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The Inside Front
Tuesday February 9,1999
News
from campus, the state the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Volunteer, internships offered at ECM today
Ecuennial Christian Ministries will hold its semi-annual volunteer and intern fair today through Thursday at the ECM Center, 1204 Oread Air. The fair will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day
Thad Holcombe, director and campus minister for the ECM, said the main reason the fair was held was to make the availability of the resources more known and accessible to students.
"It provides just an incredible number of options for students to clarify their career plans," he said.
Holcombe said that the materials at the fair were available all year at the ECM.
Mary Klayer, assistant director of the University Honors Program, said that she has referred several students to the ECM.
"They have a really good collection. I know they have a really wide variety, which is exciting for students," she said.
Special education to receive federal money
The Kansas State Department of Education will receive $900,000 in federal funding to improve special education programs. Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Kan., said Monday.
Three fourths of the money is coming from federal funding which already was used for special education. Typically, colleges and universities compete for this money.
"It may make it more difficult for universities to get money for training purposes than it has been in the past," Skrtic said.
Tom Skrtic, the chair of the KU special education department, said that this could cause problems for teaching programs like his.
Skrtic said that it wouldn't cause problems for the KU program because they have developed close ties with local, state and national programs.
"We already have arrangements with several other states to provide training, especially online training, should they get funding." Sktic said.
Chris Hopkins
Marrow drive targets African Americans
The Zeta Phi Beta sorority will hold a bone marrow drive to increase awareness about minority marrow donors.
Erica VanRoss, Zeta Phi Beta president, said that this eighth annual event was an important opportunity for more minorities to become donors.
"African Americans can only have other African-American donors," VanRoss, Kansas City, Kan., senior, said. "So it's important that we got them to donate."
The bone marrow drive will be held tomorrow at the Kansas Union from
9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Jamie Knodel
Police officer struck by fleeing party-goer
A Lawrence police officer was stuck by a car while trying to break up a party early Sunday morning in the 500 block of Graystone Drive, said Sgt. George T. Wheeler of the Lawrence Police Department.
Officer Jim Phillips was standing in a parking lot, ushering party-goers, when a tan 1983 Oldsmobile Toranado pulled into the lot. Wheeler said,
After Phillips told the man in the Oldsmobile to leave, the man sped around the car in front him, hit Phillips' leg and pinned him between the Oldsmobile and another car, Wheeler said.
The driver abandoned his car and fled on foot. Wheeler said.
Police had not located the driver. The car he left behind had a North Carolina license plate.
Wheeler said that the officer was treated at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, but he had not returned to work.
Men arrested for drug and weapons offenses
Two Lawrence men were arrested for carrying several weapons and a large quantity of marijuana and drug paraphernalia early Sunday morning, said Sgt. George T. Wheeler of the Lawrence Police Department.
The car was pulled over because the passengers fit the description of a suspect wanted for the hit-and-run of an officer that occurred several hours earlier, Wheeler said.
Although police did not find evidence that the men were connected with the hit-and-run, they did find 12 bags of marijuana and three semi-automatic pistols, one of which was loaded, Wheeler said.
Wheeler said that police also recovered additional drugs from their house.
Katie Burford
Black History Month to open with address
Black History Month begins at the University of Kansas with a keynote address by a Nation of Islam minister at 7 p.m. today at the Big 12 room in the Kansas Union.
David Muhammad, a New York resident, has been a registered member of the Nation of Islam since March 1987.
"It's going to be an uplifting, Afro-centric, informative and spiritual message to empower, enlighten and to help these students in particular to know what knowledge black people need to obtain to get to where we want to go," Muhammad said.
The Office of Minority Affairs, Black Men of Today and the Black Student Union are sponsoring the address.
Oregon school shooting adapted for the stage
NATION
BEND, Ore. — Under the glow of the stage lights, the skimmer teen-ager in camouflage fatigues exults in the action-hero rush he felt when he gunned down his parents at home and shot his classmates in the school cafeteria.
If the new play "Bang, Bang, You're Dead" sounds a lot like last year's Oregon school shooting, it is. But its raw power comes from the cast — 13 students who actually lived through the shooting at Springfield's Thurston High School.
Playwright William Mastrosimone plans to donate his work to schools
— Dan Curry
Kinkel: Allegedly shot his parents and 24 students.
across the nation in hopes its-in-face study of a killing spree will force young people to confront their culture of violence.
"Bang, Bang,
You're Dead"
was written right after the May 20 Springfield attack, when 15-year-old fresh
man Kip Kinkel allegedly shot his parents at home and opened fire on the Thurston High cafeteria, killing two classmates and wounding 22.
WORLD
No agreements yet for Albanians, Serbs
RAMBOUILLET, France — Ethnic Albanians pressed for a formal cease-fire for Kosovo while Serbs sought a pledge to keep Yugoslavia's borders unchanged as the two sides held peace talks Sunday at a French chateau.
At the same time, international mediators wanted to drop what they called these "side issues" and move on to details of a peace settlement for Kosovo, where more than 2,000 people have died and about 300,000 have been driven from their homes in a year of fighting.
Hashim Thaci, political director of the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army who is acting as head of the Albanian delegation, called for an immediate ceasefire agreement between the warring factions in Kosovo — the Serb forces and the Kosovo Liberation Army.
That cease-fire, he said, should be guarenteed by the United States and the five other European countries that make up the Kosovo Contact Group: Russia, France, Britain, Germany and Italy.
The Associated Press
A KU student was arrested on charges of operating under the influence at 12:23 a.m. Sunday in the 1600 block of W. 15th Street, according to the Lawrence Police Department. The student was released at 1:50 a.m. on $500 bond.
ON THE RECORD
The mountain bike of a KU employee was stolen between 7 a.m. Feb. 3 and 3 p.m. Feb. 4 in the 1100 block of W. 27th Street, a Lawrence Police report said. The bike was valued at $225.
The rear window of a KU student's car was shattered between 8 p.m. Feb. 4 and 8:15 a.m. Feb. 5 in the 1000 block of Kentucky Street, a Lawrence Police report said. The window was valued at $500.
CDs and a CD player were stolen from the car of a KU student between 5 p.m. Jan. 31 and 8 a.m. Feb. 1 in the 2100 block of W. 26th Street, a Lawrence Police report said. The stolen property was valued at $368.
A VCR and $360 cash were stolen from the room of an Oliver Hall resident between 2:10 and 3:45 p.m. Feb. 5, the KU Public Safety Office said. The VCR was valued at $179.
■ Stuffed animals were stolen from the room of a Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall resident between 12 and 1 a.m. Feb. 6, the KU Public Safety Office said. The stuffed animals were valued at $77.
■ Stuffed bean bag figures were stolen from the room of a GSP-Corbin resident between 12 and 1 a.m. Feb. 6, the KU Public Safety Office said. The stuffed animals were valued at $120.
- Ceiling tiles were damaged between 2:10 and 2:40 a.m. Sunday from the third floor of 1815 Naisimith Drive, the KU Public Safety Office said. The tiles were valued at $20.
A KU student backed into a visitor to campus at 3:13 p.m. Feb. 7 in lot 2 near West Budig Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage to the cars was minor.
New medical center expands KC health care
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who start practices at the new center.
At least 50 Med Center physicians have mae plans to move to KU MedWest and establish fulltime practices.
The doctors have a wide range of specialties and also will be available for after-hours emergency care at the facility.
Hagen said that the center was designed to eventually be a full-fledged teaching center for Med Center students and residents.
"We want our people to be able to leave here and be ready to practice in the world today," Hagen said. "We don't want there to be any surprises when they get out in the real world."
Joan Shearer, the new executive director of KU MedWest, said that the facility would provide important services to patients in Shawnee, Bonner Springs, Lansing and Leavenworth, patients who now must travel long distances to receive medical care.
"We want to make the clinical expertise of KU Medical Center available to people in a location that's convenient and accessible," said Shearer, noting that research had shown the Shawnee area was lacking medical care.
Shearer said that all services, including surgical care, would be available starting on opening day.
ON CAMPUS
Ecumenical Christian Ministries will have a volunteer and intern placement fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.today through Thursday at the ECM center. There will be information on 600 national, international and local agencies with placement opportunities.Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933 for more information
- OAKS—Non-Traditional Students Organization will have a brown bag luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Alcove F in the Kansas Union. Call Simie Berroya at 830-0074 for more information.
- Amnesty International will meet at 7 tonight at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. Call Kyle Browning at 842-1351 for more information
University Christian Fellowship will meet at 7 tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries for Bible study and worship. Call Tim Watts at 841-3148 for more information.
Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship will meet at 7:30 on time in 3139 Wesco Hall. Call
Wendy Brown at 838-3984 for more information.
- The Asian-American Student Union will have a general meeting at 8 tonight in the Multicultural Resource Center. Call Nellie Kim at 864-3576 for more information.
Students for a Free Tibet will meet at 8 tonight at Alcove D in the Kansas University. Call Eric Goodman at 841-4670 for more information.
Various Campus Ministries and the Pool Boys will have an evening of praise and worship music at 9 tonight at 3139 Wescoe. Call Mark Fleske at 832-6228 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 Alcave C in the Kansas Union. Call B64-2399 for more information.
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1998-99 Humanities Lecture Series
John Vlach
Professor American Studies and Anthropology George Washington University Washington DC
"The Strength of These Arms: Endurance, Creativity, and Authority in the Plantation Landscape"
February 11, 8:00 p.m.
Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium
Later this season...
Patricia Williams, Professor, Columbia School of Law, "Toward a Theory of Grace," March 15, 1999-8:00 pm, Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
Humanities Lecture Series is hosted by the Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas. For further information, visit our homepage at http://www.ukans.edu/~ballcrn or call (785) 864-4798.