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The Inside Front
Friday April 17,1998
News
from campus, the state. the nation and the world
Kansas-bred singer and songwriter Koley Hunt is stopping in Lawrence for a solo performance on Sunday.
On CAMPUS
Two Lawrence men were arrested Wednesday night for stealing computer equipment, Lawrence police said. In the NATION
Paula Jones will ask an appeals court to reinstate her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Clinton. Researchers have moved closer to a cost-effective way
Researchers have moved closer to a cost-effective way to power automobiles with only sunlight and water.
Malaysia residents have suffered severe water rationing for weeks.
Kansas-bred singer to play at arts center
Kansas-bred singer and songwriter Kelley Hunt is stopping in Lawrence for a solo performance on Sunday at the Lawrence Arts Center, 200 W. Ninth St.
The performance, which will begin at 4 p.m., is a one-week stop in the middle of her tour with the Kelley Hunt Band. The show will include an piano performance followed by a reception at the art center. Tickets for the performance are $7 and can be purchased in advance at the Lawrence Art Center or at the door.
Hunt said the solo performance would serve as an outlet for her songwriting outside of the band.
"I only do a solo concert once every two years," she said.
The singer will be performing new, unreleased material. Hunt said her performance may surprise fans who are expecting her traditional blues guitar style.
"I like to see the audience," Hunt said. "When I'm done, I can go out and talk to people."
Tami Miller
Police arrest two men in computer thefts
Two Lawrence men were arrested Wednesday night for stealing computer equipment, Lawrence police said.
Moore said a resident of the area observed two men at 8:45 p.m. walking south in an alley in the 1300 block of Tennessee Street. The men were carrying a bag full of what looked like computer items, he said.
When officers arrived, they observed the suspects taking more computer equipment out of a car, Moore said. Officers
made contact with the men and entered the apartment where the men were taking the equipment, Moore said.
"They found a lot of computer equipment, and some drugs," Moore said. "Investigators got some information that may link them to some other crimes."
Moore said the men could become suspects in recent computer thefts in the 1200 block of Rhode Island Street, the 1200 block of Tennessee Street and the 1100 block of Ohio Street. Moore said he did not have the dates of the thefts or the dollar value of the computers.
—Ronnie Wachter
Jones to appeal dismissal of Clinton harassment suit
DALLAS — Her voice breaking as she pronounced the word "appeal," Paula
Jones said yesterday she would ask an appeals court to reinstate her lawsuit and force President Clinton to stand trial for sexual harassment.
Jones: Announced decision to appeal dismissal.
"In the end, I have not come this far to see the law let men who have done such things dodge their responsibility," a crying Jones said at a news conference with her lawyers.
"I believe what Mr. Clinton did to me was wrong, and the law protects women who are subjected to that kind of abuse of power."
Clinton, on a state visit in Chile, said he felt good about a federal judge's April 1 dismissal of the Jones suit and he declined to comment on the latest turn. "It's a very unusual political environment, but I'm just not going to let the politics get in my way," he said.
Jones' widely anticipated appeal set the stage for a lengthy extension of the legal
battle about her allegation of a Clinton advance in a Little Rock, Ark., hotel room
Clinton: President's case headed to court of appeals.
in 1991 while he was governor of Arkansas Attorneys not connected with the case say she faces long odds in trying to persuade an appeals court to overturn the dismissal.
Yesterday's news conference in Dallas, where Jones' attorneys are based, marked her first public comment about the case since U.S. District Court Judge Susan Webber Wright ruled on April 1 her lawsuit did not merit a trial.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — First went the swimming pool, its water taken to flush toilet.
Some Malaysians face water shortage because of drought
Then went home cooking, as there was no way to clean the pots and pans.
Already suffering from a watered-down economy and bracing for another season of eye-stinging smog, 600,000 residents in the capital have suffered severe water rationing for weeks.
On Monday, another 1.2 million people in Klang Valley will face sharp water cuts.
The city's water truck drivers, rumbling through the parched neighborhoods, have been threatened with assault. Scuffles have broken out among those waiting in long lines, often for hours under the afternoon sun. In one neighborhood, angry teens tried to run down a water official.
The new way of life — the hunt for water, the running after tanker trucks, the jacked-up prices for buckets — has set tempers on edge.
People in Kuala Lumpur have long accepted the dreadful traffic from tom up
roads in Malaysia's rush to become a developed nation by 2020. They are resigned to pulling out surgical masks when hazardous smog from manmade forest fires sets in.
But the drought, in a tropical country were monsoon flooding is a more typical weather concern, caught them by surprise. Though water authorities blame the El Nino weather phenomenon for lack of rain, many residents accuse the government of mismanagement.
Water-sun combination might fuel autos in future
WASHINGTON — Researchers say they have moved a step closer to a cost-effective way to power automobiles with only sunlight and water.
The technology behind a solar-hydrogen-powered car has been known for years, but commercial development remains unrealistic, in part because of the high cost of using solar power to produce the hydrogen from water.
But two scientists at the federal National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., have developed a one-step device that uses solar power to convert water into a hydrogen fuel.
This could substantially reduce the cost of using solar power to split water into hydrogen and oxygen molecules, a process known as electrolysis, said John Turner, a chemist at the laboratory, who outlined his research in today's issue of Science magazine.
In an interview, Turner said it likely will take years of research and a greater political and economic commitment for solar-hydrogen fuel to become commercially acceptable.
A series of technological breakthroughs in recent years has renewed sharp interest among automakers in hydrogen fuel cells as the eventual replacement for the internal combustion engine. Car manufacturers predict thousands of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles will be available at competitive prices as early as 2004.
The Associated Press
Bicycle lanes may be on roll this summer
By Jeremy M. Doherty
johofer at kanson.com
Kansas staff writer
The first real step toward bicycle lanes in Lawrence could be taken during the dog days of summer.
In August, the City Commission is expected to file its 1999 budget with the county clerk. The commission was asked by the Bicycle Advisory Committee last week to finance an engineering study which would examine revamping the downtown streets and determine project's costs.
Kip Curtis, New York graduate student and an organizer of the April 7 bike rally, said lanes easily would fit inside roads to and from the University without causing any inconvenience.
Curtis said an informal survey taken last September by KU Environs revealed which streets were key traffic areas for bicyclists. Two hundred forty-four respondents said the most frequently used roads were Massachusetts, Ninth Tennessee and Kentucky streets.
"You're only talking about the cost of paint," Curtis said. "They could basically do it within the next year."
City Manager Mike Wilden disagreed, saying the supporters of bikie lanes were too optimistic.
"I think it's much too complicated," Wildengain said. "That's like when people say the key to Burger King is 'location, location, location.' There are many more issues on that list that we're trying to deal with. The engineering study is just one of them. It's not just 'bicycle lanes, bicycle lanes, bicycle lanes."
Curtis said he and other cyclists were pleased with the prospect of a bicycle coordinator.
However, Curtis said the commission was missing the point by not pushing harder for the engineering study.
"Providing no funding for them in the first year really ties their hands," he said. "The engineering study is the next step. If they're serious, then they need to fund it now."
Mayor Marty Kennedy said the ideal bicycle coordinator could develop a study and work with planners.
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A sign saying "salad plates and bowls" was taken from Ekdahl Dining Commons between September 1993 and Aug. 1, 1996, the KU Public Safety Office said. The sign, valued at $40, was recovered.
A KU staff member's parking permit was taken between 7 and 9:30 p.m. April 4 from the Parking Facility, the KU Public Safety Office said. The permit was valued at $80.
■ Wet cement was vandalized at 5:02 p.m. Tuesday in the northwest corner of living Irene Road and Constant Avenue, the KU Public Safety Office said. The damage was estimated at $2,285.
ON THE RECORD
■ Wet cement was vandalized at 7:42 p.m. Tuesday on Constant Avenue's north sidewalk of Irving Hill Road, the KU Public Safety Office said. The damage was estimated at $500.
A KU student received harassment by telephone
A KU student's license plate was stolen between 11 m. p.m. Monday and 10 a.m. Tuesday in the 2600 block of West Sixth Street, Lawrence police said. The value of the plate was undetermined.
The wooden window frame and glass of a KU student's house was damaged between 12:01 a.m. April 10 and 3 p.m. Sunday in the 1300 block of Tennessee Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $200.
A University Daily Kansas employee's car, and the computer, monitor, keyboard and other items that were in it, were stolen between 6 a.m. and 1 p.m. Sunday in the 4000 block of Overland Drive, Lawrence police said. The theft cost the employee $13,951.
between 9:17 and 10:22 p.m. Tuesday, the KU Public Safety Office said.
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