4A NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAVID KANSON
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2006
OUTREACH
Mindy Ricketts/KANSAN
Blake Cripps, Topeka senior, reads the TV Guide aoud Tuesday afternoon at Audio-Reader, 1120 W. 11th St. Audio-Reader provides free recordings of a wide variety of printed materials to the visually impaired, blind and print disabled over closed-circuit radio and on the telephone. Audio-reader is having its annual audio equipment sale this weekend to raise money for its services.
Sale starts 'For Your Ears Only'
Proceeds from event benefit free Audio-Reader program
BY COURTNEY HAGEN
The University of Kansas will be home to one of the Midwest's biggest audio sales this weekend.
"For Your Ears Only", a benefit for the Audio-Reader program, which will be celebrating its 35th anniversary this fall, will be today and Saturday at the Douglas County Fairgrounds and will feature more than 10,000 items.
Money raised through the sale will help Audio-Reader, a program started at the University, maintain its free services to the visually and print impaired.
Sarah Hemme, Audio-Reader development associate and Perry senior, said that everything from CDs and DVDs to musical equipment and even turntables could be purchased for reduced prices. Hemme said that Audio-Reader accepted pieces from donors for the sale that are new or in slightly used condition.
"Access to information is essential to all individuals and if you can't access information, whether it is the grocery ads, obituaries or the latest selection from Oprah's Book Club, you are isolated," said
Lori Kesinger, Audio-Reader programming manager. "Many of our listeners are newly blind and don't have the knowledge of or access to much of the adaptive aids that exist, so we are one of the first links for them learning how to live with a disability."
The program is a free information and entertainment source. Audio-Reader volunteers read everything from area newspapers to bestselling novels to popular magazines, broadcast through the program's free radios and streaming on the Web.
The program, the second formed in the world, began in 1971 as a means to make print materials more accessible to those who could not see to read them. A similar service in Minnesota was around when Audio-Reader was founded, but the program at the University is the first to be associated with a university.
Audio-Reader grew from a simple vision to a group of strong volunteers. Marissa Massoni, Lawrence freshman, got involved with Audio-Reader as a sophomore at Free State High School. She reads papers from Northwest Missouri for the program.
"Just reading the newspapers
(for the program), I've found out a lot about Kansas and Missouri," Massoni said. "It's great just knowing that I'm helping to connect other people to their community through the community calendar and obituaries in the papers."
Through Internet broadcasts, the programs are now available worldwide.
The organization started the "For Your Ears Only" benefit to help fund these efforts.
The event kicks off at 6 p.m., at the Douglas County Fairgrounds with a James Bond-themed early-bird sale for a jump on the best merchandise before Saturday. The Lonesome Hoboes will perform. Tickets are $5 in advance from Audio-Reader or $7 at the door. The sale continues at 10 a.m. on Saturday with deejays from KJHK and half prices at noon, $5 for a bag of merchandise at 2 p.m. and free giveaways of most items at 3:30 p.m.
Kansan staff writer Courtney Hagen can be contacted at chagen@ kansan.com.
WAR ON TERROR
Edited by Erin Wiley
Anti-terror trial law passes President, Congress reach agreement on interrogations
"I'm pleased to say that this agreement preserves the single most potent tool we have in protecting America and foiling terrorist attacks," the president said after the agreement was announced.
The House and Senate are expected to vote next week on the legislation.
BY ANNE PLUMMER FLAHERTY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sen. John McCain of Arizona, one of three GOP lawmakers who told Bush he couldn't have the legislation the way he initially asked for it, said the deal "gives the president the tools he needs to continue to fight the war on terror and bring
WASHINGTON - The White House and rebellious Senate Republicans announced agreement Thursday on rules for the interrogation and trial of suspects in the war on terror. President Bush urged Congress to put it into law before adjourning for the midterm elections.
The agreement contains concessions by both sides, though the White House yielded ground on two of the most contentious issues. The Bush administration agreed to drop one provision narrowly interpreting international standards of prisoner treatment and another allowing defendants to be convicted on evidence they never see.
The pact follows more than a week of squabbling among Republicans that had threatened to derail an anti-terrorism agenda put together by the White House and GOP leaders going into the Nov. 7 elections. It was announced at a time when support for Bush's proposal in the GOP-run Congress had been crumbling, but the agreement could lead to enactment of one of Bush's top remaining priorities of the year.
The accord, however, explicitly states the president has the authority to enforce Geneva Convention standards and enumerates acts that constitute a war crime, including torture, rape, biological experiments and cruel and inhuman treatment. White House officials said these provisions would provide the CIA the clarity it needs to continue with the interrogation of its most valued suspects.
these evil people to justice."
The agreement would grant Congress' permission for Bush to convene military tribunals to prosecute terrorism suspects, a process the Supreme Court had blocked in June because it had not been authorized by lawmakers.
During those trials, coerced testimony would be admissible if a judge allows and if it was obtained before cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment was forbidden by a 2005 law. Bush wanted to allow all such testimony while the maverick senators — McCain, John Warner of Virginia and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina — had wanted to exclude it.
The central sticking point had been a demand by the three senators that there be no attempt to redefine U.S. obligations under the Geneva Conventions.
CIA Director Michael Hayden praised the deal a week after saying his agency needed to be confident that its interrogation program for high-value terror suspects is legal.
"If this language becomes law, the Congress will have given us the clarity and the support that we need to move forward with a detention and interrogation program that allows us to continue to defend the homeland, attack al-Qaeda and protect American and allied lives," he wrote to CIA personnel.
Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., indicated he was not satisfied with the piece on classified information: "We're going to look at it closely. And we have some recommendations with respect to classified information."
Added Stephen Hadley, the president's national security adviser, on CIA interrogations: "The good news is the program will go forward."
Hadley said the bar would be "very high" and that classified information would not be automatically shared with terrorists.
"Our view is we think it's a good approach because the likelihood of that occurring would be very remote," Hadley said.
Bush expressed support for the deal before microphones in Orlando, Fla., where he was campaigning for Republican candidates.
The agreement "clears the way to do what the American people expect us to do — to capture terrorists, to detain terrorists, to question terrorists and then to try them," he said.
The accord was sealed in a 90-minute session in the office of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who had earlier in the day told Warner, McCain and Graham it was time to close the deal. The four lawmakers were joined by Hadley, as well as other administration officials, for the final session.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Dev., said Democrats backed the GOP's efforts to bring terrorists to justice. "Five years after 9/11, it is time to make the tough and smart decisions to give the American people the real security they deserve," Reid said.
The agreement was hailed by human rights groups.
"Today's agreement makes clear that the president cannot unilaterally downgrade the humane treatment standards of the Geneva Conventions," said Elisa Massimino, Washington director of Human Rights First.
Whatever the outcome, the controversy has handed critics of the president's conduct of the war on terror election-year ammunition.
Bush's former secretary of state, Colin Powell, dismayed the administration when he sided with Warner, McCain and Graham. He said Bush's plan, which would have formally changed the U.S. view of the Geneva Conventions on rules of warfare, would cause the world "to doubt the moral basis" of the fight against terror and "put our own troops at risk."
The handling of suspects is one of two administration priorities relating to the war on terror.
The other involves the president's request for legislation to explicitly allow wiretapping without a court warrant on international calls and e-mails between suspected terrorists in the United States and abroad. One official said Republicans had narrowed their differences with the White House over that issue, as well, and hoped for an agreement soon.
HEALTH
Trade groups to provide food-safety measures Increased sanitation, testing expected to prevent future bacteria outbreaks
BY TERENCE CHEA ASSOCIATED PRESS
SALINAS, Calif. — California produce growers and processors worked to draw up new food-safety measures Thursday as government investigators trying to pinpoint the source of the deadly E. coli outbreak narrowed their search to three counties.
Trade groups hoped to deliver the guidelines to the Food and Drug Administration within a week but were unsure how long it would take
to win the agency's approval.
"We have people who hope this will be resolved soon so they can salvage something of this season," said Tom Nassif, president of Western Growers Association, an industry group representing about 3,000 fruit and vegetable farmers in California and other states. "Once we go to Washington and iron out those guidelines, we'll be much closer to a date."
Federal officials have required the industry to adopt new food-safety measures before they will lift
a week-old consumer warning on fresh spinach.
Nassif said it was too early to provide details, but that the new measures would likely focus on better water and soil testing and beefed-up sanitation standards for field workers and packaging plants.
The guidelines will be part of a proposal for protecting produce from the bacteria that have killed one person and sickened at least 157 others across the country since last month.
Idaho officials were investigating the death of a 2-year-old on Wednesday, reportedly after eating spinach.
He said the industry must "declare war on all food-borne illnesses. We have to do everything to assure the American public that our food is safe to consume."
The industry's response to the E. coli outbreak traced to bagged spinach from central California would build on existing efforts to protect produce from contamination rather than entail a complete overhaul, Nassif said.
Hergott said a number of Internet companies had certain styles for the IDs they produced. Some have a series of checkboxes on the back, or they have a certain feel to them.
Some Web sites that offer fake IDs will take only money wired to them
Then the bouncer checks issue and expiration dates and matches the height and weight on the ID with the person who presented it.
— no credit cards, no checks. One site, www.newfakeid.com, said wire transfers should be sent to a man named Panayiota Karamanoglou in Athens, Greece. Many IDs, including Kansas driver's licenses, have a hologram distinctive to the issuer. The holograms are clearly visible under ultraviolet light, and the more intricate ones are
"Some fake IDs say right on the back that they're fake," Hergott said.
"We kind of feel bad taking their fake IDs," Hergott said. "I mean, I remember when I had one. It's just one of those things to protect the interests of the bar."
Kansan staff writer David Linhardt can be contacted at dlinhardt@kansan.com.
FAKES (CONTINUED FROM 3A)
Edited by Shana Upsdell
At Mickey's Irish Pub, sometimes Hergott and a patron disagree about the validity of an ID. If a person insists the ID is real, Hergott invites them to call the Lenexa Police Department to double-check it. The cops come, see that the ID is fake and simply arrest the person, Hergott said. All fake IDs go to the Alcoholic Beverage Control, a unit of the Kansas Department of Revenue.
almost impossible to fake.
Admission is Free
Saudi Student Association
Saudi Student Association invites you to attend the Saudi National Day. Event will include lecture on Saudi history and culture, Saudi exhibits,and Saudi ethnic cuisine.
12:30 pm
Friday, Sept. 22
Kansas Union Ballroom
for more information email saudiku@gmail.com
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