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The Inside Front
Monday April 26,1999
News
from campus, the state. the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Storms nearly rain out annual Floating Flicks
Water had a little more to do with SUA's Floating Flicks than usual this year.
The annual event, which was scheduled for Friday, was postponed because of rain to sundown on Saturday.
More than 50 students showed up for the event at Potter Lake, said Jeff LaCroix, SUA public relations coordinator.
"It was a little disappointing," he said. "The turnout was a little less than expected. It probably had to do with the fact that it was rescheduled and the fact that it was kind of cold on Saturday."
A floating screen on Potter Lake presented the film The Incredible Mr. Limpet to viewers on blankets and lawn chairs, and a large spotlight was used to draw attention to the event
Ezra Sykes
STATE
Pittsburg State appoints new college president
PITTSBURG, Kan. — Thomas Bryant, dean of education at Pittsburg State University since 1993, was named president of the school to succeed the retiring John Darling.
Bryant becomes Pittsburg State's eighth president. The position carries a salary of $120,848.
Bryant was appointed Saturday by the Kansas Board of Regents, on which he has served as interim executive since July 1998. He also had served eight months as the school's interim president in 1995 before Darling's appointment.
"Dr. Bryant brings a unique perspective to this position," said Board of Regents chairman Bill Docking.
Bryant joined the university in 1970 as an associate professor of health, physical education and recreation. He was named a department chairman in 1985 and acting dean of the School of Education in 1992.
"I feel I have been preparing for this job for the past 29 years," he said. "I have worked under some great presidents, and I feel I have learned something from each of them."
NRA still will hold meeting in Denver
essential annual business required under bylaws of the not-for-profit group at its May 1 session.
NRA spokesman Bill Powers said Thursday the NRA will do only the
WASHINGTON — The National Rifle Association says it has an obligation to its members and, despite the wish of city officials, will hold a meeting next week in Denver.
NATION
On Wednesday, in the aftermath of the Littleton, Colo., high school killings, the gun group trimmed its conference schedule to one day from the three that were planned and canceled seminars, luncheons, exhibits and festivities.
"We have an obligation to our members," Powers said. "We will be coming to conduct that meeting."
The only sideline event that had been left on the calendar, an evening reception for Republican Rep. J.C. Watts of Oklahoma, also has been canceled, Powers said.
He would not say whether people in Denver have been taking Mayor Wellington Webb's advice and calling the NRA to tell it not to come.
Webb asked citizens to put pressure on the nation's largest lobbying group for gun owners.
"We don't want them here," said Denver City Council President Allegra "Happy" Haynes.
National strides made to prevent global crises
WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund said Sunday it had given final approval to a change in procedures that would make billions of dollars in resources available to countries in hopes of averting future global financial crises.
The IMF endorsement represented a major victory for President Clinton. He had put the idea forward last fall, at the height of the economic crisis, which has pushed one-third of the globe into recession and sent America's trade deficit to record levels.
At a hastily called conference, IMF Managing Director Michel Cardessund and Italian Finance Minister Carlo Ciampi announced that the agency's executive board had given final approval to new "contingent credit lines" to make IMF loans available to countries before a crisis strikes.
Ciampi, who is chairman of the IMF's policy-setting interim committee, called the approval by the agency's executive board, a "good start for the spring meetings" of the 182-nation lending institution.
U. S. officials also are hoping to win endorsement for an array of smaller proposals that will prevent or at least better handle future crises.
Drug talk from parents decreases children's use
A study released Sunday by the Partnership for a Drug Free America found that teens who received strong antidrug messages at home were 42 percent less likely to use drugs than teens
NEW YORK — Surprise, mom and dad: When it comes to frank talk on drug use, your kids are listening.
whose parents ignored the issue
"With parents, we can cut drug use dramatically. Without them, we cannot," said James E. Burke, chairman of the partnership.
However, a single conversation probably won't get the job done. Although 98 percent of parents said they had spoken with their children about drugs, only 27 percent of teens said they learned a lot about drug risks at home, the survey found.
"What's truly complicated about this is that parents really believe they're doing their job in this area, but the data suggest otherwise," Burke said.
Among teens who learned a lot at home, marijuana use was 26 percent. Among those who said they learned nothing at home, 45 percent said they had used marijuana.
For inhalants, the first group reported 14 percent, while among the latter group 28 percent had used them. For LSD, the figures were 7 percent and 20 percent; for cocaine, 7 percent and 16 percent.
Former radium patients deserve cancer warning
WASHINGTON — Steve Culppepper had endured blinding headaches, double vision, brain surgery and the violent nausea of chemotherapy. Then a doctor connected his cancer to nasal radium treatments he received as a boy.
Culpepper remembered that small amounts had been inserted through his nose to treat chronic ear infections, but he never worried about it as he grew older.
Culpeper, who rarely got so much as a cold, had not had a physical in years, much less a consultation about an obscure Cold War-era medical procedure no longer used.
"If someone had said anyone having these treatments in the '50s or '60s ought to immediately go see an ENT (ear, nose and throat) doctor, he would have gone," said Culpepper's widow, Patti, of Newport Beach, Calif. "I know he would have gone."
Culpeper, 55, died in January after 16 months of treatment for nasopharyngeal cancer, which affects the nose and upper throat area.
From the 1940s to the mid-1960s, it was common practice in civilian and military medicine to use nasal applicators containing 50 milligrams of radium to help drain and balance pressure on the inner and outer ear.
The government sees no need to warn former radium patients, a stand that enrages public health advocates.
Over the course of a typical treatment, the ear tissues closest to the radium capsules would have received a radiation dose about 100 times greater than that received by survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Associated Press
ON THE RECORD
A KU visitor was arrested by a KU police officer for no proof of insurance, no drivers license and possession of a stolen license plate on Thursday at Sunnyside Avenue and Sunflower Road, the KU Public Safety Office said.
ON CAMPUS
The Slavic Department will have a presentation about Polish Baroque Art at 4:15 p.m. today at 4001 Wescoe Hall. A video and slides from the largest U.S. exhibit of Polish Art called "The Land of the Winged Horseman; Art in Poland 1572-1764" will be shown. Katarzyna Zechener, assistant professor of the Slavic Department, will be the featured speaker. Call her at 864-2583 for more information.
The SUA Recreation Committee will meet at 5 p.m. today at Alcove B in the Kansas Union. Call the SUA box office at 864-3477 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 St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will celebrate mass at 12:30 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday at Danfort Chapel. Call Father Ray May at 843-0357 for more information. There also will be mass at 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Center, 1631 Crescent Rd. Call Father Vince Krische at 843-0357 for more information.
■ 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 Burge Union and 4003 Wescoe Hall, and from noon to 4 p.m. at 4006 Wescoe Hall. Call 864-2399 for more information.
Today:IN HISTORY
On this day, the publisher of LIFE maga zine just about passed out when he looked at his just-off-the-press publication and noticed that someone had forgotten to put the word "LIFE" in the upper left-hand corner. It was the only time that LIFE was nameless.
1949- LOOK magazine said that radio was "doomed" and that within three years, TV would overshadow radio completely
1952 - Patty Berg set a new record for major women's golf competition. She shot a 64 in 18 holes in a tournament in Richmond, Calif.
1954 - Actress Grace Kelly was seen on the cover of LIFE magazine as "Hollywood's biaest and braithest star."
1964 - The Boston Celtics wrapped up an unprecedented sixth consecutive NBA championship on this night. The Celtics still had two more crowns to win, however, before the string would end.
Groups gather for memorial honoring 15 lost in shooting
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were shot or hit by shrapnel from pipe bombs. Roman Catholic Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver opened the services with a prayer.
"Surely the past week is about as much suffering as any community can bear," Chaput said. "Love is stronger than death. I believe that. Perhaps beyond all this suffering, something good can be achieved."
Other dignitaries included U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard and most of the state's congressional delegation, Gov. Bill Owens and other state officials, Christian singers Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith and the Rev. Franklin Graham, son of evangelist Billy Graham.
A quartet of F-16 fighter jets from the Colorado National Guard zoomed overhead, led by Columbine graduate Capt. Scott VanBek. A private plane trailed a banner overhead reading: "Our love and prayers are with you."
The growing crowd was a swarm of dark winter parkas splotted with bright floral bouquets. Florists in Colorado and California donated 25,000 bouquets of white and orange lilies, yellow sunflowers and daisies, pink carnations and roses of all hues.
For some, after absorbing continuous media coverage since Tuesday, it was a wrenching experience just to walk a few blocks from the heavily damaged high school.
Tim and Donna Weitzel drove 250 miles from Grand Junction to attend. They left their children, ages 11, 5 and 3, at home on Colorado's Western Slone.
The Weitzel's said they did not know any students at Columbine or their families, but their reaction to the violence was common to parents everywhere.
The service shifts the physical and emotional focus away from the school, where classmates Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and one teacher before committing suicide.
Deputies suspended their investigation and media briefings for the day, concentrating instead on directing traffic for the service.
Police found a diary detailing the plot during the past year, as well as bomb-making materials and weapons in plain view in the bedroom of one of the dead suspects.
Jefferson County school officials said Columbine's 1,800 students would return to classes Thursday at Chaffield High School, a few miles south. They said Columbine's graduation ceremony would be held May 22 at Fiddler's Green, a large suburban amphitheater normally used for rock concerts and dance performances.
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