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The Inside Front
Thursday November 16,2000
News
from campus, the state. the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Flu shots are available for high-risk persons
Watkins Memorial Health Center will start distributing flu shots today to people who are at high risk.
Randall Rock, chief of staff at Watkins, said high risk people included people 65 years or older, people with heart or lung disease, asthma diabetes, liver disease, people infected with HIV or AIDS, pregnant women in their second or third trimester and individuals who are around high-risk persons.
Rock advised that only high-risk persons get the shot. Watkins is low on its supply because of a nation-wide shortage. Rock encourages those who qualify for the shot to use flu shot clinic times to limit wait. Clinic times are from 2 to 4 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday and from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday at Watkins.
The Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department is offering flu immunization clinics from 10 to 11 a.m. tomorrow at the senior center in Baldwin and from 1:30 to 3 p.m. at Babcock Place. They will also offer a clinic from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday at the Health Department.
—Melissa Davis
Benefit proceeds to help Amnesty International
A concert benefiting Amnesty International will take place at 6 p.m. today at the Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St.
Local bands featured include the Gadjits, Holstein, Jose PH, Subway Mind and Sturgeon Mill.
Amnesty International is a nationwide organization that fights for human rights around the world. Kyle Browning, Overland Park senior and former president of Amnesty International, said proceeds from the concert would go to support the local chapter of the group and would help the group coordinate campaigns about the death penalty, the torture of prisoners and Leonard Peltier's fight for freedom.
Meghan Bainum
Meghan Bainum
Oscar Meyer looks for Weinermobile drivers
The Oscar Meyer "Weinermobile" will be on campus from noon to 6 p.m. today. Representatives from Oscar Meyer will drive the "Weinermobile" in search of graduating seniors who would like to drive the unique automobile.
There will be an information session from 4 to 5 p.m.at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union for students who are interested in learning
more. Students should bring resumes to the session.
Field goals earn students spring tuition money
Two University of Kansas students kicked field goals during halftime of the Nov. 4 football game against Texas Tech and received tuition awards from Coca-Cola.
Christopher Greenley, Littleton, Colo., sophomore, and Louis Nunez Jr., West Palm Beach, Fla., graduate student, received up to $1,500 each for spring tuition. The awards were part of a promotion from the University's vending contract with Coca-Cola.
Bryce Byington, Maryland Heights, Mo., sophomore, and Catherine Egenberger, Omaha, Neb., freshman, missed field goals but received free textbooks, Coca-Cola representatives chose the students because they were carrying Coca-Cola products on campus.
— Rob Pazell
Ex-commando to speak about neo-Nazi missions
An ex-Iraeli command who infiltrated the German neo-Nazi movement in the early 1990s will speak at 8 p.m. tonight at the Kansas Union ballroom in the Kansas Union.
Yaron Svoray, a son of holocaust survivors, traveled in Germany in 1992 and documented with hidden cameras and recording devices the reality of the German neo-Nazi movements, from the neo-Nazi leadership to the vast network of middle-class citizens who supported the Nazi agenda.
As a result of Svoray's investigations, federal authorities in Germany upgraded their monitoring and infiltrating of extremist groups.
Svoray's lecture, which is sponsored by SUA, Student Senate and KU Hillel, is free and open to the public. Students can pick up vouchers today at the SUA box office in the Kansas Union.
— Cássio Furtado
NATION
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The cost has risen and the plans have been scaled back, but the expansion planned for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art will make the facility one of the most distinctive in the world, according to the people involved in the project.
50 percent larger. The expansion is expected to be completed by 2005.
Yesterday, architect Steven Holl unveiled details of the "glowing-lantern" concept that last year won him the job of designing an addition that will make the Nelson more than
Nelson-Atkins addition detailed by architect
The estimated cost of the project has risen from $80 million to $95 million, but the Nelson's capital fund-raising campaign has exceeded its initial target and is fast approaching $200 million.
Holl's plans include five frosted-glass structures, which will sit atop more than 140,000 square feet of new exhibition halls and other areas on the east side of the Nelson. He said the structures would enhance and respect the original 1933 building and the surrounding landscape.
Even the two-level underground parking garage, illuminated partly through a topside reflecting pool, will announce itself boldly, he said.
College student admits to voting fraud fib
MILWAUKEE — A college student who said on national television that he voted four times on Election Day has admitted that he lied.
The 18-Year-old Marquette University freshman from Hudson, Wis., told ABC News' "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings" on Monday that he filled out four separate ballots using his own name.
The student appeared on local television along with his lawyer Laura Arbuckle, who read a statement Wednesday acknowledging that he had lied and retracting his original statement. The student did not speak or identify himself, and Arbuckle would not identify him.
The Marquette Tribune, Marquette University's student newspaper, surveyed 1,000 students and said it found that 174 admitted voting more than once. Under Wisconsin law, deliberate double-voting is punishable by up to four and a half years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Police officers convicted suspended for conspiracy
LOS ANGELES — Three officers accused of framing gang members were convicted of conspiracy and other crimes Wednesday in the first trial resulting from the biggest police corruption scandal in Los Angeles history.
After weighing testimony from a parade of gang members and police officers, the Superior Court jury found Sgts. Brian Liddy and Edward Ortiz and Officer Michael Buchanan guilty. A fourth officer, Paul Harper, was acquitted of all charges.
All four officers were suspended after their arrests. The convicted officers face one to four years in prison at sentencing Jan. 16, though defense attorneys said they will appeal.
The four men were accused of wrongdoing in three cases between 1996 and 1998.
The Associated Press
Center assists with English
By Jason Elliott Special to the Kansan
Tomoko Nonoyama said learning English made her want to vomit, but not because she was sick.
"Pronunciation is very different," she said. "In Japanese, we use our lips to talk, and in English, you use your throat and nose. It made me feel like I was going to throw up the first time I tried to speak English."
Nonoyama was one of about 100 Applied English Center students who attended a party yesterday in the Kansas Union to celebrate the near-completion of their classes at the center. In the past, the event coincided with the actual end of the center's semester — the same time KU classes began finals — but it was scheduled earlier this semester.
"We moved it back to help students calm down at the end of the semester," said Tracy Cohn, special programs assistant for the center.
Students at the celebration were relieved that the semester was almost complete and that they had survived another semester of English. While some
students thought the language was difficult to grasp, others said English was easy compared to other languages.
"I took French for seven years, and now I am speaking English after only three months," said Ahmed Akanou, AEC student from Morocco.
All students from non-English-speaking backgrounds must complete Applied English Center courses, which should improve their English speaking and comprehension skills, before taking other KU classes.
Mallika Well, a center instructor, said the language was easy to communicate, but students had problems with grammar because there were so many words.
"English is much easier to learn in America because we have to speak it all the time," she said.
— Edited by Kathryn Moore
Though some students said they thought English was difficult, Young Hee Lim, an AEC student from Korea, said it had been easier to learn since she came to the United States.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's white plastic vehicle bumper cover was stolen between 8 a.m. Monday and 11 a.m. Tuesday in
the 2500 block of West 31st Street, Lawrence police said. The bumper cover was valued at $400.
ON CAMPUS
The art and design department will present
Stafford University Faculty Exhibition from
8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. today at the Art and
Design Gallery, Box 864, 4401.
■ Eucumenical 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 Thid Holcombe at 843-4933.
KU HorrorZontal's men's ultimate frisbee team will practice at 3:30 p.m. today at Shenk Complex, Call B.P. at 312-1066.
British Women Writers Conference 2001 planning committee will meet at 4 p.m. today at 4060 Wescoe Hall. Call Amv at 864-2558.
■ 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 Roessel 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 San Jose Nunez at 864-4350.
Women's Ultimate Frize Team will practice from 5:30 to 7:30 tonight at 23rd and Iowa streets. Call Al Albors at 312-8798.
KU Greens will meet at a p.m. today at the International Room in the Kansas Union. Call Galen Turner at 838-3498.
KU Meditation Club will meet at 6 p.m. today
at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union. Call Pennir at 864-7735.
Sigma Gamma Rho will have "Café Sigma" from 6 to 10 tonight at the Phi Kappa Tau House, 1100 Indiana St. Call Shyra McGee at 830-0195.
KU Traditional Karate Club will practice from 6:30 to 8:30 tonight at 212 Robinson Center. Call Rachel Fuller at 312-1990.
KU Amnesty International will meet at 7 tonight at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. Call Karen Keith at 550-1036.
KU Queers and Allies will meet at 7:30 tonight at the porters in the Kansas Union
University Theatre will present Call of the Wild at 7:30 tonight at the Cratton-Preyer Theater. Call 864-3982
Campus Crusade for Christ will meet at 8 tonight at 100 Smith Hall, Call Lindsey Chalfant at 312-9603.
KU Young Democrats will have a postelection discussion and wrap-up at 8 tonight at the par lors in the Kansas Union. Call Julie Merz at 838-3797.
*Student Union Activities will present Yaron Svaray at 8 oncth at the Kansas Union Ballroom. Call Patrick Waters at 864-2428.
Radical Christians will meet at 8 tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Heather at 841-8661
Alternative Spring Breaks applications are due at 5 p.m. tomorrow at 410 Kansas Union. Call Holly Worthen or Katie Harpstrite at 864-4317.
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Would you like to be a part of Student Senate?
Student Senate is now accepting applications for 7 recent openings for Senator:
2 Graduate Senators
2 College of Liberal Arts Senators (over 60 hours in the CLAS)
1 Numerator Senator (under 60 hours in the CLAS)
1 Residential Senator (live in University housing)
1 Fine Arts Senator
Applications are now available in the Student Senate office (410 Kansas Union) or on our web page (www.oflanc.edu/~castle) and will be due on Friday, November 17th by 5:00 p.m.
Interviews will be Monday, November 20th in Alcove C. If you have questions, or other concerns, please call Kim Funk in the Student Senate office (804-3730).
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