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The Inside Front
Thursday January 27,1999
News
from campus, the state. the nation and the world
LAWRENCE
Oread Neighborhood to discuss area's past
Members of the Oread Neighborhood Association are inviting students to attend a lecture and slide show about the history of the Oread Neighborhood at 7 tonight.
Myja Williams, coordinator of the association, said the event would be held at the Watkins Community Museum, 11th and Massachusetts streets and that refreshments would be provided.
Williams said that she hoped students would come to learn the story of the neighborhood. The event is free and open to the public.
- Jessie Meyer
Big Brothers/Big Sisters to recognize volunteers
Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Douglas County is holding a volunteer recognition event Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Cadillac Ranch, 2515 W. 6th St.
Amber Haun, office volunteer coordinator, said the event was a chance for volunteers and children to be recognized and honored. The children nominated volunteers to be named Big Brother, Big Sister or Advocate of the Year, and awards will be given at the event.
There also will be several games to play and food will be provided by Lil' Jakes BBQ of Kansas City, Haun said. Haun asked that all volunteers call 843-7359 if they planned to attend.
NATION
Clinton to endorse Gore in State of Union speech
WASHINGTON — Wedged between the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, President Clinton's State of the Union address will grab the spotlight and is intended to promote the last year of his presidency and the political ambitions of his vice-president. Al Gore.
Clinton will speak about the nation's economic expansion, the longest one in history come February, and also will highlight the hundreds of billions of dollars worth of programs he would like Congress to approve in his last year as president
— from education initiatives to tax breaks for the working poor.
One of the most important contributions Clinton can make to his legacy is to help Gore become president and carry on the work of the Clinton-Gore administration.
"They're not going to jeopardize the Gore campaign in any way with any initiatives that might be politically unattractive to Gore," said political
scientist Shirley Anne Warshaw of Gettysburg College.
But that doesn't mean Gore gets to write Clinton's script.
"This is still the Clinton administration and they are very firmly in charge," Warshaw said.
Thomas E. Mann, senior fellow at
Clinton: will discuss his last year in speech tonight
the Brookings institutions, said Clinton will make sure that Gore is protected.
"You proceed with your presidency but check what you propose to do against its likely impact on the Gore candidacy," Mann said.
"The object is to do no harm — and preferably to do
WASHINGTON — Alan Greenspan, who was nominated for his fourth term as chairman of the Federal Reserve, pledged to Congress yesterday that the central bank would continue to pursue policies that would promote low and stable inflation.
Greenspan nominated Fed Reserve head again
Greenspan also told the Senate Banking Committee that the economy is reaping the fruits of technological innovation that has translated into higher living standards for millions of Americans.
Greenspan: will pursue policy of low inflation
"Our challenge in monetary policy is to foster, as best we can, the financial conditions that will allow this economic expansion and technological revolution to continue as long and
as vigorously as possible," Greenspan said.
In his opening remarks, Greenspan provided no hints about the Fed's next moves on interest rates. But, he stressed that the central bank clearly understands its most important job in supporting the U.S. economy's long expansion — to fight inflation.
"Experience has demonstrated that an essential ingredient in this prosperity and an ingredient for which the central bank has ultimate responsibility over the long run, is low and stable inflation," Greenspan said. "Maintaining price stability ... reduces the likelihood that imbalances could develop that would ultimately undermine economic expansion."
China restricts Internet to protect state secrets
WORLD
BEIJING — China has extended its vague state secrets law to the Internet — ordering companies to register software used to transmit sensitive data and threatening punishment for any government secrets sent out via the Web.
The regulations, announced yesterday, could scare off foreign firms eager to tap China's booming Internet market.
Everyone, from Internet sites to chatroom users, must gain approval from agencies protecting government secrets before publishing previously unreleased information on the Web, according to the States Secrecy Bureau regulations released in the People's Daily.
"It's like saying you want to develop railroads and then throwing down a different gauge track not used anywhere else in the world," said William Soileau, an information technology lawwer with Denton Hall in Beijing.
Perhaps most threatening for business are regulations requiring companies and individuals to register all software used to protect transfers of sensitive information, possibly making it easier for the government to track use.
China passed the regulations quietly in October, but the foreign business community became alarmed when the commission published a follow-up directive in November.
Chilean woman bares all in glass-house menagerie
SANTIAGO, Chile — Daniela Tobar woke up yesterday, walked to her bathroom, undressed and took a shower — as hordes of people watched.
The 21-year-old actress is spending two weeks in a house in central Santiago made of nothing but glass as part of a project designed to gauge how the public feels about a person's right to privacy.
"The idea is for her to live a completely normal life," said architect Arturo Torres, who developed the idea with a colleague. "We want to show a way of life which is unusual."
Scores of people gathered along the sidewalk, gawking as Tobar does laundry, eats, receives visitors — even goes to the bathroom. Every corner of the 8-foot-by-8-foot structure can be seen from the sidewalk.
Tobar began living in the house on Monday. Police visited her late Tuesday, suggesting the project be stopped. But Torres has all the necessary permits, said a city hall representative.
Torres said the project cost about $23,000. Half the money was contributed by a government cultural agency.
A KU employee's compact discs and CD case were stolen between 5:23 and 5:25 p.m. Tuesday from the north main door area of Strang Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The items were valued at $225.
The Associated Press
ON THE RECORD
KU police officers responded to an unattended dog about 10:45 a.m. Tuesday in front of Watson Library. According to the KU Public Safety Office, the dog bit a woman when she walked by, but the woman was not injured. Police issued a citation to the dog's owner, who said the animal did not have a history of aggressive behavior.
A KU student's mountain bike was stolen between Dec. 15 and Dec. 17 from the 1200 block of West Campus Road, Lawrence police said. The bike was valued at $1,100.
A KU student's license tag was stolen between 8 a.m. Jan. 10 and 4:40 p.m. Monday from the 2800 block of Fourwheel Drive, Lawrence police said. The tag was valued at $7.
ON CAMPUS
Ecumenical Christian Ministries will have information tables for Alternative Spring Break from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. today and tomorrow at the Kansas Union. Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933
KU Environis and Ecumenical Christian Ministries will have a vegetarian lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today at ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Thad Halcomba at 843-4933
Ecumenical Christian Ministries will present Human Sexuality in Everyday Life from 6:30 to 8:30 tonight at ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. Information will be available today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Kansas Union or at ECM. Call Thad Holmheme at 843.4933
Amnesty International will meet at 7 tonight at Alcove D in the Kansas Union Call Kyle Browning at 842-1351.
Student Union Activities will have a spring recruitment meeting from 7 to 8 tonight at the Kansas Union. Call Brenda Chung at 864-2432 or 331-3789.
The Center for Community Outreach will have a volunteer information session at 8 tonight at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union. Call E.J. Reedy at 864-4073.
The KU American Civil Liberties Union will meet at 9 tonight at the Governor's Room in the Kansas Union, Call Buddy or Kevin at 864.4123
- Compulsive Eating Anonymous will meet from 10:30 to 11:30 p.m. tomorrow at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call 312-3412.
The Office of Student Financial Aid is currently 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.
Jefferson camp acknowledges affair with slave
The Associated Press
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, which owns Monticello, released its findings yesterday in response to an October 1998 DNA test that concluded a Jefferson male likely fathered Hemings' youngest son, Eston.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — More than a year after a DNA test suggested that Thomas Jefferson had a son by his slave Sally Hemings, the foundation that owns Jefferson's home acknowledged that he probably was the father of one, if not all six, of her children.
"Although paternity cannot be established with absolute certainty, our evaluation of the best evidence available suggests the strong likelihood that Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings had a relationship over time that led to the birth of one, and perhaps all, of the known children of Sally Hemings," said Daniel P. Jordan, the foundation's president.
"Whether it was love or lust, rape or romance, no one knows and it's unlikely that anyone will ever know," he said.
"It's about time that someone is validating what oral history has confirmed for years," said Shay Banks-Young, a Hemings descendant who lives in Columbus, Ohio, in a telephone interview.
Jefferson, who was president from 1801 to 1809, was accused publicly in 1802 of fathering several children by Hemings. Scholars have been divided on the issue.
James Truscoff, head of the Monticello Association, a group of descendants from Jefferson's daughters Martha Jefferson Randolph and Maria Jefferson Eppes, declined to comment.
That group is planning to release its own report on Jefferson descendants later this year, which will also look into the relationship between Jefferson and Hemings. The Monticello Association generally has not embraced the idea that Jefferson and Hemings had a sexual relationship
Shortly after the 1998 DNA study was released, Jordan appointed a research committee at the Jefferson Memorial Foundation to study the relationship. Committee members reviewed historical and scientific documents and talked with descendants of Monticello slaves and others with knowledge of the Jefferson-Hemings connection.
Lucia Stanton, a senior research historian at Monticello, said Hemings conceived her children at times when Thomas Jefferson was at Monticello.
The research committee's chairwoman, Diane Swann-Wright, noted that Jefferson freed all of Hemings' children when they were adults — a highly unusual move for that time. According to the committee's report, Jefferson gave freedom to no other slave family.
"I think that speaks for itself," Swann-Wright said.
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