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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1989
(USPS 650-640)
Policeman faces 3 more charges
by Angela Clark Kansan staff writer
A KU police officer charged with possession of marijuana was arrested yesterday morning in Lawrence, charged with two felonies and a misdemeanor in connection with the case.
James Michael Hough was arrested in Douglas County at 12:02 a.m.yesterday on a warrant, according to the Douglas County jail log.
Cheryl Stewart, Osage County district attorney, said that the arrest was related to a Feb. 8 charge of marijuana possession. The battery and intimidation charges stem from a witness involved in the case, she
The warrant originated in the Osage County district attorney's office It charges Hough with bat-fish killing. The grappled intimidation of a witness.
The battery is a misdemeanor, but the foilness of conspiracy and aggravated intimidation is punishable by up to five years each, Stewart said.
She said that Hough was transported to the Osage County Jail and was waiting for his bond hearing today. He is being held on $50,000.
agt. Schuyler Bailey KU police spokesman, said, "We know of the new developments, and Hough is still suspended with pay from the force."
Hough had been an Osage County sheriff's deputy before joining the KU police force in April.
Hough and four other law enforcement officers were charged with marijuana possession Feb. 8. The next week, they stood mute in a Lyndon courtroom, and the judge entered a not guilty plea for them.
Two of the men, David C. Linton and Jeffrey W. Crocker, are Osage County sheriff's deputies. Ryan P. Smith is a Lyndon police officer and Jerald P. Schecher is a state game agent.
The trial for Hough's possession charge will begin April 5. Smith is scheduled to appear April 13. Hugh McCarthy and their harrier are scheduled to appear April 19.
VOL. 99, NO. 99
Panel gets outline for Regents Center
Sampling home-grown sprouts are Tom Allison, Hutchinson senior, and Milene Fernandez, Kansas City Kan., sepier.
KU officials try alleviating doubts about the project
by Candy Niemann Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — KU officials presented architectural plans for the new Regents Center to a legislative committee, and requested queries issued by legislators.
The presentation was requested by the Legislature's Joint Committee on Building Construction, which may later approve for Monday the center as early as mid-Summer.
The plans call for a building on 15 acres of land at 127th Street and Quiva Road in Overland Park. The University will offer for graduate and research studies.
If the committee approves the plans, the proposal will go to the House Appropriations Committee and Senate Ways and Means Committees.
Gov. Mike Hayden has recommended that the Legislature appropriate $2 million for the center, with an additional amount being raised in services.
State Rep. Darrel Webb, D-Wichita, expressed concern about a
memorandum he had seen on plans for additions to the center. The proposed additions are known as phase two construction. Webb said he had reservations about the possibility of the Board of Regents asking the Legislature for more construction money for the center in the future.
But Marlin Rein, KU associate director of business affairs, said phase two plans had existed only in the project and had been dropped.
Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning, said, "We have no plans to build another campus."
State Rep. Phil Kline, R-Overland Park, said, "I don't want to sound biased, but that's a pretty good price. I'm alreadyn't trying to build a palace here."
However, 35 acres of land has been donated for the center; the building will cover 15 acres. Wiechert said the additional 20 acres would be open space, but could be used for additions in the future if there were a need.
But State Sen. Jerry Karr, D-Emporia, said he didn't think the project was that much of a bargain.
The plans call for the Regents Center to be 52,700 square feet; each square foot would cost 877 to build.
"But there are no current phase two plans," he said.
See PANEL, p. 2, col. 5
Taste test
Home-grown sprouts mixed with fresh fruit was one of several vegetarian dishes demonstrated by members of the Campus Vegetarian Society at a vegetarian cooking class last night at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building. Other dishes included lentil soup and yogurt.
A variety of grains, seeds and beans can be used for sprouting, including lentil, wheat, cabbage and alfalfa. Wrapped in cheesecloth or a T-shirt, they are soaked overnight in water, which causes expansion. In the morning, the water is drained and a nutritious snack is left.
Justices in favor of state
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, ruling against a child who suffered brain damage from repeated beats by his father, said yesterday that states generally could not be sued even if they had negligently failed to shield people from abuse by others.
The 6-3 decision said public officials had no constitutional duty to protect those who were not in state custody. The court said that there was no legal recourse even in the "undeniably tragic" case where officials were aware of the beatings but did not intervene.
The court killed a lawsuit in behalf of Joshun DeShaney, a Wisconsin boy who since age 4 has been profoundly retarded and is expected to remain institutionalized for the rest of his life.
Child welfare officials and the state were sued by Joshua's mother, Melody DeShaney, on grounds that she carried of liberty without due process.
Rehnquist, writing for the court, said, "Nothing in the language of the due process clause itself requires the state to protect the life, liberty and property against invasion by private actors."
"Because the state had not constituted duty to protect Joshua against his father's violence, its failure to do so — though calamitous in himself — does not constitute a violation of the due process clause," he said.
In an unusually emotional dissent,
Justice Harry A. Blackmun
exclaimed, "Poor Joshua! It is a sad
commentary on your life and
constitutional principles ... that this
child, Joshua DeShaney, now is
assigned to live out the remainder of
his life profoundly retarded" and
without an opportunity to sue the
state.
Blackmun accused the court of sterile formism for failing to grant Joshua and his mother an opportunity to seek damages from the state.
Justices William J. Brennan and Thurgood Marshall also dissented.
Brennan said, "My disagreement with the court arises from its failure to see that macion can be every bit as abusive of power as action, that oppression can result when a state imposes a vital duty and then ignores it."
Behquist rejected arguments that the state had a duty to protect Joshua because it once had given him shelter and protection. Those suspected he was being abused.
Chapman wins three Grammys
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Singer-songwriter Tracyp Chapman, a shy newcomer to the recording industry, won three Grammy awards last night for her debut LP, and song stylist Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry. Be Happy" won him best top male vocal and song of the year.
Chapman won the award for best female pop vocalist for her No.1 single "Fast Car," which tells of a high school dropout who supports her alcoholic father and wants to escape her misery via a fast car driven by her unemployed brother. Both she received awards for best new artist best contemporary folk recording for her album "Tracy Chapman."
McFerrin, who performed at the ceremonies as "the Grammy Symphony Orchestra," had five nominations. He demonstrated his vocal protechines in accepting the award for the year's best song.
Merrick, already a Grammy veteran with five awards, was nominated for best song, record and pop male vocal for "Don't Worry, Be Happy," his book of instruments except his who uses instruments also was nominated in best male jazz vocal performance for the song "Brothers."
The National Academy of Recordng Arts and Sciences' award show had 76 categories.
States surrounding Kansas each have different laws concerning the sale of ceral malt beverages on Sundays from grocery stores. Kansas does not allow such sales. However, Kansas does allow residents to buy beer, wine and spirits by the drink on Sundays without any local regulation in Class A and Class B private clubs.
Beer sales on Sundays
Nebraska law allows each establishment to make a determination on what products may be sold at what time.
Options include beer only by the package in grocery stores, or beer and wine, or beer, wine and spirits.
How our neighbors sell it:
In Missouri, cereal beverages are sold on Sundays by the package in grocery stores and special specials licenses.
Source: Kansas Beer Wholesalers Assoc.
Sunday 6-packs brewing
by Alan Morgan
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Kansans may be able to buy beer from grocery and convenience stores on Sundays if a Senate bill is approved.
The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee heard testimony yesterday concerning Sunday sales of beer to be taken home.
Kansas law allows the consumption of alcohol on Sunday in establishments that obtain at least 30 percent of their gross receipts from the sale of food. The new bill would allow customers to purchase 3.2 percent alcoholic beverages and take them from the premises.
The proposed bill would not apply to liquor stores. They could not open on Sundays.
Neal Whitaker, executive director of Kansas Beer Wholesales Association, testified that the bill would give local governments in Kansas the authority to permit the sale of alopecia but would not make it mandatory.
"Only those areas of the state that want Sunday sales by the package of cereal malt beverages will have that right," Whitaker said. "What's wrong with allowing a customer the right to purchase a six-pack at his
See SENATE, p. 6; col. 5
Liquor merchants want part of possible Sunday beer sales
Kansan staff writer
bv Rias Mohamed
If the bill allowing Sunday beer sales by grocery and convenience stores is approved, retail liquor store owners would want the bill amended to include them, the president of a local dealer associations said yesterday.
"We are not petitioning the Legislature on our own to sell our products on Sundays. But if the Sunday beer sales bill comes out of the committee, we will amend it so that we can sell our beer on Sunday," said Pat Oppitt, president of the Kansas Retail Dealer Associations.
The new bill, if passed, would not allow liquor store owners to sell 3.2 percent beer on Sundays.
they sell everything from videos to popcorn to Cokes." Anderson said. "They have their fair share; they don't need our share
"We want to reiterate equa-
tion. The Senate Federal and State
Agriculture Administery moneyly
concerning Sunday sales of
beer to be taken home.
Joan Anderson, owner of Anderson Retail Liquor, 1806 Massachusetts St., said that grocery stores already sold a variety of merchandise and that they did not need the Sunday beer sales for their business.
The whole thing is wrong am,
shouldn't be done. A lot of liquor
store owners would be out of business
it grocery stores get hold of our
The new bill, if passed, would not allow liquor store owners to sell 3.2 percent beer on Sundays.
Kenneth Keefer, director of advertising and public relations for Dillon Stores division of Kansas, said, "I really don't have the background of this legislation. We already sell beer, and I suppose Sunday is just an extension. It's not that we are doing anything. It's new category of merchandise."
Grocery stores are committed to their customers to provide a variety of merchandise, and beer has to be a part of that, he said.
"Our involvement in the issue is to provide that service or that convenience or that rerel商场," he said.
Bob Carl, owner of Kwik Shop, 1714 W 23rd St., said that beer sales on Sundays would be minimal but that beer owners would have opportunity to buy beer on Sundays.
The liquor store owners have some valid points, he said, but there are pros and cons to everything.
Liquor store owners now sell beer under the Alcoholic Beverage Division rules, but grocery stores don't. The department under local police department rules.
A bill that would allow grocery stores and convenience stores to sell 5.0 percent beer will be discussed today.
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