Monday, April 5, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 7
Enrolling without a hitch
Students line up to enroll for the fall semester. Enrollment began Friday at 151
Strong Hall. Photo by Tara Bradley/KANSAN
Administrators say planning eases problems
By Chris Hopkins
chopkins@kanson.com
Kansas staff writer
Online enrollment may be a ways away, but there are still things students can do to make enrollment easier.
The main enrollment period began on Friday and runs through April 23.
Rich Morrell, University registrar, said the most important thing students could do to ensure an easy enrollment was to make sure that their permit to enroll was complete with all the necessary stamps, holds cleared and alternate course selections listed.
Kathryn Tuttle, director of the Freshman-Sophomore Advising Center, said deciding on alternates ahead of time was important.
"Students need to list alternatives so they have some flexibility." she said.
Morrell said students could go to a room in the back of the Freshman-Sophomore Advising Center to clear many holds, including
fees, parking and immunization. He said the office would be open whenever enrollment was in session.
Morrell also said students should check the closed-class list before they enroll. The list is updated daily, he said, and is posted around the corner from the enrollment center.
Tuttle said classes with only one section, required courses and classes with a good reputation are the first to fill. Some departments might close faster than others, she said.
"Sometimes the English courses,
not the 100 level, but the 200 level, can fill quickly. "Turtle said."
Tuttle said that although she was biased because of her position, she thought that advising was another important step for students in any year to take.
Juniors or seniors should go to their department or school for their advising, Tuttle said.
"It's very painful for students to get to their senior year and find out they're a few classes short," she said.
Tuttle said that after students completely prepare for enrollment, they should arrive five to 10 minutes before their appointment time.
"There's no good reason to arrive an hour before their scheduled time," she said.
Tuttle said if a student missed their enrollment appointment time, they could enroll at any time after their scheduled time.
Amanda Escher, Topeka graduate student, worked for the enrollment center last semester. She said student preparation tended to be inconsistent.
"Some people know exactly what they need, some people don't have a clue," she said.
edited by Julie Sachs
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — In a riskladen escalation of the American military commitment, the United States has agreed to send 24 Apache helicopter gunships and 2,000 troops to Albania, giving NATO the ability to directly attack Serb troops and tanks in Yug slavia, the Clinton administration said yesterday.
United States adds gunships, 2,000 troops to Kosovo force
To protect the Apaches, U.S. troops will man 18 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems deployed to Albania as well as short- and medium-range missiles that can take out Yugoslav air defenses throughout Kosovo, where ethnic Albanians are under continued attack.
NATO leaders meeting today must approve using the weapons, followed by President Clinton. The Pentagon said it could take up to 10 days to deploy the Apaches from their base at Illesheim, Germany, because many U.S. military cargo planes also are being used for humanitarian aid.
Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon said deploying the Apaches and rocket launcher was "a logical expansion" of the nearly two-week-old NATO airstrikes to halt Yugoslav Slobodan Milosevic's military drive against Kosovars in the Serbian province.
Bacon said the weapons would give them the type of tank-killing capability that bad weather had denied them.
"It will give us the capability to get up closer and personal to the Milosevic armor units in Kosovo, and to do a more effective job at eliminating or neutralizing the forces on the ground," Bacon said.
"Obviously, close-in engagement is by definition riskier than more distant engagement. But the army is trained to cope with that," he said.
He acknowledged the increasing risk to U.S. forces.
Amid the growing refugee crisis in the Balkans, the United States also said it temporarily would provide shelter for up to 20,000 ethnic Albanians fleeing Serb assaults while Eu'opean nations take in as many as 100,000 — but just until they can return home under international protection.
"These people have to go back, otherwise there are no people in Kosovo," Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said.
In opening its doors to the victims of Milosevic's effort to clear Kosovo of its ethnic Albanian majority, U.S. officials did not say where refugees might go, but suggested it would be outside the 50 states.
sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., said on CNN that he was told the plan was to airlift the refugees to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, once used to house thousands of Haitians fleeing violence in their homeland. Bacon said no decision had been made and that there were appropriate U.S. facilities in Guam as well.
More than 350,000 ethnic Albanians have fled since NATO airstrikes began on March 24, and the exodus continued Sunday.
Albright, appearing on NBC's Meet the Press, blamed the refugee crisis on Milosevic, whose forces have continued attacks on ethnic Albanians and forced them by bus and on foot out of Kosovo, a province of Serbia.
She dismissed the suggestion that the air campaign led to the crisis.
"He has systematically brutalized his population," she said. "To say we are responsible for the refugees and the atrocities is
really like saying the police force is responsible for a serial killer." In other Kosovo-related developments:
Bacon said it was "encouraging" that the Yugoslav government had said it would treat three captured U.S. soldiers as prisoners of war, which could protect them from trial. The rangers were caught near the Macedonia-Yugoslav border last week and U.S. officials have called for their immediate release, although as POWs, they could be held until the end of hostilities.
■ Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher, writing Sunday in an opinion piece in The Washington Post, urged using "whatever force is necessary" to crush Milosevic's drive to control Kosovo and to ensure NATO does not fail in its first offensive fight in its 50-year history. "We should position strong, mobile forces in Macedonia and Albania to protect those fragile nations and to make it plain that no option has been foreclosed," Christopher wrote.
The Clinton administration continued to rule out using U.S. ground forces in Kosovo, despite criticism by members of Congress and military experts that the option should be kept open.
Several prominent congressional Republicans and Democrats urged President Clinton to make the use of ground troops in Kosovo an option.
"The diplomacy won't start until our president stops saying no ground troops," said Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Democratic Sens. Charles Robb, D-Va. and Joe Biden, D-Del. also urged Clinton to keep the possibility of deploying U.S. forces in Kosovo as an option.
U.S. aircraft fleet in Iraq thinning
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has diverted important parts of the U.S. air fleet charged with monitoring the sky over northern Iraq in order to sustain its role in NATO airstrikes against Yugoslavia, officials said.
Among the planes sent to Europe for the intensifying conflict with Yugoslavia are Navy EA-6B Prowlers, which are electronic warfare planes that jam and can attack air defense radars, and refueling aircraft, according to defense officials who discussed the matter on condition of anonymity.
As a result, the American and British fighter aircraft used to enforce a no-fly zone over northern Iraq have not flown since March 20, four days before NATO launched its air strikes against Yugoslavia.
Not coincidentally, U.S. officials have reported no Iraqi violations of the flight ban in that period, and almost daily U.S. and British attacks on Iraqi air-defense sites in the north have stopped. Air Force
F-15E attack planes conducted the last attack in northern Iraq on March 16, against anti-aircraft artillery. In the 10 days before that, U.S. planes attacked in northern Iraq almost every day.
The pace of confrontations in southern Iraq also has slackened, although allied planes are continuing to monitor the sky.
Yesterday, American F-16 and F/A-18 fighters, joined by British GR-1 Tornado fighters, attacked a surface-to-air missile battery and two unspecified communications sites south of Baghdad in response to Iraqi violations of the southern no-fly zone, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said. A second attack by allied planes yesterday also targeted similar Iraqi military installations in the region, the U.S. military said. There also was a U.S. attack Friday, the first since March 19.
U. S. planes did not fly over the northern nofly zone yesterday, the 15th straight day of no flights.
Allied aircraft based in Saudi Arabia and aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Gulf carry out air patrols over the southern
zone, whereas the enforcement effort in the north relies entirely on land-based planes in Turkey.
rivatey, Pentagon officials express surprise that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has not used the Yugoslavia conflict, which is drawing so much of the U.S. military's attention and resources, as an opportunity to make trouble in the no-fly zones, which are intended to suppress the Iraqi air force.
Asked last week why Saddam has been so quiet recently, Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon replied, "I suppose the most charitable answer is perhaps his forces are exhausted and taking a break."
Ornithologists at U.S. European Command in Germany, whose aircraft at Intrilk Air Base, Turkey, are enforcing the northern no-fly zone, acknowledge that some aircraft have been diverted to the NATO campaign
They will provide no details, including how many or which kinds of aircraft were sent. The European Command's commander, U.S. Army Gen. Wesley Clark, also is the NATO commander who is directing the air war against Yugoslavia.
The Associated Press
Suspects in journalist's slaying recant confessions
SAN ANTONIO — Two Huichol Indians who earlier admitted killing American journalist Philip True have changed their story, saying Mexican police tortured confessions from them.
"I didn't touch him. I didn't kill him," Juan Chivarra of the Cruz told the San Antonio Express-News. "I saw him walking by when I was vaccinating my cows. That's all."
De la Cruz, 28, and his brother-in-law, Miguel Hernandez de la Cruz, 24, remain jailed in the Mexican state of Jalisco, charged with murdering the former Express-News Mexico City correspondent.
True disappeared in December while on a 100-mile hike to document the Hutchols. His body was found in a shallow grave.
Pence say the men confessed to strangling True with his own neckchief because he
Now the two say Mexican police forced them to fabricate confessions.
Later, the men told reporters and a criminal court judge they killed True because he had threatened their families.
angered them by hiking through Indian land.
"They hit us a lot, so I decided to say, 'Yes,
yes, we did it,' Chivarra said.
yes, we will. Onward Pasture.
Hernandez told the Express-News that police hung him from a tree to gain his confession.
"If you are hanging from a tree,you will agree to anything," he said.
A Jalisco human-rights commission had earlier alleged the men were tortured into confessing.
Separate autopsies have also offered conflicting accounts of True's death. One by the Jalisco state coroner said True was strangled, while a federal autopsy said True died from fluid in his lungs and a blow to the head.
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