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The Inside Front
Monday April 24, 2000
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CORRECTION
A caption for the "Battle of the bands" photo on the front page of Friday's Kansan was incorrect. Pictured was Lonnie Fisher, the lead singer of Sturgeon Mill.
CLARIFICATION
The elections commission decided Wednesday that the four students involved in the theft of 9,000 copies of The University Daily Kansan could not run for office in future Student Senate elections. The sanctions do not, however, prohibit Lindsay Gaston, El Dorado senior, R.J. Woodring, Lisie, III, junior, Jameson Jones, Highland Village, Texas, freshman, and Drew Thompson, Wichita sophomore, from voting, passing out fliers or participating on the periphery of future elections.
CAMPUS
Power outage to close Art & Architecture Library
The Art and Architecture Library in the basement of the Spencer Museum of Art will close at 7 p.m. tomorrow because of an electrical outage.
Facilities Operations crews will work overnight to plug the new parking facility into the campus electrical grid, forcing the museum to shut down its power, said Mary Rosenbloom, external relations librarian for KU Libraries.
Power will be restored to the building by 8 a.m. Wednesday, and the library will resume its regular hours Wednesday, which are from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Warisa Chulindra
New hearing date set for former KU secretary
A probation violation hearing for a former KU secretary in the Office of Multicultural Affairs was continued Friday afternoon.
Constance Conboy waited in a Douglas County courtroom Friday while attorneys in the case rescheduled her hearing, Rick Trapp, deputy district attorney, said Conboy's new hearing would be at 2 p.m. May 12.
Conboy was convicted of felony theft and misdemeanor theft last September for embezzling money from what was then known as the Office of Minority Affairs, now known as Office of Multicultural Affairs. Conboy made personal purchases and wrote University checks to people not working for the office.
A judge sentenced her to two years probation and ordered her to pay $15,000 restitution. The district attorney's office has filed a motion to revoke Conboy's probation because it alleges she has not paid her restitution.
—Mindie Miller
Conboy was fired from her position April 2, 1999. Craig Stancillie, Conboy's attorney, said Conboy had been unable to find work since then.
LAWRENCE
KU student arrested after drinking in public
Consuming alcohol in public led to a 20-year-old Leawood freshman's arrest early Friday morning.
Sgt. George Wheeler of the Lawrence Police Department said police saw William H. Oades Jr. exit the granada, 1020 Massachusetts St., around 1:50 a.m. Friday while drinking alcohol from a plastic cup.
When police approached Oakes for questioning, he threw the cup down on the sidewalk, Wheeler said. Police arrested the student on charges of interfering with duties and consuming alcohol in public.
During the arrest, Wheeler said, police discovered that Oades was underage and had a fake ID. They also charged Oades with unlawful use of a driver's license and minor in possession.
"He was able to parlay a pretty simple thing into a bad deal," Wheeler said. Oades was booked at 6 a.m. Friday in the Douglas County Jail, 11 E. 11th St., and released Friday afternoon.
Mindie Miller
Arkansas River too dirty to touch, officials say
WICHITA — The Arkansas River is so polluted, it is too dirty to touch, according to state officials.
But no one — city, state or federal officials — is sure why.
The river is fairly clean as it flows into Wichita, but by the time it leaves the city, the water is so dirty it is not safe for wading, fishing and touching, said Tom Stiles, chief of the office of planning and prevention at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
The river also is not safe for canoeing, kayaking or water skiing.
KDHE is under a court decree to clean up the river, but what the state will do and how much it will cost is unknown until the source of the pollution is found.
Finding the source of the pollution proves difficult because the pollution is not constant.
Possible reasons for the dirty water include failed septic tanks that serve individual homes and aging sewage pipes throughout the city.
Other possible sources are wildlife and dairy farms near Cowskin Creek
and livestock operations along tributaries to the Little Arkansas River.
About half the state's rivers are too dirty for wading or splashing in the water. Nearly all the rivers in Kansas and a third of those in the nation are too dirty for boating, water skiing and swimming.
Police say 15-year-old planned stabbing attack
WORLD
TORONTO — A 15-year-old boy accused of stabbing five people at his high school apparently planned the attacks to coincide with the first anniversary of the massacre in Littleton, Colo., police said Sunday.
Det. Sgt. Ken Doyle said comments by witnesses and other evidence indicated the attacks Thursday were tied to the anniversary of the April 20, 1999, shootings at Columbine High School, where two students killed 13 people before turning their guns on themselves.
The stabbings Thursday began at about '11:21 a.m. — the exact same time of day that the Columbine shootings started.
Doyle refused to provide specifics about the evidence. Sgt. Leo Janveau said police had some evidence of planning prior to the stabbings, which left minor puncture wounds on four students and a lab technician who worked at Cairine Wilson high school in Orleans, a suburb of Ottawa.
Beijing police crack down on spiritual movement
BEIJING — On alert for protests, police detained followers of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement yesterday on Tiananmen Square, including a group of 11 women and a child who were herded into a van and driven away.
Another person was taken away for trying to unfurl a banner and at least six others were detained individually. Because of the throngs of visitors on the huge square, it was impossible to see how many practitioners were taken away in total. But police regularly detain 40 to 50 there each day, sometimes more.
Police have stepped up surveillance of the square and railroad and bus stations ahead of Tuesday's anniversary of a protest by 10,000 Falun Gong followers outside Communist Party headquarters in Beijing last year.
The protest, the largest in Beijing since the crushing of the Tiananmen Square democracy movement in 1989, prompted Chinese leaders to ban Falun Gong three months later and launch a crackdown in which thousands of followers have been detained. Leaders have been imprisoned for up to 18 years.
The Associated Press
New Faculty Council members picked
By John Audlehelm
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas' faculty has elected 12 new members to the Faculty Council and two to the Athletic Committee. The results were announced Thursday.
The 12 new members of the Faculty Council are Larry Baden, associate professor of journalism; Tom Beisecker, associate professor of communication studies; Chuck Berg, professor of theatre and film; Maggie Childs, associate professor of East Asian languages and culture; Amy Devitt, associate professor of English; Mohamed ElHodiri, professor of economics and Russian and East European studies; John Gronbeck-Tedesco, professor of theatre and film; Alfred Lata, chemistry lecturer; Dorothy Pennington, associate professor of African and African American studies and communications studies; Cindy Pierard, library instruction coordinator; Lloyd Sponholtz, associate professor of history; and Bill Tsutsui, associate professor of history.
Mary Hawkins, president of Faculty Senate, said the elections were done by a mail-in ballot of the faculty. Faculty Council is the 57-member executive body of Faculty Senate, which all faculty members belong to.
Molly Mulloy, administrative assistant for University governance, said the 12 new Faculty Council members would serve three-year terms expiring in May 2003. The Athletic Committee's new members' terms will expire in June 2003, she said.
The two new members of the Athletic Committee are Ted Wilson, professor of history,
and Susan Williams, assistant professor of chemical and petroleum engineering.
Mulloy said the faculty also elected Lisa Wolf-Wendel, assistant professor of teaching and leadership, and Ray Davis, associate professor of public administration, to serve Faculty Council replacement terms for two of the new members who would be on sabbatical.
The officers change after commencement in May, Mulloy said.
Mulloy said University Council would meet at 3:30 p.m. Thursday at 108 Blake Hall to elect a new president-elect, the members of the new Senate Executive Committee and the SenEx chairperson.
ON THE RECORD
At that time the current president-elect, Jim Carothers, professor of English, will become the president, she said.
A KU student's drum set was stolen between 7 p.m. April 16 and 11 a.m. Thursday from Pearson Scholarship Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The set, which included a bass drum, two bass toms, a floor tom, roto toms and four cymbals, was valued at $600.
The glove compartment of a University of Kansas Athletics Department employee's vehicle was damaged during an attempted theft between 8:30 a.m. and 7:45 p.m. Thursday in the parking garage, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage was estimated at $100.
Safety Office said. Damage was estimated at $100.
■ A CD player and 10 CDs were stolen from a KU student's vehicle between noon and 6:45 p.m.
Thursday from Lot 111, near Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Corbin Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The CD player and CDs were valued at $235 and damage to the student's vehicle incurred during the burglary was estimated at $200.
A KU student's passenger-side door of a 1995 Honda Accord was keyed to 2 a.m. and 5 p.m. Tuesday
in the 500 block of West 12th Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $1,000.
A KU student's backpack, two shirts and cash were stolen between 10:30 and 11 p.m. April 16 from the 3500 block of Clinton Parkway, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $276.
A KU student's personal checks and bank card were stolen at 1:35 p.m. Thursday from the 700 block of West 23rd Street, Lawrence police said. The items had no value.
A KU student's Kansas license plate was stolen between 4:25 a.m. Tuesday and 7:45 p.m. Friday from the 2000 block of West Seventh Street, Lawrence police said. The plate was valued at $5.
A KU student's purse containing a wallet, personal checks, cash and miscellaneous identification and credit cards was stolen between 2:15 and 2:20 p.m. Friday from the 100 block of South Park Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $106.
ON CAMPUS
The Art and Design Scholarship Expo will begin at 1 p.m. today and tomorrow at the fourth floor in the Art and Desian Building.
Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 11:30 a.m. today at Eucalectian Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call 842-0110.
- The Student Association of Graduates in English will have a Creative Collogium at 7 tonight at the English Room in the Kansas Union, Call Amy Cummins at B64.255B
KU Environs will meet at 7:30 tonight in the Kansas Union. Call 844-7525
KU Libraries will have a Snyder Book Collecting Contest Awards Reception from 3 to 4:45 p.m. tomorrow at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union. Call Mary Rosenbloom at 864-8921.
University Career and Employment Services will
have a Better Late than Jobless workshop from 4 to 7 p.m. tomorrow at 149 Burge Union. Call Ann Hartley at 864-3624
Hispanic American Leadership Organization will meet at 6 p.m. tomorrow at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. Call Chris Haydel at 312-2291.
KU Racquetball Club will practice from 6 to 8 p.m. tomorrow at Robinson Center. Call Stewart Hunt at 331-2231.
Pi Sigma Alpha will have an awards banquet at 6 p.m. tomorrow at the Holidome, 200 MacDonald Drive. Call Betty Jo Moiller at 864-9055.
University Christian Fellowship will meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Rick Clock at 841-3148.
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WEEKLY CALENDAR OF EVENTS
STUDENT LECTURE SERIES
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Our Environmental Destiny
7 p.m. Tuesday, April 25 in the Lied Center
Free Lecture
JIMMY FALLON
Star of NBC's Saturday Night Live
8 p.m. Saturday, April 29 in 120 Budig Hall
Tickets--KUID: $8 w/o KUID $15
Tickets are available at the SUA Box Office,
Level 4, Kansas Union
STUDENT UNION ACTIVITIES
DAY ON THE HILL
Annual Music Festival
Saturday, May 6
12 - 6 p.m. West Campanile Hill
Featureting: The Urge, Rex Hobart & The Misery Boys,
Jesse Jackson 5, Proudman and all more!
FLASHING FLIX
Evil Dead 2 & Chickenonics
9 p.m. Friday, April 28 at Pottier Lake
Watch the movie on a floating screen!
EARTH AWAKENESS OPEN HOUSE
Today!
10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Monday, April 24
Kansas Union Lobby
NET EVENTS Vouchers available at the SUA box office.
Frequency 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 25
Woodruff Auditorium
Whipped
8 p.m. Wednesday, April 26
Woodruff Auditorium
Gladiator
8 p.m. Wednesday, May 3
Liberty Hall
MOVIES
Overlord: A Love Story
7 and 9:30 p.m.
April 25 and 27
The Beach
7 and 9:30 p.m.
April 26, 28 and 29
One Nation Under God Midnight April 28 and 29
9 P.M., FRIDAY, APRIL 28
UNION WEEKLY SPECIALS
864-4596
www.jayhawks.com
Join us for the Earth Awareness Open House TODAY from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Kansas Union Lobby, Level 4. We will have free environmental info from KU Environs, the Humane Society, Rock Climbing Club, Environmental Studies Association, and more! Free activities including: flower pot painting, Tunes @ Noon, daisies and seed giveaways, drawings and specials throughout the Unions and much, much more!
EARTH AWARENESS OPEN HOUSE
Wilderness Discovery Camping Equipment Rental
CAMPING EQUIPMENT RENTAL
HELP THE HUMANE SOCIETY
Bring clean towels or blankets,or dog or cat food to the Kansas Union Lobby, Level 4, this week, Monday Friday to help the Lawrence Humane Society, as a part of the Unions Earth Awareness Week!
Wilderness Discovery has camping equipment rental for your next outing. Call 864-3545 or visit the Jaybowl, Level 1, Kansas Union.
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