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The Inside Front
Wednesday December 1, 1999
News
from campus, the state the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Four named as finalists for Rhodes scholarship
Four current and former University of Kansas students were named as state finalists for the Rhodes scholarship on Nov. 19, and three will interview today to move on to the regional part of the competition.
Jay Sexton, Jack Martin, Amie Kruse and Jennifer Kimball were the University's only nominees for the scholarship and all were accepted as finalists. Martin, Kruse and Kimball will be interviewed by former Rhodes scholars at Adams Alumni Center today.
Sexton, Salina senior in history and English, declined to be interviewed for the scholarship and refused to comment on his decision.
Kruse, a 1999 KU graduate from Sterling, now studies law at Harvard University. Kimball, a 1998 KU graduate from Ulysses, attends graduate school at Denver University. Martin is an Abilene senior in political science.
"We're really happy for them," said Mary Klayder, assistant director of the Honors Program, which helped sponsor a cocktail party at the Alumni Center last night in honor of the finalists.
"We've had people at the final stage regularly," she said.
The University has produced state finalists for the Rhodes for the last three years, Klayder said.
Recipients of the Rhodes scholarship study at Oxford University in England for two to three years.
- Clay McCuistion
Is health care in America a social responsibility or a profitable business?
That's the question Harry Shaffer, professor emeritus of economics, will try to answer at today's University Forum at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
Shaffer, who recently published a book about capitalism, said health care tended to be more of a business than a social responsibility.
"Government can't do everything by itself," he said. "They aren't just supposed to enforce law and order. They can't do a lot of things like ensure quality of life for all people, and they can't guarantee free education for children."
The lecture will begin at noon University Forums are free and open to the Lawrence and University community.
Amanda Kaschube
State senate president to meet with SenEx
Kansas Senate President Dick Bond, R-Overland Park, will speak to the University Senate and hold a question-and-answer session tomorrow at the KU Visitors' Center.
Members of University Senate Executive Committee invited Bond to the 3:30 p.m. meeting with hopes that he would address its semester meeting about the perception of higher education in the Legislature and funding levels for the University.
Members said they thought Bond would give them frank answers to their questions.
"I think he's probably one of our greatest advocates right now," said Korb Maxwell, student body president and SenEx member.
The meeting is open to the public.
— Nathan Willis
LAWRENCE
Freshman to be tried for summer events
The two cases against William Morris, Danville, Ala., freshman, will be tried together next week, said Angela Wilson, assistant Douglas County district attorney.
Morris is charged with two counts of aggravated burglary, one count of criminal sodomy and one count of attempted sexual battery.
The charges stem from events in July and September. In July, a female KU student said she woke to find a man in her bed, performing oral sex on her. In September, another female KU student said a man broke into her house and walked around naked.
Both women said Morris was the man who entered their homes.
The prosecution motioned yesterday to try the two cases together and to use the incident in July as evidence for intent in the September incident. Judge Paula Martin approved both motions.
Defense attorney Harry Warren's motions, which included one to refuse certain evidence, were denied
The cases are scheduled to go on trial at 9 a.m. Monday at Douglas County Division 5 Court. Wilson said she expected the trial to last at least two days.
— Katie Hollar
NATION
PITTSBURGH — City officials have reluctantly agreed to hire nine white men who filed a discrimination lawsuit after they were passed for jobs
Court overturns case; city to hire white men
as police officers in 1992.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld a federal jury's 1998 decision to award back pay and damages to the men, who said they were victims of reverse discrimination.
All had received high scores on the city's written examination for police candidates and said the city used a subsequent oral test to weed them out.
On Monday, the city agreed to offer jobs to the men if they pass physical and psychological exams. The city also will owe them $900,000 in back pay and related charges.
City attorney Jacqueline Morrow said the appeals court's ruling would hamper efforts to maintain diversity on the police force.
"The city was trying to do something it should do — namely, create a police force that reflected the city's population," she said.
The men's lawyer, Samuel Cordes,
said he expected some of them to
enter the police academy in
January.
From 1975 to 1991, Pittsburgh police were required by court order to hire equal numbers of white men, white women, African-American men and African-American women. The quota system ended after a legal challenge by four white male applicants who said the need for such a system had diminished.
Man tapes up wife, hauls her into court
PHOENIX — A man wrapped his wife with duct tape and hauled her to court, possibly in an effort to make sure he didn't lose bail money he had posted, authorities said.
According to police, Robert Horton, 52, carried Belinda Horton into the Maricopa County court house Monday and said: "Here she is."
Belinda Horton, 44, faced a hearing on charges of aggravated assault. She had been free on $1,700 bail, which her husband apparently posted.
Her legs were tape together from knees to ankles, her arms were bound across the front of her body, and there was a swatch of tape covering her mouth, authorities said.
Officers took pictures for possible evidence against her husband.
"She was obviously very angry," said Deputy Fire Chief Bob Khan. "She would wince every once in a while, but she didn't say one word to our guys."
The Associated Press
KC Planned Parenthood head knows it's a dangerous career
The Associated Press
OVERLAND PARK — Peter Brownlie doesn't tell people where he lives or how to reach him. And his office has armed guards. But he's not in government intelligence, or the Mob — he's the new director of the regional Planned Parenthood.
When visitors go to his Overland Park office, an armed guard approaches them in the parking lot. They surrender briefcases for inspection and enter through a locked door.
Brownlie's home telephone number is confidential. Even the route he takes home changes regularly.
It's a necessary precaution. Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri has been a past target of threats and protests.
"I get kind of calloused to it." he said.
I get kind of confused to it, he said.
Brownlie, 53, moved to the area recently and immediately stepped into the abortion battle in Kansas and Missouri.
He serves as chief executive of a $6.5 million nonprofit organization that provides family planning to 40,000 women a year, fights for abortion rights and oversees a large abortion clinic.
His opponents, who fight against abortion,
are not acquainted with him, but they are not
sending him any welcomes either.
David Gittrich, executive director of Kansans for Life in Wichita, sometimes drives to Overland Park to join anti-abortion vigil on the sidewalk in front of Brownlie's office.
"They have all the pretext of doing Pap smears and giving out a lot of birth control," Gittrich said.
What they really are is the largest provider and promoter of abortions, he said.
Groups such as Kansans for Life sometimes use Planned Parenthood as a symbol for their argument that abortions kill babies.
"They do a lot of good things," he said. "But they go too far when they start promoting the abortion side of their business."
Planned Parenthood has been very militant, said Missouri Rep. Gary Burton of Joplin, Mo., a leading anti-abortion lawmaker.
Brownlee used to direct Planned Parenthood agencies in Texas and Indiana, and he wants to give the Kansas City group a higher profile.
"We've tended to let our opponents define who we are," he said. "We think the world would be a better place without abortion. We need to make that position better known."
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's personal check was stolen at 3:32 p.m. Nov. 16 in the 3200 block of
ON CAMPUS
Iowa Street, Lawrence police said. The check was valued at $190.
The Douglas County AIDS Project, Planned Parenthood of Douglas County, Watkins Memorial Health Center and the Public Relations Student Society of America will sponsor events for World AIDS Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today at Wescoe Hall and the Kansas Union.
OAKS, the nontraditional students organization, will have a brown bag lunch from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. at Alcove F in the Kansas Union. Call Simmie Berrova at 830-0074.
Ecumenical Christian Ministries will have a University Forum from noon to 1 p.m. today at ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. The program will be "Health Care in America: A Social Responsibility or a Profitable Business?" Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
The Office of Study Abroad will present information about studying abroad in England at 3:30 p.m. today at 4044 Wescoe Hall.
Overeaters Anonymous will meet from 4 to 5 p.m. today at Ecumenical Christian
Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call 312-3412.
Ecumenical Christian Ministries and KU Environs will have a veggie lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
KU Pre-Dental Club will meet at 7 tonight at 2001 Mallot Hall. Call Nellie Kim at 749.0938.
Student Senate Executive Committee will meet at 4:30 p.m. at the Governor's Room in the Kansas Union. Senate will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the Wagon Room in the Union .
KU Meditation Club will meet at 6 p.m. at the Dajsy Hill Room in the Burge Union.
Call Pannir at 864-7735.
- KU HorrorZontals ultimate Frisbee team will practice at 5 p.m. at Shenk Complex.
Call Will Scotts at 841-0671.
Amnesty International will meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. Call Kyle Browning at 842-1351.
KU Yoga will meet at 8 p.m. tomorrow at the Sunflower Room in the Burge Union. Call Kristy at 838-3789.
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WEEKLY CALENDAR OF EVENTS
ARTS AND CRAFTS BAZAAR
Dec. 1 and 2
9 a.m.-4 p.m.
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SPRING BREAK TRIP NEW YORK CITY
March 16-20
Prices are: $539 for students
The price includes roundtrip airfare on Midwest Express, five nights lodging at the Milford Plaza Hotel in Manhattan, airport transfers and a tour of the Loop that includes a ferry to the Statue of Liberty. Contracts are available at the SUA Office, fourth floor, Kansas Union. Sign-up deadline is Jan. 24, 2000.
March 18-23
Prices are: $539 for students
$559 for non-students
VALENTINE'S DAY GETAWAY TO CHICAGO
Prices are: $189 for students
Feb.11-1
STUDENT UNION ACTIVITIES
$200 for non-students
The price includes roundtrip airfare on Southwest Airlines and two nights lodging at the Palmer House Hilton on the Loop. Sign-up deadline is Dec. 16 in the SUA Office, fourth floor, Kansas Union.
COFFEE NOISE
Dec. 1, 7 p.m.
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$7 per hour
Stop by the Personnel Office,
Level 5, Kansas Union
before the holiday break to fill out application and pick up information disc to set up mock page to be reviewed for hiring. Mock page due by 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 21, 2000.
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