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MONDAY,AUGUST 26,2002
News
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CAMPUS
GTAC to vote today
GTAC to vote today on contract with University
The Graduate Teaching Assistants Coalition votes today on a proposed three-year contract with the University of Kansas.
Members can vote between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.at a table on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
Only members of GTAC can vote on the contract. Graduate teaching assistants who aren't members can sign up to join the coalition and then vote, said Robert Vodicka, graduate teacher in humanities and Western Civilization and lead negotiator for GTAC.
The proposed contract includes a provision that establishes minimum salaries for GTAs.
GTAC and the University came to a tentative agreement on the contract July 10 after two years of off-and-on negotiations.
Molly Gise
STATE
Lawsuit over gas explosions dismissed for improper filing
HUTCHINSON - A judge dismissed the $7.5 million lawsuit filed by mobile home park owners against the city of Hutchinson over fatal gas explosions.
Bob and Sue Kinder had sued the city through their company, Rednik Inc., which owns the Big Chief Mobile Home Park. The park closed in January 2001, after natural gas explosions killed two residents.
Reno County District Court Judge Richard Rome ruled Friday that notice of the Kinders' suit was improperly served to then-City Attorney Porter Brown's receptionist, no written notice was filed with the defendants before filing the suit, and the city had no duty to inspect for natural gas leaking from the Yaggy storage plant northwest of Hutchinson.
Rome also ruled that the claim is barred by the city's immunity under inspection issues covered by the Kansas Tort Claims Act. He also rejected the Kinders' claim that the city was liable because it issued a "certificate and release for environmental conditions" when the couple bought the mobile home park in 1996.
"We didn't think the case should even have been brought," said Ed Keeley, an attorney for the city's insurance company. "We didn't see anything in the petition they could recover. They never claimed the city
caused the explosions or the damage."
Convicted Kansas man found by Nebraska police
TILDEN, Neb. — A 63-year-old northwest Kansas man convicted earlier this year of sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl has been arrested.
Carl Benjamin Alvis of Hays was arrested Friday by the Nebraska State Patrol with assistance from Tilden police, the patrol said.
After a state trooper saw the vehicle Alvis was thought to be driving at a motel in Tilden, he was arrested and taken to the Madison County Jail to await extradition to Kansas, the patrol said.
The state patrol had been contacted Friday by the sheriff's office in Ellis County with information that Alvis might be in the Oakdale, Neb. area.
Alvis was convicted there of the assault in February but was released pending sentencing. He failed to appear for sentencing April 15.
Alvis had been released while awaiting trial in November because he needed heart bypass surgery and Ellis County Attorney Tom Drees said he couldn't justify taxpayers picking up the cost of the surgery.
Alvis told the trooper he had been in Nebraska about three months and said he had been in Oakdale, Tilden, Neligh, Fremont, North Platte, Valentine and Plainview, Neb., the patrol said.
The state patrol was to contact law enforcement agencies in those communities about unsolved crimes, especially any sex crimes involving minors.
He may have used his brother's name, William Alvis, while in Nebraska, the patrol said.
NATION
Muslim group asks for help in investigating attack plot
MIAMI-A Muslim group on Sunday asked Gov. Jeb Bush to provide leadership in the investigation of a doctor suspected of plotting to blow up dozens of mosques and an Islamic education center.
Alfaf Ali, executive director of the state chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, also asked that the state provide security at mosques until the threat of more attacks has passed.
"We are really concerned about the safety of our children and the individuals that attend the mosques in
Florida," Ali said.
Robert J. Goldstein, 37, was arrested Friday and charged with possession of a non-registered destructive device and attempting to use an explosive to damage and destroy Islamic centers. He was being held without bail Sunday.
When police searched his home, they found a cache of up to 40 weapons, including .50-caliber machine guns and sniper rifles. They also uncovered more than 30 explosive devices, including hand grenades and a 5-gallon gasoline bomb with a timer attached.
Ali said Bush should publicly condemn the plot and be more involved in the investigation. The Muslim organization is trying to arrange a meeting with the president, he said.
A spokeswoman for the governor did not immediately return a call Sunday.
U. S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Special Agent Carlos Baixauli said Sunday that no new arrests had been made but declined further comment.
Goldstein has no listed telephone number and his lawyer did not immediately return a call Sunday.
WORLD
Chemicals, explosives found in al-Qaida laboratory
KABUL, Afghanistan — Security forces discovered a suspected al-Qaida chemical laboratory in a Kabul neighborhood Saturday complete with explosives and suspicious documents, Radio Kabul reported.
The report said the laboratory was found in a house in the city's Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood which was formerly occupied by the Saudi nongovernmental organization Wafa.
Wafa is among the organizations that the United States believes were connected to Osama bin Laden's terrorist network. Before the collapse of the Taliban, Wafa ran a number of operations in Afghanistan including food distribution and construction work.
Radio Kabul, which is run by Afghanistan's interim administration, said security officials found chemicals and explosives as well as documents which were not described.
two further details were available and it was unclear who occupied the house at the time of the raid. There was no immediate comment by officials on the report.
The Associated Press
ON CAMPUS
Natural History Museum's Guild of Naturally Science Illustrator's Exhibit will run all day today at the Natural History Museum in Dyche Hall. The exhibit will be on display through September. Contact the museum at 864-4450.
Spencer Museum of Art's Drawing Figures exhibit will run from 10 a.m to 5 p.m. today in the Spencer Museum of
Art. The exhibit will be one display until Oct. 20. Contact the museum at 864- 4710.
- Spencer Museum of Art's Fish, Flowers, and Flying Things exhibit will begin tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Spencer Museum of Art. The exhibit ends Sept. 1. Contact the museum at 864-4710.
Camera on KU
Aaron Showalter/Kansan
Patrick Dunn, Kansas City, Mo., graduate student, grinds down a steel plate on the base of a privately commissioned sculpture he is constructing. The time he put in yesterday in the Art and Design Building was just a fraction of the two to three months he will have spent by the time the work is in its final 10-foot-tall form.
Et Cetra
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