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The Inside Front
August 20,1998
News
from campus,the city the state and the nation
A hand grenade was found Monday in Stauffer-Flint Hall.
In LAWRENCE;
Police are looking for a brown, two-door Nissan that was seen driving away from the scene of a robbery. In the STATE:
On CAMPUS:
State Republican Chairman Steve Abrams yesterday fired the party's executive director. In the NATION:
Northwest Airlines increased advance purchase fares 4 percent, spurring matching increases from other carriers. The Justice Department once again is reviewing whether Vice President Al Gore broke election laws. Working families might soon have access to more apartments in public housing projects.
CORRECTIONS
The nontraditional students and com muters welcome will be from 6 to 8 p.m. tomorrow at the Lied Center.
The price of an annual movie pass from
Student Office Activities $= \$35
The students featured in the ROTC story In The University Daily Kansan Monday were ROTC members during the spring semester and are no longer involved in ROTC. The number of students enrolled in ROTC also was incorrect.
CAMPUS
Bomb squad confiscates grenade from trash can
A hand grenade found Monday in Stauffer Flint Hall is in the possession of the Overland Park Bomb Squad and will be destroyed, the KU Public Safety Office said.
The grenade was found in the office of Associate Journalism Professor Carol Holstead, who had thrown it in the trash Friday while cleaning.
"I had the grenade sitting out as a paperweight," she said. "It was a weird present a friend had given me, and I just threw it away."
KU police Sgt. Anthony Augusto said that they received a call from custodian Scott Getter at 6:40 a.m. Getter said that he had found the grenade.
When KU police officer Robert Linzer arrived, Getter handed him the black grenade and told him where he had found it
KU police then called Holstead at home and asked her if she knew why it was in her office and if it was real.
According to KU Public Safety Office, Holstead said the grenade was fake and filled with concrete, and she no longer wanted it.
KU police then called the Overland Park Bomb Squad, which examined the grenade
Bomb squad member Sgt. Keith O'Neil said the grenade looked as if it might contain the blasting cap, and if still could
explode.
The grenade was taken by the bomb squad and is to be destroyed, KU police said.
KU police officer Troy Mailen said he did not know when the grenade would be destroyed.
"I don't know what their procedures are," he said. "They may dismantle it, or they may just blow it up. I don't know."
CITY
Police search for car seen at bank robbery
Lawrence police are looking for a brown, two-door Nissan that was seen driving away from the scene of a Lawrence bank robbery Tuesday.
Police said that the driver might be connected to the crime, but that they also were interested in the car because the driver might be a witness to a crime that is not yet solved.
Central National Bank, 71.1 Wakanusa Drive, was robbed at 4 p.m. Tuesday by a male in his 20s wearing a straw hat, Lawrence police said.
According to witnesses and police, the man entered the bank, brandished a pistol and demanded money.
The man received an undetermined amount of money and fled the bank on foot going west, police said.
Bank employee Ryan Wedel said that it was against the bank's policy to talk about the robbery until it had been solved but that everyone at the bank was handling the situation well and was just trying to get back to conducting business as usual.
"Emotionally, we couldn't be in a better state of mind for the given situation," he said.
Because the car was seen driving away from where the man was last spotted, police think the driver may be a witness or even the suspect himself.
Police ask that anyone who has seen a car that matches the description or has any information about the robbery should call
the police at 841-7210.
STATE
Kansas Republican party rehires former director
TOPEKA — State Republican Chairman Steve Abrams yesterday fired the party's executive director and restored Kris Van Meteren to the post.
Van Meteren was executive director for 15 months before resigning in May to become campaign manager for David Miller in his bid to deny GOP renomination to Gov. Bill Graves.
Abrams dismissed John Potter as executive director at a staff meeting at state party headquarters yesterday morning and installed Van Meteren effective immediately.
Abrams, en route back to Arkansas City where he operates an animal clinic, was not available for comment. He announced the switch from Potter to Van Meteren in a brief news released faxed to news organizations late yesterday morning.
"Kris has a proven track record when it comes to organization, administration and fund-raising," Abrams said. "I am confident that he will use his abilities to elect Republicans at every level in the November elections."
The release made no mention of Van Meteren having been Miller's campaign manager or the dismissal of Potter, who took the job in late May after Van Meteren left to join the Miller campaign.
Northwest raises air fares in midst of negotiations
MINNEAPOLIS — Only days after Northwest Airlines blocked its rivals' attempts to raise leisure fares, the company increased advance purchase fares 4 percent, spuring matching increases from other carriers.
Northwest raised its 14- and 21-day advance purchase and sale fares on Monday night, Northwest spokesman Jon Austin said.
NATION
The move came as Northwest continued contract negotiations with the Air Line Pilots Association as an Aug. 28 strike deadline drew nearer. Northwest also is in contract negotiations with its other five unions.
When Delta Air Lines recently increased its 14- and 21-day advance-purchase fares by 4 percent, most carriers matched the increase. But the airlines backed off after Northwest refused to go along.
Justice Department looks at Gore fund-raising calls
NEW YORK — The Justice Department once again is reviewing whether Vice President Al Gore broke federal election laws when he used White House telephones to make fund-raising calls, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.
The review will help Attorney General Janet Reno decide whether to request an independent counsel to probe the 1996
presidential race.
Reno, who last year elected to not have an independent counsel investigate, is under pressure from Republicans to reverse her stance.
Gore: Again faces review by Justice Department.
A rarely prosecuted law prohibits soliciting campaign donations known as hard money on federal property. Several witnesses to the calls have been interviewed again in
recent weeks and the fund-raising review apparently was prompted by new information about where Gore knew he was raising hard money, the Journal reported.
When Reno decided against appointing the independent counsel, she said Gore was unaware that some of the contributions he raised were diverted by party officials from so-called soft-money accounts that pay for party and issue ads to hard money accounts that directly supported the Clinton-Gore re-election.
Gore has denied wrongdoing. His office would not comment to the Journal on Monday.
New bill may open public housing to more families
Under the proposed legislation, officials would be allowed to set aside more apartments for families who make up to $40,000 a year.
The Clinton administration and Congress are close to an accord on legislation designed to broaden the mix of tenants in public housing, the newspaper said.
NEW YORK—Working families might soon have access to more apartments in public housing projects, which have been reserved almost exclusively for poor people, The New York Times reported yesterday.
Low-income people also would be able to use vouchers to defray the cost of buying a house. And mayors could assume control of poorly run projects and grant more latitude to housing authorities to set rents.
People involved with the talks said the legislation could reach President Clinton's desk as early as September, the Times said.
The bill's backers include officials from large cities who say public housing projects with large clusters of extremely poor people destabilize neighborhoods.
The Associated Press
ON CAMPUS
A back-to-school kick-off party will be held from 7 to 8:30 tonight at the Spencer Museum of Art. Call 864-4710 for more information.
- The KU Ballroom Dancing Club will meet from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Kansas Ballroom in the the Kansas Union.
- Swing lessons will be given. No partner needed. Professional instructors. Open to all. Free. Call Abby at 838-3327 for more information.
Jayhawker Campus Ministry will hold its first weekly campus meeting at 8 p.m. Monday. Call Dave Diefendorf at 840-9469 for more information.
The KU Young Democrats will discuss goals and campaign involvement at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Parlor ABC in the Kansas Union. Freshmen leadership opportunities. Call Phil Stevenson at 841-7307 for more information.
The University Christian Fellowship will meet for Bible study and worship at 7 p.m. Tuesdays at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Tim Watts at 841-3148 for more information.
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ON THE RECORD
A 1999 Kansas registration tag was taken from a KU student's car Monday in the 1200 block of 23rd Street, Lawrence police
A bicycle and a portable CD player were taken from a KU employee's unlocked garage and unlocked car between midnight and 8:30 a.m. Monday, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $520.
A KU student's purse was taken from a vehicle Monday, Lawrence police said. The item was estimated at $40.
Twenty-five dollars was taken from a KU student's residence Monday in the 1000 block of Missouri Street, Lawrence police said.
Several holes were poked in the vinyl top of a KU employee's 1991 yellow Jeep Wrangler yes.
terday inside the Lawrence city limits, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $150
The hood and door of a KU student's 1995 Ford Escort were damaged between 7:30 p.m. Monday and 8:49 a.m. Tuesday, Lawrence police said. The amount of damage was not available.
A spare tire was taken from a KU student's residence Monday in the 900 block of Arkansas Street, Lawrence police said. The damage amount was not available.
A KU student's parking permit was taken Monday from lot 105 behind McCollum Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The permit was valued at $75.
A police officer was dispatched Tuesday to Wescoe Hall to assist a KU student who was having
A KU student's parking permit was taken Aug. 14 from lot 72 in front of the Burge Union, the KU Public Safety Office said. The permit was valued at $75.
trouble breathing, the KU Public Safety Office said. The student was treated for heat exhaustion at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
A truck owned by the KU Memorial Corporation was driven into a concrete garage canopy at 2:15 p.m. Monday on Poplar Lane north of Joyhawk Boulevard, the KU Public Safety Office said. The driver was cited for inattentive driving, and damage to the ranaway was minimal.
A KU student's vehicle was damaged between 6 p.m. Monday and 11 a.m. Tuesday in lot 102, the KU Public Safety Office said.
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