2A
The Inside Front
Thursday April2,1998
News
from campus,the state, the nation and the world
On CAMPUS:
A vintage rifle and a shotgun were stolen from a KU student's truck Monday morning, Lawrence police said.
The backup location for the campus service to be held in memory of Heather Norris has changed.
In the NATION:
A federal judge has thrown out Paula Jones' sexual harassment civil lawsuit.
Unequal health care may be only part of the reason for a higher rate of breast cancer among African-American women.
A senate debate over a tobacco bill turned into a battle yesterday as Republicans tried to push the bill through.
CAMPUS
Shotgun, vintage rifle stolen in truck break-in
A vintage rifle and a shotgun were stolen from a KU student's truck Monday morning, Lawrence police said.
Officer Tom Moore said the student left an 8 mm Mauser rifle from the World War II era and a .410-gauge shotgun in the back seat of his extended-cab pickup. He said he parked at 2 a.m. at his residence in the 2100 block of Heatherwood Drive. When the student returned to his truck at noon, the guns were gone. Moore said.
Moore said the guns probably would be sold, traded or pawned for cash.
"It always makes you nervous whenever weapons are stolen from an automobile or residence," he said. "It's not likely that they'll be used to perpetrate other crimes, though."
The student said he went home for spring break and was transporting the weapons to his Lawrence apartment.
"My main concern now is just getting them back," the student said.
Moore said the victim had locked the guns in the truck but found the passenger door unlocked that morning. A CD player also was taken from the front passenger seat. Moore said.
The Mauser rifle, which Moore said had been rechambered to fit a. 308-caliber bullet, was valued at $1,000. The shotgun brand could not be determined. It was valued at $300.
The student was trying to find the rifle's serial number but did not have it yet. The student said it would not be possible to find the serial number of the shotgun.
—Ronnie Wachter
Backup location changed for Norris memorial
The backup location for the campus serv
ice to be held in memory of Heather Norris has changed.
The service will take place at 6 p.m. today in the Spooner Hall courtyard. In the event of rain, the service will be at St. Lawrence Catholic Center, 1631 Crescent Road. The original backup location was Danforth Chapel.
Norris, a Ballwin, Mo., freshman, was killed in an auto crash during spring break. The 19-year-old was a McCollin Hall resident and KU Ambassador.
Laura Roddy
NATION
Ruling clears Clinton of Jones' accusations
WASHINGTON — A federal judge has thrown out Paula Jones's sexual harassment civil lawsuit, delivering a legal victory to President Clinton.
U. S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright in Little Rock, Ark., informed lawyers in the case about the decision yesterday.
President Clinton was "pleased that he has received the vindication he has long awaited," White House press secretary Mike McCurry, traveling with Clinton in Africa, told reporters.
The judge said that although Jones' claim described offensive conduct, it did not meet the standard for sexual harassment.
"The allegations fall far short of the rigorous standards for establishing a claim of outrage under Arkansas law," she said in a 39-page opinion.
A representative for Jones confirmed the ruling.
"It's true, but I'm not going to comment on it until I talk more to the lawyers. I'm on my way to Paula's house," said Susan Carpenter McMillan.
Wright's ruling comes more than three years after Jones first went to court alleging Clinton, as Arkansas governor, made an unwanted sexual advance.
appeal," they will do so.
John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute, which has financed Jones' suit, said her lawyers would look at the case and said "if there are suitable grounds for
The president learned of the decision as he was winding up a 12-day trip to Africa. He got a message to call his lawyer, Robert Bennett, and contacted him. After hearing the news, "He asked, in fact, if it was an April Fools' joke," McCurry said.
Clinton's attorneys had argued Jones had failed to prove she was harmed in her Arkansas state job and was motivated by politics in making her accusations.
The judge's decision culminates a dramatic month in which the lawsuit erupted into a battle of contentious and sensational legal maneuvers.
Gap in cancer death rate not care based, study says
ATLANTA — A study of why the breast-cancer death rate is higher among African-American women than among Caucasians suggests that unequal access to health care is only part of the explanation.
The study was conducted at military hospitals, where everybody should have the same treatment access. Such hospitals treat members of the military and their families.
It found that among the military women, the African-American and Caucasian gap in the breast-cancer death rate was much smaller than it is among women in the general population. But the gap still existed — African-American women with breast cancer were still more likely to die than Caucasian women with the disease.
The study was published in yesterday's issue of the journal Cancer.
"It tells us that even access to healthcare systems doesn't diminish the gap between breast cancer in African-American women and white women," said Barbara Wojcik, the lead researcher on the study. She is a civilian physician with the Army at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
Researchers have long recognized African American women's higher death rate from breast cancer and have speculated the factors could include not only inadequate healthcare access but also genetics, diet, culture and lifestyle differences, such as use of alcohol and tobacco.
Senate committee resists tobacco-bill amendments
WASHINGTON — The push to complete a tobacco bill turned into a battle yesterday debating how much the industry should pay for the health costs of generations of smokers and how to discourage young people from starting the habit.
Most Democrats maintained the bill was not tough enough on the tobacco industry, while companies repeated the threat to walk away from the deal and challenge the measure in court.
With his majority holding firm, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain resisted many amendments to the bipartisan bill his staff and dozens of negotiators settled on during the weekend in a bid for votes from most members of both parties. He and other Senate Republican leaders predict the committee will approve the bill this week.
The committee added spending guidelines for the money collected from tobacco companies.
The 392 page bill will significantly toughen the $368 billion settlement reached last June between tobacco companies and the 40 states suing the companies.
Instead, McCain would force the industry to pay $506 billion during a 25-year period, plus billions of dollars in fines if teen-age smoking rates do not decrease by 60 percent in 10 years. It also would raise the price of a pack of cigarettes by $1.10 by 2003.
The Associated Press
PC hinders discussion, speaker says
By Emily C. Forsyth
eforsyth@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Forget political correctness.
Tusmith, professor of English at Northeastern University, led a discussion called "Multiculturalism on Campus: Whose Agenda is it?" among about 15 students and staff members. Her visit was sponsored by the English department and the Multicultural Resource Center.
At a panel discussion yesterday afternoon in the Multicultural Resource Center, visiting professor Bonnie Tusmith said the only way to achieve honest communication was to escape the confines of politically correct speech.
"I think one of the reasons people don't like to say what they think is because they're afraid to sound or appear racist." Tusmith said.
The four panel members were Emily Ronning, Star Prairie, Wis., graduate student; Rochelle Votaw, Lawrence senior; Anna Neill, assistant professor of English; and Andy Obermuel, Liberal senior.
usmith: The fear of ounding racist ilences conversation
The discussion also
addressed whether U.S. schools should have a diversity requirement.
Votaw is the co-chairwoman of a committee working to pass a requirement at the University. She said the Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising was looking at the proposal.
Obermueller said he opposed the diversity requirement because it emphasized ethnic differences, promoting separatism rather than community.
Tusmith said some people were skeptical of the agenda of multiculturalism at universities.
"Forced acceptance of other perspectives will have the opposite effect of the goal of multiculturalists. It will create more racism." Obermueller said
"If we say that this society has always been multicultural, which I do believe, how can you be against something that is, that exists?" Tusmith asked.
She said there was suspicion that promotion of multiculturalism was a political agenda of University administrations. Tusmith said.
"There's a question of whether it's just for the university to look good, and if that's the only reason, then that would just be a PC reason," she said.
ET CETERA
The University Daily Kansan is the student newspaper of the University of Kansas. The first copy is paid through the student activity fee. Additional copies of the Kansan are 25 cents. Subscriptions can be purchased at 119 Stauffer-Flint Hall.
For a complete look at the day's news and top stories from around the nation and the world visit the University Daily Kansan interactive
Postmaster: Send address changes to the University Daily Kansan, 119 Stauffer-Flint Hall, Lawrence, Kan. 66045.
The University Daily Kansan (USPS 650-640) is published at the University of Kansas, 119 Stuart Flint Hall, Lawrence, Kan. 66045, daily during the regular school year, excluding Saturday, Sunday, holidays and final periods, and Wednesday during the summer session. Periodical postage is paid in Lawrence, Kan. 66044. Annual subscriptions by mail are $120. Student subscriptions of $2.33 are paid through the student activity fee.
Today's Sports
http://www.kansan.com/news/sports
Top Stories
http://www.kansan.com
The Kansan prints campus events that are free and open to the public. When information is submitted, the event's sponsor, name and phone number must be on the form, which is available in the On Campus mailbox in the Kansan newsroom, 111 Stauffer-Flint Hall. Items must be turned in to the newsroom in person by the Friday before the desired Monday publication. Forms can also be filled out online at www.kansan.com — these requests will appear on the UDKI as well as the Kansan. On Campus may be printed in smaller type size if space is limited. On Campus is a free service provided by the Kansan to the University community.
ON THE RECORD
A KU staff member's laptop computer, software and modem were taken between 10:50 p.m. March 25 and 2 p.m. Thursday from 1035 Wescoe Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The items were valued at $2,850.
A KU student had $10 stolen between 6:30 p.m. Monday and 7:30 a.m. Tuesday in the 1300 block of Ohio Street, Lawrence police said.
- The glass window of a KU student's apartment was broken, and a VCR, two green and brown jackets and 32 other items were stolen from inside the apartment between 6 a.m. March 20 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the 1200 block of Tennessee Street, Lawrence police said. The loss and damage was estimated at $1,983.
A KU student's 11 p.m. purse and $50 were stolen between 11 p.m. Monday and 5:30 a.m. Tuesday in the 1600 block of High Drive, Lawrence police said. The loss was estimated at $110.
The driver's side of a KU student's car was scratched between 4 p.m. Monday and 9 a.m. Tuesday in the
A KU student's personal check was stolen between noon March 25 and 9 p.m. Sunday in the 1300 block of Vermont Street, Lawrence police said. The check was written for $600.
The front driver-side window of a KU student's car was smashed, and a CD player/stereo was stolen from it between midnight and 3:05 a.m. Tuesday in the 1100 block of West Sixth Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $700.
A KU student was bitten by a dog at 4:15 p.m. Mor day in the 900 block of Tennessee Street, Lawrence police said.
A KU student's hand-held cellular phone was stolen between 9:30 and 10 p.m. March 25 in the 300 block of Michigan Way, Lawrence police said. The phone was valued at $100.
A Watson Library employee reported being stalked between midnight March 3 and 4:30 p.m. March 14 throughout the city. Lawrence police said
GRADUATION ANNOUNCEMENTS
Jayhawk Spirit is proud to offer PERSONALIZED Graduation Announcements custom printed with your name and degree.
Order them today and have them back WITHIN 2 WEEKS!
Jayhawk Spirit
935 Massachusetts
Lawrence, KS
66046
785-749-5194
2000 block of West Sixth Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $200.
Hours: M-Sat.
Thurs.
Sun.
9:30am - 5:30pm
till 8:00pm
12:00 - 5:00 pm
The Faculty and
Graduating Class
of
The University of Kansas
Announce the
Graduation of
Sarena R. Rodin
Sunday the Seventeenth of May
Nineteen Hundred Ninety-Eight
with a
Bachelor of Science Degree in
Marketing
Commencement Exercises will be held at
Memorial Stadium at
2:30 p.m.
The Economy Pack-
Only $19.99
You receive 25 PERSONALIZED graduation announcements with matching single envelopes.
A GREAT Value! Compares to other up to twice the price!
The Bonus Pack-
Only $29.99
You receive 25 PERSONALIZED
graduation announcements with matching
single envelopes, 25 "Class of 98" envelope
seals and 25 thank you cards with envelopes.
A $37.40 Voular
Your Name
and Degree custom
printed on the
announcement
(Actual Size 4 1/4 x 5 1/2)
The Deluxe Pack-
Only $49.99
You receive 50 PERSONALIZED
graduation announcements with matching
single envelopes, 50 "Class of 98" envelope
seals and 50 banknotes with cards with
A $72.72 Value!
List Party at Vibes
Thursday,
April
2nd
3-4 pm