THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1: 2011
LAWRENCE
Safebus changes route after several complaints
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Littering, stepping on flower beds and urinating in public are some of the complaints that are driving a KU SafeBus stop away from the corner of 9th and Maine streets, said Casey Briner, a SafeBus spokesperson. At least three residents living near the stop complained to SafeBus that riders did those things in front of their homes. Briner said the complaints all reached SafeBus after Nov. 18. The free bus service's "red route," which runs from McCollum Hall to 6th and New Hampshire streets, will now stop at 9th and Illinois streets and not at Maine. The route change will begin Thursday night.
Briner said this will be the first time SafeBus has changed routes because of such complaints since the bus service began in 2007. She said SafeBus will make no effort to identify misbehaving riders.
For more information, visit: http:// safebus.ku.edu/ or send email to kuon- wheels@kuu.edu.
Briner said SafeBus will never stop 9th and Maine streets again.
SafeBus operates three routes from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
"Our goal is to get people home safely," she said. "We are not about getting people in trouble."
— Ian Cummings
LOCAL
Domestic dispute ends in armed man's arrest
Police arrested a Lawrence man Tuesday night after a standoff that lasted more than an hour at a trailer home on the 3300 block of Iowa Street, according to Lawrence Police Department spokesman Sgt. Matt Sarna. Police responded to a domestic disturbance call at around 7:30 p.m., Sarna said, and found Brian Baily, 22, at the residence with a firearm. When Bailey refused to surrender to police, officers
-Ian Cummings
from the Lawrence Police Department and the Douglas County Sheriff's Office surrounded the residence, some armed with automatic weapons. Sarna said a police department negotiator induced Bailey to surrender to police. Bailey was booked into the Douglas County Jail at around 9:15 p.m., facing charges of aggravated assault, criminal destruction of property and domestic battery.
CRIME
Local man charged with attempted murder
A Lawrence man faces charges of attempted murder and attempted rape following a stabbing in northern Lawrence Tuesday night. Lawrence police arrested Timothy Foster, 39, after responding to an emergency call to a residence in the 500 block of John Doy Court at around 3:30 p.m., according to a press release from the Lawrence Police Department. Police found a woman inside the residence with apparent stab wounds. An ambulance transported her to a Topeka hospital in serious
condition. Police booked Foster into the Douglas County Jail around 7:15 p.m., where he was held on a $500,000 bond, according to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office booking rescist. Foster and the victim knew each other, according to police. Detectives were investigating the crime scene Wednesday.
Police ask anyone with information on any crime to call 785-832-7650 or Douglas County Crime Stoppers at 785-843-TIPS (8477). All callers remain anonymous, according to the department's policy.
— Ian Cummings
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NATIONAL
Derrik Sweeney, 19, of Jefferson City, Mo., smiles along side his mother, Joy Sweeney, left, after arriving at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport in St. Louis on Nov. 26. Sweeney and two other American students were arrested in Cairo Nov. 20, and accused of throwing firebombs at security fighting with protesters. A court ordered the three to be released Nov. 24. American universities send more than 250,000 students to study abroad every year, thrusting them into one of the most exciting periods of their lives with a heavy dose of maternal advice: See the local culture, but be careful. Don't get in any tight spots. Avoid political demonstrations. It's advice that can be forgotten in the heady political ferment of countries like Egypt.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Stay safe in foreign protests
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MINNEAPOLIS — Every year American colleges and universities send more than 270,000 students to study abroad and more of them are choosing unconventional destinations, which in places like Egypt can entice students to ignore well-meaning warnings from back home and plunge into the political upheaval in the streets.
"I think the temptation is there, to wrap up in a keffiyeh and try to look like any other Egyptian revolutionary, to feel a little exhilaration from a kind of danger you don't get in America," said Wittney Dorn, 20, of Appleton, Wis., who is studying at the American University in Cairo.
Universities have been repeating the importance of striking the right balance between safety and cultural immersion after the Nov. 20 arrest of three American students during the protests near Tahir Square, the Cairo roundabout that has been the epicenter of the Jan. 25 uprising against ousted President Hosni Mubarak.
Dorn said in an email from Cairo that she's been following the advice she got from both from American University and her home college, St. Olaf in Northfield, to avoid crowds, political demonstrations and Tahrir Square specifically.
history unfold before one's eyes," Dorn wrote.
"It's not a brilliant idea to go exploring an area where people are being killed, despite how tempting it may be to watch
A survey earlier this month from the nonprofit Institute of International Education found more than 270,000 U.S. students studied abroad during the 2009-10 school year, up about 4 percent from a year earlier. Most went to western Europe: Britain, Italy, Spain and France. But the survey found increasing numbers in less traditional destinations; Egypt, for example, hosted 1,923 Americans, up 8 percent.
"A lot of students are trying to find places that will help them understand the emerging world," said Peggy Blumenthal, who oversees research at the institute as the senior counselor to the president. They are preparing for careers in public health, the
sciences and national security, for example, she said.
Blumenthal said she doubted students who picked more challenging programs were any more likely to ignore security guidelines than others. "I honestly think that it's not just about going abroad to these places for thrill seeking, as much as it's about really wanting to understand," she said.
Many universities and operators of study abroad programs have been trying to prod students out of what can become a comfort zone of huddling with their fellow American students. That push to engage can be broadening in a "safe" country; in a country with a suddenly dicey political situation, it can be hazardous.