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The Inside Front
Monday April 12,1999
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Public transport activist to oversee KU on Wheels
A public transportation activist will serve as the KU on Wheels transportation coordinator for the next academic year.
Last Thursday, the KU on Wheels transportation board chose Holly Krebs, holdover senator and McLouth junior, to oversee the daily operations of KU on Wheels. Saferide and Lifvian.
Krebs, Delta Force candidate for off-campus senator, will be a member of the Student Senate executive staff and will begin training for the position this month.
She will be responsible for distributing bus passes, coordinating route changes, reviewing the KU on Wheels contract and providing information for bus passengers.
Krebs said that although she had been active in trying to create a joint citywide bus system between the University of Kansas and the city of Lawrence, serving students would be her first priority as transportation coordinator. But, she said, the knowledge she would gain through the position would help her coordinate a potential public transportation system with the city.
My peripheral role will be doing what can to work with the city to create a system that would work even better," she said.
Krebs said she hoped to improve KU's bus system and find solutions to the inconvenient process of picking up bus passes and the failure of Smartcards to serve as bus passes.
— Nadia Mustafa
Ben Walker, transportation board chairman, said the board appointed Krebs because she had experience with the issue of citywide transportation and had connections within the administration.
Housing seminar targets landlord-tenant issues
Forced eviction, rent payments and city housing standards were just a few of the topics that about 25 residents showed up to learn about at a housing seminar Saturday at the Community Building, 115 W. 11th St.
The seminar on fair housing in Lawrence included a panel discussion of state and local laws and the rights of residential tenants. Both landlords and tenants could ask the panel questions about their individual rights under city and state laws.
Gene Shaughnessy, Lawrence building inspector, said tenants should try to work with their landlord before bringing problems to the attention of the city.
"It is kind of like buying a new car," Shaughnessy said. "You should kick the tires, check the lights, etc. When we do an inspection, we don't take either side, we just come in and look to see if there is a violation."
Shaughnessy also said the city would intervene only in cases that went beyond general maintenance concerns.
Shelley Clark, who represented Douglas County Legal Aid at the seminar, spoke about what frustrated landlords and tenants could accomplish legally
"I'm a strong tenant advocate." Clark said. "It is very important to get a written record of everything."
Wanda Marshall, chair of the Human Relations Commission, said that local landlords had more rights than tenants.
The seminar came after a February decision by the Lawrence City Commission to have a discussion session about housing issues.
-Heather Woodward
NATION
Ethnic Albanians may add to U.S. refugee pool
WASHINGTON D.C.. Since 1975, more than 2 million refugees have settled in the United States, the State Department said.
Their changing faces reflect the world's trouble spots. More than a million came from Southeast Asia after the Vietnam War. The crumbling of the Soviet Union brought more than 350,000 refugees. In recent years, refuges have arrived from Somalia, Ethiopia and Iraq.
And now there may be more from Kosovo.
The U.S. government last week offered to grant temporary asylum to 20,000 ethnic Albanians forced out of Yugoslavia by Slobodan Milosevic's forces. Whether or not the plan will go forward is uncertain, government officials said, because conditions for refugees have become more stable in camps in Macedonia and Albania and because many expressed reluctance to go to the designated site, the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
If Kosovo refugees do make the trip, history suggests some will eventually become permanent refugees in the United States. What would they face here? History provides a guide for that, too.
Listen to America's adopted refugees, whether from Laos, Kurdistan, Cuba or Bosnia, and a common thread emerges. Even among those who have adapted to life in the United States — and most do — there is a lingering sense of loss of what they left behind.
Heart-helping medications may combat colon cancer
PHILADELPHIA — A combination of aspirin and cholesterol-lowering drugs, already used by millions of Americans to keep their hearts healthy, may also significantly lower their risk of colon cancer.
New research presented Sunday suggests that these two ubiquitous medicines appear to offer a potent — if unintended — shield against a disease that kills about 48,000 a year in the United States.
Data from both human and animal studies suggest that together, the medications may eliminate cells in the earliest stages of cancer before they grow into full-blown malignancy.
sevelt Hospital Center in New York City, was released at the annual scientific meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.
The work is based on a new analysis of the powerful class of cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins. The research, conducted by doctors from St. Luke's-Roo
India tests missile despite U.S. appeal for restraint
WORLD
NEW DELHI, India — A new missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead soared into the skies over India on Sunday, defying U.S. appeals for restraint in weapons testing and raising fears of a new arms race with neighboring Pakistan
India's Defense Minister George Fernandes said the successful 11-minute test flight of the Agni II missile marked a great day for India, while Pakistan said it would decide in the next two or three days how to respond.
The launch came nearly a year after India conducted a series of underground nuclear tests, prompting its rival, Pakistan to respond with tests of its own. The two countries have fought three wars since they were carved from a British colony in 1947
Pakistan was given advance warning of the launch.
In the Pakistan capital of Islamabad, Foreign Minister Sajit Aziz confirmed his government had received the warning Saturday. "We are disappointed and concerned," he said after the test. "We had decided on restraint."
White House spokesman Mike Hammers said the missile test "appears to be out of step with positive developments in the political sphere."
He said India's government informed the United States on Friday of its decision to test the missile.
Mir crew to perform tests during Friday's space walk
MOSCOW—Two crew members aboard Russia's Mir space station will perform a space walk to set up experiments and test tools designed to patch holes in the aging ship, a news report said Saturday.
Russian cosmonaut Viktor Afanasyev and French astronaut Jean-Pierre Heigneger will embark on the space walk Friday. The third crew member, Sargee Avdeyev, will monitor them from inside the Mir, Iart-Tass news agency reported.
The Mir's three-man crew is possibly its last. If outside investors cannot be found to foot the 13-year-old station's $250 million annual cash, the cash-strapped government will discard it in August.
Spektr was never repaired, and the tools never tested, because crew members at the time could not find all the module's leaks.
The repair equipment was originally designed to seal leaks in Mir's Spektr module, which was severely damaged when a runaway cargo ship slammed into it in 1997.
-The Associated Press
A typewriter, hazardous gas detector and volatile sealer-crimper were stolen between 8 a.m. June 1 and 7 p.m. April 1 from the Chemical Engineering Department in Learned Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The stolen property was valued at $2 903 72.
ON THE RECORD
A tool box was stolen from a Facilities Operations vehicle between 11:30 p.m. Tuesday and 6:55 a.m. Wednesday from lot 126 near the Facilities Operations building, the KU Public Safety Office said. The toolbox and its contents were valued at $276.43.
A KU student's cellular phone was stolen between 10:45 a.m. and 12:25 p.m. Wednesday from the east steps of Wescoe Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The phone was valued at $289.
A KU student wrecked his motorcycle when he veered to miss another KU's car at 6:27 p.m. Wednesday in lot 10 east of Joseph R. Pearson Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage to the motorcycle was minor. There was no damage to the car.
A KU student's car collided with a KU visitor's car at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday in lt 109 east of Joyhawker Towers, the KU Public Safety Office said. The cars were damaged but drivable after the accident.
A KU student's backpack was stolen between 11:50 p.m. and 12:30 p.m. Tuesday from Ekdahl Dining Commons, the KU Public Safety Office said. The backpack and its contents were valued at $22.5.
A KU employee's car struck another KU employee's car at 11:34 a.m. April 4 at Crestline Drive and West 15th Street, the KU Public Safety Office said. One of the cars received minor damage while the other received major damage.
- The rear window of a KU student's window was broken between 7:30 p.m. and 11:15 p.m. Thursday in lot 15 east of Blake Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The window was valued at $250.
A box of flour and a bottle of vanilla were stolen from a KU student's apartment in the 1000 block of Missouri Street, the KU Public Safety Office said. The items were valued at $9.
A KU student's checks were stolen from his home between Feb. 25 and March 19 in the 1400 block of Apple Lane, Lawrence Police said. Forged checks were written on the account for a total of $120.
A KU student's car was broken into and his fleece vest, CD player and other miscellaneous items were stolen between 6:15 p.m. Wednesday and 10 p.m. Thursday in the 1500 block of Louisiana Street, Lawrence Police said. The stolen property was valued at $905.
A KU student's car was broken into and CDs were stolen between 4:20 a.m. and 4:24 a.m. Friday in the 1000 block of Alma Drive, Lawrence Police said. The CDs were valued at $2,080.
A KU student's car was stolen between 8 a.m. and 5:15 p.m. Wednesday in the 1300 block of Kentucky Street, Lawrence Police said. The car was valued at $1,500.
Senate has added funding, permanent minority senators
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outer scheduling, but that the panelists were excellent.
Besides financing events including Black History Month, KU Queers and Allies Pride Week and the Asian-American Festival, Student Senate recently removed the yearly review clause for the five multicultural senate seats.
These positions, which give one seat to the Black Student Union, the Asian-American Student Union, KU Queers and Allies, Hispanic-American Leadership Organization and First Nations Student Association, are now as permanent as any other senate seat, Bradshaw said.
Mark Chotimongkol, who currently holds the Asian-American Student Union seat, said the multicultural seats were a good addition.
"I think its a good idea to get more minority voices in the Senate." Chotimongkol said. "Traditionally Student Senate has been very white. Most of the experience of minority students was to ask for funds."
Dede Seibel, Nunemaker senator and YOU candidate for student body vice president, has been on the finance committee for three years. She said more groups were getting more money for multicultural events.
She said many KU multicultural groups now received block allocation, which traditionally delivered larger sums of money.
Gloria Flores, former director of the Multicultural Resource Center, who took a new position at the University two weeks ago, said that in the past five years Senate had improved in its overall treatment of minorities.
"I think that the Senate has been very equitable," Flores said. "More this year than in the past."
Flores said the funding the center had received had been fair.
She thought that Senate, however, might benefit from diversity training earlier in the school year.
"I think they can always use diversity training," she said.
ON CAMPUS
-Edited by Juan H. Heath
■ 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 have Mass at 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Center, 1631 Crescent Road. Call Father Vince Krance at 843-0357 for more information.
There will also be daily Mass at 12:30 p.m. m. Mon-
day, Wednesday and Friday at Danforth Chapel.
Call Father Ray May 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 Wescow Hall and from noon to 4 p.m. at 4006 Wescow Hall. Call 864-2399 for more information.
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