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The Inside Front
Thursday January 20, 2000
News
from campus, the state the nation and the world
CAMPUS
African photograph exhibition canceled
A rough border crossing forced cancellation of an exhibit of photographs of African animals and landscapes at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum.
The traveling exhibit, called Okavango, was lost and damaged on its way here from Mexico City.
Tom Swearingen, director of exhibits at the Natural History Museum, said the exhibit was due here in November and was scheduled to be shown from December 1 until mid-January.
Swearingen said museum staff couldn't figure out exactly what happened but thought the exhibit got lost in the confusion when bodies were found in a big drug bust near Laredo, Tex.
Exhibits are shipped between museums all the time. Swearingen said, and it wasn't uncommon for them to be damaged in transit. He said U.S. Customs officers looking for drugs once tear apart a mounted kit fox that belonged to the museum.
Museum staff repaired the damage to the Okavango exhibit so it can be sent on to Las Vegas.
Jim O'Malley
Lindley Hall observatory will be open for eclipse
There will be a total lunar eclipse tonight, and the Astronomy Associates of Lawrence will have the observatory on top of Lindley Hall open for the public's use.
The event will start at 8 p.m., barring overcast skies, and continue through the entire eclipse, which will end about midnight.
"Everybody knows about the solar eclipse," said Judy Yu, Overland Park sophomore and member of the AAL. "Not everyone knows about the lunar eclipse. It's even more spectacular."
A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth passes between the moon and the sun and blocks direct sunlight to the moon. The moon turns a brilliant red, Yu said, highlighting many features that are normally unseen.
This lunar eclipse, the first astronomical event of the year, can be seen from all of North America.
— Doug Pacey
Man exposes himself at Taco Bell parking lot
A 22-year-old Lawrence woman got more than she bargained for during a Tuesday night visit to a fast food establishment.
The woman said she was sitting in her car in the Taco Bell parking lot, 1220 W. Sixth Street, when a man walked by. He apparently said hell
and then removed his pants, police said.
He then began to touch himself in a sexual manner, police said.
Police were dispatched to the scene in reference to a naked man in the parking lot. When they arrived, the man had fled.
Police apprehended him behind a building next door to Taco Bell. He was wearing pant pants when they found him.
Police arrested the 23-year-old man on a charge of lewd and lascivious behavior. The suspect had apparently consumed alcohol, police said.
NATION
Pre-dawn fire kills 3 in Seton Hall dorm
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. — Fire broke out in a Seton Hall University dormitory early yesterday as hundreds slept, killing three people and injuring 58. Screaming students in pajamas grabbed coats or blankets and fled into bitter pre-dawn cold, with one leaping from a window.
Four students were critically injured, hospital and school officials said.
The blaze in six-story Boland Hall began about 4:30 a.m., university representative Lisa Grider said. It apparently started in a third-floor lounge, pouring thick, black smoke through the building and out of the windows. The cause was under investigation.
After a series of false alarms last semester, many of the more than 600 students in the dorm drifted back to sleep when the fire alarm rang, thinking it was another prank.
"When people came out with black stuff on their faces and yelling, 'Help me! Help me!' — that's when reality set in," said 18-year-old Vanessa Gomez, a freshman from Hagerstown, Md.
Two of the dead were found in the lounge; another person was found in a nearby room. Attempts to revive that victim failed, said Donald Camboin, Essex County prosecutor.
Names of the victims were not released.
The 48-year-old building did not have sprinklers because it was built before they were required, the prosecutor said.
BUFFALO, N.Y. - The questions are getting more personal every day for Hillary Rodham Clinton - has she been unfaithful? Used drugs?
Questions get personal for candidate Clinton
"No" and "no," she said Wednesday, a day after being asked in a TV interview if she really planned to leave her husband. It was "no" to that, too.
Clinton, submitting to more radio
and TV interviews as she nears a formal announcement that she is running for a Senate seat from New York State, made it clear she didn't appreciate the more personal lines of questioning.
"You're going to hate me," said WGR-FM morning host Tom Bauerle in Buffalo in introducing his question. "Have you ever been sexually unfaithful to (President Clinton) and specifically ... with you and Vince Foster?" he asked, referring to the late Deputy White House Counsel. "I do hate you for that." Clinton said, according to a tape of the interview provided by the station. "I think those questions are out of bounds."
Clinton: New York interviewers ask her personal questions
Bauerle asked again
Clinton also said on Tuesday that the nation's most famous "commuter marriage" will stay intact — any rumors to the contrary.
"Of course it's 'no'," Clinton said. "At some point we all have to say these questions, these speculations, really divert attention (from) what we can do to work together."
Elian's lawsuit seeks to overturn INS ruling
MIAMI — Attorneys for the great-uncle of Elian Gonzalez filed a federal lawsuit today challenging the Immigration and Naturalization Service's ruling that the 6-year-old boy must be returned to his father in Cuha
The lawsuit, called Elian Gonzalez vs. Janet Reno, seeks to overturn the INS decision.
"It is about protecting Elian's civil and constitutional rights, the same as if he was any other child," said attorney Spencer Eig.
The INS' top official has ruled that Elian should be sent back to his father. The boy was rescued at sea by the Coast Guard after his mother and stepfather drowned Nov. 25 trying to reach the United States.
Last week, Attorney General Janet Reno lifted an INS deadline to return the boy to his father in order to give Elian's relatives in Miami time to challenge the INS decision in federal court.
Reno has determined that the boy's status is an immigration matter, solely in the jurisdiction of federal law, and brushed aside a ruling from a Miami family court judge delaying the boy's return.
The Associated Press
Local pastor may lead students in discussions about the Bible
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If the religious studies department were to look at the Bible as the word of God, Miller said, the University would be promoting a kind of religious belief. He said that if students wanted a class in which the Bible would be endorsed, they should study at theological seminary or bible college.
The projected class would serve as an extension of the Calvary Bible College, an accredited institution by the Accrediting Association of Bible Colleges, said Mike Piburn, director of admissions at Calvary.
The college is currently working on accreditation from the North Central Accrediting Agency, a secular agency that accrets KU, he said. And although Calvary is not fully accredited by the agency, other schools such as the University of Missouri can transfer credit from Calvary for its students.
If the class is accredited, the Rev. Abernathy would lead the discussions.
Abernathy has the qualifications to teach — he has a doctorate in theology from Trinity
Evangelical Divinity in Deerfield, III., and can read Hebrew, the original language of the Old Testament, and Greek, the original language of the New Testament.
"I'm not saying this to boast," Abernathy said. "I just want people to know that I'm not some jack-legged pastor."
Calvary still was working on an agreement with the University, Piburn said. But so far, neither Rice nor Abernathy have received formal permission to proceed with the class.
Alan Cerveny, director of admissions and scholarships, said that as long as Calvary was fully accredited, the transfer of credit hours should not be a problem. However, Cerveny said that it was up to the individual school or department to determine whether the class would fulfill certain major requirements or be an elective.
For now, KU students will have to stick with the University's version of the Bible for at least another semester.
Today:
IN HISTORY
1942: Nazi officials meet in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to decide the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." Unprecedented in history, the Nuremberg Trial brought high-ranking
1930. Charles Lindbergh arrives in New York, setting a cross-country flying record of 14.75 hours. Charles A. Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis probably is the best-known airplane in the world. However, not many know about B.F. Mahoney, the man behind the company that built Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis.
Nazis to justice.
1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for his fourth term.
1954: More than 22,000 anti-Communist prisoners are turned over to UN forces in Korea. After the Korean War was ended, the Communist government returned many POWs to the U.N.
1981: Ronald Reagan is sworn in as president at the same time 52 American hostages are released from their captors in Tehran, Iran
ON THE RECORD
A door and mirror on the Third floor stairwell of the KU Parking Department were damaged between 8 a.m. Saturday and 7:30 a.m. Monday, according to the KU Public Safety Office. Damages to the door and mirror were estimated at $500.
A compact disc player and several compact discs were stolen from a vehicle between 6:20 and 10:15 p.m. Saturday in parking Lot 34, behind the Computer Services building, according to the KU Public Safety Office. The items taken were valued at $174.
ON CAMPUS
- Ecumenical Christian Ministries will have an information and registration session for Human Sexuality in Everyday Life. The non
- The Astronomy Associates of Lawrence will have a Total Lunar Eclipse Open House from 8 p.m. until the eclipse is completed today at 500 Lindley Hall. Call 864-3166 or e-mail anl@ukns.edu
credit, 10-session course will be taught by Dennis Dailey, professor of social welfare. Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933
The Office of Student Financial Aid is currently awarding federal work-study funds for the spring 2000 semester. Access the online application at www.ukans.edu/~osfa. Call 864-4700 or visit 50 Strong Hall
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