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The Inside Front
Wednesday September 20,2000
News
from campus, the state the nation and the world
CORRECTION
In Monday's edition of the Kansan, a player was incorrectly identified in a photo on page 1B. The player was David Winbush,
A story in Monday's Kansan should have said that some of last year's UNITY dancers were Indian.
CAMPUS
Animal rights group to protest on campus
A Kansas City animal rights group will be on campus today with information and human-sized cages to raise knowledge of Farm Animal Awareness Week.
People for Animal Rights will be at Wescoe Beach from noon to 3:30 p.m. with an information table, signs and a cage simulating the conditions animals face. Students are welcome to get inside the cages, said Emily Libia, coordinator of education programs for the group.
She said factory farming is turning farming into an industry and doesn't allow the animals to pursue natural behaviors.
"It's important because the demand for intensive animal agriculture in this country is polluting our planet, wasting an exorbitant amount of resources and seriously compromising our health." Libia said.
Matt Merkel-Hess
Concert to raise money for Rockin' Ron's son
Local bands Proudentall, Thulium,
The Suggaddads and Preferred
Villain will play at the Rockin' Ron
Gleason Benefit Concert tonight.
Ron "Rockin' Ron" Gleason, a KU on Wheels bus driver for 12 years, died in February 1999 at age 50. He was known around the University for the loud rock music and fun, easygoing atmosphere on his bus.
The concert will be from 8 p.m. to midnight at the Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St. The cover charge is five dollars, with all proceeds going to a college education fund for Gleason's son Raymond.
Damian Siwek, Wichita senior and Preferred Villain guitarist, organized the benefit. He said that if students weren't lucky enough to have tickets to the Dave Matthews Band concert tonight in Bonner Springs, they should definitely go to the Rockin' Ron benefit and see four of Lawrence's finest local bands.
"The bands are coming out to play for free," Siwek said. "And we're basically going to celebrate Ron's life and his son's future."
Meghan Bainum
Seminar to give tips on credit card use, debt
A speaker from the United College Marketing Services will be giving a credit strategy seminar on how students can avoid sinking into credit card debt.
The seminar, which should last about 20 minutes, is at 7 p.m. tomorrow in 330 Strong Hall.
A UCMS representative said college students were the prime target of credit card marketers because they were the only consumer group that could apply for credit cards without having a job, credit history or income.
Current statistics on college students and credit card debt show that:
- Interest rates on many campus credit cards tend to be higher than industry averages.
School administrators say they lose more students to credit card debt than to academic failure.
About 25 percent of college students carry more than $10,000 credit card debt.
— Jennifer Valadez
NATION
Congress set to change trade relations with China
WASHINGTON — Congress is about to change the nature of U.S.-China trade relations in a vote supporters will say will add a critical element of stability between the two nations.
Senate passage Tuesday of the PNTR, permanent normal trade relations, bill is near certain, sending the legislation to President Clinton for his signature.
The measure is aimed at opening up China's markets, bringing billions in new business to American companies and making China a more responsible and accountable member of the world community.
Presidential race polls show differing results
WASHINGTON — Two new polls on the presidential race point to a highly competitive contest.
Democratic candidate Al Gore is 5 percentage points ahead of Republican candidate George W. Bush in a CNN-USA Today-Gallup tracking poll. However, a voter.com Battleground survey puts them in a dead heat.
New state polls offering a glimpse at the all-important race for 270 electoral votes indicate Gore is leading in California, New Jersey and Delaware, while the two are close in Nevada and New Mexico. Gore is up 18 points in the Democratic stronghold of Hawaii, while Bush is up in conservative Virginia by 7 points. In the national tracking polls, CNN-USA Today-Gallup put the contest at 48 percent for Gore to 43 percent for Bush, with a 4 percentage point error margin.
Gore and Bush are statistically even in the voter.com Battleground poll, with the Republican at 41 percent and the Democrat at 39 percent, with a 3 percentage point error margin.
Buchanan kicks off campaign at college
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Pat Buchanan was as feisty as ever and richer than before as he restarted his presidential campaign at fundamentalist Bob Jones University.
Decyring moral decay out of Hollywood, he said: "Instead of breaking up Microsoft, why don't we break up Disney?"
He attacked what he sees as a drift to one-world government, he said the United States should kick the United Nations headquarters out of the country. That brought the heartiest applause from the 2,000 students and supporters who showed up Monday night to see the conservative commentator, recently sidelined by gall bladder surgery, try to rev up his campaign.
His stop brought visibility to a lagging presidential effort, but one that received a $12.6 million infusion in federal campaign money last week when the Federal Election Commission decided he should receive money earmarked for the Reform Party. Buchanan has been barely drawing 1 percent in national polls.
WORLD
Peru's future unclear; arrest raises questions
LIMA, Peru — The whereabouts of Peru's intelligence chief grew murkier amid conflicting reports of his arrest.
The mystery about the man at the center of Peru's growing political crisis deepened and raised questions about the government's stability. Meanwhile, pressure increased for President Alberto Fujimori to step down quickly following his stunning announcement late Saturday that he would call new elections — in which he would not be candidate — amid a bribery scandal involving spy chief Viadiami Montesinos.
In front of 10,000 cheering supporters in a downtown Lima plaza, opposition leader Alejandro Toledo called Monday for the immediate formation of an emergency government and the arrest of Montesinos.
The Associated Press
Georgia sorority members agree to begin racial sensitivity training
The Associated Press
ATHENE, Ga. — The University of Georgia has lifted its suspension of a sorority accused of rejecting a potential member because she's an African American in a deal that requires members to attend sensitivity training.
University representative Tom Jackson said yesterday he hoped the case would help diversify fraternities and sororities and end the separate membership drives for Blacks and Whites.
"Our level of comfort with the state of segregation in the year 2000 is not very high," he said. "This gives us impetus to go forward in unifying that system."
Alpha Gamma Delta, housed in an ornate white mansion in the middle of the school's greek row, was prevented from holding social functions under a preliminary suspension imposed earlier this month.
Allison Davis, a member of the
sorority, wrote a letter to school officials saying that other members had made racially insensitive comments about the one Black woman who had sought membership in the traditionally white sororities.
In an agreement with the university released Monday, Alpha Gamma Delta agreed to educate its members in racial sensitivity and to ensure that its members felt comfortable confronting and reporting any inappropriate comments they might hear within the chapter.
Alpha Gamma Delta's lawyer pointed out the hypocrisy of punishing a sorority for rejecting a potential Black pledge when the university still holds a dual sorority rush — one for Blacks, one for Whites.
"My reaction was complete and total incredulity that in the year 2000, the University of
Georgia could possibly be sponsoring an open system of racial segregation," attorney R. Mason Barge said in a letter to the university.
Barge called the school's disciplinary proceedings a "witch hunt," and threatened a lawsuit if the university persisted in trying to discipline the organization.
Jackson said the university's rushes are segregated because traditional Black sororities select members during winterspring terms while traditional White sororites conduct "rush" in the fall.
"This issue has spawned an incredible amount of conversation on our campus," said Richard Mullendore, vice president for student affairs. "It's an issue many of us feel strongly about, and it goes beyond the Greek system. How do we, as an institution, educate our students and prepare them for the world beyond the University of Georgia?"
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's vehicle was damaged between 8:30 and 9 p.m. Saturday in the 900 block of Indiana Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $300.
The damage was estimated at $300
A KU student's vehicle was dented and scratched between 9 p.m. Friday and 1 p.m. Sunday in the 1700 block of Ohio Street, Lawrence police said.
The rear window and trunk of a KU student's vehicle were damaged between 11 a.m. and 11 p.m. Monday in the 1600 block of Hillcrest Road, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $1,000.
ON CAMPUS
Ecumenical Christian Ministries will have a volunteer, intern and Alternative Breaks fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at ECM, 1204 Oread Ave.
Call Tind Holcombe at 843-4933.
KU Women's Lacrosse Club will practice from 5 to 7 tonight at North Shenk Field. Call Jessie Bird at 830-9486
Ecumenical Christian Ministries will have a University Forum, "Do We Live in a Science Fiction World?" from noon to 1 p.m. today at ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Thad Holburn at 843-4933.
University Career and Employment Services will have a career connections training session from 3 to 3:10 p.m. today at 149 Burge Union. Call Ann Hartley at 864-3624.
KU Running and Jogging Club will meet at 4:30 p.m. today and tomorrow at the oak tree by the east entrance to Robinson Center. Call Michael Roeasser at 312-3193 or Keith Marsh at 840-0704.
Graduate Teaching Assistant Coalition will meet at 5:30 p.m. today at the Walnut Room in the
Kansas Union. Call Elizabeth Duffy at 843-9022 or e-mail at oatrac@re.co.uk.caun.edu.
United Methodist Campus Ministry will have a Wednesday Supper at 6:30 p.m. today at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Heather at 841-8661.
PRSSA and Ad Club will present "How to Survive the Jschool" at 7 tonight at 100 Stauffer Flint Hall. Call Greta Schmidt at 331-0468.
■ KU Queers and Allies will meet at 7:30 tonight. Call 864-3506 or Headquarters at 841-2345 for location.
■ Ichthus University Ministries will meet at 8 tonight at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
■ Daisy Praise will meet at 9 tonight at the
Hashinger Hall Theater. Call B.P. at 312-1066.
An informational meeting for any students interested in auditioning or crewing for the Hashinger play will be at 8 p.m. tomorrow at the Hashinger Hall catereria. The play will be "Black Comedy" by Peter Schaffer.
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Academic Computing Services FREE COMPUTER TRAINING for the KU Community
Web Authoring: Dreamweaver Introduction Prerequisites: Web Authoring: Intermediate and Web Authoring: Cascading Style Sheets Intermediate. Requires registration for all and a $75 fee for non-University. Mon., Sept. 25, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Computer Center South Lab
Some classes are $75 for non-KU as noted.
Access: Introduction Prerequisite: Experience in the Windows environment. Requires registration for all and a $75 fee for non-University. Mon., Sept. 25, 2:30-5:30 p.m. Budig PC Lab
Web Authoring: Tables, Frames, and Image Maps Prerequisite: Web Authoring Intermediate or equivalent skills. No registration. Mon., Sept. 25, 4:30-7:30 p.m.
Computer Center South Lab
PowerPoint: Introduction Prerequisites: Word processing skills and experience in a Mac OS or Windows environment. Requires registration for all and a $75 fee for non-University. Wed., Sept. 27, 1-4 p.m., Computer Center South Lab
class schedule: Excel: Functions and Data Analysis Tools Prerequisite: Excel: Intermediate. Requires www.ukans. registration for all and a $75 fee for non-University. Thurs., Sept. 28, 1:30-4:30 p.m. edu/acs/ Computer Center South Lab training
Web Authoring: Foundations Prerequisite: None. No registration. Fri., Sept. 29, 11 a.m.-Noon, Computer Center Auditorium