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HE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14. 1997
SECTION A VOL.103.NO.98
(USPS 650-640)
Robber ties up employee, nabs money from pizzeria
A robbery at a local pizzeria left one employee tied to her chair and two bags of cash missing yesterday morning.
While working on the daily accounting at 7:30 a.m. at Mr. Gatti's, 3514 Clinton Parkway, the 21-year-old woman heard a knock on the office door.
Thinking the person was a fellow employee, she opened the locked door and found an unidentified man on the other side.
Police said the man pushed the victim into the office and ordered her to sit down. The man, claiming to have a handgun, then tied her to a chair with her back to the office door.
After the man left, the victim was able to free herself and call the police for assistance.
Two blue bank bags, filled with an undisclosed amount of money, were missing after the robbery.
The victim described the man as a 6-foot, 20-to 25-year-old Hispanic or Native-American male weighing 185-200 pounds. He had waist-length black hair, a goatette and an acne-scarred face, the victim said. He wore gloves, a black Nike baseball cap and a black nylon jacket and pantsuit.
Police Sgt. Susan Hadl said that if anyone had information about the incident or recognized the description of the man, they should call Lawrence police, 832-7650, or Crime Stoppers, 843-8477.
—Kansan staff report
Drug use on the job may lead to no benefits
TOPEKA — Denying unemployment benefits to people who are fired for failing a drug test would create safer places to work, a Kansas House of Representative committee was told vesterav.
"We have made it clear we won't tolerate drugs in schools," Rep. Cindy Empson, R-Independence, told the House Business, Commerce and Labor Committee. "We should also make it clear we won't tolerate drugs around the work place."
The Associated Press
But a spokeswoman for the American Civil Liberties Union said the measure was an invasion of privacy and could result in workers being unjustly terminated.
The measure would deny unemployment benefits to people who refuse to take a drug test or fail one if such tests are a condition of employment.
Owner of a lonely heart
Many students at the University of Kansas have less-than-romantic opinions of Valentine's Day.
I think I'm going to be sitting in Louise's Downtown sucking on a schooner."
Grey Montgomery, Junction City senior
refer to this day as Black Friday. This holiday in general is a shaft for males."
Kelly Huffman, Bellevue, Neb., junior
I think it's easier for guys, especially if you're single, because you don't have to think about buying anything for anyone."
Danny Martinez, Shawnee sophomore
I've gotten over the whole Valentine's Day attachment to a guy. I've had years where I'm like, 'Yeah, this really sucks,' but now I'm over it and I just want to have fun."
Kansan staff writer
By Stephanie McDuff Kansan staff writer
wrensness, Brookings, S.D. sophomore
Mysterious accident injures KU student
An attempt to warm up a vehicle yesterday morning left a 43-year-old Stouffer Place resident in critical condition.
KU police said that about 8 a.m. yesterday, Yeon Kim went outside to warm up her car in the parking lot. Two minutes later, several residents in the area called police after seeing Kim pinned beneath the front driver-side wheel of her 1979 Pontiac.
Kim's car rolled backward and hit a car parked in the row behind it, police said. After being struck by Kim's Pontiac, the second vehicle then hit an adjacent car.
Stouffer Place residents found Kim trapped under the front wheel of her car and called 911. Police said Kim was unconscious. Her torso was
pinned under the front tire.
At 8:23 a.m., an ambulance took Kim to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. She later was flown to the University of Kansas Medical Center, where she underwent emergency surgery.
Kim remains in critical condition in the surgical intensive care unit at the Med Center, hospital officials said.
Although they interviewed several witnesses after the incident, KU police Sgt. Chris Keary said police were uncertain what caused the car to roll backward. Keary said police hoped to piece together the events after talking with the victim when she regained consciousness.
Kim lived with her husband, Kwa Kim, a KU graduate student. Keary said the victim's family had been notified and was taken to the Med Center by friends.
Matt Wagner, Kansas State student body president (left), and Kelly Watson, KU Nunemaker senator (right), say goodbye to Tom Sawyer, Kansas House Minority Leader. Fifteen KU students participated in Lobby Day, in which students discussed education issues with lawmakers.
Lobby Day gets mixed reviews from students
By Dave Morantz
Kansan staff writer
She and other legislative directors at Regents schools developed a legislative handbook that contained resolutions and issue positions approved by student government organizations at the Regents schools. The students gave the handbooks to about 120 legislators, the governor, lieutenant governor and secretary of state.
TOPEKA — Students from the University of Kansas and other Regents universities traveled to Topeka yesterday to lobby state lawmakers on issues concerning education.
About 15 KU students participated in the first ever Lobby Day, an opportunity for Kansas college students to meet with lawmakers to discuss such issues as technology funding, college savings plans and increased faculty salaries.
Ashleigh de la Torre, legislative director for Student Senate, said the idea had come from the efforts of Kansas State students who had presented their positions to lawmakers last year.
"You go through all the stuff in Senate, and it's neat to see that what we do really has an effect up here," said Nunemaker senator Kelly Watson.
But many legislators hungry to cut taxes did not lend a sympathetic ear to students.
The students split up and tried to meet with as many representatives and senators as possible. Grey Montgomery, student body president, and other Regents universities student body presidents met with Gov. Bill Graves.
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Most students said they had had good meetings with the lawmakers. But some lawmakers cautioned the students that money for higher education would be hard to find in a time of fiscal fragility.
LOBBY: Legislators and students say
When Montgomery asked House Majority Leader Robin Jennison about his position on the technology equipment fee, Jennison asked another student in the office what his parents did for a living and skirted the question. Despite this, Montgomery said he was pleased with the opportunity to meet with lawmakers.
"The thought of raising taxes is like cussing in church," said State Sen. Rich Becker, R-Lenexa.
LOBBY: Legislators and students say frequent lobbying can be effective. Page 3A
"The important thing for us is to make sure that these people know our positions," he said.
"Your problem's not with me," Graves told the group. "I can write and deliver the finest and most well-delivered State of the State in years, but if they don't buy it there is really no point." Graves said of some of the lawmakers.
Later that morning, Montgomery and the other student body presidents had a long meeting with Graves, who was much more receptive to students' views than Jennifer and other tax-cutting lawmakers were.
And those lawmakers may have been the ones who broke their appointments with students yesterday.
"I understand that they had an emergency meeting, but I am kind of upset," said Ana Calderon, off-campus senator. "Instead of asking us about our handbook, one of the secretaries just asked if we were getting along with the K-State students."
But Jordan Edwards, Junction City sophomore, said most of the lawmakers he had spoken with had been fairly receptive to students' requests.
"To a degree, we're kind of limited to what we can do because we're students," he said. "But I think most of them are taking us seriously."
FBI now can hunt for Sun
Manhunt easier with new warrant
By Stephanie McDuff Kansan staff writer
A federal warrant was issued yesterday for the arrest of a KU student charged with aggravated kidnapping and aggravated sodomy of a 19-year-old student last November in McCollum Hall.
This new warrant, for the unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, will allow the FBI to organize a nationwide, and possibly worldwide, search for Olathe sophomore Thomas Sun.
"It is fair to say that he has left the area," said special agent Jeff Lanza, of the bureau's Kansas City office.
Sun had been declared a fugitive since Jan. 16, when Division I Judge Robert Fairchild ordered a bench warrant issued for Sun when he failed to appear in court Jan. 13 and 15. On Feb. 3, Fairchild also ordered that Sun's bond be forfeited.
The KU police department initially contacted the FBI about Sun's outstanding local warrant on Jan. 31. A formal request for the federal warrant later was submitted
to the FBI on Feb. 3.
Lanza said that a U.S. magistrate approved the application at 2 p.m. yesterday, shortly after receiving the FBI's request.
With the special warrant, the FBI will be able to utilize all its resources in a national search for Sun. Lanza said.
Now field officers throughout the nation can widen their search without having to consult as closely with local authorities.
In order for the FBI to request the new warrant on Sun, several criteria had to be met, Lanza said.
First, there had to be a local outstanding warrant for the his arrest. Local authorities requesting the FBI's involvement also had to agree to prosecute and extradite the fugitive once he was caught.
Another criteria for the warrant was that there must be reasonable evidence that the fugitive had crossed state lines.
Lanza said Sun's case fit all of the criteria. He also said there had been some speculation that Sun could have left the country.
Although the FBI won't press charges on Sun should the warrant be served, Lanza said that the state district attorney's office could press additional charges.
Rick Trapp, the assistant district attorney prosecuting the Sun case, said that upon his arrest, additional charges might be brought against Sun because of his flight.
By Stephanie McDuff Kansan staff writer
Three arrested after shooting at nightclub
A gunshot rang out in the parking lot of a local club early yesterday morning, leaving one employee in stable condition and two men in police custody and one out on bond.
At 1:45 a.m. yesterday, Donnie Scott, a 28-year-old bouncer at Langstons, 806 W. 24th St., and fellow employees began their nightly patrol of the club's parking lot around closing time.
After a car approached the employees patrolling the lot, a shot was fired and struck Scott.
Scott was first taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital but was transported just before 4 a.m. to the University of Kansas Medical Center. He was in stable condition.
As of late yesterday evening, Scott remained at the Med Center, but his condition was not available.
Police found an abandoned car, resembling that involved in the shooting, a half mile west
of Langstons in the parking lot of an apartment complex.
The shotgun believed to have been used in the shooting was found by police in the abandoned vehicle.
Police traced the vehicle to three individuals whom they arrested yesterday afternoon. Bernest Thomas, 23, of Kansas City, Kan., was arrested at 12:20 p.m. on aggravated battery charges. Also charged with aggravated battery is 25-year-old Steven Lloyd of Leavenworth.
Thomas and Lloyd remain in police custody in the Douglas County Jail. They will appear in court at 3 p.m. today for arraignment.
Also arrested in connection with the shooting was Lawrence resident Greg Blackwell, 24. Blackwell was charged with aiding a felon. Blackwell was released on a $1,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in court at 3 p.m. Feb. 27.
Police Sgt. Susan Hadl said there was no reason to believe that the incident was related to the shooting of Onzie Branch Aug. 15 at Langstons.
Airline strike still looming
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—American Airlines rejected a compromise offer from its pilots union as tonight's holiday-weekend strike deadline approached. The company's chief executive urged President Clinton to intervene to avoid a walkout at the nation's largest airline.
Testifying on Capitol Hill, American Airlines president Robert Crandall said Clinton should exercise his emergency powers to prevent pilots from striking at 12:01 a.m. tomorrow. Mayors and some members of Congress from areas that would be particularly affected also have asked the president to step in.
Although negotiations were scheduled to continue, both sides were preparing for a walkout. The airline canceled most overseas flights so aircraft would not be stranded, and the board of the Allied Pilots Association planned a
teleconference at the strike deadline
At the White House, the Transportation Department sent Clinton a report projecting that the strike would cost up to $200 million each day and could strand up to 40,000 passengers.
The president, who has emergency powers to intervene temporarily, urged both sides to reach an agreement.
Hopes for a settlement rose early yesterday, when the union offered to have its pilots accept lower pay scales for operating jets on regional routes as long as the company accepted its other demands.
But American's parent company, AMR Corp., said it didn't want American pilots to fly the new jets that have been proposed for regional routes. AMR wants its American Eagle subsidiary, with lower-paid pilots from another union, to fly the commuter jets.
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