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The Inside Front
Friday September 29,2000
News
from campus,the state the nation and the world
CORRECTIONS
A caption in yesterday's Kansan misidentified a student in the photo. The student was Robert Smith, Rolla, Mo., junior.
An information box in yesterday's Kansan gave the incorrect name for the Ninth Annual Harvest of Arts Festival.
CAMPUS
World musicians perform Brazilian, Indian music
A fusion concert Sunday night will bring together Brazilian jazz and classical music from India.
The concert, titled "Music Without Boundaries 2000," is at 6:30 p.m. in the Kansas City Convention Center Music Hall. It is sponsored by the India Association of Kansas City and Brazilian clubs in Kansas City and on campus. The University of Kansas Cultural India Club is promoting the event.
Giri Gokulrangan, president of the club and a graduate student from India, said world-renowned musicians would perform at the concert. He added that it would be the only performance of its kind in the Midwest.
Anil Misra, associate professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, said the two types of music fit well together. He said Indian music is based on Raag and, like jazz, builds upon a melody.
Tickets for the concert start at $10.
More information is available by calling Giri at 830-0689 or online at www.mwb2000.com.
— Leita Schultes
Theta Chi raises money for diabetes association
Theta Chi fraternity will nod its Second Annual Rob Nye Powder Puff philanthropy from 1 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow at Shenk Sports Complex.
The fraternity has raised about $4,000 dollars this year that will be donated to the American Diabetes Association. The organizations raises awareness of diabetes on campus, said Justin Marz, public relations chairman for Theta Chi.
Event sponsors Jimmy John's, 1447 W. 23rd St., and Papa John's, 2233 Louisiana St., will provide food for the event, Marz said. KLZR 105.9 FM also will be broadcasting live.
The fund-raiser is held in honor of a former member of the fraternity who died unexpectedly of diabetes the night before he was to attend graduation ceremonies.
J. D. McKee
Spencer Museum offers free Renaissance concert
Visitors to the Spencer Museum of Art will have an opportunity to hear a free musical performance based on the Renaissance by the Spencer Consort at 2:30 p.m. Sunday.
The performance, "French Dances for Court and Chamber," will feature works by German composers such as J.S. Bach and J.P. Telemann.
The group is a trio composed of Joy Laird; Paul Laird, associate professor of musicology; and John Boulton, professor of flute. Time-period instruments will be featured, including a harpsichord, two 18th-century flutes and a Baroque琴.
This fall the musicians chose to depict the French aristocratic way of life.
Laird hoped that visitors would take away a better understanding of the relation between art and music and how they fit together.
Anne Robertson
Break applications due for Wichita mission trip
Applications for the Friday, Oct. 13 to Saturday, Oct. 14 Alternative Weekend Break in Wichita are due by 5 p.m today in the Alternative Breaks Office, 410 Kansas Union.
Students will work with New Jerusalem Missions to help restore the site of a future HIV/AIDS missionary building
Alternative Weekend Breaks are designed for students to learn more about current issues such as hunger, homelessness, conservation, diversity, education and health and wellness.
Information sessions for the weekend breaks will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 4 and Tuesday, Oct. 10 at the English Room in the Kansas Union.
Kate Williams, director of public relations for Alternative Breaks, said that the breaks were a good opportunity for people who didn't have time to do winter or spring breaks.
Applications for all weekend breaks are available in the Alternative Breaks office or they can be downloaded at the Alternative Breaks Web site at www.ukans.edu/~albreaks.
- Rob Pazell
Kaplan offers $25,000 for graduate's tuition
Kaplan test prep is offering one lucky student $25,000 toward graduate school tuition through a sweepstakes.
A winner will be selected in January for the "Kaplan Gets You In and Pays Your Way" contest. The money will be available for the graduate school of the winner's choice.
The contest is open to all U.S. residents and student visa holders at least 18-years old who plan to go to law, medical, business, dental or graduate school, said Adrienne Berman, senior public relations manager for Kaplan.
Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions administers entrance exams for colleges and graduate schools and offers classes for entrance and admissions tests.
Students can enter by calling (800)
KAP TEST or at www.kapest.com.
The deadline is Tuesday, Oct. 31.
Naked man arrested after two men's prank
LAWRENCE
A 34-year-old Olathe man was arrested at 2:42 a.m. yesterday after he knocked on a 62-year-old Douglas County resident's door in the nude in the 1600 block of East 1000 Road, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office said.
Sheriff Loren Anderson said two men left the Olathe man in the country after they removed his clothing. The three had left a downtown night club together.
Anderson said it was unclear whether the naked man knew the other men. He said it was all a j
— Jason Krall
The man was released from the Douglas County Jail at 4:40 p.m. yesterday. District Attorney Christine Tonkovich did not file charges.
Man exposes himself to massage therapist
An unidentified man exposed himself to a 20-year massage therapist during a recent massage at Hainport Salon, 925 Iowa St., Lawrence police said.
Brown said the man, whose identity is unknown and who has used two aliases with the salon, continued to call for appointments. The therapist has refused.
The man came in for his massage after repeatedly rescheduling the appointment, Det. M.T. Brown said.
Brown said the man rolled over and exposed himself to the massage therapist. She ran out of the room.
Brown described the man as white male in his 50s, about 6-foot-2, 120 pounds, with blond hair parted down the middle. He drives a beige full-sized van.
Lauren Brandenburg
WORLD
Former prime minister Trudeau dies of cancer
MONTREAL — Former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau died yesterday. He was 80. Trudeau died of prostate cancer, said Roy Heenan, senior partner of the Montreal law firm Heenan Blakeie, where Trudeau worked. He said the Trudeau's health had been declining "very steadily" in the last few days.
Clinton urges Milosevic to retire from presidency
WASHINGTON — President Bill Clinton yesterday urged Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosev to honor the election of his pro-democracy challenger and step down. Clinton said results from elections Sunday indicate that Milosev's opponent, Vojislav Kostunica, won "an absolute majority" of the vote. In a statement, he offered to remove economic sanctions once Milosev leaves.
The Associated Press
Student makes date-rape allegations; college suspends Chi Omega chapter
The Associated Press
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A rape plot by two women against a fellow member of a Sam Houston State University sorority prompted the school to close the campus group for hazing, the alleged victim's mother told a newspaper.
The sorority sisters gave the student a date rape drug, then drove her to the apartment of a male friend who had sex with her, the mother told the Houston Chronicle in a story published yesterday.
The suspension of the Chi Omega chapter's charter was believed to be the first time a fraternal organization had been banned from the campus in Huntsville, 70 miles north of Houston, school spokesman Frank Krystyniak said.
The victim's mother said her daughter was targeted in February because sorority members had grown tired of hearing her talk about being a virgin.
"They wanted to make her like them," the mother, whose identity was withheld to protect her daughter, told the newspaper. "They kept saying, 'We're going to corrupt you — we're going to get you involved.'"
She said some sorority sisters began calling the freshman victim "Special K" after the attack in an apparent reference to the daterape drug Ketamine, which they allegedly
slipped into a drink Feb. 16.
The hallucinogenic drug has been connected nationwide to at least one death of a teen who mixed it with heroin. It has also been linked to numerous sexual assaults and thefts from veterinarians' offices and hospitals.
The victim rejected requests from sorority officials that she remain with the group after the reported attack. Instead she moved into a university dormitory and then transferred to another school after harassment by the campus group, the mother said.
"They screamed her off campus," she said, adding that the university was "whitewashing" her daughter's abuse by focusing on more minor hazing incidents.
Krystyniak said that a seven-month investigation into unspecified hazing incidents during the fall of 1999 revealed no documented physical injuries.
Phil Hall, an assistant district attorney in Walker County, said yesterday that the case had been no-billed by a grand jury in June and no longer was under criminal investigation.
Chi Omega National Organization, which oversees more than 170 collegiate chapters, assisted the university's investigation.
"Chi Omega seeks to foster mutual respect for all members," said Mary Ann Fruge, national president of Chi Omega. "Thus hazing has no place in Chi Omega. In addition, Chi Omega has found that the chapter failed to adhere to Chi Omega procedures."
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's speaker, amplifier, subwoofer box, car stereo faceplate and backpack were stolen between 11:30 p.m. Tuesday and 4:02 p.m. Wednesday in the 1600 block of East 21st Terrace, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $840
A KU student's car stereo, CDs, savings account book and other items were stolen from a vehicle between 11:30 p.m. Tuesday and 11:40 a.m. Wednesday in the Coventry Manor apartment complex, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $1,400.
ON CAMPUS
Student Union Activities will have Tunes at Noon featuring Ghostly from noon to 1 p.m., today at the plaza outside the Kansas Union. Call Alex Kissel at 864-2429
University Career and Employment Services will have a career connections training session from 3 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. today at 149 Burge Union. Call Ann Hartley at 864-3624.
- Applications for Alternative Weekend Breaks for Friday, Oct. 13 and Saturday, Oct. 14 are due at 5 p.m. today at 410 Kansas Union. Call Kendra Seaman or Tobitha Beerbower at 862-4317.
- Women's ultimate frisbee will practice from 5:30 to 7:30 tonight at 23rd and Iowa streets. Call Ale Albors at 312-8798.
a.nterior Carlo Racchini ruler at 3:12-9:00
KU Mock Task Team will meet at 8 p.m. Sunday
KU Badminton Club will practice from 6:30 to 10:15 tonight and tomorrow at 211 and 212 Robinson Center. Call Tee at 550-0527.
■ KU Traditional Karate Club will practice from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sunday at 207 Robinson Center, Cell Raffler Fuller at 312-195
Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center will have free screenings for drug and alcohol concerns today and tomorrow. Call 843-9192.
at Green Hall. Call Brandon Bell at 830-8602.
Homecoming information packets are available from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today through Friday, Oct. 13 at the Student Union Activities box office in the Kansas Union. Call Leslie Heusted at 864-SHOW.
The Office of Student Financial Aid is awarding federal work study funds for the 2000-2001 academic year. Apply online at www.uak.edu/careers or visit the Office from 9
www.ukans.edu/~osta or visit the office from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today through Friday, Oct. 13 at 50 Strong Hall. Call 864-4700.
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