2A • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Inside Front
THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2003
News briefs
CAMPUS
Student groups seek financial support
Student Senate committees
Student Senate committees approved legislation to fund a variety of student activities and organizations if the legislation passes in Wednesday's Senate meeting.
Clubs such as College Community, GeoClub, Red Pill Forum, Jayhawk Motorsports and Environs are seeking financial support.
Environs said it needed funding to bring a keynote speaker to talk about urban planning for Earth Day activities as well as speaking at KU classes. The February Sisters Association also hopes to receive money for a women and poverty forum it is planning for Feb. 18. The Wormyn Empowerment Action Coalition will also seek funding Wednesdav.
Student Senate also addressed getting students to those activities.
A petition requested increased student parking in lots 35 and 37, which surround the Multicultural Resource Center, Malott Hall and Haworth Hall. The petition also sought to keep the parking lot near Learned Hall open after 5 p.m.A study indicated that less than 15 percent of the spaces reserved for faculty in lots 35 and 37 were used between 5 p.m.and 7:30 p.m.
Steam whistle sidelined by recurring injury
The University of Kansas' steam whistle will no longer signal the end of classes because of damage it received yesterday.
Doug Riat, director of facilities and operations, said, in a statement released last night, that the whistle damage was not weather-related. Recurring cracks damaged the 60-year-old whistle, which is located on top of the campus power plant on Sunflower Road.
Riat said the cracks had been repaired during the summer,but the problems continued and now were not repairable.
He said KU officials had not determined whether replacing the whistle was a possibility.
Cate Batchelder
University planning fire training in Wichita
The Kansas Fire & Rescue Training Institute at the University of Kansas will travel to Wichita's Curtis Middle School for its Winter Fire School Jan. 31 through Feb.2.
Glenn Pribbenow, director of the institute, said the school was open to professional and volunteer firefighters who wanted to learn more about their field. The institute is part of the School of Continuing Education.
"We like to say that we're entry to exit," Pribenbon said. "From the day that they come on the job as a firefighter until the day they leave, we can provide most of the training that they might need."
The school, held once a year, will include topics such as interpreting smoke, detecting arson, performing an ice rescue, responding to the scene of a drug lab and fighting wild land fires.
Registration is $25 for members of Kansas fire departments. For more information or to register, log on to www.kuce.org/fst, or call 785-864-4790. Participants must register by tomorrow.
Vonna Keomanyvong
REGION
Missouri may lose one Amtrak train
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Unless Missouri comes up with more money by the end of next month, Amtrak plans to eliminate one of its two daily passenger trains between St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo.
State transportation officials told lawmakers Tuesday they need $1.2 million — on top of the $$ million already appropriated — to continue running both trains through the June 30 end of the fiscal year.
"If we don't get supplemental funding, the train, unfortunately, will cease service after Feb. 28," said Amtrak spokeswoman Kathleen Cantillon.
Under the current schedule, Amtrak trains leave both St. Louis and Kansas City at 7:30 a.m. and 3 p.m., stopping at eight cities in between.
If service were cut, the only options would be an eastbound 7:30 a.m. train from Kansas City and a westbound 3:30 p.m. train from St. Louis.
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Camera on KU
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Kortnie Jacks, Greeley, Colo., freshman, walks through the falling snow along Jayhawk Boulevard. Blustery weather blew through campus yesterday. With temperatures dropping below minus 25 with the wind chill, the National Weather Service issued a wind chill advisory for Lawrence.The advisory is effective until 10 a.m.today.
ON THE RECORD
A 20-year-old University of Kansas student told the Lawrence Police Department that someone broke a window, estimated at $300, of
his 1999 Nissan Altima between 1:30 a.m. and 11 a.m.Friday in the 2000 block of Ousdahl Road, according to reports.
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ON CAMPUS — For more events, go to kucalendar.com
Clarence Henry will lead a Brown Bag Discussion on "The Music of Africa and Africa in the Diaspora" from noon to 1 p.m. in the Kansas Union. Call 864-3745.
The department of geology will sponsor a colloquium entitled "Tracing the Links Between Hydrology and Climate: New Geochemical Records from Terrestrial Environments," to be given by MaryLynn Musgrove of Harvard University at 4 p.m. at room 103 in Lind
Jev Hall, Call 864-4974.
University Career and Employment Services will be presenting "How to Attend a Career Fair" at 3:30 p.m. at the Relays Room in the Burge Union. Contact Ann Hartley at 864-3624.
The Spencer Museum of Art will present its Gallery Talk, "Curator's Choice with Andrea Norris," at 7 p.m. at the White Gallery in the Spencer Museum of Art.Call 864-4710.
Et Cetera
"The Comedy and Craziness of Brian Brushwood" from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Hawk's Nest in the Kansas Union. Contact Chandra Dunbar at 864-7469.
KU Memorial Unions will present
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Introduction to Personal Computing with Mac OS Prerequisite: None. Requires registration for all. Wed., Jan. 29, 1-3 p.m., Music and Dance Technology Lab
Web Authoring: Introduction Prerequisite: Web Authoring: Foundations.
Requires registration for all. Wed., Jan 29, 1-5 p.m., Budig Media Lab
Introduction to Personal Computing with Windows Prerequisite: None.
Requires registration for all. Thurs., Jan 30, 10 a.m.-Noon, Budig Media Lab
Access: Intermediate Prerequisite: Access: Introduction. Requires registration for all and a $75 fee for non-KU. Thurs., Jan. 30, 1-4 p.m., Budig Media Lab
EndNote: Overview Prerequisite: For KU faculty, staff and students only. Requires registration for all. Mon., Feb. 3, 2-3 p.m., Budig Media Lab
SPSS Output and Graphics: Getting Published Prerequisite: SPSS: Getting Around. Requires registration for all and a $75 fee for non-KU. Thurs., Jan. 30, 1-3 p.m., Budig PC Lab
Execl: Introduction Prerequisite: None. Requires registration for all and a $75 fee for non-KU.Tues., Feb. 4, 9 a.m.—Noon, Budig Media Lab
PowerPoint: Intermediate Prerequisite: PowerPoint: Introduction. Requires registration for all and a $75 fee for non-KU. Tues., Feb. 4, 1-4 p.m., Budig Media Lab
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