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The Inside Front
Friday January 28, 2000
News
from campus, the state the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Magic School Bus to roll into Lied Center Saturday
Scholastic's The Magic School Bus will switch gears from network television to the Lied Center stage at 2 and 5 p.m. tomorrow.
Ms. Frizzle, the teacher on the show, and her students in the Magic School Bus solve a haunted theater mystery in The Bright Idea.
Karen Christiles, Lied Center director of public relations, said the show originated in a book series that encouraged young kids to get involved in science.
"It's a story that involves kids discovering principles of a subject first-hand," Christilles said. "The kids have that 'Ah ha' moment when they learn about osmosis."
Christilles said her 9-year-old son was interested in the series but that she enjoyed watching it as well.
"I learn something every time I watch," she said.
Tickets are $9 and $6 for University of Kansas and Haskell Indian Nations University students. They are available at box offices in the Lied Center, Murphy Hall, Student Union Activities office, Kansas Union, University of Kansas Medical Center Bookstore and Ticketmaster outlets.
STATE
Students to celebrate Kansas Day in Topeka
BriAnne Hess
Tomorrow, Kansas citizens will celebrate Kansas Day, the anniversary of the state's admission into the United States in 1861. However, the main celebration will be today.
At 10 a.m., there will be a rededication of the historic Memorial Hall, across the street from the Capitol building. At 11 a.m., Gov. Bill Graves will perform a cake cutting.
KU College Republicans are planning to attend the celebration.
"There will be a daylong display of state agencies set up through the rotunda offering information about their services," said Don Brown, communications director for the governor.
"It's a time to mingle with officials and politicians of the Republican party and to let them know that we're around and ready to help if they need us," said David Brandt, Roswell, Georgia, junior and College Republicans member.
Mike Hoffman
Kansas students learn lawmaking with CD-ROM
Aspiring state politicians now can experience being a legislator virtually. State Rep. Ralph Tanner, R-Baldwin, released an interactive CD-ROM.
"Kansas Lawmaker," to the Department of Education today
The Legislature contracted with the University of Kansas Department of Continuing Education to create a computerized version of state lawmaking. The computer program will be distributed to Kansas schools and public libraries with a teacher's guide.
"What we're doing is trying to create an interactive experience of how a bill becomes a law," said Nancy Coyler, continuing education director of academic outreach programs.
With the program, students experience winning an election and following through on campaign promises. The CDROM teaches students about research, committees and turning a bill into law.
Although the program is targeted at middle school students, creators said anyone interested in the legislative process could learn from it.
"We hope it will provide insight into how things are done legislatively," Tanner said. "There is a great deal of cynicism about the role of government, and this may help relieve a little bit of the cynicism."
— Katrina Hull
Regents members to face questions from Senate
The members of the Board of Regents will go before the Kansas Senate Education committee today as part of their confirmation into their positions.
The nine Regents members were appointed by Gov. Graves on June 30, but could not be appointed to their positions by the Senate because it was not in session, said Kim Wilcox, Regents executive director.
The Senate will not appoint the members tomorrow, Wilcox said, but at a later date because tomorrow is simply a hearing.
Senate members will question the Regents, said Mike Matson, Regents director of external relations.
Student body presidents from six Regents universities were invited to attend. Korb Maxwell, University of Kansas student body president, is planning to attend, he said.
A letter from State Sen. Anthony Hensley (D-Topeka) to the student body presidents indicated that some Senate members planned to question the Regents about recent tuition increases.
— Doug Pacey
Elian's relatives battle for custody in Congress
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Elian Gonzalez's Cuban and American relatives took their custody fight to Congress yesterday, and the nun who was host of the boy's tense reunion with his grandmothers said she now favors letting him stay.
NATION
Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin told the Associated Press that before Wednesday night's reunion, her opinion was, "I would go with the law that the child should be with the father, but what I saw and felt really frightened me for the child."
She blamed both sides but specifically cited Fidel Castro's government
for trying to manipulate the situation.
Gonzalez. At the center of an international custody dispute
In court papers, the Justice Department argued that the judge should dismiss the Florida relatives' case either on grounds that the court lacks jurisdiction to review the immigration decision or that
Elian's great uncle, Lazaro Gonzalez,
lacks standing under federal law to
speak for him.
The papers said a victory for the Miami relatives would "ignore accepted international practice in cases involving a sole surviving parent located in the United States, where we would expect the foreign country to immediately return the child to the surviving American parent."
Algerians and bin Laden linked in terrorist plot
NEW YORK — Investigators believe they have found links between Osama bin Laden and Algerians charged with plotting a terrorist attack in the United States, The New York Times reported yesterday.
A man under arrest in Senegal is believed to have directed the Algerians' effort to carry out a bomb plot from Canada late last year, the Times reported, citing unidentified law enforcement sources.
The plot was foiled Dec. 14 when U.S. authorities arrested a man at Port Angeles, Wash. Ahmed Ressam was entering the country from Canada in a vehicle that allegedly contained bomb-making materials.
Bin Laden and 17 others have been indicted on federal charges with a conspiracy to attack Americans in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The attacks killed 224 people. Bin Laden, a Saudi exile, is believed to be in Afghanistan.
No specific evidence shows that bi-
Laden was behind the alleged
Algerian plot, and authorities have
not suggested possible targets.
Slahi has not been charged with any crime, but the United States requested his arrest and federal prosecutors are preparing formal charges which could be used as the basis for his extradition.
The man held in Senegal,
Mohambedou Ould Sliah, is a brother-
in-law of one of bin Laden's key aides.
The Associated Press
Today: IN HISTORY
1825 Congress approves Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears."
1695 — Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in İstanbul on the death of Amhid II.
1918 Communists attempt to seize power in Finland.
1924 — Lenin's body is laid in a marble tomb on Red Square near the Kremlin.
1935 A League of Nations majority favors depriving Japan of mandates. The rise of militaristic nationalism led Japan down the road to Pearl Harbor and World War II.
1939 President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves the sale of U.S. war planes to France.
1943 — The first U.S. raids on the Reich blast Wilhelmshaven base and Emden. Billy Mitchell fought for his beliefs--but he did not live to see his unorthodox concepts bear fruit in WWII.
1959 — NASA selects 110 candidates for the first U.S. space flight. Mercury astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth.
1967 — Three astronauts are killed in a flash fire that engulfed their Apollo 1 spacecraft.
1978 — The State Supreme Court rules that Nazis can display the Swastika in a march in Skokie, Illinois.
1756 — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian musical genius and composer whose works included The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute, is born.
City residents want to curb loud partying
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Wysong said he wasn't surprised when police arrived.
And in doing so, Wysong broke the law.
"It is illegal to throw a loud party."
Wheeler said. "It's not a major crime, but it's a quality of life issue."
"This isn't a party neighborhood, and we knew it." Wysong said of the 900 block of Alma Drive, just west of Monterey Way. "We threw the party just to test it out."
Wheeler said that on the first visit, police officers would seek voluntary compliance. If called a second time, the officers would issue a ticket for disturbing the peace or for violation of a noise ordinance.
Merydith-Wolf said that although her neighbors were students, they were not the only ones who had parties.
"Unfortunately, the stereotype is students." Merydith-Wolf said. "But it is not restricted to students."
ON THE RECORD
Indeed, Wheeler said he didn't see as many service calls while the University was in session as he once did.
"Ten years ago, we would see a drop off for spring break and summer." Wheeler said. "Numbers have pretty much flattened out now."
Merydith-Wolf said she thought the solution to the noise problem was simple.
"In an ideal world," she said, "we should be able to talk to each other."
A KU student's Sega Dreamcast game player,
Sega Dreamcast game cartridges and tennis
shoes were stolen between 1 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Saturday from the 800 block of Mississippi
Street, Lawrence police said. The items were val-
ued at $511.
A KU student's wallet was stolen between 8:30 and 9:30 a.m. Monday from a lock room in
Robinson Center, the KU Public Safety Office said. The wallet and its contents were valued at $65.
ON CAMPUS
The KU Public Safety Office responded to a medical emergency at 2:27 p.m. Wednesday at Douthart Scholarship Hall. The patient, who was complaining about severe stomach pain, was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
- Compulsive Eating Anonymous will meet from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. today at Ecumenical Christian
- Ecumenical Christian Ministries will have information tables about Alternative Spring Break from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at the Kansas Call. Union Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call 312-3412. The Office of Student Financial Aid is awarding federal work-study funds for the spring 2000 semester. Apply online at www.ukans.edu/~osfa.Call 864-4700 or visit 50 Strong Hall.
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