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The Inside Front
Wednesday November 29,2000
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
independent counsel to address Whitewater
Independent counsel Robert Ray will give a public presentation, "Comments and Observations on Whitewater and the Handling of Public Corruption Investigation," at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow at 104 Green Hall.
Ray succeeded Kenneth Starr in October 1999 as the independent counsel. He led four different investigations into allegations against President Clinton and his wife, New York senator-elect Hillary Clinton.
Ray will also speak to two law classes during his visit.
Ray's speech is the first sponsored by the Criminal Law Society, a new law student organization.
Anthropology student receives research grant
KU anthropology student Brent Buenger was one of seven students selected from throughout the nation to receive a $75,000 grant from the Canon National Parks Science Scholars Program.
Buenger, whose melanoma cancer was diagnosed last spring, schedules his research around chemotherapy treatments.
Buenger, New Hampton, Iowa, doctoral student, plans to use the three-year, $25,000-per-year grant to fund research on the effects of fire on the preservation of archeological resources and sites. This spring, he will research in Badlands and Wind Cave national parks in South Dakota and in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. He will do laboratory experiments at KU as part of his research.
The Canon National Parks Science Scholars Program awards scholarships to encourage scientists in areas such as conservation, environmental science and park management.
Meghan Bainum
NATION
Protesters to gather for WTO opposition
SEATTLE — The World Trade Organization meeting that collapsed in clouds of tear gas a year ago is being marked by activists this week in Seattle.
The violent anti-WTO street protests that overwhelmed police on Nov. 30, 1999 left Seattle scarred, even as it strengthened a growing movement against corporate globalization.
To mark the one-year anniversary, some 5,000 activists are expected to gather tomorrow for "N30," the
International Solidarity Day Against Corporate Globalization.
That number is a fraction of the 50,000 protesters who showed up last year, bent on blocking streets and shutting down the WTO meeting.
Bush boldly moves staff to Washington
AUSTIN, Texas — George W. Bush is asserting his authority by moving key operatives to Washington, D.C., and seeking private financing for a presidential transition.
In the face of Democratic court challenges to the Florida presidential balloting, the Texas governor pressed ahead with plans to form a new government and to fill thousands of top positions now held by Democrats.
"We believe it is time to get on with the business of organizing the new administration," vice presidential running mate Dick Cheney said Monday in Washington.
irritable bowel drug
pulled from shelves.
WASHINGTON — The maker of a new treatment for women's irritable bowel syndrome pulled the drug Lotronex off the market yesterday after it was linked to a growing number of deaths and hospitalizations.
The withdrawal comes just nine months after Lotronex began selling with great fanfare, and it becomes the seventh banned drug the increasingly embattled Food and Drug Administration has had to deal with in two and a half years.
The problem: Lotronen can cause severe side effects, including a life-threatening intestinal inflammation called ischemic colitis, and constipation so severe that some patients needed parts of their intestines surgically removed.
General Electric lit up about cleanup laws
WASHINGTON — The General Electric Co. asked a federal court yesterday to declare the Superfund toxic waste cleanup law unconstitutional.
The company is confronting hundreds of millions of dollars in cleanup costs for hazardous chemical spills.
In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court, the company argued that the law gives federal regulators uncontrolled authority to order intrusive cleanup remedies.
The law is "fiatly unconstitutional on its face," said Laurence Tribe, the Harvard University constitutional law expert, who is among the lawyers representing General Electric in the suit filed against the Environmental Protection Agency.
WORLD
Democratic Aristide pledges inclusive term
PORT-AUPRINCE, Haiti — Jean-Bertrand Aristide tried to dispel fears he will rule Haiti as a dictator after an election that he seems to have won.
Breaking a six-year silence on political issues a day after the presidential vote, Aristide said the opposition would be welcome in his government and denied charges he would squelch Haiti's new democracy.
"There will be a place for everyone in my government," Aristide said Monday at his first news conference since 1994. "To have a peaceful Haiti, the opposition is indispensable. ... It is part of our democratic fate."
The fiery former priest, who became Haiti's first freely elected president in 1990, did not declare victory in Sunday's vote, but he spoke as if he were president. Preliminary results were expected yesterday.
Romanian leftists lead in weekend elections
BUCHAREST, Romania — Leftists will probably return to power in Romania after weekend elections.
An ex-communist leads in the race for the presidency and his party is gaining the most support in parliament, partial results showed Monday.
With nearly 92 percent of all votes counted, ex-communist Ion liescu, who was president from 1990-96, was leading with 36.8 percent of the vote, and extreme nationalist Corneliu Vadim Tudor was second with 28.3 percent, the central election bureau said.
GENEVA — The world's richest countries are growing alarmingly complacent about the global AIDS epidemic as infections reach high levels, the United Nations said in a report yesterday.
The report noted the number of cases in Russia alone will more than double this year.
The annual AIDS Epidemic Update released yesterday predicted 45,000 new cases this year in North America and 30,000 in Western Europe.
Nearly 1.5 million people in the industrialized countries will be living with the AIDS virus by the end of the year.
The Associated Press
Negotiations underway for new GTA contract
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any further than to say that they were underway and that a new contract was being negotiated because the current three-year contract was in its third year.
"With any labor agreement, you meet and confer for a new contract." Bretz said.
Leyser said GTAC had met with the a team from University administration about once every two weeks since late September. So far, the two groups have agreed on minor changes to the contract, but Leyser said a resolution on the bigger issues might be more complicated.
"It always requires discussion," Leyser said. "Sometimes we present counter-proposals to their counter-proposals."
All graduate teaching assistants in Kansas are under the same contract, Leyser said, which is up for review every three years. This does not mean
that each of the 1,000 GTAs at the University must teach for three years. GTAs can teach for as little as one semester. Instead, the unionized contract covers the policies GTAs must follow and the benefits they receive.
GTAC worked with its 200 members and with non-members to determine what the GTAs want. They have also worked with the Kansas Authority of Public Employees and the American Federation of Teachers to understand union processes and find out more about how to complete the negotiations.
Edited by Brandon Stinnett
Because Kansas is a right-to-work state, Leyser said, GTAs get the contract's benefits regardless of whether they are union members. Many states do not work this way. These "fair share states" require GTAs to be union members to receive benefits.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's Giant bicycle was stolen between 10 and 12:10 a.m. Monday near Wesco Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The bike was valued at $450.
A KU student was arrested for operating under the influence at 1:26 a.m. Monday at Ninth
and Iowa streets, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A KU student was cited for unlawful use of an identification card at 3 p.m. Monday in the east Carruth-O'Leary parking lot, the KU Public Safety Office said.
ON CAMPUS
The NAMES Project AIDS memorial quilt will be on display from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at the Central Court in the Spencer Museum of Art. Call Carolen Chinn Lewis at 864-4710.
Ecumenical Christian Ministries will have a University Forum, "Women and Islam," from noon to 1 p.m. today at ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Tad Halcombe at 843-4933.
Compulsive Eaters Anonymous will meet at 3 p.m. today at Watkins Memorial Health Center. Call 312-1521.
KU Running and Jogging Club will meet for an afternoon at 4:30 p.m. today at the oak tree by the east entrance to Robinson Center. Call Michael Rosseler at 312-3193 or Keith Marshall at 8400704
KU Women's Lacrosse Club will practice at 5 p.m. today at North Shenk Field. Call Jessie Bird at 830-9486.
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship will pray at 5:15 p.m. today at Danforth Chapel, Call Daniel Wong at 312-3172.
Pre-Nursing Club will meet from 5:30 to 7 tonight at the second floor conference room in the Kansas Union. Call Jillian Sherwood at 312-7633
Student Senate Executive Committee will meet at 5:30 p.m. today at the Governor's Room in the Kansas Union. Student Senate will meet at 6:30
p. m. today at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union, Call Kim Fuchs at 843-3710.
United Methodist Campus Ministry will have Wednesday Supper at 6:30 p.m. today at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call:Henley at 841-8661
KU Chess Club will meet at 7 tonight at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union. Call Kyle Camarada at 749-3934, or e-mail chessclub@ialear.ukans.edu.
Golden Key International Honor Society will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Walnut Room in the Kanza Union, College Savannah Lee at 841-6054
University Union. Call Soujeung Lee at 841-6054.
KU Queens and Allies support group will meet at
7:30 tonight. Call KU info at 864-3506 or
Headquarters at 841-2345 for the location.
Ichius University Ministries will meet at 8 tonight at Aldersport Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship will meet at 8 tonight at 100 Smith Hall. Call Steve Swanson at 542-1101.
Daisy Praise will meet at 9 tonight at Hashinger Hall theater. Call B.P. at 312-1066, or visit www.daisypraise.com.
- Applications for student media board are available today through Jan. 31 at the Student Senate office, 410 Kansas Union. Call Branden Bell at 830-8602.
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