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The Inside Front
Monday February 8,1999
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Students can voice their opinions of alcohol laws
Students will have the chance to voice their opinions about underage drinking to University of Kansas administrators, city officials and bar owners at an open forum tonight.
The Student Legislative Awareness Board will be host of a forum for discussion about alcohol-related issues at 8 p.m. in the Pioneer Room at the Burge Union.
Tom Moore, SLAB campus director, said he wanted to consider the effects of underage drinking laws.
Moore said the forum was a reaction to the intense coverage of alcohol issues and the city's strict enforcement of underage drinking laws during the last few months.
Some of the guests at the forum will include Mayor Marty Kennedy; David Ambler, vice chancellor of student affairs; Barbara Ballard, assistant vice chancellor of student affairs; John Heleniak, owner of The Hawk, 1340 Ohio St.; Rob Farha, owner of Wheel Cafe, 507 W. 14th St.; and representatives of alcohol-related interest groups.
Sarah Schreck, Liberal Arts and Sciences senator, said she hoped the mayor would explain why there has been an increase in the number of minor in possession arrests.
"We hope that we can come to an understanding," she said. "Students can give the administration ideas about what they think."
— Nadia Mustafa
Masked man holds up First State Bank & Trust
Schreck said some of the topics of discussion will be bar closings, underage drinking and Saferide.
The man, who was alone, was given an undisclosed amount of cash and fled on foot. Warren said.
A man in a ski mask walked into First State Bank & Trust, 609 Vermont St., at 2:40 p.m. Friday and demanded to be given money, Sgt. Mark Warren of the Lawrence Police department said.
Police said the suspect did not use a weapon in the robbery and no one was injured.
Police have not located the suspect, who was described by witnesses as a 6-foot-tall man with a husky build.
Katie Burford
STATE
Frequent road rage spurs
negotiation for new law
law
TOPEKA — Road rage is something most Kansans know about, either by seeing it or doing it.
It can be as simple as a rude gesture
or as violent as customizing a car with a crowbar or whipping out a gun.
At its extreme, it can lead to injury or even death. Its causes are as many as there are people driving the streets and highways.
"Everybody has done it or has had it done to them. It tends to follow our general pattern of how we act out our anger in life," said Richard irons, an anger management expert at The Menninger Clinic.
Maybe not everyone has experienced road rage, but certainly enough Kansans have for Sen. Ben Vidricksen to want the Legislature to make road rage behavior a crime in this state.
To that end, his Transportation and Tourism Committee is considering a bill that spells out what constitutes road rage or "aggressive driving," as it is called in the law books.
Under the proposal, the driver must be speeding and commit two moving violations, such as improper passing, failing to yield or tailging. The driver also must present an immediate hazard to others.
House to have hearing on concealed-weapons bill
TOPEKA — Kansans would be allowed to carry concealed handguns under a bill a House committee will consider this week.
The House Federal and State Affairs Committee will have hearings Monday and Tuesday on a bill that would enable the Kansas Bureau of Investigation to issue licenses allowing people to carry concealed guns beginning Jan. 1,2000.
Gov. Bill Graves vetested a similar bill in 1997, and opinions vary widely among legislators.
The bill would require people to complete a weapons safety and training course before they could acquire a license to carry a concealed handgun.
License applicants also would have to be 21 years old, have no felony convictions and have no history of mental illness or drug or alcohol abuse in the previous five years.
Graves may prove to be the biggest obstacle to the bill's enactment. Graves' position on the issue has not changed since his 1997 veto, said Mike Matson, his spokesman.
Missouri and Nebraska prohibit carrying concealed weapons, while Colorado and Oklahoma allow the practice
Missouri will become the first state to have a public referendum on the matter when it puts the issue to a vote in April.
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Steve Forbes
NATION
Campaign 2000
underway
despite impeachment
and Bill Bradley comfort crying women. Alan Keyes bellows, "We are the fat lady!" Al Gore, for all his vice-presidential importance, faces a patently parochial campaign issue. Freeway
trial
Dole: New Hampshire visit could be part of campaign.
Exit 4-4 in Derry. "Build it," a voter demands. Though the first in-the-nation presidential primaries are a year away, and Washington is still focused on President Clinton's Senate impeachment trial, Campaign 2000 is gearing up in New Hampshire.
Seven candidates visited the state in the last two weeks, not including former Cabinet secretary Elizabeth Dole. The wife of 1996 Republican nominee Bob Dole takes the next step in her likely presidential campaign with a Monday night speech to the local Chamber of Commerce.
An adviser to Dole said she will speak in broad terms about the themes that would dominate her campaign.
WORLD Death of Jordan's Hussein spurs grief among citizens
AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan crowned an untested new monarch Sunday and plunged into mourning for its beloved King Hussein. Distraught citizens sobbed in the streets and world leaders converged on the desert kingdom, united in grief for the statesman who brought bridges of peace to the turbulent Middle East.
The deep political divides between those planning to attend today's elaborate state funeral served as a powerful reminder of Hussein's far-reaching abilities as a mediator and leader — skills that lifted Jordan into a place of international prominence.
Hussein, who had fought a seven-month battle with lymphatic cancer, had lingered unconscious on a respirator for two days after returning home to Jordan last week to die.
In keeping with Islamic tradition, the funeral will be held quickly — an enormous procession through the streets of Amman just 24 hours after Hussein's heart gave out.
Underscoring Jordan's determination that the transition be swift and smooth, Hussein's eldest son Abdulah, 37, was sworn in just four hours later in a solemn ceremony at parliament.
President Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton were among those planning to attend.
ON THE RECORD
The Associated Press
- Two Lawrence men were arrested for stealing bicycle tires and fleeing from police at 1:47 a.m. Feb. 5 in the 1800 block of Naismith Drive, the KU Public Safety Office said. One of the men was charged as being a minor in possession.
A KU police officer was sent at 6:57 p.m.
Feb. 4 to the Robinson Center on a report that there was a KU student with an eye injury, the KU Public Safety Office said. The student was treated by the Lawrence-Douglas County Fire & Medical personnel, but he was not taken to the hospital.
A KU police officer was sent at 6:57 p.m.
A KU police officer was sent at 1:17 p.m. Feb. 4 to Templin Hall on a report that a KU student was suicidal, the KU Public Safety Office said. The student was questioned and released by the police at 5:50 p.m.
A campus visitor's car was hit between 11 a.m. and 2:02 p.m. Feb. 4 in lot 72 near the Burge Union, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage to the car was minor.
A car using a stolen parking permit was towed at 10:15 a.m. F,4 from L11 17 near Watkins Memorial Health Center, the KU Public Safety Office said. The permit was valued at $95 and had been missing since Jan. 18. The owner of the towed vehicle was cited for the theft.
A KU police officer was sent at 12:24 a.m.
Feb. 4 to Lot 72 near the Burge Union on a report that a man was stealing a car, the KU Public Safety Office said. Two witnesses told police that they saw a man trying to break into a car. However, when police arrived there was no evidence of a stolen car and nobody was missing their vehicle.
A KU student's backpack was stolen between 10:30 p.m. Feb. 3 and 12:30 a.m. Feb. 4 in the 2500 block of W. Sixth Street, a Lawrence Police report said. The backpack and its contents were valued at $295.
A KU student's car was hit between 1 a.m. and 3 p.m. Feb. 3 in Lot B on Sunniesside Ave., the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage to the car was minor.
A campus visitor backed into the car of a KU student at 11:18 a.m. Feb. 3 in lot 93 near Memorial Stadium, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage to the car was minor.
A unidentified car damaged three other vehicles between 12 a.m. and 6:45 a.m. Feb. 3 in lot 114 near Stouffer Place, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage to the cars was varied.
A KU student hit the parked car of another KU student at 3:40 p.m. feb. 2 in Lot 71 near Allen Fieldhouse, a KU Public Safety Office said. Damage to the cars was minor.
Hunt addresses students, faculty about journalism
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Hunt and Seib had told many interesting stories.
In his acceptance speech, Hunt said that a number of problems faced journalism today. He said one problem was the role of the Internet.
"It gave kind of a personal face to the people we had just been reading about," Hostetler said.
Hunt also said there was an abundance of unearned cynicism in the media.
"The Internet is a fascinating and sometimes valuable tool. But when Matt Drudge sets a journalistic agenda, we are in trouble." Hunt said.
"I think reporters should always be skeptical and never be cynical, and that's a very thin line," he said.
More information
For the full text of Albert Hunt's speech
See www.kansan.com
Hunt said he still had hope that the new generation of reporters would solve the problems facing the industry of journalism.
He said that despite all the problems facing journalism, the nation is stronger than it has ever been. He cited the economy, the amount of scientific research and our influence over the way the world's people live as reasons for this increased strength.
Hunt joined the Journal as one of its New York reporters in 1965, transferred to the Boston bureau two years later and moved to Washington two years after that.
For the last 30 years he has worked in Washington writing about politics.
Hunt has also worked on several television shows, including; Washington Week in Review, CBS Morning News, and Meet the Press. He currently is on CNN's The Capital Gang and Egans, Novak, Hunt, & Shields.
Hunt said that he had enjoyed his stay at the University of Kansas, but that he thought his stay could have been made more pleasant by one thing.
"The only disappointment is that there is not a game in the Allen Fieldhouse this weekend," he said.
ON CAMPUS
The St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will have daily mass at 12:30 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at Danforth Chapel. Call Father Ray May at 843-0357 for more information. There will also be daily mass at 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Cen-
writer's Roosts, 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, 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.
Amanzaq will meet at 5 p.m. today at 200 Staufer-Flint. The new Web site will be discussed. Call Mike Harrity at 749-5384 for more information.
ter, 1631 Crescent Road. Call Father Vince
■ KU Environs will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Kansas Union. Call Matt Dunbar at 864-7325 for more information.
The St. Lawrence Catholic Center will have confirmation preparation from 7 to 8 tonight at the Center, 1631 Crescent Road. The meeting will be the first in a series for those who wish to be confirmed. Call Sister Karen at 840-3057 for more information.
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