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The Inside Front
Thursday January 29,1998
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
On CAMPUS
Jason Gulley, a University of Kansas football player who was charged with aggravated assault began his pretrial conference yesterday.
The School of Social Welfare will try to maximize the benefits of internships for students who plan to pursue work in social welfare.
In the NATION:
Research on monkeys may support the idea of treating HIV-infected people with gene therapy.
- Mission Control pauses for a moment for the 12th anniversary of the Challenger explosion.
Football player's trial scheduled for Monday
KU football player Jason Gulley is scheduled to appear in Douglas County District Court on Monday to face charges of aggravated assault.
Gulley, a tight end, did not accept a plea.
Gulley: Will appear in court Monday to face assault charges
did not accept a plea bargain that was offered by Judge Paula Martin yesterday.
The battery charge stems from a Sept. 13,1997, fight in which Gulley allegedly was involved. According to a Lawrence police report, two KU students, Brian Wilson and Christopher Rudd, and a student from the
University of Missouri-Kansas City were walking by Jayhawk Towers on their way to The Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio St., when they were attacked by about 20 men.
Ruddle and Wilson, both Lawrence sophomores, said they did not know why they were attacked.
Another football player, Avery Randle, admitted to punching a man that night but was not charged in the incident. He said the three victims had instigated the fight.
Library Web site honors history of Kansas today
A Web site commemorating Kansas Day and featuring Kansas history will be the focus of a Library of Congress Web page today.
The history Web site, called The Kansas Collection, was established by Lynn H. Nelson, professor of history. Nelson formed
the early Kansas Imprint Scanners, a group that scanned and installed the complete texts of early Kansas history books on the site.
The Kansas Collection site is located at http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/
http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/jan
29.html.
The two-year project involved a group of students from Baxter Springs Middle School who have been typing the 1883 edition of William G. Cutter's History of the State of Kansas, a rare 1,666 page Kansas history book. The students typed the book to contribute to the site because the book's pages were too fragile to scan.
— Kansan staff report
School of Social Welfare maximizes class work
Social welfare faculty and field instructors will meet Friday at the Regents Center in an effort to bring work in the field and in the classroom closer together.
Participants in the forum, which will be from 9 a.m. to noon, will try to maximize the benefits of internships for students who plan to pursue work in social welfare.
University social welfare faculty will attend the forum along with field instructors, volunteers who are assigned to instruct the students at their internships, and field liaisons, individuals who act as intermediaries between the school and the internships.
"The forum gives field instructors and classroom teachers a chance to interact," said Goodwin Garfield, practicum director. "It brings the classroom closer to the issues."
Christina Selk, field liaison, will speak during the forum.
"I'll be talking about how students can make the most of what they learn in the classroom and apply this to their field experience —how they can learn while doing." Selk said.
Forum participants will submit student nominations for excellence awards. Award winners will be announced during Social Work Day, April 17, a day celebrating the 50th anniversary of the School of Social Welfare.
Although Friday's forum is not open to students, there will be an opportunity for students to attend a March 6 forum in Lawrence and a March 13 forum in Wichita.
Special to the Kansam
Gene manipulation battles monkey version of AIDS
NEW YORK -- Monkeys got unusually mild infections from a cousin of the AIDS virus instead of severe infections after scientists gave some of their blood cells a gene to interfere with the virus' reproduction.
The findings lend support to the idea of treating HIV-infected people with such gene therapy.
The monkeys studied were infected with the simian immunodeficiency virus, or SIV.
Those treated with the gene therapy showed much less of the virus in their bodies and far less damage to their lymph nodes. They also showed no drop in their blood counts of disease-fighting CD4 cells, while untreated animals showed a steep decline
The inserted gene blocked chemical "orders" issued by two SVIV genes to infected cells. With those orders stymied, the virus cannot reproduce.
The treated cells became a dead end for the virus, said Richard Morgan, an author of the study in the February issue of the journal Nature Medicine. He is a
researcher at the National Human Genome Research Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md
Dr. Gary Nabel of the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, who also is studying gene therapy for HIV infection, called the monkey work encouraging. But he cautioned that the implication for human therapy was not clear.
SPACE CENTER, Houston — Mission Control paused for a moment of reflection yesterday to mark the 12th anniversary of the Challenger explosion.
Mission Control pauses to honor Challenger crew
At 10:38 a.m., the time Challenger was launched Jan. 28, 1986, flight director Phil Engelauf quietly addressed the team monitoring space shuttle Endeavor's Mir mission.
"He took a moment to remind the flight-control team about the importance of what it is we do every day, and he did also stress the significance of the moment," said Mission Control's Eileen Hawley.
Challenger's flight lasted 73 seconds. All seven on board were killed.
-The Associated Press
CORRECTION
A cutline on page 5 of yesterday's University Daily Kansan omitted the Taiwanese Student Association as a co-sponsor of the Year of the Tiger.
Forum affirms higher-quality GTA benefits
By Susie Gura
By Susie Gura
Kansan staff writer
Sheumaker said salary earnings were a big issue.
"The lowest paid GTAs have the highest membership in the Union," Sheumaker said. "Also, GTAs in departments with unhappy environments join to address problems."
Sheumaker said the University would lose the ability to attract graduate students if it did not offer GTAs more incentives.
The struggles that graduate teaching assistants face were discussed by University of Kansas faculty, staff and students during the University Forum yesterday.
"Iam interested in getting my masters and hope that any university I attend would have benefits," said Cryn Johannsen, Leawood junior.
Mark Horowitz, president of Graduate Teaching Assistants Coalition, and Helen Sheumaker, graduate teaching assistant in Western Civilization, spoke at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building about issues such as organization, health care, salary, education and union formation.
Professors, faculty members and concerned citizens were among the 20 people who attended the forum.
Minor agreed.
Sheumaker said she was concerned about an increasing reliance on GTAs to teach more classes and at higher levels. GTAs are thought to be the cheapest way to teach the largest amount of people, she said.
"I'm interested in GTAs. I believe that they are colleagues, and I am excited that now they are legally colleagues," said Robert Minor, professor of religious studies. "I think that every faculty member should be interested."
"We're rock-bottom cheap," Sheumaker said.
GTAs expressed concern about the lack of benefits offered and the time and cost of getting a doctorate.
"A stronger GTA package will attract bet ter grad students." he said.
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Horowitz said GTAC was pleased with the questions and comments it received during the forum. He said he hoped the academic community would give its support.
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ON THE RECORD
A KU student's windbreaker and cellular phone were stolen at 11:55 p.m. Saturday in the 1000 block of Massachusetts Street, Lawrence police said. The windbreaker was valued at $110.
A KU student lost a black vinyl CD case containing 62 CDs from his car between 1 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Sunday in the 1700 block of Ohio Street, Lawrence police said.
A KU student's stereo receiver and CD changer were stolen between 5 p.m. Dec. 19, 1997, and 5 p.m. Jan. 3 in the 1400 block of Tennessee Street, Lawrence police said. The stereo and changer were valued at $700.
- The wiring of a fire alarm in Jayhawker Towers was cut Jan. 10, KU police said. The damage was estimated at $145.
A KU student's CDs and other items valued at $348 were stolen between 11 a.m. Dec. 19, 1997, and 4 p.m. Jan. 12 in the 1400 block of Tennessee Street, Lawrence police said.
A VCR and video projector were taken between 9:15 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. Saturday from Alderson
Auditorium in the Kansas Union, KU police said.
A KU student's motorcycle parking permit was stolen between Dec. 20, 1997, and Saturday from Lot 108, KU police said. The permit was valued at $10.
A KU staff member's name plate was taken between 5:30 p.m. Monday and noon Tuesday from 1002 Wescoe Hall, KU police said. The name plate was valued at $3.
A KU student's parking permit was taken between 10 p.m. Thursday and 6 p.m. Monday from L112 near Oliver Hall, KU police said. The permit was valued at $90.
A KU student was arrested shortly after 2 a.m. Tuesday at the intersection of 15th Street and Lawrence Avenue for driving under the influence of alcohol, KU police said.
A vehicle was taken Tuesday evening from Lot 62, KU police said. The vehicle was recovered later that evening by Lawrence police.
A KU student's vehicle tag was stolen late Tuesday night from Lot 121 and then recovered by Lawrence police, KU police said. The tag was valued at $50.
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