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The Inside Front
Friday November 10,2000
News
from campus,the state, the nation and the world
CORRECTIONS
A story in yesterday's Kansan — "University sees a drop in tenured female faculty for last year" — contained misinformation. The headline and opening paragraph implied that the number of tenured female faculty has dropped in the past. Though the number of tenured female faculty dropped by one between 1998 and 1999, the number has increased steadily during the past decade. However, the percentage of tenured female faculty actually has decreased gradually compared with the overall number of female faculty.
Furthermore, while there may be a handful of associate professors who do not have tenure, for the most part, associate professors are tenured.
Also, Kim Roddis, professor of civil engineering, became the first woman to be named a full professor in the school of engineering when she was promoted in August.
■ Fitness columnist David Pilgrim's name was misspelled in yesterday's Kansan.
CAMPUS
Grant for Med Center benefits area hospitals
The University of Kansas Medical Center received a $54,200 grant to help test hearing in infants.
The grant came from the L.W. and Dolpha Baehr Foundation and will help purchase equipment to test children younger than 6 years old. Other Kansas City hospitals, as well as the Med Center, also will use the new equipment. The new equipment will test brain stems and internal ear responses to sound. John Scarffe, director of communications at the KU Endowment Center said the grant would benefit the University and people in the Kansas City area.
"The grant will enhance the ability for the University of Kansas to treat hearing problems, especially those in infants," Scarfe said.
Melissa Davis
Dancers to raise money for Habitat for Humanity
The Panhellenic Council and the Interfraternity Council will sponsor a dance-a-thon to benefit Lawrence Habitat for Humanity at 5 today at the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Mandy Pitler, Wichita senior and community service director for the council, said more than $6,000 in prizes would be awarded.
There will be a registration fee of $80 per couple; couples need not be male-female.
Alpha Chi Omega wins Dryel clothing drive
Alpha Chi Omega sorority collected the most items of clothing for the Dryel Charity Clothing Drive and won a $1,000 prize.
Five sororites competed in the drive to collect clothes for the Salvation Army.
The drive takes place on 20 different campuses across the country. The winner from each campus will compete in a national drive for a $5,000 prize.
Alpha Delta Pi sorority finished second in the competition and won $500. Alpha Gamma Delta sorority placed third and won $250.
J. D. McKee
Drivers in fatal accident both plead no contest
Billy Breedio, 43, of Kansas City, Mc., pleaded no contest Wednesday to vehicular homicide in the death of University of Kansas student Laura Leiffwich.
Sentencing is scheduled for Friday, Dec. 1.
Sentencing is scheduled for Friday, Dec. 1 in Leawood County court.
Alex Wolfson, Omaha, Neb., sophmore, already had pleaded no contest to the same charge on Oct. 27. Sentencing in his case is scheduled for Friday, Dec. 8.
An Aug. 12 altercation between Breedlove and Wolfson, which occurred seven miles east of Lawrence on Interstate 70, led to an accident involving Wolfson's car and a semi truck. Leffwich, Skokie, Ill., sophomore, was a passenger in Wolfson's car and died the following day from injuries sustained in the accident.
Vehicular homicide is a misdemeanor that carries a maximum sentence of up to one year in jail and $2,500 in fines.
Frank Kohl, Leavenworth County prosecutor, said a no contest plea meant that the defendant did not dispute the charge but also did not admit guilt. A guilty plea could be used against the defendants in a civil trial.
Prosecutors dropped charges against Breedlove for leaving the scene of an injury accident and following too closely.
— Derek Prater
Lawrence man confesses to masturbating incident
A 24-year-old Lawrence man confessed Tuesday to masturbating in the parking lot of the Delta Delta Delta sorority house, 1630 Oxford Road, Lawrence police said.
A 19-year-old female KU student, who is a member of the sorority, was walking to her car in the house's parking lot when she noticed the man in his truck with his hand in his lap, said Det. M.T. Brown.
Brown said other sorority members had seen the green Ford F-150 driving slowly through the area.
had driven around looking for a dark place to masturbate.
He said the man had dropped his girlfriend off at the public library and
Police sent the information to the district attorney's office.
Lauren Brandenburg
Elementary students get head start with voting
Not everyone who filled out a ballot in Tuesday's election was 18 or older.
KU students helped elementary students practice voting in an area program that allowed children to cast votes at some polls around Lawrence. The goal is to get children in the habit of voting so they will continue to vote when they turn 18.
"We are trying to get kids excited to vote," said Michelle Black, co-director of the Center for Community Outreach, who served on the committee for the program.
Gretchen Gray, Kansas City, Kan., junior, volunteered to help children vote at the rolls at Allen Fieldhouse.
"Kids come to the polls just like their parents," Gray said. "Now they get to fill out a ballot while their parents are filling out theirs. We help them get started, then they fill out the ballot on their own."
"There has always been a good turnout," she said. "There were 5,000 participants in the 1996 election."
Black said that Lawrence started the program in 1992 and that it had seen a lot of youth participants.
Black said the number of child voters and their election results were not available yet, but the turnout was high.
Amber Huntzinger
WORLD
Palestinian gunman killed by Israeli army
BEIT SAHOUR, West Bank — Israel helicopters swooped down on a pickup truck yesterday and fired rockets at a Palestinian gunman the army had been tracking for days, an attack Israel said signals a new policy targeting organizers of recent violence.
The killing of Hussein Abayat, described by Israel as the "terrorist mastermind" responsible for the deaths of three of its soldiers, came on the day President Clinton launched his latest attempt to salvage the peace process, meeting with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Washington.
Despite Prime Minister Ehud Barak's earlier pledges not to take pre-emptive actions — a policy he had said would destroy prospects for a return to the negotiating table — the move was a concession to army chiefs who have been eager to strike the Palestinians with greater force.
Associated Press
Property rights policy approved
University Council yesterday approved a new intellectual property rights policy for the University, which has added provisions to protect the rights of faculty members who publish their research online and who invent new online teaching tools.
By Jason Krall
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
By Jason Krall writer@kansan.com
The policy allows the University to use tools such as video conferencing and streaming media programs to work with students online, without paying royalties to KU faculty members who develop them.
Much like under the previous intellectual property policy, the University can claim partial ownership of some copyrighted faculty work if state funds or other KU resources are used to develop the work.
Edward Meyen, professor of special education and member of the council, said students and faculty had the same rights to profit from their own material as they did under the previous
policy, but the new policy outlines rights to technology-based copyrighted and patented materials.
"With instructors developing online courses, we needed a new policy to protect the institution and the creators." Meyen said.
Alan Black, professor of architecture, said the University's right to student work allowed the work of architecture students to be used in exhibitions, displays and for accreditations for the School of Architecture.
"What's horrible for a scholar is those godawful prices we pay for journals, and this is an attempt to break that up," Shulenburger said. He also addressed the issue at Faculty Convocation earlier this year.
Several provisions guarantee the University's right to nonprofit use of manuscripts, articles in journals and artistic works of faculty members. Provost David Shulenburger said the policy should prevent faculty from having to pay publishers to use their own published work in class.
Edited by Erin McDaniel
ON THE RECORD
A vehicle backed into another vehicle at 6.45 p.m. Tuesday at Sunshine Avenue and Naisimh Drive, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damages were estimated at less than $500.
A University of Kansas professor's Honda Accord was stolen between 3 p.m. October 13 and 10:05 a.m. Tuesday in the 1700 block of West 19th Street, Lawrence police said. The Accord was valued at $1,400.
ON CAMPUS
The art and design department will present a figurative sculpture exhibit from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today at the art and design gallery. Call 864-4401.
NonTrad Student Week will present "Interviewing Skills Make a Difference" from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. today at Alcove in the Kansas Union. A chili feed will be from 4:30 to 7:30 tonight at the Jaybowl in the Kansas Union. Call Marshall Jackson at 864-4064
Office of Veterans Services will have an appreciation reception from 2 to 4 p.m. today at 130 Budig Hali, Cali Mara Herron at 864-4472.
KU Hillel will present "Rescue and Relief in Bulgaria and Romania: A Discussion with Zvi Fine of the Joint Distribution Committee" at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union. Call Susan Shanafar-Landau at 749-5397.
KU Advertising Club will tour Cailahan Creek advertising agency at 3:30 p.m. today, meeting at Raouf's Velvet Room parking lot, 815 New Hampshire St., at 3:10 p.m. Call Laura Accurso at 865-5610.
KU Center for Latin American Studies will present "Zapatita" and "Dia Sereno" at 4 p.m. today at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Call 864-4213.
■ KU Running and Jogging club will meet at 4:30 p.m. today at the oak tree by the east entrance to Robinson Center. Call Michael Rossler at 312-3193 or Keith Marsh at 840-0704.
- Alternative Spring Break applications are due at 5.
p. m. today at 400 Kansas Union. Call Holly Worthen or Katie Harperstite at 864-4317.
Intervarsity Christian-Fellowship will pray at 5:15 p.m. today at Danforth Chapel, Call Daniel Wong at 312-3172.
KU Badminton Club will practice from 6:30 to 10:15 tonight at 211 and 212 Robinson Center. Call Tee at 5500527
University Theatre will present "Call of the Wild" at 7:30 tonight and tomorrow at the Crafton-Preyer Theater.
KU Center for Latin American Studies will present "Mulatta Composites of Minas Gerais: 18th and 19th Century Brazilian Colonial Music" at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at St John's Catholic Church, 1229 Vermont St.
- Women's Ultimate Frisbee Team will practice from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. tomorrow at 23rd and lower streets, Call Ale Albors at 312-8798.
Ballroom Dance Club will practice from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Kansas Union ballroom. E-mail Nicky Bowers at nbowers@ukans.edu.
The French and Italian departments and the college of liberal arts and sciences will present "La Leçon" at 4 p.m. Sunday at Swarthworth Recital Hall. Call Ted Johnson at 864-9071.
The music and dance department will present "Organ Music of Bach" at 4:30 p.m. Sunday at Bales Organ Recital Hall, Call 864-3436.
Sigma Gamma Rho will have a greek-only ceremony tea Sunday as part of Founder's Week. Call Shyra McGee at 830-0195.
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