THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS
WEDNESDAY MARCH 14 2007
NEWS
5A
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A *Baird's tapiir* raises its snout to the camera on Monday at the Lee Richardson Zoo in Garden City. According to the Lee Richardson Zoo Web site, tapiirs are most closely related to horses and +thinocercles, despite a pig like appearance.
SCANDAL
Teacher accused of sex with adolescent
ASSOCIATED PRESS
- INDEPENDENCE — A teacher
* at a Christian school in southeast
* Kansas was charged with having sex
* with a 14-year-old girl who was her
* student, authorities said.
Marsha J. Mote, 37, of Tyro,
turned herself in Tuesday and
made an initial appearance in
Montgomery County District
Court on a charge of aggravated
Mote's lawyer, Jennifer Brunetti, said she has not seen all the information related to the charge. She declined further comment.
Markle said sheriff's deputies had built a substantial case against Mote.
indecent liberties with a child. She was released on a $20,000 bond.
Mote was a teacher at Tyro Community Christian School. Her husband, Kevin, is associate pastor at Tyro Christian Church and has taken a leave of absence because of the allegations.
Before she was charged, Mote resigned her position as teacher. She also stopped participating in church
youth volunteer programs.
District Judge Roger Gossard ordered Mote to return to court March 29, when a preliminary hearing will be scheduled.
Montgomery County Attorney Larry Markle filed a complaint accusing Mote of unlawfully, feloniously and intentionally having sexual intercourse with the girl on March 1. Tyro Christian pastor David Bycroft said he learned about the allegations two days later.
None of the alleged conduct occurred at the school or church,
Bvcroft said.
>> STATE GOVERNMENT
Sebelius' repairs strategy broken
ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOPEKA - While giving Gov. Kathleen Sebelius some credit for tackling the issue, the state Board of Regents' top administrator said Tuesday that her plan for dealing with a backlog of repairs on university campuses has significant flaws.
Reggie Robinson, the regents' chief executive officer, was among the witnesses during a Senate Ways and Means Committee hearing on Sebelius' plan to provide $575 million to the universities over six years. The committee doesn't know when it will vote on her plan or any alternative it may draft.
Robinson didn't criticize the part of Sebelius' plan that has been a nonstarter with many legislators: her proposal to issue $300 million in bonds and to increase Kansas Turnpike tolls to pay them off.
Instead, Robinson expressed misgivings about Sebelius' proposal to provide universities up to $200 million in low-interest loans from idle state funds for repair projects. Robinson noted that Sebelius' plan doesn't say where the universities would get the money to repay the loans.
Also, he said, while the plan tackles the backlog of maintenance projects, it doesn't increase repair budgets so that another backlog won't develop in the future.
"It's a problem that requires significant dollars to address;" he said.
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