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The Inside Front
Tuesday March 2,1999
News
from campus, the state. the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Chandler returns home expected to recover
Michael Chandler, a wide receiver for the University of Kansas football team, was released yesterday morning from Lawrence Memorial Hospital where he was treated for a gunshot wound to the groin, said Doug Vance, assistant athletics director.
Vance said that Chandler, Kansas City, Kan., junior, was expected to spend several days recovering at his parents' home before returning to campus for classes.
Doctors indicated that the injury should have no effect on Chandler's football career at the University, Vance said.
Police do not currently have any suspects in the shooting, said Sgt. Rich Nickell of the Lawrence Police Department.
"We're trying to piece together what happened that night." he said.
Nickell said that Chandler went out Friday night.
"We're talking to people he may have been with earlier in the evening," he said.
Former KU football player Justin Glasgow said that he was unclear about what had happened.
Chandler was asleep at his house in the 4400 block of Adam Avenue when he was awakened at 5 a.m. Saturday morning by a knock at the door.
"No one was there, and the people who were there aren't talking," he said. "I can't make a judgement whatsoever about it."
Swastika found burned on Oliver Hall room door
As he opened the door, three men in masks burst into the room and struck him in the chest with a baseball bat, and then one of the men shot him in the groin area with a small-caliber handgun.
An Asian-American KU student had a swastika burned on the door of his Oliver Hall residence between 5 p.m. Friday and 5 p.m. Saturday, said Ggt. Troy Mailen of the KU Public Safety Office.
Police had not identified the race of the residents in the other two rooms.
Two neighboring doors also were van dalized, however, the markings on the doors were illegible, Mailen said.
Mallen said that they did not have any suspects.
"The important thing is to learn if it was random or directed at this particular person," he said.
Mailen said he wasn't sure what had been used to burn the symbol on the door.
There were three hate crimes in 1998 at the University and two so far in 1999.
— Katie Burford
Asian American Festival to highlight lives, culture
The Asian American Festival, held throughout the first week of March, will include several events to celebrate the lives and culture of Asian-American people.
The Asian American Student Union,
Student Senate and the Multicultural Resource Center will sponsor an Asian art gallery tour of the Spencer Art Museum at 12:15 today.
A free movie, Eat a Bowl Of Tea, starring Russel Wong, will be shown at 7:00 tonight at the Spencer Art Museum Auditorium. The comedy explores relationships in Chinese-American culture.
Wednesday, the Asian-American theater家 "hereandnow" will perform at 7 p.m. at the Spencer Art Museum Auditorium. The event is free
Teh Sun, internal vice-president of AASU, had seen the company twice before and had been impressed, she said.
"They perform across the country and promote Asian awareness," said Sun. "In their skirts you can laugh at your own culture, I guess you could say, but at the same time you can feel proud of it."
Thursday, Henri J. Doner-Hedrick, an Asian-American artist, will speak at 3 p.m. at the Kansas Union lobby.
Friday, pop star Joelyn Enriquez will speak at 7 p.m. at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. The event is free.
Enriquez, whose song, "Do You Miss Me," placed third on a Billboard chart, will speak about growing up as an Asian-American and her success as a music performer.
Saturday, Enriquez will sing at a dance party at 10 p.m. at the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Preceeding the dance party will be Taste of Asia, an opportunity for KU students to sample Asian cuisine, culture and fashion.
Food will be served at 6 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building, 1204 Oread Ave. Fashion shows and culture presentations will be held at 7:30 at the Kansas Union Ballroom
Tickets cost $4 for entrance to both
Taste of Asia and the dance party.
— Dan Curry
"I wrote him several weeks ago, telling him what I planned to do in the class but never expected to get a reply," said Wichita lawyer Robert Beatie, who teaches political science part-time at Newman University.
STATE
WICHTA — Teaching assistants are fixtures at America's colleges and universities, eagerly helping professors grade papers, administer tests and even teach class for a day.
"He's probably the most famous or most notorious prisoner on the planet. He gets more mail and more requests like this than anyone else in prison. But he called right away after I wrote."
Charles Manson helps students restage trial
All of which makes Charles Manson's foray into the role of teacher's aide at a quiet Catholic school in Kansas a bit strange, if not disconcerting.
Beatie wants Manson's help in restaging the trial in which Manson was found guilty of the bloody 1969 killings of actress Sharon Tate and four others in her house.
After all, as Manson put it in a taped conversation with Beattie, "I have 50 years of experience in incarceration. ... I pretty much have a leg up on the law from an underworld perspective."
Congress may eliminate national debt by 2014
NATION
WASHINGTON — The United States is on the threshold of a truly remarkable turnaround in financial fortunes; the tantalizing prospect that the booming economy could make the federal government debt-free in just 15 years.
And it could happen, for only the second time in the nation's history, with seemingly no heavy lifting.
If politicians simply leave current policies alone, the president's Office of Management and Budget projects the $3.7 trillion debt held by the public will be wiped out in 2014.The Congressional Budget Office is even more optimistic, predicting publicly held debt could be gone by 2012.
With politicians eager for tax cuts and more spending, no one expects lawmakers actually to leave well enough alone.
IRS self-audit released, finds problems in records
WASHINGTON — It sounds like a taxpayer's dream: The IRS was audited and struggled to explain its own financial records.
"The IRS cannot do some of the basic accounting and record-keeping tasks that it expects American taxpayers to do," said Gregory Kutz, who oversaw the audit released yesterday by the congressional General Accounting Office.
GAO said IRS is unable to keep track of unpaid taxes properly, which means it cannot concentrate collection efforts on the taxpayers most likely to pay. The upshot is that only about $26 billion of the $222 billion in unpaid taxes as of October 1998 are likely to be collected.
IRS officials were quick to take responsibility for the problems, which they said were largely rooted in the agency's antiquated computer systems that date as far back as the Kennedy administration.
The Associated Press
New garage will offer 815 additional parking spaces
But Krebs also said she thought students deserved more spaces in the garage because of an increase in their parking fees last year.
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Annual student rates rose from $53 to $75, about 42 percent, between the 1996-97 academic year and 1997-98.
"I don't think the Parking Department is publicly recognizing the financial input students are having on the parking garage," she said.
Dedra Seibel, Nunemaker senator and University Council vice president, said Student Senate would continue to push the Parking Department for more student spaces.
"Now is the time to start changing those things," she said. "Heavy lobbying of that group will be a priority."
The parking report stated that there would be no increase in parking fees next year.
Garage permits, including the garage near Allen Fieldhouse, will cost $5 plus the permit fee.
The Parking Department also is changing its policy on stickers and hang tags. This year most people were required to use stickers because hang tags had been stolen in previous years.
But in response to complaints from people who wanted to car pool and share a permit, faculty, staff and students will be able to purchase hang tags or stickers.
Lost or stolen permits will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
"If they lose it, they're going to have to pay the full price pro-rated." Kearns said.
The total project cost for the parking garage is $10 million.
University Architect Warren Corman said construction was expected to begin in May or June and be completed in early fall 2000.
— Edited by Tara Hinkhouse
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's Yamaha motorcycle was damaged between 3 a.m. and 7:55 a.m. Friday in the 900 block of Arkansas Street, a lawrence police report said. The damage was estimated at $300.
A KU faculty member's front windshield and rear window were broken between 12:30 a.m. m. and 9:45 a.m. Wednesday in the 2500 block of Harvard Road, a Lawrence police report said. The windows were valued at $1,000.
A KU student's sunglasses were stolen between 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Feb. 11 from the first floor m.p. bedroom in the Kansas Union, the KU Public Safety Office said. The sunglasses were valued at $250.
- A backpack was stolen between 3:05 p.m. and 3:15 p.m. Friday from the first floor of Anschutz
Science Library, the KU Public Safety Office said. The backpack and its contents were valued at $271.
A KU student's car rear-ended another KU student's car at 15th Street and West Learned Hall Drive at 4 p.m. Thursday, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage to the cars was minor.
Two stalls at a fourth floor men's bathroom in Oliver Hall were damaged between 10:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. Friday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The damage was estimated at $200.
A KU student driving a facilities operations vehicle drove over a curb and hit a parking sign at the Lied Center parking lot, the KU Public Safety Office said. The vehicle was damaged but was still drivable after the accident.
ON CAMPUS
OAKS—Non-Traditional Students Organization will have a brown bag luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Alcove F in the Kansas Union. Call Simmie Berroya at 830-0074 for more information
Amnesty International will meet at 7 tonight at Alceve D in the Kansas Union. Call Kyle Browning at 842-1351 for more information.
KU Coalition will present "From Enemy to Mascot: Stereotypes of Indigenous People" from 7 to 9 tonight at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union.
Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship will meet at 7:30 on tightion at 3139 Wescoe Hall. Call Wendy
Brown at 838-3984 for more information.
University Christian Fellowship will meet at 7 tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries for Bible study and worship. Call Tim Waits at 841-3148 for more information.
Brown at 839-594 for more information.
Latin American Solidarity will meet at 8 tonight in the Kansas Union. Call Megan Hope at 331-2403 for more information.
Students for a Free Tibet will meet at 8 tonight in the Kansas Union, Call Erik Goodman at 841-4670 for more information.
■ The Pool Boys and various campus ministries will meet 9 tonight at 3139 Wescoe Hall for an evening of praise and worship music. Call Mark Fleske at 832-6205 for more information.
■ Writer's Roasts, 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 Wesco Hall, noon to 4 p.m. at 4006 Wesco Hall, and 1 to 4 p.m. at Alcev C in the Kansas Union. Call 864-2399 for more information.
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Moving Forward Together Women's History Month 1999 Free Screening! "How To Make an American Quilt"
Celebrate Women's History Month! Join us for a free screening of this powerful film, starring Academy Award nominee Winona Rider. Also starring Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, and Kate Capshaw. Rated PG-13.
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Tuesday, March 2nd 7:00 p.m. Woodruff Auditorium, 5th floor, Kansas Union
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