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The Inside Front
Tuesday November 21, 2000
News
from campus, the state the nation and the world
CLARIFICATION
Captions in yesterday's Kansan about the monastery did not mention that the pictures were an artist's renderings of a building that has not yet been built.
CAMPUS
Man attempts to steal Delta Upsilon trophy
A man was arrested after trying to steal a trophy early Sunday morning from the Delta Upsilon fraternity house, 1025 Emery Road, Lawrence police said.
Sgt. Mike Patrick said a member of the fraternity caught the man trying to steal the trophy and tried to keep him from getting away. The fraternity member was poked in the eye and received a small cut on his cheek. Patrick said the man left the house
or putting his life on the way to Matthew Thomas Berg, 22, Iowa City, Iowa, was booked into the Douglas County Jail an hour later on charges of battery, burglary and attempting to commit a crime. His bond was set at $2,500.
LAWRENCE Eleven cars burglarized during the weekend
At least 11 cars were broken into this weekend on Bristol Terrace, in the 500 block of Eldridge Street and the 2700 and 2800 blocks of Bluestem Court, Lawrence police said
Three cars were burglarized on Eldridge Street, police said. Two of the cars belonged to KU students.
Sgt. Mike Pattrick said it appeared the suspect had broken windows to enter the cars and steal stereo equipment and CDs. The items stolen from the three cars totaled $3,225, and the damage was estimated at $650.
Three cars also were broken into on Bristol Terrace — one belonging to a KU student — in similar burglaries, Patrick said. He said the suspect broke windows to steal stereo components. Stolen items totaled $2,150, and damage to one of the cars was estimated at $350. Damage estimates for the other two cars were unknown.
Five cars were burglarized on Bluestem Court, none belonging to students. Patrick said someone called the police about a possible auto burglary and gave a description of the possible suspect's location and clothing.
Police found a man in the area and recovered some property that was reported stolen, Pattrick said. Police arrested Jesse Jorian Johnson, 22, of Kansas City, Mo., on charges of bur
glory of a vehicle, theft and obstruction of the legal process.
Patrick said if someone was arrested ed on one burglary and others occurred in the same area, that person would be investigated.
Johnson was being held in the Douglas County Jail yesterday on a $4,500 bond.
- Lauren Brandenburg
STATE
Woman left for dead calls 911 second time
TOPEKA — A woman who survived a suicide attempt dialed 911 for help and then passed out — and when rescuers arrived, they thought she was dead. She had to call 911 a second time before she was given any help.
Firefighters trained as emergency medical technicians were sent to the home of a 53-year-old woman in Soldier Township on Wednesday after she shot herself in the head, authorities said.
Firefighters found her unconscious and assumed she was dead without checking for a pulse. The ambulance was canceled, and firefighters and deputies waited outside the home to protect it as a crime scene.
Meanwhile, the woman regained consciousness and called 911 again. Firefighters outside the home were told of the call and rushed inside to provide medical care.
"It was a mistake," said Shawnee County Sheriff Dick Barta. "It should have never happened. I've never seen anything like this happen in my 32 years of law enforcement."
The woman, who was not identified, was listed in fair condition yesterday at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
NATION
Bush's lead increases with overseas ballots
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The differences in Florida vote totals remained paper-thin yesterday as lawyers for Al Gore and George W. Bush waged combat before the state's supreme court about a manual recount of punch ballots that could determine America's next president.
Republicans want to stop the ongoing hand recounts in three heavily Democratic counties. Democrats, looking for new votes to whittle down Bush's lead, are fighting to get them included in the final official tally.
A weekend tally of overseas absentee ballots stretched Bush's official lead. But uncompleted hand recounts during the weekend in Broward and Palm Beach counties cut Bush's lead to 834 votes as of midnight Sunday.
Clinton returns home after Vietnam visit
ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska — President Clinton flew home from Vietnam early yesterday, ending his historic mission by telling the communist foe of a generation past that Americans "wish to be your partners."
After a week abroad, the president headed back to the White House, still uncertain whether Vice President Al Gore or Republican George W. Bush will succeed him there in just two months. Clinton's journey took him first to Brunei for the Asia Pacific Economic Forum. He then became the first American president ever to go to Hanoi and the first to visit Vietnam since the fall of Saigon and the withdrawal of the last U.S. forces there in 1975.
The Vietnam war cost 58,000 Americans their lives and an estimated 3 million Vietnamese lives.
Two dead, nine wounded in Gaza Strip bombing
WORLD
JERUSALEM — A bomb exploded yesterday near an armored bus that was taking children and teachers from a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip to an elementary school.
Two adults were killed and nine passengers wounded, among them five children. A little-known splinter of a tiny radical PLO faction, the Damascus-based Omar Al Mukhtar group, claimed responsibility in a leaflet faxed to a Western news agency.
However, roadside bombings in Gaza mostly have been carried out by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, two Islamic militant groups that have tried to wreck Israeli-Palestinian peace agreements with bombing and shooting attacks against Israelis.
Peru's president plans to resign sometime today
LIMA,' Peru — President Alberto Fujimori, besieged by an escalating corruption scandal surrounding his fugitive ex-spy chief, is calling it quits, ending the 10-year reign of one of Latin America's most revered and vilified leaders.
Fujimori, on a visit to his ancestral homeland Japan, announced in a written statement early yesterday that he would resign within 48 hours. His decision took into account that opposition lawmakers won control of Congress last week, the statement said.
It did not elaborate, but a motion was before the 120-seat legislature to remove Fujimori as president on constitutional grounds of "moral incapacity."
The Associated Press
Sallie Mae workers offered jobs
Incoming business has similar wages, benefits
Special to the Kansan
By Theresa Freed
A Kansas City business is expanding to Lawrence and bringing almost 500 new jobs with it this winter. Some of those jobs will go to laid off Sallie Mae employees who worked in the building that DST Systems Inc. is buying.
DST, a mutual fund servicing company, is opening a Lawrence operation at 2000 Bluffs Drive.
Sallie Mae expects to be shut down in Lawrence by Monday, Jan. 1. Elaine Nelson, president of Kansas operations for Sallie Mae, said DST was hoping for a "no lights off" transaction with Sallie Mae, meaning that there would be no break during the company changeover.
The company purchased the Sallie Mae Student Loan Servicing Corporation building this week. DST is working out the final details with Sallie Mae administration until the move is made. Sallie Mae is expected to move to Indiana by the first of the year, closing its 16-year Lawrence operation. The business will move to Indiana after merging with USA Group, another student loan servicer.
DST is actively trying to recruit all 300 Sallie Mae employees who are preparing to look for new jobs in December.
With comparable wages and benefit proposals, DST expects a majority of the Sallie Mae employees to be the first hired members of their staff. Many former Sallie Mae employees, just laid off, already have started training with DST.
Valerie Stone, who works for Sallie Mae, said she was glad to hear her job search had ended.
"I wasn't looking forward to trying to find a new job with similar wages and hours to what I have now," said Stone, Lawrence senior. "It's a huge relief."
DST is offering starting wages at about $10 an hour, and is also recruiting full-time and parttime workers.
Misikir Tilahun, Lawrence senior who works for Sallie Mae, also is excited about the new company coming to town.
ON THE RECORD
DST is accepting online applications from Lawrence-area residents and hopes to have a full staff by the end of the year. The company expects to eventually have a staff of 1,000 employees.
"They are offering a lot of options, some of which are similar to benefits Sallie Mae provides," Tilahun said. "They are also offering flexible work schedules and made promises to work with college students."
- Edited by Shawn Hutchinson
A vehicle hit another vehicle at 8:25 a.m.
Nov. 14 at 15th Street and Irving Hill
Road, the KU Public Safety Office said.
Damage was estimated at more than
$500.
A vehicle hit another vehicle at 3 p.m. Wednesday in the west Memorial Drive parking lot, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damages were not listed.
A student's bicycle tires were stolen between 10:30 a.m. Nov. 13 and noon Nov. 14 on the west side of Murphy Hall,
the KU Public Safety Office said. The tires were valued at $150.
A vehicle hit another vehicle at 12:20 p.m. Friday at Naismith Drive and Allen Fieldhouse Drive, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage was estimated at more than $500.
A KU student was harrassed by phone between 2:30 p.m. Nov. 9 and 5:30 a.m. Sunday in her fourth floor room of Corbin Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said.
ON CAMPUS
Alcoholics Anonymous will have a Campus Serenity meeting from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. today at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
The art and design department will present Stafford University Faculty Exhibition from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today at the art and design gallery, Call 864-4401.
Naismith Hall will have an open house from noon to 1:30 p.m. today at the hall, 1800 Naismith Drive. Call Michelle Stottlemira at 843-8559.
Kung Fu Club will practice Tai Chi at 12:30 p.m. today at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union. Call Igor Shkolnik at 841-2080.
Students for a Free Tibet will meet at 7 tonight at Alcove B in the Kansas Union. Call Ben Burgen at 312-3193.
University Christian Fellowship will meet a 7 tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Rick Clock at 841-3148 or e-mail rebsu@ukans.edu.
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