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The Inside Front
Friday April 28,2000
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Tonight's Floating Flicks offers new sound system
The fourth annual Floating Flicks will be at 9 tonight at Potter Lake. The shows will feature a 22-minute short film called Chickenomics, a documentary on the trials and tribulations of the San Diego Chicken, and Evil Dead 2.
Darin Schabadch, Student Union Activities feature films coordinator, said the sound should be a lot better this year because equipment was brought in from Red House Recording Studio in Eudora.
"Last year didn't sound good at all," Schabdach said. "There was an incessant whine through the whole thing. We blew like $500 on a sound system this year."
Floating Flicks is free and sponsored by SUA.
10th annual AIDS walk to take place tomorrow
The Douglas County AIDS Project will play host to its 10th Annual Walk for Health tomorrow morning.
Registration for the 5-kilometer walk starts at 9 a.m., and the walk starts at 10 a.m.
Sidney Hardgrave, executive director of the Douglas County AIDS Project, said the money raised would directly benefit the organization.
Last year's walk raised about $7,200, and Hardgrave said this year's goal was $8,000.
The participants were asked to collect pledges, and Hardgrave said she expected about 250 walkers.
She said prizes would be awarded for the top pledge collectors and T-shirts would be distributed.
Nicole Schnellbacher, spring philanthropy chair for the Panhellenic Association, said the Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic have teamed up with the Douglas County AIDS Project in promoting AIDS awareness this week and have helped recruit walkers as part of their spring philanthropy.
Jessie Meyer
Runners to help collect money for Hilltop center
or $10 per family for the family run.
The first Hilltop Child Development Center Hilltop Hustle will take place tomorrow morning.
Registration for the 5- and 1-kilometer runs begins at 7:15 a.m., the 5K begins at 8 a.m. and the 1K family run begins shortly after. Runners will pay $15 for the 5K and $4 per person
or $10 per family for the family run.
Sara Bara, project director for
Hilltop, said the money raised would go toward new equipment and supplies for the early childhood education center. She said no specific monetary goal had been set.
There will be medals and prizes for the winners of each age and gender division, as well as T-shirts for the contestants.
Jessie Meyer
Baker field day to teach visitors about wetlands
Baker University will sponsor a Wetlands Field Day on Sunday at the wetlands near Haskell Avenue and 35th Street. A drive-through tour will be available with information stations about different aspects of the wetlands.
The event will provide educational opportunities about topics ranging from plant identification to the history of the wetlands. Visitors can canoe or see a demonstration of prairie-burning equipment.
- Erinn R. Barcomb
STATE
Parsons Sun photo gets international attention
PARSONS, Kan. — Whatever it was that a Parsons Sun photographer captured on film three days before a tornado struck the town, a lot of people want to see it.
The newspaper has received calls from as far away as England seeking copies of the April 19 edition with a front-page time-lapse photo of carnival rides in motion.
Or is it something else? At the center of the picture, the rides' white lights merge in what looks to many people like a suspended figure in a white robe — an angel, perhaps, although others say it is Jesus Christ
"I was really stunned," said Sheila Leon, a part-time Sun employee. "I saw Jesus. I thought I was going crazy when I saw it, and I didn't want to tell anybody."
Adding to the mystique, the picture although taken April 16 — was not published until the afternoon of April 19, just hours before a tornado slammed into Parsons. Dozens of homes and businesses were destroyed or damaged, but there were no deaths or serious injuries. Officials said they were able to get warnings out well in advance of the twister's arrival.
The Sun has printed thousands of extra copies of the paper and reprinted the photo. The Sun can be read online at http://www.parsonsun.com
and tiles as well as photographs.
http://www.parsonsun.com.
Sandra Zimdars-Swartz, a professor of religious studies at the University of Kansas, said people often found religious images in such things as clouds
http://www.parsonssun.com
"People are feeling relieved that this disaster came very close to tragedy, but no one was hurt or killed," Zimdars-Swartz said. "One of those cherished beliefs we have is that no events happen without meaning."
Ann Charles, the editor and publisher of the Sun, said the photograph was not altered in any way.
Last full-blooded member of Kaw Nation dies at 82
NATION
OMAHA, Neb.—The man recognized as the last pure-blooded member of the Kaw Nation has died.
William Mehojah died Sunday. He was 82.
He and his wife moved to Omaha a year ago to be closer to their daughter, the Rev. Sandra Mehojah, project coordinator for the Omaha School District's Indian education office.
Mehloh served in the Army during World War II and then worked for 35 years with the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Montana, the Dakotas, Idaho and Arizona, where he retired in 1976.
Kaw land had stretched 20 million acres across northern Kansas into Nebraska and Missouri, but by 1825, westward expansion reduced that land to 2 million acres.
The federal government moved the tribe to a 100,000-acre reservation in northern Oklahoma in 1873. By this time disease had reduced the number of Kaw to about 700, said JoAnn Obregon, a member of the Kaw executive council.
About 600 live on the reservation today with 2,541 on the tribal rolls. Many only have a fraction of Kaw blood.
WORLD
Russia may compromise in war with Chechnya
MOSCOW — With Russian troops bogged down in the mountains of Chechnya and suffering heavy losses, the Kremlin is hinting it may no longer be counting on an overwhelming military victory to end the war.
Russian jets keep flying daily air raids and tens of thousands of federal troops are locked in a hit-and-run war in Chechnya. But President Vladimir Putin and other top officials have toned down their harsh rhetoric of accepting nothing less than total victory.
The rebels have defied Russian claims that they are on the verge of defeat, repeatedly ambushing federal troops. The government, reacting to pressure from abroad and faltering public support at home, admits talking with Chechen intermediaries about a political solution and that it would consider negotiating with rebel leaders.
- The Associated Press
Club members dream of climbing Campanile
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The club has taken trips to Colorado, Arkansas, California and New Mexico, and it recently traveled to Wichita.
Lt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office said that he did not know people climbed buildings but that they could be arrested for criminal trespassing.
"It's a safety issue." he said.
Nevertheless, the climbers continue to builder.
James said no one he knew ever had gotten hurt climbing a building on campus, and only one person had been hurt climbing anything since the club began — even though the climbers used a safety rope on only one of the buildings.
"We can get a safety rope on top of the fire escape on Bailey Hall," he said. "But there isn't a spot for a rope on any of the other buildings."
Allen said he had climbed campus buildings more than 20 times.
He said he hadn't ever been caught.
although he once was spotted while building with some friends. He escaped safely, he said.
Buildings aren't the only structures that the climbers play on, though. Memorial Stadium was the sight for one adventure for James and five friends in the fall of 1998.
"We rappelled from the top of the stadium at midnight," he said. "We wanted something exciting to do and didn't want to go out and get drunk."
Buildings are nice, and the stadium is quite an accomplishment, but "everyone thinks about doing the Campanile," Allen said.
The structure itself is too smooth to builder, but rappelling off of the top is a possibility. he said.
ON THE RECORD
"It definitely is a goal of some people out there," he said.
Although the outside of the Campanile may not be climbable, the inside apparently is.
"I know some guys who climbed up the elevator shaft on the inside of it for fun," Allen said.
A KU student's Motorola cellular phone, 50 CDs, CD case, backpack, textbook and reel of film were stolen between 7 p.m. Monday and 12:30 p.m. Tuesday from a vehicle in the 700 block of New Hampshire Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $760.
A KU student's left mirror on a 1991 Mercury Tracer was damaged between 9:15 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. Sunday in the 1700 block of Kentucky Street, Lawrence police said The damage was estimated at $200.
A KU student's 1995 black Ford Explorer was damaged between 9:50 and 10:10 p.m. Wednesday in the 1400 block of Apple Lane, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $2,000.
The KU Public Safety Office responded to a medical emergency Wednesday at lot 59, west of Memorial Stadium. A visitor had fallen off his bike when it hit a grate on the hill he was riding down. He had a nosebleed and had been unconscious for several minutes before police arrived. Paramedics transported the visitor to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. A
friend and several members of a nearby frater nikv took the bicycle to the visitor's home.
The paint was damaged on the hood of a KU student's car between 6 p.m. Tuesday and 2 p.m. Wednesday in lot 112, Oliver Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damages were estimated at $150.
A KU student was arrested for driving while intoxicated at 11:47 p.m. Wednesday in the 1400 block of Crestline Drive, the KU Public Safety Office said. The student admitted to taking some of her boyfriend's prescription drugs an hour earlier. She also had been smoking marijuana. Her boyfriend, a passenger in the vehicle who was not a KU student, had a pipe commonly used for smoking marijuana. He was cited for possession of drug paraphernalia, and the student was taken to Douglas County Jail.
The KU Public Safety Office was dispatched to a car fire at 3:13 am. April 11 in lat 59, W. Memorial Stadium. Damages to a visitor's 1988 Honda were estimated at $4,000. The fire was caused by arson, according to a police report.
ON CAMPUS
KU HorrorZontals ultimate frisbee team will practice from 1 to 4 p.m. tomorrow at Central Junior
KU Badminton Club will practice from 6:30 to 10:15 tonight at rooms 211 and 212 in Robinson Center. Call Tee at 843-2267.
High School, 1400 Massachusetts St.
Asian American Student Union will have a spring picnic from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow at Holcomb Park. Call Binh Thai at 841-6934.
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