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The Inside Front
Thursday March 18, 1990
News
from campus,the state the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Timetables ready Friday for Summer, Fall '99
Timetables of classes for the Summer and Fall '99 semesters will be available tomorrow at the Kansas and Burge Union Bookstores.
The timetables also have been available online since Friday at www.ukans.edu/kufacts/acad/courses.shtml.
Brenda Selman, associate registrar,
said that students should only take one copy of the timetable from the bookstores.
Enrollment for the Summer and Fall '99 semesters begins April 2.
Chris Hopkins
LAWRENCE
Suicide victim's identity still unknown to police
Police have been unable to identify an African-American man who shot himself in the head at 12:40 a.m. yesterday, said Sgt. George Wheeler of the Lawrence Police Department.
The man, who had a passenger in the car, was stopped by police for speeding at 12:30 a.m. in the parking lot of the Lawrence Journal-World, 609 New Hampshire St., Wheeler said.
After talking to the driver, the officer had gone back to his car when the passenger got out and said that the driver had a gun. The officer attempted to talk the driver into putting down the gun, when the driver inflicted a fatal gunshot to his right temple with a handgun, Wheeler said.
The man had no identification on him and the passenger said he didn't know the driver, who had picked him up on the side of the road, Wheeler said.
NATION
Katie Burford
Chimp taken to Wichita following attack at zoo
SALT LAKE CITY — Tammy, the sole surviving chimpanzee at Utah's Hogle Zoo following an attack on a zoo worker, will soon have a new home at a zoo in Wichita.
Meanwhile, zoo director Craig Dinnore will be in Indianapolis today to ask the American Zoological and Aquarium Association to restore full accreditation for the zoo.
The zoo's accreditation was tabled essentially placed on probation a year ago because of problems with veterinary care, maintenance operations and emergency procedures.
Dismore said Tuesday that he was confident that the zoo's accreditation would be approved.
The zoo's three chimps — Chip,
Hapay and Tammy — escaped their
cage in the Great Ape Building Feb. 27 and got into a service area, Chip attacked Jamie Bradley, 28, who was cleaning the gorilla cage. The zoo's new primate supervisor, Kim Tropea, 35, suffered minor injuries when she shewed herself on Bradley to protect him.
Bradley, who lost a finger and part of his nose, remained in fair condition Tuesday at University Hospital.
Tammy was placed in a crate yesterday and trucked to the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, where she will join 12 other chimps and have access to a 2-year-old, lush outdoor habitat — something Hogle Zoos lacks for apes, said Hogle Zoos spokeswoman Jan Murphy.
Report says marijuana helps fight pain, nausea
WASHINGTON — The active ingredients in marijuana can help fight pain and nausea and thus deserve to be tested in scientific trials, a federal advisory panel said today in a report sure to reignite the debate about whether marijuana is a helpful or harmful drug.
The Institute of Medicine also said there was no conclusive evidence that marijuana use leads to the use of harder drugs.
Congress has taken a hard line on the issue, with the House last fall adopting a resolution that said marijuana was a dangerous and addictive drug and should not be legalized for medical use.
Asked to examine the issue by the White House drug policy office, the institute, which is an affiliate of the National Academy of Sciences, said that because the chemicals in marijuana ease anxiety, stimulate the appetite, ease pain and reduce nausea and vomiting, they can be helpful for people undergoing chemotherapy and people with AIDS.
But the panel warned that smoking marijuana can cause respiratory disease and called for the development of standardized forms of the drugs, called cannabinoids, that can be taken, for example, by inhaler.
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy said it would carefully study the recommendations.
Drug trafficking inquiry shut down in Mexico
The New York Times reported Tuesday that the administration ended the probe several weeks after undercover customs agents were told by bankers working with Mexico's most powerful cocaine cartel that General Enrique Cervantes was a client who wanted money laundered.
WASHINGTON — The Mexican embassy has formally asked the Clinton administration to respond to charges from a former U.S. Customs official that his undercover probe into Mexican drug trafficking was shut down after the name of Mexico's defense minister surfaced in it.
schedule rather than extend it to explore information involving Cervantes, particularly in view of intelligence reports "pointing to corruption at the highest levels of the Mexican military," the Times said.
Colleges protest abuse of overseas workers
The customs agents were mystified by the decision to end the investigation on
BOSTON — Some of the nation's most prestigious colleges want to make sure their names aren't on caps and sweatshirts made in overseas sweatshops for pennies a day.
Seventeen schools — including Harvard, Brown, Princeton and Duke — this week joined a national group set up to curb worker abuses overseas.
The schools made the announcement two weeks after protesters across the nation, many of them students, demonstrated against corporate giants for allegedly abusing overseas workers.
But student activists said Tuesday that they were outraged by the move because the group, the Fair Labor Association, is supported largely by apparel manufacturers such as Nike Inc. and Phillips-Van Heusen.
"The Student Labor Association is furious that this decision was made behind our back," said Nora Rosenberg, a member of a Brown-based student group that opposes sweatshops.
The Fair Labor Association evolved from a group of 18 apparel manufacturers and retailers formed after the news broke that young Chinese women were making Katie Lee Gifford handbags for Wal-Mart at 13 cents a day.
WORLD
Slow progress impedes peace-making process
PARIS — The United States has warned that time is running out for a Kosovo peace deal, and Serbs have raised new objections to a draft agreement that rival ethnic Albanians agreed to sign.
As talks opened yesterday, the Albanian side claimed the Serbs were trying to change 70 percent of the proposed political agreement — changes that would give the ethnic Albanian majority even less autonomy than it has now.
Brushing aside Western pressure and NATO threats, Serbian President Milan Milutinovic said Tuesday that his side rejected an integral part of the plan — NATO troops to police it — and would sign only the politicalpart granting ethnic Albanians limited autonomy under the precondition that the mediators accept all of their complaints.
Milutinovic's comments on the second day of Paris peace talks brought closer the prospect of NATO airstrikes against Serbia.
The diplomats said if there was no progress soon with the Serbs, negotiations could end by Friday.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's money and clothes were stolen between 2 and 3:10 a.m. Saturday in the 1400 block of Apple Lane, a Lawrence Police report said. The stolen property was valued at $2,050.
The Associated Press
The front fender of a KU student's car was damaged between 2 p.m. Friday and 6 p.m. Saturday in the 2300 block of Westchester Road, a Lawrence Police report said. The damage was estimated at $500.
An Oliver Hall resident received harassing phone calls between noon and 11 p.m. Monday, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A Jayhawkower Towers resident reported at 10:20 a.m. Tuesday that he had been receiving harassing phone calls for a month, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A KU student was given a notice to appear in court after a public safety officer saw him drive his motorcycle through a stop sign at an intersection and drive up on a sidewalk at 8:03 p.m. Monday, the KU Public Safety Office said.
Today IN HISTORY
1813 David Melville of Newport, Rhode Island, bleared the gas streetlight
1931 Schick, Inc.- the razor company - displayed the first electric shaver in Stamford. Conn.
1944 The nation awoke to a sound it hadn't heard much for years on this day – the sound of alarm clocks. Since the beginning of World War II, alarm clocks became precious commodities. They stay in their place in Chicago, Ill.
1959 Bill Sharman of the Boston Celtics began what was to be the longest string of successful consecutive free throws (56 in a row) to set a new National Basketball Association record.
1985 -The American Broadcasting Company announced plans to merge with Capital Cities Communications to form Cap Cities/ABC. The $3.5 billion merger was the 11th largest corporate merger in U.S. history.
Eleven killed in fatal crash of Amtrak train
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A private study released last month found that more than 80 percent of the nation's railroad crossings—about 130,000—lack gates and light signals to pedestrians and motorists of trains.
Mike Stead, head of rail safety at the ICC, said the gates were intact, and authorities have not been able to verify where the truck was at the time of impact or when the gates were lowered.
But near the Bourbounnais crash site, two gates block the narrow two-lane road, which provides access to the nearby mill. The gates and lights at the crossing appeared to have been functioning at the time of the crash, said David Farrell, a spokesman for the Illinois Commerce Commission.
Sensors turn on the lights and bells 26 seconds before a train reaches the crossing, and five seconds later the gates come down, Farrell said. Officials said the gates did not malfunction and were last inspected Feb. 24.
There have been three deaths at the crossing in the last 35 years, in 1964, 1968 and 1988. Forty trains and 1,000 vehicles use the crossing daily.
Authorities have not released the names of the victims. The Commercial Appeal in Memphis reported today that the victims included a woman and three children from Nesbitt, Miss., who were returning from a doll show in Chicago.
June Bonin, 47; her 12-year-old granddaughter, Jessica Whitaker; Rainy Lipschub, 10; and Lacey Lipschub, 8, were killed. Another girl, Bonin's daughter, was injured.
it was to be a dream trip for the little girls," said Bonnin's husband, Max. "It turned out to be a nightmare."
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, 1204 Oread. Cell R81-B033 for more information.
Academic Services, Center for Teaching Excellence and Division of Student Affairs will have the teleconference "Meeting the Challenge of Student Retention" from noon to 3 p.m. today at the Front Room in the Burge Union. Call Mary Ryan at 864-4270 for more information.
■ Amnesty International will meet at 7 onight at the Glass Onion, 624 W. 12th, for letter writing. Call
Latin American Solidarity will meet at 6 tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread. Carol Richardson, co-director of the Schools at Americans Watch, will be the featured speaker. Call Megan Hope at 331-2403 for more information.
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
Omicron Delta Kappa Honor Society will have application forms available until 5 p.m. April 2, at the Student Activities Center in the Kansas Union. Call Danielle Christiano at 864-1791 for more information.
■ Writer's Roosts, sponsored by Writing Consulting: Student Resources will be open today at the following times and locations: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Burge Union and 4003 Wescoe Hall; 1 to 4 p.m. at Alcove C in the Kansas Union; and 6 to 9 p.m. at the Multicultural Resource Center. Call 864-2399 for more information.
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Academic Computing Services presents:
FREE COMPUTER TRAINING for the KU Community
March 23 to April 2,1999
All ACS classes are FREE to KU students, staff, and faculty and don't require registration UNLESS otherwise nosed. Register as acsworkshops@ukan.edu or 864-0446. Some classes are 475 for non-KL, as noted. The complete ACS class schedule is at www.cuban.edu-acs/ac培训 or in Driver's Ed on the information Superhighway available at the Computer Center. Training questions so trainme@ukan.edu or 864-0446.
SPRING BREAK SPECIALS: Free and no registration for EVERYONE including non-KU—just show up! Access: Introduction—Create, save, index, sort, and edit a database table. Prerequisite: Experience in the Windows environment. Tues., March 23, 1:30-4:30 p.m., Computer Center PC Lab, Room 202A.
Access: Intermediate—Learn all about the Query module to create, extract, sort, and append data from tables Prerequisite: Access: Introduction or equivalent skills. Wed., March 24, 1-4 p.m., Computer Center PC Lab, Room 202A.
Web Authoring:Cascading Style Sheets—Learn a new way to set colors, font styles, and layout in Web pages that separates style from content. Prerequisite: Web Authoring:Intermediate or equivalent skills.. Wed., March 31, 2 - 5 p.m.
Computer Center PC Lab
UNIX: Introduction—Learn the basics of UNIX, the operating system on FALCON, EAGLE, LARK, RAVEN, and HERON. Thurs., April 1, 1 -4 p.m./Computer Center PC Lab, Room 202A
PowerPoint: Intermediate—Explore some advanced features including charts and graphics, drawing tools, and action but tons. Prerequisite: PowerPoint: Introduction or equivalent skills. Requires registration for all and fee for non University. Thurs., April 1, 6–9 p.m./Budig Hall PC Lab, Room 10
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