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The Inside Front
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Monday February 7, 2000
News
from campus,the state the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Driver in fatal wreck pleads guilty in court
The driver of a pickup truck involved in an August accident in North Lawrence that killed four Haskell Indian Nations University students will be sentenced March 17.
Manuel L. Brown, 20, of Gamerco, N.M., pleaded guilty to four counts of involuntary manslaughter during his appearance in Douglas County District Court Friday. He also pleaded guilty to two counts of aggraved battery and one count of driving while intoxicated.
Six students were riding in the bed of the truck Aug. 29 when it hit a series of railroad tracks and overturned. Three of the six students who were ejected from the bed were pronounced dead at the scene: Ray "Mike" Red Elk, 24, Anadarko, Okla.; Yancy Longhat, 20, Zuni, N.M.; and Albert Whitebull, 25, Kenel. S.D.
Clint Wahquaboshkuk, a fourth student, died Sept. 10 at Overland Park Regional Medical Center.
Douglas County District Attorney Christine Tonkvich said Brown entered a plea in lieu of a preliminary hearing for a jury trial.
"The four counts of involuntary manslaughter were amended from level four to level five felonies," she said. "So he is looking at less time."
Aggravated battery is also a level five felony. Tonkovich said that if a defendant had no criminal history, level five felonies could draw a sentence of anywhere from 31 to 34 months. A DUI conviction can mean as many as six months in jail, she said.
Tonkovich said it would be up to the judge whether the sentences would run at the same time or back to back. If the judge followed maximum sentencing guidelines and ran the sentences back to back, Brown could face nearly 17 years in prison, she said.
Mindie Miller
Meeting to address recent campus violence
The Jan. 23 shooting at the Burge Union will be the subject of a town hall meeting tonight at 8 p.m. at the Frontier Room in the Burge Union, the same room where the shooting occurred.
Robert Page, associate director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, said the meeting was a chance for students to discuss campus violence and to think about what could be done to avoid violence.
— Ryan Blethen
State journalism group elects new officers
The William Allen White Foundation elected new officers and changed its bylaws in its biannual trustees meeting Friday.
Among the changes, new titles were created for the positions in the organization, said James Gentry, dean of journalism at the University of Kansas.
Gentry was elected president. John Lee, chief executive officer of Harris Enterprises, a company that owns several Kansas newspapers, was elected chairman. Harry E. Valentine, publisher of the Clay Center Dispatch, was elected vice chairman. Ann Charles, publisher of the Parsons Sun, was elected secretary and Diane Goddard, KU comproller, was elected treasurer.
The William Allen White Foundation was founded in 1945 to promote journalism in Kansas.
— Mike Hoffman
STATE
Minor quake strikes northwestern Kansas
PALCO, Kan. — an earthquake that shook a small area of northwest Kansas was just strong enough to remind residents they live near a fault line.
The tremor struck at 7:36 p.m. Thursday with a 2.8 magnitude and was centered near the Rooks County town of Palco, about 30 miles northwest of Hays. Sheriffs' offices in Hays and in Stockton, 25 miles northeast of the epicenter, fielded a few calls from residents but no damage was reported.
"That was a little bigger than a micro earthquake, which is an earthquake that is too small for people to feel." Rex Buchanan, associate director of public affairs for the Kansas office of the U.S. Geological Survey.
The area was the center of several earthquakes in the summer of 1989, including one with a magnitude of 4.0, according to Don Steeples, distinguished professor of geology at the University of Kansas.
NATION
Gore defeats Bradley in Delaware primary
WILMINGTON, Del. — Vice President Al Gore won the Delaware presidential primary Saturday, outdistancing Bill Bradley in an election neglected by the Democratic campaigners.
Gore won comfortably in a primary that was only a popularity contest, a state-run straw poll.
The vice president captured 57 percent of the vote, the former senator from New Jersey, 40 percent.
Gore, taking a day off in Washington, thanked a union leader by telephone for the victory. "He said we took him over the top," said Mike Begatto, executive director of the AFL-CIO Public Employees Council.
Gore's next test is March 27, when Delaware Democrats begin choosing their 22 nominating delegates. The state scheduled its primary near the start of the campaign season in an effort to gain influence, but Democrats cannot select delegates this soon without violating party rules.
Russian president claims victory in Grozny
GEKHI, Russia — Federal troops have seized the last rebel stronghold in Grozny, acting President Vladimir Putin said yesterday, pronouncing an end to Russia's months-long drive to take the Chechen capital.
Russian forces, meanwhile, tried to head off rebels heading south to their mountain strongholds, shelling villages where rebels had taken shelter. Russian planes and helicopter gunships blasted militant positions in the Vedeno and Argun gorges, which are key rebel routes toward the mountains
"A short while ago, the terrorists' last bastion of resistance was seized." Putin said. "So, we can say the operation to liberate Grozny is over."
Putin said federal troops had taken control of the western Zavodskoi district of the capital and raised the Russian flag on an administration building there.
The claim could not be independently confirmed, and Russian forces have previously claimed to control parts of the Chechen capital, only to be pushed back by rebel ambushes.
Mexican police end university protests
MEXICO CITY — Thousands of Mexican police ended the ninemonth occupation of Latin America's largest university yesterday, raiding the main campus and arresting 632 students.
The police appeared to have full control of the campus of the 260,000-student National Autonomous University of Mexico after the 6 a.m. raid. Among those arrested were eight strike leaders.
"A democratic society cannot allow the kidnapping of the national university," said Interior Secretary Diodoro Carrasco.
Striking students — some attending a meeting, others sleeping — offered no resistance, and there were no reports of injuries.
The raid, authorized by a court order, was led by 2,500 federal police officers armed with just batons and backed up by city police.
The Associated Press
House bill would keep track of where lottery money goes
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Sawyer, who ran against Gov. Bill Graves in 1998, proposed a program that would have given full-tuition, merit-based scholarships to Kansas high school graduates.
well-educated work force."
Sawyer said his program would have cost about $60 million, leaving money for economic development.
Moreover, Sawyer said lottery money wasn't always used wisely. He said lottery money was given to a man from Texas to build a tire-recycling plant. He built the plant — in China, not Kansas.
"This bill could be an eye opener and a trailblazer for reform," Swenson said.
Sherrer said a law like Swenson's was unnecessary because the state did know where the money went.
Lawmakers can change where lottery money goes, but Sherrer said using the money for state
financial aid was not necessarily a good idea.
Tanner said that Kansas tuition was low compared to other states and that students should be willing to invest in their own educations.
"The old idea that attending a university is a right is wrong." Tanner said. "It's not correct to say that anyone has the right to be there. They have a right to equal access."
The state does provide about $14.5 million in financial aid for a variety of need-based scholarships and grants, but that money only stretches so far.
According the Board of Regents annual report for the 1998-1999 academic year, fewer than one-third of students qualifying for a Kansas tuition grant at a University received money.
Sawyer said that tuition increases had made it harder for students to afford an education. Instead, the state should make it easier, he said.
But Otero said that having the lottery pay for his college education wasn't perfect — too many people were taking advantage of the scholarship.
"I think it's a good deal," he said. "But so does everybody else. The universities are packed. People have problems with huge classes."
ON THE RECORD
The KU Public Safety Office was dispatched to a false alarm between 12:49 and 12:50 p.m.
Thursday in Strong Hall.
The KU Public Safety Office responded to a suicidal student at 8 p.m. Thursday in Oliver Hall. The student said she had stopped taking anti-depression medication two days earlier. The patient admitted herself to Lawrence Memorial Hospital after being transported by an officer.
report of an outside door left ajar at 6:51 a.m.
Wednesday at the Dole Human Development Center. There was computer equipment in adjacent rooms, but nothing was reported missing.
A KU student's black Ralph Lauren wool coat, personal checks and Blockbuster DVD rental coupons were stolen between Jan. 28 and Jan. 29 from the 1300 block of West Campus Road, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $172.
ON CAMPUS
- Concerned, Active and Aware Students, Amnesty International and Working against Violence Everywhere will sponsor a presentation, "Slavery Today: Atrocities in Southern Sudan," at 5 p.m. today at the parls in the Kansas Union. Call Julia Gilmore or Jennifer McAdam at 864-4073.
Compulsive Eating Anonymous will meet at 7 tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call 312-3412.
KU Environs will meet at 7 tonight at the Kansas
Union, Cell 844-7325
KU Chess Club will meet from 8 to 10 tonight at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. Call David Wana at 312-1070.
The Office of Study Abroad will have a spring study abroad fax from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the fourth floor in the Kansas Union. Call David Wiley at 864-7812.
- OAKS, the nontraditional student organization,
will have a brown bag lunch from 11:30 a.m.
to 1 p.m. at Alcove A in the Kansas Union. Call
Deena Hardie at 864-7317.
■ KU Racquetball Club will meet from 6 to 8 p.m. tomorrow at Robinson Center. Call Stewart Hunt at 331-2231.
University Christian Fellowship will meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave, Call Rick Clock at 841-3148.
The Center for Community Outreach will have a volunteer information session at 8 p.m. tomorrow at the Big 12 Room in the Kansas Union. Call E.J. Reedy at 864-4073.
Registration forms for the Blueprints Leadership Conference are due at 5 p.m. Feb. 16 at 400 Kansas Union. Call 864-4861.
KU HorrorZontals ultimate frisbee team will practice from 8 to 11 p.m. tomorrow at Anschutz Sports Pavilion, Call Will Spotts at 841-0671.
- Applications for Student Union Activities officers and coordinators are due at 5 p.m. Feb. 22 at the SUA office in the Kansas Union. Call Camille Payne at 864-3477.
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SUA WEEKLY CALENDAR OF EVENTS
T.S. MANK JAZZ CONCERT
Tickets on sale now in the SUA Box Office, Level 4,
Kansas Union. $6 student, $12 non-student
Concert is at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 19
at the Lied Center
GALLERY SHOW
"Of Legends and Plants"
By Celia Smith
Feb. 1 - 26
Kansas Union Gallery
STUDENT UNION ACTIVITIES
COFFEE HOUSE / POETRY SLAM
7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 8, Kansas Union Lobby
Show off your musical, artistic or written talent
Sign up by 5 p.m. Feb. 8 in the SUA Office
864-3477 · www.ukans.edu/~sua
MOVIES
All movies shown in Woodruff Auditorium
MIGHTY PEKING MAN
Feb. 8 and 10
7 and 9:30 p.m.
FIGHT CLUB
Feb. 9, 11, 12
7 and 9:30 p.m.
PERFECT BLUE
Feb. 11, 12
Midnight
UNION WEEKLY SPECIALS
Hawk's Nest Level 3, Kansas Union
STARBUCKS COFFEE IS HERE!
Nanaea Union Jayboy
864-4596 * www.jayhawks.com
TECHNO-BOWLING
Check out Techno-Bowling in the Jaybowl, Thursdays 9 - 11 p.m. Sundays 8 - 10 p.m., $6 with KUID, $8 without KUID.
The Hawk's Nest is now serving Starbucks Coffee. Start your day off with a hot cup of Starbucks $ ^{\circ} $ Coffee, available exclusively in Lawrence at the Hawk's Nest, Level 3, Kansas Union. Now opening at 7:00 a.m. Monday - Friday.
TIP OFF TUESDAY
For every KU Men's Basketball win for the previous Saturday or Sunday game, use the margin of victory for discounts on Tip Off Tuesday. Look for more details in tomorrow's UDK.
Free Tea and Sweets 3 - 5 p.m. every Thursday afternoon beginning Feb. 3, Kansas Union Lobby.
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