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The Inside Front
Thursday November 30,2000
News
from campus,the state the nation and the world
CAMPUS
December ceremonies planned for graduates
Several schools are planning December graduation ceremonies for students who are unable to return for spring commencement.
The School of Engineering will have a ceremony for 129 graduates at 1 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 10, at Woodruff
Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Jill Hummels, public relations director for the School of Engineering, said the school was the first to offer a December graduation, which dated back to at least 1991. The school usually has more than 350 graduates in the spring.
"It's simply a wonderful way to recognize the graduates who complete their coursework in the fall semester," Hummels said.
The School of Journalism will have a ceremony at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 10, at Woodruff Auditorium.
The School of Law will have a winter graduate reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 15, at the Rice Room in Green Hall.
The School of Business will have an undergraduate ceremony for about 120 students at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 16, at Woodruff Auditorium. Winifred L. Pinet of Sycamore Associates will be the featured speaker.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will have a graduation ceremony at 1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 17, in the Lied Center. Chancellor Robert Hemenway and and Sally Frost Mason, dean of the college, will speak.
Matt Merkel-Hess
Author to discuss novel Judaism at University
Simone Zeilitz, author of the recently released novel Louisa, will visit the University of Kansas Nov. 30 through Dec. 2.
Zelitz will read from her work at 7:30 tonight at the Jewish Community Center. 917 Highland Drive. A reception and book signing will follow. Both are free and open to the public.
Zelich also will address two KU classes. At a 2:30 Introduction to Fiction Writing class today in 204 Bailey Hall she will give a speech titled "From the Short Story to the Novel." She will speak on "Remembering the Holocaust for Contemporary Judaism" at a 10:30 History of Judaism in the West class tomorrow in 108 Smith Hall. The classes are open to the public, but space is limited and people wanting to attend should contact Iris Ins at 864-2522.
Louisa is set after World War II and Involves a Jewish woman and her German daughter-in-law.
Smith said the book was about how the two women coped with their different pasts as they formed a future
together in Israel. She said she was hoping for good attendance at the book signing and classes.
"I think this book appeals to the general public, but I think it does have special meaning for Jewish readers," she said.
Zelitch's visit is sponsored by the English department's lecturers and readers committee, the Lawrence Jewish Community Center and KU Hillel House.
Naismith Hall to reward for leads on false alarms
Naismith Hall is offering a $1,500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone responsible for causing false fire alarms.
Jason Olds, property manager, said there had been about 10 false alarms since school started in August.
Giving a false alarm is a misdemeanor and is punishable with up to a year of jail time or up to a $2,500 fine.
Olds said he suspected students of pulling the alams.
Students with information about false alarms should call Crime Stoppers at 843-8477 or the Fire Department at 832-7600.
— Leita Schultes
GTA reports harassment from former student
A female graduate teaching assistant in the mathematics department reported that she was harassed by telephone by a former student between Nov. 1.3 and Tuesday, Lawrence police said.
Det. M.T. Brown said the female student called repeatedly after she was told not to. Initially, the student and teacher talked about classwork while the student was enrolled in the class. When the student began to tell the GTA her personal problems, the GTA said she became uncomfortable with the personal nature of the discussion.
Brown said the GTA then began receiving e-mail from the former student and numerous phone calls. She made the KU administration aware of the situation, and the administration told the student to stop contacting the GTA.
The GTA reported the incident to the KU Public Safety Office as well as the Lawrence Police Department.
Police have not yet talked to the student but are continuing their investigation. Brown said.
Lauren Brandenburg
University receives Truman Honor award
The University of Kansas has received the 2000 Truman Foundation Honor Institution Award.
Scholarship Foundation will present the award during a University Senate meeting 3:30 p.m. Dec. 7 at the KU Visitor Center auditorium.
A representative of the Harry Truman
The University was chosen to receive the honor because of its active encouragement of students to pursue public service careers and its success in naming Truman scholars.
Barbara Schowen, KU honors program director, said the award was proof of the foundation's appreciation of the work the University had done in producing Truman scholars.
"We usually don't get this kind of feed back from other honors programs," she said. "It's nice that they recognize the institution, faculty and staff who are helping the students. We have wonderful students here at KU, and it's great that they're being recognized."
Jennifer Valadez
Unanswered 911 call transcript made public
NATION
PHILADLPHIA — The night a graduate student was raped and strangled in 1998, a neighbor called police to report a cry for help; choking sounds from the woman's apartment, according to a 911 call transcript made public by a federal judge.
Despite the call, police didn't enter the apartment until the next day, after the woman's body was found. The victim's parents are suing, blaming her death on the police decision not to enter the apartment that night. The city says police must have a good reason to break down a door, and the neighbor who called was a "wishy-washy" witness.
The transcript released Tuesday shows Patmata Greeley telling a police dispatcher: "My next-door neighbor, I just heard her yelling for help. I just heard her yell help. I knocked on the door and I just heard like a ... choking-type sound."
WORLD
Conflicted Israel to have elections two years early
JERUSALEM — In the midst of a bloody conflict with the Palestinians, Israel has been plunged into political turmoil by an overwhelming parliament vote to have new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
Prime Minister Ehud Barak took a gamble Tuesday — on his political future and on Mideast peacemaking — when he unexpectedly agreed to go along with the hard-line opposition's push for an early vote. In first contacts late Tuesday, representatives of Barak's One Israel alignment and the opposition Likud party raised May 1 and May 8 as possible election dates.
The Associated Press
Solar wings to soar today
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. — The biggest,
most powerful, most expensive set of solar
wings ever built for a spacecraft is about to
take flight.
The Associated Press
Late tonight, space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to lift off with the $600 million solar panels, which will provide much-needed electrical power for the international space station.
The pair of glimmering, gold-colored panels will stretch 240 feet from tip to tip and 38 feet across, and cover half an acre, once they are unfurled on the newly occupied space station. Alpha.
Attaching and spreading the wings, which are folded like an accordion for launch, make this NASA's toughest construction mission yet.
The five shuttle crewmen — plus the three men who have been living on Alpha for the past month — expect the unfolding wings to be a breathtaking sight. It will be the largest
The space station cannot grow without the extra electrical power that the new solar panels will provide. NASA's power-hungry lab module is to be launched in January.
structure ever deployed in space.
Alpha's skimpy, Russian-built solar panels do not provide enough power to heat the roomy Unity module, which is sealed off, or to run all the station equipment at full blast.
The American-made solar wings — the first of four sets to be launched to the space station
— can produce 65 kilowatts at peak power,
enough to power about 30 homes on Earth.
ON THE RECORD
NASA has installed devices on Alpha to neutralize static electricity. If necessary, flight controllers could further reduce the risk by turning the solar panels so they do not face into the direction of travel, but that eats into power.
But no one really knows how much static electricity will be discharged as the space station zooms around Earth. NASA worries a spacewalking astronaut could be shocked and possibly killed by an electrical arc.
An unknown vehicle struck a parked vehicle and left the scene between 2:15 and 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the south Robinson Center parking lot, the KU Public Safety Office said. No damages were listed.
Nov 20 in the 2300 block of Iowa Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $25.
A KU student's wallet, keys, Social Security card and driver's license were stolen between 9 and 10 p.m.
A KU student's wood door was damaged in an attempted burglary Nov. 17 in the 2600 block of West Sixth Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $200.
ON CAMPUS
The NAMES Project AIDS memorial quill will be on display from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at the Central Court in the Spencer Museum of Art, Call Carolyn Chinn Lewis at 864-4710.
University Career and Employment Services will have an education career fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today at the Kansas Union Ballroom, Coll Kent McAnally at 864-3624.
Ecumenical Christian Ministries and KU Environs will have a veggie lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today at ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
The Spencer Museum of Art will have a Tour de Jour, "Japanese Prints and Popular Culture," from 12:15 to 12:45 p.m. today at the Asian Gallery in the museum. Call Kristina Mitchell at 364-4710.
KU Running and Jogging Club will meet for an afternoon run at 4:30 p.m. today at the oak tree by the east entrance to Robinson Center. Call Michael Roester at 312-3193 or Keith Marshall at 840-0704.
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship will pray at 5:15 p.m. today at Danforth Chapel. Call Daniel Wong at 312-3172.
Diversity Peer Education Team will meet at 5:30 p.m. today at the Multicultural Resource Center. Call Vincent Edwards at 841-1377 or Santos
Nunez at 864-4350.
KU Women's Ultimate Frisbee will practice from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. today at 23rd and Iowa streets. Call Ale Albors at 312-8798.
KU Greens will meet at 6 p.m. today at the International Room in the Kansas Union. Call Galen Turner at 838-3498.
KU Traditional Karate Club will practice from 6:30 to 8:30 tonight at racquetball court 15 in Robinson Center. Call Rachel Fulter at 312-1990.
Keith L. Eggner of the University of Missouri will present "Luis Berragan and the Making of Modern Mexican Architecture" at 7 tonight at the auditorium in the Spencer Museum of Art. Call Maude Morris at 864-4713.
KU Amnesty International will meet at 7 tonight at Alcove D in the Kansas Union.
KU Quesers and Allies will meet at 7:30 tonight at the courtyard in the Kansas Union
the performer's home studio.
The department of music and dance will present the KU Jazz Ensemble at 7:30 tonight at the Lied Center. Call 864-3436.
**Compus Crusade for Christ will meet at 8 tonight at**
100 Smith Hall. Call Lindsey Challant at 312-9603.
Radical Christians will meet from 8 to 9 tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Heather at 841-8661.
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