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The Inside Front
Thursday February 11, 1999
News
from campus, the state. the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Services for professor will be held Saturday
A memorial service for John Ginn, former Knight Distinguished professor of Journalism at the University of Kansas, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont St. The service will be followed by a reception.
Ginn died at 3:50 Tuesday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital from complications of lung cancer. He was 62.
Jimmy Gentry, dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, said that Ginn would be deeply missed.
"This is a major loss to the School of Journalism, the KU community and the field of journalism," Gentry said. "John was a wonderful teacher who cared deeply about the craft of teaching and about his students. He always wanted to find ways to be even better in the classroom and he was a man of enormous personal integrity."
Ginn will be cremated, and his ashes will be inurned at a later date in Anderson County, S.C., where he was publisher and editor of the Anderson Independent-Mail for 17 years.
Chris Hopkins
Forum will encourage students to stay at KU
A panel of older students will encourage freshman students to stay at the University of Kansas during the Minority Freshman Forum that will take place from 7 to 9 tonight in the lobby of the Kansas Union.
"We have a huge rate of getting them here, but they don't stay," she said.
The forum, sponsored by the Student Senate, is an attempt to help minority freshmen stay at the University by providing them with University contacts and support, said Keena McClendon, Grandview, Mo., senior, and member of the Minority Student Retention subcommittee.
McClendon said that the panel would be composed of students of different majors and interests.
The Freshman-Sophomore Advising Center and Supportive Educational Services also will send representatives to the forum.
Students would be able to ask questions of panel members in an open discussion, McClendon said.
— Dan Curry
Abandoned dog spends two weeks in trailer
A dog was locked in a trailer home for two weeks after its owner moved out, Officer Matt Sarna of the Lawrence Police Department said.
Police found the dog Monday in the 2200 block of Harper Street after
receiving a call from a concerned neighbor. There was no food or water in the abandoned trailer, and the dog, a Dalmatian, was severely malnourished, Sarna said.
Sama said the animal was taken to a shelter by Lawrence Animal Control.
Man needs shot after run-in with Sweet Pea
What 60-year-old Kansas Public Service employee received from Sweet Pea wasn't sugar or a vegetable.
The employee was bit by Sweet Pea, a dog, as the man approached a house in the 1400 block of E. 18th Street to tell the owner of the home that he was shutting off the gas for maintenance, a Lawrence Police report said.
The employee was given a tetanus shot, and the dog will be quarantined for 10 days at the owner's expense, which is normal procedure with dog-bite cases, a police representative said.
Katie Burford
NATION
Lawmakers say budget plan will hurt hospitals
WASHINGTON — The new White House budget proposal to slash Medicare payments will hurt rural hospitals, Kansas lawmakers say.
Sen. Pat Roberts and Rep. Jerry Moran are urging colleagues to reject President Clinton's plan to further curb payments to hospitals from the health insurance program for the elderly and disabled. Congressional resistance to the proposed cuts is expected to grow.
At the same time, the president wants to use government surpluses to prop up Medicare, which now is expected to run short of money in 2008.
Clinton's budget proposal would cost Kansas hospitals $6,75 million in the first year. The state's hospitals would suffer another $500,000 annually from reduced payments for indigent care.
About two-thirds of Kansas hospitals already lose money caring for Medicare patients, Roberts said, and the hospitals expect to lose another $530 million during the next several years.
TV character is negative influence, reverend says
antenna shaped like a triangle, a gaypride symbol. The paper is edited and published by Falwell.
The Rev. Jerry Falwell is telling parents that the purple "Teletubbies" character from the popular children's television show is a homosexual role model.
Is Tinky Winky gay?
In a statement issued Tuesday, Failwell said he felt that role modeling the gay lifestyle was damaging to the moral lives of children.
Under a headline that reads "Parents Alert: Tinky Winky Out of the Closet," an article in the February edition of the National Liberty Journal notes that Tinky Winky has the voice of a boy yet carries a purse, is the gay-prize color of purple and has an
A representative for Itty Bitsy Entertainment Co., which licenses the Teubelbies in the United States, said that what Fallowell's newspaper described as a purse is actually Tinky Winky's magic bag.
"The fact that he carries a magic bag doesn't make him gay," Steve Rice said. "It's a children's show, folks. To think we would be putting sexual innuendo in a children's show is kind of outlandish."
Online bookstore offers refunds to customers
Stung by criticism, Amazon.com said it will offer refunds for all books it has recommended and promised to tell customers when a publisher pays for prominent display on the Web site of the world's largest online bookstore.
The changes announced Tuesday followed reports that the Seattle-based company offered publishers advertising packages that affected a book's placement on the site.
for a tee of up to $12,500, a publisher could get prominent display for a book on Amazon's home page, an author profile or interview and "complete Amazon.com editorial review," The New York Times reported.
In a statement, company founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos defended the company's editorial integrity. He said no book is praised unless it meets "our standards," and that "there is no amount of money that would cause us to feature it."
Dartmouth hopes to end single-sex fraternities
Fraternities at Dartmouth College should start accepting women members, officials at the Ivy League institution have decided.
the trustees and college President James Wright said the decision to have the fraternities go coed — and the school's sororites, too — was intended to encourage "respectful relations between women and men" and was part of a broad overhaul of social life at the school. The changes, which the college hopes to begin implementing next school year, were announced in a letter to students Tuesday.
Wright said he and the trustees were prepared to weather the student and alumni opposition they expect from the decision.
ON THE RECORD
More than a third of the college's 4,300 undergraduates are members of 25 single-sex fraternities and sororities.
The Associated Press
20 dangers
Hazing and abuse of alcohol have led to heightened concern about fraternities on campuses around the country.
A KU student's credit card was stolen between midnight Dec. 2 and midnight Dec. 3 from an Ellsworth Hall room, the KU Public Safety Office said. The amount charged to the card was undetermined.
A KU student received harassing phone calls early Tuesday morning in his Hashinger Hall room, the KU Public Safety Office said. The caller had not been identified, public safety officers said.
A KU public safety officer was dispatched at 2:24 p.m. Monday to the Computer Center on a report that a KU employee was having a seizure, the KU Public Safety Office said. The man was treated by medical personnel at the scene and transported by ambulance to Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
A KU public safety officer was dispatched to Jaybowl in the Kansas Union at 4:40 p.m. Tuesday on an altercation report, according to a KU Public Safety Office report. A KU student was watching television when another man came in and changed the channel, the report said. The two argued and the student said that the man hit him in the face. No one was injured and no arrests were made, public safety officers said.
A KU visitor's car backed into a KU student's car at 6:50 p.m. Tuesday in 2 on Sunny-side Avenue, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage to the cars was minor.
A KU student's car had to be towed from a ditch near lot 50, which is to the east of Carruth-O'Leary Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage to the car was minor.
A KU student's credit card was stolen between 8 a.m. Sept. 1 and 8 a.m. Nov. 4 from an Ellsworth Hall room, the KU Public Safety Office said. The amount charged to the card was undetermined.
A KU student's keys were stolen between 1:35 and 1.38 p.m.Monday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The keys and the key chain were valued at $32.
KJHK show deals with sexual issues
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"I want it to be fun, but I want people to be completely comfortable," Scharenberg said. "I don't want listeners to be the brunt of the jokes."
Interviews with organizations such as Planned Parenthood and with doctors and nurses at Watkins Health Center also have been carried out.
Although the co-hosts don't declare themselves experts, they haven't fallen into their role as sex advisers without doing plenty of field research.
The co-hosts also used books, such as "Sex on Campus," and past columns of "Sex Files" in the Pitch Weekly, as additional resources.
But students aren't the only ones listening. Scharenberg said that her mother had listened to the show and that she wanted a program devoted to abstinence.
Both have volunteered for Peers Reaching Others, a group that talks to local organizations about safer sex practices and sexually transmitted diseases.
But that doesn't mean her parents disapprove.
"They're supportive," she said. "They desire my desire to help other people."
Of course, the question lingers: Is Simply Sex simply Loveline?
No. Schierbaum said.
"We watched their show closely and decided they were hypocrites," said Schierbaum. "They answer the same question one way and another time answer it differently."
Although the co-hosts have studied the program religiously, Schierbaum doesn't want to be compared to Loveline, the national radio show and MTV sex discussion program.
Simply Sex airs Monday nights from 4 to 5. Questions can be submitted at 864-4546 during the program and by e-mail at simplys@eagle.cc.ukans.edu.
ON CAMPUS
- Ecumenical Christian Ministries will have a volunteer and intern placement fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at the ECM center, 1204 Oread. Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933 for more information.
KU Environs and Ecumenical Christian Ministries will sponsor a vegetarian luncheon from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at the ECM Center, 1204 Oread. Call Shannon at 841-8033 for more information.
The Senate Multicultural Affairs Committee will have the Minority Freshman Forum from 7 to 9 tonight at the Kansas Union lobby. Call Keena McClendon at 864-2268 for more information.
First Nation's Student Association will meet at 7 tonight at the Multicultural Resource Center. Call Raven Heavy Runner at 749-9385 for more information.
Campus Crusade for Christ will meet 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 Parlors A, B and C in the Kansas Union. Barbara Ballard and Troy Findley will be the featured speakers. Call Phil Stevenson at 841-7307 for more information.
- Writer's Roost, sponsored by Writing Consulting; Student Resources, will be open at the following times and locations today: 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, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Multicultural Resource Center. Call 864-2399 for more information.
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Academic Computing Services presents FREE COMPUTER TRAINING for the KU Community Week of Feb. 16-19, 1999
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864-5690
UNIX: Introduction—Learn the basics of UNIX, the operating system on FALCON, EAGLE, LARK, RAVEN, and HERON.
Tues., February 16, 1-4 p.m./Computer Center PC Lab, Room 202A
Web Authoring: Cascading Style Sheets—Learn a new way to set colors, font styles, and layout in Web pages that separates style from content. Prerequisite: Web Authoring: Intermediate or equivalent skills. Wed., February 17, 1-4 p.m./ Budig PC Lab, 10 Budig Hall
Join an e-mail discussion group Learn to find, join, and participate in e-mail discussion groups (lists) Fri., February 19. 11 a.m.-noon/Computer Center Auditorium
All ACS classes are FREE to KU students, staff, and faculty and don't require registration UNLESS otherwise noted. Forums at www.shop@ukans.edu or BG4-0494 Some classes are 5% for nor-KU students. The complete ACS class schedule is at www.ukans.edu/aac/training or in Driver's Ed for the information Superhunway available at the Computer Center. Training questions to training@ukans.edu or BG4-0494
E-mail: Advanced—Send and receive attachments, create mail lists, and learn other advanced e-mail features. Prerequisite:
E-mail: Introduction or equivalent skills. Wed., February 17, 4-5:30 p.m./Computer Center PC Lab, Room 202A
Making the Most of Microsoft Office Help—Learn how to use the Help menu of the MS Office suite of programs more effectively. Thurs., February 18, 1-2:30 p.m./Computer Center Auditorium
MicroOpen Custom PC Build to Order Computers
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