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The Inside Front
Wednesday July 22,1998
News
from campus, the city and the nation
A group of student organizations are sponsoring Hawk Link.
On CAMPUS:
A University of Kansas assistant professor has been awarded a $100,000 grant for cancer research. In LAWRENCE
Lawrence police started a weeklong series of drivers' license checkpoints last night at several intersections throughout Lawrence.
- New York: Owners of strip clubs and pornography shops are hoping a last-minute appeal will delay the city from xiling its red-light districts to industrial neighborhoods.
ON CAMPUS
The Office of Minority Affairs, Asian American Student Union, Black Student Union, Hispanic American Leadership Organization and Native American Student Association are sponsoring Hawk Link, a minority student community program, August 15-16.
Student Union Activities, Department of Student Housing, the Office of the Chancellor, the Office of New Student Orientation and the Office of Undergraduate Admissions are providing additional support.
For more information or to volunteer, Contact Airick West at 864-4351.
8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Moving in crews will be on site at residence halls.
6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Pizza party and information fair at the Burge Union
9 p.m. to Midnight Scheduled Hawk Week programming
Sunday, August 16
8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Moving-in crews will be on site at residence halls.
4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Dinner and information fair at the Multicultural Resource Center
6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Scheduled Hawk Week programming
9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Entertainment and party at Anschutz Sports Pavilion
CAMPUS
Professor awarded grant to research cancer cells
A University of Kansas assistant professor has been awarded a $100,000 grant for cancer research.
Xiangyi Lu, assistant professor of biochemistry, molecular and cell biology, was awarded the money by the Heartland Division of the American Cancer Society.
Lu said that part of the grant would be
used to research how to repair malfunctioning cancer-causing cells.
Lu also said that the grant would help researchers better fight cancerous cells by identifying the normal components that control cell growth.
Lu's grant will span one year beginning July 1, said Laurie Dunlap, media relations and promotion manager for the Heartland Division of the American Cancer Society. The grant is one of 1.7 provided this year to the Heartland Division that encompasses Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma.
Lu also received a $198,000, two-year grant for cancer research that ended in June of 1998. Dunlap said.
Duane Wagler
LAWRENCE
Police checkpoints to be effective until Tuesday
Lawrence police started a weeklong series of drivers' license checkpoints last night at several intersections throughout Lawrence.
Sgt. George Wheeler said that the checkpoints, which will be set up during the late evenings and early mornings until Tuesday, will be used to look for drunk drivers, cars with expired license tags and drivers not wearing their seat belts or with no proof of insurance.
The checkpoints are located in the 1300 block of Massachusetts Street, the 2100 block of Iowa Street, the intersection of Sixth and Iowa streets, the Kansas River Bridge, the intersection of 23rd Street and Haskell Avenue and the intersection of 23rd and Harper streets. Wheeler said.
"We'll have breathalizers there, so we can check for intoxicated drivers as well," Wheeler said.
He said that officers would stop every car that came through the checkpoint area when possible.
"Whenever traffic starts to get backed up, we'll stop every other car or every third car," he said. "It will have to be either everybody, or it will be done indiscriminately."
Wheeler said that police are using checkpoints because with the recent addition of 18 officers they had the manpower to operate the checkpoints.
—Ronnie Wachter
NATION
N.Y. strip clubs,porn shops wait for appeal ruling
NEW YORK — Owners of strip clubs and pornography shops are hoping a last-minute appeal will delay the city from exiling its red-light districts to industrial neighborhoods.
Under zoning changes that take effect today, sex-oriented theaters, bookstores, massage parlors and dance clubs would be banned from operating within 500 feet of homes, churches, schools or each other.
A federal appeals court could rule as early as today on a request to delay enforcement.
Giuliani said Monday the curtain would not come down overnight, even if courts let the new rules take effect.
"This isn't going to be like La Guardia smashing the slot machines," he said, referring to former Mayor Fiorella La Guardia's famous gambling raids.
In the meantime, workers at pornography shops around town were mingling T-shirts, souvenirs and family-friendly videos with more risque fare. City officials' warn that stores that stock 40 percent or more pornography could be subject to eviction.
At XXtasy Peepworld on Eighth Avenue Monday, videos with names like "Taboo VIII" now share shelf space with titles like "NFL Football Super Duper Follies." A few doors down, another storefront that offers 25-cent peep shows had its windows stacked with
—The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The spectacular sales of the impotency treatment Viagra have tapered off in recent weeks.
Viagra users having less sex,sales down
In part, the sales rush has slowed because some insurers won't pay for the drug. In addition, patients who once raced to doctors' offices for prescriptions now find they use the pills only occasionally.
"Many people are having less sex than they had anticipated," said J. Francis Eid, director of the New York Presbyterian Impotency Center.
In the week that ended July 10, pharmacists filled 184,312 prescriptions for the little blue pill, compared to a peak of 303,424 in the week that ended May 8, according to industry researcher IMS Health.
That still makes Viagra one of the nation's hottest selling drugs, on track to reach $1 billion in sales in its first year.
Viagra's first few months on the market haven't been trouble-free. More than 30 people who used Viagra have died, prompting insurers Prudential HealthCare and Humana Inc., to refuse to pay for it.
Pfizer Inc., which makes Viagra, and the Food and Drug Administration point out that users of the drug are often elderly and have other health problems. Both have maintained that there's no evidence any of the patients would have died if they had taken the drug as directed.
Kaiser Permanente, the nation's largest health maintenance organization, decided that at about $10 a pill, Viagra is too costly. A few insurers have rationed the drug, offering to pick up the cost for one or two pills a week.
The Associated Press
ON THE RECORD
- One 486 computer and a 15-inch flat screen monitor were stolen between 11:30 a.m. on June 22 and 6:30 p.m. on July 5 at the foreign language department in Wescoe Hall, the KU Office of Public Safety said.The loss was valued at $1.726.
A male Lawrence resident was arrested for OUI at 2:28 a.m. on July 15 near 18th Street and Naismith Drive, the KU Office of Public Safety said. His bond was set at $500.
A male Lawrence resident was arrested for possession of marijuana, transporting an open container and DWI after he hit a no parking sign at 3:21 a.m. last Friday in the 1000 block of Indiana Street, the KIU Office of Public Safety said.
A female Lawrence resident was arrested for OU1 at 1:34 a.m. last Sunday at Naismith Drive and 22nd Street, the KU Office of Public Safety said. Her bond was set at $500.
said the bond was set at $50.
■ A brass plaque was vandalized between 5 p.m. on May 15 and 3:30 p.m. on July 11 at Pearson Hall, the KU Office of Public Safety said. The damage was estimated at $20.
A male Lawrence resident illegally accessed a computer at 3:46 a.m. on July 10 at the Computer Center, the KU Office of Public Safety said.
The door of a KU student's house was damaged, and a portable CD player and jewelry were stolen between 11 a.m. June 29 and 9:15 p.m. July 11 in the 2000 block of West Sixth Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $1.455.
A KU employee was harassed by telephone between May 10 and July 15 in the 3000 block of West 27th Street, Lawrence police said.
The passenger side door and rear window of a KU employee's car were damaged between 4 p.m. July 10 and 10 a.m. July 11 in the 700 block of Vermont Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $1,000.
A KU student was assaulted between 10:53 and 10:56 p.m. Sunday in the 600 block of Massachusetts Street, Lawrence police said.
A chemistry department employee reported a disturbance of the peace between 1:54 and 3:55 a.m. Saturday in the 1300 block of Westbrooke Street, Lawrence police said.
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