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STUDENT SENATE
Bill calls for labor protection
Peterson said there would be no change in fees if the switch were made.She said 186 other colleges and universities in the country,including three schools in the Big 12,were also affiliated with Worker Rights Consortium.
Student Senate passed a resolution Wednesday night to encourage KU Athletics inc. to improve labor monitoring in factories that produce KU apparel.
Andrea Peterson, a senior from Manhattan, wrote the bill. Peterson said KU Athletics Inc. currently pays the Fair Labor Association $50,000 a year to make sure no labor violations take place in the factories. Instead, KU Athletics should work with Worker Rights Consortium, she said.
"I would like us to recommend or come out in favor of switching to the Worker Rights Consortium, which has a much better history of responding to workers' rights complaints." Peterson said.
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Funding Passed
- Campus Christians (general funding): $200
- Phi Alpha Delta Pre-Law Fraternity (general funding): $200
- International Student Association International Awareness Week: $50
- Queers and Allies Pride Week: $6,810
- Political Science Graduate Association Speaker, Valerie Hudson: $850
- Spencer Advisory Board, Spring Student Night and Juried Art Show: $700
- Center for Community Outreach Into the Streets Week
Speaker Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams:
$5,000
- Prisonball Club (equipment): $86
- South Asian Student Association Jayhawk Jhalak Event:
$1,050
Booby traps target police officers
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LOS ANGELES — Four municipal trucks were set ablaze in a rural Riverside County town plagued by bizarre booby trap attempts to kill police officers, and authorities said Wednesday the fire may be linked to the earlier attacks.
"Everyone is worried, everyone is being careful," Hemat police LL Duane Wisehart said. "You get scared a little bit and then you get angry. It keeps happening."
Someone called the police around 11:10 p.m. Tuesday to report a fire in the parking lot at Hemet City Hall, located within two blocks of the police department. Police Chief Richard Dana said. No one was hurt.
Police were working with state and federal investigators to determine the cause of the blaze, which sent flames several feet above the trucks in the cab and hood area. The white trucks were for use by code enforcement officers.
Early indications were that some kind of flammable substance was used and not an explosive, Dana said.
Hemet, a traditionally quiet retirement city about 90 miles southeast of Los Angeles, has been rocked by a series of booby trap attacks against police officers in recent weeks.
"We are operating under the theory (the fire) is connected to the other assaults," Dana said.
On Dec. 31, a natural gas pipe was rerouted into the headquarters of a gang task force. The building filled with flammable vapor.
In a second attack, some kind of ballistic device rigged to a security fence at the same building went off when an officer opened the gate, but the bullet missed.
but an officer smelled the danger before anyone was hurt.
The third attack involved a deadly device found under a police officer's unmarked car after the officer drove to a convenience store.
Dana said there has been at least one other booby trap uncovered,
but he declined to release details. In the past week or so, officers have received threats daily, either on their non-emergency telephone lines or via e-mail.
"They say things like, 'it's
fire had gone from one vehicle to the next, said Keith Krolczyk, resident agent in charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Riverside. He said the vehicles were "severely damaged."
Police initially suspected the Vagos, California's largest outlaw motorcycle gang, may be involved in the booby trap attacks. Authorities last week arrested 35 members of the Vagos in Riverside County as part of a crackdown
"Everyone is worried everyone is being careful. You get scared a little bit and then you get angry..."
DUANE WISEHART Hemet, Calif., police lieutenant
Investigators believe the attacks are the work of more than one individual, partly because of the sheer volume of activity.
Wisheart said a confidential informant last week overheard two people talking about how they were going to blow up a Hemet police car over the weekend. The informant told the Riverside County Sheriff's deputies, who notified Hemet authorities.
too bad they missed, the next one's gonna get you," Dana said.
Agents were working to determine if the trucks in Tuesday's fire were set ablaze at once or if the
across the state and in Arizona, Nevada and Utah. The district attorney's office was still reviewing cases and did not immediately know how many people had been charged.
Gang enforcement officers monitored a group
of gang members at a funeral two days before the first attack, leading investigators to wonder if the gang felt afronted.
"We have since started looking at other things" he said. "They are a group that is on the investigation list but there are other groups, too."
But Dana on Wednesday distanced himself from the theory.
A $200,000 reward has been offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the attacks.
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Ami Ayars, a senior from Shawnee, paints a classmate's cast bronze figure with patinas after putting it under a flame in a foundry class. Patinas are chemicals put on metal works to change the color and texture of the appearance. "This is my first time doing metal casting, and it's exciting experimenting with a new material because it familiarizes me with different processes to use in the future," Ayars said.
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