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The Inside Front
Monday March 30,1998
from campus, the state the nation and the world
On CAMPUS:
The KU debate team places fifth at a national tournament in Rochester, N.Y.
In the WORLD:
The European Union plans to Increase membership by 11 nations in the next decade.
Deadly floods and mudslides in Peru kill 300 people, drive hundreds of thousands from their homes, wash away vast swaths of farmland and paralyze the country's highways.
ON CAMPUS
Today
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will study fundamentals of Catholicism at 7 p.m. in Room 201 in the center. Contact the Rev. Vince Krische at 843-0357.
KU Meditation Club will meet at 6 p.m. at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union. Contact Beng Beh at 864-7754
Native American Student Association will meet at 7 p.m. in the Multicultural Resource Center.
International Programs is sponsoring an international seminar for faculty entitled "Ethnic Secession, Repression and Accommodation in Southeast Asia: A Survey of Government Policies in The Countries," from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at the Western Seminar Room at the Art History Library in the Spencer Museum of Art.
Humanities and the Department of Classics will hold a presentation at 4 p.m. at the Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Contact Carolyn Nelson at 864-3569.
Tomorrow
Episcopal/Lutheran Campus Center will have a worship service at noon in Danforth Chapel. Contact the Rev. Joseph Alford at 843-8202.
Kansas City Baptist Temple Ministry will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Alcove F in the Kansas Union, Contact Stefani Janssen at 841-9603.
Hispanic American Leadership Organization will meet at 6 p.m. at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. Contact Janell Avilia at 864-HALO.
Christian Science Organization will meet at 7 p.m. in Alcove C in the Kansas Union. Contact Allen Holt at 832-2830.
KU Enviros will meet at 6 p.m. in the Kansas Union. Call 864-7325 for more information.
KU Democrats' executive board will
meet at 7 p.m. at the Governor's Room in the Kansas Union. Contact Chris Gallaway at 838-4604.
Wednesday
- There will be an informational, brown-bag meeting on Fulbright and Graduate Direct Exchange Grants for 1999 and 2000 from noon to 1 p.m. at Aloe F in the Kansas Union. Contact Hodgie Bricke at 864-4141.
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will study Sunday readings from a Catholic perspective from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the conference room in the center. Contact Sister Karen at 843-0357
Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. Contact Wendy Brown at 838-3984.
Thursdav
Hours
Campus Crusade for Christ will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union. Contact Peter Ellis at 840-9572.
KU Environers vegetarian lunch will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Ecumenical Christian Ministries. Contact Natalie Sullivan at 842-7847.
Proponents of Animal Liberation will meet at 6 p.m., at the Oread Room in the Kansas Union. Contact Michael Schmitt at 838-4469.
Friday
International Programs is sponsoring a worldview brown bag entitled "Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: The Process of Transformation," from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. Contact Anne Merydith-Wolf at 864-4963.
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship is having a free meal and discussion at 6:30 p.m. at 1803 Ohio. Contact Craig Barchers at 865-2815.
Saturday
Diesel Studio presents Stephen H. Willingham Esquire in a solo performance as part of a theater and film honors project at 8 p.m. in Oldfather Studios.
Sunday
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will study the Gospel of Luke from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at rooms 201 and 202 in the center. Call 843-0357 for more information.
The Feminist Union will meet at 5 p.m. in the Governor's Room at the Kansas Union, Contact Joan Benefiel at 840-9739
General
KU Tae Kwon Do Club will meet Monday and Wednesday from 5:30 to 7 p.m. and Friday from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at room 207 in Robinson Center. Contact Adam at 842-9112.
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will have daily Mass at 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday in the center. Contact the Rev. Vince Kische at 843-3057.
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will have Mass at 12:30 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday in Danforth Chapel. Contact the Rev. Ray May at 843-0357.
CAMPUS
The KU debate squad finished fifth in the nation at the Cross-Examination Debate Association tournament March 20-23.
KU debater top in nation; team places fifth overall
The tournament, which took place at the University of Rochester, N.Y., is the largest debate tournament in the country.
Hajir Ardebili, Overland Park senior, and Grant McKeehan, Overland Park sophomore, placed third at the tournament.
"All of our debaters are clearly quite talented," Minch said. "To then go beyond that and have our top students place as well as they did reaffirms the strength and quality of the students and their training at KU."
said the squad's accomplishments spoke well of both their intellect and preparation
Ardebill was ranked as the tournament's top debater out of 308 of the nation's best debaters and was elected to the Academic All-American Debate Team.
"Reaching the final four at the national championship tournament is a tremendous accomplishment," said Scott Harris, KU debate coach.
Mckeehan placed sixth. Amy Miller, Topeka junior, also was named to the All-American team.
The University of Kansas was one of three schools at the CEDA tournament to have five or more teams participating. All five KU teams reached the elimination round.
"This is Hajir's senior year, and in many ways, that first-place finish is sort of a crowning achievement for his career," Minch said. "To have two people in the top 10 speaks very highly of the team as a whole."
The squad is competing in the National Debate Tournament, sponsored by the American Forensic Association, which continues through today at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
Kevin Minch, assistant debate coach.
—Emily C. Forsyth
WORLD
European Union expansion continues with ceremony
BRUSSELS, Belgium — None of the 11 nations hoping to be admitted to the European Union in the next decade is ready yet, but all were expected at Monday's ceremonial opening of the group's most ambitious expansion.
Although the 10 East European countries and Cyprus face a hard road to qualify, foreign ministers from the 15 existing members and the hopefuls will declare Europe on course for unprecedented integration.
But the candidates will have to make difficult economic and social adjustments. None currently meets the membership criteria, said Francois Lamoureux, a senior official involved in enlargement talks.
It will take at least five years to integrate Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic.
Slovenia, Estonia and Cyprus — and five more to get Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria through the door.
After Monday's ceremony, the slow-track candidates go home. The E.U. will engage them in preparatory talks. The six fast-track candidates open formal membership talks in Brussels on Tuesday.
If all work hard to make their economies comply with E.U. rules, they will get billions of dollars in technical and other aid. If they don't, they risk a suspension of financial assistance, Lamoureux said.
El Niño storms flood Peru, damaging main highway
ON THE PAN AMERICAN HIGHWAY, Peru
ON THE PAN AMERICAN HIGHWAY, Peru — A drama of biblical dimensions is unfolding in Peru, where deadly floods and mudslides caused by El Niño deluges have killed 300 people, driven hundreds of thousands from their homes, washed away vast swaths of farmland and paralyzed the country's highways.
Torrential rains that began in December have turned dozens of normally bone-dry river beds and ravines in Peru's northern desert into raging rivers that have swept away villages and bridges and cut highways into ribbons.
Traveling the Pan American Highway, the lifeline of Peruvian commerce running the length of its Pacific coast, has become a bruising odyssey across a ravaged landscape — requiring travel by bus, boat, donkey and foot.
Dried mud coats the streets, the remnants of a mudslide that swept over the inoverished village and left a moonscape behind.
Winds whip up thick dust storms from the dried mud, forcing residents to walk with rags held to their faces.
Parts of the highway look as if a giant has taken bites off the sides. Drivers must swerve around car-sized holes and boulders and plow through muddy river beds.
The Associated Press
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Today: IN HISTORY
1822 Florida became a United States terri-
tory
1867 - Secretary of State William Seward purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million
1870 The 15th Amendment was passed, which guaranteed the right to vote, regardless of race
1932 - Amelia Earlart was the first woman to make a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean
1945 - The Soviet Union invaded Austria during World War II.
1981 - President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded by John H. Hutchey.
1984 and wounded by John W. Hinkley, Jr.
The United States ended participation in a multinational peace force in Lebanon.
ON THE RECORD
■ The right rear window of a KU student's car was smashed, and $10 was stolen from inside it between 11 p.m. Saturday and midnight Sunday in the 500 block of Wisconsin Street, Lawrence police said. The value of the damage was unknown.
The window of a KU student's apartment was smashed, and a laptop computer and blue bag were stolen from inside it between 8 a.m. March 21 and 10:50 a.m. March 23 in the 1400 block of West Seventh Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $1,930.
A KU employee's two rings, one emerald and diamond and the other sapphire, were stolen between noon March 17 and noon March 22 in the 300 block of Indiana Street, Lawrence police said. The rins were valued at $850.
A KU student's 1996 one-two door Dodge Neon sport coupe was stolen at 1 p.m. March 23 in the 1900 block of West 31st Street, Lawrence police said. The estimated value of the car was unknown.
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