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The Inside Front
Friday April 2,1999
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Enrollment begins today to run through April 23
Main enrollment at the University of Kansas begins today at the enrollment center in Strong Hall.
The first period ends on April 23 and will be followed by an add/drop session.
Students who miss their enrollment time, which is printed on their permits to enroll, can enroll any time after that.
Chris Hopkins
'Performing Diasporas begins tonight in Union
A trio of poets and a host of speakers will comprise the first American Studies graduate student conference, "Performing Diasporas," this weekend.
"The conference encourages participants to look at the term diaspora in an elastic sense, in an enlarged sense," said Shantanu Duttaahmed, assistant professor of American Studies. "This was a conference put together by the graduate students of the department."
Michael Warner, author of Fear of a Queer Planet, will deliver the keynote address at 7 tonight at the Big 12 Room in the Kansas Union.
Chicago artists Laila Farah and Haas Mroue will perform "Between the Visa and the Checkpoint: The Journey Through Mirrored Eyes" at 2 p.m. tomorrow in 1005 Haworth Hall.
Los Delicados, a poetry trio from Sar Francisco, will perform "Just Another Cigarette Label or the Beginning of a New Millennium Poetic?" at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the same room.
Dan Curry
The conference costs $25 and includes a T-shirt and attendance at the reception.
KU student pleads guilty to peeping on neighbor
Shawn Mikulich, a 25-year-old KU student, pleaded guilty yesterday to drilling three holes into a wall that separated his residence with his female neighbor's, allowing him to see into her bathroom.
Eavesdropping and criminal damage to property were the charges filed against him. The criminal damage charge was dismissed because Mikulich's security deposit on the residence was used to repair the wall.
Mikulich will be sentenced at 11:30 p.m. April 30 at the Division V district courtroom in the Law Enforcement Center, 111 E. 11th St.
Mikulich told the court that, other than being her neighbor, he did not know the woman living next to him.
Marion Williams, a lawyer in the Office of the Douglas County District Attorney, said the state would recommend that Mikulich be sentenced to 50 hours of community service and possibly a fine
or $200 or less. Williams said the final decision on Mikulich's sentence would be up to Division V judge Paula Martin.
The holes were drilled sometime between Oct. 10 and Nov. 10, 1998.
Two KU researchers receive $534,000 grant
Two researchers at the University of Kansas Medical Center received a $534,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a test to detect Meniere's disease.
Gregory Ator, associate professor of otolaryngology at the Med Center and one of the recipients of the grant, said that the disease was a leading causes of hearing loss and vertigo, particularly among women.
The grant will help Ator and his research partner, Mark Charteroff, associate professor of hearing and speech at the Med Center, develop a sensitive, non-invasive test to see the early signs of Meniere's disease and prevent its effects.
LAWRENCE
Student appears in court to face arson charges
Aaron Culwell, St. Francis freshman, made his first appearance in court yesterday to face arson charges stemming from an incident in which a swastika was found burnt into the third-floor hallway carpet of Oliver Hall.
Culwell's attorney told the court that he was gathering information to make a case for diversion. Although the conditions have not been discussed, a diversion would mean that the charges against Culwell would be dropped at the end of a set time period if he met the court's requirements.
Culwell's preliminary hearing will be at 1:45 p.m. May 13 in Douglas County District Court.
City worker recovering after a tree fell on him
A city worker is recovering after a tree fall on him at about 1:10 p.m. yesterday on the river side of Kansas River levy near Lyon Street, said Brian Lawrence, a battalion chief with Douglas County Fire and Medical.
Workers were using a bulldozer to push over trees when the worker became trapped under one of them, Lawrence said.
the bulldozer had already pushed the tree off the man by the time medical personnel arrived.
Employee is suspect in Nation's Bank theft
He was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital for medical attention but was not admitted.
An employee of Nation's Bank, 900 Ohio St., is suspected of stealing $1,314 from the bank's cash drawer Jan. 21, said Lawrence Police Sgt. George Wheeler.
The 20-year-old Lawrence woman
Katie Burford
suspected of the theft is no longer an employee of the bank. Wheeler said that police had not yet contacted the woman.
The bank did not discover the theft until March 18.
Muslim holiday play shows Pakistani culture
A play interwoven with a fashion show and a dance performance will showcase Pakistani culture at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Building, 1204 Oread Ave.
The play intertwines American and Pakistani cultures, said Samia Qadri, Overland Park senior.
This is the first semester that the Pakistani Club has been on campus, Oadri said.
The event is in part a celebration of the Muslim holiday Eid, which was Saturday, she said.
The event costs $5.
STATE
KU recipient of grant for kids with disabilities
U. S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., announced Wednesday that the University of Kansas, Children's Mercy Hospital of Kansas City and Rockhurst College in Kansas City would receive a combined total of $600,000 in grant money to help children with disabilities.
Betsy Holahan, press secretary for Robert's office, said the grant was issued by the Department of Education to fund research in helping children and infants with cognitive and responsive disabilities.
The grant will be paid out over the next four years, she said.
The research will be a collaboration among the three institutions, and will continue for the length of the grant.
-T.J. Johnson
Roberts to stress need for more research funds
U. S. senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., will speak in Topeka today about the need for increased funding for science and technology research in Kansas.
Roberts will speak in a meeting of his Advisory Committee on Science, Technology and the Future at noon at the Capitol Plaza Hotel.
Much of his speech to the Committee will focus on research funding for universities in Kansas. Faculty salaries at Kansas universities are below those at similar schools across the country. Kansas also spends less on research facilities than similar universities, according to the Robert's studies.
Roberts formed the committee two years ago to advise him on technology needs in Kansas.
Serbian professor awaits end
— Jennifer Roush
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asked political questions, saying that she could not answer them.
Wilson said that it was possible that the Yugoslavian government could be monitoring electronic transmissions and that anyone in Gordic's situation would be worried about sending sensitive information.
Examples of censorship in times of war have not been limited to foreign countries. During World War II, Wilson said, if members of the media wanted to travel with the Armed Forces, they needed permission from the government and had to have their notes cleared by a government official.
Gordic said she thought that NATO's motives for bombing Kosovo were different than what was reported.
one said she believed NATO was not attacking Yugoslavia for humanitarian reasons, but because NATO thought Kosovo should be a sovereign nation.
Gordic said that the view that NATO attacks were intended to break apart the Yugoslav state was common among the Serbs she had spoken with.
"People are mostly angry and bitter," she said. "All political differences are erased in the utter disgust over the aggression. People firmly believe that the principal aim of NATO is the independence of Kosovo, which everybody strongly opposes. Nobody can agree with the tearing apart of his or her country."
Ryan Beasley, lecturer of political science and government at the University of Kansas, said there were a
variety of motives for NATO's action in Kosovo, one of which was humanitarian.
Beasley said that NATO was preserving a number of interests by taking action against Yugoslavia, including interests in Macedonia, Greece and Turkey.
He said that the differences between Western and non-Western media, Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's spin on information in Serbia, and Gordic's increased access to information as a university professor could explain her view of NATO's motive in Yugoslavia.
Gordic also said she was baffled about the targets selected by NATO.
"The fact that many civilian targets have been claimed military ones appalls me mostly," she said. "It seems that a chocolate factory can be taken down as a military target only because soldiers eat chocolate!"
Other buildings hit, Gordic said, included a vacuum cleaner factory, which had been struck repeatedly by NATO missile attacks.
"Babies remind me of a Yugoslav drum player, who told yesterday, at the Belgrade concert, how he deals with his 21/2-year-old son," she said. "Whenever emergency sirens announce all-alert, the drummer and his wife start shouting joyfully, because they want to persuade the boy how descending into shelter is a nice game eagerly awaited for. Still, the drummer admitted that the boy becomes suspicious no matter how naturally his parents act."
Gordic said that despite the bombings, the people of Novi Sad were determined to resist.
"The first waves of shock,
fear and frustration seem to be over," she said. "These feelings are replaced by spite — now people want to be proud and dignified. I myself do not fear that much, at least in daytime."
Gordic said that she had not seen a surge of support for Milosevic but that public sentiment had turned fiercely against NATO.
"Public opinion mostly blames NATO and Americans," she said. "All the graffiti and slogans on the protest concerts around Yugoslavia condemn (or wittingly joke about) NATO and the American president. None mentions KLA [Kosovo Liberation Army], and I have seen no sign of hatred against Albanian people."
Because she is an English professor, Gordic said she was worried about the effect an anti-American atmosphere would have on her students.
"I teach English and American literature, and I fear that the next generations of students may start loathing it because of the deep scars," she said. "I will have to invest much energy in explaining that Shakespeare and Hemingway are not Clinton-esque, not a bit," she said.
Gordic said that she too had trouble coming to terms with nations whose literature she loved bombing her university.
"I've never been in Kansas, but it is a special place for me, since in Lawrence, Kansas, lived my favorite American writer, William Burroughs, whose work I have reviewed for Yugoslav literary periodicals," Gordic said. "He raised his voice against oppression, violence and manipulation."
Chris Fickett contributed to this story.
—Edited by Kelli Raybern
ON CAMPUS
writers Roots, 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.
ON THE RECORD
■ Latin American Solidarity will have an information table from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today at Wescoe Beach. There also will be a tribute to former Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador at 7 tonight at The Dusty Bookshelf, 708 Massachusetts St. Call 331-2403 for more information.
A KU student's laptop computer was stolen between 2:30 p.m. Tuesday and 10 a.m. Wednesday in the 3800 block of Clinton Parkway, Lawrence Police said. The computer was valued at $2,000.
A KU student's car was damaged between midnight March 1 and 4 p.m. March 17 in the 1200 block of East 23rd Street, Lawrence Police said. The damage was estimated at $500.
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