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The Inside Front
Monday May 7,2001
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Mills, Browning choose Senate executive staff
Justin Mills, student body president,
and Kyle Browning, vice president,
have chosen their Student Senate
Executive Staff for the 2001-2002
Senate year.
Bent Burton, Ocean City, N.J., senior,
will serve as chairman. Andy Spikes,
Wichita junior, will serve as treasurer.
McLean Thompson, Pierre, S.D.,
sophomore, will serve as assistant
treasurer.
Matt Stepe, St. Joseph, Mo., soophore, will serve as Student Legislative Awareness Board legislative director. Julia Glimore, Clay Center senior, will serve as community affairs director.
Anneliese Stoever, Overland Park junior, and Katie Harpstrife, Andover junior, will serve as directors of the Center for Community Outreach.
Anna Gregory, Topeka freshman, will serve as executive secretary. Gregory said the group would work to make Senate more accessible to students.
Brooke Hesler
Police find after-hours drinkers at Fatso's
Police are submitting a written report to Alcohol Beverage Control because about 15 to 20 people were drinking inside Fatso's, 1016 Massachusetts St., after hours Friday, said Sgt. Mike Pattrick of the Lawrence Police Department.
Patrick said an officer driving by the bar heard talking and yelling and found the people drinking alcoholic beverages at 2:30 a.m. Police contacted the on-site manager and took one of the beverages as evidence.
STATE
Lauren Brandenburg
Legislators continue work on school bill
TOPEKA — Senate and House negotiators are promising to get back to work resolving their differences on school finance.
The Senate has approved $67 million in new spending for schools, as recommended by Gov. Bill Graves in January. At stake is a bill that allocates more than $2.26 billion — nearly 52 percent of spending from the state's general fund for the fiscal year that starts July 1. The general fund is the largest source of money for state programs.
Key elements include raising base state aid per pupil by $50, to $3,870; financing special education services at 85.3 percent of excess costs; and expanding a program for poor, at-risk 4-year-olds.
Senators heavily amended a House bill to add their school finance plan and
approved it April 28 on a 23-17 vote.
approved it April 28 on a 23-17 vote.
The House, however, has not voted
on a school finance bill this session but
agreed to negotiations.
Wichita River Festival to undergo changes
WICHITA — Wichita's biggest party is getting a makeover for its 30th birthday — some aspects of it subtle and some spectacular, or so organizers hope.
Among the more visible changes when the Wirbita River Festival opens Friday.
A glossier, more professional image of the festival that includes an elaborate entranceway near the Century II food court, plus new logos, graphics and decorations throughout;
— A stepped-up effort, based on recommendations from a tourism consultant, to market the festival more aggressively outside of Wichita;
— Rasher events, such as the Huey Lewis concert scheduled for May 19.
Officials are planning even more changes for the future, as money allows.
NATION
Psychiatrist says killer won't discuss deaths
PITTSBURGH — The first psychiatrist to interview a man who killed five people in a shooting spree last year said the shooter would discuss food, wine and Eastern European politics — but not the killings.
Dr. Laszlo Petras met Richard Baumhammers after the rampage on April 28, 2000, that left five dead and a sixth victim seriously injured. Witnesses said he appeared calm and unhurried as he fired.
Authorities said the victims were picked because of their ethnic backgrounds. They included two natives of India, two Asians, Baumhammers' Jewish neighbor and a black karate student.
Defense attorney William Difenderfer has acknowledged his client shot the victims, but has called witnesses who testified that Baumhammers suffered from a delusional disorder and believed he wasn't doing anything wrong. Petras told the jury he diagnosed Baumhammers' schizophrenia.
Fight after,KKK rally leads to eight arrests
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Eight people were arrested after a Ku Kux Klian rally when a fight broke out between members of the group and people protesting the event.
The fight broke out Saturday when officers were escorting Klansmen to their cars after the demonstration and the Klansmen said they couldn't remember where they were parked.
"That gave the crowd time to get in their way and confront them. If they
could have gone straight back to their cars, this wouldn't have happened," said Lt. David Woods of the South Bend Police Department.
Three police officers received minor injuries during the clash.
During the rally, about 30 Klan supporters or members shouted racial insults and about 150 anti-Klan protesters backed at them.
Four adult members of the American Knights of the KKK were arrested on disorderly conduct charges.
Actor hospitalized while police search his home
LOS ANGELES — Actor Robert Blake remained hospitalized yesterday while police searched for the gunman who killed his wife as she sat in their car.
Blake, 67, who had left his wife in the car while he went back to a restaurant to pick up his own handgun, checked himself into a hospital for treatment of high blood pressure Saturday and will remain there for at least two more days, said attorney Harland Braun.
Blake's wife, identified by the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office as Bonny Lee Bakley, 45, was shot late Friday as she sat in a car near an Italian restaurant that Blake frequented in Studio City. Braun referred to her as Leebonney Bakley and gave her age as 44.
"He's doing fine and has it under control," Braun said. "But the doctors want to hold him a little bit longer to make sure he's OK."
Police refused to comment yesterday but previously had said Blake wasn't considered a suspect.
However, police searched Blake's house on Saturday and recovered two 9mm handguns and seized phone records and other paperwork.
FBI chief lists suspects in 1996 bomb attack
NEW YORK — FBI Director Louis Freeh has given the Bush administration a list of people he believes the United States should indict in the 1996 bombing that killed 19 American servicemen in Saudi Arabia, according to a published report.
Fresh, who announced last week that he would retire in June, briefly briefed President Bush on the case, The New Yorker reported, and told the magazine that it was "the only unfinished piece of business that I have."
The U.S. airmen were killed when a truck bomb exploded outside the Khobar Towers, their military housing complex near Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
Iran initially was believed to have been involved. Saudi Arabia has yet to disclose its findings in an investigation carried out jointly with the FBI.
The report said any indictments were likely to name Iranian government officials.
The Associated Press
Hutch workers to search for open wells
The Associated Press
HUTCHINSON The Kansas Geological Survey will train city workers to find unplugged brine wells like the ones that served as conduits for a pair of natural gas explosions earlier this year.
Beginning Monday, the Kansas Geological Survey will begin training two public works employees in the operation of a computerized electromagnetic device that officials hope will help locate as many of the wells — the estimate ranges up to 160 — as possible.
City Manager Joe Palacioz said the identification and plugging of those brine wells was essential to preventing a recurrence of the Jan. 17 and 18 explosions that claimed two lives.
It's also an estimated $9.6 million project — at $60,000 to plug each well — that will require state and federal grants to complete, Palacioz said.
micro-gravity surveying tech nique that we're looking at, present the most common-sense method, along with dollars, of searching for the wells," he said.
The electromagnetic metal detector is a "4-foot-long thing that looks like a metal 2-by-4," survey director Lee Allison said. "We've tested it with city people earlier and we think it's pretty effective in locating and identifying buried metals."
"That tool, along with a
The tool differs from a metal detector in its ability to gather underground data. Using varied frequencies, the tool produces data that can be turned by computers into a three-dimensional image. That image will tell investigators exactly where buried well casings can be found, Allison said.
The testing in Hutchinson was so successful that KGS has purchased the $15,000 electromagnetic tool, Allison said, but he cautioned that the device would have to be used in combination with other techniques to identify all the wells.
"Where we run into problems are the wells that might be under a house, underneath a concrete foundation, something like that."
Lee Allison
Kansas Geological Survey director
"Where we run into problems are the wells that might be under a house, underneath a concrete foundation, something like that," he said.
City officials are also looking at micro-gravity surveying, a more expensive operation that could lead investigators to the caverns created by the solution mining operations.
ON THE RECORD
"But it's costly," Palacioz said. "And we've been told that what we're wanting is a little on the high side of what that technique can do, so we need to determine whether this is what we want."
A KU staff member reported his car damaged in the Sunnyside Avenue and Illinois Street parking lot, the KU Public Safety Office said. The man said he backed out of a parking stall at 12:29 p.m. Tuesday when he heard a loud screeching sound from the back of his car. When he got home, he saw that the rear bumper had almost been pulled from the car. When he returned to the lot Wednesday, he saw a three-inch spike above a six-inch railroad tie being used as a curb in the parking lot. The spike had caught the rear bumper, pulling it from the car. The damage was estimated at $100.
A car hit a parked car in the Robinson Center parking lot at 9:06 a.m. Thursday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A KU student was driving in the lot when he swerved left to avoid hitting a student and instead struck a parked car. His car was not damaged, but it caught the front bumper of the parked car, nearly pulling it off. The damage was estimated at less than $500.
A Topeka woman's 1992 Taurus was damaged in the Kansas Union parking garage between 5:50 and 9:25 p.m. Wednesday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The passenger's side window, ignition and driver's side bumper were damaged. Her day planner, hub cap, purse and checkbook were stolen. The stolen goods were valued at $130, and the damage was estimated at $750.
A KU parking department employee reported being harassed by a KU student in the Hashinger Hall parking lot at 5-58 p.m. Wednesday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The employee said he was towing a car when the owner approached him and paid to have the car released. As the owner and a female acquaintance were driving away, the employee said, the acquaintance threw rocks at his truck. The employee said he would not pursue criminal charges because the truck was not damaged.
ON CAMPUS
The KU Behair' Club will meet from 7 to 9 tonight at the Regional Room on the fifth floor of the Kansas Union. Call Justin Herrmann at 830-8912.
Black Student Union will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Pioneer Room in the Kansas University. Call
Courtney Bates or Cassandra Young at 864-3984.
KU Greens will meet at 8 tonight at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. Call Sarah Hoskinson at 838-9063 or Galen Turner at 838-3498.
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