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The Inside Front
Monday November 29,1999
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CORRECTION
The story, "Filmmaker Documents Gays" Struggles," in the Nov. 22 issue of the Kansan incorrectly stated that Lawrence was the first city in Kansas to include sexual orientation in its human rights ordinances. Wichita, which actually was the first city, included the clause in the 1970s. The Wichita ordinance later was repealed.
CAMPUS
Naked man appears at door of sorority
The house mother of a University of Kansas sorority woke up last Tuesday morning and found a naked man on her doorstep.
The doorbell rang at Sigma Delta Tau at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday. The house mother looked through a window and saw a college-aged man, completely nude, with a blue handbanda covering his face.
"We basically just looked at each other." she said.
She did not open the door. The man turned around and ran into a waiting Jeep, she said.
"He was probably expecting one of the girls," she said. "He was probably just as scared as I was."
The man was described as completely average.
Police reports were filed with both the KU Office of Public Safety and the Lawrence Police Department.
— Katie Hollar
Med Center to get gift from former professor
LAWRENCE
The University of Kansas Medical Center will receive a $75,000 gift to establish a professorship in diagnostic radiology.
Two attorneys begin a new highway fight
Templeton, who presently teaches radiology at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, S.C., received his medical degree in 1957 from the University of Nebraska.
Arch W. Templeton, a former Med Center professor and department chairman, has included a bequest in his will to create the professorship.
Templeton was the chief of the Department of Radiology at the U.S. Naval Dispensary in Norfolk, Va. and a professor of radiology at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Missouri before coming to the Med Center.
He also has been a visiting professor at the Mayo Clinic and the University of California at Los Angeles. An author of nearly 175 papers, books and book chapters, he is a past president of the Association of University Radiologists.
Two attorneys who helped scuttle the state's proposed route for the South Lawrence Trafficway may join the fight against a plan for redirecting U.S. Highway 59.
Bruce Plenk and Bob Eye, both from Lawrence, said they are thinking about representing the Franklin-Douglas County Coalition of Concerned Citizens, a group organized to fight the proposed new route for U.S. 59 between Lawrence and Ottawa.
Kansan staff report
Eye and Plenk recently battled the Kansas Department of Transportation against the eastern leg of the South Lawrence Trafficway.
On behalf of local environmentalists, they filed a lawsuit in federal court opposing the proposed route. A federal judge ordered the state to complete an environmental impact statement.
Officials at Haskell Indian Nations University also opposed the trafficway route, and last month they refused to change their stance, a decision that has forced KDOT to rethink its plans.
Critics of the U.S. 59 project have similar environmental concerns. KDOT officials want to replace the existing two-lane highway with a four-lane freeway about a mile to the east.
The coalition wants KDOT to improve the existing highway.
"it's hard to say 'no' to people who need the help." Eye told the Lawrence JournalWorld. "If we can, my sense is we'll probably get involved."
Plane crashes into river four pronounced dead
Some solutions prescribed in the report — like raising the minimum wage and universal health care— are potential political hot-button issues.
STEVENSON, Wash. — A small float plane crashed into the Columbia River shortly after it left the water, killing all four people on board.
Grinding poverty, violent crime and absent parents are some of the gravest threats facing American children, according to a new report by children's advocacy groups and civic organizations.
The pilot was believed to be the chairman of the Portland-based Maceheezm Mouse restaurant chain, The Oregonian reported yesterday.
William S. Warren, 48, was traveling with his children after a Thanksgiving gathering, family members told the newspaper.
The small plane, a De Havilland Beaver, dived into the river 45 miles east of Portland, Ore., about 3 p.m. Saturday, landing upside down near the Washington state shoreline, said Lt. Mk. Stone of the Coast Guard.
NATION
Report details threats facing nation's children
Dive teams retrieved two bodies—a man believed to be Warren and a child, The Oregonian said. Technical difficulties and inclement weather forced them to delay recovery of the other two bodies until yesterday.
The report is the result of combined efforts from the National School Boards Association, the National League of Cities, Hollywood, Fl.a-based Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital and Youth Crime Watch of America, a national nonprofit organization.
Warren's three sons, aged 9, 13 and 14, were in the plane, The Oregonian said.
The report — "Ten Critical Threats To America's Children: Warning Signs for the Next Millennium" — will be presented today at the National Press Club in Washington during a news conference with representatives from each of the organizations.
Among the most critical threats against the nation's children are abuse and neglect at home, substance abuse, teen pregnancy, inadequate child care, lack of health care, poor schools and dangers in the environment.
The boys and Warren's 8-year-old daughter lived with their mother in Camas, Wash. The children had been visiting Warren for Thanksgiving and the boys and their father were flying to the family's summer home in Washington state when the plane crashed, according to the newspaper.
For each problem detailed in the document, there is an accompanying list of solutions.
WORLD
Israel expresses concern about China helping Iran
JERUSALEM—Prime Minister Ehud Barak yesterday told Li Peng, the No. 2 official in China's Communist Party, that Israel is concerned that China is selling arms to Iran.
Israel is worried about Iran's development of the Shahab-4 missile, which has a range of 800 miles, and its attempts to build nuclear weapons. Israel has accused China, Russia and North Korea of selling Iran the technology and know-how for its arms programs, but Chinese leaders have denied it. Israeli officials have said.
"The prime minister raised the regional threats to Israel and, in this regard, especially emphasized the threat of arming Iran," Barak's office said in a statement.
Li, who arrived Thursday for a five-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian areas, commended Barak for advancing peace negotiations with the Palestinians.
LI, speaker of China's National
People's Congress, emphasized that
his country has normal relations with
Iran, according to Barak's office.
A KU staff member reported that an unknown person drove through the parking toll barricade between 11:30 and 11:40 a.m. Nov. 22 in the parking garage across from Murphy Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The damage was estimated at $20.
The Associated Press
ON THE RECORD
A KU staff member's basketball vouchers were stolen between 1:42 and 2:21 p.m. Nov. 22 from a desk at the KU Parking Department Office, the KU Public Safety Office said. The vouchers were valued at $100.
A KU staff member reported that two Christmas trees were stolen between 12:01 and 10:30 a.m. Nov. 22 from the dining area in Oliver Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The Christmas trees were valued at $300.
A KU student's wallet and watch were stolen between 12:01 and 7 a.m. Nov.
20 from a room in Oliver Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The items were valued at $122.
A KU student's property was stolen between 4 and 7:30 a.m. Tuesday from a dryer in the basement of Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall, the KU Public Safety Office Hall,
A KU student's bike was stolen between 12:30 and 1:30 p.m. Nov. 28 from a bike rack in front of Ellsworth Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A KU student's tires were damaged between 9 p.m. Friday and 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the 1700 block of Vermont Street, Lawrence police said. The tires were valued at $120.
A KU student's license plate was stolen between 6:30 p.m. Wednesday and 8 p.m. Friday in the 1500 block of Lynch Court, Lawrence police said. The plate was valued at $10.
A KU student's purse and its contents were stolen between 11 p.m. Nov. 18 and 2 a.m. Nov. 19 in the 2500 block of West Sixth Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $135.
A KU student's GMC pickup was stolen between 6 p.m. Nov. 22 and 12:30 a.m. Nov. 23 in the 700 block of Massachusetts Street. The truck was valued at $7,000. It was recovered.
Search for law dean closer to completion
Bv Nathan Willis
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas is entering the home stretch in its search for a new law dean.
A search committee has whittled down the list of candidates to five prospects, who will begin making campus visits this week.
The visits should be completed by mid-December, and the law dean search committee plans to submit its recommendation to Provost David Shulenburger the week before Christmas, said Mike Davis, professor of law and search committee chair.
From there, Shulenburger will decide to whom, if anyone, from the list of finalists he will offer the job.
But before that, the candidates must come to campus, and students will play a big part both in their campus visits and in determining who the search committee endorses, said Jill Bachman, a Rula, Neb., second-year law student who serves on the search committee.
During their visits, the candidates will meet with a 12-member student focus group. The group will discuss its opinions of each candidate with Bachman, who then will report to the
search committee. A similar focus group will be set up for alumni, Davis said.
Candidates also will meet with current and former deans, faculty, admissions and fund-raising staff, the provost and the chancellor during their visits.
The search committee also is having a series of town hall meetings to update students and faculty on the status of the search, Bachman said. The next meeting will be at 12:30 p.m. Thursday at Green Hall.
The current search follows a failed search last spring. When neither of the qualified applicants from that search came to an agreement with the University, Shulenburger formed the new search committee.
Meanwhile, Michael Hoeflich, dean of law, agreed to stay on another year while the search progressed. Hoeflich was scheduled to step down last summer.
Shulenburger said he remained confident this search would work.
"I'm optimistic about its success, but it's not a completely sure thing," he said. Davis said he, too, was optimistic about the outcome of the search.
"It's been an efficient search," he said. "But it's also been a productive one."
— Edited by Katie Hollar
Today
ON CAMPUS
Tomorrow
KU Enviros will meet from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the International Room in the Kansas Union. Call 864-7325.
and Iowa streets. Call Will Spots at 841-0671.
KILL HILLEW Women's Group will meet at 6:30
OAKS, the non-traditional student organization,
will have a brown bag lunch from 11:30 a.m.
to 1 p.m. at Alcove E in the Kansas Union.
Cell Simmie Berrigan at 830-0074
KU Hilfel Women's Group will meet at 6:30 p.m. at Wheatfields Bakery and Restaurant, Ninth and Vermont streets. Call Mayaan at 749-5397
Overeaters Anonymous will meet from 4 to 5 p.m. at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call 312-3412.
KU HorrorZontals frisbee team will practice at 5 p.m. at Shenk Complex, 23rd
University Christian Fellowship will meet at 7 p.m. at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Rick Clock at 841-3148.
KU Hillel will have a text study at 7:30 p.m. at Hillel House, 940 Mississippi St. Call Jay Quinn at 749-4725.
KU Chess Club will meet from 8 to 10 p.m. at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. Call David Wang at 312-1070.
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