2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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WEDNESDAY , SEPTEMBER 29, 2004
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WEATHER Today
Feeling Like Fall
FOUR-DAY FORECAST
Tomorrow Friday
82 49 Wormer
73 59
Rain/T-Storms
Rain/T-Storms
Saturday
Sunday
66 47
71 44
Sunshine
Cooler
- Nathan Dame, KUJH-TV
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When is the Underground Open?
The Underground finally opened September 21st. There are numerous restaurants there including Chik-fil-A and Pizza Hut. There is also a coffee bar.
The Underground's hours are as follows:
■ Food Services: 7am-5pm M-F
■ Coffee & Convenience Shop: 7a.m.
10p.m. M-T, 7a.m.-5p.m. F
Matt Calbeck,
Garden City junior,
plays a four-mallet
marimba piece for
Professor Kevin
Bobo. Calbeck spent
23 hours on percussion
practice last week to prepare for his lesson.
Percussion performance
'The New York Times' sues John Ashcroft
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — The New York Times sued Attorney General John Ashcroft yesterday, seeking to block the Justice Department from obtaining records of telephone calls between two veteran journalists and their confidential sources.
The lawsuit said the Justice Department was "on the verge" of getting records as part of a probe aimed at learning the identity of government employees who may have provided information to the newspaper. It asked a judge to intervene.
The paper said the government intends to get the records, which reflect confidential communications between the journalists Philip Shenon and Judith Miller and their sources, from third parties unlikely to be interested in challenging its authority.
The lawsuit said the scope of the government's demand for telephone records meant that the records would expose the identities of dozens of confidential sources used by the reporters for an array of articles about Sept. 11, the government's handling of continued threats from Al Qaeda and the war in Iraq.
George Freeman, a lawyer for the Times, said most of the sources had no connection to the government's probe.
The lawsuit said the Justice Department has advised the Times that it planned to obtain records of all telephone calls by Shenon and Miller for 20 days in the months immediately following the Sept.11,2001, terrorist attacks.
"We are very troubled at this brazen intrusion into our relationship with our sources, which is unconstitutional and endangers our free press," he said.
Floyd Abrams, the attorney who filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in
Manhattan, said it was "a very dangerous and unprecedented notion" for the Justice Department to seek telephone records from third parties rather than the Times.
"In this case, we're talking about the potential compromising of literally dozens of sources because telephone records relate to an enormous array of stories," he said. "It would threaten the ability of all journalists to promise confidentiality to their sources."
A telephone message left with a government spokeswoman for comment was not immediately returned yesterday.
Shenon was one of two Times reporters sent into combat with U.S. troops during the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
Since the fall of 2001, he has reported on homeland security, terrorism and the work of the Sept. 11 commission.
Miller, who won a Pulitzer Price for her January 2001 series on Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, has reported extensively for the Times on national security issues, especially terrorism, the Middle East and weapons of mass destruction.
The University of Kansas is having a blood drive this week. Students can donate blood between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. today at the Kansas Union Ballroom or in Allen Fieldhouse.
ON CAMPUS
- Ecumenical Christian Ministries will hold a forum today. The topic will be "Magnetism in the Natural World — Causes and Effects" by Thomas P, Armstrong, professor emeritus of physics and astronomy and vice president of fundamental technologies. The forum will be from 12:30 to 13:00 p.m. at ECM.
ON THE RECORD
A 20-year-old male KU student reported to Lawrence Police that someone had stolen his 1990 Buick Rivera sometime around 5 a.m. Saturday in the 3800 block of Shadybrooke Lane. His loss is estimated at $1,500.
A 21-year-old male KU student reported to Lawrence Police that someone had broken the back window of his car and stolen his car stereo Sunday in the 1100 block of Tennessee Street. His loss is estimated at $500.
A 20-year-old male KU student reported to Lawrence Police that someone had stolen his 1996 Mitsubishi Spider Eclipse Sunday around 6 a.m. on the 1100 block of Ohio Street. His loss is estimated at $12,000.
A 21-year-old male KU student reported to Lawrence Police that someone had stolen his 1988 BMW around 5 p.m. Sunday on the 200 block of east 8th Street. His golf clubs were also in the car. His loss is estimated at $17,000.
STATE
Plane crashes near Wichita; leaves two injured in hospital
Joe H. Yeager, 76, was in critical condition and Clifford E. Donnelly, 87, the passenger in the plane, was in fair condition, both at a Wichita hospital yesterday.
KINGMAN A small,fixed-wing plane crashed during a training flight injuring two Wichita men who were onboard.
- The Associated Press
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