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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY DECEMBER 1.2006
>> STATE
Court lets Kline keep files
BY JOHN HANNA ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOPEKA, Kan. — The Kansas Supreme Court refused Thursday to intervene on behalf of two abortion clinics in a dispute with the state attorney general over patient records that were leaked to "The O'Reilly Factor."
The clinics had asked the court to seize the records of 90 patients from Attorney General Phill Kline and appoint a special prosecutor to investigate how Fox News' Bill O'Reilly got access to abortion records for a Nov. 3 broadcast.
The court offered no explanation for its ruling in a one-sentence order signed by Chief Justice McFarland.
Kline received edited versions of the records in October from
a Shawnee County judge after a two-year legal battle. He said he was investigating whether clinic doctors performed illegal late-term abortions and violated a state law requiring them to report suspected child abuse.
The clinics, operated by Dr. George Tiller in Wichita and by Planned Parenthood in Overland Park, argued that Kline was on a "fishing expedition" that violated the patients' privacy. They also said Kline, a strong abortion opponent, could not conduct an objective investigation.
O'Reilly interviewed Kline during the segment where O'Reilly discussed the leaked information. A spokeswoman for Kline, who lost his re-election bid four days after the broadcast, has said he doesn't know how O'Reilly got the
records.
Kline accused the clinics of trying to thwart his investigation and argued that the court had no authority to appoint a special prosecutor or take over a criminal investigation.
Pedro Irigonegaray, an attorney representing the clinics, declined to comment, saying he had not examined the ruling.
The ruling means Kline, a Republican, can continue his investigation, refer potential cases to county prosecutors or file charges himself before leaving office Jan. 8.
Kline said: "These motions were without legal basis and the decision is appropriate."
Paul Morrison, a Democrat who will succeed Kline, said he has not decided whether he will continue the investigation.
Perkins stressed that he went to Self to offer an extension, not vice
here at KU, we love the players in our program, we love the direction that we're going, and love the people that we work with." Self said.
Self's original contract was worth $1,130,680. The new contract guarantees Self $1,375,700 a year and he will earn an extra $225,000 a year from a "retention agreement" that kicks his total yearly salary to $1.6 million per.
Both Self and Perkins said the contract had been in the works for months, but the legal aspects of the contract slowed the process. Self was just glad to have the deal finalized.
"There is nobody out there right now who I would want," Perkins said. "I want Bill to be our head basketball coach. He stands for everything that KU stands for. He's done a great job here."
versa, because he felt Self was deserving of a new deal. The timing couldn't be much better for Self, though.
The new contract will give Self stability for recruiting. If he hadn't signed a new deal before entering the last year of his contract, it would have made his future at Kansas look less certain and schools would have used that against him in recruiting. This new contract erases any uncertainty surrounding his future.
There are stipulations with the
"I want Bill to be our head basketball coach. He stands for everything that KU stands for. He's done a great job here."
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"I'm excited because we love it
-Before, a Big 12 Regular Season Championship would have paid Self a bonus worth two months of his base salary and a Big 12 Tournament Championship would have been worth one month of his base salary. Now Self could earn $50,000 for a regular season conference championship and $25,000 for a conference tournament championship.
- An NCAA Championship would have earned Self a bonus worth three months of his base salary with the old contract. The new contract would pay Self $200,000 for a National Championship.
Aside from the money, the contract set the foundation for the men's basketball program from top to bottom. Perkins talked about how young the team was, so the players were in place for a bright future. Now it seems that coach and athletics director will be united for years to come as well.
"I took the job here not having an athletics director," Self said. "Now that we have an athletics director, I just want to make sure I know who my boss is going to be and this definitely gives me that security."
-Before, there was no incentive for Self if he was named Associated Press Coach of the Year. If Self should win that award now, it would be worth $50,000.
Kansan sportswriter Shawn Shroyer can be contacted at sshroyer@ kansan.com.
a bonus worth one month of his base salary ($129,380) for a Final Four appearance. He would now receive a $100,000 bonus for a Final Four appearance.
"I thought that was a very fair way to do it in that I am not owed any of that money unless I fulfill my requirements with Lew Perkins as the athletics director." Self said. "I want Lew to be my athletics director. I feel great being linked to Lew in that way."
LEW PERKINS Athletics Director
If Self stays at Kansas for the duration of his contract, the $225,000 are guaranteed. If Self leaves Kansas before his contract ends, but Perkins is no longer the athletics director. Self will still get the $225,000 for each year of the contract he was at Kansas. But if Self leaves Kansas before his contract runs out while Perkins is still the athletics director, Self won't receive any reten-
Self also received a raise in what his incentives are, which could make his contract more than $1.6 million a year. Here's a list of how much more money Self can receive in incentives with his new contract.
The retention agreement was something that both Self and Perkins wanted.
Self tried to simplify the stipulations of the retention agreement.
linked to Lew," Self said. "If Lew is here and I leave, I get nothing. If Lew's not here, then I'm able to be vested earlier."
retention agreement.
tion agreement money, regardless of how many years of the contract he was at Kansas.
-Before, Self would have received
"The thing about it is, I am
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"Our goal is just to make it as safe as humanly possible," he said. Rawlings said Thursday that snowremoval crews had been working since Wednesday evening to make sidewalks and roads at the University of Kansas clear and would continue to do so throughout the day.
To clear roads, crews used a combination of salt, which is to melt the
"Ice always is a problem because it takes much more in the way of chemicals to get it to melt," Rawlings said.
clear streets and sidewalks.
Kansan staff writer Nate McGinnis can be contacted at nmcginnis@ kansan.com.
ice, and sand, which is to provide traction for drivers.
For sidewalks, a snow-removal machine is used. In places where the snow-removal machine cannot operate, the snow is removed by hand with a shovel.
— Edited by Shanxi Upsdell
Rawlings said that in comparison to other storms he had encountered, this was not one of the worst but that the ice made it slightly harder to
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