2A = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS IN BRIEF
WEDNESDAY, NOV.7, 2001
CAMPUS
Editors, business manager chosen for spring Kansan
The Kansan Board has chosen editors and the business manager for The University Daily Kansan for the spring semester.
Leita Schultes, Rolfe, Iowa, junior, will be the spring editor-in-chief. Amber Agee, Albuquerque, N.M., junior, will be the business manager.
Jay Krall, Bartlett, in, junior, of Kyle Ramsey, Wichita senior, will be managing editors.
Applications for paid news positions will be available today at the Kansas newsroom, 111 Stauffer-Flint Hall. Applications for paid advertising positions are available at 119 Staufer-Flint Hall.
— Kursten Phelps
Senate to reconsider money for College Republicans
Student Senate will meet at 6:30 tonight in the Kansas Room at the Kansas Union, items on the agenda, which are subject to change, include
A bill allocating $382 to the College Republicans.
A bill allocating $3,245 to the Black Student Union for the Big 12 Conference on Black Student Government.
eminent
A bill allocating $4,000 for speakers Jean-Marc ibos and Myrtov ltart to appear at an Architecture Student Union lecture series.
— Luke Daley
Students will have chance to question City Commissioners
Lawrence City Commissioners will be at the University of Kansas today to answer questions from students.
Sue Hack, Jim Henry, David Dunfield, Marty Kennedy and Mayor Mike Rundle will discuss issues and answer questions from 5 to 6:30 p.m. today at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union.
Julia Gilmore Gaugh, community affairs director for the Student Legislative Awareness Board, said students would also have the opportunity to mingle with commissioners. Refreshments will be provided. The meeting is sponsored by the Students Legislative Awareness Board of the Student Senate.
-Eve Lamborn
NATION
Drug company settles suit over diabetes medicine
RAYMOND, Miss. — A settlement has been reached in a $175 million lawsuit filed against the makers of the diabetes drug Resulin.
Details of the settlement, reached Monday in Hinds County Circuit Court, were sealed. The agreement came the same day jury selection was to begin in what would have been the nation's first case against the makers of the drug to go to trial.
Rezulin, which went on the market in 1997, has been linked to at least 63 deaths nationally, some involving liver damage. Lawsuits have been filed on behalf of thousands of people nationwide.
NATION&WORLD
Bloomberg wins mayor post in narrow New York race
The Associated Prese
Billionaire media mogul Michael Bloomberg, a Republican, beat veteran consumer activist Mark Green, a Democrat, in a close New York election to succeed Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, a Republican barred from seeking a third term.
Green, the city's elected public advocate, spent about $12 million on his campaign, while Bloomberg, the billionaire owner of the Bloomberg financial information company, was expected to spend more than $50 million of his own money. That makes it the most expensive mayoral campaign in U.S. history, according to Common Cause, a citizen lobbying group.
Common Causes. Green's once-large lead in the polls faded after the popular Giuliani endorsed Bloomberg as the man to guide New York through the aftermath of the World Trade Center attack.
Democrats captured governorships in Virginia and New Jersey on Tuesday, breaking eight years of Republican control.
on Republican. In Virginia, Democrat Mark Warner, a wealthy entrepreneur who has never held elected office, led Republican Mark Earley, a former state attorney general, 52 percent to 47 percent with more than 80 percent of precincts counted.
In New Jersey, Democrat Jim McGreevey, a suburban mayor who narrowly lost a race for governor four years ago, rolled to a decisive victory over former Jersey City Mayor Bret Schundler.
Voters in five cities — Houston; Miami Beach, Fla; and Kalamazoo, Traverse City and Huntington Woods, Mich. — decided gay-rights measures, some of them proposed by conservatives hoping to thwart or roll back gains by homosexuals.
Lapse in security shakes O'Hare
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — Shaken by what they described as a major security breach, federal transportation officials launched an investigation into how a man carrying seven knives, a stun gun and tear gas got through an airport checkpoint.
gas got out on an airplane.
Subash Gurung, a 27-year-old Nepalese citizen in the country on an expired student visa, was held without bond pending a hearing tomorrow on a federal felony charge of attempting to board a jetliner with weapons at O'Hare International Airport.
with weapons at O'Hare. "The O'Hare failure was a case of dramatic dimensions," Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta told reporters on Monday.
man 1. Mineral oil and reports Security employees at the checkpoint Saturday night did confiscate two folding knives that Gurung told them were in his pocket. But they failed to notice seven other knives, a stun gun and tear gas in his carry-on luggage. They were discovered by United Airlines workers who made a
hand search of his luggage at the gate.
Federal law enforcement officials said there was no indication Gurung was involved in terrorism. In a statement the FBI reported that Gurung did not share an address with alleged terrorist suspects as earlier reported.
Law enforcement officials said Gurung told them he had mistakenly packed the knives in a plastic bag rather than his luggage before leaving for the airport.
The company that operates the security checkpoints for United at O'Hare, Atlanta-based Argenbright Security Inc., said eight employees, including one supervisor, had been suspended from duty pending an internal company investigation.
pending an interim company "The investigation does not seem to reveal any illicit, suspicious or nefarious intent about his trip to Omaha," said Randall Samborn, a representative for the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago.
WORLD Russians bury sailors removed from Kursk sub
MOSCOW — Nine bodies removed from the wreckage of the Kursk nuclear submarine were buried yesterday in their home cities evoking painful memories of the disaster more than a year ago.
Many of the sailors came from the western city of Kursk, and eight bodies were buried there yesterday. Another sailor was buried in the Volga River city of Nizhny Novgorod.
Northern Fleet chief prosecutor Vladimir Mulov said there was little hope of finding more bodies in the maze of mangled metal in the submarine's bow.
Pinochet facing charges from former army officers
SANTIAGO, Chile — Ten former army officers filed a criminal complaint against Gen. Augusto Pinochet yesterday, claiming they were tortured and unjustly discharged for opposing human rights abuses under the former dictator's rule.
Former Commander Efrain Jana and the others were detained and discharged in the first few weeks after the 1973 coup led by Pinochet, when a harsh repression was launched against supporters of the deposed government of Marxist President Salvador Allende. Jana was at the time commander of a regiment in the southern city of Talca.
Pinochet is accused of 18 kidnapings and 57 homicides in the "Caravan of Death," a military squad that executed 75 political prisoners shortly after he seized power.
Retired Gen. Sergio Arellano, the commander of the caravan, was also named as a defendant in Jana's complaint.
The Associated Press
ON THE RECORD
A KU student reported burglary and theft at a room in Oliver Hall between 8:30 and 9 a.m. Monday, the KU Public Safety Office said. Fifty-seven dollars were stolen.
A KU student reported a theft at the cafeteria in Burge Union between 12:30 and 7 p.m. Thursday, the KU Public Safety Office said. An Audiovox cell phone was stolen. The item was valued at $300.
A KU student reported burglary and theft in Oliver Hall parking lot between 1 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. Sunday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A parking permit and 20 CDs were stolen. The stolen items were valued at $385.
A KU employee reported burglary and theft at the KU Bookstore in Kansas Union between 12.02 and 1 p.m. Sunday, the KU Public Safety Office said. Three textbooks were stolen. The stolen items were valued at $300. They were recovered outside the Kansas Union where they were dropped.
A false firm alarm was reported at McColum Hall at 11:26 p.m. Friday, the KU Public Safety Office said.
Since this
A false fire alarm was reported at McCollum
Hall at 2:59 a.m. Sunday, the KU Public Safety
Office said.
A 21-year-old KU student reported a theft from and damage to a 1999 GMC Yukon between 9 p.m. Monday and 1:50 a.m. yesterday in the 2300 block of Iowa Street, Lawrence police
said. Damage to the driver's side window was estimated at $200. Items taken were estimated at $240.
A 22-year-old KU student reported a battery between 7 and 8:25 a.m. Sunday at a residence in the 1600 block of Tennessee Street, Lawrence police said.
A 31-year-old KU student reported a theft between midnight Saturday and 6 p.m. Sunday in the 2300 block of Ridge Court, Lawrence police said. A Kansas license plate was valued at $10 was stolen.
A 21-year-old KU student reported damage to a 1995 Nissan Maxima between 1 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. Thursday in the 900 block of Emery Road, Lawrence police said. Damage was estimated at $500.
A 19-year-old KU student reported a theft from a vehicle between 12:30 a.m. and 8:40 a.m.
Thursday in the 1500 block of West Eighth Terrace, Lawrence police said. A car radio and jumper cables were valued at $290 were stolen.
A 22-year-old KU student reported damage to and a theft from a vehicle between 6:45 p.m. Sunday and 9 a.m. Monday in the 2300 block of West 26th Street, Lawrence police said. Damage to the passenger door was estimated at $150. Items taken were estimated at $3,358.
ON CAMPUS
Ecumenical Christian Ministries (ECM) will have a University forum from noon to 1 p.m. today at the ECM building, 1204 Oread, one block north of the Kansas Union. The forum is titled "Feminist Theology: Who? What? Why?" Contact Thad Holcombe 843-4933.
Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) will meet at 8 tonight in 100 Stauffer-Flint Hall. Contact Kara Ryckman at kryckman@ku.edu.
Icthus will meet at 8 tonight at the Big 12 Room in the Kansas Union. Contact Marietta Liebengood at 979-1353.
O. A.K.S. Non-Traditional Students will have a brown bag lunch from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.today at Alcove C in the Kansas Union. Contact Joan Winston at 864-7317.
KU Chess Club will meet at 7 tonight at the Frontier Room in the Burge Union. Contact Ateshi Shelloure at 749-3934.
The Tae Kwon Do club will meet from 6:30 to 8 tonight in 207 Robinson. Contact Greg Isaac at 749-4849.
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