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The Inside Front
Monday February 21, 2000
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Meeting in Union today to discuss student fees
An open forum to discuss the women's and nonrevenue sports fee will be part of today's meeting concerning student fees at 4 p.m. at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union.
Korb Maxwell, student body president, and some senators would like to see the fee eliminated so that money did not have to come out of students' pockets to pay for sports that are not self-supporting.
Bob Frederick, athletics director, said generally men's basketball was the only sport to earn money and football broke even.
The fee is $20 per semester, adding up to $880,000 for the Athletics Corp. annually.
Maxwell said that although he thought the debate about the fee had been going on for about 20 years, he thought it needed serious consideration now.
— Erinn R. Barcomb
Golden Key to honor eligible sophomores
The University of Kansas chapter of the Golden Key Honor Society, a nonprofit organization consisting of juniors and seniors in the top 15 percent of their classes, will recognize all sophomores with a 3.3 or greater grade point average Thursday at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union.
The chapter sent invitation letters to about 1,200 qualifying sophomores.
The ceremony will last from 5 to 7 p.m., and sophomores will be encouraged to pursue membership in the organization. Refreshments will be served.
"We want to get sophomores aware of what Golden Key is," said Crystin Burd, Golden Key vice president of public relations and Kansas City, Mo., junior. "We want to give them some background so they are more apt to join."
Burd said Golden Key was expecting about 150 to 200 students to attend the event. The chapter has about 1,100 members.
Mike Hoffman
NATION
Letterman returns to Late Show tonight
NEW YORK — David Letterman's first show back after heart surgery was so busy he ran out of time for the Top 10 list.
Letterman's return, taped Friday
and scheduled to air tonight, features Regis Philbin, Robin Williams appearing in doctor's scrubs and a cameo appearance by Jerry Seinfeld.
The veteran Late Show host also brings out his doctors and nurses from New York-Presbyterian Hospital for a public thank you. He underwent an emergency quintuple bypass there on Jan. 14.
"Dave is always funny, but this had an emotional quality about it that made for very, very interesting television," said Rob Burnett, Late Show executive producer.
Letterman held up so well physically that he's planning to work both Wednesday and Friday this week. Burnett said. Friday had been left open to see how Letterman would react.
Top 10 fans will still see the list prepared for his first night back — Top 10 Things You Don't Want to Hear When You Wake Up From Surgery — probably on Wednesday.
Elian's grandma wants to leave Cuba, nun says
MIAMI — A nun who arranged a reunion between Elian Gonzalez and his Cuban grandmothers began advocating for the boy to stay in the United States after learning that one of them wanted to defect, The Miami Herald reported yesterday.
After meeting with the grandmother last month, Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin, president of Barry University, said she was giving up her previously announced neutrality.
O'Laughlin told the Herald she had not talked publicly about why she abandoned her neutral stance because she did not want to endanger the family in Cuba.
"But this is more about that little boy than anyone else, and I have to do whatever I can to help him," she said.
Her change of heart came after speaking alone to both women for about five minutes and then spending a few minutes alone with Elian's maternal grandmother.
when one of the grandmothers spoke to her about defecting, she questioned whether Cuba was the best place for Elan.
"This talk of defecting got me to thinking; if one of the adults wanted out, perhaps it was not a good place for the child," she said.
Chin has been the center of controversy since he was found clinging to an inner tube on Thanksgiving Day off the Florida coast. His mother and 10 others traveling with him in an effort to flee Cuba drowned.
The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has ruled in
favor of Elian's return to Cuba, but Elian's U.S. relatives are challenging that decision in federal court.
A Miami judge will hear arguments tomorrow to decide whether the court has jurisdiction in the case.
Sweepstakes company must pay $30 million
EAST ST. LOUIS, III. — A federal judge has approved a $30 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit that accused Publishers Clearing House of misleading its sweepstakes entrants.
The suit claimed the company duped people into buying magazines by falsely leading them to believe it would increase their chances of winning millions of dollars.
The settlement had won preliminary approval last June by U.S. District Judge G. Patrick Murphy. But attorneys general from many states objected, contending it would prevent further claims.
Murphy's order, issued Friday, does not stop the states from pursuing their own legal actions. However, they cannot sue for further restitution.
Mailings went out to 42.5 million people who had entered the sweepstakes, and lawyers estimated as many as 25,000 claims might be processed.
WORLD
American airplanes bomb Iraqi targets
ANKARA, Turkey — U.S. jets bombed an Iraqi air defense system in Iraq's northern no-fly zone yesterday in response to a missile attack, the U.S. military said.
The Iraqi forces fired multiple surface-to-air missiles at warplanes on patrol, the Germany-based U.S. European Command said in a statement. Coalition aircraft responded to the Iraqi attacks with bombs, the statement said.
Iraq's Air Defense Command said the warplanes attacked nonmilitary targets. It told the official Iraqi News Agency that enemy warplanes had bombed service and civil installations.
All planes left the area 250 miles north of Baghdad safely, it said. The planes are based at Incirlik air base in southern Turkey.
The Associated Press
The agency did not report details on casualties or where the bombs fell.
Former University math instructor may have been killed by his son
HOYT — Authorities believe a man fatally shot his parents, wounded a deputy who came to investigate and then died in a fire he had set that burned his home to the ground as authori- ties surrounded it.
The Associated Press
No motive was known Saturday for the outbreak of violence that led authorities to the rural, northeast Kansas home on Friday.
Jackson County authorities tentatively identified the man whose body was found badly burned inside the wood-frame house as Ilesh
Ashok Abdir, 27.
The bodies of a man and woman who authorities believe to be his parents were found about 500 yards from the home in a field near the edge of some woods. They were tentatively identified as Snettalata Shimpi, 58, and Ashok Shimpi, 59. University of Kansas records indicated that Ashok Shimpi was an assistant instructor of mathematics at the university during the 1970s.
Authorities said they could not positively identify the victims until autopsies were complete.
— BriAnne Hess contributed to this story
ON THE RECORD
A KU student reported the theft of $200 between 3:40 and 10 p.m. from her residence in the 1400 block of Westbrooke Street, Lawrence police said.
A CD player was stolen between 7:30 and 10:40 p.m. Wednesday from a vehicle in lot 62, near Nichols Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The vehicle's antenna and windshield also were damaged. The CD player was valued at $350, and damages to the vehicle were estimated at $120.
The KU Public Safety Office responded to a KU student having a seizure at 4:13 p.m. Thursday in Malot Hall. The student had been assisted by classmates and was conscious when officers arrived. Paramedics also responded.
The KU Public Safety Office responded to a student who was having thoughts of hurting herself at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Watkins Memorial Health Center. The student said she was feeling pressure from school work and home life. Police transported her to Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
ON CAMPUS
The Student Development Center will offer a workshop about financial aid and scholarships from 12:30 to 2 p.m. today at Alcove B in the Kansas Union. Call Laura Morgan a 864-4064
The Campus Fee Review Subcommittee of the Student Senate Finance Committee will meet at 4 p.m. today at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union. Call Aravind Muthukrishnan at 312-3188.
Compulsive Eaters Anonymous will meet at 7 tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call 312-3412.
Student Association of Graduates in English will have a creative-writing reading at 7 tonight at the English Room in the Kansas Union. Reach Alan Newton at anewton@fal-con.cc.ukans.edu.
KU Environs will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Kansas Union, Call 864-7325.
- Black Student Union and the Office of Multicultural Affairs will present "If These Walls Could Talk: African Americans of KU" for African-American History Month at 7:30 tonight at the Burge Union. Call Robert Page at 864-4351
Student Senate Elections Commission will have a candidate workshop at 12:15 p.m. tomorrow at the Kansas Union. Call Zora Mulligan at 864-4060 or 312-3137.
Student Union Activities coordinator applications
are due at 5 p.m. tomorrow at the SUA office in the Kansas Union. Call Camille Payne at 864-3477.
Phi Alpha Delta PreLaw Society will meet at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow at the English Room in the Kansas Union. Call Michael Layish at 864-2896.
The Hispanic American Leadership
KU Hillel will have a text study at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Hillel House, 940 Mississippi St. Call Seth Weiblant at 331-4129.
The Hispanic American Leadership Organization will meet at 6 p.m. tomorrow at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. Call Chris Havellet at 312-2291
The Society for Human Resource Management will have a tour of Amarr Garage Door, 3800 Greenway Circle, and an informational meeting at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Amarr Garage Door. Call Sarah Miller at 832-1907.
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.
University Christian Fellowship will meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Rick Clock at 841-3148.
Greek Impact will meet at 9 p.m. tomorrow at the Alpha Omicron Pi house on Sigma Nu Place. Call Demarcik Patton at 749-2890.
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SUA WEEKLY CALENDAR OF EVENTS
SPOKEN WORD ARTIST COREY COKES
8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 23
Kansas Room, level 6, Kansas Union
Vouchers available at the SUA Box Office
GALLERY SHW
"Of Legends and Plants"
By Celia Smith
Feb. 1 - 26
Kansas Union Gallery
GALLERY SHOW
NOW HIRING GALLERY GUARDS Go to the Personnel Office, Level 5, Kansas Union to Apply
864-3477 · www.ukans.edu/~sua
SUSAN FALUDI
Author of Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 1
120 Budig Hall
$3 students • 55 non-students
Tickets available at the SUA Box Office
Book-signing at 7:15 p.m. in atrium of Budig Hall.
There will be a Q&A following the lecture.
Faludi is a contributing editor of Newsweek magazine. She won the Pulitzer prize in 1992 for her expose on Safeway.
MOVIES
ONE FALSE MOVE
All movies shown in Woodruff Auditorium
Feb. 22 and 24
7 and 20 m
7 and 9:30 p.m.
THE LIMEY
Feb. 23, 25 and 26
7 and 9:30 p.m.
INE ADVENTURES OF FORD FAIRLANE
Feb. 25 and 26
Midnight
Nice Spare. Let's Go Bowling
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Mon. - Thurs. 9 a.m. - 11 p.m., Friday 9 a.m. - Midnight Saturday Noon - Midnight, Sunday Noon - 10 p.m.
Level 1, Kansas Union 864-3545