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The Inside Front
Tuesday September 23,1997
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CAMPUS/AREA
High on psychedelic mushrooms and marijuana, a KU student took off his clothes in Ellsworth Hall and proceeded to wander Daisy Hill before being apprehended by police.
An argument concerning one man's girlfriend led to a fight at The Hawk bar. The man ended up in the hospital.
STATE
KANSAS CITY, Mo.: A murder suspect walked away from jail Sunday after assuming the identity of a fellow prisoner who was being released.
NATIONAL
UNITED NATIONS: President Clinton sent the Senate the long-delayed global test-ban treaty yesterday and promised to pay America's back dues to the U.N.
STANWOOD, Wash.: A teen-age boy who had escaped from a halfway house was arrested on suspicion of beating a 12-year-old girl to death while she was baby-sitting five children at a neighbor's home.
WASHINGTON: Immigrants living in the United States unlawfully will have to leave the country to apply for resident "green cards" unless Congress extends a provision that expires next week.
INTERNATIONAL
BELGRAD, Yugoslavia. A notoriously hardline Serbian politician made a strong showing in that country's elections.
CAMPUS/AREA
Naked, high student wanders on Daisy Hill
A naked man took a stroll around Daisy Hill Saturday morning, KU police said.
The 18-year-old KU student reportedly took off his clothes on the fifth floor of Ellsworth Hall at about 1:30 that morning and left the hall in the direction of Hashinger Hall.
An Ellsworth Hall security monitor saw him as he ran out of the third-floor exit in Ellsworth. Security monitors later found the man's clothing and wallet on the hall's fifth floor.
KU police officers found the student standing in front of Ekdahl Dining Commons attempting to open the cafeteria's locked door. When the officers tried to talk to him, the student did not respond and then tried to run away, police said.
The officers then grabbed the student, placed him on the ground and handcuffed him. They also covered the student with a blanket.
The student was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
While at the hospital, the man was able to give officers his name. He also told police he had been under the influence of psychedelic mushrooms and marijuana when he had taken off his clothing.
The student's resident assistant met the student at the hospital and took him back to Ellsworth, police said.
Brawl at The Hawk lands man in hospital
A 20-year-old Olathe man was battered in a fight early Sept. 11 at The Hawk bar, 1338 Ohio St.
The fight took place at about 1 a.m. when the man and three friends were confronted by a group of about 10 men, Lawrence police said.
One of the 10 men had made an advance toward the Olathe man's girlfriend. The remark caused a verbal confrontation between the two groups, police said.
Bar officials escorted the men from the bar, and a fight ensued outside.
A 19-year-old KU student who witnessed the fight described one of the men as a 21-year-old male with short blond hair and long side burns. 6 feet tall and 160 pounds.
The Olathe man was punched in the mouth and taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He told police that both parties had been intoxicated when the fight took place.
The police report involving the incident was not released until this week because officers were still working on the case, police said.
Kansan staff reports
Wristband swap lets murder suspect go free
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A murder suspect walked away from jail a new man after assuming the identity of a fellow
Police were searching yesterday for David D. Stewart, 29, who was arrested just 26 hours before he escaped Sunday. Stewart was charged Sept. 10 with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the Aug. 24 shooting death of Leodis McCray II.
prisoner who was being released.
"We consider him violent because he has been charged with murder, and he has escaped," Sgt. Jim Keane said Sunday. "I do worry that anybody he encounters is potentially at risk."
According to police, Stewart traded identification bracelets with a 26-year-old fellow prisoner and memorized his Social Security number and birth date.
Jail officials do not verify fingerprints of departing prisoners because it takes too long, said Sgt. Troy Entrop at the jail. They do ask for the Social Security number, birth date and age. Officials also have a physical description of each prisoner and note what each was wearing when entering jail. Entron said.
Police described Stewart as black, 5 feet 10 inches tall, 170 pounds with a muscular build, with black hair and brown eyes.
He apparently resembled the man whose identity he assumed.
Stewart is accused of shooting McCray and leaving his body in a burning car.
Clinton urges Senate to approve nuclear ban
UNITED NATIONS — President Clinton sent the Senate the long-delayed global nuclear-test-ban treaty yesterday
NATIONAL
and urged members to approve the pact over the objections of some Republicans.
Announcing his action in an address to the United Nations, Clinton called the treaty the longest-sought, hardest-fought prize in the history of arms control. He signed the accord a year ago but waited to send it to Congress while White House
Clinton: Urged UN members to approve test ban.
lobbyists tried to build support.
In a 19-minute speech, the president also called for a permanent international court to punish human-rights violators.
And he pledged that the United States would pay nearly $1 billion in past-due U.N. fees to "put the question of debts and dues behind us once and for all."
His submission of the test-ban treaty is expected to stir opposition from GOP senators who don't trust arms control agreements or who insist that testing is needed to maintain America's nuclear stockpile.
Teen-ager charged with death of 12-year-old
STANWOOD, Wash. — A teen-age boy who had escaped from a halfway house was arrested on suspicion of beating a 12-year-old girl to death while she was babysitting five children at a neighbor's home.
Ashley Jones was attacked late Saturday, apparently during a burglary, said sheriff's spokeswoman Jan Jorgensen. It was not immediately known whether she had been sexually assaulted. The children, ages 2 to 8, were asleep and not harmed.
David Dodge, 17, of nearby Camano Island, was arrested Sunday night on a fugitive warrant for escaping Friday from a halfway house in the Seattle area where he had been serving time for theft. He was taken into custody at a friend's apartment in Stanwood, a rural community about 40 miles north of Seattle.
Police said witnesses' descriptions led them to arrest Dodge in the slaying.
Dodge was jailed as an adult for investigation of first-degree murder. Bail was set at $1 million yesterday.
Inaction by Congress woe for immigrants
WASHINGTON — Immigrants living in the United States unlawfully will have to leave the country to apply for resident "green cards" unless Congress extends a provision that expires next week.
Currently, undocumented immigrants who are eligible to apply for legal residence are allowed to remain in the United States while completing their paperwork provided they pay a $1,000 fine.
The impending expiration of that provision has caused alarm in immigrant communities. The Immigration and Naturalization Service is expecting a wave of applications from people rushing to beat the clock.
"The message is to get that application in before Sept. 30," Paul Virtue, the INS' acting executive associate commissioner, said yesterday.
Serbian hard-liner strong in elections
INTERNATIONAL
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — He talks and talks. And when he's not talking, Serbian nationalist Voislav Seasi is shouting.
All through the election campaign, Seselj wouldn't shut up. But then he never has—even after doing jail time in 1994 for spitting on the speaker of parliament, who simply had asked him to be quiet.
Now it appears Seselj's "Serbia for Serbs only" rhetoric has been heard by enough voters to land him in the runoff race for president. In second place with half of Sunday's vote counted, the Radical Party leader will likely challenge Socialist candidate Zoran Lilic in the runoff Oct. 5.
But the strident nationalism that got him voters' attention likely will keep him from the presidency. The ruling Socialists have more supporters and they are expected to vote for Lilic.
"Order and discipline are the basis of every normal system," Seselj in a recent interview. "There is no democracy with out order and discipline."
Still, Seselj's first-round showing proves there are many Serbs who respond to his tough talk and even tougher image.
He has made himself heard for years.
Under the Communists, Seselj was a clever law student whose nationalism earned him his first jail spell. from 1984-86
Later in Belgrade, he became a fixture on TV talk shows, boasting of Serbs conquering neighboring Hungary and even vaster swaths of Europe.
The Associated Press
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's 1987 black Honda Spree moped was stolen between 2 and 11 a.m. from the 1700 block of Kentucky Street, Lawrence police said. The moped was valued at $300.
A KU student's window was damaged between midnight and 3 a.m. Sunday in the 400 block of West 14th Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $100.
A KU student's fire was damaged between 9 p.m. Saturday and 9:40 p.m. Sunday in the 3000 block of Harvard Road, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $200.
A KU student's tires were damaged between 11 p.m. Saturday and 11:15 a.m. Sunday in the 1800 block of Missouri Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $100.
A KU student's parking permit and star-shaped crystal were stolen between 3:30 and 5:30 p.m. Sept. 12 from the Memorial Stadium parking lot, KU police said. The permit was valued at $100.
A KU student's black backpack, eyeglasses and other items were stolen between 9:30 and 9:35 a.m. Sept. 16 from 3040 Wescoe Hall, KU police said. The items were valued at $186.
A KU student's 1997 Jeep Wrangler was damaged between 10:30 p.m. Sept. 16 and 1 p.m. Wednesday in the lot northwest of Oliver Hall, KU police said. The damage was estimated at $50.
A KU student's parking permit was stolen between 3 and 5 p.m. Thursday from the lot southeast of Memorial Stadium, KU police said. The permit was valued at $75.
A KU student's 1990 white Eagle Talon was damaged between 10:30 p.m. Saturday and 12:30 p.m. Sunday in the lot west of Lewis Hall, KU police said. The damage was estimated at $500.
A Technics 1200 SL2 turntable and microphone with adaptors were stolen between 2 p.m. Saturday and 1:45 a.m. Sunday from the Frontier Room in the Burge Union, KU police said. The items were valued at $1,000
A glass door was damaged between 2 and 5:45 a.m. Saturday in the east entrance of Summerfield Hall, KU police said. The damage was estimated at $240.
A KU student's 1997 Jeep was damaged and $25 in change, compact discs and other items were stolen between 8:30 p.m. Thursday and 5:15 p.m. Friday in the lot northwest of Oliver Hall, KU police said. The items and damage were estimated at $896.
A KU student's car dashboard and window were damaged and $10 were stolen between 3 p.m. Sept. 14 and 12:45 p.m.
Friday in the lot southwest of McColm Hall, KU police said. The items and damage were estimated at $460.
A Polaroid Sprint System 35 was stolen between 5 p.m. Sept. 2 and 8 a.m. Sept. 9 from 4070 Wescoe Hall, KU police said. The system was valued at $800.
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