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VOL.104,NO.16
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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Beers could face charges in four states
60 more years are possible for former fugitive
By Manny Lopez
Kansan staff writer
Law enforcement officials said Chad Beers' eight-day journey from Arkansas to Nebraska could cost taxpayers $100,000, but they said he too would pay.
"He could face up to 50 or 60 years on the charges in Nebraska alone," said Gary Lacey, lawyer for Lancaster
County. Nebraska. "He will definitely be held for the next six months or more while he's tried on those charges."
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attempted robbery, assault, flight to avoid arrest, theft and using a weapon to commit a felony.
Beers, 24, was captured Sept. 7 in Lincoln, Neb., after a high-speed chase that involved a stolen Lawrence
The truck was valued at about $14,000. That, combined with about $60,000 in overtime hours and fixed costs, such as gas, salaries and cars, could add up to as much as $100,000, said Pete Nagurny, a U.S. Marshal in Topeka.
public works truck.
Nagurny said about 100 various officers from agencies stretching from Fort Smith, Ark., to Lancaster County, Neb., were involved in the search. He said Beers could face additional criminal charges from five different jurisdictions.
"He will probably be locked up until after I retire." Nagirrey said.
But Nagurry say if Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Nebraska and federal officials decide to press charges, he could be locked up much longer.
For now, Nebraska officials have the authority to hold Beers or release him to federal officials, Naguny said.
"Possession is nine-tenths of the law, so Nebraska can do what they want," he said.
If Nebraska pursues charges against Beers, the state might be required to pay for any medical attention Beers might need while he is in custody, Nagumry said. Beers was shot in the ankle, and he cut his leg while on the run.
A preliminary hearing time for Beers is to be scheduled Sept. 9, Lacey said If convicted in Nebraska, Beers would have to serve that time before being released to other authorities. Nagumay said Beers already had a federal detainer against him and a detainer from Arkansas. That means is that once Beers has served his time in Nebraska, he would become custody of the next jurisdiction that held the next detainer.
"With his track record in the federal system, he's going to be in a serious maximum security facility for some time." Nagurny said.
On Aug. 30, two days before Beers was scheduled to begin a 14-year sentence at a federal penitentiary for the
1993 kidnapping of an Arkansas man, he escaped from the Sebastian County Jail in Fort Smith.
Beers' journey took him from Arkansas to near Tulsa, Okla., where he stole a truck with another escaped prisoner, Scott Scanlon. Scanlon was later captured in Wilson County near Fredonia. Then Beers was seen numerous times in Lawrence, Topeka and at his hideout near Hollot.
KU administrators list University priorities
Despite Beers' history of escaping from authorities, which includes a 21-day run from Douglas County officials last October, Lacey said he was not worried that Beers would escape.
"He's in jail after all." Lacey said. "We're not worried he'll escape from here."
By David Wilson Kansan staff writer
University administrators have come up with a list of 30 ways to improve the University of Kansas.
The ideas are nothing new, administrators admit. But the absence of a permanent chancellor doesn't mean that nothing will be done this year, said Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor. Administrators will continue with initiatives to improve KU, he said.
"They're not surprises," Meyen said. "What we've done is to bring them into focus, even though it's a transitional year."
The following five improvements were listed as top priorities by the administrators:
The list comes after an 18-month review by administrators of problems facing the University, Meyen said.
Increase public understanding of the University.
"These are institution-wide initiatives," he said.
"A lot of people don't understand what a research university is," he said.
Tom Hutton, director of University Relations, said that research he directed this summer showed that many Kansans did not know about the research KU professors and graduate students did in addition to teaching.
Increasing public understanding of KU was named as a priority because of that and other misunderstandings, Hutton said.
"It's a realization that we haven't done a good job of telling Kansans about the impact that the University has on their lives," he said. "The theory is that if people understand the University, they'll be more likely to support it."
Provide a more diverse faculty, staff and student body.
Sherwood Thompson, director of Minority Affairs, said he was pleased to see a diversity priority on the list.
"This is a statement of commitment from the administration," he said.
Meyen said that commitment included changing KU's climate.
"It's far more than recruiting and retaining minority students," he said. "We're talking about building a climate. We're looking at it from a much broader perspective."
Provide University research for private industry.
The federal government's call for the United States to become more competitive in the global market means that University researchers will have to have work more closely with industry, said Howard Mossbier director of technology transfer
Mossberg said the plan to build a medical research facility on West Campus would help achieve this goal.
"The upshot is, if we succeed in the game to keep laboratories, products will flow." he said.
Find out what problems face freshmen and sophomores and address the problems.
Allan Cigler, professor of political science, said that this was a priority because faculty members had noticed that their expectations about new students did not match some new students' expectations of college.
Administrators hope to find solutions to problems defined by a freshman-sophomore experience committee, headed by Cigler. The committee was formed in 1993 and will report its findings to administrators next year.
But funding for a more expanded MBA program and more courses in health services administration are pending approval from the Kansas Legislature, he said.
Robert Stark, dean of the Regents Center, said some of the expansion already had happened and cited more courses in engineering management as an example.
Offer more graduate courses at the KU Regents Center in Overland Park and at the Capitol Center in Topeka.
The other 25 items on the list ranged from improving campus signs and gateway entrances to creating a new computerized payroll system for employees.
Paul Kotz / KANSAN
Maggie Sieber, 5 year KU employee, stops a car at the traffic booth located near the Chi Omega Fountain.
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Sneaking on campus is a risky move
By Jennifer Freund
Kansan staff writer
Jerel Harris admits that he conned a KU traffic booth attendant so that he could drive on campus one weekday afternoon.
"My friend told me that he drove up and told the lady that she was a visitor and needed to go to Strong, and she let him go even though he was really a student," said Harris, Grambling, La, sophomore. "One time I lied to get on campus by saying that I had a large load of equipment to pick up at Strong, and she let me go."
Although unauthorized vehicles are not allowed on campus during the weekdays from 7:45 a.m. to 5 p.m., some students still attempt to drive on campus.
Tom Spencer, Dodge City senior and traffic booth attendant, said that when students drove past the booth he reported them to the KU police department.
"I take down the license plate numbers and turn them over to the KU police," he said. "I've seen the police pull someone over and give them a ticket for reckless driving."
Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking, said that driving through campus was not an illegal offense but a parking violation.
"There is no set fine," she said. "If they drive through and we can catch them, we let them know that they have to have a permit. If they do it again, they are written a ticket."
Hultine said that sometimes police would stop offenders and let them know that they were not supposed to drive on campus. She said the police issued tickets if the person was speeding or didn't stop at a stop sign. No ticket can be issued by the police for just driving through campus during the restricted hours.
"Most people do it by accident," she said.
"When the person is driving past the booth, and the attendant is trying to stop them by putting their hand, the drivers think that they are just waving at them to go by."
Most students said they had never driven through campus during restricted hours, while some students said they had driven by or at least had friends who had.
"I did it once," said Cullen Dalton, Fort Worth junior. "It was accidental, so I turned around.
There should be a folding stop there like they have at weigh stations."
Travis Daisie, Goodland junior, said that that the police had caught his friend when he drove by the booth.
"He did it once on accident and didn't get stopped, so he did it again, and the KU police got him," he said.
Unauthorized vehicles are allowed on campus at the traffic booth employee's discretion. Hultine said that they were allowed on campus if the driver had to pick up or drop off a large package or if the driver was dropping off a person with a handicap.
During restricted hours, only campus vehicles, KU busses and vehicles with blue parking permits are permitted to drive on campus.
To obtain a blue permit, a person's age or age plus years of service to the University must equal 60, and they must work in the area and pay a $40 fee.
The three booths are located near the Chi Omega fountain, Watson Library and Memorial Drive.
The pressures of college life can lead to a buildup of stress. However, several location options give students, faculty and staff a way to defeat tension.
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Program to allow KU students to teach local kids
By Colleen McCain Kansan staff writer
To accomplish this, the Lawrence senior and two other KU students are beginning Teach for America KU. Ford, Brynn Edmonds, Lawrence senior, and Chris Reedy, Topeka junior, hope the new program will allow KU students to assist in Lawrence classrooms.
Jennifer Ford believes KU students should give something back to the Lawrence community.
"We are always seeking ways to improve our relationship with the community," said Ford, director of the Center for Community Outreach. "We hope that this will get people who are educated interested in education."
Teach for America KU is a spinoff of Teach for America, a five-year-old national program that places recent college graduates in under-resourced urban and rural public schools for two-year teaching assignments.
Unlike the national program, Ford said the KU chapter would require students to donate a small amount of their time each week working in Lawrence schools.
Teach for America KU will have an organizational meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday at Alcove I in the Kansas Union.
Edmonds, who is president of the School of Education Student Organization, said she hoped students from a diverse cross-section of majors would attend the meeting.
"Like the national program, we are aiming to attract noneducation majors," she said. "We assume that education majors already have the interest in promoting education. Students from all majors can provide role models and inspire younger students."
Edmonds said the chapter first would obtain approval for the program from the superintendent of Lawrence public schools. Then students would be placed in classrooms.
Reedy said ultimately the KU chapter would foster interest in the national program.
"The idea is to attract people who are young, energetic and skilled," he said.
"We want the KU students to interact with the students and eventually help teach lessons," she said. "We don't want this to be a program where the KU students just sit and cut out construction paper."
Reedy, a philosophy and English major, hopes to spend the first two years after he graduates as a teacher for Teach for America.
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Chris Reedy, Topeka junior, Jennifer Ford, Lawrence senior, and Bryn Edmonds, Lawrence senior, are starting a Teach for America Chapter at KU.
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"A lot of students would like to teach, but they don't want to do it for the rest of their lives," Reedy said. "The national program and the local program give students a chance to give something back."