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The Inside Front
Tuesday March 9,1999
News
from campus, the state the nation and the world
LAWRENCE
Man fires gun in his van behind bar on Saturday
A man held a gun to a woman's head in his van and fired the weapon into the van's roof when she pushed his arm away late Saturday night behind Johnny's Tavern, 401. West Second St., said Sgt. George Wheeler of the Lawrence Police Department.
A 28-year-old man was arrested at 11:38 p.m. Wheeler said the man told police that he and the passenger were riding in the car when an argument ensued because the woman had used a curse word.
No one was injured.
Police arrest man found with drugs in underwear
A 20-year-old Lawrence man was arrested at about 2 a.m. yesterday after police discovered a stash of crack cocaine in his underwear, said Sgt. George Wheeler of the Lawrence Police Department.
The man was stopped in the parking lot of an apartment complex in the 2400 block of Morningside Drive after police noticed he had a headlight out. Police did a pat-down search and found a small white rock wrapped in plastic in one of his pockets, Wheeler said.
Further investigation revealed several more rocks in the man's underpants. The man was arrested and held on $3,000 bond.
NATION
Katie Burford
Family sues film makers for movie-inspired crime
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court refused Sunday to quash a lawsuit that blames the movie Natural Born Killers for leading a couple to shoot a woman during a 1995 robbery.
The court's action was not a ruling but merely a denial of review. Stone, Time Warner Entertainment Co. and others named in the lawsuit still can seek to have the case dismissed before it reaches a jury trial.
The lawsuit, which now will move to a pretrial stage, accuses filmmaker Oliver Stone and others of intentionally inciting covacat crimes.
The 1994 movie stars Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis as a couple who go on a violent crime spree and kill dozens of people.
Stone, Time Warner and others involved in making the film were sued by relatives of Patsy Byers, who was shot during a March 8, 1995, robbery of the Ponchatoula, La., convenience store where she worked. Byers was left a quad rielegic, and she later died of cancer.
The family's lawyer, Joe Simpson of Amite, La., said that he planned to
focus on a quote attributed to Stone in a 1996 interview regarding the movie: "The most pacifistic people in the world said they came out of this movie and wanted to kill somebody."
The lawsuit says Sarah Edmondson shot Byers while Benjamin Darrus waited outside the Louisiana store and that the two were inspired to commit the crime by watching *Natural Born Killers*.
Intel, federal regulators settle antitrust for now
WASHINGTON — Microchip giant Intel Corp. reached a tentative agreement with federal regulators to settle claims that it illegally bullied rivals to maintain its dominance in the hightech industry.
But the announcement Sunday, on the eve of an antitrust hearing expected to last three months, came with a reminder from the Federal Trade Commission: A larger antitrust battle still looms.
Both sides refused to comment on details.
Intel's president and chief executive officer, Craig Barrett, called the agreement a win-for both sides.
"We are satisfied that the agreement gives us value for our intellectual property rights," he said in a statement.
Federal regulators wouldn't elaborate on the remaining issues under investigation mentioned in their announcement. But antitrust experts said it referred to a much broader inquiry into Intel's practices.
"This was a piece of a larger investigation where the FTC was looking into whether Intel used its market position to achieve dominance in related areas," said Kevin Arquit, a New York antitrust lawyer and former director of the FTC's Bureau of Competition.
Specifically, he said, the agency could be examining whether Intel illegally tied certain technical features to its microchips, forcing companies that buy one Intel product to use the other "bundled" with it. A similar issue is part of the Microsoft Corp. antitrust trial.
China warns U.S. against helping Taiwan defense
WASHINGTON — The Clinton administration chided Chinese authorities Sunday for warning the United States against helping Taiwan develop a defense against missile attacks.
"Instead of worrying about a decision that has not been made to deploy defensive technologies that do not yet exist, the Chinese should focus on the regional and global proliferation of missiles," State Department spokesman James P. Rubin said.
He noted the Taiwanese are assessing their own capabilities and needs, and therefore, it is too early to comment about their intentions.
On Friday, China warned that any U.S. transfer of missile defense technology to
i raawan would be the last straw and would certainly lead to serious consequences.
Bush initiates discussion about abortion policies
AUSTIN, Texas — George W. Bush, stepping gingerly into the Republican Party's most fractious debate, said yesterday he would back a constitutional amendment to outlaw most abortions if more voters supported it. But he said, America was not ready to ban abortions.
"Calling himself a "pro-life person," the Texas governor and likely presidential candidate told The Associated Press, "America is not ready to overtum Roe v. Wade because America's hearts are not right. And so, in the meantime, instead of arguing over Roe v. Wade, what we ought to do is promote policies that reduce abortions."
Wade decision abortion and a wide range of issues in his state Capitol office Sunday, as supporters filed papers in Washington forming a campaign committee. Bush has made clear that he intends to run for the Republican nomination in 2000.
The Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion.
WORLD
United States, Europe argue about trade rules
GENEVA — Accusing Washington of "declaring war" on countries that fail to toe the U.S. line on global trade rules, the European Union charged in an emergency meeting yesterday that the United States was unfaithfully waging a banana battle with its rivals.
But many countries told both trade giants that they were fed up with endless meetings of the World Trade Organization and that the United States and EU should resolve its differences and stop tying up the world agenda.
EU trade ambassador Roderick Abbott said during the meeting meeting that the United States was unjustified, unauthorized, unlawful and unacceptable when it ordered importers to deposit funds to cover pending sanctions on $520 million worth of goods imported from the EU.
The 100 percent tariff effectively doubles the price of the goods. The affected imports include textiles, as well as Louis Vuitton handbags from France, Parma ham and feta cheese from Greece, France and Italy, German coffee makers and British sweet biscuits.
The tariff intends to block those goods from the U.S. market in retaliation for $520 million in lost sales U.S. banana companies claim they've suffered because of unfair European trade barriers that discriminate in favor of bananas grown in their former Caribbean colonies.
The Associated Press
ON THE RECORD
A KU police officer was dispatched at 2:47 a.m. Saturday to McCollum Hall on a report that a female KU student had been sexually assaulted by an unidentified man, the KU Public Safety Office said. The man was seen dropping the woman off at the residence hall, and witnesses were alarmed because she was intoxicated and appeared disheveled. The student said that she had not been assaulted, and she refused to provide the man's name to police.
A KU student's car was scratched with what appeared to be a key between noon Friday and 2:50 a.m. Saturday in the 1300 block of West 24th Street, a Lawrence police report said. The damage was estimated at $300.
A Nikon negative scanner was stolen between 11 a.m. March 2 and 2:15 p.m.March 5 from the Environmental Studies Program in building 138,517 W.14th Street,the KU Public Safety Office said.The scanner was valued at $900.
- The door to a toilet stall in the fourth floor Oliver Hall men's room was damaged between 7:30 p.m and 8:30 p.m.
- Wednesday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The damage was estimated at $50.
A KU visitor's car struck a KU student's car at 2 p.m. Feb.
2B in the Stouffer Park place parked, the KU Public Safety
Office said. The visitor's car received minor damage while
the student's car was damaged but still drivable.
A KU student's car backed into a KU visitor's car at noon Saturday in Lot 216 near East McCollum Labs, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage to vehicles was minor.
A KU student's checkbook was stolen between 10 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. Friday from her Oliver Hall room, the KU Public Safety Office said. The checkbook was valued at $24.
A KU police officer was dispatched at 3:41 a.m. Saturday to Ellsworth Hall on a report that a KU student had fallen on her head. Police found the woman intoxicated, but she did not appear to have a head injury. She refused medical treatment.
treatment
■ A KU police officer was dispatched at 5:10 a.m. Sunday to Oliver Hall on a report that a KU student was vomiting in the lobby, the KU Public Safety Office said. The woman told police that she had consumed 16 beers early that night. She was seen by medical personnel but refused transport to the hospital.
A KU student's car was struck by a KU visitor's car at 12:50 p.m. in the Lied Center parking lot. Damage to the cars was minor.
Non-policies affect student attendance
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"The golden rule with student feedback is don't ask if you don't want to know." Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez said that it would be helpful for professors to find out what they were doing right and doing wrong before end-of-s semester evaluations, so long as their egos weren't easily bruised.
Most of the surprises in the survey for the researchers were the non-factors rather than the factors. Gender, age, off-campus vs. on-c campus residency and whether a student pays his or her own way through school did not affect attendance.
These findings contradicted previous work, McComb said.
ON CAMPUS
"Some other studies have indicated that women cut classes more than men," he said.
"There are some things that teachers can affect, and that's what further studies will focus on," he said.
McComb said that the findings were interesting, but the real value was to the faculty, who originally requested the data.
OAKS — Non-Traditional Students Organization will have a brown bag luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 11:51 p.m. today at Alcove F in the Kansas Union. Michael Henry, Student Senate non-traditional senator, will be the featured speaker. Call Simmie Burrow at 830.0074 for more information.
- The Dole Institute for Public Service and Public Policy and the University of Kansas Gerontology Center will present "The Future of Social Security; Understanding the Options" from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. today at the Big 12 Room in the Kansas Union. Call Heather Hoy at 864-9052 for more information.
Amnesty International will meet at 7 tonight at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. Call Kyle Browning at 842-1351 for more information.
University Christian Fellowship will meet at 7 tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries for Bible study and worship. Call Tim Watts at 841-3148 for more information.
The Asian American Student Union will meet at 8 onight in the Multicultural Resource Center. Call Nellie Kim at 864-3576 for more information.
Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship will meet at 7:30 tonight at 3139 Wescoe Hall. Call Wendy Brown at 838-3984 for more information.
Students for a Free Tibet will meet at 8 tonight at Alcove D in the Kansas University. Call Eric Goodman at 841-4670 for more information.
The Pool Boys and various campus ministry groups will meet at 9 tonight at 3139 Wescoe Hall for an evening of praise and worship music. Call Wendy Brown at 838-3984 for more information.
Writers 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.
in the Burge Union and at 4003 Wescoe Hall,
and from noon to 4 p.m. at 4006 Wescoe Hall.
Call 864-2399 for more information.
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