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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Serb deadline passes quietly
The Associated Press
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnian Serbs pulled back enough heavy guns from snowy hills around Sarajevo to stave off immediate air strikes as a NATO deadline for removal passed early yesterday.
But the Western alliance warned that any movement of weapons back toward Sarajevo or attacks on the battered Bosnian capital would bring retaliation from NATO.
Bosnia's Muslim president, Aljaja Izetbegovic, earlier urged NATO to go into combat for the first time in its history and bomb the Serb guns that remained around Sarajevo.
But Yasushi Akashi, the U.N.'s senior official in former Yugoslavia charged with making the call on air strikes, said he saw no immediate need.
"Ihave decided that it is not necessary at this stage for me to request NATO to use air power," Akashi said in a statement released at his Zagreb, Croatia,
headquarters.
NATO, after nearly two years of painful debate about whether to get involved in Bosnia's war, had demanded all heavy weapons to pull back that distance from Sarajevo or be placed under U.N. control. Otherwise it would launch air strikes.
NATO Secretary General Manfred Woerner said yesterday the alliance would follow U.N. recommendations not to use air power "at this stage" in Bosnia.
Woerner, speaking at alliance headquarters in Brussels, said he had agreed in telephone calls with President Clinton to keep the threat of air strikes intact in case weapons were moved back toward Sarajevo or the city was attacked.
"The deadline will stand." Clinton said yesterday.
"are deadline will stand," Clinton said yesterday. But later yesterday, administration officials signaled that strikes were not likely, saying poor weather over Sarajevo made it difficult to determine Serbian compliance.
In a day that saw 400 Russian troops join the U.N.
peacekeeping force in a gesture that encouraged Serbian compliance, skides cleared for the first time after days of snowy weather.
Before the deadline, the U.N. commander for Bosnia said the situation remained unclear at nine of 41 Serb gun sites around Sarajevo which U.N. soldiers have not yet visited.
Bosnian Serbs spent yesterday by campfires, roasting oxen and lambs, drinking brandy and singing nationalist songs on Mount Trebevic overlooking Sarajevo.
On the roads around Trebecv, last-minute movements of trucks hauling guns could be seen.
There has been almost no shelling of Sarajevo, under siege and bombardment for 22 months, since a U.N. cease-fire took effect Feb. 10, a day after NATO issued its ultimatum.
U. N. officials hope that removing the guns is a first step toward ending Sarajevo's cruel siege, in which about 10,000 people have died. That could pave the way to peace elsewhere in Bosnia.
Jayhawks readjust goals
Big Eight title hopes laid to rest with loss
By Gerry Fey
Kansan staff writer
A new season begins for No. 4 Kansas after its 81-74 defeat to No. 12 Missouri last night in Allen Field House.
Kansas junior guard Calvin Rayford said the Jayhawks had to change their mindset now that capturing a fourth consecutive Big Eight title was out of reach. Missouri now has a four-game lead on Kansas, eliminating the Jayhawks from contention.
"We've got to focus," Rayford said. "It's a new season. We've got to come out hard and do what we've been doing. We'll push to win the Bie Eight tournament."
The Jayhawks tried to avenge the 79-67 defeat Jan. 31 at Missouri. In yesterday's game, Kansas had a 54-47 lead in the second half, and it seemed as though the Jayhawks would put pressure on the Tigers in the standings.
In Kansas' 18-8 run to open the second half, the field house crowd erupted in cheers when junior center Greg Ostertag took a pass from senior guard Steve Woodberry and slam dunked it.
But Missouri senior guard Melvin Booker had a game high 32 points and led his team to a comeback that would dash Kansas' title hopes for. A disappointed Kansas coach Roy Williams said the Jayhawks had had a good chance to win the game.
"I thought we were right in the basketball game," he said. "I thought it would go down to the wire, and we would have a chance to win at the end."
Pearson said that Missouri was the most physical team in the conference.
The Jayhawks have been hit hard with injuries the past few weeks. Woodberry wore goggles at the beginning of the game to protect a cut under his left eye. Kansas sophomore forward Sean Pearson started in place of senior forward Richard Scott, who continues to be bothered by a sore left shoulder.
"This game was just as physical as the last time we played them," he said. "We were prepared for it. Now, we just have to put the pieces back together and get Richard and Steve healthy."
Williams said Kansas had not lost the game because of the team's injuries.
"We're not in the best of health to say the least," Williams said. "But that would take away from Missouri's win. If you talk about that, what you're doing is using excuses."
This season will mark the first time that the team's seniors, Woodberry, Scott and guard Patrick Richey, have not won or shared the conference title.
Scott said it was the seniors' job to encourage the team after the defeat.
"The Big Eight is probably out the window, but we've got higher goals, like the national championship," he said. "We'll have a meeting with the seniors. We'll have to try and pick the team up after losing two straight."
Kansas freshman center Scot Pollard, battles for a rebound with Missouri senior center Jevon Crudup. The Jayhawks called Missouri "the most physical team in the conference," and the Tigers lived up to that title, using their muscle to beat the "Hawks 81-74.
Physicians think that Anthony Thomas, Kansas City, Kan., junior, died from meningococcal meningitis — a fast-eacting and contagious type of meningitis. Meningococcal meningitis starts when bacteria called meningococcol travel from the nose and throat to the three membranes and the folds surrounding it.
Meningitis' deadlv work
and the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord.
The membranes
How it's spread
The meningococci are spread by direct contact or through droplets sprayed into the air by coughing and sneezing.
They enter the body through the nose and mouth.
Normally, the bacteria reside harmlessly in the nose and throat.
Symptoms
But for an unknown reason sometimes the bacteria attack their host and invade the brain, traveling to the brain.
Source: Charles Voyce, chief of staff at Walkins Memorial Health Center; Kansas Department of Health and Environment; Stedman's Medical Dictionary
KU student dies from meningitis
Kansan staff writer
By Jamie Munn
Kansas staff writer
A case of meningitis, the second on campus in 10 months, has caused the death of another KU student.
Anthony Thomas, 21, Kansas City, Kan., junior, died from an inflammation of the brain and spinal cord at about 1 p.m. Friday at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
Physicians at Watkins Memorial Health Center examined Thomas briefly Thursday afternoon and then transported him by helicopter Thursday night to the Med Center, said Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins.
Based on a presumptive clinical diagnosis, Yockey said, he thought that Thomas had contracted a meningococcal bacteria, which is one of the more common forms of meningitis. Official test results should be available today.
Thomas lived on the seventh floor of McCollum Hall and was participating in KU's spring football drills. About 100 football players were given Rifampin, an anti-
"It's unfortunate that in about 10 percent of the people, there's just nothing that can be done." Yockey said. In about 90 percent of meningitis cases, there is more time to recognize the bacteria's symptoms.
once, as a preventative measure
Friday afternoon, Yockey said.
Yockey said there had been no additional cases of meningitis reported. Thomas' roommate, who was also on the football team, has taken the preventative medication
Only students in close contact, for example, those who may have drank after Thomas, needed the medicine, he said.
"Even if they rode in an elevator, sat in his classes or ate at the same cafeteria, they don't need to worry," he said.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said grief counseling and informational meetings about the infection has been offered to students on Thomas' floor.
Stoner said he thought that Thomas had not had a chance to develop a large group of friends at the residence hall because he had just transferred from Hutchinson Community College for the spring semester.
Because the bacteria usually is passed by saliva, casual contact with Thomas would have been safe, Stoner said.
KU student Christopher Henley, who lived on the third floor of McColum Hall, died of meningitis in May 1993.
Members of the KU community gathered Saturday to celebrate Malaysian culture.
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A celebration of culture
Not just kids' play: Students learn from volunteering time with youth
By Frank McCleary Kansan staff writer
Despite busy schedules at the University, some students find time to get involved with Lawrence children.
Kansan staff writer
Becky Price, case manager for the Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Douglas County, said about 70 KU students, from freshmen to graduate students, served as volunteers for the organization.
Organizations such as The Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence and Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Douglas County include many KU student volunteers.
Price said some of the students had become involved with the group as part of a class assignment and that their roommates then had become interested.
The students are important to the program because they are younger and have diverse interests, Price said.
Price said that two programs were offered.
The First Friends Program is geared toward college students, Price said People who volunteer for this program are required to give three or four hours a week for six to nine months.
The Big Brothers and Big Sisters Program requires a longer commitment.
Volunteers are required to give three or four hours a week for a year and can choose the age and race of the child with whom they work, Price said.
Students who volunteer for either program must meet certain requirements, she said.
"What is most important is stability.
Price said.
The Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence also includes KU students among its volunteers.
Julie Hinkhouse director of cultural
But it is not something to be taken lightly, she said.
and fine arts programs, said many students worked at the club as part of a class project.
"It's a big commitment," she said.
"We're going to get a satisfaction out of helping kids who are less fortunate."
Hinkhouse said the club was always looking for good role models in the community.
Eight girls from the club spent part of Saturday afternoon with 10 female residents from Oliver Hall.
Robin Sorensen, Overland Park freshman, said she had organized the activities so residents could become involved with the Lawrence.
"When you come to KU, you stop realizing that there are people out there that aren't KU students," she said. "But Lawrence is not just a college town."
James Wilcox / KANSAN
Adri Jones, Wichita freshman, helps Danielle True, 10, of the Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence use puff paints.