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The Inside Front
Friday March 5,1999
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CORRECTION
In Monday's Kansan, a front-page photograph with the story, "Forum on racism spurs debate," incorrectly identified Ashra Kwesi as Antonio Shepherd.
CAMPUS
Man exposes himself to woman at Laundromat
A 29-year-old Lawrence woman was doing her laundry Tuesday night at a Ninth Street Laundromat when she noticed a middle-aged man mastubulating nearby.
The woman told police that she had been at the business, just doing her laundry, when she saw the man.
"The suspect exposed himself and masturbated in front of the woman," said Lawrence Police Sgt. Rich Nickell. Police said they were looking for a 120-pound Caucasian man in his 50s or, with gowns and blue eyes.
He was last seen wearing gray sweat pants, a blue sweatshirt and a pair of sports goggles.
Housing department files damage report
Police have no suspects and are investigating the incident as lewd and lascivious behavior.
A criminal damage report was filed at the KU Public Safety Office yesterday against the KU student who was hospitalized Tuesday after police found her unconscious in her Hashinger Hall room
She was found unconscious with a bloody nose about 6 p.m.
The report, which was filed by the Department of Student Housing, was in regard to a broken window found by police in the woman's room.
POLice said they entered the student's room with a key after being called by someone who had heard things being broken in the room. Police received no answer after knocking on the student's door.
Following treatment by medical personnel on the scene, the student told police that she had received the bloody nose and lost consciousness because she had been upset.
She would not tell police why.
The Department of Student Housing officials estimated the window to have been worth $100.
The student was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital but returned to her room by 7 p.m. she was not found to have any injuries, except for the bloody nose.
Keith Burner
STATE
boeing Co. president downplays sale rumors
WICHita — Boeing Co. president Harry Stone碑ie reassured workers Thursday that the company's facility here would "continue to build what Wichita
builds into the future," downplaying rumors that the company plans to sell all or part of its Wichita operations.
Company representative Dick Ziegler said Stonecipher made the comment in response to a published report about those rumors while touring the facility. Stonecipher, who was unavailable to speak to the media during his daylong visits with workers, is expected to make a similar statement to reporters today.
"There is absolutely nothing of special merit that needs to be talked about, rumors notwithstanding," Zieher said.
Ziegler declined to comment on any rumors about acquisitions, divestitures or business transfers as a matter of company policy, citing federal regulations.
He visited with employees and senior management and has seen some of our processes at work, and seems very favorably impressed," Ziegler said.
Stonecipher did not show any unusual interest in any particular aspect of the Wichita operations, Ziegler said.
NATION
Noriega's sentence reduced by 10 years
MIAMI — A federal judge reduced Manuel Noriega's prison sentence from 40 years to 30 yesterday, meaning the former Panamanian dictator could be eligible for release by 2007.
Noriga, 62, won the reduction from U.S. District Judge William M. Hoeveler after arguing that he deserved credit for helping the United States pursue its interests in Latin America while he was in power.
Noriegas was captured after the United States invaded Panama in 1989 and was sent to prison for money laundering and drug trafficking. He has spent nearly nine years by himself in a two-cell suite at a federal prison near Miami since Hoeveler granted him special status as a prisoner of war.
"Basically, we are talking about getting out of jail at a time where he can still enjoy life," said Frank Rubino, Noriega's defense attorney. "He then can enjoy his wife, his family, his grandchildren. It's a significant reduction."
Hoeveler said he shortened Noriega's sentence after considering the nature of his confinement and the "disparity between the defendant's sentence and the sentences served by his co-constirators" — some of whom are out of prison.
of decaying Victorian mansions and brick storefronts.
But tensions have been running especially high since last week, when Trenton's Caucasian mayor of 16 years told a reporter that African Americans were unfit to serve in town government.
North Carolina mayor makes racist remarks
TRENTON, N.C. — For years, racial tensions were expressed in glares and overheard whispers in this small town
The remark came after a few African Americans sued officials of the all-Caucasian town government in January for not annexing some mostly African-American outlying areas.
"They are not leaders; A black man would rather work for a white person," Mayor Joffree Leggett told the Kinston Free Press. He went on to say that if three African Americans were working together in a store, "within a few years, they'd be stealing from each other and they'd be out of business."
The 81-year-old mayor — at the urging of the three-member town board — resigned this week. But his words have inflamed the community and sparked a month long boycott of the Caucasian-owned businesses that line Jones Street, the main drag in this farming center of 200 people on North Carolina's coastal plain.
Jordan's government reappointed by King
WORLD
AMMAN, Jordan — King Abdullah shuffled the Jordaniian government yesterday, purging many ministers loyal to his uncle, who had long been expected to ascend to the throne.
The king swore in Prime Minister Abdul-Raouf Rawabdeh and 22 other Cabinet members, urging them to consolidate ties with Israel and to work for a more open government and a freer press.
Abdullah's words and his appointment of mostly liberal politicians and technocrats as ministers reaffirmed his commitment to the policies of his father, King Hussein, who died Feb. 7.
"Jordan is in the throes of a new and promising era," Abdullah said in a letter to Rawabdah, outlining his policies.
While the prime minister and the Cabinet handle the daily work of the government, the final word rests with the monarch.
Rawabdhé, 60, replaced Prime Minister Fayez Taranneh, 51. Rawabdhé's Cabinet has 15 new ministers, including one woman. Eight ministers were retained.
Taranweh's Cabinet worked most of its six-month tenure under Abdullah's uncle, Prince Hassan, who was in charge while King Hussein received cancer treatment in the United States.
The Associated Press
The St. Lawrence Catholic Center will celebrate Mass at 4:45 p.m. tomorrow and at 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. Sunday at the Center, 1631 Crescent Road. Call Tracey English at 840-0357 for more information.
ON CAMPUS
OAKS — Non-Traditional Students Organization will have a Hannah's House Shower Project planning meeting at 11:30 today at Alcove E in the Kansas Union. Call Simile Berroya at 830-0074 for more information.
Politically Active Queens will meet at 3 p.m. Sunday at the International Room in the Kansas Union. Call Matthew Skina at 840-0565 for more information.
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Student Resources will be open from 4 to 10 p.m.
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KU Habitat for Humanity will meet at 6 p.m. Sunday at Ecumenical Christian Ministries. Call 843-4933 for more information.
ON THE RECORD
A Topeka resident was arrested on suspicion of possessing crystal methamphetamine and not having a tax stamp between 7:25 and 8:30 p.m. Feb. 26 in the 500 block of Fireles Drive, Lawrence police said. Police found a small quantity of methamphetamine.
A KU student was battered between 11:30 and 11:56 a.m. Feb. 23 at her home in the 3700 block of Westland Place, Lawrence police said. She received minor injuries.
A KU student's purse and its contents were stolen between 5:30 and 6 p.m. Tuesday from Oliver Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The property was valued at $110
A night-vision scope was stolen from a KU faculty member between noon Feb. 26 and 3 p.m. Feb. 28 in Learned Hall. The scope was valued at $1,500.
May graduates struck by bouts of senioritis
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primarily for the weekends.
Now she hits the bars three or four times a week. "My effort is a little bit lower in school," French said. "I've been going out a lot this semester because it's my last chance to be with my friends so often."
Lisa Wolf-Wendel, assistant professor of teaching and leadership, who teaches a class entitled The College Student, said that senioritis was an interesting phenomenon because it went against how higher education should work.
"As you go further into your studies, things should become more important to you because classes are focused on things you want to learn and you have chosen as your interest," she said. Regardless, Wolf-Wendel said she thought senioritis could be harmful.
"Students are doing a disservice to them selves by blowing off their classes," she said.
But some students don't see Karen Jackey. Brian Karpen, Milwaukee senior, is a fifth-year senior in architectural engineering and is looking for a job.
"I're pretty much sick of classes, and it's hard to get my homework done," he said. "Hopefully, I'll have a job by the end of April, and if that happens, my goal is to just get out of here. If I get all D's, it doesn't matter."
Karpen said he was happy to be graduating, but one problem remained for him.
"I don't know where I'm going to come up with the money for this yet," he said, looking at a price list for graduation announcements.
Extra financial aid must be returned
Edited by Keith Burner
tjohnson@kansan.com
By T.J. Johnson
Kansan staff writer
Amanda Tyson, Melvern sophomore, was shocked to receive a bill from the General Accounting Office for $650 this semester instead of a $550 credit. Because of a mix-up, she had been given grant money which exceeded her limit for need-based aid, requiring her to pay back the difference.
Tyson had not been aware of regulations regarding the amount and distribution of financial aid that students could receive when she applied at the Office of Student Financial Aid.
She said she was upset about the situation.
"I feel like they messed up, and now I have to pay or they will hold my enrollment." Tyson said.
Brenda Maigaard, associate director of the OSFA, said that situations like this could occur if students did not notify the OSFA of all scholarships and aid they were receiving, or if additional aid was awarded to the student after they had received need-based aid.
"If a student is awarded aid that we are not aware of, like outside scholarships or university scholarships
that come in after we have awarded federal or state aid and those scholarships create what we call an overaid situation, that would mean that they were no longer eligible for that full amount of need-based aid for that semester. "Maigard said."
She said students were only eligible to receive need-based aid up to a certain point. Additional aid can make them ineligible for a part of their need-based aid.
"Regulations mandate us on some aid programs that if the student exceeds their need they are required to repay a certain part of that," Maigaard said.
She said that a financial aid award letter was not a contract or guarantee and that changes in students' enrollment, residency, tuition, academic performance or additional aid could change their award amount.
Maigaard said students who found themselves in this situation had no real way to avoid paying part of their aid back.
"There is not an appeal process for that — it is the law," she said. "We understand that students may have difficulty repaying it. However, those charges go back on their account and that would then hold up any enrollment activity, refunds or requests for transcripts."
Edited by Darin Peschka
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