2A
The Inside Front
Tuesday March 17, 1998
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
In LAWRENCE:
Nearly $16,000 is stolen from a Lawrence resident's bank account.
■ WASHINGTON — Defense secretary William Cohen orders the Army, Navy and Air Force to house male and female trainees in separate areas.
■ FORT BELVOIR — An Army jury spares Sgt. Maj. Gene McKinney a prison sentence and instead reprimands him and demotes him one rank.
In the WORLD:
BRAZIL — a three-month old fire rages out of control in Brazil's remote northern Amazon.
LAWRENCE
Lawrence resident loses $16,000 to forgery artist
A professional forgery artist took $16,000 from a Lawrence resident's bank account last month. Lawrence police said.
Sgt. George Wheeler said police had a suspect in the Feb. 18 forgery case. He also said the case may be connected to other forgeries.
wheeler said the forgery case began at Mercantile Bank's south branch, 1807 West 23rd St.
Poll told the victim that the suspect forged two of the victim's checks to make deposits of $8,600 and $46,000 in his account. The victim said that he never had used that location to do his banking, so employees could not have known him by his face.
The victim said the suspect then obtained a cashier's check for $16,000, drawn from the forged deposits. The suspect then went to the Eudora Mercantile Bank and put the $16,000 into a money market account, the victim said.
The suspect was recorded on the Eudora bank's security video, which the victim said he had reviewed with police.
"I've never seen the guy before," he said.
"I have no idea who he is."
Wheeler said the method the suspect used to get the money was a variation of a common forgery scam.
"Apparently, he's doing it a little differently," Wheeler said. "Usually, they'll open an account at one bank and use the starter checks from that account to make the forgeries.
"They deposit the money from those for-eries in another account and then withdraw it," Wheeler said.
An official at Mercantile Bank said he could not comment on the incident.
NATION
Separation of trainees in armed forces ordered
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary William Cohen ordered the Army, Navy and Air Force to house male and female trainers in separate areas, if not separate buildings, to cut down on improper activity. He demanded tougher physical training.
Cohen said he would not require训
and women undergo separate basic train
ing during their first weeks in the military, an idea the services had rejected.
Cohen: Wants men and women separated during first weeks of training.
rousing — and the process of instilling military values — must be improved, he said. He complained that even though male and female trainees lived in separate quarters or on separate floors, doors had been removed at some cities and privacv was inadequate
"They have not had adequate supervision...There has been an attitude of a lack of discipline, and so what we want to do is maintain the separation during those first weeks of basic training to make sure their focus is on the military aspects and not the social." Cohen said.
Questioned about how increased separation might teach young men and women to work and fight together, Cohen shot back, "They don't have to sleep together."
The secretary also told the three services to toughen the physical training and put more emphasis on core military values during the first weeks in the military.
The services must increase the number of female recruiters and female trainers, improve selection processes for trainers and counter
any notion that a training assignment would be detrimental to a military career, Cohen said.
McKinney spared prison, suffers demotion instead
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — An Armyjury spared Sgt. Maj. Gene McKinnie a prison sentence today and instead reprimanded him and demoted him one rank to master sergeant for obstruction of justice in the sexual-misconduct case against him.
McKinney, once the Army's highest-ranking enlisted man, could have gotten up to five years in prison and a dishonorable discharge.
The sentence was imposed by the same jury of six men and two women that cleared him of 18 out of 19 counts Friday, including all charges that he pressured six military women for sex.
McKinney, 47, was convicted of obstruction for encouraging one of his accusers to lie to Army investigators. The telephone conversation had been secretly recorded and was played for the jury at his court-martial.
McKinney stood at attention and showed no emotion as the sentence was imposed. His wife, Wilimena, sat stoically, directly behind him.
Heavy smoke and low rivers shrunken by months of drought hindered access to the region, which is home to about 9,000 Yanomami. About 11,000 more live across the border in Venezuela.
Fire in Brazil threatens Yanomami Indians' home
BOA VISTA, Brazil — A three-month-old fire is raging out of control in Brazil's remote northern Amazon, devouring large sections of savanna and threatening the forest home of the Yanomami Indians, the world's largest Stone Ate tribe.
WORLD
"We have lost control of the situation," Kleber Cerquinho, head of the state Civil Defense Bureau, said in a radio interview.
Gov. Neuro Campos of Roraima state said the blaze at one point reached 1.2 miles inside the Yanomami reservation, although he could not say how much forest had burned.
Less than one inch of rain has fallen this year in Roraima, a wedge of land between Venezuela and Guyana. The unusual dry spell is attributed to El Nino, a warming of the waters in the Pacific that changes weather patterns worldwide.
Roraima's vegetation dried to tinder, and the traditional brush-burning by farmers and ranchers has swept over savanna and pasture lands that cover much of the state. Only about one-fifth of the burned area is forest.
There is only one unconfirmed report of a fatality: A man was killed when he was hit by a burning branch.
Campos said yesterday that some 1.5 million acres, about 3 percent of the state, had been burned.
The Associated Press
CORRECTIONS
- The following item was inadvertently left out of yesterday's On Campus section; KU Democrats will have a general meeting at 7:30 tonight in the Big 12 Room of the Kansas Union. Contact Chris Galloway at 838-4604.
Because of an editor's error,
Michael Two Horses, Lawrence law
student, was misidentified in a photo
on 1A of yesterday's Kansan.
An article in Friday's Kansan stated Haskell Indian Nations University officials publicized and provided transportation to the protest against Rock Chalk Revue. Haskell student leaders publicized the protest and supplied rides to the Lied Center.
Pot of gold discovered on Internet
Continued from page 1A
in a single work.
"The hope was that we could give it a feel of the past," said Jerry Niebaum, director of Academic Computing Services. Niebaum did most of the design and development.
The images on the site include 19th-century illustrations depicting key events in the Irish struggle for independence from England, the front page of a censored Irish newspaper from 1848, an 1873 advertisement for travel from Dublin to North America in steerage class and a picture of P.S. O'Hegarty.
Each image contains a short description of its significance. The images also can be displayed in a full-screen view to allow closer examination.
"It's a teaser," said James Helary, curator in graphics, about the Web site.
It contains 18 images out of about 15,000 pieces in the whole collection. The library acquired the bulk of the collection in 1959.
"This is a wonderful opportunity for us to show off a few things and hopefully tell people that all the rest is available here." Helyar said.
He said that the O'Hegarty collection was a major resource for Irish studies.
O'Hegarty developed it to write the book "A History of Ireland Under the Union 1801-1922."
The Web site could promote these resources to scholars throughout the world, he said.
"We have materials here which probably can't be found anywhere else," Helyar said.
Niebaum said he thought there were more opportunities to promote the library's materials in a digital format.
"In the Kansas Collection there are a million photographs, and in the rest of the collections there are another million photographs." Niebaum said.
"I believe there is a lot of interesting work to be done in the digital imaging area," Niebaum 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 Kansas (USPS 650-640)
is published at the University of Kansas, 119 Stupper-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.
Nation/World stories
http://www.kansan.com/news/nation/
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 newsletter 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 eUniversity community.
ON THE RECORD
A KU staff member's cassette case and tapes were taken between 7:30 and 10 p.m. March 8 from a vehicle in the lot west of Memorial Drive, the KU office of public safety said. The items were valued at $115, and the damage to the vehicle was estimated at $100.
A KU student's parking permit was taken between 1 and 9:35 p.m. Wednesday from the lot at Oliver Hall, the KU office of public safety said. The permit was valued at $75.
A KU student's radar detector was taken between 10:30 p.m. Thursday and 8:55 a.m. Friday from a vehicle in the lot east of Hashinger Hall, the KU office of public safety said. The detector was valued at $150 and the damage to the vehicle was estimated at $150
A KU student's ID holder, KUID, bus pass and Kansas driver's license were taken between 9:20 and 9:30 a.m. from the 1400 block of Jayhawk Boulevard, the KU office of public safety said. The items were valued at $137.
An Overland Park resident's radar detector was
taken between 10 p.m. Thursday and 9:30 a.m. Friday from a vehicle in the lot east of Hashinger Hall, the KU office of public safety said. The detector was valued at $200, and the damage to the vehicle was estimated at $200.
A KU student's parking permit was taken between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Thursday from a vehicle in the lot at Sunnyside Avenue and Illinois Street, the KU office of public safety said. The permit was valued at $75.
A KU student was arrested for an outstanding warrant at 11:35 p.m. School at 19th Street and Neismith Drive, the KU office of public safety said. The student was pulled over for speeding.
A KU student was issued a notice to appear in court for possession of drug paraphernalia at 6:03 a.m. Saturday after an accidental fire in Hashinger Hall, the KU Office of public safety said. A cigarette butt ignited two pillows.
A KU student was a victim of domestic battery between 2:50 and 3:54 a.m. Sunday in the 2300 block of Wakarua Road, Lawrence police said.