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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2004
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ON THE RECORD
A 20-year-old KU student reported the theft of a Douglas County Bank Visa card. The card was stolen between 3 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday from the 600 block of Gateway Court. The card has not been recovered.
A 19-year-old KU student was released from jail Wednesday afternoon after paying $450 bail. The student had been held since Sunday, Aug. 29, for driving while intoxicated, minor in possession of alcohol, open container in vehicle and possession of drug paraphernalia.
ON CAMPUS
The Office of Study Abroad will host Australia Night tonight at 7 in the Malott Room at the Kansas Union.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Arrest made in Kansas City murders
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An inner city neighborhood that had lived in fear after the bodies of drug users and prostitutes were found on vacant property, rejoiced after a man with a lengthy criminal history was charged with one of the six deaths.
Sheliah McKinzie, 38. Semen found on McKinzie's body linked Blair to the crime.
Then yesterday, police announced they had asked prosecutors to charge Blair in three assault/rape cases, as well as the deaths of the other five women whose bodies were found recently in an 18-block area east of downtown.
On Tuesday, prosecutors charged Terry A. Blair, 43, with one count of first-degree murder in the death of
downtown. Police had earlier said that they believed the six homicides were the
work of one killer
work of one killer.
When Blair was arrested last week and questioned in the slayings, he was on parole for killing his ex-girlfriend, Angela Monroe, who was the mother of his two children. According to court records, Blair killed Monroe because he was angry she was working as a prostitute.
The charges against Terry Blair brought relief to community members, many of whom knew his family.
International affair
Angela Dittrich, assistant director in the Office of Study Abroad, presents information about the University's program in Spain at the Study Abroad Fair yesterday afternoon in the Kansas Union.
NATION
U.S.Military Academy gives Bob Dole its highest honors
WEST POINT, N.Y. — Former Sen. Bob Dole will receive one of the U.S. Military Academy's highest honors later this month when he's presented with West Point's Thayer Award.
with West Point's July Named for Syllanus Thayer, known as the father of the military academy, the award is presented by West Point's Association of Graduates to an outstanding citizen whose service and accomplishments in the national interest exemplify the academy's motto of "Duty, Honor, Country."
Dole enlisted in the Army in 1942 and sustained a combat wound in Italy during World War II that cost him the use of his right arm. He retired from the Senate in 1996 to run for president.
Six bomber defendants may receive the death penalty
president. Dole will receive the Thayer Award during ceremonies on Sept. 29.
WORLD
SAN'A, Yemen — A trial into the almost four-year-old bombing of a U.S. warship in Aden Harbor that killed 17 Navy sailors concluded yesterday with prosecutors seeking the death penalty for six defendants.
The six defendants, including a Saudi in U.S. custody who is being tried in absentia, are the first people to be tried in the attack, carried out by two suicide bombers in an explosives laden boat on October 12, 2000.
The men are charged with belonging to Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network, forming an armed gang with the purpose of carrying out crimes against the state, resisting authorities and forging documents.
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The judge adjourned the trial until Sept. 29, when he will issue his verdict.
If convicted, the men face between 15 years in jail and the death penalty. The death sentence is considered unlikely because the defendants are not accused of being the actual bombers.
The five accused in court, all Yemenis, are Jamal al-Badavi, Maamoun Msouh, Fahd al-Qasa, Ali Mohamed Saleh and Murad al-Sirouri. None have ever formally entered pleas.
bombers. In closing arguments, the prosecution demanded that the maximum sentence be issued against the defendants, but defense counsel rejected the charges.
A sixth defendant, Saudi-born alleged mastermind of the Cole attack Abd al-Rahim al-Nashir, is in U.S. custody at an undisclosed location.
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Where is one of largest collection of sci-fi
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literature?
The Center for Study of Science Fiction is located at the Spencer Research Library, just behind Strong Hall.
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CORRECTION
Yesterday's University Daily Kansan contained an error. In the map that accompanied "Wireless Net to spread," Marvin Hall was mislabeled as the Spencer Museum of Art. The museum is directly west of the Kansas Union.
CAMPUS
top seniors throughout
Del Shanker, interim president and chief executive officer of the Alumni Association, presented Carr the award at a program in Regent Theatre in Wellington.
Alumni Association awards graduate for volunteer work
Last night the University of Kansas Alumni Association awarded 1973 KU graduate David Carr the Mildred Clofetler Alumni Award. It recognizes his University-affiliated volunteer work, specifically for the Kansas Honors Program, which recognizes top seniors throughout Kansas.
Wellington.
Carr, now the executive vice president and vice chairman of First National Bank in Wellington, served as coordinator for the Chicago alumni chapter from 1977-78, served on the Greater University Fund Advisory Board from 1981-85, as well as volunteered for the Office of Admissions and Scholarship as a student recruiter.
Amanda O'Toole
An unidentified student was taken from Mrs.E's cafeteria in Lewis Hall after passing out around 7 p.m.yesterday evening.
Displ make Big H
Male student passes out, hits head in Mrs. E's cafeteria
A male student, as he was passing out, hit his head on the metal top of the area where students put their trays on the conveyor belt, Zellmer said.
on the conveyor belt
Matt Zellner, Inver Grove Heights,
Minnp, freshman, said he was eating
dinner at the cafeteria and heard a
thud. He went over and saw someone
on the ground.
Andi Porter, Roeland Park freshman, said she saw him being taken out on a stretcher to an ambulance with his head in bandages.
Neither knew the identity of the person. Cafeteria employees declined comment.
Andy Hyland
STATE
Directors to hold casting call for movie to be filmed in KC
Directors will hold a casting call to audition actors of all ages for 17 roles in a feature film on Saturday. The auditions will begin at 10 a.m. at Screenland, 17th and Washington Streets, in Kansas City, Mo.
FilmFest KC will feature the public directed reading at Bar Natasha, 1911 Main St., Kansas City, Mo, on the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 19. Roles in the reading may result in roles in the film.
lizzy the movie, will film in the Kansas City area in the spring of 2005.
Actors' should bring a head shot and résumé. For more information, contact Todd Norris, director of the reading, at (913) 710-9986 or Tara Veneruso, director/co-writer of Izzy, at (323) 463-1996.
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