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The Inside Front
Thursday February 25,1999
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CAMPUS
Man exposes himself to female KU student
A 22-year-old KU student was at her residence when a man appeared outside her window and exposed himself at 11:33 p.m. yesterday in the 2300 block of Yale Road, said Officer David Anderson of the Lawrence Police Department.
The student was studying when she saw a man outside her living room win dow. At first, the student thought he was a neighbor, Anderson said.
The student next saw the man heading toward the garage and shortly after heard noises in the bushes near another window. When she looked out, she saw the man with his pants down, Anderson said.
Upon seeing her, the man turned around and, grabbing his buttocks, mooned her. As the student was calling the police, the man began masturbating while shouting that he wanted a girl to see him pleasure himself. Anderson said.
The police found and arrested the Kansas City, Mo., man at 11:55 p.m. in the same block of the student's residence.
Drilling holes, listening gets student arrested
A 25-year-old KU student was arrested on charges of eavesdropping and criminal damage to property at 4:04 p.m. Tuesday in the 700 block of North Seventh Street, Sgt. George T. Wheeler of the Lawrence Police Department said.
The man is suspected of drilling three holes in his apartment wall to see into his neighbor's bathroom between Oct. 10 and Nov. 10 in the 1100 block of Louisiana Street, Wheeler said.
The Douglas County District Attorney reviewed the case and issued a summons, which called for the suspect to be detained and to appear in court to face the charges, Wheeler said.
Katie Burford
"Rattlebone" author to read from new book
African-American novelist and poet Maxine Clair will read from her work-in progress "A Letter to Vergie" at 8 tonight at the Frontier Room in the Burge Union.
Clair, associate professor of English at George Washington University, is the author of the award-winning novel "Rattlebone," which is set in Kansas City, Kan.
"She grew up in K.C.," said Philip Barnard, associate professor of English. "She actually got a bachelor's of science degree from KU. In a certain sense, this will be her first official visit back."
Maryemey Graham, professor of English, said that Clair's writing voice
represented a new generation
"I think it's urban, aggressive, young. It's forceful, refreshing." Graham said. Clair will sign books after the reading.
The Department of English Lecturers and Readers Committee will sponsor the event, which is free and open to the public.
Black Student Union to sponsor poem reading
The poetry of African-American KU students will be read at 7 tonight at the Big 12 Room in the Kansas Union.
"Basically it's students doing their own personal poetry or poetry from somebody else, like Maya Angelou," said Natalie Lucas, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore. "There'll be refreshments afterward."
This Black History Month event is sponsored by the Black Student Union.
— Dan Curry
NATION
Man convicted in killing expected to lash out
JASPER, Texas — A white man convicted of dragging a black man to death will probably cling to his racist beliefs and could lash out violently again, a psychiatrist yesterday told the jury that will decide whether the defendant should live or die.
Other prosecution witnesses said John
King; Psychiatrist
says King could be violent again
William King, the white supremacist convicted Tuesday in the slaying of James Byrd Jr. last June, acted up in jail by threatening to assault a police investigator and smashing a TV set. A defense expert, however, said a life sentence would be appropriate for the 24-year-old former
laborer
Dr. Walter Quijano, a former chief psychologist for the Texas prison system now in private practice, said he based that conclusion on King's lack of drug use and the fact he used no weapons during previous crimes.
In Texas, a person serving a life sentence cannot become eligible for parole for at least 40 years.
Dr. Edward Gripon, a forensic psychiatrist who testified for the prosecution after reviewing King's writings and photograph of King's racist tattoos, said he doubts King will shake his beliefs.
"The probability of people at age 64 committing violence is very low," Quijano said.
"Anyone who has white supremacist or any other kind of acist feeling, if
they are heavily invested in that kind of ideology, it's not going to just go away," Gripon said.
The jury probably will be given the case today.
Avalanche hits Austria during heavy snowfalls
LANDECK, Austria — A 45-foot high avalanche thundered down the mountainside in a hamlet near the stricken Alpine village of Galtuer yesterday, killing one woman in the second straight day of deadly snowslides in western Austria.
The avalanche came as Austrian soldiers searched in hopes of finding survivors of Tuesday's deadly avalanche in Galtuer, where 16 people were confirmed dead.
Despite a break in the heavy snowfall, the avalanche roared through Valzur, some 7 miles northeast of Galtuer, yesterday afternoon. The new snowslide, 600-feet wide and about four-stories deep, destroyed three houses, the Austria Press Agency reported.
Nine people were swept away in Valizur. A man and a child were pulled out shaken but alive. Searchers later found one woman dead and listed six people as missing.
Already the death toll in Galtuer has surpassed that in Chamonix, France, where 12 people were killed this month. About 15 people were believed buried in Galtuer, near the Swiss border.
More than 60 people have died in avalanches across Europe this year.
American, British forces attack Iraqi missile sites
BAGHADD, Iraq — U.S. and British warplanes attacked targets on the outskirts of the Iraqi capital today, killing or wounding several people, the Iraqi armed forces said.
U. S. military officials said Air Force and Navy aircraft attacked two Iraqi surface-to-air missile sites near Al Iskandarylah, about 30 miles south of Baghdad, in response to anti-aircraft artillery fire and an Iraqi aircraft violation of the southern no-fly zone.
In a statement, the U.S. Central Command said an unspecified number of F-15E and F/A-18 aircraft carried out the attacks. The statement did not include what kind of weapons were used. The sites are at the extreme northern edge of the southern no-fly zone.
"There were no coalition aircraft damaged during the incident and battle damage assessment is ongoing," the American statement said.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's car window was broken between 9 and 11:45 p.m. Tuesday in the 900 block of Iowa Street, Lawrence Police said.
The Iraq communique and U.S. statement followed the firing of anti-aircraft guns and the wailing of siens in Baghdad. Iraq said 23 formations of aircraft from bases in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait
The Associated Press
Iraq said 23 formations of aircraft from bases in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait carried out a total of 48 sorties.
The window of a KU student's car was broken and 30 CDs were stolen from the car between 4 p.m. Friday and 7 a.m. Monday in the 3400 block of Iowa Street, Lawrence Police said. Damage to the window was $150. The CDs were valued at $300.
A KU public safety officer was dispatched at 8:44 p.m. Tuesday to Elsworth Hall on a report that a resident was having an asthma attack, the KU Public Safety Office said. The student was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
A KU public safety officer was dispatched at 4:38 p.m. Monday to Hashinger Hall on a report that a resident fallen down a flight of stairs and injured her knee, the KU Public Safety Office said. The student was transported to Watkins Memorial Health Center.
ON CAMPUS
KU Environs and Ecumenical Christian Ministries will sponsor a vegetarian lunch from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at the ECM. Call Shannan at 841-8033 for more information.
The KU Public Safety Office will have a grant proposal public hearing at 4 p.m. today at the Governor's Room in the Kansas Union. The hearing will discuss the use of Local Law Enforcement Block Grant money to support alcohol education programs for the university community. Call Sergeant Troy Mailen at 864-5911 for more information.
Amnesty International will meet for letter writing at 7 tonight at the Glass Onion, 624 W. 12th St. Call Kyle Brown at 842-1351 for more information.
Campus Crusade for Christ will sponsor "College Life" at 7:30 tonight at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union. Call Lindsey Chalfant at 864-1562 for more information.
KU Young Democrats will meet at 8 tonight at the Parliars in the Kansas Union. Call Jesse Oehiert at 864-1308 for more information.
Working Against Violence Everywhere (WAVE) will have a safety whistle distribution meeting at 8 tonight at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union. Call Karen Isley at 838-3081 for more information.
Writer's 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. at the Burge Union and 4003 Wescoe Hall, from 1 to 4 p.m. at Alcove C in the Kansas Union, and from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Multicultural Resource Center. Call 864-2399 for more information.
Chancellor will pursue pay increase
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to join the crusade for higher salaries but said they had to be careful they were not perceived as self-serving.
The Board of Regents also has pledged to keep pressing the Legislature for change.
"We're committed for two reasons," Basow said. "We love the subjects we teach, and we love who we teach. Education is a calling."
“It’s unfortunate that we can't get the Legislature's serious attention on the faculty-salary initiative unless we are at a crisis state,” said William Docking, Regents chairman.
But he said the Regents were holding out hope in the Senate. A Ways and Means subcommittee was expected to recommend adding $900,000 to Graves' faculty-retention fund in a report to the full committee next week. The addition would bring Graves' recommended 3.5 percent salary increase to 5 percent.
In the meantime, Regents would keep lobbying in the House and Senate, Docking said.
"It's certainly not over, and we're not going to give up on this," he said.
The House and Senate will eventually vote on separate versions of the state budget bill, which will then go to a conference committee to resolve differences.
"They say there are two things you should never watch closely being made." Hemenay said. "One is sausage; the other is legislation."
Edited by Clint Hooker
Today: IN HISTORY
In 1803, the Supreme Court ruled itself
The Mempire for Constitutional Issues
1821-1921. Made her declared its independence from Spain.
In 1903, the United States signed an agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
In 1945, American soldiers liberated the Philippine capital of Manila from Japanese control during World War II.
In 1981, Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Britain's Prince Charles to Lady Spencer.
In 1983, a congressional commission released a report condemning the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War Two as a "grave injustice."
In 1988, in a ruling that expanded legal protections for parody and satire, the Supreme Court overturned a $200,000 award that the Reverend Jerry Falkwell had won against Hustler magazine and its publisher Larry Flynt.
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