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The Inside Front
Friday January 29,1999
News
from campus,the state the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Queers and Allies form new political group
Six members of KU's Queers and Allies are starting a new student group, Politically Active Queers.
A new awareness of hate crimes following the death of Matthew Shepard, a gay University of Wyoming student, and the addition of a Queens and Allies Student Senate seat inspired the six students to form the group.
The death of Shepard and a new drive for hate crimes legislation to prevent such deaths in the future, motivated Queers and Allies members to look outside the scope of the organization.
"Q and A could not actively focus their energy on things like hate crimes legislation without their funding from Student Senate being taken away," said Lisa Braun, co-director of PAQ and Oueers and Allies senator.
Last fall, a Senate seat was given to Queers and Allies, changing the tone of the socially focused group.
Rather than risk losing Queers and Allies' status as a politically nonpartisan body, Braun and five other students began meeting in late November to discuss forming a new organization.
Matthew Skinta, spokesman for PAQ and Interim Director of Queens and Allies, said that PAQ's mission was to eliminate discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
The group's first meeting will be at 3 p.m.
Sunday at the International Room in
the Kansas Union and is open to the public.
Clay McCuistion
Law professors to hold impeachment discussion
The forum focuses on the impeachment trial, the impeachment process and the role of the media. It will run from 12:30 to 5 p.m., in Room 104 at Green Hall. Although only 100 seats are available, the forum is open to the public.
A wide range of topics will be covered, including the investigation, the role of the Office of the Independent Counsel, the impeachment process, whether the President's crimes equal impeachable offenses and the role of the media.
"Although the trial does not effect students directly, it does contribute to the difficulty of getting things done in Washington," Richard Levy, professor of law, said.
Among the six speakers at the forum will be Donald Smaltz, independent counsel in the Mike Espy trial. The other five are law professors from the University of Kansas.
"A lot of the discourse that is out there on TV is often superficial and conducted in a uncivil manner," said David Gottlieb, professor of law. "We wanted to discuss a difficult matter without yelling at each other."
Corie Waters
LAWRENCE
Police car in pursuit struck by pickup truck
A police car belonging to the KU Public Safety Office was struck by a pickup truck after the officer pulled out of a 19th Street parking lot to pursue a speeding car, said Sgt. Wheeler of the Lawrence Police Department.
KU Police Officer Steven Mooney had parked his car in the lot of a Kansas Power & Light substation, 171.7 W. 19th St. and was radaring traffic. Then, a Chevy pickup truck passed him heading west at 42 mph in a 30m zone. Wheeler said.
Mooney was making a westbound, lefthand turn to pursue the truck when he collided with a Ford Ranger pickup that was heading east on 1.9th Street. Wheeler said
There were no injuries. Both vehicles had to be towed.
-Katie Burford
Bill introduced to honor Eisenhower with day
TOPEKA — One of the most famous men to call Kansas home could get his own commemorative day, and his grand-daughter says it's an honor that would have made Dwight D. Eisenhower proud.
"It makes me very proud that they're making efforts to pass his legacy to the next generation." Mary Eisenhower Atwater said in a telephone interview from her home in Huntsville, Ala.
"I think he would be honored," she said. "The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee on Wednesday endorsed a bill to make the 34th president's birthday, Oct. 14, "Dwight D. Eisenhower Day" in Kansas. It would be a commemorative day rather than an official state holiday, meaning state workers would not have the day off, said Sen. Ben Vidricksen, R-Salina, who introduced the bill. Eisenhower, who served as the supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe during World War II and was elected president in 1952, was born in Denison, Texas, but grew up in Abilene.
Pope's request saves murderer from death
NATION
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Gov. Mel Carnahan yesterday commuted the death sentence of a convicted triple murderer to life without parole, citing a personal plea by Pope John Paul II.
Darrell Mease originally had been scheduled to die at the same time John Paul was visiting the state this week.
"In reaching this decision, I took into account the extraordinary circumstances of the pope's request and the historical significance of the papal visit to St. Louis and the state of Missouri," Carnahan, a Baptist, said in a statement.
his direct and personal appeal and because of a deep and abiding respect for the pontifit and all he represents, I decided last night to grant his request."
Mease, convicted of murdering a drug partner, the man's wife and their handicapped teen-eagle grandson in 1988, had been scheduled to die Wednesday, the second day of the pope's two-day visit.
"I continue to support capital punishment, but after careful consideration of
The date had been set in November by the state Supreme Court. Four days later, the court changed the execution date to Feb. 10. The court gave no reason but many believed it was because someone had realized the original date coincided with the pope's visit.
Ford acquires Volvo in billion-dollar deal
DEARBORN, Mich. — Ford Motor Co. is buying the far smaller Volvo car division in a $6.45 billion deal that accelerates the consolidation of the global car industry and gives Ford a brand beloved by safety-conscious vupuppies.
It also gives the world's No. 2, automaker greater access to vital European markets.
The acquisition announced Wednesday is similar to last year's merger of Chrysler Corp. and Daimler-Benz AG of Germany. In each case, the two companies involved do not make lines of cars that directly compete with one another. Volvo will retain its commercial truck and engine business and is in talks to merge
Volvo will retain its commercial truck engine business and is in talks to merge those operations with Sweden's Swai
The deal still must be approved by Volvo shareholders, which could pose a problem. Six years ago, an influential bloc of Volvo shareholders scuttled a proposed merger with France's Renault SA largely over fears that Volvo control and jobs would move outside Sweden.
Sensitive to such fears, Ford executives stressed at a news conference that Volvo's management and factories would remain in place and that Volvo cars would retain their unique personality, style and reputation for quality and safety.
Post makes changes with first color photos
WASHINGTON — The Washington Post unveiled color on its front page in Wednesday's editions, one in a series of improvements resulting from its purchase of new presses and opening of a new printing plant.
The page one color photos were of three senators walking though the Capitol to the impeachment trial and the airport arrival of a Nicaraguan girl for a heart valve replacement. The paper also had four color photos on the front of its sports section and new color weather maps at the back of its metro section.
The eight new Mitsubishi presses, purchased in 1995 as part of a $250 million modernization of the newspaper's production facilities, also are producing cleaner typesfaces, redesigned layouts and a newspap that is 1 inch narrower and 1 1/4 inch shorter.
The Associated Press
ON THE RECORD
A KU student was arrested and charged with operating a vehicle under the influence and no proof of insurance at 1:09 a.m. Wednesday in the 1700 block of Massachusetts Street, a Lawrence Police report said. The officer smelled alcohol on the student's breath after he had stopped the student for speeding, the report said. The student was released at 3:19 a.m. Wednesday from the Law Enforcement Center on $700 band.
A KU student reported to police that a Lawrence man head-butted her in the stomach at midnight Saturday at Louise's Bar Downtown, 1009 Massachusetts St., said Sgt. George Wheeler, at the Lawrence Police Department. The man was gone by the time police arrived, and they were unable to locate him. Wheeler said
A KU student rear-enclosed another KU student at 2:25 p.m. Jan. 27 at the intersection of 11th and Maine streets, the KU Public Safety Office said. Both cars received minor damage.
Today:
IN HISTORY
1845, - Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" was first published, in the New York "Evening Mirror."
1850- Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a compromise bill on slavery which included the admission of California into the Union as a free state.
1861 - Kansas became the 34th state of the Union.
1963 - poet Robert Frost died in Boston.
1979- President Carter formally welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiapong (duhng shah-on ping) to the White House, following the establishment of diplomatic relations.
1994 In South Africa, Nelson Mandela kicked off his party's campaign for the country's first multracial elections.
1998 - A bomb rocked an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, killing Robert Sanderson, an off-duty police officer working as a security guard, and critically injuring Emily Lyons, a nurse. (Authorities are searching for a suspect, Eric Rudolph, in the North Carolina wilderness.)
Man charged for e-mailing death threats to Hispanics
The Associated Press
Kingman Quon, 22, of Corona, agreed to plead guilty to seven misdemeanors, U.S. Attorney Alejandro N. Mayorkas said at a news conference.
LOS ANGELES — A man who e-mailed a death threat to Hispanic professors, students and officials across the country was charged yesterday with federal crimes and agreed to plead guilty.
He will plead guilty to seven counts of interfering with federally protected rights, specifically threatening to use force against his victims with the intent to intimidate or interfere with them because of their national origin or ethnic background, Mayorkas said.
Quon, using a fictitious address, sent the same racially derogatory e-mail to 42 professors at California State University at Los Angeles, 25 students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, employees of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Indiana University, the Xerox Corp., the Texas Hispanic Journal and the Internal Revenue Service, authorities said.
His lawyer, Joseph T. Gibbons Jr., said that Quon has been a student at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, although he is not attending this semester.
"He put a great deal of pressure on himself in terms of his class standing," Gibbs said. "He does not have an inherent hatred of Latinos, but he seemed to snap under all the pressure he was placing on himself."
He is scheduled to enter his pleas on Feb. 8. Because the seven charges against him are misdemeanors, the maximum possible sentence is seven years and a $700,000 fine. Under the negotiated plea agreement, Quon would serve about two-and-a-half years in prison.
KU Habitat for Humanity will have a build day from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and a general meeting at 1 p.m. Sunday. Both meetings will be at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Students who are interested in helping build on Saturday, or who want more information should call Nick at 331-2249.
Politically Active Queers will meet at 3 p.m. Sunday at the International Room in the Kansas
Union, PAQ is a newly formed queer activist organization. This will be PAQ's first meeting. Call Matthew Skinta at 842-6443 for more information.
St. Lawrence Catholic Center, 1631 Crescent Rd., will have weekly mass services at 4:45 p.m. Saturdays and at 9 and 11 a.m., and 5 and 10 p.m. Sundays. Call Tracey English at 840-0357 for more information.
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