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The Inside Front
Friday February 19, 1999
News
from campus, the state the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Student associations to celebrate New Year
The Lion dance will ring in the Chinese New Year for several Asian student associations at 7:30 tonight at the Kansas Union Ballroom.
The Malaysian Student Association, the Hong Kong and Macao Student Association and the Chinese Student and Scholar Friendship Association will combine their festivities this year, which will include dancing, a multimedia presentation and folk music.
Frances Tan, president of MSA, said she hoped that the Year of the Rabbit would begin loudly.
"For Chinese, we believe that the louder it is, the better it is to ward off the evil spirits for the New Year," said Tan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia senior.
Tickets cost $3 for members and $5 for non-members.
Dan Currv
Theater's fire alarm set off accidentally
A fire alarm at the Varsity Theater, 1015 Massachusetts St. caused one block of Massachusetts Street to be blocked from 11:38 a.m. to 12:07 p.m. yesterday, said Bill Baskin, battalion chief for the Lawrence Douglas County Fire and Medical Department.
The alarm was set off when workers, who were remodeling the building, accidently broke a pipe. This set off the sprinklers and the alarm, he said.
KU professor awarded for recycling technique
No one was injured, and none of the neighboring businesses had to be evacuated.
Katie Burford
Research by a KU professor has led to improved pavement recycling techniques.
Stephen Cross, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, was awarded the Asphalt Recycling and Reclaiming Association's Award for Excellence in Cold In-Place Recycling.
Cold In-Place Recycling is a method whereby pavement can be reconditioned on-site without heat and little new material.
The Kansas Department of Transportation uses this technique on about 100 miles of roadway a year, notably along Interstate 70 in western Kansas.
Since 1992, Cross' research, with the help of the Kansas Department of Transportation and private companies, has focused on discovering more effective additives.
"We've evaluated different additives and fine tuned the process," Cross said. "It's resulted in better, more cost-effective pavement rehabilitation techniques."
Cross will be presented with the award tomorrow at the association's annual meeting in Tempe, Ariz.
Female society sponsors Mr. Engineer contest
Attention male engineering students. The Society of Women Engineers is looking for contestants in its Mr. Engineer competition.
The contest will be held at 4 p.m.
Feb. 26 at the Frontier Room in the
Burge Union.
Participants choose three categories in which to be judged.
Four categories are available: the boxer shorts and tie competition, the suit competition, the talent contest and the geek factor, in which contestants dress their geekiest and answer a question.
The judges, freshmen in the Society of Women Engineers, will award prizes from local sponsors.
Past prizes have included calculators, movie passes and dinner gift certificates.
Applications are available in 4010 Learned Hall and also on the Society of Women Engineer's door in Koch Lounge.
Completed registrations must be returned to 4010 Leamed Hall by Tuesday.
Jay Sheperd
NATION
Animal rights protesters object to hog farm aid
WASHINGTON — Six animal-rights protesters chained themselves inside the Agriculture Department for more than an hour yesterday morning to protest government subsidies for hog farmers.
Chanting "Jail not bail for pig farmers," the protesters from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sat on the floor just under the office of Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman. The protesters, still chained together, eventually walked out after officers began lifting them to remove them.
They were taken into custody by officers of the Federal Protective Services, which has jurisdiction over federal buildings. Details of any charges they may face were not available.
Glickman is in South Africa this week
Ginnickman is in South Africa this week. The government last month announced a $50 million aid package for pork farmers, who are receiving record low prices. In December, farmers got as low as $8 to $10 per 100 pounds compared to $45 last year.
Pork producers recently asked for about $500 million more, saying they were still in danger of losing their livelihoods because of low prices.
Administration requires inspections at Boeing
WASHINGTON — Operators of 1,000 older Boeing 727s must inspect skin joints on the aircraft for fatigue cracking and make any necessary repairs, the Federal Aviation Administration
The airworthiness directive was prompted by reports of fatigue cracks in four Boeing 727s operating in the U.S. commercial airline fleet.
ordered yesterday.
It also is an outgrowth of the aging aircraft program begun with the aviation industry in 1988. The program is designed to ensure that aircraft remain as structurally sound throughout their service life as they were when they were originally certified.
The airworthiness directive applies to Boeing 727-100, -100C, -200, -200F, and 727C aircraft, airplanes that have an engine on each side of the tail cone and one built into the tail itself.
The average age of the aircraft is 25 years, or about 38,000 flight cycles
Operators must perform repetitive visual inspections of portions of lower skin lap joint — an area where overlapping sections of the plane are joined — within 15 days or 50 flight cycles, whichever occurs first.
The inspections must be performed prior to accumulation of 40,000 total flight cycles.
In addition, repetitive low frequency eddy current inspections must be performed within 60 days or 300 flight cycles to detect potential small cracks in the fuselage. Eddy current inspections are electronic examinations used to detect cracks not visible to the eye.
EPA pollution regulations to control SUV emissions
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency will propose, possibly within days, regulations to dramatically reduce pollution from automobiles including popular sport utility vehicles, according to sources familiar with the proposal.
The draft proposal, which is still subject to review by the White House, also would require cleaner burning gasoline, containing significantly less sulfur, the sources said.
The tougher pollution controls for motor vehicles would be phased in beginning in 2004.
For the first time, popular sport utility vehicles, minivans and pickup trucks would have to meet the same emission standards as automobiles, according to the EPA draft proposal. Currently some SUVs release more than three times as much smog-causing chemicals as cars.
While some details remained to be worked out, the agency is proposing pollution levels for cars and small trucks similar to those that already have been announced in California beginning in 2004, said sources who have been briefed on the general outline of the plan
EPA officials declined to comment Wednesday on the draft proposal, which is expected to be formally announced early in March after White House review. The final rules are to be completed by the end of the year.
The Associated Press
Today IN HISTORY
1803 — Congress voted to accept Ohio's borders and constitution. However, Congress did not formally ratify Ohio's statehood until 1953.
1473 — the astronomer Copernicus was born in Torun, Poland.
1807 — former Vice President Aaron Burr was arrested in Alabama. He was subsequently tried for treason and acquitted.
1846 — the Texas state government was formally installed in Austin.
1878 — Thomas Edison received a patent for his phonograph
1881—Kansas became the first state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages.
1942 — President Roosevelt signed an executive order giving the military the authority to relocate and intern Japanese-Americans.
1986 — the U.S. Senate approved a treaty outlawing genocide, 37 years after the pact first had been submitted for ratification.
1997 — Deng Xiaoping, the last of China's major Communist revolutionaries, died.
10 years ago: anat' iant's Ayatollah Khomeini rejected the apology of "Satanic Vesicles" author Salman Rushdie, exhorting Muslims to send him to hell for committing blasphemy.
Five years ago: With Bosnian Serbs facing a NATO deadline to withdraw heavy weapons encircling Sarajevo or face air strikes, President Clinton delivered an address from the Oval Office reaffirming the ultimatum. U.S. speed skater Bonnie Blair won the fourth Olympic gold medal of her career in the 500-meter race in Lillehammer, Norway.
One year ago: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan set on a laction on a last-chance peace mission, saying he was reasonably optimistic about ending the standoff over weapons inspections without the use of force. At the Nagano Olympics, Austrian Hermann Maier won the men's giant slalom while Hilde Gerg of Germany won the women's slalom.
Today's Birthdays: Movie director John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate) is 69. Singer Smokey Robinson of Smokey Robinson & the Miracles is 59. Singer Bobby Rogers is 59. Actress Carlin Glynn is 59. Singer Lou Christie is 46.Actor Michael Nader is 54. Rock musician Tony Lomni (Black Sabath) is 51. Actor Jeff Daniels is 44. Talk show host Loriane Crook is 42.Britain's Prince Andrew is 39.Tennis Hall-Foster Hana Mandlikova is 37.Singer Seal is 36.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's car stereo was stolen from her car between 4 p.m. Sunday and 4 p.m. Tuesday in the 500 block of Eldridge Street, a Lawrence Police report said. The stereo was valued at $400.
A KU professor backed into a KU parking truck at 12:20 p.m. Wednesday in lot 2, west of Budig Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage to the vehicles was minor.
A KU student was struck by another student's car at 7:02 p.m. Wednesday at the intersection of Dole Center Drive and Sunnyside Avenue, the KU Public Safety Office said. The pedestrian was not injured, and the driver was cited for not having proof of insurance.
U.S. pressuring Serbs by sending planes to Europe
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Dramatizing a threat to bomb the Serbs, the Clinton administration is adding 51 U.S. warplanes to an already powerful attack force in Europe to pressure the Yugoslav government to approve a self-rule plan for Kosovo and to accept NATO peacekeeping troops.
"We want to be in a position to carry out an air operation, should it be requested," Defense Secretary William Cohen said on his arrival early yesterday morning in Seattle on unrelated business.
Cohen told reporters the additional planes — 12 Air Force F-117 stealth fighter-bombers, 10 EA-6B electronic warfare planes and 29 refuelling planes — would begin arriving in Europe this weekend. He said they would be ready for a possible attack by the middle of next week.
Cohen declined to say where in Europe the extra planes would be based. Aviano air base in Italy is one possibility.
The purpose of sending more warplanes is to heighten the threat of force and thereby intimidate Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic into accepting a sixnation plan to end a yearlong conflict between Serb troops and secession-minded ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, a province in the dominant Yugoslav state of Serbia.
So far, Milosevic has defied the United States and five allied governments who have given him until noon Saturday to agree to pull most Serb troops out of Kosovo and see them replaced by some 28,000 NATO peacekeepers, including about 4,000 U.S. troops.
While his Serb negotiators at Rambouillet, France, are showing some interest in the self-rule plan for the Albanian-majority Serbian province, Milosevic is defying the United States and its partners on the peacekeeping operation that would clear the way for a local police force to take charge in Kosovo.
ON CAMPUS
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.
Writers Roost, sponsored by Writing Consulting: Student Resources, will be open on Sunday from 4 to 10 p.m. at the Templin Academic Resource Center. Call 864-2399 for more information.
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