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The Inside Front
Thursday April 16, 1998
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
College Assembly is accepting applications for 120 student representatives to serve next year.
On CAMPUS:
The KU Jazz Festival starts at the Lied Center today and continues tomorrow and Saturday.
Clinton offered tomdo victims words of encouragement and $3.2 million in new federal aid.
In the WORLD:
In the NATION:
Procrastinators around the nation packed post offices today in order to file their tax returns.
The Rev. Ian Palsley launched a campaign for Protestant voters to reject a compromise peace accord.
CAMPUS
College Assembly looks for students with CLAS
College Assembly, the decision-making body for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is accepting applications for 1.20 student representatives to serve next year.
The application deadline is 5 p.m. tomorrow. Students enrolled in the college can pick up applications in 109 Strong Hall.
"If students have something they'd like to see changed, then College Assembly is a good place to attempt to make those changes," said Nancy Krische, secretary for CLAS Undergraduate Services.
Krishe said students could make a difference in the college policy.
"They would have a vote on everything from curricular changes to degree changes — any policy that comes up, including the diversity requirement." Krische said.
student representatives receive an agenda about two weeks before each College Assembly meeting. The assembly meets about five times throughout the school year, Krische said.
Of the 120 representatives, three students will be elected to serve on the Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising, a standing committee in the College Assembly.
Krische said the CUSA student representatives would have a chance to enter the ground floor of policy making.
"CUSA is the first step of any proposal for changes to policy," Krische said. "Once CUSA approves a change, it goes to College Assembly for approval by the full assembly."
Emily C. Forsyth
Festival at Lied Center jazzes up the University
The University of Kansas is going to jazz things up this weekend.
The 21st University Jazz Festival starts at the Lied Center today and continues tomorrow and Saturday. Concerts begin at 7:30 p.m.
The Nancy King Tri performs today. The group members are Nancy King, vocals; Steve Christofferson, piano; and Tom Wakelling, bass. The KU Jazz Singers will accompany the trio.
Tomorrow, the Michael Brecker Quintet will perform, accompanied by the KU Jazz Combo. The quintet members are Michael Brecker, saxophone; Joey Calderazzo, piano; James Genus, bass; Jeff Watts, drums; and Don Alias, percussion.
The KU Jazz Ensemble I, with Maria Schneider and Ingrid Jensen, will close the festival Saturday. Schneider is a composer and conductor, and Jensen is a trumpet player. The Southwestern Community College Jazz Ensemble from Creston, Iowa, also will perform Saturday.
Student tickets cost $10 and $8 for today's and Saturday's performances. Tomorrow's performance costs $12 and $10 for student tickets. A student festival ticket for all three nights is $27 and $24.
— Marcelo Vilela
NATIONAL
Tornado victims to receive $3.2 million in federal aid
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Standing amid the rubble and ruin of central Alabama's deadliest tornadoes, President Clinton offered the victims words of encouragement and $3.2 million in federal aid.
"We have to give people a way to look forward to tomorrow — a project, work to do, something that can be done to make a difference," Clinton said yesterday after touring a flattened neighborhood in McDonald Chapel, a subdivision of Birmingham.
Clinton said the Labor Department would make available $3.2 million in emergency funds to Alabama to create temporary jobs for cleaning up the areas of Jefferson, St.
Clair and Tuscaloosa counties hit April 8 by tomadores.
his nands clasped behind his back and head bowed, the president slowly picked his way around heaps of twisted metal and piles of shattered boards that used to be homes. Severed tree trunks stood nearby, grotesque markers of a tomato that killed 33 people, most in the outskirts of Birmingham.
Clinton urged the community to look to the future.
"The process of restoration has begun because the most important thing you have—your spirit—was not destroyed," Clinton said.
Tax-time procrastinators pack nation's post offices
People who waited until the last minute to file their taxes yesterday made no apologies for their procrastination, trudging into post offices across the country as jazz music, back rubs and doughnuts helped ease their pain.
Tax forms had to be postmarked by midnight, and many post offices expected long lines as procrastinators send an estimated 44 million federal and state tax forms in the one day.
Many post offices stayed open late and offered amenities such as curbside pickup of forms, free coffee and tax advice.
The post office in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., had a local choral group and had the jazz band Clarinet Marmalade serenading customers. A blues band belted out tunes in Springfield, Mass., where several post-masters planned to perform in a conga line of dancing rains.
In Idaho, there actually is a place where people can beat the system.
The 500 residents of New Meadows get to file up until 8 a.m. on April 16 because its one daily mail pickup is at 2:45 p.m. Gretchen Croft went to the Morgantown, W.Va., post office in search of an extension form, saying it was her husband's job
to do their taxes
"We feel like we're doing our part as Americans filing late," she said jokingly. "Since we're getting money back, they can keep the interest a little longer. We're just being good Americans."
INTERNATIONAL Pro-British campaign threatens Ireland accord
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — The Rev. Ian Paisley, who has wrecked past efforts at compromise in Northern Ireland, launched his campaign yesterday for Protestant voters to reject a compromise peace accord.
Paisley asserted that the agreement would mean the destruction of Northern Ireland's 77-year-old union with Britain and send the country on the way to a united Ireland.
"This is a struggle for the very life's blood of the union and the future of our province," he declared at the start of his campaign to mobilize Protestant opinion against the May 22 referendum.
A majority vote in favor the referendum is required from this territory of 1.6 million people — 55 percent of them pro-British Protestants, 40 percent Irish Catholics — for the accord, which was achieved Friday after 22 months of negotiations, to take effect.
The British and Irish governments are treating Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party, which withdrew from the negotiations last year after the IRA-allied Sinn Fein party gained admission, as a serious threat to make the vote a close call.
The agreement would create an elected Northern Ireland Assembly that cooperates formally with the Irish Republic.
Paisley denounced Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble, leader of Northern Ireland's largest political party, for endorsing the accord.
The Associated Press
Campus Cause may face fines for signs posted at Lewis Hall
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Curtis is identified on the flier as a Delta Force member but he said he was not. Curtis said the quote was taken out of context.
Part of Curtis' quote denounced the greek system for intolerance, sexism, homophobia and grade manipulation.
Delta Force members who are not candidates on this year's ballot and Kip Curtis, New York City graduate student. All of the quotations about the greek community expressed negativity.
Scott Kaiser, Campus Cause vice presidential candidate, said his coalition was not involved in the distribution of the file
"We don't need to be negative," he said. "Being negative is reaction. We take action."
Emily Heath, Delta Force presidential candidate, said Delta Force had both Greek and nongreek candidates. She also denounced the anonymous authors of the filer.
"Just because you're not greek doesn't mean you're anti-greek," she said. "If you're going to write something like that, at least come out and say who you are."
- Good weather equals good voter turnout
It was a bit breezy and temperatures could have been higher, but the sun was shining, campus was dry and the students were voting.
Brad Finkeldei, elections commission chairman, said unofficially that after one day of elections, voter turnout appeared to be higher than last year's first-day results.
Kaiser said he thought that students were more interested in elections this year and that increased awareness combined with favorable weather conditions made for more work for those collecting ballots.
Tomorrow's weather does not look as promising.
There will be a bit of a chill in the air, with cloudy conditions and a predicted high of 49 degrees.
Heath said she thought bad weather would hurt her coalition's chances of winning. She said the die-hard supporters would be at the polls regardless of weather, but the marginal supporters of Delta Force may not be as likely to vote if it was cold or rainy.
"I feel a majority of this campus wants to see us in office, but a lot of them have never voted," Heath said.
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Today IN HISTORY
1818 - The U.S. Senate ratifies Rush-Bagh amend-
ment, US-Canada bordered.
1912 - Harriet Quimby flies the English Channel, first woman to do so.
1917 - Lenin returns to Russia and the Bolshevik Revolution begins.
1926 - The Book-of-the-Month Club opens for business.
1947 - Massive explosion and fire kills 500 in Texas City, Texas
1959 - Yankee unveil their first message scoreboard.
1962 - Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS
1972 - Apollo 16 takes off for the Moon.
ON THE RECORD
- The KU Public Safety Officer responded to a small grass fire at 2:35 p.m. Tuesday on the west side of Haworth Hall, Lawrence-Douglas County fire and medical personnel said a discarded cigarette may have started the fire.
A KU student's running shoes, a 35mm camera and 14 other items were stolen from a KU student between 2 and 8 p.m. Sunday in the 1300 block of Tennessee Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $1,480.
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