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The Inside Front
Friday April 16, 1999
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CORRECTION
In yesterday's University Daily Kansan's article, "Cash for Brains," information, which was obtained from an Oklahoma State University official, stated that Oklahoma State State had the most National Merit Scholars at a Big 1.2 Conference university. According to the KU Office of Institutional Research and Planning, the University of Texas has the most.
CAMPUS
Drug odor leads police to arrest for felony
A KU police officer was investigating a report that a McColum Hall resident's room smelled of marijuana at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday when he discovered that the student who lived in the room had a warrent out for his arrest, said Lt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office said.
The warrant, which was for felony theft, was issued Dec. 11. Bailey said. The student was arrested at 12:06 a.m. yesterday, but was released at 3:29 a.m. after posting $2,500 bond
The 21-year-old student is scheduled to appear at 1:30 p.m. April 27 in Johnson County District Court.
— Katie Burford
Gospel choir to perform musical at Liberty Hall
The Inspirational Gospel Voices, a choir comprised of mostly KU students, will perform the gospel musical "Give It Up!" at 4:30 Sunday at Liberty Hall
Written by choir director Terrel McTyre, Kansas City, Mo., senior, the musical follows the lives of three college students who give up aspects of their lives to receive blessings from God.
McTyre said he spent six months writing the gospel musical, which will be one of the first of its kind performed in Kansas City.
"Every college student has their own daily struggles," said McTyre, who spent six months writing the musical "Everyone has their own personal things they have to deal with. When I wrote it I tried to capture these struggles."
The point of the musical was for students to walk away from the show feeling closer to God, McTyre said.
Inspirational Gospel Voices, a mixed choir of about 30 members, has performed for audiences in Denver, Kansas City and Lawrence.
Dan Curry
NATION
GOP pushes through $1.74 trillion budget
contrast themselves with President Clinton on tea cuts and Social Security.
WASHINGTON — Republicans drove a $1.74 trillion budget for fiscal 2000 through Congress yesterday, a document crafted to let GOP lawmakers
its passage marked only the securi time Congress has completed the measure on time since the April 15 deadline was set in 1987, a win for Republicans eager to show they are efficiently doing the public's business. It also gave them the symbolic victory of approving a budget touting big tax cuts on the day many taxpayers were rushing to mail returns to the Internal Revenue Service.
The spending outline was approved by the Senate on a party-line 54-44 vote. Sens. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., and Tim Hutchinson, R-Ak., did not vote.
The House passed the measure Wednesday 220-208, supported by just three Democrats.
The blueprint maps GOP plans for a new budgetary era in which annual federal surpluses seem to stretch to the horizon and beyond. During the next decade, Republicans would set aside all $1.8 trillion in expected Social Security surpluses to reduce the national debt.
DNA tests exonerate men held for murder
ADA, Okla. — Two inmates who served 12 years in prison on a murder conviction were freed yesterday after a judge dismissed charges against them. Recent DNA tests from the crime scene did not match either man.
Dennis Fritz and Ron Williamson have said all along that they had nothing to do with the killing of a woman in 1982.
Fritz had been serving a life sentence and Williamson was sentenced to death, though a federal appeals court ruled in 1997 that he should get a new trial because of inadequate defense at his first trial.
District Judge Tom Landrith ordered a new trial for Fritz but then immediately dismissed the murder charges against both men in the slaying of Debra Carter.
"We can never replace the 12 years the defendants have been incarcerated, nor can we forget Debra Carter—all we can do is go forward," Landrith said.
As Landrith gave the order releasing both men, Fritz stood quietly while Williamson replied "Thank you, judge."
The charges were dismissed after Mary Long, a criminologist with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, testified that hair and semen samples submitted for DNA testing did not match either man.
cramped and noisy that they would never get enough rest to complete the flight safely.
ATLANTA — A Delta Air Lines plot shot short an Atlanta-to-Tokyo flight this month, saying the plane's redesigned sleeping quarters for his crew were so
Redesigned Delta plane not restful, pilot says
The incident, involving 30-year veteran Capt. Roscoe McMillan, was the culmination of a months-long fight between pilots and Delta, which had shrank the sleeping space on some long-haul planes to make more room for higher-paying business class passengers.
The airline has questioned McMillan and his three-member crew, and the pilots' union fears he could be fired if the airline decides he acted out of rebellion rather than safety concern.
Pilots让 the new type of bunk "the coffin." Their union, the Air Line Pilots Association has filed a grievance with the company.
"It's small. It lacks adequate privacy considerations and it's in a noisy area where the activities of the cabin and the cockpit make it difficult if not impossible to get sleep," said Capt. Andy Deane, spokesman for the Air Line Pilots Association. "Simply being horizontal is not enough."
Delta says the bunks are safe and approved by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Pig cell breakthrough may help heart patients
WASHINGTON — An experiment with pig cells and a machine that mimics the pulse of the heart shows that new, living arteries can be grown in the laboratory to replace diseased vessels, an important step in the developing field of making new body parts.
Laura A. Niklason of Duke University leader of the research team that made the pig arteries, said that the vessels are indistinguishable from the native structure.
Niklason, first author of a study that appears today in the journal Science, said that although the experiment used pigs, it demonstrated that it is fundamentally possible to grow new arteries to replace those that have become clogged or blocked by heart disease. She said engineered, living arteries may someday be used in human heart bypasses instead of the leg veins that doctors now use.
"This is proof that one can take a vessel from an adult animal, make an artery and then put it back in and have it work." Niklason said.
A number of labs are now experimenting with tissue culture techniques designed to grow new body parts. Some have grown ligaments, tendons, bone and even a new ear. But Niklason said her experiment was different because the incubation machine rhythmically pumped nutrients through the developing cells, imitating the pressures from a beating heart.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student reported to police April 9 that a man who she did not know kicked her and hit her on several occasions between 11 p.m. Feb. 28 and 11 p.m. March 27 outside of Jayhawker Towers, the KU Public Safety Office said. Police said that they were attempting to locate the suspect.
The Associated Press
A KU student's wallet was stolen between 1:30 and 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in 1445 Wesco Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The wallet was valued at $10.
- Welding equipment was stolen between 5 p.m. March 31 and 8 a.m. Monday from the Facilities Operations building, the KU Public Safety Office said. The equipment was valued at $774.
■ A desktop was damaged between 5 p.m.
April 9 and 8:30 a.m. Wednesday in 427
Blake Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said.
The damage was estimated at $200.
The tail light of a KU visitor's car was damaged between 12:30 a.m. and 8 a.m.
Wednesday in lat 105 near McCollum Hall,
the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage to the car was not estimated.
A KU employee reported to police that she had received an obscene message on her pager at 12:50 p.m. Wednesday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The employee told police that she had no idea who could have sent the message.
Today IN HISTORY
1705 Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College
1866-Nitrolycerine at Wells Fargo & Co office excludes
1917 Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Rev
alition.
1922 Annie Oakley shot 100 clay targets in a
raw,a woman's record
1940-1 at televised baseball game, WGN-TV,
White Sox Cubs exhibition
1945 US troops enter Nuremberg, Germany, during WW II
1947Lens to provide zoom effects demonstrated
1962Walter Crankite begins anchoring CBS Eve-
1972.2 giants pandas arrive in the US, from China
1977.Alex Hale finds his Roots in Jufure, Gambia
1989.Costa Rica beats US 1-0, in 3rd round of
1990 world soccer cup
Impeachment investigators get big bucks
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The House paid its top impeachment investigators as much as $20,000 a month, part of the $1.2 million-plus price tag for the five-month congressional proceedings that ended with President Clinton's acquittal, expense
Starr: Earns top dollars U.S. independent counsel.
In addition, chief Republican investigator David Schippers and Democratic counsel Abbe Lowell were given special consultant status that allowed them to bypass congressional restrictions on outside income and continue work at their private law firms. Schippers wha
Schippers, whose private practice is in
Chicago, was paid at the rate of $20,000 a month during the height of the investigation, according to House Judiciary Committee records. Lowell, a Washington lawyer, was paid at a monthly rate of $18,000, according to expense records reviewed by The Associated Press.
Adjusted to annual salary, both men were being paid at a rate of more than $200 000 per year.
In contrast, staff lawyers for Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr earn between $66,563 and $118,400 annually. The independent counsel's deputies must also sever ties with their private law firms — a prohibition that does not apply to Starr.
House members and senators earn $136,700 a year.
According to Judiciary Committee records, the panel paid for a portion of its investigation with $1.2 million from a special fund, which covered compensation for investigators, equipment, travel, communications, printing and other expenses solely related to impeachment.
ON CAMPUS
■ Writer's Roosts, sponsored by Writing Consulting: Student Resources will be open from 4 to 10 p.m. Sunday at the Academic Resource Center in Templin Hall. Call 864-2399 for more information.
The St. Lawrence Catholic Center will have mass at 4:45 p.m. Saturday and at 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 5 p.m., and 10 p.m. Sunday at the Center, 1631 Crescent Road. Call Tracey English at 840-0357 for more information.
The Department of Medicinal Chemistry will sponsor the 37th Annual Medicinal Chemistry of Minnesota, Illinois, Kansas and Iowa "Meeting-in-Minature" at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Alderson Auditorium. The keynote address will be given by Dr. Roger M. Freidinger of Merck and Co., Inc. in West Point, Pa. The title of his seminar is "Nonpeptide Ligands for Peptide Receptors: Oxytocin Antagonists." Call Mary MacDonald at 864-5565 for more information.
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