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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 2010
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VOLUME 121 ISSUE 140
CRIME
Students linked to crash at Louise's
BY KEVIN HARDY khardy@kansan.com
Lawrence police have connected two KU students with the early Sunday incident at Louise's West, in which an SUV crashed into the front entrance before driving away.
Sgt. Damon Thomas, of the Lawrence Police Department, said late Tuesday that officers received a tip from an individual who said they knew the suspect. Bar management offered a $1,000 reward for information on the suspect's identity.
Thomas said a female student, born in 1987, received a citation and a notice to appear Monday for failing to report an accident, leaving the scene of an accident, reckless driving and driving with a suspended or revoked license.
"She said she had had some drinks earlier in the night," he said. "But we obviously didn't have probable cause to do anything with that three days later."
Thomas said alcohol had likely played a role in the incident.
Police said a woman was spotted between 2:30 and 2:45 a.m. Sunday driving away from the bar, at 1307 W. 7th St. Thomas said the woman was driving a silver SUV, owned by a male KU student from St. Louis. The car's owner — who allegedly loaned the car to the female driver — originally reported the car stolen. Thomas said. The male suspect could face charges for filing a false report if the District Attorney decides to prosecute, he said. The car was found in Lawrence.
Police said they expect to release the individuals' names today.
P. J. Mather, general manager, said the bar should reopen by Friday or Saturday.
Edited by Megan Heacock
LAWRENCE
New shelter moves forward
BY ZACH GETZ
zgetz@kansan.com
The Lawrence City Commission passed on first reading a zoning ordinance that would move the Lawrence Community Shelter from 944 Kentucky St. to 3701 Franklin Circle, an area in southeast Lawrence near the county jail.
LIFE CHOICES
SEE SHELTER ON PAGE 7A
Unexpectedly expecting
How four women faced unplanned pregnancies
Editor's note: About 3 million women experience unexpected pregnancies in the United States each year, and most are between the ages of 15 and 24. At an age when life's opportunities start to present themselves and a picture of the future is coming into view, these women are faced with a difficult choice they aren't ready to make: abort the pregnancy or have a baby. Although most people approach abortion as a philosophical and moral issue, these women approach their decisions from the most intimate and life-changing perspective. These are the stories of four Kansas women, including two KU students, confronted with a pregnancy they weren't prepared for and a choice they have to live with for the rest of their lives. Two asked that their real names not be used to protect their privacy.
BY ALY VAN DYKE avandyke.kansan.com
Five months pregnant and Tae had never felt the baby kick until today, while waiting in a room at Planned Parenthood.
It kicks again. She smiles, places her hand on her slightly distended belly to feel where the kick came from. The baby kicks again. And again. And again.
She yells for a nurse.
Something's wrong. The baby. It's going crazy." "Oh," the nurse says from the door. "That's probably the baby dying."
The words crash over Tae, punching into her like the positive pregnancy test had five months ago. Baby was dying
Her baby was dying
She hears the "Yes, yes, yes" she heard from family, friends, the baby's father about getting an abortion. She remembers the "Never" she told herself.
Her baby is dying and it is her choice. Her choice to go to the clinic.Her choice to abort the pregnancy. Her choice.
She cries the tears she's been holding back since she walked through the front doors with her dad two hours earlier. She cries for the decision she was backed into, the one she never thought she'd have to make.
Taé was alone in the waiting room, but she wasn't alone in her decision. Every year in the United
She cries, alone.
States, about 1 million of the 6 million pregnancies end in abortion. In 2008, physicians performed 10,642 abortions in Kansas
- more than half to women ages 15 to 24, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
Although nearly half of all pregnancies in the U.S. are unplanned, no two stories are the same.
Tae was conflicted about her decision to abort, but Katie did what she felt she had to do to keep an abusive ex-boyfriend from marring her entire life. Two years later, pregnant by another man at age 20, Katie had the baby but gave up her son for adoption.
Erin, at age 16, decided to keep a child conceived in rape.
Vanessa aborted five weeks into her unwanted pregnancy so she could provide a better childhood for her future children than she had.
These women all say they made the right decision for them at the time - a responsibility, they say, every woman must carry.
SEE PREGNANCIES ON PAGE 4A
Graphic by Adam Buhler/KANSAN
Dan Senor, author of the book "Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle", spoke to students and faculty Tuesday night in the Spencer Museum of Art. KU Hillel sponsored the visit, which attracted more than 100 people to the lecture. His book was #5 on the New York Times best-seller list.
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BY KRISTEN KWON
Author speaks about Israel and economy
kkwon@kansan.com
When Dan Senor took a trip to Israel with 30 Harvard students, they all understood the country's economy was booming. What they didn't understand was how it was doing so well.
"That question became extremely crystallized when the U.S. economy took a downturn in 2007," Senor said. "What went wrong?"
Senior, a senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on
Foreign Relations and co-author of "Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle" spoke to about 150 people on campus Tuesday night as part of Israel Week. KU Hillel and the Entrepreneurship Club teamed up to bring Senor to the University.
In his book, which was number five on the New York Times business book list in 2009, Senor explores the reasoning behind Israel's unlikely economic success
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