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The Inside Front
Wednesday March 8,2000
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Christians celebrate Ash Wednesday, Lent
Today is Ash Wednesday, which signifies the beginning of the Christian Lent season, the 40-day period before Easter.
"Ahes symbolize a death, a dying," said Father Jim Shaughnessy of Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 1100 Kasold Drive. "For us as Christians, it symbolizes a dying to selfishness, a dying to sin and thinking about the needs of others."
Many places on and around campus will be holding extra services for the occasion
The Saint Lawrence Catholic Center,
1631 Crescent Road, will hold six
masses, 7:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 4
p.m., 6 p.m., 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.
Other masses will be held at 8:30 a.m. at the Canterbury House, 1116 Louisiana St. and 11:30 a.m. at the United Methodist Campus Ministries, 946 Vermont St. At 12:30 p.m., the Lutheran Campus Ministry also will be holding mass at the Canterbury House.
Ryan Blethen
Senate committee OKs 2001 parking budget
The Senate Executive Committee approved the parking board's budget for 2001 yesterday, in addition to proposals that would limit the number of spaces sold in three parking areas.
Morris Faiman, chairman of the parking
Faiman: presented parking board's budget to SenEx
board, presented the board's budget for fiscal year 2001, which projects an increase of more than $840,000 from $1,499,777 in fiscal year 2000 to $2,340,782. Faiman told SenEx that the increase was largely because of construction of the new parking facility
near the Kansas Union. SenEx voted unanimously to approve the budget.
Faliman also presented a number of proposed rule changes to SenEx that would limit parking permits for the parking lots at Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Halls, Alumni Place and Jayhawker Towers to five percent more than the lots can hold at any given time.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking services, told SenEx that the number of permits sold greatly outnumbered the available spaces in those lots. She said that GSP-Corbin had 350 spaces but that the department sold 450 permits for those spaces each semester.
Hutline said the move to limit the num ber of oversold permits was an attempt to limit the complaints parking received from people who purchased permits for those lots but could not find spaces.
Both the budget and the proposals will now go to University Council, where they will be debated March 30.
Ryan Devlin
NATION
Oscar ballots missing; Academv confounded
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Ten mailbags with all 4,000 Oscar ballots were missing yesterday in a real Hollywood woundunit for Academy Awards executives, a distinguished accounting firm and the Postal Service.
Part of the mystery was solved in the early afternoon when postal workers found two of the missing sacks, said Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences spokesman John Pavlik. They had been hauled from the 90210 post office to a bulk-mail warehouse in South Central Los Angeles.
"They have tracked them in the third-class system and found some of the sacks in the general mail facility," said post office spokeswoman Terri Boffouf. "We anticipate finding them all there."
Thousands protest plan to end affirmative action
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — About 10,000 demonstrators chanting "Shame on Bush" jammed the state Capitol grounds yesterday, demanding that Gov. Jeb Bush back off his plan to ban racial and gender preferences in university admissions and state contracting.
Pouring into Tallahassee from around the country, the demonstrators said they feared Bush's plan to end affirmative action would erase the gains African Americans and other minorities had made since the civil rights movement. Bush has put portions of the plan into effect through executive order, but other segments still need legislative approval.
"This is the first step towards resegregation," said the Rev. Timothy McDonald, who came from Atlanta.
The rally was timed to coincide with the governor's State of the State address and the opening of the legislative session. Inside the Capitol, Bush defended the plan during his address.
"The vast majority of Floridians favor the elimination of affirmative action programs," he said.
Clinton urges Congress to pass gun legislation
WASHINGTON — Complaining that Congress has kept the American people waiting long enough, President Clinton urged lawmakers yesterday to
break an eight-month deadlock and require background checks on gun show sales. But Senate Republicans reacted coolly to Clinton's plea.
"We are poles apart," said Sen.
Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, chairman of a House-Senate negotiating committee charged with writing a compromise juvenile justice bill containing gun control provisions. Clinton called on Congress to pass a gun bill by the April 20 oneyear
Hatch: disagrees with the Clinton-backed gun bill
university of the Columbine High School slayings.
"How many people have to get killed before we do something?" he asked.
Last year, the Senate voted to institute 72-hour background checks on gun show sales, but the House rejected that provision when Republicans complained it was too strict and some Democrats complained it was too weak.
Pinochet faces lawsuits upon return to Chile
WORLD
SANTIAGO, Chile — Less than a week after returning from confinement in Britain, the ailing Gen. Augusto Pinochet faces 72 lawsuits for human rights abuses, including six filed yesterday with the Santiago Court of Appeals.
Chief Justice Herman Alvarez dismissed warnings by critics that strong military support for Pinochet might interfere with the pursuit of justice.
"Citizen Augusto Pinochet can be tried the same as any other Chilean," Alvarez said. "The courts do not accept pressure."
Fernando Barros, a spokesman for Pinochet through most of the former dictator's 16-month detention in Britain, warned that trying Pinochet would bring instability to the country.
A day earlier, Judge Juan Guzman, who is handling the suits, asked the Santiago court to strip Pinochet of his congressional immunity so he could be tried in the case known as "the caravan of death" — the killings and disappearances of 72 dissidents in the days after the Sept. 11, 1973, coup that brought Pinochet to power.
Among those who filed new suits yesterday was Miria Contreras, the secretary of former President Salvador Allende, who Pinochet ousted in the coup.
The Associated Press
Another new suit was filed by Yolanda Avila, the widow of Jose Liendo, a leftist accused of organizing guerrillas in southern Chile and executed a few days after the coup.
Experts reject rape as evolutionary
Two scientists have launched a new attack on the year's most provocative book, "A Natural History of Rape," which portrays rape as a natural product of evolution and suggests all men could be rapists.
The Associated Press
The book suggests that sexual coercion has evolved as a means to increase the reproductive success of those men who would otherwise be rejected as mates.
In Thursday's issue of the scientific journal Nature, two scientists, Jerry Coyne and Andrew Berry, said the book was scientifically flawed.
for example, the book's authors, Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer, report that rape victims tend to be in their reproductive years; the reviewers counter with a 1982 study showing that 29 percent of rape victims were under age 11.
Other rape experts have said the book was full of problems.
"I've read a five-page summary of the book, and I came up with 52 points of disagreement," said University of Arizona public health professor Mary P. Koss.
"The authors claim their book is being rejected on political grounds," Koss said. "But these are criticisms of content and quality."
Thornhill said the book did not condone rape; it merely explored its biological roots.
Thornhill and Palmer previously disagreed about the book with Coyne and other scientific critics, as well as the National Organization for Women and rape counselors.
ON THE RECORD
The KU Public Safety Office responded to a medical emergency at 11:55 a.m. Sunday in Allen Fieldhouse. The subject, a 67-year-old woman, said she had tripped on a curb and landed on her knee. She had recently undergone replacement surgery. Paramedics treated the woman at the scape, but she declined to be taken to the hospital.
A KU student reported being harassed over the telephone between 10 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. Sunday at McColum Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said.
The KU Public Safety Office responded to a medical
emergency at 8:08 a.m. Monday at Allen Fieldhouse. A KU student had fainted while doing pullups as an athletic workout. The student was examined by paramedics, but the cause of her fainting was unknown. The student declined transportation to the hospital but agreed to visit Watkins Memorial Health Center.
The KU Public Safety Office arrested a 19-year-old KU student for possession of a cereal malt beverage Monday at Oliver Hall. The student was cited and summoned to appear in court but was not taken into custody.
ON CAMPUS
Working Against Violence Everywhere will meet at 8 p.m. tomorrow at the International Room in the Kansas Union, Call 312-1991.
Items left on KU on Wheels buses can be picked up between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. at the Student Senate office in the Kansas Union. Call 864-3710
OAKS, the nontraditional student organization, will have a brown bag lunch from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. today at Alcove E in the Kansas Union. Call Patricia Pilarim at 864-7317.
Ecumenical Christian Ministries will have a University Forum, "After the Storm; Hurricane Mitch, Conservation and Indigenous Lands in Misquitia," from noon to 1 p.m. today at ECM, 1204 Oread Ave, Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
■ KIHK promotions staff will meet at 5 p.m. today at the second floor foyer in Dole Human Development Center. Call Cindy Campbell at 832-1335.
Student Union Activities officer applications are due at 5 p.m. today at the SUA office in the Kansas Union. Call Camille Payne at 864-3477.
The Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center will have a car maintenance workshop from 7 to 9 tonight at Byron's Autohaus, 640 N. Second St. Preregistration is required. Call 864-3552.
KU Sailing Club will meet at 7 tonight at the International Room in the Kansas Union. Call Chris Drater at 312-206-00.
Ecumenical Christian Ministries and KU Environers will have a veggie lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at ECM, 1204 Oread Ave.
Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
The Center for Latin American Studies will present "Recuerdos Recuperados; My Visit to Cuba" from noon to 1 p.m. tomorrow at the International Room in the Kansas Union.
Free tax assistance for paper filing will be available from 3 to 5 p.m. tomorrow at 203 Green Hall. Call 864-4550.
KU Meditation Club will meet at 6 p.m. tomorrow at the Burge Urban, Call Pannir at 864.7735.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY OF THE WEEK:
The Alternative Weekend Break program will travel to Wichita Falls 7 and 8 to work at the Wichita Children's Home and the Street Outreach Program. Site training begins April 3. Applications
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Academic Computing Services presents: FREE COMPUTER TRAINING for the KU Community
Access: Forms—Create forms using Access Form Wizard and Design View. Prerequisite: Access: Intermediate or equivalent skills. Requires registration and fee for non-University. Mon., March 13, 2-5 p.m., Budig PC Lab, Room 10
Microsoft Office 2000: An Overview—Learn basic features Office 2000 and some differences between Office 95/97. No registration. Tues., March 14, 11 a.m.-Noon, Computer Center Auditorium
UNIX Introduction—Learn the basics of UNIX, the operating system on Falcon, Eagle, Lark, Raven, and Heron to help you manage a KU Web site. Tues., March 14, 6-9 p.m., Computer Center PC Lab, Room 202B
Web Authoring: Improving AccessibilityLearn how to make your Web site accessible to users with visual and other cognitive disabilities. No registration. Thurs., March 16, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Computer Center Auditorium
Web Authoring: Introduction—Learn the first steps in Web page creation. Attend Web Authoring: Publish your Web Page on the Internet immediately following. Prerequisite: Web browsing or equivalent skills. No registration. Mon., March 20, 9-12 p.m., Computer Center PC Lab, Room 202B
Web Authoring: Publish your Web page on the Internet—Move your HTML documents from your desktop computer to the Web. Prerequisite: Web Authoring: Introduction or equivalent skills. No registration. Mon., March 20, 1-2 p.m., Computer Center PC Lab, Room 202B
Web Authoring: Intermediate—Create links, place graphics & learn other HTML techniques.
Prerequisite: Web Authoring Introduction or equivalent skills. No registration. Wed., March 22, 9-12 p.m., Computer Center PC Lab, Room 2028
Web Authoring: Tables, Frames, & Imagemaps—Learn to make tables, frames, &
imagemaps. Prerequisite: Web Authoring: Intermediate or equivalent skills. No registration.
Thursday, March 23, 9-12 p.m., Computer Center PC Lab, Room 202B