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The Inside Front
Friday August 25, 2000
News
from campus, the state. the nation and the world
CORRECTIONS
A story in yesterday's Kansan gave the wrong first name for Paul Turvev. Lawrence senior.
Meahan Bainum dents were related.
A story in yesterday's Kansan cited the wrong office in which applications for the Hispanic Scholarship Fund are available. They are available at the KU Visitor Center.
A story in Monday's Kansan gave incorrect hours for Milton's Coffee and Wine. The restaurant's hours are 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday and 7 a.m. to midnight Thursday through Saturday. The restaurant features live music occasionally on Fridays.
CAMPUS
Law professor to head national bar committee
Michael Davis, professor of law, was named chairman of the accreditation committee of the American Bar Association in July.
Davis will serve a oneyear term. He said the committee had the responsibility of accrediting law schools and reviewing schools that are up for reaccreditation.
"I was pleased, of course," he said.
"It is a major responsibility to see that this system functions well because much is dependent on it."
Forty states, including Kansas require graduation from a law school accredited by the association for admission to the bar.
— Kursten Phelps
SUA sponsors concert of guitarist Tim Reynolds
Student Union Activities is sponsoring Tim Reynolds' Solo Acoustic Performance on Friday, Oct. 20.
Tickets will go on sale at the SUA box office tomorrow at 1.0 a.m., and also will be sold at the Lied Center box office starting Monday.
Reynolds, the lead guitarist on all Dave Matthews Band albums, will perform at 8 p.m. Oct. 20 at the Lied Center. The doors will open at 7:30 p.m.
Advanced-sale tickets are $5 for KU students and faculty and $10 for non-students. On the day of the show, ticket prices will jump to $8 for KU students and faculty and $17 for non-students.
Reynolds has toured with the Dave Matthews Band since its Under The Table and Dreaming Tour. He also plays with the Tim Reynolds Trio.
SUA box office supervisor Casey Connelly said people were excited about the concert and recommended going to the SUA box office and getting tickets early.
— Lauren Brandenburg
LAWRENCE
Olathe men sentenced for February robbery
Otwo Latte men were sentenced yesterday for a Feb. 22 robbery, during which one of the men pointed a gun at a KU student's head.
Douglas County District Court Judge Michael J. Malone sentenced Trent J. Percival and Kerry M. Duggan to 30 days in the Douglas County jail and 36 months of probation.
Percival and Duggan were charged with aggravated burglary and aggravated robbery.
Lawrence police reported that on Feb. 22, Percival, 20, and Duggan, 19, entered a home and threatened a 20-year-old KU student with a gun. The student's roommates — a 19-year-old KU student and a 22year-old Lawrence resident — also were at the time. Percival and Duggan took a metal lockbox valued at $16 and left the home.
Lauren Brandenburg
String of robberies hits three local businesses
Three Lawrence businesses have been the targets of a recent string of robberies.
A man robbed the Presto Conoco, 1802 W. 23rd St., at midnight Wednesday, said Detective M.T. Brown of the Lawrence police. The clerk was closing the store and thought he had secured the front doors, but then he heard someone come in.
The suspect pushed something into the clerk's back and ordered him to the ground. The clerk couldn't tell whether the suspect had a weapon because the man had his hand hidden in the sleeve of his sweatshirt. The clerk stayed on the ground in the back of the store while the man emptied the register and left.
Brown described the suspect as a black male, about 6 feet tall and 150 pounds.
Spirit Liquor, 600 Lawrence Ave.,
and Jayhawk Food Mart, 701 W. Ninth
St., were robbed at gunpoint this
week.
A man carrying a gun and wearing a ski mask entered Spirit Liquor at 8:52 p.m. Tuesday. The suspect demanded cash, ordered the clerk to the floor and fled with the money. The suspect was described as a white male, between 5-feet-9-inches and 5-feet-11-inches tall.
At 10:58 p.m. Wednesday night, a man entered Jayhawk Food Mart, made the same demands and left the scene. The suspect was described as a 25- to 30-year-old white male, about 6-feet-tall and 180 pounds.
Police did not say whether the incl
NATION
Reform Party struggles to choose candidates
DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa election officials drew Pat Buchanan's name from a glass bowl yesterday after a raucous exchange between Reform Party factions fighting for a spot on the state's November ballot. Rival John Hagelin was the winner in a film-can drawing in Montana. Buchanan's name was pulled off the ballot in California. Two weeks after the party's national convention was supposed to choose a nominee, the battle continues between Buchanan, the former Republican, and Hagelin, the Natural Law candidate embraced by supporters of party founder Ross Perot. State election officials, facing deadlines for printing ballots, are caught in the middle, sometimes even resorting to lotteries.
Tests find combination of rising, falling ability
WASHINGTON — America's schoolchildren are doing a little better in mathematics than they were a decade ago, but for many of them reading and science skills have declined slightly since 1992. The government's 1999 National Assessment of Education Progress also shows a widening gap in the test performance of Caucasian and African-American elementary school students on reading, math and science. And African-American 17-year-olds on average are still four years behind Caucasians in their reading skills. Sure to become fodder for the presidential campaign, the report paints a mixed picture of improving and falling test scores and narrowing and widening learning gaps.
Plane wreck leaves 143 passengers dead
MINA SALMAN PORT, Bahrain — A man's black shoe, a plastic sandal and bits of yellow foam padding bobbed yesterday in the waters off this tiny island nation, where families were burying loved ones a day after Gulf Air Flight 072 crashed, killing all 143 aboard. Bahraini authorities and U.S. Navy divers based in the Gulf recovered both "black boxes" — the flight data and voice cockpit recorders
— near where the plane slammed into shallow water off Bahrain's shore. Neither box appeared damaged, according to Bahrain civil defense chief James Windsor, who received the voice cockpit recorder yesterday from U.S. Navy divers.
The Associated Press
Heating bills may go up
CHICAGO — Already walloped by a rise in gasoline prices this year, Americans are now about to face steeper home heating bills, with natural gas and heating oil near historic highs.
The Associated Press
Energy markets were jolted this week by a combination of developments that sent prices shooting higher — an unexpected drop in U.S. crude oil stockpiles, a pipeline explosion in New Mexico and a hurricane in the Caribbean.
Soon the aftershocks will be felt by consumers nationwide.
Regardless of whether a homeowner uses natural gas or heating oil, there appears to be no way around prices heading higher than they were last winter.
Suzanne deGraff, a natural gas customer from Rochester, N.Y., said she had been told her monthly bill from Rochester Gas and Electric Co. will jump about $26 to $130.
If further disruptions or heavy demand drain dwindling stockpiles further, rationing and industrial shutdowns are a pretty good possibility this winter, especially involving natural gas, said
Michael Lynch, analyst with WEFA, an economic think tank in Bedford, Mass.
Experts said consumers could skate by this winter only if last year's warmest winter on record was followed by one just as warm or warmer. But according to at least some meteorologists, the pattern of historically warm winters is at an end.
"If we have a winter that's just normal, we're going to see potentially astronomical natural gas prices much higher than we see today," said David Chang, senior energy trader for Bank of America in New York.
Home heating oil prices surged this week to their highest level since the Gulf War, with inventories of U.S. crude dropping to 24-year lows. Heating oil is now more than 50 percent more expensive than a year ago.
The increase is blamed partly on a cutback in production by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
Natural gas also has rocketed upward as prices have more than doubled in the past year and a hall and reached an all-time high of $4.85 per 1,000 cubic feet this week on the New York Merc.
ON THE RECORD
- A 30-day temporary tag was stolen out of a KU student's car Tuesday. The tag was valued at $3.
- A KU student was arrested and charged for possession of marijuana at 11:15 a.m. Monday in McCallum Hall. The student had an estimated 5
grams of marijuana and a glass smoking device.
The KU Public Safety Office responded to a medical emergency between 6 a.m. and 6:30 a.m.
Tuesday in McColum Hall. The student said he had been drinking beer and was treated for possible alcohol poisoning.
A KU student's vehicle rolled out of a parking stall and hit another parked vehicle in the third level of the west parking garage at 12:18 p.m. Wednesday.
A vehicle struck another vehicle at 11:24 a.m.
Wednesday at 19th and Iowa streets. The driver
of one vehicle was cited for failing to yield for a left turn, and the driver of the second vehicle was cited for no proof of insurance. There were no injuries.
The KU Public Safety Office responded to a medical emergency at 11:29 p.m. Tuesday on the seventh floor of Lewis Hall. A KU student was suffering from migraines and was treated.
The KU Public Safety Office responded to a medical emergency at 11:09 a.m. Tuesday on the seventh floor of Corbin Hall. The student complained of an allergic reaction to medication for a sinus infection and was examined but not trans-
A vehicle backed into another vehicle in transit at 1:20 p.m. Tuesday on the third floor of the west parking garage. There were no injuries.
ON CAMPUS
The Spencer Museum of Art and the department of art history will present a symposium titled "Fresh ink!" in conjunction with a calligraphy exhibition from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow at the auditorium in the art museum. Call Mary Dusenbury at 864-0143.
The KU Vietnamese Student Association will have a fall picnic at noon Sunday at the Holcom Park Recreation Center, 2700 W. 27th St.Call Lloo Cco at 550-0740.
The KU Baha'i Club will meet for a student discussion group about Baha'i topics at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union, Call Justin Hermann at 749-5446.
The Center for Community Outreach will have an information session about volunteer opportunities in Lawrence at 8 p.m. Monday at
Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Call Julia Gilmore or Michelle Black at 864-4073.
The KU Advertising Club will have a picnic from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Holcom Park Recreation Center, 2700 W. 27th St. New members will receive a free T-shirt. Call Monica at 840-0902.
KU Amnesty International will present the video "Incident at Oglaie: The Leonard Pelitzer Story" at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Karen Keith at 550-1036.
University Christian Fellowship will meet for bible study at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Rick Clock at 841-3148 or e-mail rebsu@ukans.edu.
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United Methodist Campus Ministry Fall Kick Off Celebration!
Sunday, August 27 5p.m. to 7p.m.
Java Dive!
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(North side of 9th between Mass & New Hampshire)
Join us for good food provided by Milton's! (It's Free!) Make new friends, meet the profs, and learn about United Methodist Campus Ministry at KU.
For more information:
Campus Minister, Heather Hensarling, 841-8661
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