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The Inside Front
Wednesday February 17, 1999
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Greek administrator accepts job in Atlanta
After two years of serving as assistant director of greek programs, Wis Simons
Simons: Has been with the University for two years.
will leave his position March 19.
Simons accepted a job as a search consultant for an Atlanta-based executive consulting firm in January.
Simons, originally from Atlanta, has been involved with several Greek projects at the University, including fraternity expansion and restructuring of the Interfraternity Council.
Simons said a national search would start in April or May to fill the position.
Jamie Knodel
Blood drive volunteers needed for next week
Organizers of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation Campus Blood Drive are looking for volunteers to help them with promotion and services for the blood drive next week.
Cindy Schmiedler, Kansas Blood Services, said that volunteers still were needed to register arriving donors, serve refreshments to donors and distribute fyers on campus and downtown
Anyone interested in volunteering to work at the blood drive should call Kansas Blood Services at 766-0130.
Schmiedler said volunteers would need to be available to work for at least one hour at a time. All volunteers and blood donors will be given two free movie passes compliments of Hollywood Theaters.
T. J. Johnson
STATE
Abortion groups agree new bill is a bad idea
TOPEKA — Abortion opponents and abortion rights supporters both told a House committee Monday that a bill requiring minors to obtain parental consent to obtain an abortion was a bad idea
the House Federal and State Affairs Committee is considering a bill requiring females younger than 18 wanting to have abortions to get written consent from at least one parent or guardian.
Cleta Renyer of Right to Life of Kansas said parents should not be able to grant consent to abortions.
Supporters of the bill, including Kansans for Life, the state's largest anti-abortion organization, were to testify later.
Under current law, a minor's physician must notify at least one parent before performing an abortion, but parental consent is not required. The bill would repeal the section of law on parental notification and replace it with the new language on consent.
The bill, requested by Rep. Becky Hutchins, R-Holton, would permit abortions without parental consent when the procedure is necessary to save the girl's life and when there is not enough time to obtain consent. Minors who are married or not under parental custody would be exempt from the consent requirement, as well.
In addition, the bill would allow a district court judge to authorize an abortion without parental consent.
Cigarette, gunpowder cause teens' fiery crash
LEAVENWORTH — Two teen-agers were critically injured in a fiery crash after a cigarette apparently ignited gunpowder that the youths were handling inside a pickup truck, officials said.
The incident happened about 4 p.m. Monday on a gravel road near Pleasant Ridge High School where the teens attended, said Sgt. John Kirby of the Leav enworth County Sheriff's Department.
Brad Seever, 18, and a passenger, Matthew Herken, 15, were traveling near the school when cigarettes apparently been smoked inside the truck ignited the gunpowder, Kirby said. Seever and Herken were the only people inside the vehicle.
Both victims were listed in critical condition yesterday in the burn unit at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
NATION
Government questions Microsoft restrictions
WASHINGTON — The government played its own courtroom video demonstration yesterday to show that restrictions Microsoft
U. S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson appeared perplexed, confessing to a conceptual problem with parts of the procedure.
tions Microsoft Corp. placed on the world's largest Internet provider make it annoyingly complicated for most consumers to use a competitor's software.
The government said yesterday the procedure could take more than an hour, depending on how fast a user connected to the Internet.
Microsoft's video, shown to the judge last week, omitted the process to save time, which it said took only 10 minutes.
As part of its antitrust case, the government contends Microsoft imposed illegal restrictions on America Online Inc. by preventing AOL from actively promoting rival Internet browser software from Netscape Communications Corp. and prohibiting AOL from distributing Netscape's browser to more than 15 percent of its customers.
North Korean missiles could hit United States
WORLD
TOKYO — Japan's Defense Agency said yesterday that North Korea has the technology to launch a long-range ballistic missile capable of reaching parts of the United States, according to Japanese news reports.
North Korea has made significant progress in developing its Teapodong-2 liquid-fuel missiles, Japan's semigovernment television network NHK quoted unidentified Japanese defense sources as saving.
Taepodong 2 is believed to be capable of carrying heavy payloads to Hawaii and Alaska and lighter-weight weapons to parts of the U.S. mainland
NHK said Japanese defense officials confirmed North Korea's capability to launch a long-range missile.
Agency representative Kazushi Tanaka said the agency would not comment because of security reasons.
U. S. gives Milosevic peace deal ultimatum
RAMBOUILLET, France — The top U.S. mediator at the Kosovo peace talks flew to Serbia yesterday with an ultimatum for Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic: Agree to a U.S.-backed deal or else.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright phoned Milosevic from Washington yesterday and told him that the ethnic Albanians appear ready to sign an agreement, according to spokesman James P. Rubin. He said Albright expected Milosevic to sign the deal as well.
Christopher Hill, the U.S. ambassador to Macedonia, met with Milosevic last night. Western sources at the talks in France said Hill was expected to tell Milosevic that if he didn't accept an agreement by noon Saturday, he would suffer NATO air strikes.
Sources close to the talks, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there was little actual negotiating going on. Delegates, rather, only were making minor changes to a largely take-it-or-leave-it American deal.
The Associated Press
American Airlines may offer bargains to angry customers
The Associated Press
DALLAS — With operations getting back to normal at American Airlines, the nation's second-largest airline is expected to offer bargains to win back passengers alienated by the pilots' sickout
The sickout forced the cancellation of more than 6,000 flights on 10 days and messed up the travel plans of about 600,000 passengers.
Experts said yesterday that because of high demand for seats, travelers shouldn't expect big fare cuts. Instead, Randy Petersen, publisher of InsideFlyer frequent-flyer magazine, said he expected the airline to use frequent-flyer miles as an apology.
"I don't think we're going to see a lot of big fare slashes. American is more conservative. They don't like to do things everyone else would match," he said.
John Hotard, a spokesman for American Airlines' parent company, AMR Corp., would not comment on whether there would be a fare sale.
The bargains are aimed at people such as Tamara Martin, who returned home to Miami from Puerto Rico yesterday on a United Airlines flight. She was supposed to
fly home on Monday via American Airlines.
"I really doubt I would ever fly American again," Martin said. "I
know it will be an inconvenience to myself, and it probably wouldn't make a difference to their business, but I think I owe it to myself to stop flying American after what we've been through."
Meanwhile, the pilots obeyed a federal judge's order and placed $10 million, or one quarter of the union's assets, with the court. The money will go toward a fine that is expected to be levied against the union at a hearing today for defying a back-to-work order.
To appease travel agents who have been overwhelmed by the turmoil, American Airlines decided Monday to pay commissions for tickets that were later refunded because of the sickout. Commissions are not usually paid in such cases.
ON THE RECORD
damage was done to both cars.
A KU student's parked car was struck by an unidentified driver between 4 and 8 p.m. Sunday in Lot 104, west of Ellsworth Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage to the car was minor.
A KU student rearended the car of a KU visitor at 1:55 p.m. Monday on West Memorial Drive, the KU Public Safety Office said. Minor
A KU visitor's car was damaged intentionally between 5 p.m. Friday and 12 p.m. Saturday in lot 105, near McCollum Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage to the driver's side and the rear of the car was estimated at $1,000.
ON CAMPUS
- OAKS—Non-Traditional Students Organization will have a brown bag luncheon from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. today at Alcove A in the Kansas Union. Call Simmie Berroya at 830-0074 for more information.
- The Pre-Physical Therapy Club will meet at 6 p.m. today at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Call Corey Snyder at 841-4670 for more information.
■ KU Garners and Roleplayers will meet at 6:30 p.m. today at the Hawk's Nest in the Kansas Union. Call Ben Siaon at 865-5759 for more information.
Call Deb Slegman will sponsor a letter-writing campaign for Kansas Bill H2240, the Personal and Family Protection Act, at 7 p.m. at Alcove A in the Kansas Union, Call Rodger Woods at 841-6195 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 10 p.m. at the Burge Union, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 4003 Wescoe Hall, from noon to 4 p.m. at 4006 Wescoe Hall, and from 1 to 4 p.m. at Alcove C in the Kansas Union. Call 864-2399 for more information.
Students interested in obtaining financial aid for Summer 1999 should complete a Summer Financial Aid Request Form. Students working in Federal Work Study positions during the academic year should complete this form if they plan to continue working in the same positions this summer. Forms are available at the Office of Student Financial Aid, 50 Strong Hall.
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