University Daily Kansan / Monday. April 15, 1991
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Former U.S. base ravaged by looters
The Associated Press
CAPAS, Philippines — No sooner had the U.S. Navy left a communications station here than Filipinos stormed the site with picks, shovels and chain saws, covering everything under honeole covers to underground cables.
"You won't see anyone here now because there is nothing left to steal, said the station's former chief, Capt. Jose Edwin Sabijon.
The looters, he said, numbered in the hundreds and were "people from 8- to 80-years old, men, women, children."
Many Filipino officials fear that what happened at the communications station at Capas, about 60 miles from Manila, was a hoax elsewhere unless President Corazon
Aquino's government draws up workable plans for taking over U.S. mili tary sites.
As part of the Pentagon's plan to reduce the U.S. military presence in the Far East, the United States also plans to turn over facilities at Camp John Hay near Baguio, about 200 miles north of Manila . July 1.
The looting began at Capas even before the Navy turned over the 690-acre installation Jan. 31.
It may surrender its five other installations to the Philippine government if no agreement is reached with current lease expires in September.
Sabijon said the intruders generally rushed in after dark in groups of 15. By the time troops had nabbed one group, several others would have slipped through and escaped with their loot.
Kansas man awaiting sentencing for murder
The Associated Press
TAOS, N.M. Prosecutors will ask a jury this week to sentence a Kansas man to death for the murder of a Springer store clerk. His lawyer will argue against executing someone who is mentally ill.
Jury selection is scheduled to begin today in the sentencing hearing for Gregg Francis Braun, who pleaded guilty to murder and shooting death of Geraldine Valdez.
Braun, 30, of Garden City, is a suspect in four other slayings in Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma. They were shot twice before the Springer incident.
During his August 1989 preliminary hearing, Braun stunned a Raton courtroom with his confession that he had secretly kept the information of convenience store, on July 23, 1989.
He pleaded guilty but mentally ill in April 1990 to charges of armed robbery and capital murder. Under New Mexico law, guilt but mentally ill does not meet the critical for legal insanity.
The alternative is a life sentence, which in New Mexico means a defendant serves at least 30 years before he is eligible for parole.
Theater department leaves Joliffe Hall gets downtown spot
By Katie Chipman
Kansan staff writer
Theater and film majors have had to tolerate uncomfortable conditions at Joliffe Hall for five years, but that will soon change.
The University of Kansas has purchased a building that the department of theater and film will move into next fall, said Glenn Pierce, chairperson of the department.
Pierce said the Centron building, 1621 W. Ninth St., previously was used for producing industrial and educational films and has facilities that were not available at Jolliffe.
"The new building has a large sound stage and film editing rooms," he said. "We'll be able to produce and video production."
The building, although it is off campus, is accessible to students by KU on Wheels and is near a parking lot.
"It's a building that genuinely deserves to be torn down," he said.
As for Jolliffe, Pierce said it was scheduled for demolition
Jollife is situated east of Selfards Scholarship Hall on the east edge of campus. The paint is peeling off its walls and the "e" is missing from the letters that spell Judging's name above the front door.
Inside, classrooms are dainly lighted, pieces of the ceilings have fallen and windows are broken.
The new building has a large sound stage and film editing rooms. We'll be able to teach film production and video production.'
Glenn Pierce chairperson of the department of theater and film
Darrin Lile, graduate teaching assistant in the film department, said, "When Jolliffe is demolished, we are going to try to get it down on the road we can show people and say, 'This is what we had.'"
Lile said that although there were problems with the heating and cooling of the building, the students did not meet the needs of the students.
"We can't get a good television studio because of the wiring in this building," he said. "It is too old. I can't give the power we need."
Lile said there had been a sign in Jollie that warned people that a maximum of nine persons were taken to the hospital. The sign recently was stolen
Kelly Martens, Reno junior,
said that when she had a class in
Jollife last semester, there had
been no calls from the telephone
the telephones had been knock out.
"The teen phones had been taken out. "It's kind of like the forgotten building," she said.
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