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The Inside Front
Thursday April 1, 1999
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Oklahoma couple gives $150,000 to University
An Oklahoma couple donated $150,000 to the Lied Center and two other projects at the University of Kansas, said Diane Silver, news editor for the KU Endowment Association.
richard and Jeanneette Sias of Edmond, Okla., designated $100,000 of the donation to the Lied Center Performance Fund. Half the remaining $50,000 will go to the Agnes Brady Scholarship Fund, and the other half will help pay for the symposium "Costa Rica: Democracy, Environment, and Peace," which begins today and concludes Saturday.
The Sias' gift completes a drive to raise $500,000 for the Lied Center Performance Fund, which makes possible appearances at the Lied Center by well-known performers.
Richard Sias said that he knew that arts financing was the hardest to raise, so he and his wife decided to donate to the Performance Fund.
His interest in Spanish prompted the gift to the Agnes Brady Scholarship Fund, which was set up to give scholarships to students planning to teach Spanish. Brady is a former associate professor of romance languages at the University, and Sias took Spanish classes from her.
Civil Engineering Fund willed $50,000 of estate
This weekend's symposium celebrates more than 40 years of exchanges of faculty and students between the University and the University of Costa Rica in San Jose.
Doug and Judy Hall of Kansas City, Mo., have willied $50,000 of their estate to the Civil Engineering Fund at the KU Endowment Association.
He said he credited the late Donald Haines, KU professor of engineering, with helping him professionally.
Doug Hall is a 1965 graduate of the University of Kansas and president of Musselman and Hall Contractors of Kansas City, Mo.
"What I learned, particularly from Professor Haines, was a kind of professional attitude about engineering and how engineers conduct themselves," Hall said. Hall is a member of the Elizabeth Watkins Society, which honors donors of planned gifts. He also is a life member of the KU Alumni Association.
Judy Hall is the executive vice president and CEO of Musselman and Hall.
— Jennifer Roush
professor from Colorado to give geology lecture
Paul Weimer, associate professor of geological sciences at the University of Colorado, is going to teach KU students how to find oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
Weimer will deliver a 1998/1999 American Association of Petroleum Geologists Distinguished Lecture at 4 p.m. tomorrow at Room 103 in Lindley Hall.
John Gosse, assistant professor of geology, said that Weimer was selected to speak because of his recent breakthroughs in sedimentary rock analysis, which can be used to locate undersea oil
"Many people in our department are interested in his work." Gosse said.
interested in his work," Gosse said. Gosse, who lines up speakers for the geology program, said that the department usually tried to get one or two AAPG speakers a year.
Chris Hopkins
Spirituality discussion kicks off Pride Week
A variety of religious and spiritual traditions will be represented tonight as Queens and Allies presents a panel discussion on spirituality and the gay community.
The panel is to meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Centennial Room in the Kansas Union.
The panel will include the following participants:
- Urth, a pagan and coordinator for Triple Spiral, a Proto-Nest of the Church of All Worlds
— Raven Heavy Runner, representing Two Spirit, a Native American spiritual tradition
— Janine Cox from Integrity, a Trinity Episcopal Church
— Joanne Hicky from Lutherans Concerned
A speaker with a Jewish back- ground whose name was unavailable at press time
Director of Queers and Allies, Christine Robinson, said, "They will talk about how their spiritual traditions include LBGT issues and people."
The panel discussion is one of the first events during Pride Week, which will focus on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and transsexual issues
Although Pride Week begins April 12 and runs to April 18, activities stretch from today to April 29.
Admission to the panel is free.
Clay McCuistion
jazz concert benefits women's care center
The KJHK benefit jazz concert, KJ Can Jazz, which took place Tuesday night at the Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St., didn't pack the house, but money and food were donated.
The benefit raised $74 in cash and stockpiled between 400 and 500 cans of food, said Brandy Ernzen, KJHK promotions director. The donations will be given to the Women's Transitional Care Center in Lawrence.
The station only had about two days to put out effective advertisements, which included radio promotions and pastel sidewalk chalk announcing the event.
Although the turnout was relatively low, with only about 75 people in attendance, Emzen said that she was pleased with the numbers, taking into consideration that the benefit occurred so soon after spring break.
"If you're going to Padre Island, the last thing you are going to think about is the KJHK benefit show," she said, explaining how advertising before the break wouldn't have been very effective.
Although the Granada wasn't full,
Ernzen thought the handful that did
attend had a good time.
"By the end there were quite a few people dancing," she said. "And the bands put on an excellent performance."
Ezra Sykes
NATION
Reverend convicted of swindling companies
LARGO, Fla. — Sobbing and pleading for mercy, the Rev, Henry Lyons was sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison yesterday for swindling more than $4 million while president of one of the nation's largest and most influential African-American denominations.
The 57-year old minister also was ordered to repay almost $2.5 million.
Lyons was convicted Feb. 27 of biking companies wanting to sell cemetery products, life insurance policies and credit cards to members of the National Baptist Convention USA. He also was found guilty of stealing money donated to rebuild burned Southern blight
Lyons and his alleged mistress, convention publicist Bernice Edwards, were accused of spending the money on luxury homes, cars, jewelry and travel.
The judge ordered him to prison immediately, rather than allowing him to remain free until his sentencing in federal court in June on related charges of fraud and tax evasion.
Police officers charged in death of immigrant
NEW YORK — Four Caucasian police officers were charged yesterday with killing an unarmed African immigrant in a barrage of 41 bullets.
Dressed in business suits, officers Kenneth Boss, Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon and Richard Murphy appeared in state court in the Bronx and entered innocent pleas. They could get 25 years to life in prison on the murder charges.
Amandou Diallo, a street vendor from Guinea, was shot 19 times shortly after midnight Feb. 4 in his vestibule by members of an elite street crime unit who were looking for a rape suspect.
Lawyers for the officers, who face other charges as well as murder, said their clients thought Dialio was reaching for a gun.
Diallo's father, Saikou, and mother, Kadiadou, stared straight ahead during the court proceeding.
A KU student's mountain bike was stolen between 2 p.m.
March 19 and 2 p.m. Monday in the 1700 block of
West 19th Street, the Lawrence Police report said. The
bike was valued at $200.
ON THE RECORD
The sunroof on a KU student's car was damaged between midnight March 17 and 5:30 p.m. March 19 in the 1000 block of Illinois Street, a Lawrence Police report said. The damage was estimated at $400.
The Associated Press
A KU student's car window was broken and his stereo was stolen between 10:30 p.m. Saturday and 6:30 p.m. Monday in the 2400 block of Louisiana Street, a Lawrence Police report said. The stolen property and damage was estimated at $500.
A KU student's moped was stolen between 10 p.m. Sunday and 2:45 p.m. Monday in the 800 block of Michigan Street, a Lawrence Police report said. The moped was valued at $200.
A KU student's toolbox was stolen between 5 p.m. Sunday and 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 2100 block of Kasold Drive, a Lawrence Police report said. The toolbox was valued at $40.
A KU student's laptop computer was stolen between 8 a.m. March 15 and 6 p.m. March 22 from his room on the sixth floor of Lajyhawk Towers, the KU Public Safety Office said. The computer was valued at $2,500.
■ A KU student's car stereo was damaged and pursue and wallet were stolen when the vehicle was broken into between 4 and 6 p.m. Monday from the Lied Center parking lot, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage to the stereo was not estimated. The stolen property was valued at $212.
A KU student's backpack was stolen between 11:30 a.m.
12:05 p.m. Tuesday from Kedabl Dining Calms, the KU Public Safety Office said. The backpack and its contents were valued at $595.
A KU student's credit card was stolen between midnight March 21 and midnight March 22 from the second floor of McCollum Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. Charges made to the卡total $68.35.
A parking permit was stolen from a KU student's car between 2:30 p.m. March 19 and 4:30 p.m. Monday from lot 72 east of the Burge Union, the KU Public Safety Office said. The permit was valued at $75.
A KU police officer was dispatched at 1:33 p.m. to Room 4025 Wobeson Hall on a report that a KU student had fainted, the KU Public Safety Office said. The student was examined by medical personnel but was not taken to the hospital.
A KU police officer was dispatched at 2:45 p.m. Tuesday to Oliver Hall on a report the kU student was distressed by a phone call she had received and she wanted to file a report, the KU Public Safety Office said. The student told police that she did not wish to file a formal police report but wanted to inform the police about the calls in the case that they continued.
NATO search includes air, ground teams
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Clinton has counseled from the beginning of the air strikes against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic that Americans would be put at risk during NATO operations.
Last Saturday, an F-117A stealth fighter went down near Belgrade, the Yugoslav capital, after the plane was apparently hit with a Serb anti-aircraft missile. It was the first time the radar-evading aircraft had gone down in combat.
The American pilot was rescued six hours later.
Before the soldiers were reported missing, NATO widened its air assault, pounding Serb targets near a major Kosovo city yesterday and vowed "no sanctuary" for Yugoslav forces attacking ethnic Albanians.
Russia backed its disproval of the NATO campaign with a show of force yesterday, saying it was dispatching several warships to the Mediterranean and putting others on standby.
Milosevic;Could be indicted for Kosovo war crimes
ON CAMPUS
With hints from Western diplomats that NATO bombs and missiles could soon be rained down on the Yugoslav capital of Belgrade, NATO representative Jamie Shea yesterday reiterated the alliance's insistence that Yugoslav security forces are bent on purging Kosovo of both ethnic Albanians and their culture.
Shea said Yugoslav forces were destroying archives including property deeds, marriage licenses, birth certificates and financial records.
The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal said yesterday it had indicted Serb paramilitary leader Zeliko Raznatovic for Bosnian war-era atrocities
— an announcement seen as a warning signal to Milosevic about what legal action awaits him and other Yugoslavs for their actions in Kosovo.
Armesty International will meet at 7 tonight at the Glass Onion, 624 W. 12th St., for letter writing. Call Kyle Browning at 842-1351 for more information.
KU Environs and Ecumenical Christian Ministries will sponsor a vegetarian luncheon and discussion from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at the ECM Center. Call Shannan at 841-8033 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.
■ Queers and Allies will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas City. A panel will
spotlight local outlets about spirituality in the homosexual community. Call Chris Robinson at 844-3091 for more information.
KU Young Democrats will meet at 8 tonight at Parlors A, B, and C in the Kansas Union. Larry Tenopir, Kansas Democratic Party National Committee member, will be the featured speaker. Call Phil Stevenson at 864-1308 for more information.
■ Writer's Roast, sponsored by Writing Consulting: Student Resources, will open today at the following times and locations: from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Burge Union and at 4003 Wesco Hall, between 1-4 p.m. at Alcove C in the Kansas Union, and from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Multicultural Resource Center. Call 864-2399 for more information.
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