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The Inside Front
Monday March 6,2000
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
KU police issue alert for alleged rapist
The KU Public Safety Office has issued a crime alert for an alleged rapist who is believed to be in the Lawrence area.
Gayle Alan Sanford III, 20, is wanted in Arkansas for a number of criminal charges, including failure to appear in court, battery, false imprisonment and terrorist threat. The crime alert, issued Thursday, describes Sanford as a 6-foot-2, 226-pound white male with blue eyes and brown hair.
Sgt. Troy Mailen of the KU Public Safety office said a female University of Arkansas student said that Sanford raped her Jan. 25. Sanford was arrested in conjunction with the rape several hours later but never appeared for a subsequent court date. Police issued a warrant for his arrest on Feb. 25.
Maileen said that he was unsure of Sanford's connection to Lawrence but that Sanford allegedly borrowed a local woman's vehicle in late Nov. 1999 and failed to return it in a timely fashion.
"I don't know the personal ties there, other than we can put him here on that date." Mailen said.
Mailen said the Public Safety Office thought it was important to alert the campus and community of the possibility of his presence.
"Just looking at the history, there's certainly room for concern." Malien said.
Additional information is available from a safety bulletin on the University of Arkansas Police Department's Web site at http://www.uark.edu/%7Euapdinfo/safety.html.
Police request that anyone who has information that would assist in locating Sanford or someone fitting his description call the KU Public Safety Office at 864-5900 or KU Crime Stoppers at 864-8888.
Callers to Crime Stoppers may remain anonymous. Callers may be eligible for a cash reward if information they report leads to Sanford's apprehension.
NATION
— Sara Shepherd
Southwest Airlines 737 jet skids off airport runway
BURBANK, Calif. — A Southwest Airlines 737 jet carrying an undisclosed number of passengers skidded off the end of a runway yesterday at Burbank International Airport and onto a nearby street, nearly missing a gas station, an airline spokesman said.
At least one car was hit by the plane, but it immediately was not clear if there was a motorist inside the car, said Jim Reed, Southwest
Airlines spokesman
Reed said he was not immediately aware of any injuries and did not know how many passengers were aboard. An eyewitness said about 75 people departed the plane.
Clinton, civil rights leaders join at march's anniversary
SELMA, Ala. — Thirty-five years after the United States' Bloody Sunday, the day when police beat and bloodied voting rights marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, modern-day civil rights figures traced the same path with Bill Clinton — a white Southerner who credited the march with his rise to be president.
"I am a son of the South, the old segregated South. Those of you who marched on Bloody Sunday set me free, too," Clinton said before walking across the bridge arm-in-arm with Coretta Scott King, widow of the Rev Martin Luther King, and Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., who was badly injured in the 1965 march.
Lewis, who marches every year to mark the anniversary, invited Clinton to join him this year.
The march helped launch the careers of black leaders including Lewis, but it also helped make way for a new kind of white Southern politician: A moderate who's attuned to civil rights issues and appeals to both African-American and white voters.
Boeing makes offer to striking workers
SEATTLE — The Boeing Co. declared yesterday it will impose its most recent contract offer on engineers and technical workers whose union has been on strike against the aerospace giant for three-and-a-half weeks.
"Now it's time to get back to work and start focusing on our customers," said Alan Mutally, president of the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, yesterday afternoon at a news conference.
The union for 17,000 striking workers dismissed the action as an attempt to get workers to cross picket lines and called it an unfair labor practice.
"We're not coming back until they sit down at the table with us and negotiate this contract," said Tom McCarty, a member of the engineering negotiating team, who was picketing with about 75 other Boeing employees outside the news conference.
Party underdogs fight to keep hopes alive
WASHINGTON — Fighting to stay alive in the presidential primary race, Republican John McCain questioned yesterday whether George W. Bush was ready for prime time and Democrat Bill Bradley suggested that voters could barely tolerate Al Gore,
as the presidential nomination races head for a climactic multi-state showdown tomorrow.
The two underdogs expressed confidence as they made the TV talk show rounds, even as aides braced for the worst by quietly making plans for dignified exits.
Republicans compete tomorrow in 13 states for 613 delegates, and Democrats battle in 15 states for 1,315 delegates — more than half the total each party requires of its nominees.
Israel to pull troops from Lebanon by July
WORLD
JERUSALEM — Israel's Cabinet voted unanimously to withdraw its troops from south Lebanon by July, committing itself to ending a bloody 18-year occupation and putting new pressure on Syria to reach a peace deal.
The Cabinet said Israel would try to withdraw through a peace agreement with Syria, but officials said the troops would leave by July in any case.
"It's an end to the tragedy." Prime Minister Ehud Barak said. "We are bringing the boys home."
Israel says Syria uses the low-level war in Lebanon, and the resulting Israeli deaths, as a means of pressuring Israel to give back the Golan Heights, captured from Syria in 1967.
A withdrawal from the zone Israel occupies in south Lebanon would take away that tool. But a unilateral withdrawal with no peace deal to assure an end to fighting would leave Israel's northern border vulnerable to attacks by Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas.
Israel's army chief warned that could cost more Israeli lives, including civilians.
Flood victims return to devastated town
CHOKWE, Mozambique — With floodwaters subsiding under a baking sun, hundreds of famished people straggled home to the southern town of Chokwe yesterday, searching for homes and belongings amid collapsed buildings, ruined crops and dead bodies.
United Nations and aid agency officials said yesterday the international relief operation in this southeast African nation was shifting from those threatened with drowning to distributing food and water to desperate survivors. Between 800,000 and 1 million people lost their homes or ways of living in the deluge and were in need of help, they said.
President Joaquim Chissano said in the capital, Maputo, that flood victims would need outside food aid for at least 10 months.
The Associated Press
A KU student's suitcase and roadside assistance kit were stolen between 8 p.m. Wednesday and 9 a.m. Thursday from a vehicle in the 500 block of Maple Street, Lawrence police said. The stolen items were valued at $150. Damage to one of the vehicle's windows was estimated at $200.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's North Face jacket and tool box containing jewelry were stolen between midnight and 2 a.m. Friday from a vehicle in the 600 block of Massachusetts Street, Lawrence police said. The stolen items were valued at $575.
A KU Navy ROTC employee's Porsche was damaged between midnight and noon Saturday in the 1800 block of West 21st Terrace during an attempted burglary, Lawrence police said. Damages to the driver's side window were estimated at $400.
A KU employee's 18-speed mountain bike and padlock were stolen between noon Wednesday and 5 a.m. Friday in the 1900 block of West 31st street, Lawrence police said. The bike and lock were valued at $103.
■ A KU student's CD player faceplate was stolen between 10 p.m. Wednesday and 10 a.m. Thursday from a vehicle in the 900 block of Vermont Street, Lawrence police said. The CD player was valued at $299. Damage to the dashboard and passenger door window of the vehicle was estimated at $450.
A KU employee's license plate was stolen between 10:15 a.m. Tuesday and 1:15 a.m. Wednesday from lot 12, near Twenthe Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said; the license plate was valued at $30.
A KU student's wallet was stolen between 7:15 and 7:35 a.m. Thursday from a KU on Wheels bus, the KU Public Safety Office said. The wallet and its contents were valued at $207.
A KU student's vehicle was damaged at 8 a.m. February 28 in the 1500 block of Naismith
The KU Public Safety Office responded to an injury accident at 6:25 p.m. Thursday at Sunnyside Avenue and Sunflower Road, near the Dole Human Development Center. A KU student had slipped on wet pavement while riding his bicycle. A car swerved to avoid hitting him but ran over the bicycle's rear tire. The student said he struck his head when he fell and could not remember what happened. Paramedics examined him at the scene and transported him to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, where he stayed overnight.
Drive, the KU Public Safety Office said. Both driver's side doors and a window were
The KU Public Safety Office responded to the parking department at noon Feb. 28 in reference to a confiscated handicap parking tag. Parking employees suspected the tag had been forged. The KU student driving the vehicle the tag was in said it was borrowed. The state title and registration office said the tag was valid, but the address of the owner was incorrect. Because of the confusion, the tag was returned to the state office where it was issued.
The KU Public Safety Office followed up on a case involving a graduate teaching assistant in anthropology at 12:15 p.m. Friday. The GTA reportedly wrote a threatening comment directed toward a professor in a textbook. A representative from the department of anthropology said no charges would be filed, but the department was concerned about the mental health of the GTA because of similar problems earlier in the year. Police notified the GTA's spouse, who said an evaluation at the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center had been scheduled.
ON CAMPUS
Compulsive Eating Anonymous will meet at 10:30 a.m. today at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Grand Avenue
Student Association of Graduates in English will have a SAGE Spring Colloquium at 7 onight at the English Room in the Kansas Union. Call Susan Dunn-Hensley at 864-2559.
Undergraduate Philosophy Club will discuss “Why is Abortion Immoral?” at 7 onight at the Kansas Room in the Kansas University. Call Aron Carlson at 832-9422 or Twilah Kiel at 841-8504.
KU B'bahi Club will have a speech on service at 7:30 tonight at the Regionalist Room in the
Kansas Union. Call Ahidh Rishot at 843-604-104
KU Environs will meet at 80 tonight at the
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.
OAKS, the nontraditional student organization,
will have a brown bag lunch from 11:30 a.m. to
1 p.m. tomorrow at Alceve in the Kansas
Union, Call Patricia Pilarim at 864-7317.
KU Racquetball Club will meet from 6 to 8 p.m. tomorrow at Robinson Center. Court Stewart Hunt
at 331-2231.
University Christian Fellowship will meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave, Call 841-3148
KU Chess Club will meet from 8 to 10 p.m. tomorrow at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union, Call David Wang at 312-1070.
KU HorrorZontals ultimate frisbee team will practice from 8 to 11 p.m. tomorrow at Anschutz Sports Pavilion. Call Will Spots at 841-0671.
Greek Impact will meet at 9 p.m. tomorrow at the Kappa Sigma fraternity house. Call Drew Larson at 843-3331
- The due date for Student Union Activities officer applications has been extended to 5 p.m. Wednesday at the SUA office in the Kansas Union, Call Galleria Avenue at 864.343.477.
Applications for Owl Society, the junior honor society, are available at the Organizations and Leadership Development Center in the Kansas Union or by sending e-mail to ejeedey@eagle.cc.ukans.edu. Call E.J. Reedy at 312.171.71
Summer financial aid request forms are available at the Office of Student Financial Aid, 50 Strong Hall. Call 864-4700.
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WEEKLY CALENDAR OF EVENTS
STUDENT UNION ACTIVITIES
COFFEEHOUSE
7 p.m. Wednesday, March 8
Traditions Area
Level 4, Kansas Union
SUA OFFICER SELECTIONS
Applications are available in the SUA office, level 4, Kansas Union The deadline is 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 8 to the SUA office
LEO BUERMAN STORY
March 10 and 11
11:30 p.m.
864-3477 · www.ukans.edu/~sua
MOVIES
All movies shown in Woodruff Auditorium
BOYS DON'T CRY
March 8, 10 and 11
7 and 9:30 p.m.
BRANDON TEENA STORY
March 10 and 11
Midnight
BETTER THAN CHOCOLATE March 7 and 9 7 and 9:30 p.m.
GALLERY SHOW
"Figurative Expressions"
By Holly Lane
Feb. 28 - March 15
Kansas Union Gallery
UNION WEEKLY SPECIALS
PRAIRIE ROOM SPECIAL
864-4596 * www.jayhawks.com
Monday special: Sandwich, Fries or Salad and a Drink for only $4.95. Stop by for lunch, Level 3, Kansas Union.
BARGAIN COMPUTER BOOKS, at the Burge Union Bookstore!
$9.99 & $14.99 (50% or more off original retail prices) while supplies last.
TECHNO-BOWLING
Visit the Jaybowl, Level 1, Kansas Union on Thursdays 9-11 p.m. and Sundays 8 - 10 p.m. for Techno-Bowling,$6 w/KUID,$8 without.
CAMPING EQUIPMENT RENTAL
The Jaybowl Wilderness Discovery has camping equipment for rent. Call 864-3545 or visit the Jaybowl, Level 1, Kansas Union.