VOL.100.NO.105
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
1.
T THE STUDENT NET SAPPER OF T THE UNIVERSITY OF KANASSA
(USPS 650-640)
ADVERTISING:864-4358
FRIDAY, MAR. 2, 1990
Pared-down abortion bill awaits vote
By Rod Griffin
NEWS:864-4810
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Debate on a transportation-bill turned-abortion legislation raged into the night yesterday in the House before a vote. The bill watered-down version of the bill. A final vote is scheduled for today.
Med Center bill
Cries of legislative rules violations erupted in the House yesterday when the bill came to the floor.
p. 3
The House Transportation Committee substituted a parental notification bill for a Senate bill that would have dealt with the use of vehicle registration fees by county treasurers. The abortion bill, introduced by State Rep. Arite Lucas, R-Highland, had been killed by the Federal and State Affairs Committee last week.
Lucas, vice chairman of the Transportation Committee, and committee chairman State Rep Rex Crowell, R-Longton, used the committee to get the abortion bill to the floor. Twelve co-sponsors of the abortion legislation hold seats on the committee.
Lucas said the committee process was flawed because there was no debate on the bill, which would
Lawrence: a hot spot without sandy beaches
Photo Illustration by Phil EllsworthKANSAN
Unlike Matthew Baker, Champaign, Ill., junior, who is unable to escape Lawrence for distant places filled with fun and relaxation, some students won't despair about being stuck in the city.
By Pam Solliner
Kansan staff writer
Travel agents, cramped motel rooms, loud parties and crowded beaches can be a hassle. Students wanting to avoid the stress can spend the week in Lawrence.
“it’s a time for me to break away from home. I don’t want to just sit around and talk.”
They won't be lonely. Other University of Kansas students will be stuck in Lawrence, too, but many don't mind.
Mike Haden, Concordia junior, said Lawrence offered more movies and places to go than his hometown.
Haden transferred from Clovis County Community College last semester. He said that he had hoped to go skiing in Colorado but never took but that money was tight this semester.
"There's not really much for me to go back to at home," Haden said. "It's more like a prison."
Lori Irving, Thousand Oaks, Calif., graduate student, said the concept of spring break was different in the Midwest than in her home state.
Before she came to KU for graduate school, she studied at the University of California at Irvine. Because the university was close to Newport Beach, a popular vacation spot, she said she stayed home for the break.
"We never went anywhere," Irving said.
"It was a new thing for me to know people here who actually went to Florida for spring break."
Other students have to stay in Lawrence to work.
"Even if I didn't work, I probably would have stayed," Hubbell said. "I'd rather stay here than go home."
Pat Hubbell, Wichita junior, who started working at McKee Pool & Landscape a few weeks ago, said he might be working during break. But he doesn't mind.
Hubbell said he wasn't jealous of KU students who were going to the popular spring break vacation spots, such as Fort Lauderdale or Padre Island.
He said his spring break trip to Padre Island during his freshman year was boring.
Brooke Dine, St. Louis senior, said she would work at the United Child Development Center, 946 Vermont St., a child daycare center.
Dine said she would use the week to catch up on homework. She is taking 20 hours of classes, working toward a dual degree in architectural studies and art history.
Matthew Baker, Champagne, III., senior, said he didn't have a lot of homework. He will be wooled over by his classmates at Massachusetts St., trying to save money for a trip later in the semester.
She said she wasn't jealous of her roommates who were going to Daytona Beach, Fla., and New York for spring break.
"I'm just broke," Baker said. "I was going to go to Canada to go ice fishing, but I didn't."
Baker said he liked Lawrence during the summers and breaks when most of the college population was gone.
"It's kind of a break in itself without everyone here," he said.
UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPHY Would Like To Wish The Men And Women Of Rock Chalk 1990 GOOD LUCK!
President Senate OK air bill Leaders hope move will quell opponents
The agreement, after more than three weeks of closed-door negotiations, was viewed as a middle ground likely to attract enough support to thwart continuing regional opposition in the looming Senate debate.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Senate leaders and President Bush compromised yesterday on future air pollution controls for automobiles, factories and electric power plants, enhancing chances that a clean air bill will pass this year.
Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, called the compromise a comprehensive agreement that would substantially improve air quality during the next decade. He planned to bring the legislation to the Senate floor on Monday.
"President Bush is extraordinarily pleased with the agreement. It is a milestone, an enormous step forward," said Roger Porter, the president's chief domestic policy adviser.
Porter said the administration would attempt to expedite Senate passage and seek a similar agreement in the House, where clean-air legislation remains in committee.
But the compromise still is likely to encounter stiff industry lobbying, largely because of its estimated $20 billion to $40 billion annual cost to the economy.
Some senators also have expressed concern that the bargaining weakened provisions in the original Senate bill that would have required stronger automobile emission controls to combat urban smog. Other have voiced continued concern about the impact of acid rain controls.
today hearing lers, FBI agent says
'He (Grissom) made two fists and raised his knuckles and rubbed his eyes like he was trying to rub out a memory.'
Mike Napier FBI agent
a memorv."
Napier said that while questioning Grissom he called Morrison, who offered to ignore her heft charges in the case. Morrison could say what happened to the women.
"His response was that he knew Missouri had a death penalty and did not, and that we would not find anything in Missouri," $aparler said.
Finally, Grissom said the women probably had died, Napier said. "You'll dig them up," Napier said, accounting Grissom's words.
Later that day, Napier and Grisom met again.
"At that point, he said, 'I can give bem the whole package,'" Napler aid.
Grissom told him that he, Thibodd and a man named George were involved in the killings, Napier said.
During cross-examination yesterday, deputy public defender Michael artee questioned the reliability of Napier's testimony because Napier did not take notes during his discuss- with Grissom
"So your written report is not a complete, accurate account?" Barie asked Nanier.
20B
"That's correct," Napier said.
In other testimony, Gary Dirkas, a anesthetist for the Johnson County time lab, sold public hairs taken from Grissom by authorities in Dalton and unavailable from those and by investigators in Rush and town's beds.
Thursday, March 1, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
in his closing argument, Morrison and "I suggest that these girls are int as dead as if we had presented as bodies in court."
Warren said. "The fact that somebody is dead is not sufficient evidence to bound somebody for trial."