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The Inside Front
Wednesday April 14, 1999
News
from campus, the state the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Kansan advertising staff receives national awards
The advertising staff of the University Daily Kansan won three national awards April 10 at the College Newspaper Business and Advertising Manager's Conference.
The advertising staff won best full-color advertisement for the Wild Eyes contact lenses ad, best newspaper promotion campaign for the ads promoting the Kansan and best run of press group promotion for the "Here Kitty, Kitty" and "Sit Down Norm" basketball posters.
"The only thing I was truly proud of was that we were the only school with a circulation of 40,000 and above that received three first-place awards," said Jamie Holman, Kansan business manager.
Dan Simon, sales and marketing advisor for the Kansan, said the poster series was a highlight.
"Not only did we get a basketball coach resign over it, we got an award over our peers," he said.
Chris Hopkins
Endowment winner to read poetry at Union
Poet Jay Wright will read from his most recent book, "Boleros," at 4:30 p.m. today at the Malot Room in the Kansas Union.
"He's interested in cross-cultural connections of America and Africa and Mexico and Europe," said Ken Irby, associate professor of English, and a poet. "He's lived in most of the places at one time or another."
Wright, also a novelist and playwright has won awards and fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts And The Guggenheim Foundation, among other agencies.
Dan Curry
The department of English will sponsor the poetry reading.
Edwards Campus offers open house for students
Prospective graduate students will have an opportunity to speak with faculty members, pick up financial aid information and prepare for graduate entrance exams at an open house at the University of Kansas Edwards Campus in Overland Park. The open house is scheduled from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at 12600 Quivira Road.
The event will include information about all aspects of the Edwards Campus, which provides graduate and professional degree programs for working adults. Degrees are offered in architecture, business, communication studies, marketing communications, pharmacy, public administration, education, electrical engineering, civil and environmental engineering, engineering management, health services
administration and social work.
"We do have some programs such as communication studies that don't require a certain number of years in the work force," said Jessica Welch, director of graduate recruiting at the Edwards Campus.
Prospective students planning to take graduate entrance exams such as the GRE or the GMAT will be able to use the test preparation software available at the Edwards Campus. But the open house isn't limited to just those interested in an entire degree program. Prospective students interested in enrolling in just one course also are invited.
For more information, call (913) 897-8400.
Sarah Smith Nessel
LAWRENCE Preliminary hearing date for KU employee changed
The preliminary hearing for Constance Conboy, a secretary in the Office of Minority Affairs who is facing four counts of theft and two counts of criminal use of a financial card, was continued until 1:45 p.m. May 11 in the Division I district courtroom at the Law Enforcement Center, 111 E. 11th St.
The date of the hearing was changed because Conboy's attorney had not been able to review reports from the KU Public Safety Office on the investigation of the embezzlements.
The funds originally were reported missing Feb. 5 by Shenwood Thompson, director of minority affairs. The theft occurred between May 7, 1997, and Sept. 18, 1998.
Conboy is on leave without pay until the case is decided by the court.
Lawrence man faces charges of rape, sodomy
Jeffery Lee Campbell, a 29-year-old Lawrence man, was arrested yesterday in connection with the attempted rape and sexual battery of a 19-year-old girl, said Sgt. Rich Nickell of the Lawrence Police Department.
Judge Robert Fairchild found probable cause to support the charges, and a preliminary hearing was set for April 21 at 1:45 p.m. in the Division IV district courtroom at the Law Enforcement Center. 11.1 E. 11th St.
Campbell also is accused of raping and sodomizing his 3-year-old step-daughter between September and December 1998. He was arrested on these charges Jan. 27 but was released on $35,000 bond.
His bond on the recent charges was set at $75,000.
— Katie Burford
NATION
Kevorkian sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison
Kevorkian: Will not be released on bail during appeals.
PONTIAC, Mich. — Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who videotaped himself giving a man a lethal injection and dared prosecutors to stop his assisted-suicide campaign, was sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison yesterday by a judge who told him: "Sir, consider 'yourself stopped.'"
Kevotkin, who turns 71 next month, grinned as he was led from the courtroom in handcuffs, saying to a friend, "Justice?》 He said nothing when given the opportunity to speak at his sentencing.
Judge Jessica Cooper refused to release him on bail while he appeals his murder conviction, saying she couldn't trust his promise not to take part in any more suicides.
WORLD
Albania claims Serbs captured Albanian village
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — Serb forces crossed into northern Albania today and briefly captured a border village. Albanian officials said hours after NATO aircraft hit Yugoslavia's biggest oil refinery in hopes of crippling the Yugoslav war machine.
Serb infantry troops exchanged gunfire with Albanian border police and seized control of Kamenica, Albania's interior minister Petro Koci said, before withdrawing later in the day. Houses were reported on fire about a mile inside northeastern Albania, but there was no word on casualties.
Yugoslavia denied any of its forces entered Albania, saying there was no incursion.
"It's exactly the opposite," Nebojsa Vujovic of the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry told CNN today, saying Albanian forces had crossed into Serb territory and that Serbs were defending their boundaries. In reaction to the reports, the State Department warned the Yugoslavs not to widen the war.
Artan Jakupi, a translator with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which monitors the border area, saw his own house and a cluster of others in Kamenica burning from a distance.
More than 300,000 Kosovo refugees have fled to Albania since last month. NATO has taken over the country's airfields, airspace and military infrastructure during its drive to aid the Kosovar refugees in Albania and for its military campaign against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
The Associated Press
Senators urge student feedback
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Senate sometimes legally suspends its rules and regulations to pass specific legislation or to take certain actions, but Yoder said that Senate followed through with its regulations fairly often. He said he did not like the idea of suspending the rules.
"I'm against it because the reason we have rules and regulations is so that people follow them," he said. "Suspending them takes away their importance."
Krebs, holdover senator, said Senate had a tendency to side with tradition instead of regulations.
Partha Mazumdar, graduate senator, however, said Senate always adhered to its rules because recent Senate executive chairs had made sure Senate retained its integrity. But, he said, senators often disagreed about legislation.
"The election sets the tone for the next year," Mazumdar said. "If the election is clean, next year's Senate is clean. If the election is dirty, senators hate each other."
Yoder agreed that infighting often occurred within Senate.
"It's one of the things that gives Senate a bad name
within the student body," he said. "Infighting and politics is a lot of what goes on around here. It's pretty sad."
Backs said that senators worked well together during the fall but that tensions rose second semester during campaign time.
She said even if she wasn't graduating this year, she would not run for Senate next year because it was plagued with infighting.
Backs cited a meeting earlier this semester in which many senators felt pressured in voting to pay for a Webmaster for Greeks Achieving Leadership Experience, a newsletter serving the greek community. She said they feared senators who supported financing GALE would cut funding for the Kaw Valley Independent if the bill failed.
Krebs said because ideological differences created healthy debate, Senate had done a good job this year. She said that Senate voiced students' concerns to the administration but that it was not always as effective as it could be.
Mazumdar said Senate had the potential to accomplish a lot.
It's not just building buildings, but setting the
tone for what kind of educational opportunities students will have," Mazumdar said.
Although many senators perceive that the administration is a restrictive force, Mazumdar said that it wasn't.
"If we do something wholeheartedly that the administration disagreed with, they wouldn't stop us," he said.
Backs said that issues such as online enrollment and decreasing tuition arose from students' concerns but that those types of initiatives moved slowly.
Backs said she was frustrated with students' apathy and ignorance when she realized how powerful Senate was.
"Any problems that students have can be solved through Senate," she said. "Yet when students look at Senate, they see a bunch of future politicians — which it mostly is."
Krebs stressed that the relationship between Senate and students was not a oneway street. She said that senators must reach out to students, but also that students must communicate with senators.
- Edited by Sarah Hale
ON THE RECORD
A CD player and an amplifier were stolen from a KU student's car between 3 and 9:45 a.m. April 4 in the 600 block of Schwarz Road, Lawrence Police said. The stolen property was valued at $1,285.
A KU student's car was broken into and a sub-woofer speaker was stolen between 1 p.m. Thursday and 12:30 p.m. Friday in the 2300 block of West 26th Street, Lawrence Police said. The damage and stolen property was valued at $110.
stolen property was valued.
**A KU student's wallet and other items were stolen between 9 and 11 p.m. Friday in the 1100 block of Louisiana Street, Lawrence Police said. The stolen property was valued at $85.**
A KU Public Safety Officer was dispatched at 2:36 a.m. Sunday to 21 Stouffler Place on a report of an apartment's smelling of natural gas, the KU Public Safety Office said. The pilot light on the apartment's stove had gone out and was causing the smell.
ON CAMPUS
OAKS — Non-Traditional Students Organization will have a brown bag lunch conference from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. today at Alcove A in the Kansas Union. Call Simmie Berrava at 830-0074 for more information.
- Ecumenical Christian Ministries will sponsor the University Forum "Privatization of Foster Care" from noon to 1 p.m. today at the ECM Center, 1204 Oread Ave. Jean Shepherd, district court judge, will be the featured speaker. Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933 for more information.
The Pre-Law Office will have a mandatory school next for all pre-law junior applicants to apply to law school next year from 4 to 5 p.m. today at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Call Michael Lynch at 864-2896 for more information.
KU Gamers and Roleplayers will meet at 6:30 p.m. today at the Hawk's Nest in the Kansas Union. Call Ben Siegan at 865-5759 for more information.
Singer Englewood
Writer's Roosts, sponsored by Writing Consulting: Student Resources will be open today at the following times and locations: from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. at the Burge Union, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 4003 Wescoe Hall, and from noon to 4 p.m. at 4006 Wescoe Hall. Call 864-2399 for more information.
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Starting Your Own Business?
AIESEC, SIFE, and Student Senate are sponsoring a free entrepreneur forum!
A panel consisting of local entrepreneurs, as well as financing and marketing experts will discuss what it takes to start your own business.
- Saturday, April 17th 11:30 - 1:30 p.m.
- Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
AIESEC
KANSAS
SIFE
STUDIO IN MEDIA ENTERTAINMENT
STUDENT
SENATE
Who: The Jewish Student Council What: Clothes Drive for Kosovo When: Now-Friday April 30th
HELP KOSOVO
Where: Donation spots are located at
- Naismith Hall 1800 Naismith
- Hillel Office - located in the union
- Sigma Delta Tau House - 1625 EdgeHill
- Zeta Beta Tau House - 1003 Emery
- Alpha Epsilon Pi - 1116 Indiana
Please feel free to drop any type of clothing off at any of these places.
Whv: To help those that are less fortunate!
If any questions, please call the Hillel Office at 864-3948