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The Inside Front
Wednesday June 16,1999
News
from campus, the state the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Hemenway becomes a globetrotter for KU
The chancellor will visit KU students and professors who are studying and teaching in Italy. Summer language students, who take a cooking class in addition to grammar and conversation, will cook dinner for Hemenway. Hemenway
Chancellor Robert Hemenway left yesterday for Italy to visit KU summer programs and to attend an American Council on Education retreat.
Hemenway; is traveling in italy to visit KU programs.
will conclude his Italian tour at the ACE retreat at a monastery outside Florence.
Gay pride celebration topped off with hats
Gays in the Millinery, a fundraiser sponsored by the Freedom Coalition, will be held from 8 p.m. to midnight June 25 at Liberty Hall. A milliner is a maker of hats, and hats are the party's theme. The event celebrates national Pride Month.
Hats are required. Those arriving without one can purchase a hat for $1 at the door. A hat contest will take place with categories including Most Original, Worst, Funniest, and "I Can't Believe You Wore that to Gays in the Millinery!"
Tickets are $10 at the Liberty Hall box office, 642 Massachusetts St. For more information, call Joyce at 841-8519.
Ex-Kansan to return for local book signing
Scott Heim, a former Lawrence resident and author of "In Awe and Mysterious Skin," will appear with Michael Lowenthal, author of "The Same Embrace," for a book signing from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, June 21, at Larry's in Lawrence, 1601 W. 23rd St.
"In 'Mysterious Skin,' Heim dramatizes a difficult subject with clean, unsparing prose, turning what might have been prudent melodrama into a haunting account of a trust betrayed," said The New York Times in a review of his most recent work.
-Katie Burford
Law professor heads civil rights committee
Phillip Delatore, professor of law, will serve as chairman for the Kansas Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Two other Lawrence residents — Cheryl Chuckluck, director for the Center for Tribal Entrepreneurial Studies at Haskell Indian Nations University, and Richard Gutierrez, a management and program consultant — were also appointed to the committee.
They will be working with the commission's central regional office in Kansas City, Kan., to investigate civil rights violations.
Former Kansas senator criticizes Serb talks
EMORPIA (AP) — It was a mistake for the United States to enter a peace agreement with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosev, former Sen. Bob Dole said during a visit to his home state this week.
"I think the only conversation he (Milosevic) should have had is with a court in The Hague. I guess you
Dole: criticizes peace plan in Balkans.
have to deal with those people," Dole said Monday during a tour of Kansas to thank supporters for his 35 years of service. "I'm not sure if it was a victory. I thought a victory was when somebody surrendered. It's a half-victory, I guess."
Dole has paid close attention to events in the former Yugoslavia. As chairman of the International Committee for Missing Persons, he has made several trips to the region.
NATION
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Two gay faculty members at the University of Missouri have resigned, citing a decision by curators not to include
Gay faculty come out against Mizzou policy
sexual orientation in the school's non-discrimination clause. Horace Griffin, an assistant
professor of religious studies, and Denny Schrock, an extension assistant professor of horticulture, turned in their resignations last week.
More than 200 U.S. colleges and universities include sexual orientation in their non-discrimination statements.
"I can truly truthfully say I would not have been looking for another job had the board decided to include sexual orientation," said
He has accepted a similar job at the University of Illinois, which includes sexual orientation in its anti-bias clause.
Schrock.
Griffin has taken a faculty position at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, III.
In his letter, Griffin wrote: "The University of Missouri has failed to signal to its lesbian, gay and bisexual faculty, staff and students that we are equal and valued members of the university community."
Curators and university president Manuel Pacheco say an executive order prohibiting all forms of discrimination provides sufficient protection.
Firefighters get hosed by bikini-clad babes
*ANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Two Kansas City firefighters will be disciplined for their role in letting bikini-clad women pose on a department fire truck for an exotic dance club's calendar.
The names of the firefighters and the specific disciplinary actions were not released. Fire Department representative Brad Humston said Monday that it was a personnel matter and he could not provide further details.
Possible disciplinary actions range from reprimands to dismissal.
Louie Wright, president of Local 42 of the International Association of Fire Fighters, declined comment Monday.
Pumper No. 32 was pictured in a Bunns 1999 calendar with ten blikini-clad dancers in various poses around the truck. The promotional poster was distributed in September at the club.
Fire Chief Rick Brisbin started an inquiry after he learned of the poster in February.
Suspension crumbles against tough cookie
HUDSON, Ohio (AP) — School officials reversed the suspension of a 9-year-old boy for writing a fortune cookie message considered threatening.
During a class assignment to write a fortune-cookie message that was positive and fun, Karl Bauman wrote: "You will die with honor."
The suspension was overturned Monday because Karl didn't receive written notification of the punishment, as required by state law, officials said. Karl served the two-day punishment last month, but now it will be removed from his record. Karl's parents and the American Civil Liberties Union, had planned to appeal the suspension.
Jean Bauman said her son thought his message was positive. She said he picked the phrase up from a computer game he plays that says: "Congratulations. You have died an honorable death."
Superintendent Joseph Siegferth said Tuesday that the reversal was granted on a technicality and "does not change or alter in any way the reason for suspension."
Lazio bidding for NY; faces Hillary, Rudy
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Rep. Rick Lazio said Tuesday he expects to announce this summer that he will seek the Republican nomination for the Senate seat that is Hillary Rodham Clinton is also eyeing.
Lazio will probably face New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani for the GOP nomination.
"The way you beat Rudy Giuliani is you run as the Republican," the Long Island congressman said, noting the mayor's crossing of party lines in 1994 to endorse Democratic Gov. Mario Cuomo over Republican George Pataki.
Giuliani political adviser Bruce Teitelbaum declined to comment on
Lazio's plans. The mayor formed a Senate exploratory committee in April but has yet to announce his candidacy.
The Senate race is for the seat being vacated next year by Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Mrs. Clinton plans to form an exploratory committee in early July.
"I go into it as the underdog and I have a keen understanding of what that means," Lazio, 41, said. "It's a David-and-Goliath race against two titans."
Lazio said he will campaign on the theme that both the first lady and the mayor want to use the Senate seat as a stepping stone to higher office.
"I will be making an announcement sometime in the summer and I can't imagine right now that that announcement is not going to be a positive one," Lazio said.
WORLD
Texas man gets prison for computer piracy
AACHEN, Germany — A German state court convicted a Texas man on Tuesday of counterfeiting more than $63 million worth of Microsoft computer programs.
John-Joseph Staud, 39, was sentenced to four years in prison for three counts of counterfeiting patented programs and smuggling them into Germany for commercial purposes.
Microsoft Corp. greeted the court's decision as "a meaningful signal," toward thwarting computer piracy. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant said the counterfeit case was its biggest in terms of the operation's sophistication and the magnitude of damage.
The court denied Microsoft's request for damages, saying that should be handled by a court in England, where Staud allegedly ran a counterfeit compact disc production plant and printing operation.
The Associated Press
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