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The Inside Front
Thursday April 8,1999
News
from campus, the state the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Eighth-grade students to visit KU Law School
Local eighth-grade students will descend on the KU Law School today and tomorrow for the third-annual Thurgood Marshall Law Day Program.
About 100 students will have the opportunity to learn about the positive aspects of the U.S. legal system.
The Black Law Students Association, the Lawrence Police Department and law school professors will present workshops and mock trials during the two days of the program.
Dan Curry
Engineering students to have informal debate
Five engineering students will vie to gain votes for three open engineering Student Senate seats at an informal debate tonight.
Incumbent YOU candidate Marlon Marshall and other YOU candidates for the engineering seats Brady Rodgers and Sonya Mohseni will debate Delta Force candidates Sarah Hill and Katherine Marchin, at 5:30 p.m. in 2002 Learned Hall.
The candidates will answer students' questions at the debate, which is sponsored by the Engineering Student Council. They also will speak about their coalitions' campaign platforms and issues pertinent to the School of Engineering.
Kimberly Raymour, Engineering Student Council president, plans to moderate the debate. If she does not, Marcus Dunavan, Engineering Student Council president-elect, will be the moderator.
"Hopefully it will be a chance to know the actual candidates and have more informed voter decisions," Raymour said.
- Nadia Mustafa
Counseling Services to offer alcohol testing
Students who worry that they might have a drinking problem will have the opportunity to receive some answers during the National Alcohol Screening Day today.
Counseling and Psychological Services is sponsoring free anonymous screening from 1 to 3 p.m. at the first-floor conference room at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
Linda Keeler of CAPS said that students would be able to take a self-test to see if they had a problem with the way they used alcohol. Students also will be able to take an anonymous questionnaire about alcohol and talk one-on-one with CAPS staff. If needed, students could be referred to alcohol treatment and support services on campus.
Keeler also will give a talk and show two videos about how alcohol affects people in their everyday lives.
The tests are designed to address the
issue of binge-drinking on campus and its effects on student's grades and health
Keeler said that the tests were not a diagnosis to say whether or not someone was an alcoholic. She said they were intended to look at the way students used alcohol and to see if there was a reason for concern.
The screening is a program of the National Mental Illness Screening Project and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
T. J. Johnson
Seating for guests at this year's convocation will be limited to the east side of Memorial Stadium due to renovations, said Jeff Weinbent, assistant to the Chancellor.
Renovations to limit convocation seating
Students will be seated in the bowl in the north end of the stadium, and guests with special needs will be seated on the track, as the stadium's elevators will be out of service as well.
Weinberg said that convoction would run as usual in all other respects.
Renovations that the University is working on include the replacement of some seats and renovations to the press box. Construction on the east side of the stadium were completed last year.
All renovations will be completed in time for football season in the fall.
Chris Hopkins
KU professors bring back geology survey course
Two professors at the University of Kansas have revived a popular geology survey course that hasn't been offered for three semesters.
Geology 121, Prehistoric Life, had been taught for more than a decade by Richard A. Robison, professor emeritus of geology Robison, however, retired in the fall of 1997 and the class was no longer offered.
Jennifer Roush
Roger Kaesler, professor of geology and director of the Paleontological Institute, will teach one section of the course in the fall. Bruce Lieberman, assistant professor of geology, will teach a section in Spring 2000.
Kaesler said that the class would satisfy the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences biological science requirement. If students take Geology 123, Fossils Lab, at the same time, the course would also count as a laboratory class.
He said that the class was aimed at students who were not science majors but were interested in fossils.
Although the course is listed under the department of geology, Kaesler said it was primarily concerned with the study of prehistoric life. He said that it was classified as a geology course because it would deal with fossils, which are the only evidence that exists of prehistoric life.
Kaesler said that fossils also were the only evidence that organisms evolved in the past and that the course
would be based on the assumption that modern evolutionary theory is true.
Society raffle to offer administrative prize
Members of the sophomore honor society, Lambda Sigma, are giving KU students the opportunity to spend a day in the life of the University's top administrator.
In a raffle drawing, one student will win the chance to trade places with Chancellor Robert Hemenway for a morning
cellor Robert Remember for a morning.
Anstine Stueve, Baldia Sigma president
said that the student who wins would
spend the morning attending the chancellor's scheduled events and that the chancellor would attend the student's classes.
"This will give students an opportunity to see what the Chancellor actually does — to see him as something more than a figurehead," Stueve said.
Members of Lambda Sigma will be accepting one dollar donations for the raffle from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today and Friday on Wesco Beach. The drawing will be held April 12 and the winner will be contacted by Hemenay.
Stueve said that she hoped the group would make this an annual project and that all proceeds would benefit the Jubilee Cafe, a local agency that serves food to the homeless.
Jamie Knodel
NATION
Clinton hopes to ease relations with China
WASHINGTON — With his policy toward Beijing under attack, President Bill Clinton said yesterday that the United States must not slip into a "campaign-driven cold war with China" that would isolate the world's most populous nation.
Setting the stage for talks with Chinese
Premier Zhu Hongi, the president defended his policy of engagement with China despite sharp differences on human rights, trade and weapons proliferation.
Clinton: Defends his policy on relations with China.
address to members of the U.S. Institute for Peace, the diplomatic corps and business leaders, said he would not reverse course with China.
Relations also have been soured by suspicions that China stole nuclear warhead secrets from the United States. Clinton, in an
A KU employee's garage window was broken, and his car windshield and headlight were broken between 2 p.m. Saturday and 6:45 p.m. Sunday in the 1600 block of Barker Court, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $600.
"We will not change our policy in a way that isolates China from the global forces that have begun to empower the Chinese people to change their society and build a better future," Clinton said.
ON THE RECORD
The Associated Press
- Checks were stolen from a KU student's residence between 2 a.m. m. March 24 and noon Friday in the 2300 block of Westchester Road, Lawrence police said. The student did not report that the checks had been used to withdraw money from her account.
A KU student's passport and drivers license were stolen between 4:30 p.m. and 5 p.m.
Monday in the 700 block of West Ninth Street, Lawrence police said. The stolen identification was valued at $127.
A window was damaged between midnight Friday and midnight Saturday in Allen Fieldhouse, Lawrence police said. The window, which was valued at $500, appeared to have been shot with a BB gun.
A KU student's parking permit was stolen between 3 p.m. March 26 and 3 p.m. March 29 in the 2300 block of Wakarusa Drive, the KU Public Safety Office said. The permit was valued at $45.
A KU employee's and a KU student's car collided at 5:05 p.m. tuesday at 15th Street and Engel Road, the KU Public Safety Office said. Major damage was done to both cars.
ON CAMPUS
KU Environs and Ecumenical Christian Ministries will sponsor a vegetarian luncheon from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at the ECM Center. Call Shannan at 841-8033 for more information.
International Students Services will have an academic training workshop for international students in 1-1 status wanting permission to work off campus at 4 p.m. today at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. Call Lynne Vanhill at B64.3617 for more information.
OAKS Non-Traditional Students Organization will have a business meeting at 5:30 p.m. today at Alcove A in the Kansas Union. Call Simmie Berroya at 820-704 for more information
The Public Relations Student Society of America will meet at 7 tonight at 100 Stouffer-Flint Hall. Mike Swanson, president of public relations for Barkley, Evergreen, and Partners, Inc. will be the featured speaker. Call Rogers Manager at 840-9618 for more information
■ Amnesty International will meet for letter writing at 7 tonight at the Glass Onion, 624 W. 12th St. Call Kyle Browning at 842-1351 for more information.
Campus Crusade for Christ will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union. Call Lindsey Chalfant at 864-1562 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 at 4003 Wescoe Hall; from 1 to 4 p.m. at Alcave C in the Kansas Union, and from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Multicultural Resource Center. Call 864-2399 for more information.
Technology limits smart card options
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Penn States of the world are doing." he said.
Penn States of the world are doing," he said. Eakin said when the University first looked into offering smart-card features through the KUID, he wanted to set up a generic system that allowed students the most choice and flexibility.
But Eakin's office ran into technological limitations associated with encoding the magnetic stripe on the back of the cards. KU decided to sign with Commerce because it was already working with a network processor.
"Technologically, we're interested in this process, but we weren't able to pull it off," he said.
But he said he was interested in the program and would explore different options when the contract with Commerce expires in 2003.
Eakin also said that because Penn State was a state-university system made up of about 30 campuses, it could spread the costs around, which KU wouldn't be able to do.
"We like working with Commerce," he said. "They're great partners, and we expect to do good things. But if we can figure out a way to do something like Penn State at an affordable cost, we would be interested."
Joan Golden, director of marketing at Mercantile Bank, said working with students had been a tradition there for many years.
She didn't begrudge KU for its exclusive smart-card contract with Commerce, but she said she hoped the system would eventually be opened.
"Hopefully over the years, other banks would be able to participate in the program," she said.
Edited by Jason Pearce
Organization educates people living with HIV
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could no longer work at her job as a nurse because risks of contracting other illnesses increased with a weakened immune system.
Miller also said she had to deal with people who were uneducated about the methods of transmission of HIV, including a friend who would hold her breath when visiting Miller's house because she feared she would be infected.
mother said because of situations like this, she founded WOAM, a grass-roots volunteer-based organization, to help other women in her situation, and to educate others to help prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS.
others to help her with her talk was sponsored by the KU chapter of the National Council for Negro Women and the Douglas County AIDS Project. Students who attended said they felt that Miller was a good speaker with a worthwhile mission.
"I had never heard of her program before so she did provide a lot of good information," said Kandis Tabron, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore.
— Edited by Clint Hooker
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Academic Computing Services presents:
FREE COMPUTER TRAINING for the KU Community
April 12-14, 1999
entity, staff, and faculty and don't require registration UNESCO otherwise
or B64-0443. Some classes are $75 for non-KU as noted. The course
inclusive-accreditation or in University Ed for the information Superintendent
Center, training questions to training&xacute;edu or B64-0446."
Excel: Intermediate—Create a chart and use the worksheet as a database and more. Prerequisite: Excel: Introduction or equivalent skills. Requires registration for all and fee for non University. Mon., April 12, 1:30-4:30 p.m./ Budig Hall PC Lab, Room 10 Budig
ListProc: Resolving Errors—Learn to prioritize and resolve common and uncommon ListProc errors. For current NU ListProc discussion list owners only. Requires registration for all. Wed., April 14, 4-5 p.m., Computer Center Auditorium
Lunch & Learn: Traffic Jam on the Information Highway—With traffic increasing on the Internet, corporate intranets, and extranets, the information highway is getting mighty crowded. Yet many IT organizations are increasing their use of the information highway for critical business activities. This program provides a discussion of the technologies and business needs contributing to the traffic jam; advice on how IT managers can effectively address organization wide bandwidth issues from the desktop to the Internet, and practical suggestions for dealing with the convergence of communications media beyond the Year 2000. Thurs., April 15* noon to 1 p.m., Computer Center Auditorium. See more about Lunch & Learn
beyond the Year 2000. Thurs., April 15; noon to 1 p.m., Computer Center Auditorium. See more about Lunch & Learn on cc.ukans.edu/cs/cci
Graphic formats & scanning — Get an overview of graphic formats and scanning images for Web or print. Tuesday, April 13
10:30 a.m—noon/Computer Center Auditorium
at www.cc.ukans.edu/~acs/cci.
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