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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.103 NO.5
TUESDAY AUGUST 27 1996
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Topeka man arrested on charges of murder
Kansan staff reporter
A 23-year-old Topeka man was arrested on charges of first degree murder in Topeka at 12:30 a.m. vetteday.
Damon McCray was allegedly involved in the Aug. 15 fatal shooting of Onzie A. Branch outside of Langston's nightclub at 804 W. 24th.
Lawrence police said they have a strong motive in the case from eyewitness accounts and physical evidence found during the on-going investigation. Police said the shooting occurred because of personal issues rather than gang activities.
McCray is being held in the Douglas County jail on one count of first-degree murder and three counts of attempted first-degree murder. His first appearance in court will be at 3 p.m. today.
Student sexually assaulted Sunday in wooded area
Kansan staff report
An 18-year-old KU freshman was sexually attacked Sunday at 11:30 p.m. in the 1400 block of Tennessee Street, Lawrence police said. The woman reportedly left a party and was walking in a wooded area behind a basketball court when she was attacked twice within minutes. Police said the attacks may have been committed by the same man, described as a Caucasian male, who was scared away and then returned to the scene. The woman sustained no physical injuries in the attack.
U.S. officials were warned about barracks bombing
ARLINGTON, Va. — U.S. officials were warned of a high threat level at an Air Force barracks in Saudi Arabia six months before a truck bomb killed 19 U.S. airmen there, a newspaper said yesterday.
A classified report by the Air Force's Office of Special Investigations about the June 25 blast was circulated at the Pentagon and reached the Joint Chiefs of Staff, USA Today said in yesterday's editions.
Intelligence officials said threats to the U.S. military housing complex near Dhahran didn't specify a date or time, the newspaper said.
Defense Department representative Ken Bacon told the newspaper that U.S. officials had detected threats in the months before the bombing. But he also said the Pentagon had made more than 130 security improvements.
Mother Teresa's health improving from treatment
CALCUTTA, India — Mother Teresa sat up in bed and showed other signs of recovery yesterday after six days of treatment in a Calcutta hospital for a faltering heart and lung infection.
"We are very hopeful, though she is still not out of danger," said Sandeep Lahiri, who is one of six physicians treating the Catholic nun.
Mother Teresa found
Mother Teresa
the strength to sit up in bed for a few minutes and to scribble a note saving: "I want to see sisters."
During the weekend her condition stabilized, but her heartbeat remained irregular and she was on a respirator. By last night, doctors had cut her time on the respiator to about half, said J.C. Ghosh, a cardiologist at the Woodlands Nursing Home in Calcutta.
The Associated Press
Mother Teresa turns 86 today.
Higher wages have a cost
Minimum wage increase may pinch pennies
By Neal Shulenburger Kansan staff writer
More people than just minimum wage workers may feel the impact of the minimum wage increase.
On Wednesday President Clinton signed a bill raising the minimum wage from $4.25 to $4.75 beginning Oct. 1. The wage will increase again to $5.10 in August 1997. Before the bill was enacted, the minimum wage had dropped to a 40-year low when adjusted for price increases.
minimum wage might feel the impact of the increase at the cash register.
Gary Toebben, of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, said that even students who did not make
"Most businesses in Lawrence pay higher than the minimum wage, and this will not really effect them," Toeben said. "It will immediately impact the expenses of the businesses that do. That $50 an hour jump will be about a 12 percent increase in payroll. That will mean they will have to raise their prices on goods and services."
Economics professor Chuck Krider said that the change would benefit those minimum wage workers that held onto their jobs following the increase, but a loss in jobs was a possible side-effect.
"The raise will not be an action without cost," Krider said. "The workers who will be in jeopardy are going to be the least-skilled. Now I'm not saying that a lot of businesses will start letting go of minimum wage workers when the
change occurs. I'm saying that over time employers will probably not hire as many people as they would have at $4.25."
Toebben also said there was a possibility of fewer jobs being available in the future because of the wage hike.
"There is no doubt that there will be a job loss. Some businesses will think twice before hiring someone else and some will try to get nine people to do what ten used to." Toobben said.
Mary Jane Hoffer, an account specialist at the School of Business who deals with payroll said she was unsure how the hike would effect the more than 20 employees of the school who were making $4.25 an hour.
"Right now it's just too early to tell," she said. "We'll just have to wait for next year's budget to see what happens."
Minimum wage at a glance
Set to show some spirit
Ken Marshall / Knight-Ridder Tribun
The KU Spirit Squad performs at last night's Get Ready Rally at Memorial Stadium. A crowd of Kansas football fans cheered with the spirit squad in support of the football team.
The Lawrence Journal-World and SuperTarget were two of the sponsors for the event.
Wescoe pitches in to recycle
Bv Dave Breitenstein
Old-fashioned plastic foam food containers used at Wescoe Terrace may appear to be an environmental nemesis, but they're not.
"We have recycling bins for these containers, plus ones for aluminum cans and newspapers," said Denise Svaglic, supervisor of Wesco Terrace.
Plastic foam containers at Wescoe now are made of recycled materials.
Kansan staff writer
Svagliic said the cafeteria had used the recyclable plastic foam containers for about one year. Employees take plastic foam containers to Wal-Mart, but do not receive any money from them. "Hopefully students are recycling the food containers, but it's too early in the school year to
Photo Illustration by Geoff Krieger / KANSAN
tell if they are," she said. "We've got recycling containers here, but it's up to the students to do their job."
Not all students are aware that plastic foam containers can be recycled.
Jennifer Brown, Olathe junior, said she had seen only aluminum can and newspaper recycling bins at the cafeteria. She did not recycle plastic foam containers because she never noticed a bin there.
Cafeterias in the Kansas and Burge Unions use plastic foam containers that are not only made of unrecycled material, but are non-recyclable. Signs urge customers to recycle cans and newspapers, but no information is given about plastic foam containers.
See FOOD. Page 7.
Jay Glatz, manager of food services at the Kansas Union cafeteria, said the unions were looking into recycling the
Mike Russell, director of the Office of Environmental Health and Safety, said KU
KU food services use recyclable plastic foam containers and provides recycle bins.
plastic foam containers, which he says are the best takeout containers.
Policy changes ease battery victims' roles Domestic battery charges will be filed by district attorney's office
By Andrea Albright Kansan staff writer
On Friday, after finding her on the telephone with a friend, Law's boyfriend of eight years tore two phone lines from the wall and damaged a third.
"Lately I've been wanting a better relationship and he doesn't like me getting phone calls," Law said. "He's done this before."
Living in a violent relationship made Bridget Law handy at fixing a broken phone. Saturday, she decided she didn't want to be a repairman anymore.
Law's boyfriend also knocked her to the floor, which left no visible marks, and forced her to stay in their home when he threatened to kill her and himself.
Saturday morning, Law, a secretary at the University, had police remove her boyfriend from the property and filed a domestic battery report.
The district attorney's office, instead of the victim, will now file charges in all cases where there is sufficient evidence to prosecute a case.
Thanks to some new policies and programs announced by newly appointed District Attorney Christine Tonkovich, someone like Law might have an easier time pressing charges.
Sgt. Susan Hadl said Lawrence police did not make an arrest because of the time lapse between the incident and the report, a lack of obvious signs of violence and the man's willingness to cooperate with the police.
"Police must find probable cause to establish that one party was the primary aggressor over the other," Hadl said.
The domestic battery report will be submitted to the district attorney's office to be reviewed, and they will decide how to pursue the case.
Tonkovic said this policy would lower the number of complaints that were dropped before they could go to
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