.m. Sunday at the Memorial Campanile. Contact the department at 864-3421.
Camera on KU
Jared Soares/Kansan
Andrew Wymore, Leawood senior, prepares for a jog by stretching his quadricep with the aid of a tree.
Et Cetra
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