POLITICS
Vice President Cheney will endorse Kris Kobach, Republican candidate for U.S. House, at breakfast with donors in Overland Park. PAGE 3A
SPORTS
Football fans will find last year's star freshman in unfamiliar surroundings as Jonathan Lamb switches to wide receiver. PAGE 1B
KANSAN
TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2004
VOL. 115 ISSUE 5
www.kansan.com
Kline's CD ban questioned
BY STEPHANE FARLEY
sfarely@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFP WRITER
The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas and Western Missouri is seeking more information from Phill Kline, Kansas attorney general, about his decision to keep more than 30 CDs from being delivered to Kansas libraries.
The CDs were the result of a 2002 lawsuit brought by the state governments of New York and Florida against music distributors Bertelsmann Music Group, EMI Music Distribution, Warner-Elektra-Atlantic Corporation, Sony
KLINE
Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group. The lawsuit, which settled alleged price-fixing between 1995 and 2000 that made prices unusually high, also targeted music retail chains Trans World Entertainment, Tower Records and Music Land Stores. Forty-one other states eventually joined the lawsuit. Seven million CDs, valued at $75.7 million, were delivered to public libraries across the United States. The Lawrence Public Library received 650 CDs.
The ACLU is also seeking information a list of all the CDs that were sent to libraries, a list of the CD titles that were unacceptable, a copy of the settlement agreement and an explanation of how Kline's office evaluated the CDs.
Whitney Watson, spokesman for Kline's office, said only 33 titles out of 1,725 CDs were not sent to libraries in Kansas. The CDs were not sent because
they met one or several of criteria: violence against women, drug abuse, gun violence and violence towards law enforcement.
enrolment.
If libraries want some of the titles that were not delivered, they can sell some of the CDs that they don't want, and buy some of the titles the libraries would like to have, Watson said.
"We're not telling anybody what they can and cannot have," Watson said.
Judith Krug, director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association, said Watson was only partially correct, but there was more to what Watson said.
Receiving CDs actually costs libraries money, Krug said, because the CDs have to be cataloged and placed on the shelf. Normally, placing something on a shelf does not cost money, but some of
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REJECTED CDS
List of CDs chosen by Attorney General Phill Kline's office to be withheld from Kansas libraries:
■ Alice In Chains, Greatest Hits,
Live
■ Big Punisher, Yeeeah Baby
■ Blink 182, Cheshire Cat
■ Foxy Brown, China Doll
■ Concrete Blonde, Bloodletting,
Classic Masters
■ Cypress Hill, III, Live at the
Cypress Hill, III, Live at the Fillmore.
Da Brat. Unrestricted
Umpire
Drew McGinn Who Got Scalped
Drew D. Henry
- jagged Edge, JE Heartbreak
- Live, The Distance to Here
- Mase Harlem World
Notorious B.I.G. Born Again
Amoyu Aumayu Stanikao
- OutKast, Aquemini, Stankonia
- Rage Against the Machine,
- Renegades
- Lou Reed, Growing Up in Public,
Rock and Roll Heart, Sally Can't
Dance, Walk on the Wild Side
Craig, Fresh Show.
- Soul Asylum, Candy From a Stranger, Let Your Dim Light Shine
- Stone Temple Pilots, Tiny Music..Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop
- Toadies, Hell Below/Stars Above
- Various Artists, Bad Boy Records
- Greatest Hits
The Wu-Tang Clan, The W
Wyclef Jean, The Carnival
Source; Kansas Attorney General's Office
Hawkins' suspension indefinite
BY JESSE NEWELL
jnewell@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTWRITER
Kansas junior guard Jeff Hawkins will not participate in his team's exhibition trip to Canada after being suspended indefinitely by coach Bill Self.
Hawkins, who averaged nine minutes per game last year, will sit out to address issues that demand immediate attention. Self said.
Storms bombard Lawrence
Self said Hawkins' behavior issues were not what he considered extremely serious in nature but Self said Hawkins would need to be "a responsible student-athlete at Kansas."
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Self said he would also look for more growth for Hawkins with his teammates.
"He hasn't been negative in any way." Self said, "but certainly he hasn't been as positive of a factor as what I think he could potentially be."
Hawkins averaged 1.7 points in 31 games for the Jayhawks last year. He scored a career-high 19 points in a road victory over TCU.
think it would
Hawkins will be reinstated if these issues are addressed, but there is no timetable for his return.
The suspension opens the door for other Kansas guards. Self wants to give five or six guards the majority of the playing time once the season starts.
playing. "I've told them all along that we return four perimeter players that I guarantee are going to play," Self said, "and everybody else is fighting for one or two spots."
The four perimeter players - seniors Aaron Miles, Keith Langford, Michael Lee and sophomore J.R. Giddens — will be in the rotation, though it is unknown whether Hawkins, or guards Alex Galindo, Russell Robinson, Jeremy Case or Nick Bahe will join them.
Self said he felt Hawkins had the talent to compete for the opening guard spot, but that the suspension would put him behind. He learned of Hawkins' troubles when school started last week.
A lightning bolt, as seen from the 10th floor of Ellsworth Hall, strikes during last night's storm. The strike occurred at 8:30 p.m. Lawrence experienced flash flooding, and several residents lost power.
Sean Smith/KANSAN
— Edited by Steve Vockrodt
BY STEPHANIE FARLEY AND ROSS FITCH editor@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITERS
Lawrence residents took shelter last night as tornado warning sirens blared throughout campus and town.
The Lawrence Police Department plans to hold a briefing this morning.
ing sirens blared throughout campus About 9 p.m., Kansas Public Radio reported a tornado touched down near Clinton Lake. Paula Phillips, director of the Douglas County Emergency Management Center, said she could not confirm the reports.
The sirens, flash floods and power outages were enough to stir Lawrence last night.
"I was just singing songs on the porch and watching the girls run by," Barton said.
Some students ran to their cars. Some students ran to their bessets. And one student sang Iron Maiden songs.
emblems. And one student sang from maths room Jared Barton, Great Bend freshman, lives in Jefferson Commons and sang from his balcony last night as students ran to find shelter in a complex without a shelter.
Barton's lyrics were certainly appropriate as he invited the storm to pour the rain down on him as he reached over the railing in an attempt to entertain.
severe thunderstorm warning.
In a nearby apartment, roommates Ali Starks, Iola junior, Alyson Algrim, Garden City junior, Ashley Drescher, Great Bend junior, and Erica Gilmore, Iola senior, remained calm.
Starks said some of her roommates were freaking out at first but she was able to calm them down.
Barton's roommate, Mark Stansfield, Great Bend freshman, said he was disturbed that Jefferson Commons hadn't given residents set procedures for what to do during a tornado or severe thunderstorm warning.
Reports of flooding were issued shortly after the tornado sirens ended. According to Kansas Public Radio, Topeka received more than two inches of rain in less than two hours.
But flash flooding, Phillips said, was a major problem. Some areas of Lawrence were flooding more than others, including 19th Street and Naismith Drive and 19th Street and Ousdahl Road.
The Jaybowl in the Kansas Union was also a victim to the floods.
Phillips said that although she and other storm watchers saw several funnel clouds, they were fairly confident that no tornado had touched the ground.
As of 11:30 p.m., Phillips said the EMC had received no reports of damage or injuries. The warning sirens only operated for six minutes.
Josh Peters, Leavenworth sophomore, said he was stranded at the Jaybowl arcade when it began to flood, but he did have one accomplishment: He barely saved Dance Dance Revolution from the waters rushing into the bowling alley.
Across town at Oliver Hall, students experienced a much different scenario. Mike Launius, Chicago freshman, said a resident assistant told him and his friends to take cover downstairs. Even after the sirens stopped, the students had to leave the building when the basement flooded.
ed for six minutes. Driving across town, road lanes were barely visible, if at all. Windshield wipers were useless and foggy car windows made it difficult to see. Lawrence police officers were stationed throughout Lawrence to aid stranded motorists.
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Political radio talk show on KJHK Graduate student Rachel Robson takes time off from KU med school studies to host her own show featuring local politicians. PAGE 3A
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Bill Self to decide season redshirts Self will determine at least one player who will redshirt the upcoming basketball season before the preseason trip to Canada. PAGE 1B
Index
News Briefs ... 2A
Weather ... 2A
Opinion ... 4A
Sports ... 1B
Cornish ... 4B
Crossword ... 4B
Classifieds ... 4B & 5B
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