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The Inside Front
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Monday
February 15, 1999
News
from campus, the state the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Group assists victims by dishing up awareness
Latin American Solidarity will serve rice and beans at 6:00 p.m. tomorrow at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building for the benefit of Brazilian earthquake victims.
After the meal, KU students from Colombia will lead an open discussion about problems in their country.
"Things are still fairly bad, as far as reconstruction work goes," said Megan Hope, Garden City graduate student and president of LAS.
Hope said the cost for the relief effort was estimated at $500 million.
The event is free, although any donations will be used to help the hundreds of thousands of Colombians left injured and homeless by last month's earthquake in Armenia, Hope said.
Donations also can be made to an earth relief fund maintained by LAS
earthquake relief fund maintained by LAS Funds will be channeled through the Colombian Support Network, the Colombian Embassy in Washington and other Colombian organizations, Hope said.
She said donations had not been forthcoming — LAS only had taken in about $100.
Panel to discuss shades standards of beauty
"It's been really, really slow," Hope said. Checks can be made out to "KU Earthquake Relief" and mailed or hand-delivered to the Center for Latin American Studies, 107 Lippincott, Lawrence, KS, 60454.
A panel of African-American KU students will explore the relationship between standards of beauty and shades of color at 7 p.m. tonight in the Daisy Hill Room at the Burge Union .
"Our panel is composed of students representing different hues, but who are all beautiful," said Tamara Lewis, assistant director at the Office of Minority Affairs.
Lewis said African-American standards of beauty were sometimes influenced by European standards, which favor lighter skin tones rather than darker tones.
But history, family, environmental factors and the media also affect a person's perception of what is beautiful, she said.
The forum, "Shades of You," is a Black History Month event sponsored by the Office of Minority Affairs and the Black Student Union.
— Dan Curry
Kemper nominations now being accepted
Nominations for Kemper Fellowships which award $5,000 to 20 teachers every fall, are being accepted.
Nineteem must be full-time faculty members with a minimum of three years in a tenured or tenure-track position.
The award honors faculty members who have demonstrated excellence in teaching or advising.
Nominations from previous years can be retrieved from the Provost's office and updated by the nominator. Applications are due by April 2 and should be turned into the Provost's office.
Nominations must include: a statement from the nominees outlining their goals and strategies, a resume, a summary of instructional and advising activities during the past five years, evaluations of the nominee's teaching or advising, a letter from the nominee's department chair or dean and up to six other letters of recommendation.
Nominees may not win Kemper awards twice in the same five-year span.
Administrators will play the part of Ed McMahon next semester when the Fellowships are awarded and delivered via a surprise patrol.
Chris Hopkins
Man arrested for trying to assault police officer
An Overland Park man was arrested early Friday morning at the Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St., for preparing to swing at a police officer, a Lawrence police report said.
The man had been asked to leave the bar, but refused. When police attempted to escort him out, he looked as though he would hit the officer, who then arrested him, the report said.
Shortly after, in an unrelated incident police were called to Louise's Bar Downtown, 1009 Massachusetts St., in a response to a battery charge.
A 22-year-old Lawrence resident accused a University of Kansas student of slapping her, the report
— Katie Burford
STATE
Computer glitch makes personal cards public
We regret to inform you that many of the silly, sappy and sometimes obscene sentiments you added to the cards were not private. Anyone — from your teen-age son to your lover's spouse — may have surfed through your sweet nothings on the Web. That's the embarrassing result of a computer glitch discovered by The Kansas City Star.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A word of warning to "Pooh Bear," "Schnookums," "Sexy Lady" and other incurable romantics who have sent electronic greeting cards via Hallmark Cards' Internet site.
A search page at www.hallmark.com made untold numbers of e-mail Valentine's and birthday cards accessible to millions of strangers. All an interoper needed was a personal computer and a prudent interest.
The lack of security surprised customers and executives at the Kansas City-based greeting-card company, which scrambled this week to modify the site's computer program. A Hallmark official stressed that the problem involved only greetings sent a year or more ago.
Hallmark has been promoting its rapidly growing Web site as the premier supplier of the next generation of greeting cards. The site logs millions of visits each week. And Hallmark recently said it expected a leap in Valentine's Day purchases to "steam up the wires."
Its Web page offers more than 1,500 electronic greetings, for which Hallmark charges up to $2.50 each.
First Lady may run for New York Senate seat
NATION
WASHINGTON — With the impeachment trial over, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton will give serious thought to running for the Senate from New York next year, senior White House officials
Clinton: Considering run for Congress.
said Sunday.
Democrats and Republicans alike predicted a terrific race if she stepped in.
A number of people "have been really urging her to run, and I think she wants to hear them out," White House Chief of Staff John Podesta said on ABC's This Week.
"There are a lot of people in New York who think she would be a great senator and are very excited about the prospect that she would represent them," said White House communications director Ann Lewis on CNN's Late Edition. "I do think she would win," she said.
Talk has been circulating for several months of prospects that Clinton would run for the seat to be vacated when Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan leaves the Senate in 2000 after 24 years in office.
ON CAMPUS
"It would be an incredible race," said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., of a possible match-up with New York's Republican Mayor Rudy Gluiani. "One thing I know about Rudy Gluiani, he'll tangle with anybody," McCain said on NBC.
The Associated Press
Students interested in obtaining financial aid for Summer 1999 should complete a Summer Financial Aid Request Form. Students working in FWS 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.
The St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will have daily Mass at 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Center, 1631 Crescent Road. Call Father Vince Krische at 843-0357 for more information. There also will be daily Mass at 12:30 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at Danforth Chapel. Call Father Ray May at 843-0357 for more information.
- The SUA Recreation Committee will meet at 5 p.m. today at Alcove B in the Kansas Union. Call the SUA box office at 864-3477 for more information.
■ KU Enviros will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Kansas Union. Call Matt Dunbar at 864-7325 for more information.
The Center for Community Outreach will have a Community Internship Program informational meeting at 7 tonight at Alcove B in the Kansas Union. Call Cheryl Hill at 864-4073 for more information.
The School of Social Welfare will have a S.C.A.R.E. meeting for social work students and prospective majors at 7 tonight at the Walnut Room in the Kansas Union. Call Melinda Carden at 864-3823 for more information.
- The Lambda Sigma Honor Society will have an informational meeting concerning the application process at 8 tonight at the Kansas Union lobby for any sophomore with a G.P.A. of 3.5 or above. Call Elih Bures at 864-1718 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, from noon to 4 p.m. at 4006 Wescoe, and from 1 to 4 p.m. at Alcove C in the Kansas Union. Call 864-2399 for more information.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's purse was stolen between 10:15 a.m. and 3 p.m. Feb. 10 in the 1700 block of Ohio Street, at Lawrence Police report said. The purse and its contents were valued at $70.
A KU student's cellular phone was stolen between 10 p.m. Jan. 29 and 6 p.m. Jan. 30 in the 1000 block of Highland Drive. The phone was valued at $199.
A KU student's car was broken into and a compact disc player and CDs were stolen between 12:45 a.m. and 11:40 p.m. feb. 9 in lot 100 behind Stevenson Scholarship Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The stolen property and damage to the car were valued at $179.
Acquittal vote shocks no one, but comes as relief to many
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Sarah Pugh, KU Libertarians member and Omaha junior, said that Clinton's acquittal was in line with the libertarian perspective.
"Libertarians value economic and individual freedom," she said. "They should not have started the investigation to begin with. They went too far into his personal life."
The conclusion of the Senate trial, which began Jan. 7, marked the second consecutive major legal and political victory for Clinton since the dismissal of Paula Jones' sexual harassment lawsuit.
But Clinton still faces the threat of an indictment from Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr either before or after he leaves office.
Burdett Loomis, professor of political science, said that he had predicted Clinton's acquittal and that the trial should never have proceeded in the first place because the charges were not impeachable offenses. But the trial proved that the constitutional system works, he said.
"The people were ahead of the elites the whole time in reaching a reasonably sophisticated judgment. The president did behave abominally, and the first line of his obituary was essentially written," Loomis said. "Nothing, absent a war, can change this. We'll be talking about this for a long time."
He agreed with lawmakers in Washington, D.C., who predicted that the Independent Counsel Act, which provided the framework for Starr's investigation, either would not be renewed or would be modified after it expires in June.
Loomis said he thought the legal decisions made during the trial would also have other ramifications. He said lawmakers would not use impeachment for partisan purposes again in the near future.
He also said that Congress may decide that a sitting president could not be charged in a civil case and that Congress may clarify the nature of lawyer-client privileges and executive privilege in the White House.
"We got through a painful time with at least an amount of dignity," he said. "We can have a greater appreciation for the Constitution. We have had a civics lesson over the last 16 months."
Mitchell Bowles, Las Vegas junior, said he agreed with the Senate's decision.
"Clinton's private life is his private life," he said. "It's between him and his wife."
Joanna Wade, Wamego sophomore, said she thought Clinton's acquittal set separate standards for the president.
"They should have booted him," she said.
"The nation's laws should apply to everybody."
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Paid Vacations
Do you think the people at the video store care that your roommate's dad has a time share in Key West?
Do you think they care that she invited you to go along?
Do you think they care that you could be spending 6 days and 7 nights in paradise while Lawrence transforms into a frozen wasteland?
And do you think they care that such impressive pectoral muscles have not been seen since that locker room scene in Top Gun?
No. The people at the video store don't care. They just want you to show up and rewind the tapes while your friend gets that "Lovin' Feelin'" with a Val Kilmer look-a-like.
So lather yourself up with coconut oil grab your two-piece and jump on that plane.
At Norrell paid vacations are only one of the many benefits you will receive for using your noodle to help people with their Sprint service.
(Okay maybe not in that order.)
Norrell
Located in the lower level of the Riverfront Plaza Call 838-7832 or stop by to apply Sprint Sprint TELECENTERs Inc.
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