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Michael Moore to begin 'Into the Streets Week'
Michael Moore, best known for his controversial documentary Bowling for Columbine, is
the the Center for Community Outreach's choice to lead off this year's "Into the Streets Week."
The proposal passed both the finance and student rights committees at last night's Student Senate meetings and will be voted on in full Senate next week.
Amanda Flott, co-coordinator of "Into the Streets Week" and The University Daily Kansan editorial board member, said Moore was known for his controversial films, but he was being brought to the University of Kansas because of his ability to start grass root campaigns.
"Into the Streets Weeks' is about empowering students to go out and change their community and the world," Flott said. "And Michael Moore can speak to the students about how to start those grass roots movements."
Safety Board to hand out whistles starting today
The Campus Safety Board will be handing out whistles at its booth on Wescoe Beach starting today.
The whistles were given to
the board for campus safety week by the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center in response to recent attacks on campus.
Shannon Bell, Campus Safety Board chair, said the whistles were not part of the original plan.
She said the board was inspired by an article about an abuse victim that appeared in the Sept. 25 issue of The University Daily Kansan.
Dany Remont Bell's group will pass out 100 whistles and hopes to hand out more before the end of the semester.
"This could be a way for women to alert people nearby when they are attacked," Bell said.
— Paul Kramer
LINCOLN, Neb. — A Nebraska State Trooper accused of racial profiling asked minority drivers for permission to search their cars nearly four times as often as whites, a defense lawyer said yesterday.
The Associated Press
Lawyer: Trooper used racial profiling
Attorney Arthur Langvardt said Trooper Rob Pelster asked about one out of seven minority motorists he stopped for permission to search their cars, compared to just one of 27 whites.
Langvardt asked Pelster during a federal court hearing if that meant that he was focusing on race when stopping motorists on Interstate 80.
"Absolutely not," Pelster said
"Lamentedly later then reported: It
just turned out that way?"
Defense lawyers for three black men detained in Hamilton County by Pelster are trying to get the drugs found in the men's van from being used to prosecute them.
They argue that the men were stopped based solely on their race.
U. S. Magistrate Judge David Piester said yesterday that he would issue a ruling after studying the evidence.
The hearing stemmed from a Dec. 4 incident in which Pelster stopped a Dodge Caravan on the interstate.
interstate. Pelster said the van's driver, Leonard Hare, 45, of New Haven, Conn., made an improper lane change after following another vehicle too closely.
The van contained two passengers, Donald P. Fox, 43, of New Rochelle, N.Y., and Christopher W. Edwards, 29, of Orlando, Fla.
When one of the men refused to let Pelster search the van, a patrol drug dog was summoned. The dog indicated drug odors were present and troopers later found more than 400 pounds of marijuana in the vehicle.
The men were indicted on charges of possessing marijuana with the intent to deliver and face up to 40 years in prison, if convicted.
Defense lawyers contend that Pelster has shown a tendency to stop motorists on the interstate who are minorities and traveling in vehicles with out-of-state license plates.
State DA presents case for Topeka mayor's hearing
TOPEKA — Hoping to convince a district judge to suspend Topeka Mayor Butch Felker from office, a prosecutor presented evidence yesterday to suggest that Felker violated Kansas campaign finance laws.
Kansas campaign局 Hecht filed a lawsuit two weeks ago to remove Felker from office, but Hecht also wants Felker suspended while that lawsuit is heard. The hearing on Hecht's suspension request was expected to last three days because Hecht planned to call at least three dozen witnesses.
Hecht accuses Felker of falsifying a finance report from his 2001 campaign to mask questionable donations and contributors' identities. The state ethics commission finned Felker $7,500 in July.
Hecht also alleges that Felker improperly arranged $113,000 in payments to a former municipal pal employee and gave unlimited city spending power to a key official in a non-defunct museum.
Painting crew member dies from gable collanse
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A painting crew member was killed Tuesday afternoon when the porch gable on a house under construction collapsed on him.
Authorities said that Antonio, Cruz-Castillo, 62, was caulking near the door when the gable fell and pinned him to the concrete porch. Other members of the painting crew, working inside the building, lifted the gable off and called 911.
Paramedics pronounced Cruz Castillo dead at the scene. Building inspectors were trying to determine what caused the collapse.
lapse.
The home was being built in the Genesis Ridge subdivision in the Piper area of Kansas City, Kan.
Kline discloses he had West Nile virus in Sept.
TOPEKA,—Before a mid-September news conference, Phill Kline complained about a mysterious rash. He wasn't feeling well and had flu-like symptoms.
Later, he began suffering from muscle aches and joint pain. He
was worn out
Near the end of September, a blood test pinpointed the source of his health problems: West Nile virus.
Kline disclosed that he had the mosquito-borne illness Tuesday, the same day the Kansas Department of Health and Environment confirmed a 91-year-old Sedgwick County resident as the state's second West Nile death.
The attorney general has recovered enough to appear fine to others, though he said he hadn't yet gotten all of his usual energy back.
Kline's case is among 423 presumed but unconfirmed cases of West Nile reported by private labs doing tests for health care providers. The unconfirmed cases include three deaths.
Second Kansas resident dies of West Nile virus
TOPEKA — Health officials on Tuesday confirmed the state's second death from West Nile virus, that of a 91-year-old Sedgwick County resident.
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The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said the victim died at the end of September, about two weeks after the first signs of encephalitis, a swelling of the brain that can be caused by the mosquito-borne virus. The agency declined to provide more information, citing federal privacy laws.
The only other West Nile death confirmed in Kansas was in August—a 93-year-old Butler County resident. However, private labs have identified three deaths presumed to be linked to West Nile, though the state has not confirmed them.
The death was among six additional confirmed cases of West Nile reported Tuesday by the state, bringing the total to 67 for the year. Last year, there were 22 confirmed cases with no deaths.
Kline: Lawsuit an attack on protection of children
TOPEKA - Attorney General Phil Kline is promising to fight to require health care professionals to report underage sexual activity, saying a new federal lawsuit attacks the state's ability to protect children from abuse.
treatment for HIV At issue in the lawsuit, filed last week in U.S. District Court in
Wichita, is whether the state can compel doctors, nurses, psychiatrists, social workers and others to report all instances of underage sex as evidence of child abuse. Kline contends the law requires it because sex involving someone under 16 is illegal in Kansas, whatever the circumstances.
The Center for Reproductive Rights, a New York advocacy group, contends that requiring reporting when the sex is consensual and involves two young partners violates their privacy and discourages them from seeking counseling or medical treatment. The center also argues that the law is confusing for health care professionals.
stations.
Kline said Tuesday that if the center prevailed, the Legislature could not require health care professionals to report child rapes and sexual abuse, and the state's efforts to protect children will be hindered.
But Bonnie Scott Jones, an attorney for the center, said Kline was mischaracterizing the law-suit. She said it was an attempt only to give doctors discretion in whether they report some consensual sexual activity.
"To call it a broad-based attack is inaccurate," she said.
State Fair to increase admission prices bv $1
HUTCHINSON — State Fair attendees will have to pay $1 more for admission next year under the fiscal 2005 budget approved by Kansas State Fair board.
The increase is part of the $3.7 million in expenditures approved by the board Mondav
approved by the board Monday. The budget, which takes effect July 1, 2004, includes an extra $200,000 in admissions revenues with the increase. Gate and advance tickets will be raised for senior citizens, adults and children. Adults will pay $5 in advance and $7 at the gate. For seniors, the price is raised to $4 in advance and $5 at the gate. Admission for children will be $3 in advance and $4 at the gate.
"This is the first gate admission increase we've had since 1999," said state fair general manager Denny Stoecklein. He said exhibitor and participant gate admission prices weren't included in the increase.
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