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The Inside Front
Thursday January 28,1999
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CAMPUS
Leaky pipes repaired in heatless Ellsworth
Ellsworth Hall residents will be warm again today after the heating system was shut off yesterday in order to make repairs, said Phil Garito, associate director of maintenance for the Department of Student Housing.
Garito said that after being notified of fifth and eighth floor pipe leaks, crews decided to take care of the situation before it became a major problem.
"The pipes didn't break; they were just leaking," he said. "We decided to take advantage of the weather and fix it."
In order to fix the leaks, Garito said that all water had to be drained and that the entire system had to be shut down yesterday.
Garito said that pipes for the heating and air conditioning system in Ellsworth were old and that it was routine procedure to replace rusting steel pipes with copper pipes.
Jamie Knodel
Student Senate coalition recruiting new members
Delta Force is inviting students interested in running for Student Senate to a meeting at 8 tonight in the International Room at the Kansas Union.
Seth Hoffman, Delta Force president, and Mary Liu, Delta Force vice-president, will outline their views about the coalition and Student Senate.
— Nadia Mustafa
STATE
Senate bill could force Kansans to buckle up
TOPEKA — Drivers who don't buckle up could be stopped for violating a seat belt bill considered Tuesday by a Senate committee.
Kansas law now states that a driver could be cited for failing to wear a seat belt only when stopped for another violation such as speeding.
The bill also would change the law so that evidence of not wearing a seat belt could be admissible in court for determining any aspect of comparative negligence or mitigation of damages.
Chairman Ben Vidricksen said the committee likely would strike that section, which is opposed by the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association.
"We don't want any more baggage on this bill," said Vidricksen, R-Salina. "We want the seat-belt bill to pass."
The bill wouldn't change other portions of the law. Seat belts would continue to be required only for front seat passengers, and the fine would remain at $10.
NATION
Pope urges Missourians to reject death penalty
ST. LOUIS — Pope John Paul II brought his campaign against capital punishment to a death-penalty state in America's heartland yesterday, urging 100,000 worshippers to spare even those who commit "great evil."
"Modern society has the means of protecting itself without definitively denying criminals the chance to reform," the pope said during a Mass at the Trans World Dome on the final day of his visit to the Americas.
The message may have had particular relevance in Missouri, where the state Supreme Court, without explanation, postponed an execution that was to have taken place while the pope was in town. Papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls called the delay a mockery
The pope also lashed out against abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide.
"The dignity of human life must never be taken away, even in the case of someone who has done great evil," he said.
Lewinsky, witnesses to give new testimony
WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled Senate blocked dismissal of the impeachment case against President Clinton yesterday and voted for new testimony from Monica Lewinsky and two other witnesses.
The vote was well short of the two-thirds that would be needed to oust the president.
All 55 Republicans voted against dismissal and for the witnesses opposed by the White House. The Republicans were joined by a single Democrat, Russell Feigold of Wisconsin.
Before the votes, Majority Leader Trent Lott tried to fashion a bipartisan agreement for the balance of the trial, including videotaped depositions of Lewinsky, presidential friend Vernon Jordan and White House aide Sidney Blumenthal.
At one point, Lott floated a timetable that envisioned six-hour depositions, a Senate vote next week on whether to proceed with live testimony and a final vote on the articles of impeachment — all within nine days.
WORLD
ARMENIA, Colombia — Driven by hunger, survivors of a deadly earthquake dashed into supermarkets to strip the shelves clean yesterday as shortages of food, water and antibiotics worsened.
Nearly 900 people die after Colombian quake
The toll from Monday's magnitude-6
earthquake in western Colombia reached 878 dead and more than 3,410 injured, said Maria Perleret, Red Cross spokeswoman.
That number was expected to increase as more dehit
In all, 27 aftershocks had struck Colombia since Monday, and a 5.4-magnitude rocked the northeast yesterday, but caused no damage.
Search and rescue officials said that they expected the death toll to eventually exceed 1,000 in the 17 cities, towns and villages rocked by the quake.
Interior Minister Nestor Humberto Martinez estimated it would cost at least $100 million to rebuild.
Albright seeks Saudi support to counter Iraq
RYADH, Saudi Arabia — Secretary of State Madeleine Albright sought Saudi Arabia's support yesterday for U.S. efforts to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein by assisting opposition groups.
James P. Rubin, Albright's spokesman, candidly acknowledged the secretary's intention to enlist the backing of this conservative monarchy in a growing U.S. campaign to oust Saddam.
As Albright's Air Force jet touched down in Riyadh after a flight from Egypt, Rubin told reporters that regime changes in Baghdad were on the agenda for her talks, along with ways to try to contain Iraq to protect its neighbors.
The plea for Saudi Arabia support followed a U.S. decision to provide selective opposition groups in Iraq with $97 million in surplus U.S. military equipment.
Former member of IRA found beaten to death
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — The author of an unflinching exposure of life inside the Irish Republican Army was found dead by a roadside Tuesday—the victim of a savage beating that inevitably suggested revenge.
The battered body of Eamon Collins, 45, was found at dawn near the town of Newry, 40 miles south of Belfast. His head was so badly damaged that police weren't immediately sure whether he had been shot.
Collins, the IRA's former intelligence officer in Newry from 1980 to 1985, had returned to the border town four years ago despite making lasting enemies in the outlawed group.
The IRA issued no statement about Collins' death, and the Royal Ulster Constabulary declined to say whether it had any firm evidence to suggest whether the IRA or an individual was to blame.
In 1995, IRA supporters torched his car. Last year, they knocked him over with a car. Two months ago, they torched his new home.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student was arrested for battery, robbery and criminal damage to property at 2:52 p.m. Monday in the 3400 block of West 28th Street, according to a Lawrence Police report. The student went to a Lawrence woman's apartment in the 2900 block of West 15th Street, where he forced the door open, punched the woman, stole a television and left in his car, said Sgt. George T. Wheeler. Police found and arrested the man. The woman, his former girlfriend, received no injuries. The television was valued at $280 and damage to the door was valued at $100.
-The Associated Press
- Police officers were dispatched at 4:26 p.m. Monday to Strong Hall, where a KU student was reportedly having a seizure, the KU Public Safety Office said. Lawrence Douglas County Fire and Medical services arrived, and the student was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
ON CAMPUS
The Center for Russian and Eastern Europe Studies will present the lecture "Peasants into Pilots: Aviation, Agitation, and the Modernization of Soviet Russia" at 7 onight at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union. Call Bette Luther at 864-3426 for more information.
Business and Engineering Career Services will present at resume workshop at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow at 102 Summerfield Hall. Call Cathy Schwabauer at 864-5591 for more information.
Today IN HISTORY
In 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austrin
In 1880, Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.
In 1945, Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.
In 1951, an era of atomic testing in the Nevada desert began as an Air Force plane dropped a one-kiloton bomb on French Flats
In 1967, astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their "Apollo One" spacecraft at Cana Kenneth Florida.
In 1967, more than 60 nations signed a treaty banning the orbitina of nuclear weapons.
In 1981, President Reagan greeted the 52 former American hostages released by Iran and welcomed them home during a visit to the White House.
Task Force aims to validate KU public service
By Kristi Reimer
Kansan staff writer
Reginald L. Robinson, special counselor to Chancellor Robert Hemenway, wants to map out an uncharted aspect of life at the University of Kansas — public service.
To develop a way to coordinate and to catalog public service efforts by members of the KU community.
Robinson is the chairman of the 12-member Public Service Task Force that began meeting this month. Hemenway has advised the group about three University goals:
To recommend ways that the University can communicate more effectively about public service activities.
To decide how the Robert J. Dole Institute for Public Policy and Public Service will relate to the recommendations of the task force.
"We want to validate the conventional wisdom that we're involved in all kinds of public service," he said.
Public service encompasses more than just government involvement or social welfare, Robinson said.
Public service might take the form of a faculty member offering expert guidance to the legislature, a medical doctor providing patient care in western Kansas, or a social welfare expert addressing the state's juvenile justice issues.
"It's any kind of effort that responds to a public need." he said.
Robinson said the task force was fighting the image of only being a University on a hill — disconnected from the rest of the world.
The task force also is attempting to dispel the myth that public service detracts from scholarship.
"The best public service at a university comes out of what we do best, which is teaching and research." Robinson said.
For example, faculty and students studying child psychology could implement their research with actual children in a public-service setting, he said.
Steven Maynard-Moody, chairman of the public administration department, is a member of the task force.
Part of the Public Service Task Force's goal was to solve the problems highlighted by the Serve Kansans group.
Members of the Public Service Task Force plan to have a list of recommendations ready for the chancellor by the end of the semester.
He said that many people would be stunned by the amount of public-service work taking place.
"It a secret that should not be kept a secret," he said.
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