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Student caught and charged for possession
A KU student was charged in Douglas County District Court this week with possession of marijuana, a class A misdemeanor.
Chad Duane Branson, 19, Ozakwie freshman, was arrested April 7 by KU police after police received an anonymous tip the day before that he was growing marijuana in his room at Hashinger Hall, said Jeanne Longaker, KU police spokesman.
Branson was taken to the county jail and released about an hour later. A bonding service posted $500 for his release.
He is scheduled to appear in court at 4 p.m. Tuesday.
A class A misdemeanor is punishable by up to one year in the county jail, up to a $2,500 fine or both.
KU student pleads guilty to forgery
A KU student pleaded guilty last week in Douglas County District Court to two counts of misdemeanor, court documents showed.
The student, Vince L. Bommari,
Prairie Village freshman, is
scheduled to be sentenced at 1:30
p.m. May 8.
The charges, filed Feb. 9, originally were class E felonies, but after Bommarito pleaded not guilty on April 3, they were amended to include bail by up to one year in the county and up to a $250 fine or both
The charges were amended April 9, and Bommarito pleaded guilty Friday.
Bommarito forged the first check Nov. 6, for $10.45, the charges state, and the second check Nov. 30, for $8.25.
Both the original and amended charges state that Bommarito forged two checks belonging to him, R. Porter, Neodesha freshman.
At the time, Bommarito and Porter both were living in Joseph R. Pearson Hall. Bommarito has since moved to Oliver Hall.
Jeanne Longaker, KU police spokesman, said the checks had been used to pay for pizzas.
The proceeds will go to Women's Transitional Care Services, which operates a house in Lawrence for women who have been abused or faced with other difficult circumstances.
Fraternity sponsors male fashion show
Campus and Area University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 16, 1987
The show will feature business, casual and athletic fashions, and other entertainment such as poetry and singing. Women who attend the revue also will receive free travel to 2.o. a.m., in the Kansas Room.
KU prof is awarded a research grant
Shih I Chu, professor of chemistry, recently was awarded a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to continue his research in nonlinear multiphoton dynamics.
Chu is one of 273 Guggenheim fellows selected from 3,421 applicants.
From staff and wire reports.
OVERLAND PARK — A multi-faceted bill that legalizes the sale of liquor by the drink at public restaurants, and overhauls a variety of Kansas liquor laws, was enacted yesterday by Gov. Mike Hayden.
Hayden signs bill approving liquor by the drink
The Associated Press
ceremony in Overland Park, calling it landmark legislation which makes "historic changes" in state liquor policies.
The new law takes effect next week upon publication in the Kansas Register. However, the actual start of public drinking will be delayed
Upon receiving a license, any bar or restaurant that derives 30 percent of its profits from the sale of food will sell it directly to customers on a per-drank basis.
Hayden signed the bill into law at a
until licenses for the new drinking establishments are issued July 1
ber's overwhelming voter approval of an amendment to the Kansas Constitution that lifted the ban on saloons.
tion," Hayden said in prepared remarks.
"I commend the Kansas Legislature for its hard work and dedication in responding to the voters' wishes by sending me this enabling legisla-
The law is a response to Novem
The bill will only affect the 36 counties in which the constitutional amendment carried in November. In the other 69 counties, the private club system will remain for those wanting to drink with their meals.
Parking fee hike opposition slight at public hearing
By KJERSTI MOEN
Staff writer
A proposed jump in KU parking fees received one protest yesterday at a parking services public hearing at the Kansas Union.
William Scott, professor of English, was the only person at the hearing to voice opposition against a proposed 30 percent overall increase in parking fees, which would take effect this fall.
"I think it is unfortunate to have you jump at this bad time." Scott said.
The largest jump in parking fees will be in blue permits and campus passes, which will increase respectively by 35 percent and 76 percent. Faculty members are the heaviest users of that combination of passes, which allows owners to park in any blue zone on main campus.
I think it's unfortunate to have this large jump at this bad time.'
William Scott professor of English
Raymond K. Moore, parking committee chairman, said the fee increases went hand in hand with the need to find the most desirable parking spaces.
Scott objected to the timing of the increases because faculty salaries may go up by as little as 1.5 percent next year. He said the increased were unfairly distributed in terms of users' ability to pay.
Under parking services' proposal, the cost of a blue pass will increase from $52 to $70. The price of a campus pass will almost double, from $17 to $30.
Del Shankel, acting executive vice chancellor, said in a prepared financial impact statement, "persons have the option of selecting less expensive permits if they are willing to sacrifice some convenience."
Don Kearns, parking director, said that parking fees had not gone up in
10 years and that a fee increase was needed.
The fee increases will help pay for a $5.1 million parking structure to be constructed by fall 1988. Moore said.
The University plans to finance the 600-800 space garage by selling revenue bonds. Repaying the bonds and maintaining the parking garage will cost about $600,000 a year for 15 to 25 years, or until the bonds are paid back, Moore said.
Those costs must be covered by income above and beyond parking services regular revenue, he said. The cost means an increase in parking fees.
Parking officials also proposed that red permits would increase from $45 to $55, yellow permits from $35 to $40, residence hall permits from $20 to $23, blue motorcycle permits from $25 to $30 and red motorcycle permits from $20 to $25. Parking meter fines would increase to 25 cents an hour.
Also, loading zone passes would be replaced with loading zone meters, which would charge 25 cents for 20 or 40 minutes. Group I and II parking violations would increase from $7.50 to $10.
The Board of Regents will consider KU parking services' proposals and protests against them at the Regents May 14-15 session.
Parking services would be able to charge multiple fines at parking meters and restrict rules for obtaining medical, temporary and departmental passes. Medical passes would be valid for one year only. Now, passes can last several years. Temporary passes would be valid for six weeks, and departmental passes would be tougher to obtain.
Parking officials also want to give visitors one extra hour of access to main campus by allowing traffic until 8 a.m. and after 4 p.m. Now, campus is closed between 7:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Visitors would no longer be able to pay to park in the building and the Spencer Museum of Art. Instead, parking meters would be installed.
Donna Hultine, assistant parking director, said the parking office had received only three letters protesting the proposed changes in parking regulations. But several people had complained to parking service attendants about the new rules.
Jerri Niebaum/Special to the Kansan
What goes up. . .
Randall McDaniel of the Kaw Motor Co., of North Lawrence, connects a cable to a 5,000-pound electromagnet. The magnet slipped off the loading dock at Malott Hall yesterday while the wrecker service was removing it. The magnet was an outdated device owned by the physics department and used to measure vibrations in the nucleus of an atom. The wrecking company used a low truck to pull the magnet back onto the truck and took it to its wrecking yard, where it will be used as scrap metal.
Hunger strike brings in 13 letters
Staff writer
By JOSEPH REBELLO
In the rotunda of Strong Hall where Michael Maher sits alone on the 16th day of a hunger strike, the late afternoon stillness is interrupted only by the sound of doors being locked as administrators leave for the day.
That, Maher says, is a lonely sound. But it reminds him that he must be making a point to several people as they end their day.
"This is the time that people in the chancellor's office go home for dinner," Maher said. "Many of them have to pass this way on their way out, and I think that makes them aware of what I'm doing."
Maher, Roeland Park senior; began his hunger strike March 31, saying that he would not end it until at least 50 KU alumni wrote letters to the Kansas University Endowment
Association asking it to divest its interests companies that do business in South Africa.
By yesterday evening, Maher had received only 13 letters. And, although he feels tired and sluggish after living on no more than a gallon of milk and fruit juice every day, his efforts are paying off, he said.
"The message is beginning to get across by word of mouth," he said. Also, we've got better media coverage this week. I think we'll get the letters."
Some letters may have gone to the Endowment Association, Maher said, although he had asked that they be sent to his address at 2129 Ohio St. If that was so, he would have not have the correct count, he said.
He said he would not call off the strike until all 50 letters were received at his address.
"I'd been discouraged by the response not coming as fast as we'd hooed," he said.
Maha said he had taken the advice of a KU assistant professor of health, physical education and recreation before going on his hunger strike. He said of milk and fruit juice he could keep for at least another 16 days, he said.
He said since the strike began, he had lost 10 to 15 pounds.
But some of Maher's friends said they were worried that his hunger strike might seriously threaten his health if it went on for too long.
Libby DeBauge, Kansas City, Kan., junior said, "There's always a question of where you draw the line between continuing a hunger strike for a long time and realizing that it could begin to damage your health permanently."
84-year-old loses $13,800 in card game with con men
By PAUL BELDEN
Staff writer
An 84-year-old Lawrence man gave $13,800 to two alleged men Thursday after he lost a single game of three-card monte, Lawrence police said yesterday.
The man, who asked not to be identified, said,
"Oh, they were slick. They were too slick for me. It's just a case of me being honest and them being liars."
The victim of the scam said that a man approached him Thursday morning in the parking lot of Wal-Mart Discount Cities, 2727 S. 10th St., near the intersection of another man approached and joined them. The
two men acted as if they didn't know each other, the victim said.
The victim then drove the two men to a parking lot in north Lawrence, where one of the men brought out a roll of money and suggested a card game, he said.
"There were three cards, two reds and a black one," the victin said. "Except the black one."
David Reavis, Lawrence police detective,
said there were several variations of three-
card monte, but nearly all of them involved a
The object of the game was to pick the black card, but when the victim picked the card with the crease in it, that card was red.
card switch.
card switch.
After he lost the game, the victim drove to a branch of Capitol Federal Savings and Loan, withdrew an unspecified amount of money, returned to the north Lawrence location and gave it to the men.
"Then they wanted to know if there were any other branches of the Capitol Federal bank in town," the victim said. "I told them, and they wanted me to go get money out of there, too."
"The guy at Capitol Federal tried to talk me out of it, but he didn't say the right things."
but he didn't say the right things.
After withdrawing money from the other Capitol Federal branch in Lawrence, the victim gave the men the money.
The victim reported the confidence game to Lawrence police Monday after talking to people at the bank, he said.
Reavis said con men typically traveled around the country, making a hit and moving on, time and time again. Lawrence police generally receive about two reports a year of con men in town.
The victim did not recognize any faces from police mug sheets, Reavis said.
"I don't know why I did it," he said. "They let me have every chance to get away from them. They sat and waited while I got the money."
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