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The Inside Front
Monday May 10, 1999
News
from campus,the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Gas pipe breaks, causes evacuation of fraternity
Students had to evacuate Delta Chi fraternity, 1245 West Campus Rd. early yesterday morning when a gas pipe broke. The Lawrence Fire Department received a call from the fraternity at 12:28 a.m.
Jerry Karr, Lawrence Fire Department Battalion Chief, said firefighters on the scene evacuated the house, turned off the gas meter and called Kansas Public Service. Firefighters then used instruments to monitor gas levels in the house.
"We have to monitor to make sure a house is within flammable limits," Karr said. "Once it comes down to neutral limits, people are allowed back into the house."
— Heather Woodward
Technology will improve in new education building
Renovations on Joseph R. Pearson Hall have left the building an empty hulk, so much so that from West Campus Road, one can look straight through the building to see more renovations, those taking place on the west side of Memorial Stadium.
The school presented the floorplans in a Budgie Hall ceremony Saturday.
By Spring 2000, however, the building will be the state-of-the-art home of the School of Education.
"It will move up in the rankings as a School of Education and become something the University of Kansas can be even prouder of," he said.
Provost David Shulenburger said the technological advantages of the new Joseph R. Pearson Hall will help the school become even better than it already is.
The school was one of the top 25 in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report, and it has the best special education program in the nation, according to the same article.
Some of the technology in the new home of the school will be in the Gale Sayers Microcomputer Lab, named after the former Kansas football great, and the Oscar Haugh Telecommunications Center. Haugh is a professor emeritus of teaching and leadership.
Socratic tour to shed light on the campus
After students get their walking papers from regular classes today, they can take a walking tour of campus tomorrow and philosophize about the Socratic values of the University of Kansas.
Ted Johnson, professor of French has led the tour since 1993.
"The concept is to look at the Uni
viversity of Kansas as the University of Athens, 2000 years ago," he said.
The tour is mostly an iconography — a description or study of portralure or representation — of the KU campus.
"What sort of ideas are quickened by these structures?" Johnson asked.
He said he learned something new each year on the tour. Most recently, Tony Corbiell, associate professor of classics, noticed something Johnson had not seen.
"There was an inscription on the Campanile in Latin, and he recognized it as an unfinished poem of Cicero." Johnson said.
David Cateforis, associate professor of art history, said he had taken the tour two years ago and thought it was interesting and worthwhile.
"It helped me to see the campus in a way I hadn't seen it before, notice things I hadn't noticed before," he said.
The tour starts at 9 a.m. at 14th Street and Jayhawk Boulevard and ends at 6 p.m. on the east end of campus, although Johnson said people could join or leave the group at any point along the way.
Johnson said that because of the weather, participants should bring umbrellas. If the weather is particularly inclement, the tour will start at 9 a.m. at the portico of Lippincott Hall and will remain indoors until the weather clears.
Chris Hopkins
NATION
Mizzou fraternity fire claims Kansas man's life
COLUMBIA, Mo. — The construction of a bunk bed may have made escape difficult for a man killed when a burning candle ignited the bedding as he slept in a University of Missouri-Columbia fraternity house, fire officials said.
Dominic Passantino, a freshman from Leawood, was asleep in the top bunk when the fire started early Saturday. The bunk was built as a loft enclosed by walls with a door opening to the upper and lower bunks, fire investigator Andy Anderson said.
A fire official said the enclosure may have hampered the victim's exit.
Passantino's roommate and a visitor who was sleeping on a couch were able to escape along with about 40 other people in the Sigma Chi house.
Survivors told investigators that the candle was on a shoebox lid near the opening to Passantino's bunk, Anderson said.
Passantino died of smoke inhalation according to Boone County medical examiner Jay Dix.
The house had recently undergone $750 in renovations to reach all city fire codes, Sapp said, although he said it did not have sprinkler system.
Counter-culture teens affected by Littleton
CLEVELAND — Eleven students are suspended for putting a satirical essay on their personal Web site. A teen-ager is sent to the police station for wearing black clothing. A student is interrogated about the chemistry book he's carrying.
Across the nation, American Civil Liberties Union offices say they're being swamped by complaints that nervous school officials are trampling students' constitutional rights since the April 20 shootings in Littleton, Colo.
Greg Daniels of the ACLI in Ohio said the most serious of more than two dozen complaints to his office involved 11 students from Brimfield, a small town about 30 miles southeast of Cleveland. The students had a Web site for the Gothic subculture of youths who wear black, listen to rocker Marilyn Manson and think about death.
The Web site had been created months before the Littleton shootings but was updated with comment on the massacre.
One statement read: "I wonder how long it'll be before we're allowed to wear our trench coats anymore. You know those screwed up kids in Colorado were wearing them, so that means I will also kill someone, and so will all my friends."
The ACLU successfully fought their exulsion.
Chinese demonstrate against NATO bombing
BEIJING — Chinese demonstrators called American fascists and imperialists and pitched rocks through windows of three embassies Sunday to condemn NATO's accidental bombing of China's Embassy in Yugoslavia.
Demonstrators by the thousands flowed past the main U.S. Embassy buildings in Beijing. Many carried signs in Chinese reading "a debt of blood must be repaid in blood."
It was the biggest public protest since the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy demonstrations 10 years ago. Thousands of police kept watch Sunday, the second day of the government-sanctioned protest, but did not try to stop the rock-throwing.
The Chinese government put the number of demonstrators at 20,000, but the constant stream made it difficult to count. After dark, fewer people were being directed by police along a route snaking through the embassy district.
"We are essentially hostages of the embassy at the present time now. We've been here 48 hours without being able to leave," U.S. Ambassador James Sasser told AP Radio by telephone.
He said the government had encouraged the protests.
The Associated Press
A KU student's 1997 Pontiac Grand Am was damaged between 5 p.m. May 4 and 7:15 p.m. May 6, the KU Public Safety Office said. The damage was estimated at $350.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's CD player and camera were stolen from his car between 3 a.m. and 1 p.m. May 2 from the Oliver Hall parking lot, the KU Public Safety Office said. The stolen items were valued at $431.
The window molding on a KU student's car was damaged between 8 p.m. Tuesday and 12:15 p.m. Wednesday in the Oliver Hall parking lot, the KU Public Safety Office said. The damage was estimated at $150.
A KU student's car was damaged and various items were stolen between 12:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday in the Oliver Hall parking lot, the KU Public Safety Office said. The damage and property loss was estimated at $4,200.
A KU employee's car was struck by an unidentified vehicle at 11:30 April 20 in lt 39 on Memorial Drive, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage to the vehicle was minor.
ON CAMPUS
■ Writer's Roosts, sponsored by Writing Consulting: Student Resources, will be open today at the following times and locations: from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Sunflower Room in the Burge Union and 4003 Wescoe Hall, and from noon to 4 p.m. 4006 Wescoe Hall. Call 864-2399 for more information.
KU Environs will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Kansas Union. Call Matt Dunbar at 864-7325 for more information.
The Student Union Activities Special Events Committee will meet at 8:30 tonight at the International Room in the Kansas Union. The meeting is open to anyone interested in planning events for the 1999-2000 year. Call Stacy Chain at 864-3477 for more information.
Today IN HISTORY
1869 · The Transcontinental Railroad was completed with the driving of a golden spike during a ceremony at Promontory Point, Utah. The meeting of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads brought the sprawling United States together in a wav imaginable 100 years before.
1960 - Bono of the music group U2 was born
1963 - The Rolling Stones produced their very first recordings on this day. The session included "Come On" and "I Wanna Be Loved." The Stones would make it to the American pop music charts in August, 1964.
1969 The National and American Football Leagues announced plans to merge for the 1970-71 season. Two conferences of 13 teams each were formed.
1986 Navy Lt. Commander Danny Cochran became the first African-American pilot to fly with the celebrated Blue Angels precision aerial demonstration team.
Locals enjoy local bands atmosphere at festival
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But Cale's perceptions are no longer muddy.
Dave Gnojek, Lawrence freshman, was not only there to enjoy the music but also to play it. Gnojek sat on a blanket with some friends after his band. The Secondhands, performed Saturday afternoon.
Gnojek continually drenched himself with sunscreen and carried his saxophone around throughout day.
"The vibes have been so good today," he said as a beautiful girl in a flowered dress sat down at the circle and slid on a pair of finger cymbals. "It's such a good way to get everyone in Lawrence here to enjoy the music."
Playing the festival was good fun, good exposure and good eatin', Gnojek said.
"It's like my child," he said, patting the sax case.
"They took great care of us," he said, describing the meal of chicken and potatoes the bands received backstage. "Everyone gets along back there."
But friendliness wasn't limited to backstage relations.
"There are not cliques here that you usually find at outdoor music festivals," Gnojek said, surveying the campground at dusk. "There's not a bunch of separate groups, just one big family."
After the sun had set, whoops and hollers shot through the air as campers awaited The Band that Saved the World to take the stage Saturday night. At one point, a community roar filled the air.
The Jesse Jackson 5 capped off the night with a heavy groove and the people went back to their campsites to celebrate
Yesterday morning at Cale's campsite, two drummers gathered once again, this time playing a slower, less furious beat. Ashes from last night's campfire flew through the air.
A drummer with long dreadlocks and veins bulging on his red face shouted out, "Freedom!"
His partner, shirtless and snoeless,
echoed,"Freedom!"
"Peace!"
"Peace!"
"Love!"
"Love..."
— Edited by Keith Burner
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