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The Inside Front
Wednesday January 26, 2000
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Student receives e-mail containing death threat
A 22-year-old male University of Kansas student logged on to his personal computer Monday morning and discovered a threatening message among his e-mails, Lawrence police said.
The student said he received the threat-
ening e-mail from an unidentified suspect
Detective John Lewis said the message
read, "You're going to die really soon."
The victim discovered the threat between 7:20 and 7:26 a.m.
The reporting officer said the sender's identity was unknown, untraceable and could not be repiled to.
Lewis said the incident was under investigation.
Mindie Miller
LAWRENCE
Lawrence police to offer yearly Citizens' Academy
For anyone who thinks television cop shows accurately portray the life of a police officer, the Lawrence police department is out to set the record straight.
The department will sponsor its 12th Annual Citizens' Academy beginning Feb. 9. The academy is a 27-hour course designed to place Lawrence residents in close contact with the law enforcement officers who serve them. The classes will cover topics ranging from legal issues to law enforcement responsibilities and police procedures.
The three-hour classes will meet two evenings each week for four consecutive weeks and one evening the fifth week.
Academy organizers said participants would become familiar with the department's philosophies and functions. They also will have opportunities to speak with patrol officers, said Chief of Police, Ronald Olin.
Applicants must be 18 or older and live in the Lawrence area. They also must provide three local references, submit to a background check and have no history of criminal behavior. KU students are eligible to participate.
Individuals interested may pick up an application packet at the Lawrence Police Department Training Unit, 111 E. 11th. St.
NATION
Mindie Miller
Bad hair days can make for all-around bad days
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Bad hair days affect not just what's on your head, but what's in it.
A Yale University study of the psychology of bad hair days found that people's self-esteem goes awry when
their hair is out of place.
And contrary to popular belief, men's self-esteem may take a greater liking than women's when their hair just won't behave. Men were more likely to feel less smart and less capable when their hair stuck out, was badly cut or otherwise mussed.
They feel less smart, less capable,
more embarrassed and less sociable.
The study was paid for by Procter & Gamble, which makes shampoo and plans a new hair-care line called Physique to provide more control over hair.
"The cultural truism is men are not affected by their appearance," said Marianne LaFrance, the Yale professor who conducted the study. "This is not just the domain of women."
Janet Hyde, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who studies body image and self-esteem, said personal appearance could have an enormous effect on people, especially adolescents. But Hyde said she was surprised to hear bad hair had a stronger effect on men than on women in some cases.
Drug smuggler finances movie airing on cable
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A drug smuggler who helped bankroll a movie with his profits has pleaded guilty to 10 charges.
Robert Hayes, 31, admitted Monday that he led a ring that bought cocaine and marijuana in Texas and Miami to sell in Louisville.
Hayes helped finance a movie, Winner Takes All, with money he made selling drugs, federal prosecutor Alexander Taft said.
The movie, filmed in Louisville, stars Hayes and tells the story of two brothers who grow up in the inner city — one to become a Drug Enforcement Administration agent, the other a member of a crime syndicate.
It has been showing on the Black Entertainment Television cable network this month.
BET spokesman Michael Lewellen said the network was unaware of Hayes' background or the source of his financing.
Hayes pleaded guilty to charges that included operating a criminal enterprise, conspiring to distribute cocaine and marijuana and money laundering. The most serious charge carries at least 30 years in prison.
deciding what to recommend about Microsoft Corp., there is a risk the government might fail to bring a unified proposal on sanctions to U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson. He bluntly told government lawyers to agree among themselves before they present in court any plan for sanctions.
WASHINGTON — Some states active in the Microsoft case believe the Justice Department's plan to break up one of the world's most successful companies may not be the best solution.
Breaking up Microsoft not ideal, states say
This sentiment signals a potential division within ranks that could complicate settlement talks in the trial.
"I would not like to have to deal with divergent points of view," Jackson told them.
Illustrating the difficulties in achieving such consensus, Ohio's attorney general indicated she was leaning toward a ban on some of Microsoft's behavior toward others in the technology industry rather than a forced restructuring of the software giant.
Although debate continues in secret among the 19 state attorneys general
"I have to tell you that my bias is toward a conduct resolution, but again it's too early to be specific," said Montgomery. "Quite frankly, I indicated to my staff when we started this lawsuit that I was not looking out for a structural solution as much as a conduct solution."
Church of England could approve remarriage
WORLD
LONDON — The Church of England, established by the much-wedded King Henry VIII, took a step yesterday toward approving remarriage for divorces — an issue that may be of keen interest to Britain's next king.
But the church's main concern is dealing with the realities of a nation with one of the highest divorce rates. In Europe, and the fact that a third of its priests already are exercising their legal rights to marry divorces.
Recommendations published by a group of bishops, if adopted by the church's governing General Synod in 2002, could make it easier for Prince Charles to contemplate marriage to his longevity time. Camilla Parker Bowles.
"If these proposals win acceptance, the church will not simply marry anyone who turns up and asks to be married," said the Right Rev. Michael Scott-Joynt, bishop of Winchester and chairman of the bishops' working party on remarriage.
Among the conditions: Divorced people should be honest about the reasons for the failure of their previous marriages, adequate provision should be made for supporting children, the new relationship should not be the cause of breaking up the previous marriage and a reasonable time should have passed since the divorce.
Bishops also recommended that remarriage should normally not be permitted for people who have been involved in more than one divorce.
"This report in effect codifies what has already become practice in many parishes," said the Right Rev. Mark Santer, bishop of Birmingham.
BONDY, France - At the Jean Zay junior high in a troubled neighborhood outside Paris, students huddled yesterday in the freezing morning darkness, locked out of school for yet another day by angry parents and teachers demanding an end to school violence.
The Associated Press
"My son is in his final year here, and I don't want to have to come pick him up from the infirmary or the hospital," said Marie Cullerat, 38, who was blocking the school's doors with other determined parents. The school has been shut for a week.
Violence plagues French schools
After a wave of vicious attacks swept through Jean Zay and other French schools in recent weeks, today France's education minister is expected to announce a series of measures, mainly financial, aimed at curbing the violence committed by children.
But many discouraged teachers, parents and even students say far deeper changes may be needed to remedy a complex, long-ignored problem.
Soubs from the northern town of Roubaix to Montpellier in the south have closed their doors recently to protest rising levels of violence. Some are still closed.
Reports of brutal school tortures surfaced last week when junior-high school students were accused of attempted murder for catapulting an 11-year-old boy over a railing. The child survived but suffered a broken arm after falling 10 feet.
At Jean Zay, students set off handmade bottle bombs in the corridors, torched a gasoline-soaked door and attacked a classroom monitor.
"Students came to us and said, 'We're afraid,'" said Pascal Fournier, a history teacher at the school in the working class suburb of Bondy. "We just said, OK, we have to stop." Teachers called a strike to draw attention to the violence, and parents soon joined in. Students have been showing up at the school each day, hoping it might reopen
Most — though not all — of the affected schools are in tough neighborhoods.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's cellular phone was stolen between 10:45 and 11:30 a.m. Monday from room 103 in Robinson Gymnasium, the KU Public Safety Office said. The phone was valued at $200
A KU student's CD player and sunglasses were stolen between 1 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Monday from the 1100 block of Louisiana Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $500.
A 3-by-3 foot "Do Not Enter" was stolen between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Monday from lot 71, south of Allen Fieldhouse, the KU Public Safety Office said. The sign was valued at $30
A KU student's car was vandalized between 2 a.m. and 4 p.m. Friday in lot 104, near Ellsworth Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The damaged was estimated at $300.
A KU student's window and screen were damaged during a burglary that occurred between 7:45 p.m. Saturday and 6:30 p.m. Sunday in the 1000 block of Alabama Street, Lawrence police said. The damage cost $150.
A KU student's camera was stolen at 11:30 p.m. Friday from the 1300 block of Tennessee Street, Lawrence police said. The camera was valued at $350.
ON CAMPUS
■ Ecumenical Christian Ministries will have information tables about Alternative Spring Break from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. today, tomorrow and Friday at the Kansas Union. Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933
Compulsive Eating Anonymous will meet from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. today at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call 312-3412.
OAKS, the nontraditional student organization,
will have a brown bag lunch from 11:45 a.m.
to 1:15 p. m. today at Alcove E in the Kansas
Union. Call Karen Boyd at 864-7317.
- Ecumenical Christian Ministries will present a University Forum, "Ethnic Conflict and Ethnic Accommodation in Southeast Asia," from noon to 1 p.m. today at ECM, 1204 Oread Ave.
Call Thad Holemana at 843.4933
The Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center will present "Dating 101: Maintaining Healthy Relationships" from 3:30 to 5 p.m. today at the Centennial Room in the Kansas Union. Call Laura Montaormiery at 864-3552.
Pre-Physical Therapy Club will meet at 7 tonight at the first floor conference room in Watkins Memorial Health Center. Call Megan Sears at 312-2253.
Student Union Activities will have its spring recruitment meeting from 7 to 8 tonight at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union. Call Brenda Chung at 804-2432 or 331-3789
■ KU Environs and Ecumenical Christian Ministries will have a veggie lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
Ecumenical Christian Ministries will present "Human Sexuality in Everyday Life" from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. tomorrow at ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. Information will be available from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Kansas Union or at ECM today and tomorrow. Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
- Amnesty International will meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Alcove D in the Kansas Union.
Call Kyle Browning at 842-1351.
Student Union Activities will have its spring recruitment meeting from 7 to 8 p.m. tomorrow at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union, Call Brenda Chung at 864-2432 or 313-3789.
The Office of Student Financial Aid is awarding work-study funds for the semester. Apply online at www.ukars.edu/works/Cell 6644700.
KU Pre-Dental Club will meet from 7:30 to 8:30 tonight at 1005 Haworth Hall. Call Nellie Kim at 749-0938.
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Academic Computing Services presents;
FREE COMPUTER TRAINING for the KU Community
All ACS
passes are UNIX Introduction—Learn the basics of UNIX, the operating system on Falcon, Eagle, Lark, Raven, FREE to KU and Heron. Fri., Jan. 21, 1-4 p.m., Computer Center PC Lab, Room 202A students
staff, and acuity and Finding information on the World Wide Web Learn to use several Web guides and search tools. Mon., Jan. 24, 6-8 p.m., Budig PC Lab, Room 10
require registration PowerPoint: Introduction—Learn to make and modify a simple presentation and package it as a slide show. Prerequisite: Experience in Windows or Mac OS. Requires registration for all and fee for non-University. Tues., Jan. 25, 9 a.m.-noon, Computer Center PC Lab, Room 202A
Webmail: Introduction—Access your KU email account from a Web site. Tues., Jan. 25, 4-5 p.m., Computer Center Auditorium
Execl introduction—Build a simple worksheet. Prerequisite: Experience in Windows or Mac OS.
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Web Authoring: Quick Start with Netscape Composer—Create a Web page quickly using
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Creating envelopes, form letters, & labels with MS Word—Learn how Word can use one set of data to accomplish several tasks. Thurs., Jan. 27, noon-1 p.m., Computer Center Auditorium
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www Outlook Express: Introduction—Learn the basics of the email program, MS Outlook Express.
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ukans.edu/ acs/ training SPSS Introduction—Learn to enter, save, and retrieve data, request analyses, and create graphics Prerequisite: Experience in Windows or Mac OS. Requires registration for all and fee for non University. Fri., Jan. 28, 1-4 p.m., Computer Center Auditorium