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The Inside Front
Friday February 12, 1999
News
from campus, the state the nation and the world
CORRECTION
In yesterday's Kansan, International Awareness Week was incorrectly called International Student Awareness Week.
CAMPUS
'Hoop It Up' included in Black History Month
African-American students, faculty and staff will square off at the third annual "Hoop it Up" basketball tournament at 7 tonight in Robinson Gymnasium.
The event caps off the first week of Black History Month activities. The tour nament is sponsored by the National Pan-Hellenic Council, Black Student Union and Student Senate.
Delano Sheffield, treasurer of the Black Student Union, said the games would be must-see events.
"People should most definitely check it out," he said.
A traveling trophy will be presented to the winners.
St. Lawrence sponsors fourth sexuality forum
Abstinence and intimacy will be the topic at the fourth-annual forum on human sexuality at 4 p.m. today at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The forum, called "Sex by Knight," will be sponsored by the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center, 1631 Crescent Rd., and will feature Father David Knight, author and pastor of Sacred Heart Church in Memphis, Tenn.
"What we're trying to do is to show college students another alternative to sexual activity," said Tracey English, marketing director for St. Lawrence.
The event is free for students.
High schoolers to visit for journalism contest
The regional contest for the Kansas Scholastic Press Association will bring more than 1,000 high school journalism students to the University of Kansas today.
Last year, about 3,000 students competed at six regional sites, and the number for this year is expected to be higher.
KSPA's regional contests will be held at six sites statewide. Prospective journalism students from 31 high schools in northeast Kansas will compete at the Kansas Union.
"This grows every year," said John Hudnall, executive director of KSPA and lecturer in the School of Journalism. "I think this speaks highly of journalism in the state of Kansas."
The competitions will be divided into three classifications: enrollment categories 1A-2A, classes 3A-4A and 5A-6A.
In each contest and three enrollment categories, the first, second and third place winners and three honorable mentions will compete at the state competition May 1.
"The competitive aspect is certainly essential in this most competitive age."
— Yoshitaka Ebisawa
Hudnall said. "But I think even more important is the learning associated with such an activity."
LAWRENCE
Homeless man arrested for stealing loaf of bread
A homeless man, who would not identify himself, was arrested for stealing a loaf of bread at 3 p.m. Wednesday from First Christian Church, 1000 Kentucky St., a Lawrence Police report said.
Sgt. George T. Wheeler of the Lawrence Police Department said that the man had asked the police to discuss the French Revolution with him.
Fake ID investigation concluded, police say
The bread loaf was valued at $1.45.
The investigation into the manufacturing of fake identification cards at the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house, 1537 Tennessee St., has been concluded, said Sgt. George T. Wheeler of the Lawrence Police Department.
Police interviewed various people, including fraternity members, about the equipment used for making false driver licenses that was found Jan. 15 in a room at the fraternity house, Wheeler said.
The information they found was compiled in a report and sent yesterday to the office of the District Attorney, who will determine what charges will be brought in connection with the case.
Police to investigate altered documents
Police have begun an investigation into unauthorized purchases and altered payroll documents in the Office of Minority Affairs at room 145 in强 Hall, said Lt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office.
Although they have just begun the investigation, the falsifications occurred between March 1, 1988 and Nov. 28, 1998. Bailey said.
Auditors for the University and Comptroller's Office employees responsible for payroll are assisting in the investigation, Bailey said.
"We have a paper trail to follow," he said. Bailey said he could not reveal more details about the case while the investigation was in progress.
Katie Burford
Experiments on mice promising for cancer
BOSTON — Government scientists finally have managed to duplicate a Harvard doctor's success with an experimental cancer treatment that wipes out tumors in mice, and they plan to begin human testing by the fail.
NATION
The closely watched developments involve a natural protein called endostatin.
It and a sister protein called angiostatin both work — at least in mice — by blocking tumors' ability to sprout new blood vessels.
This makes cancer fall dormant or disappear atterogether in lab animals. But no one knows if the same thing will happen in people.
Yesterday, another team of NCI researchers said it had begun designing endostatin studies in humans. The NCI wants to test the drug for safety in perhaps 10 to 30 patients with tumors of the breast, kidney, skin or other parts of the body.
Nuclear arms priority Russian minister says
WORLD
MOSCOW — At the height of Russia's financial meltdown, the minister named to save the economy outlined an overriding priority: build a new generation of nuclear missiles.
Communists, nationalists and liberals alike agree that Russia must stake everything on its nuclear forces if it wants any claim to be a world power and have any kind of credible military.
The warning from First Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Masiulyukov, first made in October, that Russia could lose its nuclear capability, has produced rare unanimity among the country's bitterly divided political factions.
The huge arsenal of rockets, planes and submarines that once terrified the world is falling apart, and there is no money to maintain it or build large numbers of replacements.
"The only thing for which Russia is respected in the world and which makes us worthy partners ... is our strategic rocket forces," said Alexander Lebed, a former general and a leading presidential candidate.
Women lawmakers call Italy court sexist
ROME — Women lawmakers wore jeans to Parliament yesterday, and Italy's highest appeals court was accused of sexism after ruling it is impossible to rape a woman wearing jeans.
The Court of Cassation ruled Wednesday it was impossible to take off tight pants like jeans without the cooperation of the person wearing them and said it was impossible if the victim was struggling.
The decision overturned the 1998 conviction of a 45-year-old driving instructor in southern Italy, Carmine Cristiano, for raping an 18-year-old student. A lower court had sentenced Cristiano to two years and eight months in prison, but the appeals court said the girl must have consented to sex and sent the case back for retrial.
ON THE RECORD
Alessandra Mussolini, a deputy of the rightist National Alliance who led yesterday's protest, called the ruling shamful and said it offended the dignity of women.
The court also questioned why the victim, identified only as Rosa, waited several hours to tell her parents she'd been attacked.
A 22-year-old KU student was arrested for operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol at 2:40 a.m. yesterday in the 100 block of Indian Ave., a Lawrence Police report said. His bond was set at $500.
"Women are already scared of reporting rapes," she said. "This just makes it worse."
The name of a KU student was forged on two checks between 10:54 a.m. Jan. 18 and 10:54 a.m. Monday at HyVee, 3504 Clinton Parkway, a Lawrence Police report said. The amount on the checks was $93.
The Associated Press
A Mission Hills resident was charged with transporting an open container of alcohol at 10:45 p.m. Feb. 10 at 18th Street and Naimsmith Drive, the KU Public Safety Office said. The man was cited but not arrested.
ON CAMPUS
KU Environics and Citizens for Public Transportation will present the public forum and panel discussion "Mass Transit in Lawrence: Why We Need a Public Bus System" at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the Lawrence Public Library Auditorium. University employees and students are urged to attend. Call Mark Bradshaw at 864-1778 for more information.
The St. Lawrence Catholic Center will have 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 843-0357 for more information
The KU-Vietnamese Student Association will have a KU-Avat Tet Celebration from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. tomorrow at the Kansas Union ballroom. The showcase will feature Vietnamese talent, creativity and culture featuring an authentic Dragon Dance. Call Joseph Taen at 838-9203 for more information.
Today: IN HISTO
1809 — Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in present-day Laramie County, Kentucky.
1870 — Women in the Utah Territory against the right to vote.
1892 — President Lincoln's birthday was declared a national holiday.
1909 — the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded.
1940 — The radio play "The Adventures of Superman" debuted on the Mutual network with Bud Collery as the Man of Steel.
1973 — The first telegram of American seren.
ers of war from the Vietnam conflict took place. 1989 — The special prosecutor in the Iran-Contra case and the Justice Department reached an agreement on protecting classified materials aimed at allowing the trial of Oliver North to proceed.
1993 — In a crime that shocked Britons, two ten-year-old boys lured two-year-old James Bulger from his mother at a shopping mall in Liverpool, England, and then beamed him to death.
Votes to be cast by senators on impeachment
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with highly critical words about Clinton's behavior at a time the White House still hoped to avoid congressional action.
For all the expressions of disgust, a formal effort to censure the president appeared all but dead, a victim of Republican opposition. Democrats said they would make an effort to force a post-trial vote on the Senate floor, and failing passage, would draft a statement of condemnation.
A two-thirds vote is required to convict the president and remove him from office, and there was no chance of that happening. Instead, whatever suspense lingered at the end of the five-week trial was whether either article of impeachment would attain a bare majority — a threshold with no bearing on Clinton's fate.
Three Republicans — Arlen Spector of Pennsylvania, John Chafee of Rhode Island and James Jeffords of Vermont — announced on Wednesday that they would not vote for conviction on either article.
Sen. Slade Gorton of Washington has announced he will vote against the perjury charge, but in favor of the obstruction charge.
Two moderate Northeastern senators — Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine — have yet to disclose their decisions.
"I refuse to say that high political polls and soaring Wall Street indexes give license to those in high places who act in low and illegal ways," he said.
Among Democrats, Senate aides said the only question was whether Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, a longtime party leader, would break ranks and join Republicans in voting to convict.
Controversy broke out over a report that Clinton had vowed revenge on House Republicans at the polls in 2000.
"It is deeply troubling that the president views closure of this constitutional process as an opportunity for revenge," said Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss.
White House spokesman Joe Lockhart didn't deny presidential anger, but said, "I can't think of a worse, more dumb strategy than going after people based on whether they were a House manager or not."
Chief Justice William Rehnquist made the trip from the Supreme Court in his limousine yesterday, and a few moments later the Senate's doors were closed for deliberations.
"You look at the House managers, and the vast majority are in safe seats or unopposed seats," he said. The 2000 election is 21 months distant, and Clinton has promised a strenuous effort to help Democrats regain control of Congress.
Several senators issued written statements during the day.
"The House managers failed to establish that the president's conduct amounts to 'high crimes and misdemeanors,'" said Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island.
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