VOL.100, NO.105
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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FRIDAY, MAR. 2, 1990
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Pared-down abortion bill awaits vote
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By Rod Griffin
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Debate on a transportation-ball-turned-abortion legislation raged into the night yesterday in the House before it was approved by a watered-down version of the bill. A final vote is scheduled for today.
Med Center bill p. 3
Cries of legislative rules violations erupted in the House yesterday when the bill came to the floor.
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
Students often spend week hitting the books
By Bryce J. Tache
Homework and textbooks figure into few college students' dream vacations.
But if there is one thing some KU students have learned, it is that dreams and reality don't always match up, especially during spring break.
Kira Gould, Lawrence senior, has a 2,000-word paper due the Thursday after break. The topic, appropriately enough, is on travel.
“Actually, I think it will make my spring break more interest,” she said. “I had already planned to go to FT. Lauderdale, so I learned something different there to write about.”
Joel Gold, professor of English, assigned the paper to his nonfiction-writing class two weeks ago. He said students could write about places they had already been, the process of travel or this year's spring break experiences.
"It seemed like the perfect time for the paper," he said. "Last year, I did the same thing and had it due the day after they returned. But a number of students said, 'Have pity on us,' so this year I'm making it due the Thursday after they return."
Russell Smith, Lawrence senior, is also in Gold's class. He hasn't decided whether
he will write the paper before or during break.
"I don't think it's going to be a hassle for me," he said. "I haven't even decided where I'm going yet. I might go to Chicago."
Stacey Chapman, Overland Park junior, said she would spend her break hitting the ball. She has a test the week after break and two 10-page papers due the following week.
"The typical spring break for me is working 40 hours a week and catching up on all the homework I have for the next few weeks," she said. "For me, there is no spring break."
However, many professors said they did not assign homework during the break and tried not to have major tests or assignments due the following week.
Lawrence Wrightsman, professor of psychology, said that after seven weeks of classes students deserved a week without worrying about assignments.
Wrightisman, who will be spending his break in Williamsburg, Va., at a law and psychology conference, said the vacation was for professors as well as students.
"I just wish there were such a phenomenon in the fall semester," he said.
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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, March 1, 1990
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 for President Bush and his dents' chief domestic policy adviser.
Porter said the administration would attempt to expeditate Senate passage and seek a similar agreement with the senate on 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 hearingders, 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
"You'll dig them up," Napier said, recounting Grissom's words.
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Napier said that while questioning Grissom he called Morrison, who offered to ignore theft charges in Johnson County if Grissom would say what happened to the women.
Finally, Grissom said the women probably had died, Napier said.
"His response was that he knew Missouri had a death penalty and that Kansas did not, and that we would not find anything in Missouri," Napier said.
Grissonn told him that he, Thibodea and a man named George were involved in the killings, Napier said.
Later that day, Napier and Grissom met again.
"At that point, he said, 'I can give them the whole package,'" Napier said.
During cross-examination yesterday, deputy public defender Michael Bartee questioned the reliability of Napier's testimony because Napier did not take notes during his discussion with Grissom.
"So your written report is not a complete, accurate account?" Bartee asked Napier.
"That's correct," Napier said.
In other testimony, Gary Dirks, a chemist for the Johnson County crime lab, said public hairs taken from Grissom by authorities in Dallas were indistinguishable from those found by investigators in Rusch and Brown's beds.
In his closing argument, Morrison said, "I suggest that these girls are just as dead as if we had presented the bodies in court."
Warren said, "The fact that somebody is dead is not sufficient evidence to bound somebody for trial."
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