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Tuesday
February 22, 2000
News
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CAMPUS
Starr to speak at annual business school lecture
Former independent counsel Kenneth Starr will speak at the School of Business' annual Vickers lecture in April
business' annual Vickers lecture in April. Starr, whose investigation of President Bill Clinton's affair with White House inter Monica Lewinsky led to the first impeachment of a president in 134 years, will speak in Kansas City and Lawrence as part of the lecture series.
Starr resigned his post as independent counsel in October and is an adjunct professor of law at New York University's School of Law.
The Lawrence lecture will be at 7:30 p.m.
April 4 at the Lied Center. Admission is free, but tickets will be given out at the door on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Lynn Bretz, associate director of
Kenneth Starr: Will speak at the University in April
the directions of University Relations, said the lecture was endowed, which allowed the school to give out tickets.
The Vickers family of Wichita created the lecture series in 1969 to bring prominent citizens to the University of Kansas.
The lecture is named after J.A. Vickers, an oil industry pioneer in Kansas, and Robert F. Vickers, A.J.'s son, who coordinated the lecture series for more than two decades.
George Bush, Yitzhak Rabin and Sandra Day O'Connor have been featured speakers at the Vickers lecture in the past.
Students, staff to discuss architecture curriculum
"We're just in the process right now." Gaunt said yesterday. "I don't want to hazard a guess when we'll meet, but we'll likely have an open assembly with students and faculty sometime in March."
Faculty members held off on the vote because they wanted more input from students, Gaunt said.
The faculty of the school decided Friday to postpone a vote that would eliminate the five-year undergraduate architecture program and replace it with a six-year program that would result in a master's degree.
Doug Pacey
Female student received mysterious phone calls
A 21-year-old female KU student received several strange phone messages Friday evening.
Sgt. George Wheeler of the Lawrence
police said the woman received 10 collect calls in two hours from the Johnson County Correctional Facility. Her answering machine recorded the calls, which came in between 6 and 8:06 p.m.
The woman said she did not know anyone in that facility. She filed a telephone harassment report with Lawrence police.
All 10 messages were identical:
"This is the Johnson County Correctional Facility. Will you accept a collect call?"
Student received threat of stabbing via e-mail
A 22-year-old male KU student got more than he bargained for when he checked his e-mail Friday afternoon.
Sgt. George Wheeler said the victim received a threatening e-mail between 7 p.m. Thursday and 3 p.m. Friday. The message came from an unknown sender who threatened to stab the victim.
Craig Paul, systems support programmer/analyst for ACS, said yesterday that he did not have any details about the incident but that ACS generally cooperated with police in these types of investigations.
Wheeler said that the message was sent through the University of Kansas e-mail system and that Academic Computing Services would attempt to track the message to its source.
"We can see if it came from our network, and if so, from where," Paul said. "Sometimes we can trace it to a particular account."
Wheeler said that e-mail threats had become more common but that it often was difficult to find the suspects, with all their illusion traps, but they are more
Wheeler said police treated threats sent via e-mail in the same manner as telephone or face-to-face threats.
"They all leave trails, but they are more difficult to track because they generally go through different services," he said.
Even when police are able to pinpoint the account from which the message originated, Wheeler said, their work is not complete. They still must talk to the person whose name is on the account to determine who else may have had access to it.
"It's not a direct face-to-face threat, but if the threat has weight, we take it seriously," he said.
Mindie Miller
Issued a news release complaining about "the Clinton campaign's funny-money machine" and the "re-emergence of the
Clinton campaign criticizes Giuliani for taking money
ALBANY, N.Y. — Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign accused Republican rival Rudolph Giuliani yesterday of having commered the market on hypocrisy after records showed his Senate campaign took money from a source he criticized the first lady for tapping.
same cast of characters at the center of the worst finance abuses that marred the 1996 presidential campaign.
A political action committee linked to the Loral Space and Communications company donated $750 in September to the New York city mayor's campaign committee.
NATION
As evidence, the Guliani camp cited $40,000 in donations to Clinton's Senate campaign and related committees from Bernard Schwartz, chairman of Loral, and his wife. Loral is under Justice Department investigation for allegedly profiteering.
After a reporter questioned the donation, Giuliani campaign representative Kim Serafin said the money would be returned. Giuliani emerita.
mation that could help make its nuclear missiles more reliable.
Clinton: Criticized Giuliani for accepting campaign money from certain companies
In addition to uncovering the recent $750 donation from the Loral Spacecom Civic Responsibility Fund, the Clinton campaign also found that Giuliani's mayoral campaign committee received $750 from Schwartz in 1993.
"Rudy Giuliani has comedied the market on hypocrisy," Clinton campaign representative Howard Wolfson said. "Soon the mayor will accuse us of arresting the homeless and cutting $7 billion from city schools."
The Clinton camp has criticized the mayor's push to have homeless people who refuse to leave the streets arrests and his handling of the New York City school system.
Nicotine may be helpful in treating brain diseases
WASHINGTON — Despite its evil image, new research suggests that nicotine is a surprisingly potent drug for a variety of diseases that afflict the brain, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Tourteau's syndrome.
Many small studies during the past decade have explored the possible benefits of this ubiquitous drug. But the field appears to be taking on fresh life as doctors test nicotine patches for neurological diseases in both children and the elderly, and drug companies race to concoct nicotine substitutes that carry fewer side effects
At a conference yesterday, doctors said the field's first gold-study standard — one in which dummy treatments are rigorously compared with the real thing — suggests the patch shows real promise in children with Tourette's syndrome, a strange affliction in which victims are beset by spates of tics, shouted obscenities and violent urges.
Earlier this month, the Giuliani campaign
"The problem with nicotine is that it is nicotine," said Paul R. Sanberg, a doctor at the University of South Florida, who has tested the drug on more than 100 young Tourteau's patients. "You're asking parents to put their kids on nicotine."
He and others experimenting with nicotine described their research at a conference in Washington sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
ON THE RECORD
The Associated Press
Four hubcaps were stolen from a KU student's vehicle between 3:30 p.m. Fab. 9 and 3:30 p.m. Feb. 11 in lat 103 west of Hashinger Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The hubcaps were valued at $340.
the KU Public Safety Office responded to a report of telephone harassment between 9:25 p.m. and midnight Saturday at McCollum Hall.
The KU Public Safety Office reported to a report of telephone harassment at 9:15 a.m. Saturday at Hashinger Hall.
A 5-by-7-foot glass window was damaged between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Sunday at Jayhawker Towers Apartments, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damages were estimated to be $150.
A KU student was arrested for operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol Sunday at 15th Street and Engel Road, the KU Public Safety Office said. The student was cited for driving left of the center line and refusing a preliminary breath test. He was booked and released from the Douglas County Jail.
■ The KU Public Safety Office received a report of an injury accident that occurred at 12:30 p.m. Friday near Mississippi Street and Memorial Drive. A 27-year-old bicyclist ran into the back of a car that had stopped suddenly and fell off his bike. The man reported the accident later in the day, when his back and ankle began to hurt.
JAY WHAT HAS BECAMBLED
The KU Public Safety Office responded to two separate disruptions involving the same student last week. At 1:44 a.m. Feb. 15 at the University Registrar's Office in Strong Hall, the student requested police presence after becoming upset. The students left the building when told there were no female officers on duty. At 11:31 a.m.
Wednesday at the Card Center in the Kansas Union, an employee called police complaining that the same student was yelling and acting in an intimidating manner. The student left the building before police arrived.
A KU student's Sony car stereo/CD player was stolen between 2 a.m. and 3:50 p.m. Saturday from a vehicle parked in the 1400 block of West Seventh Street, Lawrence police said. The stereo was valued at $150.
A KU student's 1999 Saturn was stolen between 11:15 a.m. p.Saturday and 12:20 a.m. Sunday from the corner of Harrison Avenue and Harrison Place, Lawrence police said. The vehicle was valued at $12,000, and miscellaneous items inside the vehicle were valued at $825.
A KU student's Pioneer 6-by-9 speakers were stolen between 1:15 and 1:30 a.m. from his vehicle in the 1400 block of 28th Terrace, Lawrence police said. The speakers were valued at $150.
A KU student reported criminal damage to a 14-inch tire that occurred between 2 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m. Saturday in the 1900 block of West 25th Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $100.
A KU student's Pioneer CD player, Oakley sunglasses and canvas backpack were stolen between 3 and 9 a.m. Saturday from his white 1966 Mustang in the 1400 block of West Seventh Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $575.
■ A KU student's Audiovox Rampage AM/FM/ CD car stereo was stolen between 10 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. Saturday from a vehicle in the 1400 block of West Seventh Street, Lawrence police said. The stereo was valued at $100.
ON CAMPUS
Pre-Physical Therapy Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow at the first floor conference room in Watkins Memorial Health Center. Call Megan Sears at 912-2533.
■ KU College Republicans will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union. Call Gavin Smith at 832-6212.
- OAKS, the nontraditional student organization, will have a brown bag lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Alcove in the Kansas Union, Call Deena Hardie at 864-7317.
Student Senate Elections Commission will have a candidate workshop at 12:15 p.m. today at the Kansas Union. Call Zora Mulligan at 864-4064 or 312-3137.
Phi Alpha Delta Pre-Law Society will meet at 5:30 today at the English Room in the Kansas Union, Call Michael Layish at 864-2896.
Student Union Activities coordinator applications are due at 5 p.m. today at the SUA office in the Kansas Union. Call Camille Payne at 864-3477.
Hispanic American Leadership Organization will meet at 6 tonight at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. Call Chris Haydel at 312-2291.
KU Racquetball Club will practice from 6 to 8 tonight at Robinson Center. Call Stewart Hunt at 331-2231.
■ KU Hillel will have a text study at 7 tonight at Hillel House, 940 Mississippi St. Call Seth Weishall at 331-4129.
The Society for Human Resource Management will have a tour of Amarr Garage Door and an informational meeting at 7 tonight at Amarr Garage Door. Call Sarah Miller at 832-1907.
University Christian Fellowship will meet at 7 tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Rick Clock at 841-3148.
KU Chess Club will meet from 8 to 10 tonight 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 tonight at Anschutz Sports Pavilion. Call Will Spotts at 841-0671.
Sports
Greek Impact will meet at 9 tonight at the Delta Chi fraternity. Call Demarick Patton at 749-2890.
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