2A The Inside Front Monday August 21, 2000 Job fair offers info about employment The Student Employment Job Fair will be Tuesday for University of Kansas students interested in on- and off-campus jobs. About 30 employers will be on hand from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the fourth floor lobby of the Kansas Union. The job fair will offer a wide variety of employment opportunities and is free for KU students. Anne Hartley, associate director of University Career and Employment Services, said money wasn't the only reason students should consider getting a part time job. Hartley said students working 10 to 20 hours a week could learn to better organize their time. The Student Employment Services office is located in 110 Burge Union. A web site with part time job listings is also available at www.ukans.edu/~uces. Meghan Bainum More time to elect class credit option Beginning this fall, students will have more time to decide if they want to take a class for credit/no credit instead of a letter grade. Students must fill out a form for credit/no credit in their dean's office during the fifth or sixth week of a 15-week semester course and during the third week of an eight-week course. For courses of other lengths, the form must be completed during the week in which 40 percent of the class meetings have taken place. If a course is less than a week long, credit/no credit must be elected before the first class meeting. Under the old policy, students had to make a choice during the third or fourth week for a 15-week course and the second week for a summer course. The old policy is listed in the Fall 2000 timetable, but University Council approved the new policy in the spring semester and Chancellor Robert Hemenway gave final approval in June. Eric Snider, Wichita senior, said he was pleased with the policy change. "The new policy gives students a better chance to feel out their classes and make a decision on what they want to do," he said. - Karen Lucas Richard Morrell. University registrar, said the change would benefit his office as well. "It's probably a little easier to manage because we're not competing with all the time it takes to do enrollment activities during the early part of the term," he said. Freshman-to-be dies in motorcycle wreck Incoming KU freshman Ryan Behrens of Maryville died Tuesday, Aug. 15 from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident late Aug. 14. Behrens, 18, was traveling east on U.S. Highway 24 when his motorcycle rear-ended a parked car on the highway's shoulder one mile west of Belvue, according to the Pottawatomie County Sheriff's Department. Behrens was taken to Wamego City Hospital, where he was pronounced dead early Aug. 15. Lynn Bretz, interim director of University Relations, said she was saddened by the news. "Any time a student dies, it's heart-breaking because it's the time of their life," she said. "Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the victim." Rob Pazell Hearing delayed in sexual assault case The court date for Andrew Lowe, a 21-year-old Leawood man charged with sexually assaulting two KU students, has been Lowe has been charged with one count of aggravated sexual battery and one count of rape — both felonies. changed. The preliminary hearing, originally scheduled for 2 p.m. July 26, is now set for 9 a.m. September 8. Lowe allegedly assaulted two women during a Halloween party at a private residence last October. Although Lowe was charged in the crime on Feb. 28, he did not appear in court until June. According to court documents, Lowe entered an Arizona treatment facility soon after the alleged assaults took place. He was treated for several conditions, including chemical dependency and sexual addiction. Meghan Bainum Body found under Kansas River bridge Workers checking fiber-optic cables Tuesday discovered a woman's body under the Kansas River bridge near Sixth and Massachusetts streets. Lawrence Police Detective John Lewis said the body of 47-year-old Rita Fisher, Ottawa, didn't appear to have been there long. Lewis said the doctor who performed Fisher's autopsy did not find anything indicating foul play. The doctor is still waiting for test results measuring heat and dehydration, but everything appeared to be natural. Fisher was probably homeless, Lewis said. She previously had lived in Lawrence but was not a current resident. — Lauren Brandenburg Resident charged in hit-and-run death charged Aug. 2, with one felony count of involuntary manslaughter as well as misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence of alcohol and leaving the scene of an injury accident. John Lowe was struck by a car and killed April 29 in an alley behind the Community Mercantile, 901 Mississippi St. Charges have been filed against a Lawrence man in the April hit-and-run death of a local homeless man. Detective Lewis said that after an arrest warrant was issued. Mattocks turned himself in to police Aug. 8. He was released the same day on $4,000 bond. Mattocks is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Aug. 31 in Douglas County District Court. Christine Tonkovich, Douglas County district attorney, said that if Mattocks were convicted, he could face a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. — Kursten Phelps New vice chancellor at Edwards Campus Joshua Mattocks, 22, was Robert Clark, dean of Edwards Campus since 1997, has been promoted to vice chancellor for Edwards Campus. Clark has a Ph.D. in educational administration from Syracuse University in New York. Prior to his involvement with Edwards Campus, he was dean of the School of Management at Rockhurst University. Recent campus growth was the main reason for Clark's promotion. He will help direct that expansion into the new century. "(The University) is beginning to take a look at what higher education needs to be, and it is trying to put in practice now what it needs to be to continue to be recognized on a national level." Clark said. Edwards Campus offers has boosted enrollment to 2,300 students per semester. It is currently in the planning stages of a $71.2 million expansion that will add three buildings to the campus during the next 10 years. — Chris Wristen File mix-up skews teen drinking report The Associated Press HUTCHINSON — The numbers in a recent report that showed a shocking increase in alcohol use by Kansas youth just don't add up. That would have increased the previous year's 34 percent average by 55 percent. The regional numbers in the annual Kids Count data book do not agree with the total, which said more than 53 percent of sixth, eighth, 10th- and 12th-graders surveyed in 1999 had consumed alcohol in the previous 30 days. The actual number of students in the state reporting alcohol use in the 1999 survey was closer to 39 percent a rise of less than 15 percent The error was apparently caused by a mix-up in files. "We're really disappointed because we've been doing this a long time and we work very hard to ensure accuracy," said Tom Gregoire, associate professor at Ohio State University's School of Social Work. Other categories in the book appear to be correct. The data in the book were generated by the Southeast Kansas Education Service Center in Greenbush. The center distributes a "Kansas Communities that Care Survey" to school districts each year, reaching a total of about 55,000 students. 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