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The Inside Front
Thursday November 4,1999
News
from campus,the state the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Students to participate in social welfare job fair
Several hundred students are expected to participate in this year's social welfare practicum and career fair from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Friday at the Kansas Union Ballroom.
The annual event will provide students with an opportunity to interact with representatives from more than 70 social welfare agencies. Practicum placement for the 2000- 2001 academic year also will be offered.
The fair is open to both graduate and undergraduate students. Earlier that day, at 9 a.m., a Boston social welfare expert will deliver the 1999 Margo Schutz Gordon Lecture at Woodruff Auditorium in the Union. Ruth Dean's talk will be entitled, "Making the Professional Personal and the Personal Professional: the Changing Nature of Theory and Self."
Dean is professor of social work and director of doctoral education at Simmons College in Boston.
Margo Schutz Gordon, who the annual awards for outstanding student achievement in field education are named after, is a professor emerita at the University of Kansas.
Vibha Shetiva
KU professors receive $15,000 faculty awards
Ten University of Kansas faculty members will have an extra $15,000 in their pockets thanks to the Cramer Root Faculty Award Fund.
"It's a salary supplement — they can use it for whatever they want," she said.
The award recognizes excellence in teaching and research in the French and Italian department and the Spanish and Portuguese department, said Linda Luckey, assistant to the dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The fund provides faculty members with $5,000 annually for three years.
A committee of faculty chairs select ed the winners based on teaching records, three years of class evaluations and letters of recommendation from colleagues and students.
Luckey said eight to nine faculty members from each department applied, but only five from each were chosen.
Sharon Feldman, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and Van Kelly, associate professor of French and Italian were named 1999 Cramer faculty scholars.
Winners in the French and Italian department include John Booker, associate professor; Caroline Jewers,
associate professor; Jan Kozma, professor; and Allan Pasco, Hall professor.
Winners in the Spanish and Portuguese department include Danny Anderson, associate professor; Michael John Dudoroff, professor; Lee Skimmer, assistant professor; and Robert Spires, professor.
The awards come from Jessie Marie Senor Cramer and Ann Cramer with the help of the Kansas University Endowment Association.
— Amanda Kaschube
NATION
Seattle gunman kills 2 injures 3 in shooting
SEATTLE — A gunman opened fire yesterday in a commercial building, killing two people and wounding three others. A search was under way for the attacker.
Police used dogs and helicopters in the hunt through the largely residential Wallingford neighborhood. Residents were told to stay in their houses, while children at 20 schools were locked inside for part of the day before they were sent home.
Seattle Mayor Paul Schell asked the public to help and to be careful.
"Check on your neighbors, check on senior citizens, check on your premises," he said.
Investigators were not ruling out that the suspect fled by boat.
The shooting happened about 10:30 a.m. in an office at the Northlake Shipyard building on the north shore of Lake Union, police said.
"He walked in and started shooting. That's all we know," said Pam McCammon, a police representative.
McCammon, a police representative. The suspect, described as possibly in his 30s, was wearing a camouflage jacket and brown hat when he walked in a back door of a business and started firing a gun, police said.
Two men died and three others were wounded. McCammon said.
Shuttle's engine problem may delay launch again
NASA representative Joel Wells said yesterday that one of the three main engines must be replaced because of a broken drill bit that was found in a coolant chamber of the engine. He did not know when the bit was found or how it got there.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Discovery's upcoming flight to the Hubble Space Telescope may be delayed yet again, this time because of an engine problem.
Discovery is scheduled to blast off Dec. 2 on a 10-day mission to carry up crucial replacement parts for Hubble. Shuttle managers were
scheduled to meet yesterday to review the launch date.
Wells said it will take 10 days to replace the engine. The work likely will be done at the launch pad.
Federal officials look into alleged radio bribes
LOS ANGELES — Federal officials are investigating radio programmers at nearly 80 stations who alleged to bake toys to play songs, the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday.
The new inquiry stems from a two-year payola investigation of Fonovisa Inc., the nation's largest Spanish-language music label, which admitted to paying up to $1 million to programmers.
"As in any other bribery investigation, what we are doing is following the money, and we plan to follow it where it leads," said Richard Robinson, an assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles.
Investigators say other record companies also may have paid programmers to promote their artists, but the Justice Department has refused to identify any.
Mexican media giant Grupo Televisa, which owns Fonovisa, reported the illegal activities and cooperated with authorities.
In September, Fonovisa, its president and promotion's chief pleaded guilty to federal charges relating to payola and were fine a total of $950,000.
WORLD
Armenian parliament elects new members
YEREVAN, Armenia — Parliament on Tuesday elected a new speaker and two deputy speakers to fill the seats left empty after gunmen burst into the assembly's chamber and killed seven people.
The election marked a first step in bringing the country's political life back to normal following last Wednesday's shootings.
Members of parliament elected deputy Armen Khachatrian of the People's Party as speaker. Khachatrian, 42, replaces Karen Demirchian, who was shot dead by the gunmen while on the assembly's podium.
Parliament also voted in Tigran Torosyn, of the Republican Party, and Gagik Aslantyan of the People's Party. They will replace deputy speakers Yuri Bakhshian and Ruben Miroi, who were both killed in the attack.
The gunmen who stormed parlament are in jail and were charged with the murders on Monday.
The Associated Press
Marshall, Rhodes nominees to be honored at reception
By Amanda Kaschube
Two students and two recent graduates of the University of Kansas will be honored tonight for their academic achievements and their nominations for the Rhodes and Marshall scholarships.
Kansan staff writer
The reception, which will be at 5 p.m. at the Malott Room in the Kansas Union, will be more like a party for the students, said Barbara Schowen, professor of chemistry and Honors Program adviser.
"They are all wonderful students, and they all should win," she said. "They are every bit as good as the other candidates. They are all going to go on to do wonderful things with their lives."
The nominees for the scholarships from the University are Jay Sexton, Salina senior in history and English; Jackson Martin, Abilene senior in political science; Amie Kruse, 1999 graduate who is studying law at Harvard University; and Jennifer Harrison, 1998 graduate who is working on a masters of international management at Denver University.
Both Rhodes and Marshall scholarship nominees will go through a rigorous interview process before the winners are announced on Dec. 4.
Because only 32 students are named Rhodes scholars and 40 are named Marshall scholars, the competition is tough. Schowen said.
But Martin said being nominated still was an honor for him.
KU students have won 23 Rhodes and six Marshall scholarships. Rhodes scholarships are for study at Oxford University while Marshall scholarships may be used at any British University.
The nomination looks pretty good considering a lot of people from KU could have been nominated, he said. "I think it will be hard to differentiate between all the nominees during the interviews."
Edited by Matt Gardner
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's blue Cannondale women's mountain bike was stolen between 10 a.m. Sunday and 3:45 p.m. Monday from a bike rack located west of Robinson Center, the KU Public Safety Office said. The bike was valued at $500.
A KU student was cited for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia at 3:28 p.m. Tuesday from a room on the sixth floor of Holliday Hall, the U.K. Public Safety Office said.
A KU staff member reported that a computer was stolen from the School of Social Welfare located
in twente Hall between 4 p.m. Oct. 28 and 8 a.m. Monday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The computer was valued at $1,300.
A KU student's purse and currency were stolen between 2 and 3:30 p.m. Monday at the 2500 block of West Sixth Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $75.
A KU student's jamb was damaged between 8:45 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Monday at the 1000 block of Connecticut Street, Lawrence police said. The jamb was valued at $5.
ON CAMPUS
KU College Republicans, Headquarters and Ecumenical Christian Ministries will sponsor a display of the "Survivor's Quilt" to raise suicide awareness at the labyrinth in Kansas Union.
- Watson Library will have a sale from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. today on the second floor in the library. Call 864-8921.
Ecumenical Christian Ministries and KU Environs will sponsor 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 HorrorZontals ultimate frisbee team will practice at 5 p.m. today at Shenk Complex. Call Will Spots at 841-0671.
The Office of Study Abroad will provide information about NSEP scholarships at 5 p.m. today at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union. Call Beau Pritchard at 864-3742.
KU Meditation Club will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union. Call Pannir at 864-7735.
- Psi Chi and Psychology Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. today at 547 Fraser Hall. Call Larisa Roemisch at 841-6738.
Amnesty International will meet at 7 tonight at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. Call Kyle Browning at 842-1351.
KU Young Democrats and Student Union Activities will show The Big One, a film by Michael Moore, at 7 tonight at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Admission is free. Call lack Martin at 865-0602.
- Queers and Allies will meet at 7 tonight at the parlors in the Kansas Union. Call Matthew Skinta at 864-3091.
KU Yoga will meet at 8 tonight at the Sunflower Room in the Burge Union. Call Kristy at 838-3789.
OAKS, the nontraditional students organization,
will meet for morning coffee from 8:30 to 9:30
a.m. tomorrow at Wescoe Terrace. Call Simmie
Berrova at 830-0074.
- Tavola italiana, the Italian Club, will meet from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. tomorrow at Teller's, 746 Massachusetts St.
KU Badminton Club will practice from 6 to 10:30 p.m. tomorrow at rooms 211 and 212 in Robinson Center. Call Tee or Kevin at 843-2267.
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