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The Inside Front
Friday February 4,2000
News
from campus, the state. the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Speaker talks to group about making Web sites
A representative from Netopia, a computer communications and networking company based in Alameda, Calif., spoke to about 50 business students and several high school students yesterday about creating Web sites for small businesses.
Joe Ozorkiewicz, a KU graduate, said Netopia's technology had Kansas roots. He said the technology of screen sharing was developed in Colby. The function makes it possible for businesses to help clients operate software by seeing what is on their client's computer.
Ozorkiewicz said that in the mid-1980s, a company that did accounting for school systems needed a way to help customers with software without driving 200 miles across Western Kansas. That technology is now used by Netopia, he said.
While Netopia has helped to create Internet commerce for companies as far away as France and Denmark, Ozorkiewicz said it also worked with local businesses.
"I really get excited when I see businesses around the area using Netopia," he said. "I guess I identify with them more."
Coc Van, Wichita senior, said information from the presentation would be helpful when her entrepreneurship class worked on a Web site for a Kansas City entrepreneur.
Van said Ozkierkiz gave good advice about designing its first Web site.
"You want everything to be flashy, but sometimes there's too much to look at." Van said.
Erinn R. Barcomb
LAWRENCE
Rayford scheduled to have trial by jury
A jury will determine the fate of a former Kansas football player facing criminal charges in connection with a November incident at Taco Bell.
Dion Rayford, Los Gatos, Calif., senior, is set to stand trial at 9 a.m. March 6 at Division 5 court. His attorney, J.C. Gilroy, requested a trial by jury at a court appearance yesterday.
The 6-foot-3, 260-pound former defensive end is charged with disorderly conduct, criminal damage to property and possession of an open container. In November, Rayford attempted to force himself through a Taco Bell drive-thru window when restaurant employees left a Chalupa out of his order, Lawrence police said.
Gilroy said he planned to file a motion by Feb. 7 to dismiss the open container charge.
Judge Paula Martin also ordered
Rayford to appear at a status conference at 11:45 a.m. March 2. Any changes in the case will be discussed at that conference.
Police issue citations for underage drinking
Lawrence police issued citations last night to five underage KU students caught consuming alcohol at The Wheel Cafe. 507 W, 14th St.
Sgt. George Wheeler said police discovered the students during a routine bar check.
Police issued notices to the offenders, ranging from 18 to 20 years old, to appear in municipal court. They all were cited for minors in possession, and four were cited for presenting false driver's licenses.
Wheeler said the bar could face penalties from Alcoholic Beverage Control, which grants liquor licenses to area bars.
"They can restrict or revoke the bar's license or fine them or close them for a period of time," he said.
Police said they issued citations to three underage Lawrence residents that night at Charlie's Eastside Bar & Grill, 900 Pennsylvania St., and arrested a 20-year-old female for operating a vehicle under the influence.
Police also issued citations to two employees of the Red Lyon Tavern, 944 Massachusetts St., for serving alcohol after hours. Wheeler said officers observed a 25-year-old male and a 27-year-old male drinking inside after a 2 a.m. Both received tickets.
Mindie Miller
WASHINGTON — Gary Bauer, the janitor's son who served in Ronald Reagan's White House and mounted a presidential bid of his own, has decided to drop out of the race, a source close to the conservative activist said yesterday.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Bauer planned to announce the move at a news conference this morning.
GOP's Bauer to withdraw from race, activist says
Bauer is a well-established social conservative who fared well in presidential debates, needing front-runner George W. Bush on abortion and China policy. He also had some success raising money, primarily through a large network of small donors built during his work as a conservative activist in Washington.
Bauer has struggled even to make a dent in national polls and finished in fourth place in the Iowa caucuses, ahead of only Sen. Ornish Ratch of Utah, who has since dropped out of the race, and Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who did not campaign in Iowa at all.
NATION
Insulin pill may replace shots, researchers say
However, Bauer had trouble carving out a constituency in a crowded field of Republican Party conservatives.
WASHINGTON — A technique that allows insulin hormone to be stored in cells and then released as needed by a pill eventually may offer a treatment for diabetes that does not require daily injections, researchers say.
He could not climb above 1 percent in the critical New Hampshire primary. With his wife, Carol, at his side, he conceded that contest Tuesday night.
The experiments, thus far, have been performed only on mice, but researchers say a system using an implanted insulin gene may be ready for human testing within two years.
In a study to be published today in the journal Science, researchers at Ariad Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, Mass., and at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York said the cell engineering technique was able to control diabetes in a group of laboratory mice and now is being tested on larger animals.
Tim Clackson, senior author of the study, said that the technique caused insulin, or some other protein, to clump inside a cell with another protein, forming a molecule that was too large to leave the cell. A drug, given as a pill, breaks up the clump, allowing the insulin to flow into the bloodstream in a way that mimics the spurt of hormone normally secreted by the pancreas.
Scientists link El Niño with childhood diarrhea
LONDON — After linking El Niño with illnesses such as malaria, cholera and dengue fever, scientists now have connected the climatic phenomenon with an increase in childhood diarrhea.
The research led by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health also suggests for the first time that gradual temperature increases related to global warming could foster outbreaks of diarrhea in children living in developing nations.
Diarrhea kills as many as 3 million children under the age of 5 worldwide every year and sickens millions more, mostly in developing countries.
It normally is more prevalent during the warmer seasons but, until now, experts didn't know whether a change in temperature could play a role.
The study of 57,331 children in Lima, Peru, found that an increase in diarrhea cases between 1993 and 1997 was linked to even small rises in temperature, regardless of whether it was summer or winter. In fact, the effect was greater in winter, even though the weather was cooler.
The Associated Press
Football players, fraternities cited in federal investigation
"Our understanding at this point, and our regarding of the federal district court detention order, is that the allegations came from unsubstantiated sources, at least one of whom is under criminal indictment." Oliver said.
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Bill Nelson, director of greek programs at the University, said he had not heard anything about the allegations until television reporters called him for comment Wednesday.
Nelson said he was most concerned with the vague way in which "fraternities" was used in the statement.
"What I think is critical here is to understand the context in which fraternity has been used in the allegation," Nelson said. "Are we talking about the behavior of individual men, or are we talking about corporate fraternity behavior?"
Nelson said both situations would be problematic, but especially drug involvement by an entire chapter. However, he said it was more likely that individual members would be involved
with drugs. He said exact numbers were difficult to gauge, but the situation had come up before.
"I know first-hand that individual fraternite; this year have terminated men's membership because of indications that they have beer engaged in either possession or use of illega drugs." Nelson said. "I know it happens. I know i happened this year."
Student athletes receive random drug tests by both the Big 12 Conference and the NCAA throughout the year. In addition to those stan dards, the University conducts testing and drug education of its own for student athletes.
"We screen our athletes at a level of zero tolerance," said Amy Perko, associate director for athletics. "If there is any trace of any banned sub stance and the level doesn't rise to what is con sidered positive on the drug test, the student athlete is placed under reasonable suspicion."
While test results remain confidential, Perkid said that 402 specimens in the form of urin tests were submitted in 1998 and 1999 as part o the testing.
IN HISTORY
Today:
1795: France abolishes slavery in her territories and confers slaves to citizens.
1889: Harry Longabaugh is released from Sundance Prison in Wyoming, thereby acquiring the famous nickname, "the Sundance Kid."
1906: The New York Police Department begins fingerprint identification.
1909: California law segregates Caucasian and Japanese schoolchildren
and Japanese schoolchildren.
1923: French troops take the territories of
Offenburg, Appenweier and Buhl in the Ruhr as a part of the agreement ending World War I.
1944: The Japanese attack the Indian Seventh Army in Burma. Detachment 101 harried the Japanese in Burma and provided close support for regular Allied forces.
1495: The Big Three, American, British and Soviet leaders, meet in Yalta to discuss the war aims.
1974: Mao Tse-tung proclaims a new "cultural revolution" in China.
ON THE RECORD
The KU Public Safety Office responded to a medical emergency at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Art and Design Building. A KU student had fainted after feeling sick. Paramedics advised the student to go to Watkins Memorial Health Center
ON CAMPUS
Golden Key National Honor Society will work at the Jubilee Cafe from 6 to 9:30 a.m. today. Call Crystin at 842-6682.
- Compulsive Eating Anonymous will meet at 10:30 a.m. today at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Grand Ave, Call 312-3412
ns for the Blueprints Leadership
KU HorrorZontals ultimate frisbee club will practice from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday at Central Junior High School, 1400 Massachusetts St. Call Will Spots at 841-0671.
Applications for the Blueprints Leadership Conference are due at 5 p.m. feb. 16 at 400
Kansas Union. Call 864-4861
Student Union Activities has openings for officers and coordinators. Applications are due at 5 p.m. feb. 22 at the SUA office in the Kansas Union, Coll Callan Payne Ave. at 864-3477.
The Office of Student Financial Aid currently is awarding funds for the federal work-study program. Apply online at www.ukans.edu/~osta. Call 864-4700 or visit 50 Strong Hall.
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Northern New Mexico
Northern New Mexico "What Do I Want My Life to Say?"
A cross-cultural and environmental experience through volunteer service in villages and schools 65 miles northwest of Santa Fe. Director: Thad Holcombe of ECM with Kate Hege as student coordinator.
"What Do I Want My Life to Say?"
New York City
Volunteer service in soup kitchens and homeless shelters with opportunities for urban exploration. Directors: Joe Atford and Shawn Norris of Canterbury House and Lutheran Campus Ministry.
New York City Exploring the Core of the Big Apple: It's Wealth and Poverty"
Milton County, South Carolina "Habitat for Humanity: Volunteer with a Hammer" Volunteer service building homes, coordinated by KU Habitat for Humanity. Director: Brian Tanjer as student coordinator.
Marion County, South Carolina "Habitat for Humanity: Volunteer with a Hammer"
These Spring Breaks are sponsored by campus ministries of ECM (Presbyterian, United Church of Christ, Church of the Brethren, Quaker), Canterbury House (Episcopal), Lutheran Campus Ministries (ELCA) and KU Habitat for Humanity.
The first orientation meeting will be on Sunday,
Feb 6, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm at ECM
Questions ? Call 843-4933