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The Inside Front
Friday March 17,2000
News
from campus,the state, the nation and the world
CORRECTIONS
A story in yesterday's Kansan misrepresented the amount of money OAKS is requesting from Student Senate for a computer. The $8,702 the article mentioned is OAKS' entire budget. OAKS has requested $1,400 for the computer.
Fatima Harrak, assistant professor of religious studies, was misquoted in an article in yesterday's Kansan. Harrak actually said that Islam meant "submission." Also, Muslims honor Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son Ishmael, not Isaac.
CAMPUS
Four students fill empty Student Senate seats
Four replacement senators were approved at Wednesday night's Student Senate meeting.
STUDENT
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
SENATE
Marlon Marshall,
Student Senate
Executive
Committee chair,
presented the following new senators:
Mariuk Hubei,
graduate: Jennifer
Tatum, liberal arts and sciences; Matt Gregg, fine arts; and Stephanie Petersen, graduate.
They will fill the seats immediately. Senate replaced seven seats Feb. 16, but these four seats remained open.
NATION
- Erinn R. Barcomb
Clinton asks for delay in his disbarment case
WASHINGTON — President Clinton yesterday sought a delay until after he leaves office in proceedings to revoke his law license because of his alleged lies in the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Clinton: Under fire for alleged lies in Lewinsky matter
Clinton is using a clause in Arkansas court rules that permits "an extension of reasonable length" of time in answering the allegations. Yesterday was the deadline for Clinton to respond to the complaints, which were
served on him a month ago.
The president signaled his intention to keep his law license on Feb. 29 when he paid $100 in yearly dues to remain a member in good standing of the Arkansas Bar.
The first complaint seeking to revoke Clinton's law license in
Arkansas was filed on Sept. 15, 1998, by a conservative group, the Southeastern Legal Foundation.
A second complaint arose automatically under state law when U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright found Clinton in contempt of court on April 12, 1999, for lying about his sexual relationship with Lewinsky.
Vermont House passes bill allowing gay unions
MONTFELIER, Vt. — The Vermont House approved historic legislation yesterday allowing gays to form "civil unions" that would carry many of the benefits — and burdens — of marriage.
The bill takes Vermont to the very edge of recognizing gay marriage. If it becomes law, Vermont will have gone further than any other state in recognizing same-sex couples.
The legislation has the support of Democratic Gov. Howard Dean and also is expected to win Senate approval.
"This certainly is groundbreaking," said Peg Byron of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a gay advocacy group. "I think it really sets a moral as well as a legislative example for the rest of the country."
Gay couples who form civil unions would be entitled to some 300 state benefits or privileges available to married couples.
Congress and more than 30 states have passed laws denying recognition to same-sex "marriages" performed in other states, but some suggest those state laws might not apply to same-sex "civil unions" performed in Vermont.
Boy's arm reattached after tiger bites it off
HOUSTON — Surgeons reattached a 3-year-old boy's arm yesterday after it was bitten off by his uncle's pet Bengal tiger when the child reached into the animal's cage.
Surgeon Mark H. Henry said that Jayton Tidwell would never have full use of the limb but that he should be able to live a normal life.
Jayton, whose arm was ripped off Wednesday between the shoulder and elbow, underwent nine hours of surgery at Memorial Hermann Children's Hospital. He was in serious condition yesterday and should be hospitalized at least a week, Henry said.
Doctors worried that bacteria from the tiger's mouth might infect the wound or that blood clotting could complicate the reattachment.
emergency medical team took it to the hospital.
The tiger was kept in the back yard of the boy's uncle, Larry Tidwell. It attacked when the child stuck his arm through a gap in its chain-link cage.
While Tidwell's wife and a neighbor coaxed the tiger to one side of the cage, Tidwell's son retrieved the arm they packed the limb in ice, and an
Richard Bradley, the attending physician, said Jayton was conscious when he arrived. "He was actually doing surprisingly well," Bradley said. "He looked like a typical 3-year-old coming in on an ambulance: scared, anxious, a little tearful."
Split with Islamic forces hurting Chechen rebels
WORLD
ALKHAZUROVO, Russia — Exhausted Chechen rebel fighters fleeing Russian forces say a split with Islamic fundamentalists wrecked the insurgents' strategy of continuing the war from bases in the mountains.
The haggard fighters, many suffering from frostbite and hunger, say that Wahhabis, members of a fundamentalist sect who were supposed to prepare bases in the mountains for the rebels, betrayed them.
The Wahhabis had been deployed in the mountains since December. After the fall in February of the Chechen capital, Grozny, the Wahhabi fighters fled, leaving the retreating rebels as prey for Russian jets and artillery, rebel commanders and fighters said.
One rebel fighter who used only his first name, Zubair, said his battered unit retreating from Grozyne reached the mountains and met a group of Wahhabis on a tractor.
"We asked them to put our wounded comrades on a trailer, but they refused," Zubair said. "They don't deserve the name of humans."
German student shoots school official, himself
ROSENHEIM, Germany — A 16 year-old shot the director of his boarding school yesterday after being suspended for rebellious behavior, then turned the large caliber pistol on himself, police said.
The ninth grader was sent home Wednesday, and a test showed he had used drugs. He returned to the school yesterday, encountered the school director and pumped several bullets into him, then fired several times at his own head, the police said.
Both the student and the 57-year-old director, whose names were not made public, suffered life-threatening head wounds and were taken to hospitals by helicopter, authorities said.
The shooting is just the latest in a string of school violence in Germany, shocking a nation unaccustomed to such violent crimes and prompting calls for tightening already strict gun laws.
The student had been in a computer science class taught by the school director. It was not clear how the teen-ager obtained the gun.
The Associated Press
Council debates intellectual property policy
by ryan Devlin
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
A discussion session intended to resolve issues concerning the intellectual property policy ended yesterday with a decision to draft a letter to the Board of Regents outlining perceived discrepancies in the Regents policy.
A proposed amendment to the campus intellectual property policy by Russ Ostermann, associate professor of chemical and petroleum engineering, had been the subject of a dispute concerning whether it conflicted with the Regents policy.
The Regents policy states that software created by faculty using equipment owned by a Regents institution is owned by the institution and not the creator.
The standing campus policy, drafted by a committee chaired by Ed Meyen, professor of special education, reflects the Regents policy.
The amendment proposed by Ostermann to University Council would distinguisht between software created as part of university-sponsored research and that which is not. Under the amendment, ownership of software created on university equipment but not part of sponsored research would rest with the creator.
Provost David Shulenburger pointed out to Council that the amendment would conflict with the Regents policy, which the campus policy cannot do. The discussion session was proposed by Senate Executive Committee Chairman Jim Carothers.
Participants in the meeting, which included members of University Senate Executive Committee, University Council and the Provost, decided to draft a letter to the Board of Regents drawing attention to the discrepancy between the way the policy treats software as opposed to other academic or scholarly works.
Ostermann said that software should be treated the same way other works, such as novels or pieces of music, are treated. In those cases, ownership is retained by the faculty member.
"If you use a pen owned by the University to write a novel, then the University doesn't own the novel," Ostermann said. "A PC is like a pencil. Why should soft
ware be any different?"
Shulenburger said that he was present at the Regents' discussions of their policy, and he thought it was not the intent to treat software differently.
The participants decided to act on a recommendation by Shulenburger to draft a letter to the Regents stating that software should be treated as other scholarly and academic works are treated, and which would ask the board to change its policy. Ostermann agreed to draft the letter.
"I think the intent was to treat inventions and software in the same manner, but the way the policy is written it does not say that," he said.
Carothers said the decision to address the Regents directly would eliminate the need for the policy to go through University Council another time.
"This is what I would have done informally four months ago if I knew we could do it that way," he said, adding that delaying the process of voting on the campus policy was necessary. "We definitely need to know what the Regents' intent was."
ON THE RECORD
A KU student reported receiving a harassing phone call at 12:30 a.m. Monday at Corbin Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A multimedia video projector was stolen between 8:30 p.m. Tuesday and 7 a.m. Wednesday from the third floor of Snow Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The projector was valued at $6,356
The KU Public Safety Office responded to a medical emergency at 11:44 p.m. Wednesday at Robinson Center. A KU student said that he was hit in the nose by someone's shoulder while playing basketball and that his nose wouldn't stop bleeding. Paramedics treated the student at the scene.
The KU Public Safety Office responded to a medical emergency at 12:01 a.m. yesterday at Robinson Center. A KU student had dislocated his shoulder while playing basketball. The student said his shoulder often popped out of the socket because of an old skydiving accident. The student was examined at the scene and taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital by paramedics.
A KU student's Pioneer car stereo was stolen between 7 p.m. Saturday and 2:15 a.m. Sunday from a vehicle at the 2100 block of West 29th Street, Lawrence police said. The stereo was valued at $200.
ON CAMPUS
Compulsive Eaters Anonymous will meet at 10:30 a.m. today at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call 312-3412.
■ KU Badminton Club will practice from 6:30 to 10:15 tonight at Rooms 211 and 212 in Robinson Center. Call Tee or Kevin at 843-2267
- Free tax assistance for electronic filing will be available from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. tomorrow at 306D Green Hall. Assistance with international returns will be available from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. tomorrow at 203 Green Hall. Call 864-4550.
KU HorrorZontals ultimate Frisbee team will practice from 1 to 4 p.m. tomorrow at Central Junior High School, 1400 Massachusetts St. Call Will Snott at 1401-6711.
■ KU Bedminton Club will practice from 6:30 p.m. to 10:15 p.m. tomorrow at Rooms 211 and 212 in Robinson Center. Call Tee or Kevin at 843-2267.
- Applications for Owl Society, the junior honor society, are available at the Student Organizations and Leadership Development Center in the Kansas Union or through e-mail to jeedrey@agle.cc.ukans.edu. Call E.J. Reedy at 312-1717-861.
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