2A • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN The Inside Front FRIDAY,MARCH 14,2003 News briefs CAMPUS Editor, business manager applications available The University Daily Kansan is accepting applications for editor and business manager for Summer and Fall 2003. All KU students are eligible to apply to be editor or business manager of the Kansan. To apply, pick up an editor application in the Kansan newsroom, 111 Stauffer-Flint Hall, or a business manager application in 119 Stauffer-Flint. Completed applications are due April2. Contact Malcolm Gibson, Kansan general manager and news adviser, with questions at 864-7667 or mgibson@kansan.com. -Kansan staff report STATE School district apologizes for pep talk to black students LEAVENWORTH — Apparently hoping to boost her school's standardized test score, an elementary school principal pulled black children aside and gave them a pep talk about the importance of doing well on the test. Terri Dieker, who is white, didn't give white students a similar talk, said Linda Aldridge, an assistant superintendent for the Leavenworth school district. Parents of the fourth- and fifthgraders at Nettie Hartnett Elementary say their children were singled out based solely on the color of their skin. "I thought it was appalling that they would even consider doing this without the consent of the parents," said George Hildebrandt, whose 10-year-old son Spencer was among the students. "They actually assumed those kids are dumb to start with when they haven't even taken the test." School district officials have apologized for the Feb. 28 incident and conceded the situation should have been handled differently. Aldridge said Dieker had good intentions and had decided to pull the students aside after a meeting in which principals discussed an article in an education journal. The author of the article had surveyed black high school students at a north Philadelphia high school about why they didn't do well on the tests. Aldridge said she had no plans to discipline Dieker. Horseback riding accident kills Fort Riley soldier FORT RILEY — A member of the Fort Riley honor guard died yesterday following a horseback riding accident. Deb Skidmore, representative for the post, said the soldier was not identified pending notification of family. The accident is under investigation. No further details of the accident were released by the post yesterday afternoon. The 17-member Commanding General's Mounted Color Guard is the historic post's mounted cavalry and considered ambassadors for Fort Riley and the Army. The soldiers wear 1860s cavalry-era uniforms and perform on horseback in parades and for demonstrations. Fort Riley was the Army's primary location for training cavalry soldiers until 1946 when the cavalry school was discontinued. WORLD German customs examining documents of KU alumnus BERLIN—German investigators are examining documents found in KU alumnus Don Johnson's car that list transactions totaling $8 billion, a customs official said Wednesday. Johnson's car was stopped for a routine check as he entered Germany from Switzerland in November with two other men, said Wolfgang Schmitz, a representative for German customs. Officials photocopied the documents,but they did not seize them and allowed the former Nash Bridges star to continue without formally questioning him, Schmitz said. "There is currently no indication of illegal transactions," Schmitz said. German customs officials are still evaluating the copies. U.S. authorities also were informed of the listed transactions in view of the sums involved, Schmitz said. Johnson, 53, also starred in the 1980s Miami Vice television series. 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