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The Inside Front
Friday November 5,1999
News
from campus,the state the nation and the world
CORRECTION
A brief in yesterday's *Kansan* incorrectly stated the amount of money awarded to the Cramer Root Faculty Award Fund recipients. The recipients, Sharon Feldman, associate professor in Spanish and Portuguese, and Van Kelly, associate professor in French and Italian, will receive $5,000 for three years. The other eight recipients will receive $5,000 for only one year.
CAMPUS
Young Democrats oppose proposed alcohol policies
The KU Young Democrats are opposing any attempts by the Student Housing Advisory Board to tighten alcohol policies in Student Housing.
Policies to ban intoxication in housing, to ban empty containers and to make all people in a room liable if any person is drinking could be presented to the board for adoption this semester after months of consideration by housing officials.
However, Jack Martin, president of KU Young Democrats, said any further restrictions could jeopardize students' rights.
"It's not illegal for people 21 and over to be intoxicated at home under Kansas law," Martin said. "Just as it is not illegal in Kansas for someone to possess an empty beer bottle."
Housing's potential policy would not prevent students from entering their residences while intoxicated, however.
Still, Martin said any effort to clamp down likely would be unsuccessful. "It's difficult if not impossible to regulate people's behavior," Martin said. "We're college students. We're not in elementary school."
He said members of KU Young Democrats, about half of whom lived in student housing, seemed opposed unanimously to any policy tightening, largely because further restrictions would be nearly impossible to enforce.
"Is student drinking in student housing a problem? Yeah," he said. "But this is not the way to solve it."
— Nathan Willis
David Bettenhausen, Columbia,
Mo., junior, hasn't been to a
University of Kansas football game
this semester.
National Merit Scholars to be honored at game
That will change tomorrow, when he will be one of the more than 150 National Merit scholars recognized at the Kansas-Baylor game during halftime. Chancellor Robert Hemenway
invited the scholars and their families to attend the game for free, as well as a pregame brunch.
Of 301 scholars at the University, 157 had confirmed their attendance Wednesday afternoon. More than 550 family members also will attend
"It's a chance to see my folks," Bettenhaus said. "It's really the first time they've come over for a weekend so far."
J. D. Jenkins, Shawnee junior, also took the opportunity to spend time with his family.
"I'm glad to do it because it's important to my parents, and they really want to do it," he said. "Everybody else I've talked to is trying to get out of it."
During halftime, the scholars will be lauded with a minute-long presentation on the stadium video board and then will file onto the football field.
Hemenway sent the letter inviting the scholars and their families Oct. 15.
"What we're all interested in is that we give some recognition to the large number of National Merit scholars who have enrolled at KU," he said. "We think people are voting with their feet."
Hemenway will address the group before the game on Saturday.
Clay McCuistion
"It sends a message that KU is a major athletic power and a major academic institution," Hemenway said. "Just as we cheer football players and basketball players, it seems appropriate we take time to cheer people who are academic successes also."
Kansan selects editor manager for spring
The Kansan board selected the editor in chief and business manager for Spring 2000 yesterday. Laura Roddy, Andover senior, was picked as editor. Shauntae Blue, Lawrence senior, was chosen as business manager. The pair will begin their term in January 2000.
The editor for this fall was Julie Wood, Davenport, Iowa, senior. The business manger for this fall was Brandi Byram, Cedar Mission senior.
- Kansan staff report
The Kansas Board of Regents is launching a search for a new director of academic affairs, four months after the post was vacated.
Regents launch search for new affairs director
relating to community colleges and technical schools.
"It's a position that has changed in many ways," said Kim Wilcox, executive director of the Regents.
The director will oversee all academic policies for the six state universities directly governed by the Regents and will be responsible for policies
Wilcox served as the interim director of academic affairs until his appointment as executive director this July. The post has remained empty since then, with its responsibilities spread around the Regents office.
A six-member committee, including representatives from the Regents, the University of Kansas, Kansas City Area Technical School, Emporia State University and Butter County Community College, will draft a job description and advertise nationally for the position.
"We hope we find someone who has a true academic vision for the state," Wilcox said. "Someone who can work well with a wide variety of groups."
Wicox said he hoped to start interviewing applicants at the beginning of next year.
The last person hired by Wilcox and the Board of Regents was Mike Matson, who began working this week as External Affairs Director for the group.
Matson, a former press secretary for Gov. Bill Graves, was hired without a search.
KANSAS CITY, MO.
Art museum to discuss Kansas City architecture
Architecture in Kansas City will be the topic of discussion tonight at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art.
Michael Sorkin, principal of the Michael Sorkin Studio in New York City and professor of urbanism and director of the Institute of Urbanism at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, will speak at the free lecture
Gina Kelley, public information director for the museum, said she expected a high turnout.
"There is a lot of interest from the architectural community as well as the general public in the architecture," she said. "There is more awareness about architecture of Kansas City from the past, present and future."
Sorkin's most recent projects can be found in Vienna, Austria; Hamburg, Germany and San Francisco. He is also a contributing editor for Architectural Record and I.D. magazines.
The event, which is part of the sixth annual Kivett Lecture on Architecture, will start at 7 p.m. The public should enter through the museum's east doors.
Melissa Eisberg
50,000 Aceh residents demand independence from Indonesia
The Associated Press
SIGLI, Indonesia—Demanding an independence vote, more than 50,000 people rallied peacefully yesterday in Indonesia's westernmost province, banging drums and chanting, "Referendum! Freedom! Independent state!"
The march through Sigli, a market town in the province of Aceh, was the biggest demonstration since Indonesia's new government came to power two weeks ago. Organizers said it was designed to increase pressure on President Abdurrahman Wahid, who in the past promised to support a vote for the province of 4.3 million people but since has backtracked.
Independence activists claim Aceh never really has been a part of Indonesia, like East Timor, whose residents voted for independence in a U.N.-sponsored ballot on Aug. 30. Aceh residents complain about the government siphoning off most proceeds from the province's rich oil and natural gas deposits and brutally repressing the separatist movement.
The word "referendum" was written everywhere in and around Sigil, normally a town of 20,000 people — on whitewashed walls, on stitches holding up traditional wooden houses, on telephone poles, on banners hanging from street signs and in huge white letters on the streets.
"We have had enough of Javanese colonial rule," said a member of the guerrilla group that helped organize the rally, asking not to be named for fear of retribution. "We will fight until they give in."
About 2,000 trucks, vans and pickups — packed with people carrying broken-off palm branches to shield themselves from the scorching sun — drove through Sigi't to call for independence.
Indonesian soldiers looked on sulently as the noisy procession snaked past their headquarters. In contrast, local policemen waved back at the demonstrators and held up clenched fists, a symbol of the resistance movement.
The rally followed a visit to the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, on Tuesday by several Acehnese regional parliamentarians, who delivered this ultimatum to the government: Agree within one month to hold an independence referendum or residents will conduct their own.
Wahid already has made concessions, granting Aceh more autonomy, opening talks with the rebel Free Aceh Movement and withdrawing soldiers who were sent in to quell the rebellion.
The military said yesterday the pullout would be completed by the end of the month and named an Acehnese to the country's No. 2 military post.
However, military spokesman Maj. Gen. Sudrajat said it was unrealistic for Aceh to expect an independence referendum. He said Indonesia had ruled the territory for so long that it would never give it up.
Foreign Affairs Minister Alwi Shihab said the government was looking at ways to better Aeh's quality of life, including increasing the revenue from the oil and gas sales.
But both Shihab and Wahid warned that granting Aceh a referendum could doom Indonesia, a sprawling, ethnically diverse country of 210 million people that also has separatist movements in Irian Jaya and Ambon.
"If you open the gate, disintegration will be in place," Shahib said.
Indonesia has just ceded control over East Timor, a former Portuguese colony it invaded in 1975.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's car was damaged between 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and 9:30 a.m. Wednesday while parked in lot 101 west of Templin Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The damage was estimated at $150.
A KU student's softtop windows were stolen between 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. Tuesday from a Jeep parked in lot 39 on Memorial Drive, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A KU student's billfold and currency were stolen between 7:20 and 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the 700 block of Massachusetts Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $84.
A KU student's card was stolen between 12 a.m. Oct. 19 and 12 a.m. Oct. 22 from an unknown location, Lawrence police said. No value was estimated.
ON CAMPUS
KU College Republicans, Headquarters Counseling Center and Ecumenical Christian Ministries will sponsor a display of the "Survivors Quilt" to raise awareness about suicide today and tomorrow at the lobby in the Kansas Union. Call Courtnv Gross at 841-9744.
- OAK5, the nontraditional students organization,
will meet for morning coffee from 8:30 to 9:30
a.m. today at Wesca Terrace. Call Simmie
Berroya at 830-0074.
- Tavola italiana, the Italian Club, will meet from
4:30 to 6:30 p.m. today at Teller's, 746 Massachusetts St.
KU Bodminton will practice from 6 to 10:30 p.m. today and tomorrow at rooms 211 and 212 in Robinson Center, Call Tee or Kevin at 843.2267
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will celebrate Mass at 4:45 p.m. tomorrow and at 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. Sunday at the Center, 1631 Crescent Rd. Call Sister Vicky at 843-0357.
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