thursday, february 12, 2004
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the university daily kansar
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BUS: Bar-hopping bus slowly gaining recognition around Lawrence
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patrons to buy $100 passes to ride the bus whenever they pleased.
Although Old wouldn't disclose how much the business venture cost to launch, he said that it took a considerable amount of money to start.
"It was a fistful of dollars, that's for sure." Old said.
I decided to hop off the Bar Hop at Last Call, 729 New Hampshire St., to find out if people there knew about the service.
"I'll use anything that stops me and my friends from drunk driving," Fish said. "It's the sensible thing to do."
Jessica Fish, Basehor junior, said she would have used the service if she would have known about it.
When the bus finally came back, Old let me know he was there by using the bus's external speaker.
Bar Hop generally waits about two minutes at each stop to let riders on and off.
i got back on and the bus was empty again.
Old said that nobody had been on since I had left, but that he thought eventually people would start getting the idea.
At 1:45 a.m., at Abe and Jake's Landing, E 8. Sixth St., some people did get the idea.
The first group of people that I had seen get on the bus was a group of French students.
"We were just waiting on a taxi and it didn't come," said Gabriella Levy, Paris freshman.
BAR HOP
■ Running times: 9 p.m. to 3 a.m.
every Thursday, Friday and
Saturday night
■ Cost: $1 per ride
■ Locations coming soon:
Jefferson Commons
Colony Woods
Tanners Bar and Grill
Bar Hop dropped off 12 students at 2 a.m. in front of McCollum Hall. The party bus delivers Lawrence residents to and from bars for $1 per ride.
As the group got off at McColum Hall, I asked Old if he would take me back to Rick's Place, and he obliged.
The students said they liked the idea of the service because it was efficient.
Old said that he was confident that ridership would improve, but it would be directly related to the amount of time the service had been around.
"It's a building process," Old said. "I'm in the service for Lawrence students.I love helping the college kids."
Midwest Transportation's price for charters is $85 per hour. Jack Flanigans offers its bus for $200 for four hours as long as it starts at the bar.
Both Midwest Transportation and Jack Flanigans Bar and Grill, 806 W.24th St., also offer charter bus services to bar patrons.
Dannie Thompson, owner of Jack Flanigans, said that he didn't see Bar Hop as competition for his bar, if anything, it would bring more business for him.
"I think it provides a great service to students, that's why I got my bus in the first place," Thompson said. "Plus, I'm off
the beaten path of Mass. Street and it'll probably bring more people into my bar. It's going to
keep all the bars happy."
— Edited by Nikki Nugent
Illegal soldier passes citizenship test
with perfect scores — a required civics and history test.
SEATTLE — A Mexican who joined the U.S. Army and fought in Iraq after buying a fake green card for $50 will be allowed to remain in the United States.
"It's just paper but, I don't know, it feels good," he said.
The Army normally requires that any illegal immigrants who get caught after fraudulently enlisting be discharged. Once discharged, they may be deported.
But the military helped Escalante pursue citizenship.
arguing that he was a valuable soldier who would do the country more good as a citizen than as a deported immigrant.
However, immigration authorities are still planning to deport his parents. Escalante's attorney said he will appeal that decision.
President Bush signed an executive order in 2002 speeding the citizenship process for active-
Pfc. Juan Escalante took the citizenship oath yesterday at an afternoon ceremony. Earlier in the day the 19-year-old passed —
The Associated Press
before seeking crucifixion Escalante was 4-years-old when he crossed illegally into the United States with his mother. He grew up in Seattle and signed a four-year contract with the Army after graduating from high school in 2002.
duty personnel. The order helped Escalante avoid the long process of having to get a green card before seeking citizenship.
Red Cross wants to see Hussein
GENEVA — The Red Cross has visited imprisoned officials of Saddam Hussein's toppled regime and expressed confidence yesterday that U.S. authorities will allow it to see the former Iraqi dictator "sooner rather than later."
The Associated Press
later.
"He's a POW and supposed to be like any POW," said Nada Doumani, a spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, which requested permission to visit Saddam soon after he was captured Dec. 13 and the United States declared him a prisoner of war.
"The Americans are saying that he's somewhere in Iraq, as far as I understand, but we cannot confirm that or deny it," Doumani said.
The agency still doesn't know where Saddam is being held and will know for sure only when its delegates have seen him, Doumani said.
The ICRC has representatives who continue to visit Iraq detainees, whether they are ordinary soldiers or among the
55 most-wanted whose faces appear in a deck of cards issued by U.S. authorities. The coalition says it has captured 44 of the 55.
"I cannot tell you by name whom we have seen and whom we haven't and if we have skipped somebody." Doumani said.
But the ICRC doesn't get into who conducts the trial as long as it is a military tribunal of a sovereign country that is party to the Geneva Conventions.
She said there is nothing in the Geneva Conventions that would prohibit Saddam's being tried by a coalition tribunal.
The trial can be for what a POW did before the latest war, including "other war crimes or crimes against humanity," she said.
She said there was some misconception about Saddam's rights after he was declared a POW.
"But he cannot be tried for simply participating in hostilities because the whole idea for a POW is that he is a soldier doing his job in defending his country," she said.
SNOW: Clean-up drains budget
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storms would "Right now it's not too hard to rebudget some things." Green said, "If we get another storm or two, it would get more serious."
department had spent so far on winter weather was manageable now, but he hoped no more major storms would arrive.
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The highest cost sustained in recent years for snow and ice removal came in 2001 when the University spent $188,000.
Much of the Department's budget comes from repairs to
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equipment following a snow storm. Green added that the Department would respond to more major storms by postponing equipment repairs and possibly leaving positions vacant within the department.
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Green would still prefer that the snow stop with last week's downfall.
"It's got to be one of the more expensive ones," Green said. "It's certainly not the worst, but I only look at it from the numbers stand-point."
kansan.com
Edited by Stephanie Lovett
Marlin Fitzwater
press secretary to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush will speak at:
1:30 p.m.
Friday, February 13
in Woodruff Auditorium
Kansas Union
Free and Open to the Public
Mr. Fitzwater, presidential adviser, journalist, civil servant and business man, will receive the William Allen White Foundation's 2004 national citation at this ceremony. He will be a guest of the William Allen White Foundation and the University of Kansas William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
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