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The Inside Front
Friday January 30,1998
from campus, the state the nation and the world
Two alumni set up a $2 million scholarship fund for in-state students.
01 LAWRENCE:
A Gardner man is arrested for exposure and lewd behavior at Sixth and Wisconsin streets.
A powerful bomb explodes in an abortion clinic killing an off-duty police officer and injuring a nurse.
In the NATION:
In the WORLD:
Vice President Al Gore says the administration wants to increase federal funding of cancer research.
Saddam Hussein says Iraq will defend itself if the United States attacks.
CAMPUS
Alumni give $2 million for in-state scholarship
The University of Kansas will receive a $2 million gift from a Wichita couple to create KU Endowment Association scholarships for in-state students.
Jordan and Shirley Haines established a charitable remainder trust with a principle of $2 million. When the Haineses die, the $2 million would be turned over to the Endowment Association to be distributed as scholarships.
John Scarffe, director of communications at the endowment association, said the Haines' gift would be used to create a new scholarship fund for Kansas residents in various fields of study.
Robin Harris, senior associate director of admissions, said the min'mum high school eligibility requirements for an endowment scholarship were a 24 on the ACT, ranking in the top 20 percent of the high school graduating class, and a 3.0 non-weighted grade point average. Applicants also must complete a short interview process.
Haines, a retired chairman and chief executive officer of Fourth Financial Corp. and Bank IV, and his wife received undergraduate degrees from the University in 1949. Haines continued to obtain a degree from the KU School of Law. Haines and his wife are alumni members of Phi Delta Theta and Pi Beta Phi respectively.
In the summer of 1989, the Haines pledged a gift of $150,000 which was distributed among the School of Law, the Williams Educational Fund and The Chancellor's Club. The portion given to the School of Law was used to create the Shirley and Jordan Haines Scholarship Fund. This is a merit scholarship available to law students who are also Kansas residents.
Lawrence police arrest alleged masturbating man
A Gardner man was arrested early yesterday morning in downtown Lawrence on two counts of indecent exposure and two counts of lewd behavior. Lawrence police said.
Brad Edward Gibson, 33, allegedly walked toward a car driven by two female University of Kansas students at 11:40 p.m. Jan. 28 at Sixth and Wisconsin streets, pulled up his shorts, and exposed his buttocks to them. Police believe he then masturbated in front of two Lawrence women at 11:55 p.m., who were driving by the same corner. None of the women were harmed, but both pairs informed police of the incidents.
An officer found Gibson, who fit a description given by witnesses, walking around the 1000 block of Massachusetts Street. The officer interviewed and arrested him at 12:20 a.m. yesterday.
Lawrence police said they did not believe Gibson was involved in any of the masturbation incidents that have occurred on campus.
-Kansan staff report
NATION
Dormitories evacuated after clinic bombing
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A powerful bomb exploded at an abortion clinic yesterday morning, killing an off-duty police officer and critically injuring a nurse.
It was the nation's first fatal bombing at an abortion clinic.
The blast, which blew a crater in the ground and shattered windows and shook walls a block away, came just a week after the 25th anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Roe vs. Wade legalizing abortion.
versity of Alabama at Birmingham dormitory when she heard the blast.
"it felt like lightning had hit the building," said Lindsey Thompson, who was at a Uni-
Nearby dorms and a day-care center were evacuated for fear of a second, delayed bomb blast.
A year ago, two bombs went off an hour apart at a clinic in Atlanta, injuring seven in the second blast. That bombing is still unsolved. Hours after the explosion in Birmingham, the surrounding area remained sealed off while bomb experts in masks and heavy protective gear combed it.
The bomb went off about 7:30 a.m. at the New Woman All Women Health Care clinic, rocking nearby buildings at the university and leaving a crater outside the clinic's blackened, wrecked entryway. The explosion occurred as clinic employees were arriving but about 30 minutes before doors normally open to patients.
Gore pledges support for war against cancer
WASHINGTON — Saying scientists are right on the verge of a breakthrough in cancer research, Vice President Al Gore said yesterday the administration wanted to increase federal funding by 65 percent during the next five years
The budget plan, which must be approved by Congress, also would allow Medicare patients access to clinical trials for the first time.
Gore: wants to increase federal funds for research
"We want to be the first generation that finally wins the war against cancer," Gore said. Later, Gore flew to
Valley to announce plans to extend a corporate research and development tax credit.
In his budget, President Clinton is proposing considerably more money for all federal research at the National Institutes of Health, but cancer research would get the biggest boost.
Later, Gore flew to California's Silicon
Clinton is counting on revenue from a national tobacco settlement to finance the plan, despite the settlement's shaky prospects on Capitol Hill. Still, his call for more biomedical research funding should be welcomed in Congress, where members usually propose spending more than the president requests.
WORLD
Threat of U.S. attack not lost on Hussein
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqis will defend their country with expertise, faith and perseverance if the United States attacks, President Saddam Hussein declared yesterday — adding that there was no reason for the United States do to so.
While the Clinton administration and Congress were laying groundwork for possible U.S.-led airstrikes on Iraq, Saddam said his army would fight in a manner that will be a subject of admiration.
Hussein: Says traq will retaliate against U.S. attack
Iraq and the United Nations are in a standoff about U.N. inspections intended to ensure that Iraq has eliminated its weapons of mass
destruction. Baghdad was forced to accept the inspections at the end of the 1991 Gulf War, and tough U.N. sanctions imposed in 1990 are unlikely to be lifted until inspectors certify the programs have been dismantled.
-The Associated Press
Bill to restrict abortions at Med Center goes to House
By Brandon Copley
bcopple@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
A legislative committee approved a bill prohibiting most abortion procedures at the University of Kansas Medical Center Hospital yesterday.
The bill would ban abortions on property owned by the hospital unless an abortion was necessary to prevent death or serious, irreversible injury to mothers. Med Center faculty would not be prohibited from performing abortion procedures away from Med Center property.
The bill would also establish a hospital authority with a 14-member independent board of directors to govern the hospital. An eight-member legislative oversight committee will monitor the board and report to the Legislature.
The bill is designed to make the hospital more competitive in the Kansas City health care market. If passed, it would free the hospital from state purchasing and other bureaucratic procedures.
"The language is sufficiently modified from last year's version that it will not threaten accreditation and it will not threaten the appropriate training of health care providers," he said.
The bill will be introduced on the House floor on Monday. Kerr said he expected the bill to pass.
"Representative [Mike] Farmer has indicated that it will receive good support in the House," he said. "And I believe the Senate will support it."
The bill was introduced in the Senate last year and was referred to conference committee after the House and Senate passed different versions.
The 1997 session ended before conference committee members could agree on amendments addressing abortion and whether legislators should serve on the board.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway made the bill one of his top legislative priorities for 1998. Hemenway and Marlin Rein, director of governmental relations, worked on the bill with conferences since the 1997 legislative session ended.
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Today:IN HISTORY
1847· Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco
1862 US Navy's first ironclad warship, the "Monitor", launched.
1917 - First Jazz record in United States is cut.
1922 World Law Day.
1969. The Beatles last public appearance. The show took place on the roof of their Apple Studios in London but it was interrupted by police after they complaints from neighbors about the noise.
ON THE RECORD
- One tire of a KU employee's car was stashed sometime between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m., Jan. 28, in the 3300 block of Iowa Street, Lawrence police said. Damage was valued at $40.
A KU student's checkbook, cellular phone ana phone card were stolen between midnight Aug. 1, 1997, and midnight Jan. 7, from the 1000 block of Maine Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $155.
Two KU students reported receiving several harassing phone calls in an Oliver Hall room Wednesday night, KU police said.
A KU student was arrested for operating under the influence of alcohol shortly before 2 a.m. Jan. 22 at 24th and Iowa streets, KU police said.
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