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The Inside Front
Thursday March 5,1998
News
from campus, the state. the nation and the world
On CAMPUS:
■ Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic presented the Spenser Museum of Art with a check for $250 yesterday.
■ Registration for Education Interview Day will begin Monday.
The Natural History Museum will receive a grant to help recover two dinosaur skeletons.
In the NATION:
The Army's former top enlisted man is cross-examined at his sexual misconduct court-martial.
Eileen Collins is about to become the first woman in 37 years of U.S. spaceflight to command a shuttle mission. In the WORLD
University students in Indonesia display anger about the economic crises that has the country in upheaval.
Spencer Museum of Art receives $250 contribution
The Interfraternity Council and the Panhellenic Association presented the Spenser Museum of Art with a check for $250 yesterday in a ceremony on the fifth floor of the museum.
"It's something we felt lacks student involvement," said Libby Sigg, Panhellenic Association president and lola junior.
The money came from fund-raisers during Greek Week last fall, said Lung Huang, vice president of the council for public relations. Greek Week is a celebration the greek community holds annually. Fraternities and sororites participate in various activities, including community service projects and games.
"It's mainly a week to celebrate who we are," Sigg said.
The money was raised at a Casino party where attendants where asked to donate money for chips to gamble with.
— Carl Kaminski
Education Interview Day registration commences
Registration for Education Interview Day will begin Monday and can be done anytime of day online at: http://www.ukans.
edu/~upc/tid_main.html.
The interview day will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., April 2 in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
this event is for students interested in careers as teachers, school social workers, school psychologists, guidance counselors, speech pathologists or in any other education-related career.
Nearly 100 school districts from across the country and the Peace Corps will be interviewing candidates.
To be interviewed, students must first register for a 30-minute time slot. A list of employers attending Education Interview
Day and advice on preparing for the interview can also be found at the Web site.
Gina Eastman, assistant director of University Career and Employment Services and coordinator of the event, said it was never too early to start the job search.
"Many students underestimate the importance of networking in the job search process," she said.
Eastman said students with questions about this event or general questions should call Career and Employment Services at 864-3624 or go to the website at http://www.ukans.edu/~upc
Katie Burford
Natural History Museum gets grant for bone recovery
The Natural History Museum will receive a $55,000 grant to be used in the recovery of two dinosaur skeletons found in Wyoming, said Leonard Kristalka, museum director.
The two dinosaurs are Camarasaurus, 140 million-year-old neck-pecked, planteating dinosaurs. Museum paleontologists have recovered the skeletons of two Camarasaurus, one a full grown adult and the other an infant.
This find is particularly special because if the two Camarasaurus are related, it will mark the first time a parent and child dinosaurs have been found together, said Bradley Kemp, public relations director.
The museum applied for the money to the Department of Travel and Tourism in the fall to ensure that it could return next summer and finish the excavation.
The museum hopes to put the two dinosaurs on display.
"We don't have enough space to exhibit it here in the museum," Kemp said.
"We're probably just a couple years away from being able to do that."
—Seth Jones
Army officer denies claims of sexual harassment
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The Army's former top enlisted man became tense and combative under cross-examination at his sexual misconduct court-martial yesterday.
>gt. Maj. Gene McKinney jutured his chin in defiance as the prosecutor ridiculed his claim that he went to the hotel room of a female aide to fire her instead of to proposition her, as she claimed.
McKinney displayed flashes of anger during his second day on the stand, in marked contrast to his composed and confident manner under direct questioning by his own lawyer.
McKinney, suspended last year as sergeant major of the Army, denied the claims of his six accusers point-by-point and suggested two of them may have concocted their stories to seek revenge.
McKinney has said he is a victim of race bias
The case against McKinney, which started with sexual misconduct accusations 13 months ago, has been a source of great embarrassment for the Army. Last summer, an independent panel concluded that sexual harassment was widespread in the Army and that its leaders were to blame for letting it persist.
Indonesia protest favors economy, not president
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Thousands of banner-waving university students demanded President Suharto's ouster yesterday. It the largest display of anger yet involving the economic crisis that has Indonesia in an upheaval.
The protests came as the United States and other foreign lenders stepped up the pressure on Suharto to carry out reforms they consider crucial to rescuing the economy — reforms that could undercut much of Suharto's power and wealth.
"Hang Suhartol!" shouted protesters in the Java island city of Yogyakarta, circling their campus on scooters under the scrutiny of hundreds of police and plain-clothes officers.
Students also rallied in several other cities on Java as well as on Sulawesi, another of Indonesia's larger islands.
Five people have been killed in riots this year fighting rising food costs, but yesterday's rallies were peaceful.
Even as the students protested, delegates to a special assembly were preparing to extend Suharto's 32-year rule. Already Asia's longest-serving leader, the 76-year-old president is almost certain to get a seventh-five-year term next week.
NASA chose first female to pilot space shuttle
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Eileen Collins is about to become the first woman in 37 years of U.S. spaceflight to command a mission.
President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton will announce the decision in a White House ceremony today.
The 42-year-old Air Force lieutenant colonel is already the nation's first female space shuttle pilot, but that is the second-in-command job during a mission, behind the commander.
White House representative Mike McCurry said Clinton had nothing to do with Collins' promotion and that NASA alone made the decision, but the president wanted to make the announcement.
Reluctant to upstage the president, NASA refused to say yesterday which flight Collins would command. The most likely choices were a telescope-delivery mission later this year, possibly in December, or a station-assembly flight scheduled for December but likely to slip into 1999.
The Associated Press
SUA to honor anniversary with events
By Marcelo Vilela
mvilela@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
It is Student Union Activities 60th anniversary, but the party is for the students.
SUA spent more than $2,000 to put the
SOA spent an anniversary program together. All the events related to the celebration are free.
"We are proud of spending 60 years programming events for students and giving away free stuff," said Michelle Dennard, Abilene senior and SUA president.
Today:
Ice carving in the
The party starts today at 1 a.m., with an ice-carving demonstration in the lobby of the Kansas Union, Rob Fiaa, a chef at Free State Brewery, will carve ice with a chainsaw.
SUA anniversary
Ice carving in the Kansas Union Lobby - 11 a.m.
Following the carving at 12:20 p.m., SUA will cut its birthday
Birthday cake in the Kansas Union Lobby - noon
Tomorrow:
Concert at the Jaybowl - 9:30 p.m.
60 Years of Media Celebration in Woodruff Auditorium - 7 p.m.
cake. Dennard said there was enough cake for about 300 people.
SUA's official anniversary celebration starts tomorrow with combat. SUA will sponsor a Lazer Storm game at 3 p.m. tomorrow at the Kansas Union Ballroom.
The game, suited for teams of up to eight players, has armed teams fighting one another.
At 7 p.m. tomorrow, SUA will screen 60 Years of Media Celebration, a five-hour showing of old and new short movies.
"We are going to show a bunch of films, including some dating movies from the 40s, World War II cartoons, anti-communism films, stills of animals with animated mouths and a muscle-control film," said Brett Generaux, Kansas City, Kan., senior and spectrum films coordinator.
"We don't expect people to sit there for five hours. You can go in and out and watch your favorites," Generaux said.
SUA's party will finish tomorrow night with a concert. The Believe-It-Or-Nots and the Big Russians will play at the Jaybowl in the Kansas Union.
The Jaybowl also will experiment with its first techno bowling night, which includes special-effect lights synchronized with music.
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ON THE RECORD
A KU student's parking permit was taken between 7 and 11 p.m. Feb. 22 from the parking garage, KU police said. The permit was valued at $80.
A KU student's vehicle was damaged between 6:30 p.m. Feb. 25 and 11:30 a.m. Friday in the lot south of Jayhawker Towers, KU police said. The damage was estimated at $100.
A KU student's vehicle was damaged between 10:30 p.m. Feb. 22 and 11 a.m. Friday, in the lot south of Jayhawk Towers, KU police said. The damage was estimated at $50.
A KU student's bicycle and U-lock were taken between 9 p.m. February 24 and 145 p.m. Tuesday from a bike rack at Oliver Hall, KU police said. The items were valued at $230.
A KU student's AM/FM portable cassette player and KU hooded jacket were stolen between
8:30 p.m. Monday and 6 a.m. Tuesday in the 1600 block of Kenwood Drive, Lawrence police said. The loss was valued at $180.
One of a KU student's personal checks was forged at 12:56 p.m. Feb. 17 in the 3500 block of Clinton Parkway, Lawrence police said.
Eight car tires and other items belonging to a KU employee were stolen between noon Saturday and 4:30 p.m. Monday in the 100 block of Arkansas Street, Lawrence police said. The loss was valued at $1,715.
A KU student was battered between 4:05 and 4:10 a.m. Sunday in the 2600 block of West Sixth Street, Lawrence police said.
A KU student's brown leather wallet, Visa check card and other items were stolen between 2:30 and 2:45 a.m. Sunday in the 800 block of Massacusets Street, Lawrence police said. The loss was valued at $25.
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