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The Inside Front
Tuesday
February 10, 1998
News
On CAMPUS:
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
- NASA's chief administrator is on campus to speak.
- The House Select Committee on Higher Education agrees on a plan to restructure the governance of post-secondary education in Kansas.
NBC may ask as much as $2 million for a 30-second commercial during the final episode of Selinfeld.
In the NATION:
In the WORLD:
After an earthquake hit Afghanistan, the estimated death toll is 2,000 and 5,000.
The United States is sending at least 3,000 troops to the Persian Gulf region.
CAMPUS
NASA administrator to explore Kansas, KU
Daniel Goldin, chief administrator of NASA, will speak to University of Kansas students interested in space exploration at 7 p.m. Feb. 20 at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Goldin's speech, titled "The Future of Space Exploration," is free.
On Friday afternoon, Goldin will meet with KU research scientists about current and potential NASA research projects.
The University has researchers working on projects for NASA. Tom Armstrong, professor of physics and astronomy, said he knew of at least 12 students and faculty who were involved with NASA research.
"We enjoy the NASA work we do both as students and faculty," he said. "So I am quite pleased that Mr. Goldin is coming."
Armstrong also said that it was important for the University to make a favorable impression on the NASA administrator and for Goldin to explain NASA's plan for the future.
Before visiting the University, Goldin will travel to the Kansas Cosmosphere in Hutchinson. Goldin's visit is sponsored by the Office of the Chancellor and by Sen. Sam Brownback.
Brandon Coppel and Graham Johnson
Committee agrees on plan to alter higher education
TOPEKA, Kan. — The House Select Committee on Higher Education made the tough decisions yesterday night, agreeing on a plan for restructuring governance of post-secondary education in Kansas.
The plan would make Washburn University a full state university by July 1,2000,and includes the largest increase in new funding for higher education in state history.
Under the proposal, the state's present six universities, Washburn, 19 community colleges and 11 vocational-technical schools would get $137.9 million more in the next four years than presently projected in normal increases.
voters approve a constitutional amendment at the August primary election, the present nine-member Board of Regents would be replaced with an 11-member Council of Higher Education that would have governance authority for the seven state universities, two-year community colleges and vo-tech schools.
for a single ad spot during the finale.
for a single season.
But Larry Hoffner, president of network sales for NBC, said yesterday there had been no final determination about what NBC was going to seek for the last Seinfeld.
NATION
"We're not out in the marketplace with this right now, but we expect to be shortly — in the next week or so," he said.
Seinfeld finale may ask advertisers for millions
He said none of the nine to 10 minutes of commercial time during the last show had been sold yet.
NEW YORK — NBC may ask as much as $2 million for a 30-second commercial on the final episode of Seinfeld — a
NBC set the record for the most expensive commercial time only a few weeks ago when it raked in an average of $1.3 million for 30-second commercials during the Super Bowl.
Seinfeld: Commercial time for finale has yet to be sold.
figure that would break the record set just a few weeks ago by the net-work's Super Bowl broadcast.
The last original episode of the popular sitcom is slated for a full hour on May 14. The episode is expected to attract a huge audience.
The trade magazine Advertising Age said
in yesterday's edition that NBC started floating the $2 million asking price among media buyers last week and has had no takers. The trade publication Mediaweek said media buyers were told NBC wanted $1.7 million to $2 million
Pentagon hopes troops will discourage Saddam
WORLD
AL-JABER AIR BASE, Kuwait — The Pentagon is sending as many as 3,000 U.S. ground troops to the Persian Gulf region to
Hussein: Will have to deal with U.S. deployments.
discourage any creative thinking by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. At the same time, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright ruled out any massive military invasion of Iraq
"The administration does not agree with those who suggest we should deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to engage militarily in a ground war in Iraq." Albright said.
Fort Hood, Texas, and would be sent to Kuwait in the next 10 days to help defend Iraq's southern neighbor.
The latest deployment of U.S. ground forces was disclosed by a senior military official traveling in the region with Defense Secretary William Cohen.
He said the troops would come from
Although Cohen had not formally signed the deployment order, a Pentagon official said yesterday, "The forces have been requested, and that request is being considered and processed."
Quake kills thousands, leaves more homeless
RUSTAQ, Afghanistan — Carrying heavy bundles and leading goat herds, hundreds of villagers trudged yesterday down muddy roads in northeast Afghanistan, where an earthquake and after-shocks killed thousands.
"My three sisters and two brothers, and the rest of my family are dead," said Ghulam Russu, his voice shaking.
Russul, who said he feared after-shocks, was leading his surviving family members to flattlands south of the mountainous Rustaq district, where a 6.1-magnitude earthquake on Wednesday caused devastating landslides.
A Pakistani air force cargo jet and a Red Cross turbop-prop plane landed in nearby Hajaghar yesterday, bringing medical and sanitation supplies, blankets and tents to the estimated 15,000 people left homeless in temperatures below freezing.
Military trucks carrying the relief supplies lumbered slowly toward Rustaq, the worst-hit area. 25 miles away.
In the town of Rustaq, hundreds of villagers were looking for shelter. Many said their mud and brick homes, which had been perched on mountain slopes, were destroyed.
An official with the military alliance that controls Takhar province said yesterday that at least 4,000 people had been killed. Previous estimates of the number killed by the quake and subsequent tremors have ranged from 2,000 to 5,000
The Associated Press
Marrow drive to be sponsored by KU sorority
By Carl Kaminski
ckaminski@kansan.com
Kanson staff writer
Zeta Phi Beta sorority is launching a bone marrow donor drive today as part of its founders-week celebration.
Zeta Phi Beta and the Kansas City office of Heart of America are sponsoring the drive, which will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Kansas Union, VanRoss said.
The drive, an annual project since 1951, is the only true philanthropy project among historically black greek letter organizations at the University of Kansas, said Erica VanRoss, St. Louis senior and driver organizer.
The drive is important to the African-American community because finding suitable donors is difficult, she said.
"Generally, African Americans cannot go to another race," VanRoss said. "African Americans need to get bone marrow from other African Americans."
Minorities are encouraged to be tested to be perspective donors because of the high demand for their bone marrow, said Jeaumiqua Harris, Zeta Phi Beta president and St. Louis junior.
Caucasians can receive bone marrow from other groups, including Hispanics, but that isn't the case for most minorities, VanRoss said.
She said fliers for the drive had been posted in the Kansas Union and in all the residence halls.
Today, a table will be set up on the fourth floor of the Union where prospective donors can get information, watch a video and fill out forms. They will then be led upstairs to the Kansas Room on the sixth floor, where a blood sample will be taken.
Only a small amount of blood is taken, Van-Ross said.
The blood is screened for diseases such as HIV, and if everything checks out, the donor is placed on a lifetime registry.
it's only enough to fill a little vial," she said. "I'm just like you went to the doctor."
People who have participated in past drives do not have to come again, she said.
When a match is found, the donor is called and asked to come to the hospital to donate bone marrow.
The actual bone-marrow donation process requires an overnight stay in the hospital, Van-Ross said.
Harris said the drive had been successful in the past.
it was been a big help in finding minorities to do it." Harris said.
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Today IN HISTORY
1868- William Allen White was born. White was an U.S. newspaperman, owner and editor of the Emporia Gazette. He coined the phrase "tin-horn politician" and in one obituary, wrote of the deceased that he had "the talent of a meat-packer, the morals of a money changer and the manners of an undertaker." He died on Jan. 24, 1944, in Emporia, Kan.
1967 - Procedures for presidential succession were further clarified by the 25th Amendment, along with provisions for continuity of power in the event of a disability or illness of the president.
Six red parking permits were stolen between 8 a.m. Jan. 20 and 5 p.m. Jan. 29 from KU Parking Services, 1501 Irving Hill Road, costing $570, KU police said.
A KU employee's yellow parking permit was stolen from his car between 7 a.m. and 1:45 p.m. Friday in lot 220, costing the student $75, KU police said.
A fire extinguisher was damaged during a false fire alarm at 3:05 a.m. Saturday in the 400 block of West 11th Street, costing the KU Department of Student Housing $50, KU police said.
Two of a KU employee's credit cards were stolen between 1:30 p.m. Wednesday and 1:49 p.m. Thursday at the ballroom in the Kansas Union, costing the employees $2, KU police said.
■ The passenger-side mirror of a KU student's car was damaged between 10 p.m. Saturday and 9:30 a.m. Sunday in the Oliver Hall parking lot, costing the student $150, KU police said.
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