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The Inside Front
Wednesday June 30,1999
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CAMPUS
Graffiti vandals hit KU, use tunnel,cars as canvas
Three cases of property damage by spray-painted graffiti were reported between June 19 and June 26, the KU Public Safety Office said.
Graffiti was spray painted between 10 p.m. June 19 and 11 p.m. June 21 in the tunnel under the 1400 block of Naismith Drive. The damage was estimated at $127.
Two KU students' cars were damaged by graftie between 8:30 p.m. June 25 and 8:10 a.m. June 26 in Lot 24 in front of Foley Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage to both cars was estimated at $200.
Lt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office said that the graffiti was composed of letters, numbers and symbols. Bailey said that the graffiti in the tunnel was different than the graffiti on the students' cars.
"It is possible that these crimes are gang related," Bailey said. "But I will not say they are at this time. We have no leads."
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Playground equipment rides merry-go-round
Most of the playground equipment at Stouffer Place will be moved to different areas of the housing complex as the construction of the new Hilltop Child Development Center gets underway, Phil Garrito, associate director for housing maintenance, said. Hilltop will be built at the site of an existing Stouffer Place playground area.
A small playground will be established near building 23 with a wooden climbing structure, a bench and swing set moved to that site. Garrito said. A slide and bench will be moved to a playground area near building 25, and another swing set and bench will be moved to a playground area near buildings 9 and 12.
Garito said that some of the older equipment will be discarded and no new equipment will be added.
KU profs win award, Defense Dept. contract
U. S. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Dodge City, announced that the Department of Defense
awarded a $1.4 million research contract to the Information and Telecommunication Technology Center at the University of Kansas.
KU faculty members Gary Minden and Joseph Evens will lead the three-year project which will focus on the new concept of active networking. They will examine ways to develop faster, more efficient and more flexible computer networks for the defense department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Minden and Evans are part of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science faculty.
Audio-Reader staffers receive national awards
Two University of Kansas Audio-Reader Network staff members have won lifetime achievement awards from a national organization.
Art Hadley and H. Steve Kincaid recently received the C. Stanley Potter Award at the annual conference of the National Association of Radio Reading Services in Rochester, N.Y.
Hadley has been the producer/engineer for KU's Audio-Reader Network for more than 20 years. During this time he modified a Commodore 63 personal computer to create the first 24-hour capable
automation system for a radio-reading service. He was also instrumental in pioneering the use of cable television for the transmission of programming, thus expanding the Audio-Reader signal across the state.
Kincaid, Audio-Reader's chief engineer and assistant director, has been with Audio-Reader for 15 years. He selected and installed the satellite uplink system, making Audio-Reader the first radio-reading service to own and operate such equipment. This satellite system also makes Audio-Reader programming available to more than ten other radio-reading services throughout the country.
STATE
Inmate sues Legislature for bad food, lighting
TOPEKA, — Like more than a few inmates, Sidney J. Clark claims he's innocent of the crimes that put him in prison — rape and aggravated burglary in his case.
Unlike most inmates, however, Clark asked the Legislature to compensate him his time behind bars. He also wants money for a long list of physical lits, including a skin rash he claims was caused by fluorescent lighting.
His bill to the state was $50 million.
The Legislature's Joint Committee on Special Claims Against the State held a hearing Tuesday on Clark's claim. The committee makes recommendations to the Legislature on which legal claims should be paid.
there is no evidence that Clark sustained any permanent injuries.
Clark has been in prison since November 1984, serving a sentence of 60 years to life. He was incarcerated for breaking into a 42-year-old woman's Kansas City apartment and attacking her.
Among the medical complaints outlined in his claim were bad food, hearing loss, bad pain and hair-skin damages.
The Department of Corrections said
"Examination by medical staff failed to detect any rash,"Lisa Mendoza, department attorney, said about the rash he claimed that caused by the lights.
Adding to legislators' doubts was Clark's prison record: seven disciplinary violations in only three and one half years. He is in the maximum-security unit at the Lansing Correctional Facility.
The committee rejected Clark's claim, unanimously.
"I think it was pretty easy to say no," said SEN, Karin Brownlee, R-Olathe, the committee's chairwoman.
Teens need 50 hours practice for license
TOPEKA — A Kansas law going into effect Thursday requires teens to spend more supervised time behind the wheel before they can receive their driver's licenses.
The law will require anyone age 16 or 17 to complete 50 hours of adult-supervised driving practice — including driver's education courses — before applying for a driver's license.
A parent or guardian will have to sign an affidavit stating that the teenager has fulfilled the requirement, which includes 10 hours of driving at night.
Alan Anderson, chief of the DMV's Drivers License Examining Bureau, told reporters that he has noted an increase in the number of teen-agers hoping to avoid the additional 50 hours of practice by trying to pass the licensing exam before the law goes into effect.
Kansas Highway Patrol spokesman Sgt. John Eichkorn the patrol is trying to educate the public about some of the law's harsher penalties for violations involving drivers with restricted licenses. Such licenses can be obtained at age 15.
sengers who are minors but are not siblings of the driver will be charged with a moving violation — counting against the offender's driving record. The violation now is a misdemeanor that does not affect driving records.
According to the new law a driver with a restricted license who has pas
The new law also says any driver with a restricted license younger than 16 who is convicted of two or more moving violations cannot receive an unrestricted license until age 17.
First gay ambassador sworn in amid protests
NATION
WASHINGTON — With Secretary of State Madeleine Albright presiding, James Hormel, a gay San Francisco businessman and wealthy Democratic Party donor, was sworn in yesterday as U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg almost two years after he was nominated.
Demonstrators protesting the appointment marched outside as Hormel, an heir to the Hormel Meat Co. fortune, took his oath.
He became the nation's first openly gay ambassador, during a ceremony in the State Department's main reception room.
Hormel has been a generous contributor to Democratic candidates and the party. Since 1997, he has given $132,000 to the Democratic National Committee, $25,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and $15,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
He also has given $10,000 to the Human Rights Campaign Fund, a gay and lesbian political action committee. The campaign fund's political action committee contributed $803,125 to federal candidates during the last election, with $711,400, or 89 percent, going to Democrats.
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ON THE RECORD
Computer hardware and software were stolen between 1 p.m. June 4 and 9 a.m. June 7 from room 200C in Wagnon Athletic Center, the KU Public Safety Office said.
Included were four software programs, a laptop computer and a computer mouse. The equipment was valued at $10,493.
A KU police officer was dispatched to Blake Hall on June 22 on a report that a KU employee had received a greeting card from an old boyfriend in Germany, the KU Public Safety Office said. She also received an e-mail on May 12 and June 2. The old boyfriend stated that he still loved her. The officer told her to write the old boyfriend back and tell him she was not interested.
A Palm Pilot Professional was stolen between 6 p.m. June 15 and 8 a.m. June 18 in room 3029A at the Dole Center, the KU Public Safety Office said. The electronic datebook was valued at $150.
A KU Public Safety Office dispatcher received a call at 5:35 p.m. June 26 reporting that a rental car was missing from the Hashinger Hall parking lot, the KU Office of Public Safety said. A call was the received at 8:35 p.m. that the car had been returned safely.
A KU student's mountain bike was stolen between 9 and 9:45 a.m. June 4 from the north side of Robinson Center, the KU Public Safety Office said. The mountain bike was valued at $50.
A KU police officer was patrolling when the officer stopped to talk to a 69-year-old man sitting on the curb at 12:07 a.m. June 27 in the 1100 block of Mississippi, the KU Public Safety Office said. The man told the officer he was too intoxicated to walk. After questioning the man, the officer escorted the man to his residence.
A Lawrence resident was arrested on suspicion of operating under the influence and driving left of center at 11th Street and West Campus Road at 2:29 a.m. June 27, the KU Public Safety Office said..
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