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The Inside Front
Thursday January 15,1998
News
from campus,the state, the nation and the world
UNITED NATIONS: The Security Council says Iraq's refusal to allow inspections by an American-led team is a violation of U.N. orders.
From the WORLD:
From the NATION:
WASHINGTON: Whitewater prosecutors question Hillary Rodham Clinton about the White House gathering of FBI background files.
WASHINGTON: President Clinton is preparing an education shopping list for Congress.
CHICAGO: A new study says that Americans with college degrees get less sex.
GAINESVILLE, FLA: The president of the University of Florida apologizes for a racial remark.
NATION
Clinton pledges to aid education in address
WASHINGTON President Clinton is preparing to hand Congress an education shopping list for this election year that will include billions of dollars to recruit new teachers and build or repair schools and hundreds of millions to help Hispanic students.
The teacher recruitment initiative, which is expected to cost about $7 billion, would represent an unprecedented move by the federal government to involve itself in the hiring of teachers.
But the Department of Education expects classrooms to become seriously overcrowded if new teachers are not hired in the coming decade.
Clinton will make a 1999 budget proposal for teachers a key part of his State of the Union speech in two weeks. His aides were trying to guard as many details as possible.
Congressional Republicans also have recognized the need for teachers and have offered proposals, setting the stage for fights about issues such as tenure and qualifications.
Although Clinton wants to create new funding, some Republican plans would use existing money and force cuts in administration programs.
The school-construction proposal, which was abandoned when it was offered last year during budget negotiations, would cost at least $5 billion. That decision angered urban Democrats.
Clinton also will request at least $200 million to boost spending for bilingual education, education aid for migrant children and colleges with high enrollments of Hispanic students.
The numbers for programs developing during the next five years come from congressional and administration sources.
First lady denies knowledge of violations
WASHINGTON — Prosecutors questioned Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday at the White House about the gathering of FBI background files about past Republican political appointees — her fifth session of sworn testimony for the Whitewater investigation.
The questioning took just 10 minutes. Clinton said she knew nothing about any collection of files by White House security, according to lawyers and other people familiar with her testimony. She also said that she was unaware of how the White House came to hire Craig Livingstone, the aide who ran the security office, said those sources, speaking only on condition of anonymity.
Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr questioned Clinton under oath in the Treaty Room on the second floor of the White House family residence, where investigators have interviewed the Clintons several times in recent years.
"As the president has previously announced, he and Mrs. Clinton are cooperating fully with the independent counsel," said Mike McCurry, presidential representative, reading a statement by White House counsel Charles F.C. Ruff. "Mrs. Clinton voluntarily agreed when an interview was requested."
Starr's office declined to comment.
Additional time in school leads to less time in bed
CHICAGO — So maybe ignorance really IS bliss.
Americans with college degrees get less sex than those who finished only high school, and those who went to graduate school get even less, according to a study in February's American Demographics magazine.
The study, which is based on 10,000 interviews with Americans, was conducted during the past decade by the National Opinion
Research Center at the University of Chicago
Research Center at the University of Chicago. High school graduates average 58 sexual contacts a year, while those with some college experience average 62. Those with four-year college degrees average 56, and those who have been to post-graduate school average a paltry 50.
"Americans who have attended graduate school may have the money and the smarts, but they report being the least sexually active educational group," said the study's authors, John Robinson of the University of Maryland and Geoffrey Godbey of Penn State.
However, book smarts may not be what is at work here, according to one researcher.
Tom Smith, director of the National Opinion Research Center's General Social Survey, said people with two-year college degrees tend to be younger adults and are naturally more sexually active.
Florida university president apologizes
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The president of the University of Florida is apologizing for using a racially insensitive remark to describe his future boss, the new chancellor of the State University System
At a holiday party in his home, John Lombardi referred to Adam Herbert as an "oreo," a derogatory term suggesting a person who is black on the outside is white on the inside. Herbert was not present.
"I was trying to find a shorthand way to explain his incredible effectiveness in dealing with the white institutions," Lombardi said.
Board of Regents Chairman Steve Unifhfelder had urged Lombardi to apologize to Herbert and others at the party. Herbert takes over Friday as chancellor of the entire State University System, of which the University of Florida is a part.
Herbert said he would have no comment "until I have had an opportunity to sit down and have a discussion with John."
Some black leaders accepted the apology and praised Lombardi.
"This is a man who has taken tremendous strides to bridge the gap between the University and the African-American community," said state representative Cynthia Chestnut. "I told him I was sorry it happened, but it didn't change my feelings toward him."
Whether the comment will threaten Lombardi's position as the university's president is uncertain. The decision is up to the Board of Regents.
Iraq refuses to cooperate with UN
UNITED NATIONS — A day before the chief U.N. weapons inspectors leave for Baghdad, the Security Council deplored Iraq's refusal to allow inspections by an American-team yesterday, branding the action unacceptable violation of U.N. orders.
Council diplomats said even Iraq's friends on the council — Russia, France and China — were growing frustrated by Baghdad's continued refusal to cooperate fully with U.N. inspectors.
"From our point of view, all issues concerning the work of the (U.N.) inspectors ... should be settled through talks," Foreign Ministry representative Valery Nestrushnik told the Interfax news agency in Moscow.
However, Russia quickly followed up its vote by objecting to the use of military force against Iraq.
Wednesday's unanimous council statement was sought by the United States as a show of support for chief U.N. inspector Richard Butler, who leaves for Baghdad tomorrow to demand unrestricted access to all suspected weapons sites.
U. S. Ambassador Bill Richardson hailed the council action and said the Clinton administration was anxious to exhaust all diplomatic avenues to resolve the crisis with Iran.
The statement said the council "deplores" Iraq's moves to bar American Scott Ritter and his team from conducting inspections and "Iraq's subsequent failure to fulfill its obligations to provide the (inspectors) with full, unconditional and immediate access to all sites."
City schools open gyms for students
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Dave Wright, Prairie Village senior, said Robinson's courts had always been overcrowded.
"You wait 45 minutes to get into a game, then if you get out, you wait another 45 minutes," Wright said.
KU students who must wait until 5 p.m. during the week to use one of the six basketball courts available at Robinson will benefit from the program.
He said he liked the idea of the Free Play Program.
"It's probably not the same competition you get at Robinson, but you would definitely get to play more," he said. "As long as it got two baskets, it's OK with me."
A proposal to construct a new recreation center for noneducational use would have provided more basketball courts, but it was voted down by students in 1996.
"Over the years, people would bring their kids, and they would bring their toys," Shaw said. "Of course, then people would step on them. That's school property that they're playing on, and we've got to protect that. We can't do that with kids running around."
Craig Fiegel, assistant superintendent of the Lawrence school district, said the program was a continuation of other joint activities with the parks and recreation department.
"What we try to do is provide space for gyms," Fiegel said. "After all, we use their baseball fields. The park's department has priority for the space available for free play." The school district can alter the program's hours and reserve the gyms for other activities.
A 1 percent sales tax and other tax dollars help fund the program. Murphy said.
Murphy said the Free Play program would not be maintained year-round
"I think winter is the busiest time for indoor programs," Murphy said. "As the facilities outside free up after the basketball season, we won't need the gyms that much for Free Play."
In addition to the elementary schools, the Community Building, Holom Park Recreation Center and East Lawrence Center also are available for basketball and other recreation activities.
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ON THE RECORD
A KU student's speaker and 30 CDs were taken from a vehicle in Lot 112 early Monday morning, KU police said. The damages and losses totaled $330.
A KU student's amplifier and six CDs were taken from a vehicle in Lot 112 early Monday morning, KU police said. The damages and losses totaled $860.
A KU student's citizens band radio and storage unit were taken from a vehicle in Lot 90 Monday morning, KU police said. The items were valued together at $270.
A KU student's CD player was taken from a vehicle in Lot 102 between 6:25 p.m. Monday and 11:22 a.m. Tuesday, KU police said. The damages and losses totaled $350.
A KU student's stereo face plate was taken from a vehicle in Lot 114 Tuesday morning, KU police said. The loss and the damages to the vehicle and CD player totaled $250.
An automobile accident occurred behind Spencer Art Museum Monday morning because of slick roads, KU police said. One vehicle slid on ice and struck another car, causing minor damage.
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