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The Inside Front
Tuesday April 27,1999
News
from campus, the state the nation and the world
CORRECTIONS
An article in Monday's paper said that Spencer Duncan placed fourth in the Hearst Journalism Awards. Duncan placed third.
Corrected downtown bus route
CAMPUS
County counselor reviews election complaints
Douglas County Counselor Winton Winter said he planned to finish investigations of two complaints filed by three students regarding the closed meetings of the Student Senate Elections Commission.
"The first step is to decide whether on face value what the complaints say allege a violation," Winter said. "Then there would be a factual investigation to see if the facts are in dispute, and if they are, decide what the facts are. Then we have to decide how to apply the facts to the law."
Winter said he thought he would be finished with the investigation by the middle of next week. If the elections commission is found in violation with Kansas law, Winter said he was not sure of the exact consequence, but it could involve a fine or a written warning.
J. D. Jenkins, Nunemaker senator, filed a complaint last week with the attorney general's office, and Ann Premer, editor of The University Daily Kansan, and Nadia Mustafa, Student Senate reporter for the Kansan, filed a separate complaint. The three students believe that the elections commission hearings should be open to the public.
Heather Woodward
Graduate actress wins national spot
Megan Dillingham, Overland Park graduate student, won the American College Theater Festival's Irene Ryan Scholarship in an acting competition at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., this weekend.
Dillingham was one of two people
from an eight-state region selected to go to the national festival after a regional competition in Iowa last year.
Dillingham won the $2,500 scholarship for her performance of a five-minute monologue from Israel Horvitz's "Primary English Class." She also won the Classical Acting Award, given to participants who perform a scene written prior to 1900, for her reading of Shakespeare's "Henry V."
Paul Lim, associate professor of English, directed Dillingham in the play "Victim Art" last fall. Her role in that performance earned her a nomination for the regional competition.
"When her name was announced as the winner, people just cheered and jumped up and down," Lim said. "We're just so proud of her."
— T. J. Johnson
Student may be charged with computer trespass
An Academic Computing Services employee reported to police that a student was in a lab attempting to access restricted information between 8 and 8:30 a.m. March 1 at the Computer Services Facility, said Lt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office.
The student was running a software program that would have allowed him to decipher Academic Computing Services' passwords, Bailey said.
After completing its investigation, the KU Public Safety Office forwarded a report to the Douglas County District Attorney's office, where it will be reviewed for possible charges, including computer trespass.
LAWRENCE
15-year-old questioned for reference to shooting
A 15-year-old Southwest Junior High student was questioned by police after a 14-year-old student reported that she had received an electronic message that said there might by a shooting at their school, said Sgt. George Wheeler of the Lawrence Police Department.
The student, who received an instant message through America Online at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, became alarmed when he made reference to last week's shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., Wheeler said.
Police questioned the student, who said that he was just playing around and didn't intend to hurt anyone. No weapons were found at the student's residence, and he was not arrested.
Topeka men accused of stealing woman's purse
Four Topeka men were arrested after allegedly stealing a Lawrence woman's purse at 12:40 p.m. Friday at Dillon's grocery store, 101.5 W. 23rd St., Lawrence police said.
Police arrested the men later in the day in Topeka after they attempted to use the woman's credit cards.
The men could face charges of robbery, forgery, criminal use of a financial card and theft.
Bond for the suspects was set at $15,000 each.
Katie Burford
Littleton suspects planned to kill 500, hijack plane
NATION
LITTLETON, Colo. — The two student suspects who carried out the attack at Columbine High dreamed of an even bigger bloodbath, plotting to kill hundreds of neighbors, then hijack a plane and crash it into New York City, investigators said yesterday.
A diary kept by Harris described his and Dylan Kleboid's plans for continuing their murderous rampage through the school's neighborhood, sheriff's spokesman Steve Davis said.
"They wanted to kill 500 people, hijack a plane and take it to New York City," Davis said. He speculated that they chose New York because of the high population density.
"Perhaps some major, major catastrophes were averted." Davis said.
stupios were avenged, Davis said. Davis said an 18-year-old woman, described as Klebold's girlfriend, had been questioned about whether she had bought two of the four guns Harris and Klebold used: a 9mm carbine rifle and a TEC-DC9 semiautomatic pistol.
Supreme Court to rule on FDA's policy shift
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court stepped into a major dispute about smoking yesterday, agreeing to decide whether the Food and Drug Administration can regulate tobacco and crack down on cigarette sales to minors.
The Clinton administration and the tobacco industry will square off in verbal arguments this fall about the FDA's 1996 decision to start regulating tobacco. The government says the policy switch was justified by new evidence that the tobacco industry intended its products to feed consumers' nicotine habits.
A lower court threw out the rules, saying it was up to Congress — not the FDA — to make the major policy decision of how to regulate cigarettes and chewing tobacco.
The Associated Press
A KU student received a harassing phone call between 4:20 and 4:25 p.m. Saturday in the 500 block of Fireside Drive, Lawrence police said.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's windshield was broken between 11 and 11:15 p.m. in the 3900 block of Overland Drive, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $300
A KU student's checkbook was stolen between midnight and 11:59 p.m. Sunday in the 200 block of Glenview Drive, Lawrence police said. Forged checks totaling $1,322 were written on the student's account.
A KU student's license plate was stolen between 5 and 6:30 p.m. Sunday in the 700 block of New Hampshire Street, Lawrence police said.
A KU employee's car struck a student's car at 12:05 p.m. Friday at Naismith and Schwegler drives, the KU Public Safety Office said.
ON CAMPUS
- OAKS — Non-Traditional Students Organization will have a brown bag luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Alceve F in the Kansas Union. Call Similem Berroya at 830-0074 for more information
Amnesty International will meet at 7 tonight at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. Call Kyle Browning at 842-1351 for more information.
■ The Commission on the Status of Women and the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center will have a Women's Recognition Program to honor outstanding female students, staff and faculty on the KU campus at 7 tonight at Alderson Audit. Call Kathy Rose-Medley at 436-3552 for more information.
University Christian Fellowship will meet at 7 tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries for Bible study and worship. Call Tim Watts at 841-3148 for more information.
Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship will meet at 7:30 tonight at 3139 Wescoe Hall. Call Wendy Brown at 838-3984 for more information.
- The Pool Boys and various campus ministry organizations will meet at 9 tonight at 3139 Wescoe Hall for praise and worship music. Call Mark Fleske at 832-6205 for more information.
■ Writer's Roasts, 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 Burge Union and 4003 Wescoe Hall, and from noon to 4 p.m. at 4006 Wescoe Hall. Call 816-2399 for more information.
School's antique printing press set to run again for history class
By Karen Lucas Special to the Kansan
A 19th-century printing press is about to begin a new chapter in its life.
The School of Journalism has offered its Washington hand press to the Spencer Research Library, where it will be used for the first time in nearly 30 years. The press has been on exhibit on the first floor of Stauffer-Flint Hall since the early '80s, and before then, at the museum in Printing Services on West Campus.
"It's a really neat piece of equipment," said Jimmy Gentry, dean of journalism. "It has been sitting there like a paperweight, and it has been vandalized. We thought it would be good to give it to someone who would take it and use it for the purpose for which it was intended."
Bill Crowe, vice chancellor for information services and dean of libraries, said he was pleased with the press offer.
"We can give it a safe home so it can see another day in teaching." he said.
Richard Clement, associate special collections librarian, said he was looking forward to using the press in his History of the Book course.
"The wonderful thing about this press is that it gives us the capacity to do things we've never done before," he said. "It allows us to do large format sheets. We're very excited about getting it."
Up until now, Clement's students have printed texts on the library's smaller presses.
printed texts on the library's smaller presses. Clement said that the press was missing a few pieces and that he hoped to have it operating by next spring.
The press has not been used since Thomas C. Ryther, professor emeritus of journalism, last taught printing lab classes in the late '60s.
Ferd Violand, who worked at the state printing plant in Topeka, gave the press to the school in 1952.
Crowe said he expected the press would be moved sometime after the spring semester.
The move will involve disassembling the press, which weighs approximately 2,000 pounds. Clement said.
"It comes apart into four or five pieces, which makes it fairly manageable," he said. "We'll have to be very careful to remember how to put it back together."
The area that the press currently occupies will become a lounge, Gentry said.
- Edited by Juan H. Heath
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