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The Inside Front
Thursday April 13,2000
News
from campus, the state. the nation and the world
CORRECTION
Information about the United Students coalition's position on graduate and nontraditional student issues was omitted from a graphic in yesterday's Kansan.
United Students
United Students wants to see the University allot more money to graduate students, allowing them to travel and present papers. For nontraditional students.
the coalition wants to work with the international community at Stouffer Place by getting English classes for international students and child care at the complex. United Students also wants to work toward getting more undergraduate classes offered at the Edwards Campus.
CAMPUS
Rayford given probation for Taco Bell offense
A former Kansas football player who tried to climb through a Taco Belt drive-in window last November when restaurant employees left a chalupa out of his order was sentenced to a year of probation yesterday.
Dion Rayford, Los Gatos, Calif., senior pleaded guilty in Douglas County district court to one count of criminal damage to property. Judge Paula Martin sentenced Rayford to six months in the Douglas County Jail but then gave him one year of probation.
The district attorney's office dropped the charges of disorderly conduct and possession of an open container. David Zabel, assistant district attorney, said the charges were dropped given the circumstances of the case.
"We're satisfied with what we did get," he said. "We got a conviction on the most serious misdemeanor and probation, and we thought that was appropriate all along."
Mindie Miller
As part of the terms of his probation, Rayford must pay court costs and restitution for the damage he did to the Taco Bell drive-thru window.
Former science teacher to talk about evolution
Steve Case, director of the Kansas Collaborative Research Network, is scheduled to give a talk on "Evolution and the Nature of Science" at 5:30 p.m. tonight in 2006 Malott Hall.
The talk is sponsored by the Kansas Collaborative for Excellence in Teacher Preparation, a program financed by a National Science Foundation grant aimed at improving the training of science teachers.
Deborah Williams, Lawrence graduate student and research associate in chemistry, said the program was targeting KU students interested in careers in science education but that the talk was open to anyone interested in science education.
Case was a science teacher for 20 years and was a member of the committee of scientists and educators whose evolution-friendly science education standards were rejected by the State Board of Education last August. Williams said that Case would talk about teaching evolution.
Jim O'Malley
University sponsors science conference
a conference on "Science, Evolution and the Search for Origins" is scheduled for this weekend at the University of Kansas.
The University and the American Association for the Advancement of Science are sponsoring the conference.
Science are sponsoring the conference. Hume Feldman, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, is organizing the conference. He said it was a response to the State Board of Education's decision last August to remove Darwinian evolutionary theory and the Big Bang from the state's science education standards.
The goal of the conference is to present basic scientific issues in cosmology, geology and evolutionary biology to teachers and other nonscientists including students.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway is scheduled to give open remarks at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Budig Hall. Ken Miller, professor of biology at Brown University and author of a book defending science, will give the keynote speech.
Other speakers are scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m Saturday.
The conference is free, but to ensure a place participants should peregrine by calling 864-KUCE or toll free at (877) 404-KUCE , by e-mailing their names, addresses and phone numbers to kuce@ukans.edu, or by registering on the web at www.kuce.org.
Jim O'Malley
NATION
Unilever announced today it will pay $326 million for the maker of Chunky Monkey and Cherry Garcia, bringing it under the same corporate umbrella as Good Humor and Breyers ice cream.
SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. — Ben & Jerry's Homemade, the ice cream maker founded by two former hippies, is being sold to the world's largest ice cream maker, Unilever PLC.
The deal calls for Unilever to pay $43.60 per share for the Vermont-based company.
The Ben & Jerry's deal with Unilever follows an effort by a group led by one of the company's co-founders, Ben Cohen, to make the company.
Ben & Jeny's will operate separately from Unilever's current U.S. business, remaining in Vermont with an independent board of directors.
Nasdaq slides further down slippery slope
NEW YORK — The Nasdaq composite index continued its steep slide yesterday, plumming 286 points and closing below 4,000 after a Goldman Sachs analyst lowered his expectations for Microsoft's revenues during the just-ended quarter.
Microsoft's woes sent a chill through the entire technology sector and demolished an early rally by the Dow Jones industrial average.
The Nasdaq finished a volatile session 286.27 points lower at 3,769.63, its second worst point drop in history and its first close below 4,000 since Jan. 31. The 7.1 percent decline was the sixth worst in percentage terms.
Israel ignores Clinton, sells plane to China
WORLD
JERUSALEM — Israel will not cancel the sale of a sophisticated early warning
Barak: urged by Clinton to cancel deal
plane to China despite a steam-roller of U.S. pressure aimed at edging Israel out of the international arms market, the deputy defense minister Ephraim Sneh said yesterday. Israeli Prime Minister Elshun Barak was reportedly urged by President Clinton to appeal the deal
Last week, the chairman of the House Foreign Aid Committee threatened to deduct Israeli earnings from the sale of the planes from U.S. aid to Israel.
Sneh, a retired general, scoffed at arguments that the sale of the PHALCON airborne surveillance system to China could pose a threat to Taiwan, a U.S. ally. He said one early warning plane could not change the military balance in Asia.
"Now, of all times, the issue has become hot, to no small degree, because the entire Chinese issue has become a burning issue in domestic American politics." Sneh said.
He said the U.S. presidential campaign was also a factor and noted that the Israel-China deal was signed three years ago.
He said that in the past, the United States had brutally thrown Israel out of other international arms markets.
A KU student's two car stereo speakers and 100 compact discs were stolen between 1 a.m. April 5 and 10:30 a.m. Friday from a 1998 Pontiac Sunfire in the 1100 block of Louisiana Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $1,780. The amount of damage to the vehicle was unknown.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's Compaq laptop computer was stolen between 3 p.m.
April 5 and 12:30 p.m. April 6 from the 1800 block of Nisemith
Drive, Lawrence police said. The computer was valued at $1,400.
The Associated Press
- Two KU students' CDs were stolen between 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.
- March 17 from the eighth floor of Oliver Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The 126 CDs were valued at $1,674.99.
ON CAMPUS
Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 12:30 p.m. today at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave., Cell 8240110
- Free income tax assistance for paper filling will be available from 3 to 5 p.m. today at Room 203 in Green Hall.
Call 8644-4550.
African Literature Association and the KU English Department will sponsor a presentation by Simon Gikandi, "Literature and Moral Considerations: The African Example," from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. today at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Call Judy Farmer at 864-3858.
KU Non Trades (formerly OAKS) will have a monthly meeting from 4:30 to 6:30 tonight at Alcove G in the Kansas Union. Call Deena Hardie at 864-7317.
The African Literature Association will have a formal opening ceremony from 5 to 7 tonight at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Call Judy Farmer at 864-3858.
KU Chemistry Department will sponsor a presentation by Steve Case, "Evolution and the Nature of Science," at 5:30 p.m. today at Room 2006 in Mallot Hall. Call Deborah Williams at 331-2254.
Alternative Spring Break will have a pancake dinner at 5:30 p.m. today at St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center, 1631 Crescent Road. Call Katie Harpstrite at 864-4317.
Campus Crusade for Christ will meet at 6:30 on tonight at Mr. Gatti's. Call Demarik Pattne at 749.5890.
Association will sponsor English Alternative Theater's production of A Raisin in the Sun at 7:30 tonight at the Lawrence Community Theater, 1501 New Hampshire St. Call Judy Farmer at 864-385B.
KU Dance Department will present at new dance/theater/music concert at 7:30 tonight at Room 240 in Robinson Center, Call 864-4264.
Ecumenical Christian Ministries and KU Environs will have a veggie lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
Psi Chi and Psychology Club will meet at 6:30 tonight at Room 547 in Fraser Hall. Call Larisa Roemisch at 841-6738.
Applications for Center for Community Outreach project coordinators, financial director and university relations director are due April 19 at 426 Kansas Union. Call EJ. Reedy or Christina Harms at 864-4073
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will have a Spring Swing Dance at 9 p.m. tomorrow at the center, 1631 Crescent Road. Lessons will be given at 8:30 p.m. Call Sister Vicki at 843-0357
The African Literature
Amnesty International will meet at 7 tonight at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. Call Kyle Pawlez for 842-1351
KU HorrorZontals ultimate frisbee team will practice from 8 to 11 tonight at Anschutz Sports Pavilion. Call Will Spots at 841-6701.
KU Racqueteau Club will practice from 6 to 8 tonight at Robinson Center. Call Stewart Hunt at 312-231.1
Storytelling essential to slave culture, lecturer says
By Ryan Blethen
writer @kanans.com
Kananst writer
Slave writers were unique because they straddled two worlds — Africa and the New World, said Emmanuel Obiechina, visiting Langston Hughes professor of English, African and African American studies.
Last night, Obiechina delivered the Langston Hughes lecture, the opening event for the African Literature Associations conference that will meet through Sunday.
About 70 people attended Obiechina's lecture, "Common Themes in African Diaspora Literatures," at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Oobichne focused on the African narrative story-tellers who were taken off the continent and transported to the Caribbean and North America by way of the middle passage slave-trade route.
He said that the slave trade, particularly during the 18th century, was a terrible time in Africa.
Enslaid people started writing because storytelling was an integral part of many their cultures and also allowed them to gain a sense of freedom with their voices.
"When they came to the New World they reached back to use a form they knew, the story form, to unfreeze their tongue, which was frozen when they were captured and taken to a hostile continent." he said.
Most of the narratives begin with the author's African name since new names were assigned once they became slaves.
"To remove your name is almost to nullify a human being," Obiechina said. "Many of their narratives start with, 'This is my name.'"
These themes of identity and the bridging of two worlds still are part of the African Diaspora literature today, he said.
Alan Chan, a graduate student from the University of Arizona who is in Lawrence for the ALA conference, came to the lecture because he was working on his French and Francophone African literature degree.
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