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The Inside Front
Thursday March 4,1999
News
from campus,the state the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Gay parents discussion will take place in Union
What's it like to be gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered and a parent?
A group of area residents will answer this question at a panel discussion 7:30 tonight at Partors A.B and C in the Kansas Union.
Discussion participants will include Veronica Moeller, a transgendered woman who has children from a previous heterosexual relationship and Michael Bradley, a gay father.
Christine Robinson, director of Queers and Allies and a doctoral student in sociology, will present social science information about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered parenting. Robinson teaches a class on the sociology of families at the University of Kansas.
The event is open to the public.
For more information call the Queers and Allies office at 864-3091.
- Clay McCuistion
Honors meeting to show araduate school choices
The University of Kansas honors program will have a meeting at 4 p.m. today at Nunemaker Hall to help students learn about graduate school.
Faculty from a wide range of disciplines will discuss the pros and cons of going to graduate school, what going to graduate school entails, how students can choose a good school in their fields and what to do once a student has a master's degree.
The meeting, which is offered annually, is interactive.
Mary Klayder, associate director of the honors program, said that most of the students who attend usually were juniors who were beginning to think about what they wanted to do after graduation.
"It's tended to be, in the past, a discussion rather than a series of lectures," she said.
Money management, jobs are focus of program
A program about managing wealth and debt and preparing to enter the job market will be presented by the KU Student Alumni Association from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Adams Alumni Center.
Kendall Day, SAA president, said that the program would offer a wide range of help, including networking with others in a career field and finding a mentor. There also will be tips on resume writing, interviewing and securing summer internships or jobs.
"It'll cater to the needs from anywhere from a freshman to a graduate student." Dav said.
He said that he started organizing the event this year.
"I'm a senior and I started to realize that some of the things that will be talked about in this program will be
important to other graduating seniors," Day said. "This is our first year, but we plan on making it an annual event.
The event is free for any KU student.
To reserve a space at the program, call
864-9778 or send an e-mail to saagurus@falcon.cc.ukans.edu.
— Chris Hopkins
STATE
Planes narrowly miss collision over Salina
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Two large cargo planes almost collided 33,000 feet over Kansas Tuesday morning. The planes apparently lost radio contact with an air traffic control center, a National Transportation Safety Board investigator said.
The near-collision involved a Federal Express McDonnell Douglas DC-10 traveling from Portland, Ore., to Memphis, Tenn., and an American International Airways Lockheed L-1011 en route from Los Angeles to Indianapolis, NTSB air safety investigator Jill Slimman said yesterday. Both planes apparently lost contact with the Kansas City control center.
The near-collision happened at 10:38 a.m. Tuesday about 30 miles west of Salina, Silliman said from Chicago. There were no injuries.
"We're continuing the investigation, trying to get more details from both cargo holders," Silliman said.
One crew said the planes might have come as close as 100 feet, Silliman said, confirming a published report by The Washington Post.
However, a spokesman for Kitty Hawk Inc., which recently bought American International Airways, disputed that report.
"The closest report I'm getting from the crews, it was a half a mile," spokesman Tom Christopher said from the Grapevine, Texas-based company.
Air traffic controllers said the two planes merged into one target on radar as the controllers attempted to establish contact, The Post reported.
NATION
U.S. names Americans murdered in Uganda
WASHINGTON — State Department officials said they believed the Rwandan Hutus who killed two Americans and six other foreign tourists in Uganda were intent on wrecking the country's tourism industry as part of a region-wide ethnic conflict.
The State Department identified the Americans Tuesday night as Robert Haubner, 48, and Susan Miller, 43, both employees of the computer company Intel Corp.
Intel spokesman Bill Calder said they were husband and wife, lived in Hillsboro, Ore., and were on their third trip to Africa with another couple from the company.
The dead also included four Britons and two New Zealanders.
Officials do not believe the slaughter, which took place in the jungles of southwest Uganda, was racially motivated but rather was an outgrowth of the Hutu-Tutsi conflict in Central Africa.
The White House pledged on Tuesday to make every effort to bring to justice those responsible for the murder of the two Americans.
Court says schools must pay for nursing care
WASHINGTON — Public schools must finance one-on-one nursing care for some disabled students throughout the school day, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a decision that may strain educational budgets across the nation.
Voting 7-2 in the case of an Iowa teen-ager, the court said public financing was required under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act because the federal law's exemption for medical services applied only when a doctor's help was needed.
The decision's immediate impact is certain: Iowa's Cedar Rapids Community School District must pay tens of thousands of dollars a year to provide nursing care for Garret Frey, a quadriplegic in a ventilator who is thriving as a high school sophomore.
The ruling's broader impact is cloudier.
The ruling's broader impact is cloudier. The court's two dissenters said the decision blindsided unwary states with fiscal obligations they could not have anticipated. But Justice John Paul Stevens wrote for the court that Congress wanted to help guarantee that students like Garret were integrated into the public schools.
The National School Boards Association was less enthusiastic. "At the current time, the public educational system in this country is not adequately funded to provide full medical services for approximately 17,000 students with severe disabilities," said Anne L. Bryant, the group's executive director.
Mandela calls election will end political career
WORLD
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Ending months of speculation, President Nelson Mandela told Parliament yesterday that South Africans will go to the poll June 2 to choose his successor.
Mandela grinned and paused several times to sip water during his address in Cape Town while lawmakers squirred in anticipation.
The announcement comes five years after the euphoric 1994 elections that ended apartheid, and permitted political parties to launch their campaigns.
"OK, I will not keep you guessing," he joked. "It is my intention to proclaim the date of South Africa's second democratic elections as the 2nd of June 1999."
The Associated Press
Yoder calls for senators to lobby state for funds
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Yoder said the subcommittee did not follow Senate rules and regulations that required it to make a recommendation to the full Senate before a bill was presented.
should support the principle as a body."
He said that the University, not students, should pay for educational-fund programs such as New Student Orientation, the department of Religious Studies and the Multicultural Resource Center. Also, Yoder said that increasing the fee would only increase the number of applicants and the amount of money requested.
"We don't need to open up more money for more University jobs that the University should pay for," Yoder said. "We need to make sure that the University holds up its side of the deal. If we do this solely, we're setting ourselves up for all kinds of fee increases in the future."
Krebs said that the Educational Opportunity Fund was the only option for many organizations.
"I don't see how it's improper that we fund student salaries so that they can get the money they would get with a scholarship plus the experience of a job," she said.
Yoder said alternatives to the fee increase were to lobby the Legislature this spring for an increase in comprehensive grants, or to make the requirements for groups to receive funds more strict. He said that if the committee recommended a fee increase in the future, it should request matching funds from the administration.
Many senators volunteered to serve on a committee that would work on expanding or improving the educational opportunity fee and securing administrative or legislative funding.
Senate also debated about providing $2,895 to the elections commission to operate polling sites for Senate elections in April, and about
STUDENT SENATE
In other business, Senate passed the following legislation last night:
A bill to finance the International Association of Students in Business and Economics regional conference.
A bill to finance Working Against Violence Everywhere.
A bill to finance a speaker sponsored by Students for a Free Tibet.
Senate also received a $10,000 grant to provide child care stipends for full-time students.
A resolution recognizing Roy Williams and Marian Washington for their self-sacrifice and dedication to the University of Kansas and its students.
charging Yoder and Student Legislative Awareness Board Legislative Director Korb Maxwell to gain the support of the Student Advisory Committee, Regents and the Legislature in changing the status of the KU Campus Transportation Fee.
Despite some opposition to using student fees to finance KUID readers during the elections, Senate voted to finance the polling sites.
Senate voted against the second piece of legislation that would have showed Senate support for reinterpreting state statutes that prohibit student transportation fees from being used to finance public transportation in Lawrence.
Krebs said that the resolution would have been the first step toward implementing a joint public transportation system between the University and the city. Other senators did not approve of ordering the Yoder to take action and were not sure if they were in favor of the possible disadvantages associated with a city-wide transportation system.
ON THE RECORD
—Edited by Jason Pearce
A KU student's stereo speakers were stolen from his car between 2 and 9:30 a.m. Monday in the 2100 block of Kasol Drive, a Lawrence Police report said. The snorkels were valued at $1,650.
A KU student's CD player and CDs were stolen from his car between 11:30 p.m. and 10 a.m. Monday in the 1200 block of Tennessee Street, a Lawrence Police report said. The stolen property was valued at $215.
A KU student's CD player and CDs were stolen from a car between midnight Saturday and 2:30 a.m. Monday in the 1100 block of West 11th Street, a Lawrence Police report said. The stolen property was valued at $600.
A car driven by a KU student backed into an illegally parked facilities operations vehicle at 8:15 a.m. Tuesday in the Wescoe Hall loading dock, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage to the vehicle was minor.
A KU public safety officer was dispatched to Hillop Child Care Center at 10 a.m. Tuesday on a report that an employee was having a seizure, the KU Public Safety Office said. The employee was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
ON CAMPUS
■ KU Environs and Ecumenical Christian Ministries will sponsor a vegetarian luncheon from 1 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at the ECM. Call Shannon at 841.8033 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.
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.
- Writer's Roosts, sponsored by Writing Consulting: Student Resources, are open today at the following times and locations: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Burge Union and 4003 Wesco Hall; 1 to 4 p.m. at Alcove C in the Kansas Union; 6 to 9 p.m. in the Multicultural Resource Center. Call 864-2399 for more information.
KU Queers & Allies will sponsor a panel discussion on queer parenting at 7:30 tonight at Parlors A, B and C in the Kansas Union.
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Academic Computing Services presents: FREE COMPUTER TRAINING for the KU Community Week of March 8-11, 1999
All AIS classes are FREE to KU students and faculty aren't required registration UNIFS or otherwise. Register at as workbook/passcode or BK4-049M. Good classes are 175 for non-KU enrolled. The complete AIS class schedule is at www.counselor.ais.edu/accreditation or in Driver's Ed for the information Supervisor available at the Counselor Center, running Tuesday to train 30 students on BK4-049M.
**Excel: Introduction**—Build a simple worksheet using menu selection, cursor movement, cell addressing, data types. Help and more. Prerequisite: Experience working in the Windows or Mac OS environment. Requires registration for all and fee for non University. Mon., March 8; 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. / Budig Hall PC Lab, Room 10
Finding Information on the World Wide Web Learn to use several guides and search tools to make the most of the Web's resources. Tues., March 9, 9 - 10:30 p.m./ Budig Hall PC Lab. Room 10
Graphic formats & scanning—Get an overview of graphic formats and scanning images for Web or print. Tues., March 9
1-2:30 p.m./Computer Center Auditorium
E-mail: Introduction—Learn how to set up your preferred e-mail program to best meet your needs as well as composing, reading, saving, printing, and replying to e-mail. Thurs., March 11, 1 - 2:30 p.m./ Computer Center PC Lab, Room 202A